I'm trying to stay around $1000, or so.
I'm leaning towards the new Intel i7 processor, a high end Asus mobo, and about 4 gigs of DDR3 Ram (I'll still be running XP Pro, so no need for more ram)
But, it's part of what a fast and powerful system can do.
I noticed that when looking at some of the very expensive gaming rigs.
They all had large cache and FSB specs, so it must help out somehow
I bought my PC in '06 and it has the Asus A8N-SLI Premium motherboard
and it has the AMD Socket 939 Athlon 64FX/Athlon 64 processor.
It performs decently, but I'm considering upgrading to a more powerful processor and motherboard that can handle more power. I'm currently running XP Pro, but...
I'm needing to get a program that allows me to fax through the phone line (plugged in to a standard modem in my PC) directly from my computer.
I've been using the prog that came with my dying printer and it needs the printer to send efaxes.
Since my computer (XP Pro) has an internal modem...
Yeah, I hope she's not running a low budget porn studio or anything.
I think the biggest problem is that her daughter comes to visit and she chats on all these different chat boards which I've heard are bad about leaving little suprises on your computer.
There's only one account...and I have a ton of pictures on my pc and it defrags fine.
I'm in the process of checking for spyware.
Something fishy is going on because Spybot Search & Destroy has mysteriously been disabled on her machine, so I'm re-installing that now and running a scan.
I was just doing a defrag on my wife's PC (Windows XP Pro) and all the data in My Documents is about 22.0 Gigs.
After I ran defrag twice, I keep getting a message when it's over saying 18.2 Gigs of the data in My Documents cannot be defragged.
Anybody have any idea what's going on with...
Yep, the next guy might want to take notice that it's good to pay attention to the basics.
I only spent 2 or 3 days jackin around with this due to not paying attention to the simple things, which I knew it had to be something simple. :disgust:
OK, I found out what was wrong....
My external drive case has a way to connect via USB, or by a SATA connection...so I took the side off of my tower so I can connect directly to the mother board using the SATA and when I went to plug it in on the back of the case...I saw the little switch...
I guess I could try that, but my computer already recognizes it as it is showing up in Device Manager.
How would using a different USB port change that, considering the drive has yet to be initialized?
There are only 2 USB ports on the back of my machine that are literally part of the...
I've already installed two other drives, so I know exactly where to plug in.
I found out where to plug in from the manufacturer, Velocity Micro
ALL drives are SATA
If I do that, then how will I ever learn what it is that I'm missing?
Windows is designed to be able to accomodate plug-n-play, so I'm missing something simple here that's not allowing me to see the new drive in Disk Management so I can initialize it and then format it.
I really need to...
That couldn't possibly do anything to help because the new drive has not been initialized by Windows, which is what I'm trying to accomplish.
I'm using SATA connections as is required with SATA drives.
I know Windows sees the drive because it shows up in Device Manager.
Seems as though Windows knows about it, but the new drive has to be initialized before Windows will recognize it and assign it a drive letter.
Once it has a drive letter, I can see it in Disk Management and then format it.
When I do that, Windows does not show my new hard drive.
I know exactly how to format a drive once Windows see the drive.
Problem is, Windows does not see the drive so going to My Computer doesn't help.
How to format a new hard drive?
I'm trying to format a brand new hard drive to use as a second drive in my computer tower, but for some reason I can't figure out how to format it.
When I plugged it in, my computer recognized it as "New Hardware Found".
Then, it showed another message...
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