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Hiya all ive decided to do my final year project designing an online music video library that will allow multiple access by many users to the same files that will be highly available, with facilities to access the video library by pc, pda and mobile phones. i want to concentrate …

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Hiya this is Brims i need an idea for a final year project computer science, nothing too hard time is running out. I want to use either php or asp with database cant seem to think of any applications can someone help please. I was thinking of doing an online …

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Hiya this is Brims i need an idea for a final year project computer science, nothing too hard time is running out. I want to use either php or asp with database cant seem to think of any applications can someone help please. I was thinking of doing an online …

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I have attached another stata hard drive to my pc on connection number 1 (c drive is connected to connector 0 on motherboard) and the os does not recognise the drive. Do I need to do anything else other connect the sata cable and power cable? Please help! Thank You …

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Hi everyone...I am new to this forum and am hoping you all can give me some guidance. I am not a tech person but love my computer and am usually able to figure stuff out as I go. Well I installed a 2nd hard drive on my computer and got …

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Ok, first my dvd burner totally crapped out on me, wouldnt burn, wouldnt read discs nothing, about as useful as a drink holder. So I put a cd burner that I used to use in there, and it reads cd's. But when I go to burn something it will say …

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i have been trying to install a second hard drive in my computer for the past few days now. all the cables and jumpers are correctly set,(i have checked 20 sites and i know it is all hooked up correctly.) and it is just frustrating. :mad: under the system properties …

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first I don't use a mac ,just wondering if you can use a usb 2.0 device for file storage ,new 40 gig toshiba harddrive ,not formated yet , with Mack laptop,is it possible or does the harddrive need to be for a mac or can it just be formated mac …

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Just add in a new HD in PC. BIOS can detect the 2nd HD or slave but Window can't? Open Window Disk Management only see Disk 0 but can't see Disk 1. New HD Pin jumper set to SL(slave). Any good advice. Thanks

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Hello. I recently purchased a first generation Proliant DL760 off e-bay due to the fact that I needed a server of some kind, and thought that since it would have as high specs as a pc I could build for the same price, and would most likely be more reliable, …

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First of all, this involves a Western Digital 250 GB drive. I partitioned it into 4 seperate drives. Aside from one of the drives on here, all the others seem to be working fine. My "Music" drive, the one causing problems, reads files fine too. That is until you move …

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I have a Seagate external hdd that was working awesomely. About a week ago, I dropped it. I rushed into my office to see if it was still working (I didn't expect it to). It worked fine up until yesterday. I used it to logon to my website at work …

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Hi there, my name is Don & new to the Forum, I unfortunately suffered the net result of an Operating System malfunction (XP Home ser pack 2 etc).and I am not very impressed, more highly stressed at the moment & I would appreciate any help. All of a sudden Windows …

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If anyone has encountered this problem I would really appreciate your help. I have a Toshiba Satellite A75 S206: P4 2.8 GHz Laptop which has a 300 Gig Maxtor USB external HD connected. The HD was being detected fine via the USB port after I formatted it but since I …

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[color=navy][b]SEATTLE — Nov. 15, 2005 — [/b]Today at [/color][url="http://www.sc05.org/"][color=navy]Supercomputing 2005[/color][/url][color=navy], an international conference for high-performance computing (HPC), networking and storage, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates delivered the opening keynote address to more than 7,000 attendees. In the address, titled “The Role of Computing in the Sciences,

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I am planning on building a new AMD 64 system in jaurary and since its gonna be a high end system I want a faster HDD to keep up with the system. currently I have a ATA/100(133?) i dont know 40GB hdd, and a slave 160GB Ultra ATA/133 hdd. what …

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I'm wondering if they make such a thing. I just got a new computer with a SATA hard drive, but i have 2 fine IDE hard drives that aren't being used. One has all of my music, and the other has files on it that I would like to retrieve. …

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Hello! I started this course in Java and we got this assignment to do and it consists of making 2 strings of text and then we are are supposed to write this code that storage the varible "`max_length`" and then print out "The longest string has the length...". I know …

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Hi! I am studying for a complex exam from networking, database administration. project management, system analysis, SDLC and programming and I have some networking questions I need help with. I am working as a computer tech and I need to confirm my knowledge. Any help will be appreciated. Here they …

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I have recently had 2 Maxtor HDDs shown to be "Failing" when tested with PowerMax. One had already completely crashed (failed - see below), and the other is still going, but on its last legs I suppose... (Its data is now backed up, of course). One was 5 months old, …

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Hello ladies and gents, I was reading about how "Passing by References" for efficiency and there was a little program added wich shows what the difference is between passing by value and passing by reference is. The program is this one: [code] #include <iostream> using namespace std; class SimpleCat { …

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My dvd rom doesnt read dvds but reads cds What could be the problem If anyone has solved this problem Please Advice!!!

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Hi, I just recently bought a new computer from customperfection.com they installed a WD rapter 74gb 10 000rpm drive and installed windows on it. It shows up in bios and works wonderfully. The problem i am having is installing my old HD from my old computer which isnt working properly …

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Hello! I have Dell Latitude Csx (3 years old). The problem is , that USB port stops responding ,especially , when i am using pen drives . The pen drive ends up corrupting its data and i have to reformat it every time this happens :sad: . Same with my …

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Hi My CD-writer (HP CD-writer plus 9150i) is not detected by the BIOS. I have had it for several years (since I got the computer) and have not used it much. The problem where there from the beginning I think. However during short periods (typically a week) it has been …

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I need to prep a 15 minutes presentation on information storage solutions to give as part of interview I have on thursday with a storage solution company. I'm having great difficulty finding good sources of info. and help you could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!

