Does anyone know of a Scandisk like program I can use to identify and repair possible hard drive problems in Windows XP... I would appriciate it
This is not General Hardware related.
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yes it is infact enabled. I just recently uninstalled all nvidia drivers and individualy installed each NV driver in order to avoid the automatic rollback done by SP1 for unsigned drivers
I appriciate your help thus far, but I need a little bit more before I jump to any conclusions.
Given that I have a WD raptor and a DFI Lan Party NFII Ultra I Have had the following problems...
Windows has been noticeably slower
Windows explorer( My Computer) has been useless
Performance test...
I think I may need a little help on this one... Earlier this week I purchased an oem WD Raptor 36gb 10,000rpm drive. I decided to reformat all my drives and use the Raptor as my system drive for XP. Since doing so I have noticed quite a lag in performance. Transfer rates given by 2 seperate...
Well I went a ahead and tried some of your suggestions. I disconnected all hard drives reformated the WD Raptor and re-installed windows with Only the Raptor and 16x dvd installed, yet I still have the same performance problem. Windows open noticeably slower, my computer browsing is delayed...
I think I may need a little help on this one... Earlier this week I purchased an oem WD Raptor 36gb 10,000rpm drive. I decided to reformat all my drives and use the Raptor as my system drive for XP. Since doing so I have noticed quite a lag in performance. Transfer rates given by 2 seperate...
I plan on buying a 5900 ultra in the next week or so and I have yet to see a roundup of any kind comparing different boards. I was wondering if anyone colud help me select the absolute best 5900 ultra on the market with price being no object. Thus far I have seen products released by MSI...
Hello, I just recieved my Lan party II ultra in the mail and it has two atz power connecters on the board... the conventional Long one and one 4 prong atx 12v. I have owned 3 motheboards thus far in my life and I have yet to see the 12v connector in use. Do I need to connect both atx...
I am looking for a good heatsink for a Athlon 2700... in which order would rank the performance of these heatsinks...
Vantec Aeroflow VA4
Coolermaster Aero 7+
Thermalright SLK 800u
Thermalright SLK 800
Thermalright SLK 700
Thermalright SLK 600
Thermalright SK-7...
I have looked at quite a few benchmarks relating to Barton on Anandtech and tomshardware, some of which make it look bad. As a follow up to my last post. In which order would you place these processors (those that actually exist) based on real world performance in games and video encoding...
I am looking to purchase an Athlon processor in the next month or so and while browsing pricewatch I have noticed quite a few model number/fsb/core combinations that I didnt know existed. I checked multiple websites and articles for verification but most are too outdated to be reliable. I was...
Alright I did a little interent research, but I didnt get a definitive solution... Can you run dual Athlon XP processors on any exsisting motherboard? If so, which and how much of an improvement would you expect to obtain over a convential system? Currently I have a ECS K7VTA3 - Athlon 1800xp...
Well this is the deal.. I was able to get a copy of the longhorn alpha edition... I have been running it for about 10 days. Thus far I havent had too many problems with it but I was wondering if any one on the forum was familar with it and wanted to talk more often about the things we have...
SO I have this MSI geforce 4 ti4200, it has an s video tv-out with a 7 pin connector. The problem is that the industry standard is pretty much 4 pin all around the board... Does anyone know where I might be able to find some converter or connector to use my tv-out? Thanks in advance for your help.
I just wanted to ask for a little help... I've been watching divx movies for a while no problem... but just recently I purcahsed a tv tuner that puts out files in mpeg 1 and 2 (around 5 or 6 mbs per movie). Thats been fine so far but I would like to condense the file size by puting them in...
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