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    - is this a bad hard-drive? HD is a Seagate 40GB ATA internal drive (model # ST340014A). I'm replacing a failed Seagate (same model). Put it in a working PC, saw it in Disk Manager and formatted it in NTFS. Once that was complete, the word "Healthy" was seen in DM. Plugged it into the old PC so I could boot to CD and reinstall the OS, but I see no messages on the monitor. The video on/off light just slowly blinks on and off like it's not getting a signal. Checked all the cables and they seem to be firmly seated. The HD spins up, but it's not as loud/active as I expect it to be. Plus, when I try a Ctrl-Alt-Delete after awhile, I hear two sharp noises/beeps from the HD. I'm not a HW guy at all, so don't know what the significance of this is, if any. If none, any suiggestions on what to try next? -- Mike Webb Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust, Inc. a conservation non-profit (501 (c)(3)) organization Wood River, NE Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330712
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    - bad hard drive? - WinXP Pro SP2 HD is a Seagate 40GB ATA internal drive (model # ST340014A). I'm replacing a failed Seagate (same model). Put it in a working PC, saw it in Disk Manager and formatted it in NTFS. Once that was complete, the word "Healthy" was seen in DM. Plugged it into the old PC so I could boot to CD and reinstall the OS, but I see no messages on the monitor. The video on/off light just slowly blinks on and off like it's not getting a signal. Checked all the cables and they seem to be firmly seated. The HD spins up, but it's not as loud/active as I expect it to be. Plus, when I try a Ctrl-Alt-Delete after awhile, I hear two sharp noises/beeps from the HD. I'm not a HW guy at all, so don't know what the significance of this is, if any. If none, any suiggestions on what to try next? -- Mike Webb Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust, Inc. a conservation non-profit (501 (c)(3)) organization Wood River, NE Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330711
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    - XP sees MiniDV camcorder via firewire but capture software cannot I recently got a new mobo and system (see specs below). I added my old Pinnacle Systems GmbH DV 1394 (PCI firewire card, circa 2001). I connected my Sony TRV17 MiniDV camcorder into the firewire port. Windows XP sees the new device and correctly identifies it as a Sony DV camcorder. This is confirmed in the Device Manager, where the DV camcorder is listed in the in the Imaging Devices section underneath my Logitech webcam. So far so good. When I run AMCap or WinDV to capture the video (I tried both), it identifies the device in the list of possible capture devices (that is, it sees my webcam and my MiniDV camcorder). However, when I change the active device from the drop-down menu from webcam to camcorder, the status message says "Initializing..." and the software freezes. When I play the video on my camcorder, no corresponding image ever appears on the screen. (FWIW, I cannot even shut down WinDV in the task manager until I turn off the camcorder.) So, in conclusion, XP says the hardware is ready to use. It correctly identifies it. But the capture software is having a problem communicating with the camera. (Btw, I tried connecting the camcorder into each of the two firewire ports, I restarted the PC between attempts, I refreshed the hardware device list. I haven't yet tested the camcorder on another computer yet.) 1. Is there any other capture software you recommend? 2. Could the webcam be messing things up? 3. Is the mobo somehow messing things up? 4. Is there a new MiniDV driver I need to install? I remember years ago there was something about the MS driver versus the Texas Instruments driver? Is this somehow related? MY SOFTWARE Windows XP, SP2, fully up-to-date with all the updates MY HARDWARE * Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 2.00GHz Dual-Core 64-bit Processor, 2x1.0 MB Cache, 800FSB, s775, Code Named: Allendale, EM64T, Retail Box, Heat Sink & Fan, BX80557E4400 * ASUS P5B Motherboard, Intel CPU Support: (Core 2 Duo/Quad, Pentium 4/ D, Celeron), Intel P965/ICH8 Chipset, Socket 775, Ultra Quiet - No Fan/ Heatsink Only, 533/800/1066 FSB Support, 4xDIMM (8GB Max), Dual Channel DDR2-800 (Effective 1.60 GHz), 4xSerial ATA (SATA300), 1xPCI-E x16, 3xPCI-E x1, 3xPCI (32bit 33Mhz), JMicron JMB363 IDE Controller: (1xATA133, 1xSATA300 & 1xeSATA300), Realtek PCI-E 10/100/1000 (Gigabit) Network, ADI High Definition 8-channel Audio w/SPDIF, up to 10xUSB 2.0 * Kingston Value RAM (KVR800D2N5/1G), 1.0 GB PC6400 DDR2 (800 MHz), CL 5.0 * Antec EarthWatts 430 (EA430), 430 Watt ATX12V 2.0 Power Supply, 24- pin Main Power Connector w/ Detachable 4-pin Section, Dual +12V Outputs (Rails), Intel & AMD Cetified, 1x80mm Fan, 1 x PCI-E & 4 x SATA Power Connectors * Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 400 GB Hard Drive (ST3400620AS), Serial ATA 2.5, SATA300 (3Gb/s), NCQ, ? ms, 7200 RPM, 16 MB Cache, OEM * Pinnacle Systems GmbH DV 1394 (PCI firewire card) Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330693
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    - Copying DVD contents to HD painfully slow... Hi, I've got relatively current gear (Seagate & WD drives, and a Plextor DVDR drive) but I'm finding the 90 minutes it takes to dump the content of a DVD onto my HD unnecessarily excessive. Is it supposed to take that long to copy 3-4 gigs worth of raw data to a HD? The target drive isn't even the one Windows is installed on, which is supposed to help speed-wise. What could be causing this, and how could I tweak WinXP (fully patched) into speeding this up? I've got 4GB of ram (even though 2 are being wasted most of the time). Thanks. Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330688
