Hardware & Devices

There are adapters that allow to RJ45 cables to be connected in-line giving you one longer cable. They are about $10 and belkin has one. http://www.dealtree.net/cart/select_item.cfm?cont=71759[^]

Possibly, but the question then becomes "are the parts going to last for the life of the application?" Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

I kept this question in many forums, but i could not get answer. No, you didn't get the answer you wanted to hear. In fact, some of the replies explained why your answer was wrong. Repeatedly asking the question won't change anything. --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ Ford, what's this fish doing in my ear?

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And the question would be .....?? Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Try placing the boot a little more to the left (or right) of the computer. Maybe it's too close to respond to it. Check the boot's antenna. If you have a heel-mounted antenna, that might be the problem. "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

IF you're referring to temperature and fan speeds, most do except for really old stuff. For anything else I don't know what's used, maybe an oscope? -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

Look at USB view, it gets this info, probably through a driver though. Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception

How to do that is mob specific so you'll need to look at your docs. The feature will be called something like wake on USB, or wake on keyboard/mouse. What it does is provide power to the ports from the standby rail when the main power is off. Normally this is used to let the mouse/keyboard turn the PC on but will power anything that's connected. Depending on your board it's either a bios or jumper setting and is generally set for each pair of ports independently. -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

Yes, I mounted the drive into VM, but it was not the system drive. The drive in question was my old system drive before I changed my MainBoard. I used to have two IDE drives, but my new board only supports one IDE cable, with my DVD-RW I had to move one drive to a usb. At the same time as updating I also bought a SCSI to be used as the system drive. Anyway, that IDE drive was a spare. I have been using VM for a few years now and never had problems while mounting drives and sharing them between the host and client. But, I did recently upgrade to a newer version of VM, so that could very well be the problem. The drive seems to be working ok now, and while it is I'm going to sell it. I just got another SCSI, so really, it's of no use to me.

Windows blocks access to hardware I/O ports, and the usual languages used for application programming don't include commands to accomplish this. In the modern systems this is done by a driver, which handles all the low level hardware stuff and exposes the results to Windows for an application to use. Check MSDN for the Windows DDK, if it's still available. If you're up to the challenge you can write your own. Personally, I gave up being that smart years ago...:-D "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

just a guess, but the bracket's probably used to secure the drive in the laptop. If you're not planning to switch regularly you can probably un/rescrew it every time. If switching regularly the bracket would probably make things easier. IF you can boot off of usb/firewire that would probably be a cheaper option. Id suggest trying to remove your existing disk to see what the bracket is actually involved in doing. I also have a very hard time believing the notebook won't talk to 5400/7200 RPM drives. -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

If your talking about the drives hardware serial number, you can't change it. Well, not without writing your own IDE driver for Windows anyway. Sorry, we're not going to help you fool a copy proection scheme. It's the only reason I can think of that you would want to do this. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Bad RAM would be my first guess. Run memtest86[^] on the computer and see if it reports any problems. --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ Ford, what's this fish doing in my ear?