A few months ago I purchased a new laptop and installed W7. It obviously connects with my network (both wireless and wired) because I have good internet connectivity. However, I have two major and unacceptably limiting problems that I have not been able to resolve.
1 - The Windows 7 laptop...
My Abit AW9D-Max has an 8 pin 12V CPU power connection requiring two 4 pin connectors from the power supply. Will this board work properly with only one four pin connector plugged in?
I am not currently using this board and need to test it before I sell it to someone that has offered to buy...
In my opinion, overclocking and stability are not at all inconsistent goals. One just has to be smart and reasonable about how far to push a chip and associated memory and not get greedy or have bragging rights as their goal. I use my machine for both work and home related tasks so I cannot and...
techmanc, I never really had any complaints with performance but I also do not have anything worthwhile to compare it to.
I am now thinking the AW9D-Max is not designed to handle PC2-8500 / DDR2-1066 memory. I just noticed the following statement in the Abit manual:
"Supports Dual Channel...
I started out planning what the new bios settings need to be when I replace the E6600 currently installed in my AW9D-Max with a new E8400 in a few days. While looking at my existing bios settings, I noticed that I have not been fully utililizing the capability of my installed memory. When I...
Thank you for your quick response. It is, with out question, the best explanation I have seen on this subject and certainly corrected some significant misunderstandings I previously had. I appreciate your effort.
In a few days I am going to replace the E6600 currently installed in my Abit AW9D-Max with an E8400. While doing a little planning ahead and trying to decide what bios settings to consider, I was stopped dead in my tracks trying to figure something out I always took for granted.
The bios...
bsobel, why do you "*not* recommend you do this for your boot drive."? My local network is at my home and only used by my wife and myself. There is no internal threat, only the internet and this is dealt with by both the NOD/Eset firewall and the hardware firewall resident in my Linksys WRT54G...
It is indeed Vista's fault! The XP systems we are using on our other machines are not broken. They are reliable and fast. Because of Vista, XP support will be a thing of the past in the not too distant future. Therefore, I will be forced to upgrade all our machines to Vista. This in turn will...
Two weeks ago we purchased a new Dell machine with Vista Home Premium, primarily for my wife's use. We started out open minded. If anything, we were looking forward to learning this new operating system and eventually upgrading our two other desktops and two laptops (We have a small real estate...
Two weeks ago we replaced my wife's computer with a new Dell using Vista Home Premium. It readily sees the other XP computers on my network and it can be seen by all the other computers. It is even able to use the network laser printer. I can print to printers connected directly to the new Vista...
During the early boot phase, before Windows starts to load, plugging in a USB memory device causes the bios to freeze. Simply removing the USB memory device causes the bios to continue. This problem also occurs in the bios setup dialogs. In other words, a USB memory device acts like an on/off...
Thanks for the suggestion dunkster. I am trying to get away from a DOS based solution for a number of reasons. Some of these reasons are a result of SATA drives and the lack of DOS SATA drivers needed to recognize drives not on the two primary SATA ports. My wife now needs to back up the drive...
I previously used Ghost 2002 to periodically clone my hard drive as a backup. Ghost 2002 ran from DOS and a floppy and was very reliable. I never had a problem with the cloned drive not being a true bootable clone.
For a number of reasons, using the floppy/DOS method has become much less...
I eventually discovered what was causing the problem. We had a 128MB Lexar JumpDrive "permanently" left in one of the USB ports that was used as a backup location for Quicken data. As soon as I removed it, the problem resolved itself. I tried another USB memory device I had and it too caused a...
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