I have swapped a Controller board from a bad hard drive to another
one, same serial, same firmware etc, but I am getting a CAPABLE BUT
COMMAND FAILED error. I don't know how to turn off the SMART command
in the bios to try and see if this helps. Where is the command for

Hi again. I built me new box and ran Tuff Test on it. It shows a bad seek,
rotational error on a new floppy drive. I ran the same test on my old
computer, all ok.
While it was testing rotational speed, the disc wasn't turning at all. Is it

On Jun 22, 6:04 pm, avery23...@hotmail.com (Avery) wrote:

I got this chip, looking for a good motherboard.
Also, is AGP slot the best way to go for a good video card?
Grojohn

My screen displayed a strange orange and pink fine checkerboard/herringbone
pattern today. The display then lost it's feed as if the pc had been turned
off but all case fans etc were still running. I pressed the power button and
the pc turned off immediately. I powered up again ...

    I just bought my first LCD monitor as my 21" CRT (1995 model)
finally flaked out on me. I bought a Hanns-G 19" Wide Screen
(HW-193DPB).
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5750874

I tried to switch on my PC, there is no activity from the PC. Power
lights is on, fan are spinning,hard disk activity light is always on,
no display on the monitor, status light on the CD drive is always on.
I have a Gigabyte motherboard, Geforce4 video card, P4 CPU, and

I'm trying to get an old notebook pc running again. Its a low spec
machine, but is plenty for what little I'm going to do with it, which
is little more than text editing.
It has no floppy, the cdrom doesnt, no network socket, no usb and no

like in my last post that I fixed my modum by a soldered link to make it
constantly on because the on button had broke, found it to ark when I pluged
it in to the power. I thought the ark was traveling through the ethernet
cable and corrupting the system file in my win xp that made ...

Ok, I have a major dilemma here.  My seagate SATA hard drive's circuit
board is toast.  There is a black burn mark on it.
So, I did what anyone would do when they panic, I called DATA RECOVERY
and of course, it is going to be $450.00+ to recover, plus the cost of

I have an APC ES-500 backup battery on a newish homebuilt PC with 19"
CRT display, 4 harddrives, and AMD dual-core CPU--not to mention the
DSL modem, wireless router, and powered USB hub. As you can imagine on
power failure--which rarely happens for real--I get a minute or two of

I have found that adding more RAM makes a larger Swap file ????
Shouldn't it get smaller as I add more RAM?  I know the swap file
takes the place of Ram when it's needed, so why is it working
backwards and making the swap file larger?  

I'm hooking up the front panel connectors. My Gigabyte instructions
don't specify which color wire is positive. The connectors have an
arrow on one side, is that the positive? These are the reset switch,
hard drive light, power light, etc.

I found a computer case with power supply in the trash.  Of course I
always grab things like that.  I happen to have a noisy fan in my PS
so U was thinking of swapping them.  Of course I could just swap the
fan, but the PS I found has more wattage.

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