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The more I read about Lenovo T-series Thinkpads, the more I'm convinced that this is the brand for me.

I never thought of the sensor on the chassis that detects changes in motion and impact. How can I test it for integrity? Regarding what happens when a tap or motion occur. Depending on the sensitivity level and the force of a tap or a motion, a dialog box will appear stating "Vibration...

My Toshiba A505-S6965 laptop has a utility that protects the hard drive from impact damage by detecting excess drive movement and moving it's heads to the park location away from the platters. It's called HDD Protection. Is there any reason why this useful program keeps becoming disabling...

Hello all, My Toshiba A505-S6965 Satellite 15.6" laptop just had it's 3rd birthday. Sadly, my 3 year warranty has expired, as has all free tech. support. Although it has worked flawlessly, except for a hard drive replacement, I'm thinking of configuring a 2nd laptop with the same screen...

Bookmage, I'm so sorry that I didn't reply to your post as soon as I read it, which was shortly after you wrote it. Your post was worth at least 2 cents when you wrote it. It has greater value to me! You've sure had your share of troubles, not receiving the packs you expected. Did...

It's been a long time since I've read your sage words. I hope that your speculation is correct. Battery manufacturers should factor in a reasonable amount of shelf time when they design their packs, making sure that a pack that is...

Thank you for advising me to do what I've tried doing my entire life. Some people thrive on worrying. Don't you just hate them? In my behalf, the fact remains that my laptop has been working flawlessly for 3 years, and there is nothing I can see that is on the verge of failing between now...

Merc, My laptop purrs. I agree with the manufacturer having spare parts, whereas the authorized service provider will usually NOT have spare parts and will order them from their local parts depot. This can take a day or two. I think I want to go with a Toshiba battery pack, but from Amazon...

Hello all, The 3 year warranty for my Toshiba Satellite A505-S6965 laptop will expire on Aug. 23rd at midnight. Toshiba doesn't offer any extended warranty. The unit has served me flawlessly, except for a hard drive replacement by Toshiba. My first question is what...

My PATA drive is doing everything the other 3 drives are doing in my desktop pc, so I'm going to close out this thread with thanks to all of you who have suggested "possible" solutions, and a special thanks to time "who nailed it." Let all PATA and SATA coexist in peace!

You are as right as 2 rabbits. No wise guy actions from me. You must have taken your quote from Confucius!

Time.....you dunn did it! Your link to the latest Generic Marvell controller driver worked like a charm. I uninstalled the existing version, restarted and installed the drivers with your self-extracting exe file. I restarted again to make sure it took hold. The Generic Marvell 61xx RAID...

Who sez they're not fun? Not exactly my MB. It's the P5Q SE/R. 1. Marvell controller is Enabled. 2. I had it at cable select in the beginning of my ordeal. That was when I discovered the 1 1/2 min. restart delay. 3. Had blue end of EIDE cable in MB all along. 4. Had black "end connector"...

Oops, I made a mistake. The Marvell controller is Enabled. I was confusing it with the Express Gate, under the CMOS's Tools pulldown. This is Disabled. What does this do?

I'm looking there right now. I see the following list of items: Primary IDE Channel Device usage: Use this device (enable). Primary IDE Channel Device usage: Grayed out area. Secondary IDE Channel Device usage: Use this device (enable). Secondary IDE Channel Device usage: Use this device...

Indeed, I chose IDE with the other choices being RAID and AHCI.

More confusion. How do I find out the answer to your question? Maybe in the CMOS settings?

For the record, JTR1962 and another friend assembled my desktop pc, with me not paying as much attention to them as I should. I regret this lack of enthusiasm. I have the ASUS CD, but found the chipset driver files you seek below at the link. The ones I have may be the...

My good man. You extracted the above 2 statements from 2 different posts and they represented 2 different times in my quest to solve my problem. When I saw that the PATA drive was not behaving well with it connected to the same EIDE cable as the ROM drive, I disconnected the hardly used ROM...

I get it. Win XP and Win 7 are totally independent in the way they detect and list a drive. I just checked Win 7, and the drive is visible in Win Explorer, Device Manager and Disk Management. Just wanted to be sure before restarting in Win XP. However, in Win XP the drive is not visible in...

BBB. I forgot to inform you that I went into Device Manager to update the driver of every component, finding that the latest drivers were already installed. Does this meet your requirement of "latest chipset driver? Also, does Device Manager in Win 7 have any link to Device Manager in Win...

I worked on the drive in Win 7, where it has always been visible. The drive was assigned the letter "H" by the OS, when I proceeded with the quick format right after I deleted it as a volume. If it wasn't for me right clicking the area of the drive named "unallocated space" out of curiosity...

I don't know how to break the news to you, loyal colleague. I never intended to install any OS system on the PATA drive, definitely not the dinosaur Win XP. My only purpose of refurbishing the drive was to make it a data storage device. It would allow me to free up...

OK, the drive has the following jumper choices... 1. Single or Master. 2. Master with Slave 3, Slave 4. Cable Select Based on your post, I chose Single or Master. Nothing has changed from my other 2 jumper settings. The CMOS scenario is the same. The 2 partitions cannot be seen in Win XP...

I'm not sure what you mean, but I think that Device Manager may have the answer. Where would the info be found there? Note that I have been using the Rom drive since the desktop was built in Apr. 2009, but it was the only device on the EIDE cable when I attached the hard drive last week. Also...

