mikeyb

Hi there, regarding MAX HDD limits, The limits imposed by the Hard Disk Drive Interface The Hard Disk Drive in the first IBM PC/XT Computer had 306 Tracks (Cylinders), four (4) Heads reading four surfaces on two platters, and used 17 Sectors per track. 306 x 17 x 4 x 512 Bytes per Sector gave a capacity of 10,370 KBytes. However on the newer IDE Hard Disk Drive Interface, and the universal device interface, SCSI, do not need to know about the numbers of Heads and Cylinders, as they are designed quite differently. They are only concerned with the total number of Sectors on the Hard Disk Drive.

on some of the dels you have to put the largest mem module in slot 1. I have found this on a few del dimensions mikeyb

usually the master is the drive that is 'source' and the slave is the 'destination' device. there will be no speed increase, however the speed of the burn depends on a few things.. mainly everything runs at the slowest speed of any of the devices This could be the DVD reader in 'master' the DVD writer in 'slave' the setting on your buring software X2 X4 X8 X16 etc the media you are buring onto DVD/rw media with X2 burn so for instace... you have a DVD reader which can read the disk at x16, but your writer only writes at x8 speed, then the transfer will be at 8speed if you then are using blan

could you tell me when it locks up what processes are running on the machine that locks? a list of services, and Virtual Machine sessions on that PC? and does it lock up randomly or when you are performing a specific task.. i.e emailing, printing, file saving, antivirus updates or scans? mikeyb

Hi jimras, you may want to try booting to a DOS prompt and running a CHKDSK /F on the drive, as long as the BIOS is detecting the drive that is! see if it finds any problems on the drive. mikeyb

hello, just adding another suggestion you could always backup by creating an image of your machine, not only do you get the 'data' you also get a whole image of the machine, this could be put on a CD using something like nortons Ghost. when backing data onto external drives there is always the posibility of missing some data.. IE favorites for instance, an image would get everything, keep a cycle of 4 images over a period of a month that way if there is a problem then you can go back 3 weeks if needed. mikeyb

hi, yes you can but if you are using Nero, then when you get to the stage where it says burning at 52X - change the setting in the drop down to the speed of the media.. 16X for instance otherwise the burn will start and it will fail with buffer overruns. mikeyb

Hi there, I have worked on these monitors before, and have also come across the problem you mentioned, the reason is in reference to your resolution settings, the screen tries to adjust to the best position based on the selections in the display properties, however you should be able to override the monitors 'auto' settings by turning on the OSD lock. (setting on the front of the screen menu buttons) in the same menu as you would change the screen settings in the 1st place. hope this helps. mikeyb

Hi there, I would just like to add my 2 cents. Has this machine EVER booted without the error? you say it is a second hand machine, maybe the battery is not on the motherboard and it was sold without one! this would explain the fact that you cannot see the battery! try looking for a plastic bit on the motherboard This is an image of the disc battery holder, you will see how the battery clips into place and it sits in usually a black plastic bit that rises slightly from the surface of the mobo the second image is of what a battery looks like whn it is out of the mobo housing. some older batt