[H] SATA and SATA-II

2005-09-13 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
Will SATA-II drives work in SATA boards? T

RE: [H] SATA and SATA-II

2005-09-13 Thread Jason . Tozer
If they are shipped in a SATA state. The majority (possibly all?) SATA-II drives ship in SATA mode and you then run a utility to turn them into full SATA-II drives (enables certain SATA extensions). I am not sure if the procedure is reversable. Regards, Jason Tozer Database Analyst London Ext

[H] Activation of XP questions

2005-09-13 Thread Robert Turnbull
Here is a clip from WXPnews this morning with another variation on this theme: .. we talked about reformatting the hard disk and reinstalling XP. But do you have to go through the whole product activation hassle again when you do that? Actually, there's a way

Re: [H] Activation of XP questions

2005-09-13 Thread Al
Robert Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Copy the following files to a floppy, CD or second hard disk: wpa.dbl, wpa.bak. To restore the files, start the computer in Safe Mode and copy them to the same directory (\WINDOWS\System32). Both times I've tried this, I lost the rest of the

[H] Ram... lots and lots of ram.

2005-09-13 Thread James Boswell
Saturday I did something utterly strange. I ordered 4GB of PC2100 for my Athlon64 desktop (scan.co.uk's today only page over the weekend, 2GB Apacer(I think) PC2100 dimms bundled with Asaka heatspreaders for £57/ea, bargain of the decade right there) said PC2100 is presently in the A64,

[H] Checking RAM size from batch file

2005-09-13 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
Is there a way to get the amount of RAM available or total in a batch file in the form of an environment variable? T

[H] Investment opportunity or scam

2005-09-13 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
Any one hear of these guys? http://www.grgems.com/index.html They claim to buy and sell gems and are offering small business owners an opportunity to invest. It seems iffy to me, but I'm wondering if anyone else has heard of it. T

Re: [H] Ram... lots and lots of ram.

2005-09-13 Thread Eli Allen
Its /3GB switch you want, not PAE Eli - Original Message - the PAE switch does nothing, even with the 'S/W memory address range remapping' thing in the bios toggled that's supposed to shuffle the PCI-E addressing out of the first 32bits of address range. Suggestions? Windows

Re: [H] SATA and SATA-II

2005-09-13 Thread Winterlight
At 04:53 AM 9/13/2005, you wrote: Will SATA-II drives work in SATA boards? T yes

Re: [H] Investment opportunity or scam

2005-09-13 Thread Analyst
On 13 Sep 2005 at 12:03, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: Any one hear of these guys? http://www.grgems.com/index.html Nope. They claim to buy and sell gems and are offering small business owners an opportunity to invest. It seems iffy to me, but I'm wondering if anyone else has heard of

RE: [H] Investment opportunity or scam

2005-09-13 Thread Hayes Elkins
The payout come from a former Nigerian royal's bank account? From: Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Investment opportunity or scam Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:03:44 -0300 Any one hear of

[H] another activation ?

2005-09-13 Thread FORC5
Have a box on the LAN with a SCSI Pioneer slot drive, thinking of pulling that ( came into some IDE burners ) will removing this trigger activation ? hohoho -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- All mathochists suffer from calculust.

Re: [H] Ram... lots and lots of ram.

2005-09-13 Thread James Boswell
On 13 Sep 2005, at 17:50:060, Eli Allen wrote: Its /3GB switch you want, not PAE that behaves exactly the same as /PAE with regard to visible memory (eg, it doesn't do anything) with the addition of the 6800GT behaving like a vga framebuffer with no acceleration. whisky tango. -JB

Re: [H] Ram... lots and lots of ram.

2005-09-13 Thread Henrik
Hi James, I would wait with winXP x64, I got it on my dual Opteron with 8gb of ram, and there are a shortage of drivers, at least for me! Colorcalibration, printers etc... just to name a few! got another machine as well, so not such a big problem, still I would like to play with my little