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    - Windows XP Pro SP2 - 4GB RAM but Windows only shows 3 GB Hi, I have 2 Dell laptops with same hardawre configuration, 4 GB RAM and Windows XP Pro SP2. They have been bought in an interval of one month so BIOS is not exactly at the same version. On the oldest one, Windows correctly displays 4GB, for instance in task manager when the most recent one only displays 3GB. I precise hat winmsd displays that my RAM is 4 GB in both laptops. Sorry if it is a FAQ but I didn't find the answer when I searched in this forum. Thank you for reading this message and thanks to those that can help to solve this problem. Michel Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330685
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    - About installation of Windows XP service pack2 i have vista bussiness edition on my laptop with SATA hard disk now i want to install windows xp service pack 2.when i use xp service pack 2 cd to boot it does not shows the partion of the hard disk and after pressing enter it shows RAM related error plz help me out??? Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330683
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    - CD ROM Drive not working, missing registry All of a sudden my cd & dvd drives are not working. I uninstalled them and tried to reinstall them but it won't let me now. The error message says: Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19) PLEASE someone help me. I go to college online and need this fixed fast. Any info would be appreciated. Thank You, Tanya Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330677
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    - DVD driver not reading/recognizing discs Hi, I have a NEC ND-3550A DVD driver that has recently being "on strike" for certain DVDs I tried to play on it. The DVDs were actually created using the driver itself, which worries me a bit as I have quite a few... You pop the DVD into the driver, it tries to read it for a while and then just changes the driver icon and when you double-click it, it's as if the DVD had no contents. Does anyone know of any reason why it would do that or could like point me in some direction using Google or something? Much appreciated! As always... Regards! Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330669
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    - Tenn Station On My Wireless Router Tenn Station On My Wireless Router. Wireless BellSouth DSL 1 or 2 times per week I hear a radio or TV station in my PC spealkers. All programs are closed. I have a Wireless Modem / Router with Wireless BellSouth DSL. I also have a 2nd wireless USR Router connected to the 1st Wireles Modem / Router. How is that coming in? Somethings the voices are in a foreign language. This week I heard the call letters very loud and clear of a station in Tenn. Thanks for your help and tips ; Novice @ New Orleans Louisiana COMPAQ PRESARIO S5100 Motherboard P4G533LA ASUSTeK Award BIOS v6.0 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz Memory DIMM SDRAM 1024 Maxtor 6Y060L0 HD, External USB 75 GIG Creative Labs Audigy SE Monitor Envision ENVISION Wireless BellSouth DSL Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330660
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    - Can a (second) hard disc consist of only 1 extended/logical partition? Or is at least one primary necessary? Assume I have a second hard disc in my system. Can I put only one extended/logical partiton on it? or is at least one primary partition per hard disc necessary? J. Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330656
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    - Camera not working. For some reason my digital camera - a simple cannon one, won't work with Microsoft scanner and Camera wizard. It seems to take forever to do anything. - just says it's reading and getting picture information... it can do thsi for 10 minutes, even if there is only just the one photograph on the camera card!!! ? Any ideas? dan -- Dan Walters Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330649
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    - unreadable dynamic disk because my motherboard is spoiled and so changed a new board. I have 2 hardisk, so the hardisk with window I formatted, after i logon to window my another disk it show "Unreadable" in the disk management. How to fix this or no way to fix? Inside alot of important file T_T... Thank You. Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330643
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    - Microsoft 5 button mice unusable with Autocad '08 The intellipoint 6 driver for microsoft mice, like Sidewinder, causes a screen flicker in many app's especially Autocad. As far as I can tell there is no work around, or patch. Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330637
