I'm running vista home premium 64 bit on a Toshiba satellite A300 PCAGCA. I have recently purchased a Amicore "Philips" 3.5 sata enclosure model SDE 5170BC. I have fitted this enclosure with a 750 Gb WD barracuda HHD model ST3750528AS. The system recognises the drive when is plugged into the USB 2.0 but not when it plugged into the eSata port.
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I need to get a new external HDD for my laptop and I'm thinking of = getting an eSATA drive. My question is this: Can any HDD be turned into = an eSATA drive by housing it an enclosure which has an eSATA port or is = there something special about SATA drives? I'm not sure whether I should = buy an already enclosed SATA or buy the HDD and the enclosure separately = (cheaper option).
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI have evga motherboard with built in Realtek HD audio (ALC883). Board features 2 ports for digital audio (optical and coaxial). and according to manual both are output. However when installed vista drivers one of the ports has been chosen as digital output (optical) and another as digital input (coax) (i can see that when i hover the mouse over the jacks in "Realtek HD audio manager") Is there any way to make the coaxial port as an output port instead of optical? My my HT reciver has no free optical ports so i have to use coax to get some sound from the computer.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI use a AT&T exspress aircard and can't send mail out through windows mail on Vista. Do I need to change my outgoing mail port from 25 to another port number? If so what port or how do I obtain that info?
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View 7 Replies View RelatedI use an external esata enclosure. When I plug it into my laptop, Vista Ultimate x64 recognises the hotplugging and sees the drive right away, and handles it fine when I switch off. I have a Vista Ultimate x64 desktop using a motherboard without a built esata port. The enclosure came with an esata adapter plate that internally connects to a sata port on the motherboard. This works, but only if I boot the PC up with the external drive switched on first. If I switch it on later, Vista doesn't see it. I understood that sata eand esata were both hot pluggable, so I'm not sure why this is not working. Does the motherboard need a esata port to work with a esata based external hdd enclosure (to allow hotplug capability). I can purchase a PCI express card that provides an esata port, but I don't know if thats going to make a difference.
View 4 Replies View RelatedJust bought (should arrive in a day or so) a Lacie 2Big Dual 1T external raid drive (via eSATA). Just a quick thought, As I plan to use it in a Raid 0 set up do I need to make any adjustments to my bios or install the JMicron drivers so Vista can utilise the raid as well as my other three, non raid, sata drives. I've looked at the manual and doeesn't mention any thing about it. Or is it simply plug it in and forget.
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ASUS P5KC Mobo
Intel Q6600 CPU
Antec 650 W PSU
Two SATA 320 GB internal drives connected to SATA slots 1 and 2 of 4 An external ASUS eSATA and USB2 enclosure with WD 640 GB SATA hard drive connected to an eSATA port on the computer.
The external eSATA hard drive works fine after a reboot but after a few hours it vanishes and cannot be found by Explorer or the Control panel even though it has not been accessed to modify, delete or add files. A reboot finds the drive and it works again for a while.
I have an eSATA backplate port connected to slot 3 on the mobo. The mobo also has an integral eSATA port on the back. The problem occurs when I connect the external drive to either of these ports.
I'm thinking about getting a Lacie Two Big external 1TB raid 0 hard drive to use as a scratch disk for Photoshop CS3 connected through my eSATA connection on my motherboard (Asus p5B deluxe). Does anyone know if Photoshop will see an eSATA drive and will be able to use it as a scratch disk? Also are eSATA speeds really the same as internal SATA drives?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've got an eSATA drive that I formatted NTFS on my XP installation. machine has removable drives & I run many OS's on the same machine. works fine on all (including Linux) *except* when I run Vista all updates including SP2. when I try to access drive it always comes up as unformatted. but if I schedule chdksk to run on it upon reboot...no problems found!
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have an eSATA drive formatted NTFS from my XP installation. Drive works fine from either XP or Linux (multi-boot machine) I had previously tried Vista on the machine but it saw the eSATA drive as unformatted. Gave the message "Do you want to format this drive?"
Very dangerous as an unknowing person may have actually formatted the drive and lost all their data. Interestingly enough, any time I've tried to access the drive, Vista ran a chkdsk on it at the next boot up. CHKDSK from Vista saw it fine and reported no errors. but could not read the drive once booted to the desktop. I eventually gave up on Vista and just did a Win7 install yesterday.
