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After you reinstall,if it does the same thing I suspect that your power supply is failing.I had a similar problem with a system I built about 8mos. ago.I also checked out some boards with K7AMA mobo problems and there was a recurring problem with ddr memory and 200 fsb processors running on that board.Clearing the cmos and reseating the mem sticks seemed to get some boards going again.Of course these mobos wouldn't even boot so your psu came to mind.Let us know what happens after you reinstall techguy.

Hi I'm zipp51,one of Piaqt's boy toys and almost look alike to Robert DiNero.Don't f**k wit me!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.Add some music,whoa I,m goin to the movies! w00t

HA HA HA HA HA HA ROFL.Monica!

My spouse and I are going to Paint Creek,WVa. where she is from.The rest of the time I will be starting a small computer business (legally).The kids are grown so they do their own thing.Maybe one day they will invite me on their vacation.

What's NTLDR ? And could you give an example of what line of work an "advanced user"might be in to utilize this new tech? Thanks.

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Welcome Dave

I'm a bit confused TH.Are your 3 hard drives operating as one?I was refering to a non raid setup with 3 HDD's.If you are using Raid,are you striping(raid 0)or mirroring(raid 1) or both (Raid 0+1)?If you are using raid 0 which is for performance then you need 2 or 4 hard drives.This is called Raid 0+1 when using 4 HDD's.This is the fast perfomance setup.You are not backing up anything and your drives act as one.The disk capacity in a raid 1 mirroring array will only be as big as the smallest hard drive.The disk capacity in a raid 0 array will be equal to the smallest capacity times the # of drives. The perfomance of a mirroring array can only go twice as fast as the slowest drive.So all in all your capacity will be about half of your largest drive and you can only transfer data at ATA66 speeds.You can't use 3 drives for a Raid 0 array.This info is in my mobo manuals and from an article I had downloaded.

I concur with Experties on the diminished speed on your faster drives.Actually all three will run at the slowest HD transfer rate.The add on card which will allow you to run all 3 may be the way to go TH.If you connect a cdrom off of any ribbon cable it will further decrease your performance.

CPUID Oh yeah,I forgot about that little prog in my unused desktop shortcuts.Good call man.

Just got some more parts in for my new system also.Got my Red pcb Radeon 9500 2 weeks ago.Yesterday recieved my Lian Li PC60 aluminum case(very sweet),Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo,and DDR HyperX Kingston PC2700 w/512MB.Also bought a Western Dig 80GB SE 8MB cache hard drive a while ago.Decided not to go dual channel at this time on the memory.Today I'm ordering a dvd rom, 52x24x52 cdrw,floppy dr(all black components)I will probably run it with a 1.4 GHz Tbird chip until I surrender and buy the first price drop on a XP2700+ Barton.Can't wait to benchmark this baby.I took a chance on the Kingston memory for $70,I usually buy Corsair or Micron,so hopefully it bench's above average,as advertised.THA-Filer,you are more adventurous than me.I have 3 RAID boards and never ran them as such.Did you go with Raid 0 you didn't mention it?

Need to know what motherboard you have and what processor you are running.The chipset source would also help,(ie.) VIA KT133.You probably can run either pc100 or pc133 unless you are running an older K6-2 or Pentium MMx board.Anyway you are right that physically they are the same.

I hope the British tabloids don't pick him up like they did with Arnett! The polls are saying they both deserve to be ousted.

You can buy some nice modded black cases at "color cases" for around $50 w/o power supply and w/side window.If you do go the route of painting,then don,t leave your mobo in,as the overspray will find it's way in there and make a mess.Tape everything off inside the case.Crylon in a can will do just fine.Show us a pic if youi spray it or have it sprayed.

Get rid of all computers in your home,and never touch another one.Live a life where you don't have to worry about operating systems,e-mail attachments,playing the latest games on line and the rest of the stuff we discuss here at MSFN...............................................NoooooooooooooooooooooT

I.m paying $1.59/gal and hearing that you pay $4.00/gal in Germany,MSNwar,makes me feel greatful to be living in the US.

This happens in every war and to every military.These are modern wars and sofisticated and dangerous air and ground fighting vehicles are being used.Two British helicopters crashed into each other also.With 300k US ground troups and 45k British ground troups with propotionate amounts of land,sea and ground hardware the US will have the most of these unfortunate accidents just because of the volume.

23% bastard! 13% of which is Tard

The Canadians have every right to abstain,I just hope they at least help out in some way afterwards.

How about a "Thank you Sadaam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden" to go with that pie?

Good find Techguy,I love the irony and truth in the humor.The UN is kind of like the great enabler that says there is nothing wrong here let's not think about the negative stuff and let's fantasize about the way it should be.

I like this one alot Lynch,thanks again.

Don't mind if I do, thanks.

About a month ago I paid $30 at "gulp" Walmart.(don't shoot me).