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11-06-2002, 07:11 PM
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Cooling Neophyte
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: USA
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little help please
my harddrive went out in my backup comp. i just bought a new 40g western digital 7200rpm. well i got the drive in installed windows, drivers, and programes. the problem is i am have problems with windows wanting to lock up more than usual a lot more!
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11-07-2002, 03:22 PM
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Cooling Neophyte
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Houston, TX
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What is happening? Blue screens of death, page faults, freezes, etc.? Need some more info.
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11-07-2002, 03:38 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Texas, U.S.A.
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How old is the computer? I have to ask, because some "new drives" ship with the default speed of 100 ATA. I had a Maxtor that I had to set back down to ATA/66. Dunno about WDs.
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11-07-2002, 06:28 PM
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Cooling Neophyte
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: USA
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its a 300mhz p3 with 128 meg ram. thanks for the replys i think that the ata100 to ata66 may be the fix what do you guys think with the info about the comp. that i just gave ya
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