changing the fan cooler on my video card

Ok, I'm running into something that seems not so hard when I think of
configuring the hard drive so that Windows XP Pro will recognize the SATA
hard drive on installation of the operating system.
But before I do that I have to install it onto the right motherboard SATA
controllers. There are 3 SATA110/1/2/3/4/5 that are yellow connectors and 1
GSATA110/1 purple connector, which one do I want to use.
I'm using a single hard drive, a SAMSUNG Spinpoint model SP1614C. I
installed an adaptor so that this hard drive would work on a power supply
that doesn't have SATA connectors and I can't even get the darn thing out,
again. I've tried tugging on it, not so much, off and on for 2 years. I don't
want to pull hard, and so it's just left on there, and I guess I'll just plug
it into one of the molex connectors on the power supply, even though there
are 2 SATA connectors on this power supply.
The other day, when I was stoked about finding 2 more hard drives in a box
in the closet that holds all my PC stuff, I think I gave you the wrong model
# of this SAMSUNG. It was in a plastic ESD safe wrapper that must have been
for another drive.
Ok, I'm kinda in a bit of a hurry, or pressed for time. I have to get to
orange county and see my cousin who is a great chiropractor, he even does
dogs, and my dog is coming too for an adjustment. I've put him off for 2
weeks now, and I don't want him to have a grudge. He's making about 100
dollars cash, some xanax and a pizza. All told it's about 150 bucks worth of
payment. His adjustments are worth it, but you can see that he is pressed for
money, like all of us, and that's the scoop.
Any more help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, attilathehun1
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attilathehun1


"Paul" wrote:

attilathehun1 wrote:
First off, I went to that website and couldn't find anything like this here.
Where you can put in a question and get a response. Maybe I didn't look hard
enough. You know, I'd like to go to Diablo 2 Exp. and I could talk to someone
live, and not have to wait this bs time to get a response. Nothing against
you, you've helped me out more than someone could ask. Also, you've been
prompt on your replies, but enough of patting ourselves on the back here, to
put it nicely. LOL
Ok, another thing I've noticed here, since I have my Dell 8300 unplugged
and the tower opened on floor in front of me. There is no side panel on this
Dell 8300, it's all one tower, you press on both sides of the tower and tug
upwards and it opens up to a 90 degrees angle. I see here that the hard drive
I've been using is the same damn model I was thinking about using, the one
that's been sitting unopened for 2 years in a box in my closet, a Seagate
Ultra ATA Barracuda 7200.7 80 GB, model # ST380011A. I've had the jumper on
cable select. I'm thinking about moving it back to master-single drive. I'm
not sure what the new cables that came with the mobo are, cable select or
regular.
Alrighty, even though record tempertures are happening in Los Angeles, and
it's suburbs, I have both PC towers on the floor, the Dell 8300 and the
Thermaltake VA8000B Series tower. Time to switch over the floppy, optical,
and hard drive.
I'll let you know in a while, the progress. I'll post this now though, and
check back in the middle of my installation to see if you have noticed
anything I'm doing wrong so far.
Thanks, attilathehun1

*******
USENET news was around before a lot of the other "chat room" style
technologies. It is non-real time, meaning I respond when I have
a moment to spend, and getting a reply within one day (24 hours)
is considered doing well.

A chat room implies perhaps a smaller user population, fewer people
seeing what is going on, and able to chime in and help. USENET is
distributed world wide, and people in Russia or China could just
as easily be reading your posting, as I can here in Canada. So what
USENET lacks in speed of response, it more than makes up for in
potential to reach the maximum number of people.

When you post a message, it propagates from server to server. Each
server has incoming and outgoing feeds. Message propagation is
actually amazingly fast these days, whereas when I first started
using USENET, part of the delay was for the actual message to
get world wide distribution.

To connect to USENET, and see thousands of discussion groups (with
fixed topic discussion in each one), do this.

