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Device manager usually lists HDDs by their model names but on my newly-transplanted system the drives are labeled as "Disk drive". Any ideas on why that might be?

Greetings from the Holy Land. So I've been messing with the physical and logical configurations of the routers on the network and found myself stumped by a configuration that looks like it should have worked but did not. The boxes are a DSL modem provided by Bezeq (the telco), a D-Link...

Last week I packed up a bunch of stuff and high-tailed it to Israel for the better part of the coming year. Included in my baggage were the components comprising my desktop computer, individually packaged for reassembly upon arrival. I arrived, I reassembled, I pushed the power button and...

Does anyone know if it's possible to change the view options on a per-folder basis in XP SP2? For example, I want one particular folder NOT to display hidden or system files, but if I change it for that folder (even if I don't hit "Apply to all folder") it is applied globally. Piyono

Does anyone know where I can get something like this: http://www.cpustuff.com/22-pin-male-to-female-power-and-data-sata-adapter-custom-cable.-CUS22MF08-CUS22MF12-CUS22MF19-p-342.html http://www.cooldrives.com/sainexca22ex.html for maybe 2 or 3 bucks apiece?

My mom bought an HP LaserJet 4 in 1996. It cost damn near CAN$2000. It's running today like it did when we first set it up. It's needed repair once, but only because my sister dropped it. A workhorse if I've ever seen one. We have a Color LaserJet 4600 which has been nothing but trouble from...

I RMA-ed a dying Samsung SP2504C and recieved the replacement by courier a few weeks ago. I think it's a refurb. It vibrates like your barber's Wahl and emits a mildly irritating array of hums and whines. It has a Nidec motor stamped "P120". I'm quite sure it's the noisiest drive I've purchased...

Do you use AV software? If not, how come? If so which one? How do you have it configured? I'm using Avast and I've disabled every module except for Outlook scanner. Suspicious files are scanned manually through the context menu. Piyono

Thursday evening I accompanied a buddy to our friendly, neighbourhood Future Shop for moral and tactical support (to fend off the incessant machine-gun high-pressure up-selling attempts of the commissioned employees) while he purchased a new HP laptop, model (uh, lemme check....) dv2412ca. His...

It took six years but the left and right buttons in my MS IntelliMouse Optical are finally starting to fail. I considered replacing the microswitches but I can't find an exact match. The part seems to have been customized for MS. Someone is selling the catalog part on eBay, but there's no...

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7448 Anyone else cringe at this? Piyono

I have a TalkBroadband VoIP line from Primus Canada. It was working quite acceptably until a few months ago when I started getting serious dropouts every few seconds. It's really quite intolerable. There are three (sometimes four) other computers on the network at home. All are...

Over the years I've used a variety of external hard-drive enclosures and while they do, for the most part, work as advertised, I have yet to find a model priced under $50 (nevermind under $100) that has all (if any of) the features I want. My dream enclosure would be thusly spec'ed: • Solid...

The narrative: It's been a good 4 years since I've needed to reinstall XP Pro on my main machine. A little TLC goes a long way. However, Despite my using a utility (Codestuff Starter) to keep a trim list of startup programs, Windows can take well over 2 minutes to boot to a responsive desktop...

One of my 3 internal hard drives has taken to clicking off, spinning down and whirring back on again. This phenomenon does not affect my computing, so I assume it's not my system drive. Still, I'm concerned that one of my drives may be failing. SMART tests show nothing out of the ordinary (of...

He-e-eyyy... I like what you've done with the place. You guys want me to purplish-blue-ify the favicon to match the new color scheme? Not that there's a full-size icon to match, anymore... :) I currently back up a few small documents to a web server manually, using a GUI FTP client. It's fine...

This is an area I've never ventured into. What are the steps in setting up a virtual machine on my XP box in order to do a test install of some software (in this case slipstreamed XP and Office 2007) Piyono

Someone gave me a SonicWall Soho3 (25 Users). SonicWall discontinued these but they still sell used for about $100. What's the big deal about these routers? Why are they so expensive? What benefit will I see if I swap this in for my D-Link DI604? Piyono

I made a new favicon for SF. On the original one (the one in the address bar as I type this) I applied a dropshadow and the resulting geometric distortion makes me cringe every time I look at it. So whoever's updates the website, please drop this favicon in the root directory and we can all...

For kicks I just ran ATTO Disk Benchmark and HD Tach on my 3 internal drives. My boot/system drive (WE800JB on nForce 2 Ultra) scored several times lower on the benchmarks than my data drive (WD800JB on onboad ITE controller) and photo drive (Samsung SP2504C on onboard Sil3512). Cables are...

I just purchased a Samsung SpinPoint SV1604N (5400 RPM, 160GB) to use as a backup drive for my photos. I also picked up an external USB 2.0 enclosure based on the ALi 5621 A1 chipset (inside of which, by the way, it was impossible to format the new drive - I had to hook it up to a different...

I installed IISadmin recently to help manage multiple ASP testing servers on my XP Pro machine. It's been fine up until recently. Today I launched my demo of TweakXP Pro 4.x and immediately after clicking "start" on the demo startup screen the IISadmin installer or repair utility started up and...

Happy Chanukah, Video has never really been a big interest of mine so I should be forgiven for displaying the following bit of ignorance: I found myself on Apple's movie trailer site, today, downloading HD movie trailers, and was surprised to discover that my computer was having trouble...

What's the best way to set up a workstation so that it can participate in local network activities but has no access or controlled access to the internet? With Win98 I remember being able to bind different network protocols to different tasks on a single NIC, but I don't see the facilities to do...

My mother, God bless her innocent soul, bought an HP 4070 scanner a little while ago. Having recently formatted its host machine, I was faced with the task of reinstalling its drivers. I hopped on over to HP's site to get the latest release but all I could find was a single 300MB file...

