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Originally posted by milos yep, that would be SATA (Serial-ATA) as opposed to the long flat one which is just ATA. but as far as i know, most new boards come with at least 1 ATA (the one u have) connector to support older drives. do you know what motherboard u have? check the specs on their website

cool, i'll check it out when I get home tonight...I didn't give it that big of a look when I tried to link them a while back....it's possible I missed a connection that was actually mounted on the motherboard.

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Originally posted by joinT Dan, can you post the minidump and sysdata files? also, check these links.. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Ope...Q_21485954.html scroll down to the post with the green "accepted answer" EE is a goldmine for this kinda stuff.. edit fvckin' Norton.. do you have Norton installed d00d? Definitely try this first link ASAP! if that doesn't work.. http://forums.amd.com/lofiversion/index.php/t43257.html post by redclawkefar post by GreywolfComputer (seen here on EE as well) http://www.experts-exchange.com/Ope...Q_21478086.html also seems some people think you might have a trojan http://www.techsupportforum.com/sho...6200#post296200

I cant post the files, cause they are gone somehow
I searched for them and found nothing. I'm checking some of those links though and doing an online virus scan. See what happens! Thanks!

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Originally posted by smuncky its those damn earwigs getting in ur comp and eating up ur hardware!!

Could be! Those biochs are getting smarter I think!

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Originally posted by milos yep, that would be SATA (Serial-ATA) as opposed to the long flat one which is just ATA. but as far as i know, most new boards come with at least 1 ATA (the one u have) connector to support older drives. do you know what motherboard u have? check the specs on their website

It does not have an ATA connection....I checked. Stupid freaking DELL, last time I got a dell it was full of expansion slots and all kinds of wonderful things. Right now, I've got room for an a:\ drive, a couple additional USB connections, and one more of the SATA hard drives. Looks like my old music collection will be lost forever....

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Originally posted by Sly_Guy except when the computer industry decides to change the standard for the connections between hardware. I have 30 gigs I sets I wanna move to the new computer but the hard drive connections are incompatible.

can't you just use a crossover cable?

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you mean some sort of adapter? I didn't know they exsisted, and if they do, I don't own one. In which case I'll have to go out and buy one.

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Originally posted by Sly_Guy you mean some sort of adapter? I didn't know they exsisted, and if they do, I don't own one. In which case I'll have to go out and buy one.

I'm not sure what the problem is with your computer, but generally you can easily connect two computers using crossover cable, and then transfer data from one to the other.

It only costs about $10-45 depending on the length.


warning: don't use regular ethernet cable... that will fry both motherboards

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Originally posted by ShadoWolf I'm not sure what the problem is with your computer, but generally you can easily connect two computers using crossover cable, and then transfer data from one to the other. It only costs about $20-45 depending on the length.

Can you somehow use two computers on on monitor?? lol!
Probably not possible, but awesome if you could!

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Originally posted by Playa24_7 Can you somehow use two computers on on monitor?? lol! Probably not possible, but awesome if you could!

no... but we may finally have found a use for this

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my problem is this:
I'm trying to get the music out of my old computer onto my new one. I had two hard drives on the old, and now have moved all my music onto one of them. I want to move that hard drive into my new computer to get all the music off it, but the connections with the motherboard on the new computer are now incompatible. [My new computer doesn't have an ATA connection for my hard drive, only the new SATA ones, as I'm told the acronyms are]

Networking doesn't work, as I've done a shitload of work trying to get them to establish a local area connection and even microsoft themselves can't figure out what's wrong, especially since my windows O/Ss aren't even pirated.

I've heard of a 'serial connection' between two computers using priner ports, but I haven't done any research into connecting them in this method.

I'm not willing to burn 30 gigs worth of CDs to get this music off either.

Any ideas?

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so this 'crossover cable' connects directly to the motherboards of both computers and acts generally as a newtork without having to do all the messy annying setup XP likes to put me thru?

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Originally posted by Playa24_7 Can you somehow use two computers on on monitor?? lol! Probably not possible, but awesome if you could!

Yeah, you can get a switch box for this and some cables. Kind of pricey.

There is also a device called a KVM (stands for keyboard, video, mouse) switch that allows you to use multiple computers with one set of monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

e.g. - http://canadacomputers.com/index.ph...6812&cid=NT.313

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