Posts by shickey5483

1) Do you currently own an SSD? Are you planning on purchasing one or more in the near future? YES - I own a crucial 256 gb M4 and Samsung 400, and an INTEL mSATA 80 gb 2) If you’re planning on purchasing an SSD, which brand(s) are you...

Make sure that your drive did not accidentally get 'parked'. If you shake your HD or it encounters a shock, it will park the heads to protect the platters. Unfortunately, it will not un-park without a utility or it sometimes gets...

I am using 2x60GIG 72K rpm on RAID 0 on the 8790 and ran the HD benchmark 3 times...average of 56MB/sec. I also have tweaked the win XP for large filesystem cache writes. For comparison, 2x120GIG SATA 150 at 10K drives on RAID0...

Pefect screen...no dead pixels

The $OEM$ directory is at the same level as I386...at the root of your install CD. It is precisely that windows will not know the mapped optical drive, that it uses $OEM$\$1 as the root for drivers. The drivers software goes into the...

To answer SEMC's question, Windows XP install has hard coded to look at A: for external mass drivers or 3rd party driver support...you have to use a floppy. I had bought a SONY USB floppy and it was recognized at boot time, but would...

I also ran into this problem, but I was installing XP Pro using RAID0 and could never get past that point. I instead created a slipstreamed CD of XP Pro, adding the Service Pack 1a and all of the Sager drivers in the INF's. This...