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alsiladka, the fine print... *This offer is available in the U.S. only while supplies last. Limit one per customer. Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery. I wonder if they have more than three? But they will get a lot of E-mail and home addresses.

It's getting harder to find a copy of Coa2 but try this link. There are still free downloads of this utility out there, and it's too bad that PC magazine has eliminated their free downloads. http://www.cfan.com.cn/qikan/cfan/download/coa2.zip

Heisenberg may have been there!

Possibly, look here - http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/09/09/win...in_your_pocket/ and here: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/usb-boot.mspx And yes, it will be a slow.

That looks like what you need, not a bad price either.

The only thing that I've heard squeal like that in a computer is a power supply at or near it's limit of power. A SMPS can squeal quite loud when it goes into current limit.

Lordfett, I must disagree, A phone plug is a plug with a "tip" and a "ring" A phono plug or RCA phono plug has a center and a shield. The phone plug style got it's name from the telephone switchboards of the thirties. http://www.sfu.ca/sca/Manuals/ZAAPf/p/phone_plug.html

By A dual female I mean "2" XLR"s, a stereo phone plug has two rings (see lordfett"s picture although that is 1/4" and you need 1/8" diameter. It could downgrade the sound output by adding hum as the XLR's are ballanced input (+ and -) and the phone plugs are unballanced (just + and ground) but since the input to the computer is an unballanced you should try this first, it will probably work just fine. I would suggest trying the cable and if you have hum you might have to get an input transformer to convert ballanced to unballanced inputs. You should not need this though if you have short cable runs (less than 15 Ft.). Hope this helps!

The microphone end is an 3 pin XLR. You need a dual ( female) XLR to 1/8" stereo phone plug for stereo, or a single (female) XLR to 1/8" mono phone plug for mono. Or if you want to get fancy. http://www.studio1productions.com/xlr-pro.htm

Regclean leaves a .reg file in the folder where you have Regclean so that you can undo the changes that it made to your registry. If you open the .reg file with Notepad you can see what Regclean has changed. By the way, I use CrapCleaner.

Then there is the old Microsoft RegClean 4.1a (no longer supported by Microsoft) but it works and is safe. http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_desc...fid,4666,00.asp

No... I've been using 120 and 80Gb FAT32 part'ns for a few years now with no problems. If you are refering to the 34G and 64G barrier in Award Bios it was solved here. http://www.ryston.cz/petr/bios/ Thanks to Petr

Ripkin204, It Is a SATA hard drive. Storage Products > Hard Disk Drive > SpinPoint P Series HD080HJ SpinPoint P Series Next Generation of Interface The parallel interface, Ultra ATA, in most of today's desktop storage systems is now facing its limit. The Parallel ATA interface has been in use as the standard legacy storage device for individual users for over 17 years. Samsung has adopted the new interface, Serial ATA, and will continue to launch products with SATA interface for years to come. News Awards Technical Info About Our Division White Papers FAQ Troubleshooting Warranty User Guide Utilities Select Model [spinPointTSeries]HD300LDHD300LJHD400LDHD400LJ Features Specifications Specifications Drive Configuration Interface Serial AT A II Buffer DRAM Size+2 8 MB Bytes per Sector 512 Performance Specification Read Seek Time(typical) Track to Track 0.8 ms Average 8.9 ms Full Stroke 18.0 ms Average Latency 4.17 ms Rotational Speed 7,200 rpm Data Transfer Rate Media to/from Buffer (max.) 845 Mbits/s Buffer to/from Host(max.) 300Mbytes/s Drive Ready Time(typical) 7 sec Reliability Specification Non-recoverable Read Error 1 sector in 1014 bits MTBF 500,000 POH Start/Stop Cycles (Ambient) 50,000 Component Design Life 5 years Acoustic (Average Sound Power) Idle 2.5 Bel Random Read/Write 2.8 Bel Environmental Specification Temperature Operating 5 ~ 55°C Non-operating -40 ~70°C Thermal Gradient(max.) 20°C/hr Humidity (non-condensing) Operating 5 ~ 90 % Non-operating 5 ~ 95 % Linear Shock (1/2 sine pulse) Operating, 2ms 63 G Non-operating, 2ms 350 G Vibration (swept sine, 1 octave per minute)20 Linear Shock (1/2 sine pulse) Operating 5 ~ 21 Hz 0.034" (double amplitude) 21 ~ 300 Hz 1.5 Gp-p Non-operating 5 ~ 21 Hz 0.195" (double amplitude) 21 ~ 500 Hz 8 Gp-p Altitude (relative to sea level) Operating -1,000 to 10,000 feet Non-operating -1,000 to 40,000 feet Power Requirements Voltage 5V°±5% / 12V°±10% Spin Up Current (max.) 780 / 1900 mA Read/Write On-Track(typ.) 8.5 W Seek+2(typ.) 7.8 W IIdle(typ.) 7.5 W Standby(typ.) 0.9 W Sleep(typ.) 0.9 W Physical Dimension Height 1 inch Width 4 inch Depth 5.75 inches Weight 1.4 pounds