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    - Lost wireless keyboard + mouse Yesterday after doing an uninstall of iTunes browser I lost my HP wireless keyboard / mouse. I can use the PC if I plug in a cabled keyboard / mouse, but the wireless kb / mouse do not work. When I reboot and then plug in the USB receiver (for the kb / mouse) the Found New Hardware Wizard pops up. If I tell it to install it doesn't find a driver and fails. I don't know where to tell it to find a driver, and I don't have an install CD for it. I've swapped it to other USB ports, and have used other items in the USB port. Device Manager says it is not configured properly and has the option of selecting to install a driver. All other references to USB in Device Manager are functioning properly. There is not a driver on the HP web site, and HP chat was not helpful; they were grasping at straws toward the end. The did reference chipset files, but poorly. Restore to earlier dates does not help. I've not been able to locate any generic drivers. It seemed that the iTunes browser install was tangled up with the .NetFrame install some how. The uninstall process seemed to say it was uninstalling two versions of .NetFrame. Any help would be appreciated. Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330626
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    - BIOS update I have a pc pantium III with IBM BIOS but it's bios not updated,I want to update the bios.IBM BIOS Ver PIKT37.0 How it is possible ? Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330624
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    - Win XP Bootable CD. Hi, Win XP Bootable CD. Which programs would you add to a Win XP Bootable CD? Which APP will create it? Which Hard Ware utilities should be added? Which Software utilities should be added? Thanks for your help and tips ; Novice @ New Orleans Louisiana Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330621
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    - DVD drive not seeing disks Our "Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-107D" is consistently refusing to see certain types of disk, that it used to be able to read and write. 156MB CD-RWs and DVD-Rs do not show up - the drive appears to be empty. CD/CD-Rs play and write normally. Windows says the device is working fine, and we have the most recent driver. This is intensely annoying. Do I need a different driver? Is it a problem with the DVD drive? Is there a way I can find out? Please help! Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330617
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    - XP slowdown + best 5 1/4" bay HD caddy please :-) Sorry for possibly OT:'ing again but, it takes sooooo long trawling around for hardware on websites and reviews, and there's bound to be kind soul in here who knows all about hard-disk caddy's / removable hard-disk bays. ...little bit of background... I just know that I'm going to flatten this system soon ! It was like greased lightening after its' fresh install, with new motherboard and cpu and SATA hd's early last year. I've never pinned down what's slowing it down - I've been looking for that, on and off, ever since. I repair installed my XP Home ed. a few weeks ago, and dragged it back up to scratch - still no sign of that breathtaking responsiveness that was only there for its' first few weeks - last year. That's not to say it's slow - it's pretty responsive, ...and quite useable, ...and reliable, ...and it is VERY robust. ....but, ...I keep thinking I would like to rearrange the innards of my old Lian-Li PC-60 slightly so that my boot hd is in a hd caddy, which I can yank it out, and install from scratch onto a new hd, in a much more gradual and methodical fashion, at my leisure, over a period of days, and a few weeks maybe, whilst retaining "this" XP Home ed. installation for "normal" use, until I can permanently move, to my more "methodically built" XP Home ed. paltform. I really would like to pin-down, where the "slow-down" occurs. (PleeeeeeZ no EULA lectures...:-) I've spent considerable time, in bits, looking into this for several months. I keep an eye on running processes, hd bus mastering is working lovely i.e. hd transfer speed is excellent, I've looked, in detail, into every bios option, KB869256 didn't solve it, I've pruned out Windows services several times, rather I've "preened" my windows ....I digress.... Lian-Li removeable IDE hd-bay/hd caddies are quite expensive when I last spotted them on a site somewhere, a long time ago, and I don't know if they make SATA ones nowadays, ...I guess they do. ...and I don't want the cheaper plastic ones for obvious reasons, so does anyone know for half-decent quality hd bays and caddies ? TIA regards, Richard Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330612
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    - Cannot connect to the printer operation could not be completed I used to have two desktops A & B, they have internet sharing and printer sharing , they were working fine. Desktop A XP Professional SP2 PC has got two printers (HP and Samsung) connected directly (USB cable), and Printer sharing is turned on . I bought another Desktop to replace B, because B is an old PC. From the Desktop B, when attempting to chose the option : Code: -------------------- A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer -------------------- , to add a shared printer , I can browse and see the printers name (hp and Samsung), however, when I attempt to connect both of them, I get the following error: Code: -------------------- cannot connect to the printer operation could not be completed error -------------------- Do I need to have admin account with their passwords on both Desktop to be able to share the printers ? -- zillah ------------------------------------------------------------------------ zillah's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=24915 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=952528 http://forums.techarena.in Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330611
