I have recently bought a new hard drive and was wondering what was the best
set-up to have my 2 drives and 2 optical drives, for example, both HD
attached to the primary IDE channel (1 master and 1slave) or 1 HD on each
seperate channel (HD as master and optical as slave)?

This has been going on for some time.  The longer the computer is left
on, the more frequently it restarts.  I was told it's probably the
motherboard or the power supply.  After replacing the power supply, the
problem still exits.  Am I stuck replacing the entire motherboard or is

I have an AMD64 3000+ venice core socket 939 on a ASUS A8NE mb.
I've just installed WindowsXP Pro with SP2. I also have 3 users on this
computer with the fast user switching option enabled.
My problem is that when I want to switch from an user to another I go to

Quick question, I have an old HP omnibook 6000 laptop that I have just
completely wiped, and installed XP pro (current updates and all).  I keep the
pc very clean as far as junk programs; I use it only for the internet and the
office suite (2003).  My question is, it comes stock ...

Is there an adapter that will allow me to install a Serial ATA drive
with an IDE cable? My girlfriend accidentally purchased a new ATA drive
but we need one that's IDE.
thanks!

OK, I've just upgraded to a new motherboard (Asus A8V) and Athlon 64 CPU.
Had to boot from the Windows CD to get things going. I chose the option to
fix an existing Windows installation and mostly it worked. However I have 2
problems (that I know of so far). Windows will not ...

Ok, i've spoken to a microsoft technician on this matter, but they seem to be
as stumped as I am...
About a month ago I came to use my computer and it wouldn't boot into
windows (just kept hitting the windows logo screen and then restarting).

When I try to format my DVD-Ram I get the following error.
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DVDForm
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I can not write in english, maybe somebody can help me in spanich:
tengo una tarjeta sd de 4 gb. 133 x PRETEC, y mi lap toshiba no la lee, la
tarjeta la compre en las vegas, vivo en mexico y no puedo reclamar garantia.
existe alguna forma de dar formato?

After 6 months with this configuration and everything working just fine, my
system now suddenly locks up VERY shortly after clicking on any XP login icon
-- using two Maxtor 120GB SATA HD's; Win XP Pro; and, CA's EZ Armour security
stuff.

I have a compaq computer with win xp pre-loaded.  If I choose to add a 2nd
hard drive as a slave - how do I do this.  This slave drive won't have an
operating system --- right?
After hooking it up as a slave will it just show up under "my computer" and

and thought i reistalled the printer( HP), installed another printer
(Lexmark), a web cam and Bluetooth dongle, none of them worked.
When printing, i get the message that the doc is printing, but nothing is
really printed.

My hard drive is continually active even when I'm not doing anything on the
computer. It's like it's contantly indexing. Is there any setting I can click
to turn this off in XP SP2. Even as I'm writing this message, the hard drive
is constantly churping like an annoying budgie. ...

I have read a few articles on RAID and I have some general questons
As RAID should ideally be set up before HD's are partitioned and formatted,
I assume this means before Windows is installed.
But the software interface used to configure RAID only runs on Windows.

If my USB modem is running my 2 front USB ports quite often will not work,
anyone know why?  They work OK when modem's not running but still connected.
I have 4 at the back which are used, the modem, printer, external HDD (these
3 all have their own PSU's) and USB keyboard.