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  1. Antcomp

    Question about small upgrade?

    yea i wasnt sure about the pairs b/c im more familiar with the dual channel, so if i get him 1 512mb chip i can just add that with the 128mb chip he already has? from what i can tell he has 2 64mb chips and i dunno what the other chips are maybe just blanks if they do that but someone please...
  2. Antcomp

    Question about small upgrade?

    I have my uncle's pc and he wants to make it a bit faster and im sure he dosnt wanna spend anything on it, it seems to lock up when using 2 progs or more and load them up slowly, so here's the deal: 1.3ghz p4cpu 1300mhz, 128mb ram. A regular dell dimension 8100. what would be the best thing to...
  3. Antcomp

    HD will not format please help!!!

    i tired spinrite but i had it on 17hrs and it only finioshed .06%. it wont work if it never finishes.
  4. Antcomp

    HD will not format please help!!!

    it was saying that it had too many bad sectors to fix, im gonna keeep trying the extended diagnostics and see if it can fix any of the bad sectors it missesd the 1st time i tried it.
  5. Antcomp

    HD will not format please help!!!

    i tried the quick erase on disk managment and that worked but after i tired to full erase and no luck. i just find it weird. whats the drive overlay you are talking about installed on my drive?
  6. Antcomp

    HD will not format please help!!!

    just checked the warranty and it was only 1 year and i just past it.
  7. Antcomp

    HD will not format please help!!!

    i ran the write zeros program from windows and near the end it came up with an error 09 or something and couldnt finish, does that mean its broken and i should warranty it or is there something else i can do?
  8. Antcomp

    HD will not format please help!!!

    I have a western digital hard drive series wd2500pb. I recently took it out of 1 pc and put it in another. I use the drive for only storage.The drive is an ide drive and i combined it with the newer sata raptor drive. As soon as i tried to access my stuff i was able to, but when i tried to open...
  9. Antcomp

    HD will not format please help!!!

    I have a western digital hard drive series wd2500pb. I recently took it out of 1 pc and put it in another. I use the drive for only storage.The drive is an ide drive and i combined it with the newer sata raptor drive. As soon as i tried to access my stuff i was able to, but when i tried to open...
  10. Antcomp

    ide hd and 2cd drives with 1 ide slot

    I have a mobo that has 4 sata slots and only 1 ide slot. i need the ide for my 2 cd drives correct? I have 1 sata hardrive and 1 ide hardrive. i would like to run them both with my mobo but is that possible if i have my cd drives connected and only 1 ide slot? or would i be able to connect 1 cd...
  11. Antcomp

    8800gt card fan spinning fast

    i have the geforce 8800gt card and after a while of keeping the pc on the fan on the video card sped up alot and i was wondering if that was due to too much heat in the case? i have 3 fans and the cpu is watercooled. i shutdown my pc after that happened b/c i was going to sleep. the next day i...
  12. Antcomp

    Cant install xp on new sata drive

    i already did that. that was the first problem i encountered and i installed the drivers. after that i startd windows normally and the drive was not showing. i went into disk management and found it but it wasnt active so i set it active. then i ricghclicked and formatted it. now i went to...
  13. Antcomp

    Watercooling setup running hot

    Thanx that helped me understand a few things i was not aware of. 1 last thing thouugh. if i dont put a fan blowing close to zone 1 and 2 and they stay hotter than with a fan is that necessarily a bad thing? b/c i want this thing quiet. that extra fan brings up extra noise. unless its necessary...
  14. Antcomp

    Watercooling setup running hot

    ok i have the aquarius III external liquid cooling system for a 3.4 ghz p4 processor on an intel 925 board with 1gb ddr2 and a geforce 8800gt video card with a wd raptor hard drive. I hooked up all necessary parts and filled up the water bottle the system came with twice. once with a mixture of...
  15. Antcomp

    Cant install xp on new sata drive

    i got my new drive formatted and now it reads in bios and in my computer. i tried to install windows xp on it but the drive letter didnt show up. all i saw was my exisiting drive. how can i install win xp on my new drive. ive heard of ppl using ghost prog. is that any good? i really would rather...
  16. Antcomp

    Watercooling question on coolant

    im setting up a liquid cooling system the aquarius 3 and im having a little trouble understanding when it says to use a water 10: coolant 3 ratio. i was thinking maybe 30% coolant compared to water but i wanna make sure. Also the booklet states that it is preferred to use distilled water. does...
  17. Antcomp

    new sata drive reads as cd drive

    i boughts a new wd raptor drive and i have as primary a reg ide hd. i was having problems bootin up with botyh connected until i finally figures that out. now my new hd reads as a cd rom drive for some reason. i uninstalled the drive from the properties menu and rechecked for available hardware...
  18. Antcomp

    problem with sata drive

    ok i fianally got my drive to read by using the original power connector instead of trafering trhe power to the black cable. why it didint work before i dunno but heres the thing now. it boots up but now it read in my cpomputer that i have 3 cd drives when i only have two. my hd is reading as a...
  19. Antcomp

    problem with sata drive

    well i got the driver but i cant get it to load when i boot up. i also tried doin in after loading the windows xp cd and it asks for a 3rd party adapter or something but it couldnt load anything. here's a problem i found in bios. when i have both drives connected and i go into bios it only shows...
  20. Antcomp

    problem with sata drive

    ok i am at the wd website and see 2 drivers i suppose that i can download. 1 says wd serial ata raid controller card driver, and the other says siig serial ata controller card driver. whihc one do i get? they also have data lifeguard diagnostics and tools. not sure if thats any help.

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