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Hi, Nvidia GTX970 yet seems unable to display a graduated soft shadow, ranging from zig zag edges where shadow has a shortish 'soft edge demarcation' to ripples/ contouring where shadow is more of a slight darkening of a large surface. In a flight sim. Also in CAD I had basket'weave effect...

Hi, asking for a friend. He has recently bought a Dell tower unit and has had the fortune of acquiring a set of Logitech R20 speakers (two small units and a subwoofer bigger unit). He gets no sound from the larger box (the subwoofer). He has the yellow jackplug lead from the small speaker into...

Hi, My motherboard decided that all four SATA sockets wouldnt play ball with my SATA bootable HD, (dual boot Win2K/WinXP_home), and trying my PCI IDE/SATA card saw the PC functional again, even reading one of the two storable SATA HD's from one of the Mbd SATAs !...albeit with an irritating...

Hi I need to get a second hand laptop under £450 with separate graphics card giving OpenGL, so most Nvidia or ATI should suffice. I have heard it said that Toshiba are best avoided, go for Dell for repairs and spares, is this so, and what of Sony or other leading brands ? Obviously a brand...

Ghostman, thanks for the reply. Thats really good to know. Which models or makes would be a good starting point to search for ?...is this a recent addition to them ? Ghostman...or anyone ? Whats it known as in the spec ? Cheers DBenz

Hi, Can a laptop be plugged into a standalone monitor, the type purchased for desktop or tower PC's ? Of the current flat screen variety and also deep back CRT type ? I ask for a few reasons. A friend of mine prefers viewing monitors for quality of picture, I do also. I wish to find him a dirt...

Hi, I have videos stored on removeable caddies with ATA HDs, created on a dual boot PC, the partition created with Partition Magic 8 when booted into the Win2K side of things. I was running daily Win XP home SP1 and never had a problem with my caddies. I have done a PC rebuild going over to...

Hi, I have looked through the settings, very few in fact, and nothing to turn this off. Their tech support had me examine registry, one entry there we zapped. other entries they expected in the root folder were not there, two other files were so we zapped those. Still it appears on bootup, just...

Hi, I have an MSI 875P neo motherboard, and three SATA and one ATA HDs attached, latter via a raid pci card. PC is dual boot Win2K and XP residing on one of the SATAs. I purchased Farstone Disk Clone Pro 3 following a successful trial for OS partition restoration purposes. The install of the...

HD already has some ghosts on it, ghosts are my term for the clones ghost makes ! Let me explain, I have always partitioned up a hard drive ready to receive the ghost copies. That recipient HD then has no unallocated space on it. When one chooses partition to partition in ghost, the...

HI, The copy I need to make is of the type ghost used to do, xcopy looks like it doesnt capture the subtle bits that make an OS work. It looks more like file transfer like copy/paste. I could in fact take the HD I ghosted to and plumb it in and it would boot from that partition. These other...

Well I seem to have worked my way through all the progs offering to copy partition to partition. Disk manager takes the source and tries to create a new partition for it on the destination HD, not quite what I wanted, the recipient partition is already there empty and waiting. Then I bought...

Hi, I downloaded Acronis True Image 11, which backs up disks or apparently partition to partition. D'ld a Trial 15 days. Created a boot CD, booted ok, chose the partitions, no compression and it said this is a trial and it is not possible to do this. :doh: I had no choice but to select the...

Hi, How to get data off former HD which had active partitions ? I have had a rebuild of my dual boot PC that had 2 internal ATA drives and a caddy with ATA, with three SATA 300 drives. Of the ATA's, one has my data on an extended partition (D drive), that same HD also had two active...

Hi, Need clone partitions SATA to ATA not with ghost...so how ? What software would allow me a stable method of cloning a partition to a partition, SATA as source and ATA as destination ? It seems Norton Ghost 10 can be problematic on some PCs when dealing with SATA hardrives. My engineer...

The drives are not failing as such, no noises,all v quiet Seagates, just that I wish for better performance and capacity and failed SP2 install cocking up PC forces a change and a chance to go SATA. Mb'd not built for SATA300. My concern was I didnt want to invite trouble by geting 400Gb HDs for...

Just wondering what I can get away with on my MSI 875P neo FS2R m'board (spring 2004 was when I bought it, it was top of the charts at the time, great reviews and spec.) MSI site says ok for upwards of 160Gb, odd that (misprint ?) as tests are with 40, 60 80 160 and a 200Gb !..so assume 200Gb...

Help please, Win XP SP1 PC, Audigy just fine, then install SP2, access denied 50% of the way through, install does a rollback, warning that some things may not work so well, and its lost me my sound :mad: Tried registry fixes progs, Creative diagnostics say hardware not found, but PC is dual...

Hi and thanks for the response. I have plumped for the 16Mb buffer so did the right thing, pity its not my bootable drive, thats an 8Mb buffer Seagate Barracuda. Would it be that it needs to be the OS drive to make a difference that you talk about, this one is for the caddy that I am writing...

Hi, I am wondering if to go for a HD with 16Mb Buffer and 11ms seek time at £196 or 8Mb buffer with 8ms seek at £188. Both drives support NCQ, a buffer for reading off data I gather. Seagate barracuda being the make. I have three so far but never really considered buffer data. Transfering MiniDV...