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Don't ask me why, but I have three optical drives besides a hard disk and I want to use them all in my desktop. The recent among them is LG DVD writer (which came with a 80-pin connector cable). The motherboard has only two ports, primary IDE port and the secondary IDE port. While the primary...

Recently i have aquired a new problem, sometimes while working there is a strange clicking noise in th HDD and the system hangs.Then i have to restart it.sometimes the problem persists untill i reconnect the IDE cable of the HDD. I have seen this kind of problem in my software institue which...

Hi guys .. i bought a system... with sata 320 gb hd.. and connected to a sata 1 pin on the mobo dvd writer is been connected to primary ide on mobo.. now i have got two probs.. 1.) my 320 hd is not showing as primary master .. instead its showing me a third slave...!!! the dvd...

I have a 200GB SATA hd and a 250GB IDE hd.Both is having xp on it.But whenever I connect both the drives only the IDE harddrive is booting up.I want the SATA drive to be the Primary and the IDE to be the slave.I want xp to booted from SATA?...What connection do I have to do in my motherboard for...

I am planning to sell my 250GB IDE harddisk whoch is some 3/4 months old.So what price can I expect?..

I am trying to install vista on my new system but it doesn't boots up. After setup is completed it restarts and then the loading bar just keeps on going on and on. Safe mode doesn't works as well. I have tried different DVD's .. interchanged position of RAM modules .. removed 2gb RAM (have...

Hello All, My PC's config is as follows: - P4 1.8 GHz 1 GB DDR RAM Asus P4BGL-MX (Intel 845 Chipset based motherboard) 4 HDD's (All IDE dun wanna get into the details) 300W SMPS Now I have run out of IDE ports on my PC and as always I also have run out of disk space. I am planning...

Hi, I just baught a new mobo GIGABYTE 945GZM-S2 The problem is it has only one IDE port while I have 1 IDE HDD and 2 DVD Writers, How do I get around this problem.

Hello Friends, I wanted to upgrade my computer. My Present Configuration 1. PIV, 2.66 GHz 2. Gigabyte Motherboard 3. 512 MB DDR Ram 4. 1 LG CDROM (52x), 1 DVD ROM Samsung, 1 Samsung CD Writer (24X) 5. 80GB HDD IDE, one network PCI Card 6. 64MB NvidiaGeforce2 MMX card 7. TVS StartUPS...

Hey guys, I am in class 12th & need a C++ IDE for Windows Vista (a free one, preferably!) Any ideas ?

Can I connect my two PATA HD to a SATA port somehow by cards etc?

Requirement - As all my PC motherboards are IDE only (no SATA) and I am planning to buy a SATA HDD (future proof ? lol ) I need some think like IDE-SATA or USAB-SATA converter. Which will be better ? considering speed, perfomance etc. USB 2 SATA, I meant the HDD case, that need additional...

i got a IDE hard disk seagate 160GB i used it for some time. and then when i got a new mother board which had only one IDE slot. i got a external case for the disk. as you know it has a usb to connect to the cpu and a power cable. the problem is that my pc recoganize it as a mass storage, it...

dear, be kind to guide me abt the exact / advantages among SATA and IDE HDD ? be kind to thankng u n advance shinu

Guys, I have a simple question. I am gonna buy a new hdd this weekend. Should I go for SATA or IDE? What is the performance difference between both? I can see that price difference between both types is very small. Also I have heard that connecting SATA harddisk is different than IDE one...

No budget as such. Am intending on ugrading just RAM, HDD. Current Mboard is GA865GME-775 *www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2223 RAM:512 DDR 400Mhz HDD: IDE 40GB Processor: Celeron D 3.0Ghz with EM64T

U should have noticed that LiteOn Offers DVD RW in both interfaces...IDE & Sata My mobo has 4 Sata & i wanna use it What is the advantage of sata DVDrw over IDE DVDrw I am planning to buy them .....help me to choose the best one in LiteOn Model no & estimated Street Price

Hi Guys, First of all, i am very happy i bought a new PC yesterday. I Will post about it later :) Now, i have this 4 yr old 40GB IDE Harddrive with my Stuff. It gets conncted but the data transfer is tremendously slow. :( Can anyone help me. The Motherboard is Intel 965WH :)

I have a SATA HDD in which my OS is loaded and another IDE HDD for normal data storage. Now last week when i was reinstalling my OS (XP),everything worked fine , except that the other IDE HDD is now asking to be formatted . Now the IDE HDD was having data of 320 GB :( Please help me...

I wish to focus on J2EE development. Could anyone suggest an IDE for creating programs. I don't want to have a headache setting up the compiler. Is there any simple one available? I am trying to download netbeans right now.