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is it possible to change the sata drivers on a sata hard disk? with a little help i can get around the xp wpa thing, but the upgrade to the new motherboard is being hindered by the fact that the dfi sata drivers aren't compatible with the abit drivers i …

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yes i have an emachines 1.8 GHz Intel celeron PC and I am trying to add a second hard drive. when i plug it in (power and IDE cable) and try to boot it says "NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND". When i unplug the new drive my first drive boots into …

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I ran all antivirus software and spyware prevention software I could, but nothing worked. I really appreciate any help I could get. Here is my hackthis startuplist: StartupList report, 10/24/2005, 1:23:24 AM StartupList version: 1.52.2 Started from : C:\Documents and Settings\Mr X\Desktop\HijackThis.EXE Detected: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) Detected: Internet …

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Hello, I currently have a motherboard with no SATA support so I may buy a SATA controller but I want to know do you get the same speeds out of a SATA controller than you do with a motherboard with SATA ports.

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10 things you need to know about SharePoint Services Reply Quote Microsoft's SharePoint Services gives you a lot of features you may have found yourself wishing for, features you couldn't have because you'd have to go to the trouble of rolling your own or fiddling with your infrastructure in order …

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So here's me, 3 days and about 20 dvd burn attempts down the line and I STILL can't burn more than a couple of hundred mb reliably. I'm using Nero Ultra edition after my Instant CD/DVD refused to believe I wanted to burn a DVD rather than a CD (God …

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Hi Guys - I'm a newly joined member Living in the Uk. Started in computers way back in 1960, but rarely needed to go inside them until I retired. I swapped computers from W98 to XP about 6 months ago and eventually gave my old m/c to a granddaughter after …

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Help!! I'm having loads of popups and I don't know why, I've scanned loads of times but nothing gets rid of them. PLease help...please.... StartupList report, 23/10/2005, 01:59:01 StartupList version: 1.52.2 Started from : C:\Documents and Settings\Jamie Lowry\My Documents\hijackthis\hijackthis\HijackThis.EXE Detected: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) Detected: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 …

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So I am trying to put an IDE Hard drive in to my new computer that has a SATA hard drive already installed. But the geniuses at Dell only put one ide port on my motherboard and the eide cable that runs off that one controls my cd rom and …

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[indent][color=navy][QUOTE] [color=navy]Apple announced this morning a fortified Power Mac G5 line, the most impressive being the Power Mac G5 Quad with two 2.5-GHz dual-core PowerPC G5 processors. The Quad will be available in early November.[/color] [color=navy]Full specs are on Apple's site, but the highlights are a bigger cache, greater front-side …

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I'm going on a very boring, 3 hour trip. My laptop battery will last me long enough that I can have a computer during that time, but I thought I'd ask first, is this a bad idea? Could bumpiness during driving crash the harddrive, or cause other damage to the …

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hey, i just started a new site recently, [url]http://www.redrival.com/thekonnection/data-recovery/index.html[/url] its just an informative site about data recovery, with some good links to tools and good stuff like that. not selling anything, just some good data recovery help for people beginner to expert, and some good tools.

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Alright I have a Giga-Byte mother board (Duo Pro) that supports SATA. I have two SATA hard drives, on is the Existing Western Digital 80G (this one windows is messed up on and in order to fix I need to setup my old drive is a Slave so that I …

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Since no one ever replied to my previous post [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread33862.html[/url] , I am rephrasing and refining my q....plz ans this time ULTIMATE HARD DISK SETTINGS - brain racking question Respected Tech gurus and dear forum members Here goes the situation: I have one INTEL 865 GBF motherboard As far as …

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Please guide me - confused with SATA PATA Primary Secondary master Slave...!!! Respected members and gurus, I am a non technical person and am only good at using computers for my finance jobs and NOT configuring it. From last three days I have been reading and reading and reading about …

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Hi Friends I run the CD ROM and there are 'jumps' and other imperfections in the music, making for an unusable copy. Is this a sign of the lens on the original drive failing? The read-drive is a LITEON LTN485S running at 8.91 average speed , the write-only drive a …

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when ever i save data to a floppy disk it always tells me to format the floppy when i click format a message comes saying its unable to format and the disks are brand new Can anyone help me plz?

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Why can't anyone make a every growing HD? I mean it's been shown by the ever bigger HDs that the current HD format we manafacture can hold much more then what we currently have out on shelves...so why hasn't anyone thought to develop some system in which there's a HD …

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Hi guys & gals first post newbie here, found the forum on good old google. I posted this first under an existing thread from Garandan of 5th sep and its been pointed out to me better to start a new thread to get answers so here goes. I have almost …

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Hi all, I need to read the CRC value of the desired sector on hard disk. I DON'T need just to detect was there any mistake reading that sector, I just need to read the CRC value of the selected sector without reading the entire sector and calculating the CRC …

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to anyone that can help, saw the threads about this issue but the scenario i encountered is a little different. it happens on and off. I have a 3 month old dell dimension 3000. the problem happened a couple of days ago in the morning. i turned the pc off …

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i recently built myself a new system which seems to work ok, but i cant get my floppy drive or zip drive to work. i have a SATA hardrive connected up and working fine, a CD-RW and DVD-ROM drive on one ribbon cable (CD-RW set as master, DVD as slave), …

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<New member, 63, been around computers since the Ti/Sinclair 1000. not a true techie> so here goes. I have a unit with a C & D drive, The C drive (5 Gig) has 98se and the D drive (3 Gig) has XP Pro installed in them. The time comes when …

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