Posts by Rob Varto

Thanks Kimmo! At this point (aside from setting up my Sata drive), everything is going ok except I keep getting the "limited connectivity" message from my network connection. I can send data, but I cannot receive it! I d/l the latest...

Im still using the older IDE cable. The BIOS finds my hard drives and DVD drives immediately... it just takes a while to boot. I mostly leave my computer on anyways, but I was surprised how long it took. Brian, have you ever...

No, I tried to get the latest BIOS and drivers last night but the website was down. I'll try again today. Thanks for the info!

I just finished building my new PC. Core 2 Duo w/ an Asus P5N-E SLI mobo and 2 gigs of ram. Unfortunately, the bios screen takes forever to load. It literally takes 30 seconds to get away from the "press DEL to enter BIOS" screen and...

Thanks for the all advice guys. I tried all the things that were suggested and I've exhausted my options. I sent the mobo kit back to mwave this morning. I can't even imagine if they find nothing wrong with the mobo kit and send it...

I actually setup the BIOS to boot from the CD... no dice. I tried different cables, different configurations of master / slave, etc. I also used another DVD drive from an old computer and I also tried a hard drive with an OS on it......

I meant PC. Folks are having a good time with my typo at dvdtalk as well.

When I power up the cpu, I get the message "Boot Disk Error. Please install system disk"... what does that mean? I have an OEM version of MCE 2005, do I need a FULL retail version in order for it to be recognized? For what it's...

I was hoping someone could help me out. Whenever a friend tries to d/l a .mp3 or .mpg I sent to her, she gets an error message along the lines of "Windows Media Player cannot find the file extension associated with this file. Please...

My DVD Burner thinks it's a CD drive... I don't get it. I haven't done anything to change the settings - how do I make my DVD burner work again? It's a dual layer Lite On. Thanks in advance!