Hello SF colleagues, I found a vintage 2/8/2009 Western Digital Caviar Blue, 250 GB, 5,400 RPM PATA hard drive (WD2500AAJB) in an old Dell case, and am having trouble getting it to be detected in Windows XP, although it is detected in Windows 7. Both drives are mounted in a...

Hello again, Bozo, even if it is in a different thread. My scenario does not follow that of the Win 7 Beta. I lose my Win 7 restore points and always retain my XP restore points, no matter how often I restart using each OS. If you recall from my 1st post in the "Desktop freezes......"...

I never intended on disabling it anyway, regardless of the other cloning/backup program I use. I will let it serve my needs in the background, by creating a restore point before incorporating Windows Updates and other vital operations. So there is no known way to retain the list of restore...

Another vote for Clonezilla. I like that the clone can be stored on one of the other hard drives that is not in use.

Thank you. I bookmarked the links and added the programs to my growing list of those suggested to me by some of you.

I agree. It has no configurable features. Do you remember a program that was included in Windows 95 called ERU, Emergency Recovery Utility? Look here..... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/139437 Here are the files it copied..... Config.sys, Autoexec.bat, Win.ini, System.ini, Protocol.ini...

This is the 2nd thread since my March 3, 2012 registration. I have been having a problem for the longest time, making me reluctant to alternate between my Windows XP and Windows 7 OSs, each one installed on a different physical hard drive. When I look at the list of system restore points in...

This will be the last post regarding my freezes. I have not had any in either Win XP or Win 7, since Wed. Mar. 7 at 3AM. I've been booting to each OS at will, with the TV tuner card remaining enabled in XP, where the software is installed, and disabled in Win 7 where it is not installed. The...

Thank you for the detailed elaboration. Seems simple enough! I will attend to this, when I start using the other suggested diagnostic tools. Right now, I am gloating over the lack of freezes from both the XP and Win 7 drives. I'll remain skeptical, until a day or so goes by and I still don't...

Thank you. I already downloaded it. I am making a list of diagnostic tools I will be using when I am sure that the freezes have stopped. Speaking of freezes..... I haven't had any in almost 45 hours. This is unheard of, in the last 2 months. In addition, I was curious about the Win XP...

So far so good, just like in the old days starting in Apr. 2009. By the way, JTR and another friend of ours, assembled my case for me. They did a masterful job. I have a philosophy in life. Whenever something in life doesn't go well, something good always comes out of it. This freezing...

I agree with everyone who has advised me to use memtest. I will surely do so, once I see that my ministrations have stopped the freezes. A day or 2 longer will give me this answer. When the freezes stop, I will not rest on my laurels. I have never used any diagnostic tools to test the RAM or...

Apairofpcs is always envious of those who plan on building a newer faster pc, and this includes you as well JTR. I may just catch the buzz after I see your new pc "screaming! " You are way overdue with a system upgrade, whereas I am not. Nevertheless, you are as relentless as I when it comes...

I've been free of freezes for 29 hours. My mind is neither on a bad MB or a bad PSU. This has been the longest stretch of stability in 2 months. I gave you wrong info on the PSU fan. The air intake is at the bottom of the case near the back and the air exhaust is at the back of the case near...

Thank you. I would have to wear a diaper, if I started a flash BIOS upgrade with my system's present level of instability. NO FLASH BIOS FOR ME!

I agree with your explanations. This is a hobby for me and not a profession, so troubleshooting is no problem for me on any level. Thank you for your good wishes, and the same goes for your good wishes, BingBangBop.

Not exactly. I pulled off hardware for a short time and put it back again. My pc is running as it has, for close to 3 years. In this case, if my steps truly stopped the freezes, then a lot has to be said because I have been advised to replace the MB, the PSU, the RAM, the video card, the CPU...

Can anybody give me feedback on the risks of flashing the BIOS with the latest version, suggested by Bozo? Does anybody feel that the BIOS was corrupted and may have caused the freezes, or that it became corrupted as a result of the few times all settings were lost after I used the case's reset...

In post#79 at 12:01PM today, time stated the following, "We've been waiting for your results. :smile: " So where is the "we" to whom he has alluded? Haven't I reported some good news where some of you would have a reason to comment? Somebody, besides time and Bozo must have an opinion about...

I was considering this, too. It is NOT up to date. But modern day thinking seems to be NOT flashing the BIOS, unless you are having a serious problem that all other measures have not solved. Note that when I get a freeze, everything stops working, although still energized. But if I get a...

I like your attitude. On the fans.... Each fan is plugged into it's it's own socket on the MB. A Cooler Master exhaust fan at the back of the case, looks like 4" diameter. The same as above at the bottom of the case. Unknown size/RPM (hidden from view) intake fan in the front, nicely cooling...

Per my post #75 above, you know that I disconnected my two XP drives and disabled the TV tuner card from within Device Manager. The Win 7 drive was working alone without a freeze for many hours, when I got the idea that I should reconnect the XP drives for the sole purpose of doing a major...

Not used for work, since I am a retired AutoCAD drafter. But rather hobby interests. I bought a laptop 2 1/2 years ago as a backup pc, in case the desktop died. I assure you that as stubborn I am, if the desktop was part of my profession, then I would have built an entirely new one STAT. I...

I feel it necessary to inform all of you of an incident that happened about 2 years ago, concerning the inside of my desktop case. I was tired of seeing microdust accumulate on every surface of my components, so I used a can of compressed air to blow the dust away. My big mistake was to do so...

I can do this, since I only started using the Samsung drive after the XP drive started getting freezes. It doesn't have the tuner card software installed, which means that I am not that enthusiastic about watching TV on my desktop. It's listed in Device Manager, with the message "this device...