seagate sata hdd using Mode 5 (ATA/100) when better is possible
my Seagate 250 GB HDD HD Tune 2.55 free, shows standard ATA/ATAPI-7-SATA II supported UDMA Mode 6 (Ultra ATA/133) Active UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100) I don't really understand these nomenclature and...
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I bought a sandisk 16GB pendrive. yesterday, I tried to format it using rufus, and then HP's huge utilities both took hours yet failed in between, without giving any reason. today I formatted it using...
View Articleregarding my problem of cd drive
Sir, my system i.e I ball piano 99,gigabyte motherboard. i have recently changed my OS to windows 7.my system is not recognising the cd which i am inserting.pls can you helpme, one thing i have...
View ArticleLost Hard Drive
Hi, I have just installed a Seagate 3 TB hard drive and realised that it would only show 2TB. Anyhow I was using the Seagate (Acronis) software to set up the drive and extend the volume and went...
View ArticleNew SSD drive show in safely remove device
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View ArticleLaptop batteries?
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View Articlecpubenchmarks.net says that the FX-6300 is better than the i5 3570k
I was just looking at random cpu's in cpubenchmarks.net and found something really interesting.The FX-6300 is 9 ranks and 301 points *_MORE_* than the 3570k. I thought that the FX-8350 was the AMD...
View ArticlePrinter prints one page fine then the next is gibberish
Hello, we have a brother printer. We print to it over usb on one computer and over ethernet on the other. The one with usb is perfectly fine. The one via ethernet is sometimes a problem. This is a...
View ArticleRaid 5 Slow Transfer Speeds
Hi, I have read somewhere that Raid 5 is not supported in Windows 7. Is this true please? After my near loss of data today I rebuilt my Raid to 5 with three Seagate Barracuda hard drives each at 2 TB....
View ArticleHaving real troubles with my Fatal1ty headset (jacks not usb)
I got the headset about 3 months ago and tried to set it up then, but I had problems with it and wasn't able to. I tried again today, but the same thing happened and I'm getting pretty frustrated. The...
View ArticleI have a Question about GHz
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View ArticleWhat should I install - Atheros Wifi Driver or the Intel one ?
I am using the laptop Asus K56CM and i found to wifi driver which is in the driver download website. So I don't know which should i install ?. If I install the both, will it be a conflict ? This...
View ArticleFirmware error
Recently i tried updating the firmware on my satellite P755 (windows update installer or whatever its called) and i barely noticed it say to disable start-up password and it was too late so it tried...
View ArticleUnkown Device, Code 43
Since about 1-2 months ago whenever I hooked up my phone (HTC Rezound) to my computer through my USB chord I get an error message saying that it's an unrecognized device and that it was stopped because...
View ArticleWhy does my HP printer keep malfunctioning?
What happens is, I'll go to print a word document. About half of the time, the document says "error-printing". Sometimes, deleting it will remove it from the printer menu; at other times, it...
View ArticleSATA 3 6Gbs Western Digital 1TB hard drive not detected AT ALL
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View ArticleLogitech MX 1000 issue
My mom has been having this strange problem with her Logitech MX 1000 mouse to the left of her cursor are these sort of horizontal squiggly lines similar to a dollar sign although hard to describe......
View ArticleExt hdd recover
Hi gents, for some reason some time back i formatted 2 ext hdd with some raw photo files on. Is there anyway i can recover these files. The hdd have been in use since with backups amongst other things....
View ArticleBlack screen/monitor goes to sleep minutes after powering on
A matter of minutes or even seconds after powering on, the screen goes black. There is a "no signal detected" message is displayed. That is to say, the monitor has gone in to sleep mode. Sometimes a...
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