Something that's always irked me is that hard drive manufacturers label the *tops* of their drives, which is great and all, but more often than not, when I'm servicing a computer, the only part of the drive I can see is the backplane. If I need to see the jumper configuration or the model or...

My years of dealing with telephone customer service and tech support agents has turned me sour. I've been lied to, neglected, cut off, misinformed, patronized and generally mistreated. In light of this I recently decided to start recording my phone calls to support and service desks in order to...

Listed among the options in the Record Source drop-down in WaveLab is the wave driver from my modem. One would think this means that with my phone plugged into my modem I could record telephone conversations "inside the box". However, when I hit 'record' an error message appears, telling me I...

Yesterday my otherwise-stable XP box started hanging at the Windows splash screen, but only after a soft reboot, e.g., after choosing "Restart" from the XP shutdown menu, or after hitting the reset button on the box. The hang occurs regardless of whether I'm booting in Normal Mode or in Safe...

My250GB MaxLine Plus II drive is housed in a Bytec ME-320U2F enclosure (which sports a Prolific PL-3507 chipset), connected to my Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 rev.2 through its onboard firewire port (controlled by a TI TSB43AB23). Twice, so far, the drive letter has simply vanished in the course of...

The saga continues: Some of you will remember MLII from my previous episodes. For those uninitiated, MLII is a Maxtor MaxLine II hard drive with a capacity of 250GB. MLII is a backup drive, and was formatted with an extended partition containing two 119GB (after formatting overhead) FAT32...

My primary hard drive (Maxtor DMP60 40GB) had been acting up for the past few months; sometimes it would spin down out of the blue, crashing my system; sometimes it would refuse to spin up when I was booting. I had beed putting off buying a replacement but the situation was getting worse so a...

I just purchased a 250GB Maxtor MaxLineII PATA drive (7Y250P0) and I've installed it on a channel of the auxiliary IDE controller of my Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2, where I'm trying to format it as a single 250GB FAT32 volume for use as a backup drive in my external enclosure. Problems are that a)...

Hi, folks... Looking for some free fax software that runs on Win98. Nothing fancy- just send and recieve. Gotta be free, tho. Thanks, Piyono

In the last few days I've been experiencing a general slowdown when accessing the web through a browser, and also, perhaps during email checking and Instant Messaging, although it's most apparent when surfing. Symptom 1: When surfing, the browser is returning "can't find requested page" errors...

...And it's not just on my computer. I've noticed on many machines that when a CD or DVD is spinning up there are a few seconds where the system is so bogged down that even the mouse doesn't move. I became painfully aware of this today as I was ripping a CD to my music drive (and compressing it...

Under WindowsXP, how long should the transfer of a 519MB file take: - between two hard drives on two separate controllers - between two locations on one hard drive - between two hard drives on the same IDE channel given a 7200RPM, 8MB cache drive of average performance. I'm asking because it...

It's a steal (well, an aluminium) at only US$3299.00! Are there any PC video cards that support dual DVI outputs at the 30" Cinema Display's resoltion? Piyono

What's a popular brand? Lian Li? Kingston? Are there some standard form factors that allow caddies from different manufacturers to mate or are they all proprietary? ]-[

The Windows 98 partition on my parents' XP / 98 dual-boot machine is due for a format/reinstall, but I fear for the XP boot loader, which will most likely be overwritten in the reinstallation process. Unfortunately, 98 is a necessary evil in this household, so *not* reinstalling it is *not* an...

I just noticed that the activiy meters on my ZoneAlarm tray icon never stop bouncing, even when I'm not running any internet-enbled software. I've checked the processes list several times but dont' see anything that looks like to be online. ZoneAlarm, itself, has a little indicator with blinking...

I'm still running XP pre-SP1, partially because of all the privacy broohaha surrounding it on its release, and partially because I really had no compelling need to upgrade. Lately, however, I've been having issues with some USB 2.0 hard drives and I've also wanted to install some MS Power Toys...

I just performed a backup of my photo directory between two drives using XXcopy. The operation ran without a hitch with the exception of three files which didn't copy. I tried to copy the individual files by drag'n'drop-ing them under Windows (XP pre-SP1) folders but they again didn't copy...

I just upgraded an (OEM) AthlonXP 1600+ to a (retail) 2400+, both are 266FSB chips. My motherboard (Gigabyte GA-7VRX rev2.0), however reports the chip as an 1800+ when the system clock in the BIOS is set to "By Hardware", that is, default/not overclocked. The latest BIOSes, (F6 and onwards -- I...

Hey folks. I heard some talk recently about creating a partition for installed software and leaving the system partition for Windows. Wondering if there's any point in this practice. Seems futile to me but perhaps I'm just ignorant. It's happened before. Anyone? ]-[

This morning my will and my body made a concerted effort to get out of bed at the sounding of my alarm clock at 8:00am instead of my usual 11:00 - 11:30 am. My reward? My computer wouldn't boot. "Boot disk failure. Press F1 to resume or press any key when ready". I dutifully pressed F1. No boot...

Well, I've been living in this apartment for well over a year now and I'm only just starting to put up shelving in my bedroom. Hey, I'm a slow starter, so sue me. Anyway, With my newfound storage space comes great responsibility: putting things away -- and the thing I have in this room that...

This just happened. Just now. I diconnnected my monitor at the video card because I needed access to the inside of my case. When I powered up and plugged my monitor back in I was greeted with a flickering screen that won't go away no matter how I set my refresh. Up until five minutes ago my...

Anyone tried this yet? Piyono

Hey, guys, I'm looking for a device to record telephone calls. I've gone through three modems and countless pieces of software and can't find anything that sounds halfway decent so I decided to try something like this...