I just bought a Dell which came with a SATA hard-drive. I want to put
my old IDE hard drive into it as a secondary drive, but the connections
don't match. Do I need to get a simple IDE-SATA converter (like the one
at http://www.computervideogear.com/sata/serial-ata-ide-converter ...

I have an HP Pavilion, AMD 2600 with a 120 gig drive. I have another 80 gig I
would like to install just for our art stuff which has filled the main drive.
The tower has the ribbon and space for a second HDD, but I cant get the
computer to recognize it. All instructions I find ...

This seems to be the only group to ask this question in.
Do laptops and desktops use the same, physical size, RAM?
If a desktop and laptop both require SDRAM, PC-133, non-parity, 133 mHz,
3.3v, 8ns........Will the module fit in both machines?

This question pops up time and again.  The KB shows that original versions
of XP didn't have LBA enabled and once you enable LBA all is well.
However,  I'm using a XP-SP1 install CD and I'm only showing 131MB of 250GB
brand new MAXTOR " SATA II" drive as the only HD on a factory ...

i am trying to install winxp home edition OEM onto an asus p2-ae2 pundit
machine sing a maxtor diamondmax 10 sata drive.
the cd is a sp2 slipstream from my original home edition cd. windows (and
the bios) do not recognise the sata drive at start up and so i press f6 to

My old 40 GB IEEE hard drive is failing. I installed a new 200 GB SATA drive
into my computer and labeled it D:\ and used quick format to set the drive up
as NTFS.
I’m using a ASUS P4P-800E mother board with Windows XP Professional (SP2)

I just mounted a spared HDD and found it's under "GPT partition" for unknown
reasons.
Is there a way that I can repartition and/or format the drive because all
options for doing so from within Windows are grayed out.

I got a new Audigy 2 from Creative, I tried the original driver from the
disc first and it worked fine.  Then I messed with all the settings and I
REALLY feel they need to do a redux so it functions flawlessly and is
UI friendly, I think it's rediculous as it is.  Completely ...

I had no sound coming from speakers a few days back (just all the sudden
stopped working) so  checked in Device Manager and it showed my SoundBlaster
Live! 5.1 as working correctly at that time, no check marks or exclamation
points showing any conflicts under sound devices. Was ...

I have overclocked my Mobile AMD Sempron form 1.8 to 2.0 GHz using ClockGen
because there was no option  in the BIOS, however, whenever I reboot or the
computer goes on stand by, the clock is reset back to 1.8 GHz. Is this
normal and is there any way to keep it at 2.0 GHz? I am ...

I installed a Zebra TLP2844 printer using a USB connection. When I connected
the printer, I cancelled the Hardward Installation Wizard and added the
printer with the Add Printer wizard. After completing the installation,
everything seem to work fined. Then I rebooted my computer ...

I just bought a new Radeon X1300 256K video card. When I set the refresh
rate at the monitor supported 75 Hertz my screen blinks intermittently - too
much intermittently so that it became annoying. I had previously used this
setting with all my previous CRT monitors and  ...

zMy comp crashed and when I rebooted I got this error message from a
microsoft window that popped up:
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/4818/comp2ua.gif
A webpage also popped up, this is what it said:

I have a new Dell Latitude D610 that I've install an older communication
program to. My problem is that the software can not use the modem properly
unless its IRQ is around 5. My modem IRQ is 17. The function to change the
setting in device manager is not available. The computer ...

I crashed a Dell 8400 with a Winchester 160 GB drive.  And bought a new
drive; replacing the old drive with the new, as Drive 0; that is, the first
partition in the new drive is now C:
First question:  I set up a partition of 10 GB - - it is filled now - - How