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    - Error message lsass.exe and an invalid parameter Hi Am trying to do repair install when it starts up to the install windows screen it says I have and error named lsass.exe and an ivalid parameter was passed to a service or function. Any ideas how I can resolve this issue please -- B J G Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330608
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    - usb mem stick format on other? i work in a small office, i use a usb mem stick on the different pc's but i im getting an error when i put stick in a different pc, it says need formatting. when i use on other pc's except the one i originally put data on. -- fender62 Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330606
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    - Gameport doesn't work on XP Recently I bought a new computer. It doesn't have a gameport, so I installed my old sound card (Creative SB) in it. Windows (XP Professional) identified the card and gameport, and installed their drivers. The soundcard really works now (although I have an audio device included in the motherboard - it's Intel DG31PR, if it makes any difference). But the gameport doesn't work - it claims the joystick is "not connected". I tried every solution I found in the Knowledge Base, but none helped. Strangely, the soundcard was installed at I/O port 0xD000 instead of 220H. Windows doesn't let me change it. I checked with Intel, and the motherboard doesn't assign any I/O ports, so it must be windows (they hinted that it may be a registery issue). I don't know if it is related to the gameport issue, as the soundcard itself works fine. I'll alos comment that these very soundcard and joystick worked on the old computer. I'd thank any help. Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330600
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    - Removable Storage Libraries How do I add my DVD burner into Libraries folder? Suddendly it disappeared on me, I have stop the "Removable Storage" service, wait for 5 seconds, and restart again, nothing. No luck. Johnny Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330591
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    - Modifying Advanced Com Port Properties Hello, I have a user that requires changes to the Com Port Advanced Properties (Device Mgr>>Ports>>Com1>>Properties>>Port Settings>>Advanced). The next thing I see is the message "You must have write privileges in the registry for this device in order to modify the devices advanced settings". This is being attempted from an admin-level local user account, so it is unclear where these privileges would originate other than Administrator-level permissions. This appears to be a default setting as it is the same on every one of several PCs I have looked at in researching this up to this point. I have also looked at the registry for any clues, but hate to rummage through there more than necessary. Has anyone had occasion to modify these settings and how did you do it? TIA SavoirFaire <<SavoirFaire is Everywhere!>> Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330587
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    - Help on dead hard disk My 2.5" SATA hard disk suddenly fails to boot up. It just boots to the first Windows XP logo and then shuts off and cycles it. I would like to save out the data on the hard disk before I throw it away. Is there any possible way to retrieve the data? Your advice is highly appreciated. Thanks, Scott Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330585
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    - Problem w/Iomega CD/RW Device I have an Iomega CD/DVD RW device which isn't working with XP Pro. According to Iomega it needs no driver or program update to be used with Win XP. When I try to make a copy or create a disc it won't recognize my laptop's CD drive to put the files on. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for the help. Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330578
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    - HD TV My config - Intel P4 3G (Prescott) Mobo - Asus P4P800-SE (i865P/PE/G/i848p rev. A2)+ 8280EB (ICH5) rev. 02 Memory - Kingston PC3200 1.5G Display - Radeon 9550 (AGP8X) Problem in playing HD TV files. I use the Gomplayer to play the HD TV. Although it can run the file, it freezes. Any recommendations for my hardware to play the HDTV? Shall I change the display card? Which model (AGP)? Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330573
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    - How many monitors? Can anybody tell, why Device Manager shows two display adapters and three monitors in my XP box - all present and in good state? I have only one Dell LCD monitor, connected to the digital port of a Gigabyte GA-G333M (onboard Intel G33 video) Once the monitor was plugged into the VGA connector. Is this a bug of the Intel display driver or what? All this works well (knocking on the wood) but now I need to find the *real* adapter and monitor by code. Regards, --PA Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330563