1) Get a tool that can be used as a news reader. I use Thunderbird from
mozilla.org . Latest version is 2.0.0.14 . Thunderbird can handle
regular email, and can also talk to USENET servers.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

2) Go to File:New:Account. That will start an account setup window.
3) Click the bottom button "Newsgroup account".
4) For User Name, you could use "attilathehun1". For the (fake or otherwise)
email address, you could use ".
That would be the equivalent to what you're doing now. Or you could
use a Gmail account or something, if you really want people to be
able to reach you (or spam you). The discussions.microsoft.com domain
is what is used by the Microsoft server you're currently using, where the
Microsoft server is connected to USENET. You can see I use a bogus email
address for this field. (I've kept this bogus address, even though it is
not the best choice format wise, to make it easier to search for my posts
on Google later. So what you pick, should be consistent if you want your
stuff to be accessible five years from now.)
5) On the news page, it'll ask for newsgroup server, and "news.aioe.org"
requires no registration. So is a good server to start with.
6) Account name can be the same as the newsgroup server if you want. It
isn't important, except as an identifier in the left-hand pane of
the main Thunderbird window.
7) You can review the settings later, by using "Review settings for this
account". For example, you can check that the "Server Settings" are
pointed to port 119. Also, for servers that use authentication, there
is a tick box to enable you to use acct/password with the server.
8) Next, click on "Manage newsgroup subscriptions". This is where you pick
what news groups to read and post to. Type "alt.test" in the search
box, then click the tick box next to the line with exactly "alt.test" in
it. You can use "alt.test" for sending a test posting. It is not considered
appropriate to pump test posts, into some other kind of group. Each group
has a purpose. Like "alt.flame" is where you go to blow off steam.
9) You should now see "a.test" in the left-hand pane, underneath the new
account "news.aioe.org". When you click on a.test (shortened form of alt.test),
Thunderbird will connect to the server and download "headers". These consist
of just the Subject line of people's posts, but not the body of the message.
alt.test is "high traffic", so you only want to download 500 of them, leaving
the rest on the server.
10) Do New:Message, and compose a test to alt.test. alt.test should be the
currently selected group. In the composition window, the area below your
identity, is a list of newsgroups to send to. Try just one at a time,
until you learn the consequences of messing further with this area.
11) Set a descriptive subject, like "My first post", in the Subject line.
12) Put some text in the body of the message. Click the Send button. Now,
the Compose window will disappear, and people in Russia will be able to
see your new alt.test message.

To subscribe to rec.video.desktop, go back to Manage Subscriptions, and
type rec.video.desktop, into the search bar. Click the check box for the
appropriate group from the returned list. You'll see "r.v.desktop" in the
left-hand pane.

When you click on a new choice in the newsgroup window, or open the main
news.aioe.org account, the newsgroups "refresh". New headers are read
and added to the display. When you posted that message to alt.test, you
won't be able to see your handywork, until you refresh the displayed
window. So don't panic :-)

Note that "Google Groups" also ties into this USENET system, and has
similar posting capability. But some people filter off Google posts,
so not all readers will look at your post if it came via the Google
interface to USENEt. The "Google Groups" interface may be easier to
use, but hard to say, as I don't use it.

news.aioe.org has per-day posting limits, so for that server with its
lack of registration, you cannot use it as a "chat room". Sending
multiple one line postings would rapidly use up your day's allotment.
Paying for commercial USENET servers, would remove some of the
restrictions necessary to run a registration-free news service.
(The operator has to stop spammers somehow, by having a "safety valve"
against massive numbers of posts. That is why AIOE has all sorts of
seemingly random rule imposed.)

*******

So I hope that is enough to allow you to connect to rec.video.desktop,
or find some group that discusses camcorders. Some groups on USENET
have next to no traffic in them, or perhaps are filled with spam,
so not every choice of the thousands available, will be a useful
place to post to.

You can use groups.google.com , and search on "camcorder" there, to
get some idea of the newsgroups that might discuss camcorders. I
use groups.google.com, to search for my postings from five years
ago.

Paul

I'm going to start a new message, this message is getting too long even for
me to keep up with. This next message will be in Set-up and Deployment and
called Setting up a SATA drive. I hope you will reply. You've been a great
help, and finally someone here has a brain.
Thanks, attilathehun1
--
attilathehun1