Nero 5.5.10.56 Less bloat. I also have Burnatonce

I decided to do it the easy way, I removed my Sony DVD writer ( Lite-On) from my computer and installed it in place of his new Lite-On. Works perfectly. RMA’d Lite-On DVD. Thanks for the help

Ok, I tried it with the CD drive disconnected and only the DVD writer connected to the secondary IDE cable with the jumper set to master and had the same problem, the computer locks up when trying to read the CD and I am still unable to update the firmware (update freezes at 0%) . The only writing software installed is Nero 6.0. I have also re-downloaded the update from Lite-On’s site. I have also tried setting the jumpers to cable select with just the DVD and then with both the DVD and CD-RW. I’d wonder about the power supply except for one thing, the inability to update the DVD’s firmware. Thanks all, I’ll get back into it tonight remove everything about CDROM from the device manager and start again. Although the information supplied with the drive says that it will function with the generic WIN-98 drivers. But what makes me believe that it is the DVD writer is the inability to update the firmware

Vitalix, Thanks, I will try that tonight.

It's on the second IDE cable jumper set to master the former CD-RW is also on that cable with the jumper set to slave, there was a CD-R in this position before I installed the DVD. DMA is enabled.

Hi guys, I just received a new LITE-ON DVD drive from Newegg and installed it in my friends computer (Compaq PIII, Win 98SE) on the second IDE channel as master and the old CD-RW as slave. I thought I’d ask your opinion before I RMA it. The problem is that when I put any CD in it it’s light flashes and the motor briefly spins and then the computer crashes (I have to shut off the power to reboot). I also downloaded the firmware update from Lite-on, the update never gets past 0% even after 15 minutes. The question is this a bad drive or am I just missing something. thanks!

You could allways boot your computer into safe mode (640x480)and delete your display drivers, reboot in normal mode which will now be 640x480, reinstall your display drivers and then set your display settings to 800x600.

The SXGA standard uses a 5:4 aspect ratio- used on some TFT LCD displays.

Let's see, virtual drive with UDF file system. I've found some ways to do this with Linux. Windows? -- still looking.

Have you tried replacing the power cord? The power supply's fuse would blow before tripping the main breaker if it was the power supply. He did change the power supply. (Switch Mode Power Supply)

The contrast ratio on a crt display ( the ratio of white to black ) is only limited by the amount of room light reflected from the screen. The contrast ratio of an LCD display is limited not only by reflected light but by the efficiency of the polarizing filter and the twist of the liquid crystal medium. In a dark non-reflective room a CRT display will still not give you an infinite contrast ratio as some of the light from the phosphors is reflected back from the surface of the glass ( change of index of refraction at the air/glass boundary ) and adds brightness to the surface of the phosphors reducing the contrast ratio. It's the same effect as seeing reflections off a pond.

The problem that I have with LCD displays is the contrast ratio typically around 500 to 1 Where as a crt or plasma displays can have a contrast ratio of around 10000 to one. Lcd’s just do not have good black levels. IMHO