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    - Computer dead Hello - I have a 5 year old Gateway Media Center XP. In the last year I've replaced the hard drive and the bios battery. Last night, without warning my computer shut completely down - just went black. I tried restarting to no avail. Nothing turns on - not the fans or a hiss of the hard drive. I unplugged the computer overnight - did not start this morning. I opened it up, the only sign of electricity is a green light on the motherboard that lights up when the power is connected. Thoughts/ suggestions? Thank you, Tom Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330559
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    - ATI 256mb cards prevent hibernation in XP I have a DELL Vostro and an ATI 256Mb card (WIN XP PRO SP2). I can put the PC into hibernate but when it comes out of hibernation it freezes up with a BLUE screen saying there is a problem with the ATI2DVAG driver. I have searched the NET for updates but this is the current driver. I have noticed in a number of other computers with these 256Mb cards and they always play havoc with hibernation. I don;t think you can hibernate a PC with these cards in place. Worse still even if you remove the card the problem persists as remnants of the driver are hard to remove. is there a fix for this? I have emailed DELL but I can guaratee they won't have a fix for this. i am sure others have this problem but it appears that if you want hibernation then you need to get rid of these cards.. Thanks in advance Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330547
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    - Low disc space Hi everyone, I've got a really dumb I know nothing about computers question, so please be patient... I keep getting low disc space on my c drive and do the clean up and delete some things but it's an ongoing problem that gets on my nerves. Is there anyway to buy a plug in or something to give me more harddrive space? so I don't keep running out of space. Thanks for any answers Rhian Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330534
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    - Setting up modem I'm trying to set up the modem so I could make calls from my Outlook. The problem is we first dial 9 before dialing the destination number. How do we go about it in modem settings? I tried setting 9 into the 'To acces an outside line...' but this doesnt work. What is the proper way to do it then. Thanks yaro Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330533
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    - 64bit hardware Is there a way to test and see if the hardware on your computer is 64bit ready? Thank you, David Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330532
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    - 'USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned' Error with Hi, I am using Western Digital's 120GB Passport (External USB drive). Model Number: WD 1200XMSC It was working fine with my Dell laptop (Windows Vista-Home Basic) and my Office PC (Win XP). I was able to copy files from Laptop/ PC to HDD and vice-versa. One worst day, I printed some pics on my Home Canon IP4000 Printer by commenting it to USB port. When printing was done I removed Printer connection and shutDown the laptop. Next day when I Attached my WD External drive I got this Error saying -"One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, click this message." When I clicked the message I got A DialogBox stating USB's status as Unknown USB device!!! With my fingers crossed, I tried connecting my WD HardDisk to my Office PC(Win XP). I got the same Error. Can anybody please help me here? ++Thanks P.J. Soni _____________ Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330523
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    - Pci express question? well i have an msi k9n6gm motherboard with a 16x pci express slot. i put the card in just like any other pci card pushing both ends in firmly. now i was wondering do i pull it out like a normal pci card? or is it like agp (left to right motion whilst pulling out) this is my motherboard http://www.msimiami.com/images/images_products/K9N6SGM-V.jpg in case anyone needs a look there's the link to a pic for my motherboard. i believe there is no lock on the pci express slot. but any help with this is greatly appreciated since i am new to pci express and my gpu fan is dying for some reason so i gotta send it back in. thanks alot for your time with this matter. Chris. Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330520
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    - FAT32 Memory Cards I bought a 8GB microSD to use in my Smartphone. It works fine in the phone but it does not work in any of my card readers. It does not show up as a removable drive on my laptop or PC with WinXP SP2. Another oddity, using Windows Media Player 11 with the phone using a 2GB (FAT16) card WM would sync my playlists. Not with the 8GB card although I can drag and drop the music onto the card through WM. Not quite a handy as syncing playlists. Any thoughts? Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330516
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    - CD Rom not recognized - Code 19 My system won't recogize my CD Rom drive and I'm getting the code 19 error. I've removed the upper/lower filters in the registry I've ran the cdgone executable I purchase a new drive and still get the same error. Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330509
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    - Attn:philo - LCD Monitor (sorry used too many L's) You stated your girlfriend uses a sceptre monitor for Photoshop. What model? Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330502
