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Ok, I found out what the problem was. I contacted Maxtor and they responded by saying that "There is little to no chance that their hard drive could be defective" They sound very confident about their products. I have to use a ata-133 pci adaptor card and I have to upgrade to at least...

I tried all the jumper settings on both drives; cable select, master, slave, etc. I even tried taking the old hard drive out and putting the new one in alone as a master and my compaq didn't recognize it. I pulled another hard drive from an older computer and tried the master/slave with my...

When I plug in the new drive, then neither of the drives are recognized. The computer is a compaq presario so when i try to go into the system bios it is very limited and does not allow user defined settings.

The current one existing in the system is set to "master", and the new one I just added is set to "slave" and they are both on the same cable.

Ok, I've done this before but it's been awhile. I am trying to install a new hard drive. I changed the jumper settings on the new hard drive to a slave. Then I connected the cables and powered on and it says that no operating system could be found. So I updated the bios (it's a compaq) and...

Hi, It's been quite a while since i've built my own computer, can anybody give me a recommendation on a barebones or motherboard? I am looking to build on a budget so i will stick with amd athlon chip. I do AutoCAD and 3d studio and plan on doing video capture. I don't have to have the fastest...

Thanks Drdebit, Ok, I made up my mind to pass on the PIII and to build my own system. With that said I am looking for recommendations on a barebones that i can buildup myself. Like i said earlier I do Autocad and it is a memory and graphics intensive software and I plan on getting into video...

Thanks Ski and Killowhat! My job where I work is selling it and I would primarily use it to do AutoCAD and later I want to do video capture and editing. I haven't gotten into the gaming thing yet....

The motherboard is a supermicro PIIIsed with a intel 810e chipset, 256 mb sdram pc100. It's a complete box ready to go. I checked out the spec's and it says that I can upgrade to a 933 mhz pIII. What do you all think? Thanks heres the full specs...

Thanks for all the great advice, only I have never adjusted the mhz on a pc and I don't know what "fsb" is. Can any of you tell me how to do this? Is it all through the bios? Where can I learn about this? Thanks again

Hi all, I have an older Compaq presario with an AMD K6-2 533 mhz processor that is just plain unstable. I bought it as an open box clearance item and it always has GPF's or goes bluescreen, or just plain freezes up all the time. I've been round and round with compaq tech support and they just...

Hi reghakr, Thanks, I tried this but it did not work. hahnsolo

Well, I have a big problem, I installed a game for my son (Knowledge adventure ,Pre-k) I ran the game once, the computer locked up so I rebooted it. Now it goes into scandisk, it gets about 20% finished and then says it detected a file that has a long filename and cannot continue, then it trys...