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  1. olderthandirt

    RAID 1 Questions

    RAID-1 is a set of mirrored drives. Usually and most suitably matched drives. RAID-5 is and array where redundancy is by exclusive or "x-or". This allows each drive in the array to contain data which is stripped and has parity,i.e. faster and redundant data storage. RAID-1 requires...
  2. olderthandirt

    Running A Database App without installing MS Office

    Your problem is that you do not have the correct dll's and files installed to run the application on a stand-alone. I suggest you read the sections in the VB6 books on creating installations and put the necessary dll's, etc., in a .cab file and have them installed with the application. This...
  3. olderthandirt

    Which is quicker, Parallel cable or TCP?

    Check the specs on the printers. It's possible that one has more memory than the others. This increses printing speed.
  4. olderthandirt

    Aopen CDRW Stops Working

    What burning software are you running. Sometimes this can be the problem.
  5. olderthandirt

    CD player gets interrupted when printing or scanning

    You may want to try this. Go to My computer right click and go to the Device Manager Screen. Go down the list till you come to the IDE/ATA/ATAPI controllers. Open this list and find where the CD-ROM is attached. IDE-1 or 2, then set the properties so it looks for DMA rather than PIO.
  6. olderthandirt

    Can not turn on my pc

    Hold the phone!! You are using a P4 Intel Processor in a Soyo Ultra Dragon motherboard? You really do have a problem. The Ultra Dragon is a Socket-A motherboard and only supports the AMD processor.
  7. olderthandirt

    No virus but Windows keeps rebooting

    One suggestion, check the registry in RUN or RUN ONCE. I had a young lady load an app that was attempting to find a DLL on start up. The DLL did not exist so Windows 2K would immediately shut-down, it took a while to find this little annoyance.
  8. olderthandirt

    38 gigs of 40 gig Hard Drive

    Check the actual size. Go to My Computer double click to open the window. Right click on the hard drive "C" or "D" what ever, and look at the listed size. Ususally capacity will have two sizes the listed byte count and the standard count as described by (jontmke).
  9. olderthandirt

    I have a Dell Dimenson V350 with a

    #1. Check that the driver is present right-click on the desktop icon My Computer got to Properties and the to Device Manager. In the list find Sound, Video and Game Controllers. If you see a listing for SoundMAX I would guess the drivers are loaded. #2. Open the case and make sure the cable...
  10. olderthandirt

    RAID Install

    OK, Here goes if you are using the KT-400 from Soyo in your manual it tells you that you must load the Drivers for the HPT-372 RAID Controller. You setup the BIOS in the controller by pressing <CTRL> H or use the RAID Administrator. If you already have an existing operating system in IDE 1/2...

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