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Give a little more info about what kind of partitioning software you used. All of your problems point to an un-partitioned hard drive.

To answer your question dual channel is like having a RAID 0, your computer writes to each stick at the same time, thus "doubling" performance. You will want to have two equal sticks. Some manuafacturers even package "kits" that consist of two sticks of ram that have apparently been tested …

are you sure that the cd rom was not in the bios? You might have another menu available for booting. If you do, it's probably accessed with an F key during bootup, maybe F8? if the bootup goes by too fast, you can press the pause/break key, to pause bootup …

Alright, first tell us everything you know about your computer. Which operating system? Hard drive model? did you build it yourself? if not, is is a dell? HP?.....

I wouldn't worry about that, get a Venice, that's the new core, and I don't think it costs any more than a clawhammer.

Make sure it has ram! I know this sounds stupid, but I actually managed get as far as you have on a laptop with no ram.

I used to get these all the time. And honestly, I don't think I ever fixed it (only because the Pavillion xt155 is the WORST laptop ever produced) but I digress. I'd recommend running a memory test to make sure it didn't go bad, you can download memtest (search on …

Try add/remove programs, then go to add/remove windows components. That's my only guess.

I just got two matching 10 gig hard drives for free, I wanted to set up a RAID on my system (just for fun) but I already have a cd burner and two hard drives, and my mobo only supports 4 devices. To solve this, I found an old ata66 …

I need a little more info. If you close the cd's window when the new cd is in, it still shows info for the other cd? If you, say, try to open a song on the cd that isn't in the drive anymore, does it give you an error?

I've had that blue screen many times before, in case your were interested, it says "the system was shut down to prevent damage" Normally the result of bad drivers/hardware or just XP's quirkyness. Seeing how you can't do anything right now, I would recommend that you flash your bios. You …

Try using a different mouse/keyboard. I know it's a stretch, but I've had some bad keyboards in the past that just loved to mess with me.

If that cmos thing doesn't work, I recommend getting a new drive...fast. Hopefully, you won't need this, but I heard somewhere that if your hard drive is broken to the point that you can't read from it, you can apparently put it in the freezer. Somhow the cold helps it …

Normally, when you can't get ANYTHING to happen, it's the BIOS that's the problem. I would erase BIOS by taking out the BIOS battery. This is the little silver thing on your motherboard that looks like a watch battery. You can pry it out with a small screwdriver. Leave it …

If your building a totally new kit, and you have the money, go with a special water cooling case. These things are all-ready. They've got their resevoirs and radiators where they won't get in the way. [url]www.frozencpu.com[/url] should have a good selection

I would go with one of the GA-k8n socket 939 board with an amd 64 proc. I don't know exactly which mobo you should get, because I don't know what kind of video card you have. Even the best in the line is only $150 add an amd 64 3500+ …

10k Raptors, wow! Are you sure your drives are RAIDed? When you said "I do not use them for different os's or anything" it makes it sound like you have two totally separate drives. With a raid, your computer recognizes both drives as one. Anyway, when you install windows, sometime …

I don't mean to be rude, but you should try to spell/punctuate correctly first. I honestly cannot understand exactly what your problem is.

your problem is probably not your hard drive, it's either your windows cd, your cd drive, or your ram. Oh, and you can't install windows on another computer and bring it to yours when you install it, it configures itself to your hardware specifically. In some cases what you did …

It should be available to change in the bios, check your manual. The only issue I can see is that when you remove the RAID 0, you will have two hard drives with little bits and pieces of your data and operating system on them (assuming your OS is installed …

I just got two matching 10 gig hard drives for free, I wanted to set up a RAID on my system (just for fun) but I already have a cd burner and two hard drives. To solve this, I found an old ata66 pci card. I was wondering if my …