Help Me : Boot With Cable

Been thinking of using these converters on my IDE hard drives so they are 'SATA
compliant'. I see that it will be using both the SATA type power connector and also a 4 pin
(floppy drive type) connector. Have anyone used these IDE to SATA adapters before? Are both power
cables required in order to make a drive operational? I will also be getting a SATA PCMCIA card for
my laptop and that's where this will play a important role. I have no idea how to give it power
if I want to use it as an external...what kind of cable to get for external use (4 pin connector...

My cousin's computer seems to have a bad VGA monitor cable. The problem is that when I turn it
on, it seems to be ok, it says auto-configure....then it goes blank (orange light on monitor power
button). I looked at the VGA connector pins and see that pins 4 and 11 are missing. Just to be
curious, I looked at the end connected to the LCD and it's also missing pins 4 and 11. Is this a
coincidence? From what I found, these are what it corresponds to: 4 ID2 Monitor ID Bit 2 11
ID0 Monitor ID Bit 0 Is this responsible for the shot display and then blank screen? ...

Hi, What I want to do is to ghost computers with a 2gb USBDrive. We wanted to ghost some computers
without carrying the whole Ghost server. Sounds easy but I had some problems. First, it worked
perfectly in USB 1.0 wich is too slow for our needs. I found the USB 2.0 Dos driver and i'm
able to load it. After that, it needs another file to give back a letter to the Drive but it change
the drive letters and the booting stops there. I got a solution somewhere wich was to Make a
virtual drive to put the content to boot, switch to this drive to complete the booting bef...

I have a problem with a pc that dont boot it only produces a series of 3 short beeps, does anybody
knows what means these beeps???? i'm sure that this sounds means something but i dont find any
good advise or technical article about. If helps, the only specs i know of this PC are: ASRock
Motherboard AMD Processor 40GB Hard Disk 256 MB RAM DDR Best regards,...

i have a problem with me PC. When he try boot the follow warning is showed to me : "BOOT FAILURE".
i think is the hard drive, but i installed the hard drive in another pc to extract the important
data inside, and windows xp can detect but in "My computet" only can see the C:\ Drive icon. Need
some tips to solve this kind of problems. cheers /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle"
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Hey all, I`ll come str8 to the point. I need help finding out what`s wrong whit my computer. My
problem is this two days ago I walked pass my computer case and accidentely hit my bluethoot USB
stick that was pluged into my computer.At that moment my computer shut down,I tried to boot
immediately and no it didn`t boot. When I hit my power switch ,my cpu(Intel Celeron 2.4Ghz) fan
starts turning like usual the HD`s do switch on too but nothing else happends. The monitor doesn`t
switch on after listening closely i found out the HD`s weren`t beeing read neither.Now my questi...

I'm not 100% sure this is the right place to post this but here goes. I'm trying to install
Linux on my Toshiba Portege laptop. The CD is working fine because I tested it on another computer
so that eliminates that problem. The DVD drive is part of the docking station but so is the Floppy
Disk Drive so that problem is out to as the Floppy drive works. I downloaded Smart Boot Manager and
ran it at system boot up but the DVD drive wasn't available to boot up. So I have ran out of
options as to what could be wrong. Any hints?...

Let me start off by saying although i talk alot about linux here, the broblm occusr both under linux
and winowsXP. but linux reports error messages alot better than windows (which just denies the
device is even plugged in) so ive talked about linux more. But the problem itself is Hardware, so
for you windows users, please dont stop reading. Ii need your help too! thanks.
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going to explain this all step by step because the solution the edidence points to just doesnt make
senc...