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Hi friends and thanks for looking at my thread. I have just upgraded 50 dell computers to 500 gig drives and i have been given the 50 old sata 40 gig drives. There is no data on them that needs proper data destruction so i just want to format them all before i move them on. My question is what...

Hi everyone and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. I have a real simple question to ask about legal software. i was asked this question by a friend of mine and realized i could not give an answer. So here goes...when a new PC is purchased that has an operating system installed...

Hi every one and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. I have installed Windows 7 on a few machines now and have noticed something strange(at least to me). If i put the machines in sleep mode (or the machine goes into sleep mode by itself) it looks like the machine has switched...

Hello friends and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. A really simple one this(i hope). I have tried to make a recovery image(both on an external hdd and a dvdrw) for various vista machines(mostly premium 64 bit). I use acronis true image (not sure what version but its not a...

Hello friends and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. I am a little embarrassed to admit that a dell GX270 has got the better of me. I have a number of units that i have been trying to upgrade. A dell GX 270 has 1 unused SATA connection on the motherboard. I have been trying to...

Hello Friends and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. I have just built a PC with an AMD phenom CPU on a biostar MCP6P M2 motherboard. The board has both 24 pin power socket and a 4 pin power socket. My psu(700 watt) also has a 24 pin power connector and a 4 pin connector. The PC...

Hello everyone and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. I have a speed issue when ghosting!! Painful some might say!! Anyways...i have 50 dell GX 260's i look after. I was recently given the task of re installing all the machines xp pro o/s's(using an acronis image). Each machine...

Hello tek tipers and many thanks for looking at my thread. I apologies if i am not supposed to ask this type of question in this forum but i have searched for ages and this is the only place i feel i can ask this. Anyway i wish to start my own web site after about 5 years trading on ebay. I sell...

Hi everybody and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. I have a simple question. I have a dual PCI-EX mobo which is crossfire ready. I have 2 x ATI X1650 pro graphics cards. Can i set these 2 cards up in cross fire mode. And am i correct in thinking that it is a simple software set...

Hello tek tippers and thank you for taking the time to look at my problem. I have 3 gig of ram installed on a desktop(new build) its DDR2 667. When i run a memory testing software from within windows(software is pass mark version 5.3) i get error messages which say the data has been unable to be...

Hi all and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. I have just installed XP on a friends machine, Everything is good except when i go to the hotmail email site after about 10 seconds an advertisement on the site(for a Nissan car) comes up and immediately i get an error message saying...

Hello friends and thank you for taking the time to read my thread. A friend of mine brought to me a dell dimension 2400 after i(much now to my regret) offered to amaze him with my PC repair skills(i know i am a fool). Anyway upon booting up the dell gives the message "detecting ide hard drive"...

Hello friends and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. I need help yet again. I recently built 10 PC's spec all the same..intel 2.8 dual core/1 gig ddr2/asus P5PL2 mobo/ati x1650 gfx card(DVI out but connected to VGA monitor via an adapter plug). All units functioned fine and were...

Hi everybody and thanks for taking the time to look at my thread. I am no stranger to PC builds and thought a simple case switch would not out smart me...but i am afraid to admit it has!!and it goes something like this.. I recently built a PC and fired it up for the first time. After a few...

Hi every body. Last week i posted a thread asking for recommendations for a good imaging program for SATA drives. Acronis true image 10 was the one most people recommended. So i went out and dusted off the wallet and purchased. Installed on my machine and made an image of my 250Gb sata drive to...

Hi all and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. My request is a simple one(i hope). I have been using Norton ghost 2003 for a long time now and have been fairly happy with it. But recently i have been trying to image a machine with a SATA hard drive but ghost will not see the...

Hi all and thanks very much for taking the time to look at my thread. I have the following set up ECS 667/1066 mobo/intel 3.4 dual core cpu/2 gig elixer ddr 667 ram/Maxtor 250 gig hdd. I have installed vista premium with no problems at all and when i use the on board graphics everything is as it...

Hi Guys and thanks for looking at my thread. Have you ever had a problem that every body else seems to grasp yet you just cant seem to get it. Well i have and here it is. With old DDR ram if i built a system lets say with a CPU P4/2.8/533 i new i would use PC2700(DDR333) but i could also use...

Hi again friends and thanks for looking. My question is very simple. How can you tell if a cpu is dual core without opening the PC up a looking at the code's on the chip?? The reason why i ask is that i currently use a P4/3.0/HT CPU when i look up processor in device manager it shows as two...

Hello again friends and thanks for looking at my thread. My question is this....when i complete a new build and burn test the machine, How long is long enough. Previously i have tested units for about 2 hours but occasionally a faulty unit slips through. I use a professional 3rd party burn in...