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    - Attn:phillo - LCD Monitor You stated your girlfriend uses a sceptre monitor for Photoshop. What model? Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330501
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    - XP PC - bootup stuck at 1st bootup screen I have a PC that runs Windows XP that I have been using for a few years. It is custom built using an MSI 865GM3-LS motherboard and an Intel Pentium CPU. On booting up it now gets stuck at the first bootup screen which displays an MSI logo on the top left corner, and Intel Pentium Logo on the lower right corner and some text in the middle that reads "8Xtreme Series", "Performance, Durability, Stability", I have reset the CMOS by setting the jumper to reset it, but still have the same problem. Help!! What is wrong? Is the motherboard bad, is it the battery, what is it? Thanks!! Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330500
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    - Guarding against file transfer errors between media Is there a way to ensure error-free file transfers between different media - especially between a computer and an external drive (USB2) ? Using such drives here it is sometimes found that some files (not any particular type) would be corrupt or damaged. This does not happen in any alarming proportions but does happen. At random and not confined to any particular machine or device. All drives checked out okay physically as well as in CHKDSK. Does the USB2 process itself include an error percentage, BTW ? Any insights would be highly appreciated. TIA. Avatar ------- Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330487
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    - windows xp add hardware wizard stops with error code 10 Hi a friend booted up her computer this morning and the keyboard would not work. It is a ps2 type connection, purple plug. She went into device manager but it is not showing an entry for a keyboard but there is an unidentified entry. She tried updating the unidentified entry but it cannot find any drivers. She then went to control panel and ran the add hardware wizard but it stopped with an error code ten. Thinking the keyboard was faulty sheI unplugged it and tried running the add hardware wizard without the keyboard attached but still got the same error message. When she ran the keyboard icon from control panel on the hardware tab the window is blank. Any suggestions as to why the add hardware wizard will stop with an error even with no keyboard attached? I will be going to see her tomorrow and she is at present just using her mouse and the onscreen keyboard to try to solve this problem. I have no further info than I have already told you. Thanks, Tracy Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330486
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    - Nic never working - Realtek 8139 I have a great problem on XP Pro Sp2. Notice: Hardware P4 dual and nic realtek 8139 fully working. Tested with any kind of Linux. No virus. No troyan. Tried sfc/scannnow and reinstallation over current XP starting from CD. I've tried everything, even started with UBCD4Win (avoiding the lock on hardware profiles in the registry) and deleting every reg entry I can found bounded to the nic, and every drivers present in the HD, inf, and even from .cab archive cache. I have disabled the nic, installed a new one, and I got the same problem again. I've serched hidden nic, but I don't see any other nic ( Tested various drivers, from the original bounded with the nic (and is for XP) to new realtek update of this year. NOTHING! Everytime I reinstall the nic/driver, everything seems OK, but finally XP says (sorry for traslation because my system is Italian located) that it can find a file. I don't know what file because it says nothing about this file. Every kind of driver i tested say that. Do you have any procedure to check every single step XP do to reach that bad result? A system to debug the problem step, by step finding why Xp end to that result? Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330484
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    - Serious AUDIO DEVICE problem; due to sp2 Microsoft update install. Alrighty. I called Microsoft to get some help with my system restore. Was having some issues with it; it wasn't working. The first time I downloaded Windows XP SP2 from your website, my system restore disappeared. I called Microsoft, they connected to me, and within a couple of hours it was fixed. THEN, microsoft manually re-downloaded SP2 for me "AGAIN". As soon as we got off the telephone, I realized that my AUDIO DRIVER was no longer working. My drivers are all screwed up to no end. I cannot find any in my system that work and when I try to redownload them from TOSHIBA (I HAVE A SATELLITE), they are not updating or even redownloading properly. Microsoft did this to me and I don't have a CD, it was a floor model and I never got around to buying a restore disk. What Microsoft failed to realize is that TOSHIBA SATELLITES CANNOT BE UPDATED WITH SP2. I am not the only one with a TOSHIBA SATELLITE that has had this issue. A number of forums discuss this issue and even some of the greatest hackers out there cannot figure this one out (it seems easy to fix, but it is not). I believe there is something screwey with my registry too. Please help me, call me, connect with me, and fix your mistake. Tag: Drive not ready Tag: 330476
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Whenever I boot XP Home SP2 I receive this message:

Windows - Drive Not Ready - in message box header.

Exception Processing Message c00000a3 Parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf9c 4
75b6bf9c 75b6bf9c - message line

"Cancel" Try Again" "Continue" - Options

I take "Continue" and systems continues booting and don't seem to have any
operating issues.

Any suggestions or recommendations?

Thank you,

JHG

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Re: Drive not ready by philo

philo
Mon Apr 21 15:37:48 PDT 2008

"JHG" <jhg@gbird.org> wrote in message
news:OmIaNp$oIHA.3408@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Whenever I boot XP Home SP2 I receive this message:
>
> Windows - Drive Not Ready - in message box header.
>
> Exception Processing Message c00000a3 Parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf9c 4
> 75b6bf9c 75b6bf9c - message line
>
> "Cancel" Try Again" "Continue" - Options
>
> I take "Continue" and systems continues booting and don't seem to have any
> operating issues.
>
> Any suggestions or recommendations?
>
> Thank you,
>
> JHG
>
>

I'd go to the website of your HD's mfg and get their diagnostic utility and
run it
to make sure the drive is not failing

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Re: Drive not ready by JHG

JHG
Mon Apr 21 16:03:58 PDT 2008

Never mind.

I had removed the floppy drive and did not disable it in the Device Manager.
Also had not removed it in the BIOS.

JHG

"JHG" <jhg@gbird.org> wrote in message
news:OmIaNp$oIHA.3408@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Whenever I boot XP Home SP2 I receive this message:
>
> Windows - Drive Not Ready - in message box header.
>
> Exception Processing Message c00000a3 Parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf9c 4
> 75b6bf9c 75b6bf9c - message line
>
> "Cancel" Try Again" "Continue" - Options
>
> I take "Continue" and systems continues booting and don't seem to have any
> operating issues.
>
> Any suggestions or recommendations?
>
> Thank you,
>
> JHG
>

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