"Paul" wrote:

attilathehun1 wrote:
Alright, I'm at a crossroads here. There is only one IDE connector on the
mobo and a bunch of sata connectors. I guess sata is the way to go nowadays
with new mobos. I do have a sata drive too. You know, I'm fed up. It's hot,
I'm just kicked out someone who was helping me with holding a flashlight.
He's 46 and talking about his mother is going to get mad and looking at his
watch every 2 minutes. You'd kick someone out too, if they were doing that
and were supposed to be helping you. He just got his Tune-up Masters uniform
and I had pity on him and had him come by. Anyways, turns out, he wasn't on
his way home! On his way to get another malt liquor. That ****ed me off more
than anything seeing that alcoholic riding his bicycle towards the liquor
store. That moron. Look up the definition of a moron. Someone 8 years of age
or younger or someone who has to be told exactly what to do all of the time.
The malt liquor combined with 1mg xanax and his memory is shot. I asked him
the other day if he knew how to wipe his ass and he took the question
seriously. If breathing wasn't an involuntary act, he would suffocate Enough
said?
I'm sorry you had to even hear about this, it has nothing to do with
computers. I'm just a bit ****ed off here because I just found out there is
only one IDE connector on the motherboard.
That brings me to my question.
What should be used in the master position, the hard drive or the optical
drive? I'm thinking to use the hard drive in the master position and the
optical drive in the slave position.
This birngs me to the question I asked earlier, about the 3rd option on the
jumpers. Master with a non ATA-compatible drive. Does this qualify as that?
Alright, I just told my brother that I won't have a computer tonight, but I
do have this one. The HP pavilion 503n PC.

On modern ATA/ATAPI devices, it isn't supposed to matter which is
master and which is slave. In fact, the two devices can run at independent
speeds on the bus. In the past, there were exceptions and compatibility issues.
And it seems to me, the main value of Cable Select, versus master slave,
is when one mode doesn't work, and you need something else to try :-)

I've heard of Master, Slave, Cable Select, and on WD drives, Master only
(where there is no slave present). Other brands of drives use the same
"Master" setting, whether a Slave is present or not.

Paul

attilathehun1 wrote:
Ok, I'm running into something that seems not so hard when I think of
configuring the hard drive so that Windows XP Pro will recognize the SATA
hard drive on installation of the operating system.
But before I do that I have to install it onto the right motherboard SATA
controllers. There are 3 SATA110/1/2/3/4/5 that are yellow connectors and 1
GSATA110/1 purple connector, which one do I want to use.
I'm using a single hard drive, a SAMSUNG Spinpoint model SP1614C. I
installed an adaptor so that this hard drive would work on a power supply
that doesn't have SATA connectors and I can't even get the darn thing out,
again. I've tried tugging on it, not so much, off and on for 2 years. I don't
want to pull hard, and so it's just left on there, and I guess I'll just plug
it into one of the molex connectors on the power supply, even though there
are 2 SATA connectors on this power supply.
The other day, when I was stoked about finding 2 more hard drives in a box
in the closet that holds all my PC stuff, I think I gave you the wrong model
# of this SAMSUNG. It was in a plastic ESD safe wrapper that must have been
for another drive.
Ok, I'm kinda in a bit of a hurry, or pressed for time. I have to get to
orange county and see my cousin who is a great chiropractor, he even does
dogs, and my dog is coming too for an adjustment. I've put him off for 2
weeks now, and I don't want him to have a grudge. He's making about 100
dollars cash, some xanax and a pizza. All told it's about 150 bucks worth of
payment. His adjustments are worth it, but you can see that he is pressed for
money, like all of us, and that's the scoop.
Any more help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, attilathehun1

OK, GA-EP35C-DS3R.

The SATAII 0,1,2,3,4,5 connectors, are controlled by the Southbridge. I'd
start with SATAII 0,1 and put my cables in there. The six yellow ports
are on the Southbridge.

The six yellow ports are not always equal. They are split into a group
of four and a group of two. 0,1,2,3 are on one controller in the
Southbridge, while 4,5 are on a second controller in the Southbridge.
For example, if you set up the BIOS properly, to support a Windows 98
install, then only SATA 0,1,2,3 would work, and 4,5 would be disabled.
(Not that anyone in their right mind would try to run Win98 on this
board.)

As for SATA cables, there are different kinds of connectors. The
first generation are a bit different from the second generation.
Some of the second generation, added a metal latch that helps
hold the cable in place. If you have another one of the adapters
handy, you might want to examine it carefully, and see if there
is some kind of latching mechanism on it. If there is no latch,
then it might be a simple interference fir (i.e. jammed in).

If you can't see anything, then just leave the adapter in place.
The reason for saying that, is people have broken the connector
on the disk drive, by applying too much pressure. And that can
be mighty annoying if you have data on the disk. The SATA connectors
are not as good as the old IDE ones, in terms of the mechanical design.

Paul