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I cant seem to get it to work got power to drive and adaptor card. tried with drive on all settings (master/slave/CS) but bios dosent see it. Gonna test it with an ide hdd if i can find one.

Thanks for quick replies i will try different jumper settings and solaris what do you mean about wiring ide straight to sata port

I have a dynamode ide - sata bidirectional adaptor and am trying to connect an ide pioneer dvd-rw to a sata port on a amd chipset mobo but cant seem to get it to find the drive. Just wondering if anyone else has ued one of these and do they work with optical drives. Thanks

I means basicly your cpu fan has failed

Not sure if this in the right place but i looking for a way to put files on a removable hard drive or flash drive to lend to people with read permissions. But want to prevent people from making copies. The only way i can think i encrypting the files to the hard drive serial number or unique...

Check this out http://www.directron.com/h435f512ep.html

That card on tigerdirect should work but you need to make sure it has vga or dvi connections or you wont be able to connect your monitor and as for the x8 - x16 converter it most likely will work but will make the card slightly larger than standard.

You found a graphics card to fit in a x1 slot?

No pci-e comes in x1, x2 ,x4 ,x8 ,x12 and x16 types. you have 2 choices, if your x8 slot has an open end it will physically accept a pci-e x16 card but work at x8 speed (still much faster than pci or agp) or get a x8 graphics card wich may be hard to find but i do believe theyre about. Check...

Just a quick thought it does have a pci-e x8 slot so you might be able to use that

Forget it that is a server machine and has no video upgradeability

Hi sorry to be slightly off topic but did you say an ati 9600 works pretty ok with win 7

I wouldnt touch emachines personaly

Your last screenie shows you have 2 identical disks it is possible they were in a raid and you have changed your bios sata controller to ide mode and now raid in not seen.

Increase cpu voltage and reduce ht link