Have been using XP Pro with an AsRock ConroeXFire-eSata2 mobo and two sata
HDDs and it' s been nice and stable.
Now trying to add a third SATA drive but although the BIOS sees the third
drive it doesn't show in XP (neither an icon in my computer nor in Disk

I have installed power color R98E-SD3 with all the power connected to the
card & disk power cable  but  will not boot. when the card is removed ,
reboot ok. any idea  . thanks

I have some major copies to make of all my photo and mail files ..... My
question is can I do the job on CD or DVD disks ?   And what is the
difference in the procedure ?
    Thank you,

Recently, I bought a DVD drive that was SATA oriented. However, m
system's motherboard is PATA oriented, and the PATA connectors can'
connect to the SATA slots on the back of my new DVD drive.
I need help deciding if I should buy a SATA host adapter for one of m

Ok, I have everything installed and I'm about to fire up the system. I'm
going to have to go into BIOS and choose SATA, right? The operating system is
Windows XP Pro, bought from a PC vendor 2 years ago.
Ok, I'm on a section from BIOS setup. It's talking about advanced features

I was about to post here with my problem when I stumbled over a solution.
I have a recent upgrade from 2KPro to XPpro and I've been installing and
uninstalling right and left for days, so I don't know what caused it but
suddenly I couldn't see my CD/DVD.

Can someone suggest why my dvd/cd will not recognize any type of disc since I
upgraded to the sp3 service pack? The driver and hardware say they are
running fine but the player will not read any type of disc.

a few days ago my comp started to spontaneously restart. the
technician replaced the motherboard and the power supply, and had to
reinstall windows because of the new board.
i have two hard drives in the box, both hitachi IDE 80GB, one as the

I recently installed a dual booting system with ubuntu and xp sp2....   but
after I installed Rising Antivirus xp give me a stop 0x7F (0x0D)  error...  
I don't know why....safe mode works for me and i installed the latest video
card driver...  Ubuntu seems to work fine with my ...

I know there are a lot of Google postings regarding PC's
starting and shutting down on their own, but I have not
been able to find one that has a conclusive result.
Here is my "hair pulling" dilemma.

I'm new to this group but old to computers - 30 years of experience in hardware
repair. I've been on the Internet since '93 and Usenet since '95 or so, but just
never came across this group. After lurking here for about a week, I like what I see
and think I'll stay awhile. Hope you ...

I was looking to buy a Belkin surge protector. There are two models out
there and one seems to be rated in Joules
(http://www.buy.com/prod/Belkin_Travel_Surge_Protector_with_Hidden_Swivel_P
lug_F9H220_TVL/q/loc/273/10389590.html) and the other in Amps of surge

    I have lots of left handed customers running their
mice as left handers.  They have no problem with it.
    One particular customer with XP-Pro-SP2 can not
seem to keep it in left handed operation.  He is

hi friends,
Some few months before i got an error message "A DISK READ ERROR
OCCURRED " press any key to restart. I thought my hard disk gone so i
bought an new Seagate 250 GB SATA hard disk and installed Windows XP SP2

I'm ready to move to broadband (RoadRunner) but I need suggestions on which
router to get.
There will be one PC and one internet game system on the network.
The PC is not setup for wireless so I would like a router that is both wired