Recent content by dan nelles

It seems, this sleepy hard drive problem is already well know in cyberspace. It is a very aggressive "IntelliPower" "IntelliPark" HDD head parking setting in the drives firmware. Just tried the recommended utility WDIDLE3.EXE and on a Gateway NV5915h with Intel P6200 cpu and Pheonic...

Hi folks, I have a curious problem here with my Western_Digital 500GB hard drive SATA, it is painfully S-L-O-W in DOS 7.10... even with only the DOS basic kernel loaded. The drive is quite fast when it continuously reads data, but if it sits idle for just 5+ seconds, I give a DOS...

hi, yes, could you please give me a few (sequential) screen captures for how reply to a person, how to quote message without changing message thread/title. thank you

Hi Everyone: I need help with setting up SMART_BOOT_MANAGER (SBM 3.7.1) with 2 Windows 7 partitions. Both partition of WIN-7 are fully independent installations. I am currently using SBM371 with WIN-7/32 where I have multiple FAT32 partitions and multiple NTFS ( * SEE Attachment JPG...

Hello folks ! I would like to ask if the LIST of VIDEO MODES supported by any VGA/SVGA BIOS is an **arbitrary choice** . . . or if the list of modes can be changed/added at will and if so, how. Also, given today's high powered vga hardware, suppose I desired something called VESA MODE...

Sorry, folks, this message but I feel really clumsy replying to messages generally and to specific persons, I don't know how to do it properly; could anybody help, or maybe screen captures so I can use this resource advantageously ?? thanks All :banghead:

Audio detection: Precise Hi, Gee, I am not really sure how to operate these reply mechanism yet -- but anyways, wanted to thank you for the HWinfo -- it reported an ALC272 + INTEL HD Audio + a NVIDIA HD Audio !! So, can I take my pick? I really do not know why 3 hd audios are...

Hi Folks! Today I come to you all with a problem: I want to find the drivers, WIN-7 32 bit for my other laptop machine, for the AUDIO, I need to know what kind of chip is in the machine. I know it is Realtek -- but I do not know exactly what kind of chip; example my Toshiba A500 has a...

Hi Everyone! I'm NEW here at techpowerup. I saw you had a very good video bios flashing web page and so I thought perhaps here is a good place I can ask a video graphics related question. I have two laptop machines currently, Toshiba A500 (NVIDIA GeForce 310M, recognized in \\\\dos as...