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I received a Windows 7 beta version DVD from Microsoft. The installation on a spare drive was without any problem at all. The OS did find and installed all my drivers including my Raid drivers, printer, video drivers, scanner drivers etc. I was pleasantly surprised how well and smooth the...

Last night I installed Nero 7 essentials on one of my machines. The installation itself went very well but........ after the installation the machine could not find any of my DVD writers. Ok I thought a million to one chance that two drives packed up. I pulled another two drives from a backup...

About 4 years ago one of my Seagate 20 Gigabyte drives developed numerous bad sectors. I used the Seagate test program and it told me that the drive is us and has to be replaced. However I wanted to see what is really going on and zero filled the drive. Then I reformatted the thing with fat32...

I just downloaded and installed the Puppy iso cd. I am completely amazed. The total ISO distribution is only about 60Mbytes and has everything you probably need to have. It runs completely in ram. I would say 64 Mbytes should be enough. More would be better. It identifyed all my hardware and...

I just installed all upgrades on my wifes machine and it upgraded sp1, sp2 and also installed 11 files of SP3, all this is for XP Pro. Now I never heard of SP3 at all. I must admit that I never upgraded my own machines for the last two years as they operate through a Linnux router/firewall. I...

I fitted a Super Flower 800 watt supply in one of my machines. I noticed if you unpluged the mains cord the computer continued working for about 5 minutes or so before it shut down. It is a beautifully made supply with four exhaust fans build in. I decided to find out what caused the strange...

This might be helpful to some persons. I recently build a new system for my daughter. As she wanted the most modern rig I selected the following setup. MBO: Intel D875PBZ CPU: P4 3.6HT E 800 fsb (Prescot) Mem: 2 x 512 Meg Kingston PC4500 Drives: 2 x Maxtor 260 Gbyte Sata Raid 2 x Maxtor...

I just lost my HP printer and decided to replace it. I bought the cheapest Cannon the model S200SFX. To my utter suprise I found that that it works in most Linnux distros. I tried Redhat Enterprise, Mandrake 10, Debian and Suse9. Suse did not have the S200 drivers but both the S100 and S300...

We did run some test's with new floppy drives and found that most of them (10 out of 11 brands) do not meet the specifications. We tested the newly formated floppy's and could see that the tracks were formated with very narrow magnetic information. We now had a big job and replaced all our...

I recently build a new computer. P4 3.3 Ht. 40Gbyte Seagate ATA133,1 Gbyte memory etc. After installing Win XP pro normally, the drive failed to boot up, or booted halfway and then keept hanging. Well I replaced the drive with a Maxtor 80 Gb, same problem. Another replacement an 80 Gb seagate...

Anybody has any experience with installing Knoppix to the hard drives? I just downloaded it (3 day,s on the net) and I am very impressed with the distro. Much faster as Mandrake and infinately faster then Redhead 9. Also it seems to identify all devices on the system. Regards Jurgen

Just got a 180 days licensed version of windows Longhorn. It is of course a beta version. My first impressions are, if it would be more stable it could be an excellent upgrade from xp. It has a new GUI and a newer version of IE. Pop up blockers, download managers etc. It seems to be win xp with...

Today I received from Richmond Win XP Corp Ed. with service pack 2 included. Admitedly it was a Beta version. Anyway I installed it on my own machine. The installation went ok, no problems there. However after installation I could not access our high speed servers. Again no problem I just...

I wonder what wrong with that threat??? Everytime I lock on the computer drops out of Netscape or Opera and goes back to the desktop. There must be some error. Has anyone else the same problem???? All other threats work ok. It never happened before. Regards Jurgen

First an original system description this might bear on the issue. Drive C Dual boot ME and XP, ME system SATA RAID 1 80 GB Drive D Storage Raid 1 80 GB Drive E Win XP pro corp. Raid 1 80 GB Drive F Storage IDE 40 GB Drive G...

I just spend 3 sleepless weeks setting up a new system. I use the SINXP1394 mainboard, 4 GB of memory and 2 IDE drives as well as 4 IDE raid drives and 2 Sata raid drives. The problem was as follows. The original drives were 2 40 GB seagates on IDE, 4 80 GB seagates on IDE raid and 2 80 GB...