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On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:12:31 GMT, Keiron wrote: Hi all, Trying to fire up my CF harddisk. Plugged the (generic) adaptor in to the IDE socket, installed the card and rebooted. Bios detects the card and reports the size: so far so good. The bios says the card will only work with PIO mode, fair enough, not expecting great performance and I understand this is typical, unless you buy a card with UDMA support anyway. So now I go to install on it...

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:44:18 -0500, John McGaw wrote: If, as you write "the left, right, and up arrows work ok" then that is that -- they work OK. The keyboard has no clue about where the cursor on the screen is at any time and doesn't make decisions about what the computer is going to do with the key code it sends out. It is a combination of the operating system and the program that determines what a particular key...

"kony" wrote in message ... On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:11:06 -0500, "JimL" wrote: "JimL" wrote in message ... I have an old fashioned AC power control panel that has a row of switches across the front of it to turn different stuff on and off plus 1 master switch. This one happens to be the style that you could set a CRT on top of, but I don't need that. But it has 5 switches and outlets,...

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage kony wrote: On 22 Nov 2009 21:30:59 GMT, Arno wrote: In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage kony wrote: On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:58:43 -0500, kony wrote: Safely Remove Hardware does absolutely nothing if windows is left at the defaults for the device. Period. (except waste your time). I should clarify, that I meant no writing of data that wasn't already happening expediently without doing that, it does also...

detlev.e wrote Sjouke Burry wrote Fragmenting on E only occurs when more programs try to write to it at the same time, so only when the C program tries to write E at the same time, will fragmentation take place. The time slicing between you and the C progam in itself will not cause fragmentation. Doesn't the OS write system volume information to that partition Yes. and perhaps it des that whilst copying data from one partition to...

OK, this is a strange one... Shuttle SK41 motherboard with on-board graphics, plus an old Radeon 8500 AGP card (64mb I think). The PC is used for basic kids internet, hotmail and watching DVDs. Has been working just fine for ages. I recently swapped out the desktop athlon 2400 for a mobile 2500. Cooler, quieter etc. Just got a new HD1080 TV in the living room and it is connected to that, but had a post last week about it not managing 1080...

GT wrote: "Rod Speed" wrote in message ... David Brown wrote Rod Speed wrote David Brown wrote Eddie wrote Do I always need to close or stop a USB flash drive before I remove it? I'm using XP. In XP's Device Manager there is an entry for Disk Drives and when I look at the Policies tab for the flash drive, it says: "Optimized For Quick Removal. This setting enables write caching on the disk and in Windows,...

jw wrote: VanguardLH wrote: Lightscribe works by burning onto the "label" side. That's why you get a 2-tone result. The label also fades over time. It will get harder to read. Is this really true? Will the label fade? How long? I am disappointed. Although I have a Lightscribe-capable CD/DVD burner drive, I haven't used the Lightscribe function. The Lightscribe discs cost more (not a lot but some). However, a buddy...