I have an Inspiron 1720 (bad choice in retrospect) that I had been running XP Pro on for quite some time and had created an external RAID with an esata port multiplier. It's an Addonics storage tower with 4 750gb drives in raid 10 and everything worked fine until my internal HDDs kicked the bucket and now that they are replaced, I decided to reinstall using Vista Home Premium 32 bit, got all the drivers and software needed for my raid setup and now the tower shows up, but only as a 373gb unformatted drive.
I've got all the most recent drivers and whatnot from Jmicron but the problem still persists. There was never any problem with XP recognizing the drive and I don't want to try and format the drive especially because of the 500gb or so of data that I can't lose.
Anybody having as I am problems with eSATA devices since installing SP1? My eSATA drives show in the BIOS boot screen but hangs on the Vista drivers loading bard or just beyond on the black screen before the Windows logo. If I restart without the eSATA device connected/powered up Vista loads normally and if I then switch on/plug in the eSATA drive it is not recognised by windows anywhare. I have looked in disk management in the admin folder and the drive is not there.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a 750 GB sata 3.0 HDD which i'm trying to connect to a sata RAID card or motherboard. I've connected my hard drive using an sata cable to both my motherboard and my raid card. When i try either this prevents windows froms starting. The motherboard sata is 3.0gb/s, the raid card is 1.5gb/s. I've tried all jumper settings and made sure all cables are working. I have another sata drive that works with everything. The hdd that works is a samsung, the hdd that doesn't is a western digital recertified.
I have an sata enclosure which has its own powersupply and a sata to esata cable. My hdd above only works when i put the hdd in the enclosure and connect the sata to esata to the motherboard. The enclosure does not work with the raid card.
my son retuned home this weekend with his HP Compaq CQ61 Notebook and told me his dongles, Itouch and stuff dont work? told me his mum had it at a shop and the guy did a restore and couldn't find the problem or fix it? I wonder what kind off shop it was? so i took a look and looks like someone has try'd to put something or FORCE something into USB port? i'v uploaded a pic from silly phone sorry about Quality but u can see that the port on the right is broken? AKA Wont work now the port on the left looks ok, so i try'd to hook up ex HD, Iphone and nothing works ? no power to device and PnP dont find anything new ?
i checked Device Manager and states that Drivers are ok and up to date? so the right one is gone and needs replaced i thought the left one would still work but seems not to ? should it?
I just bought the XFX GeForce 8400 GS from Amazon. I noticed that there is no DVI or VGA port it said DMS-59 on it, what is that and can I run DVI on it? Amazon.com: XFX PVT86SWML4 GeForce 8400GS 256MB GDDR2 DMS-59 Dual DVI Low Profile Monitor Solution PCI Express x16 Video Card: Electronics
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy Son's computer was working yesterday and this morning he can't surf using IE 8 or Firefox. It appears Port 80 is being blocked. I have disabled the firewall temporarily and this did not resolve the issue. I did the "netsh winsock reset" and this did not fix the problem. I have reset my router with no change. I am able to ping the DNS, the Default router and his IP address within the command window. I can also ping yahoo.com, google.com within the command window, but can't reach them with either browser. He did not have System Restore enabled, so I can't use that as a solution. Can the group recommend some options for me to try? He is using Vista Home Premium, and a wireless card. I can also see ALL GREEN when I open up the Network Sharing tool. There is a green line between his IP and the Wireless Card and green line between the Wireless Card and the Internet.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am trying to run Apache @ port 80 on Vista Ultimate, and it won't start. When I run a netstat -ab, I get the follow:....
View 5 Replies View RelatedPretty strange that I couldn't find one google result about WHERE a USB 2.0 port is, everything is "how do I know I have USB 2.0" and not actually where they are on the computer. Some may say well, just plug in a USB 2.0 usb and see what happens.
However my USB Drive has ALWAYS been saying I'm plugging it in in a port that does not support USB 2.0. I've done this at my college and the same bs occurs. This does not occur for any of my USB drives, not even my 16G one. Should also mention that whenever I try to access the USB drive, it says "Drive E not formatted, would you like to format it now?" Obviously I click no. This by the way has nothing to do with my recent virus issues. This particular USB drive has been like this for years now.-
in vista, I found that once I deleted the WSD printer icon, in the server property, the WSD port stays here, and I can't delete it, I should reboot my PC for deleting it, So I want to know why it's locked, and if I want handle this WSD port, how can I do it?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am curious about the change to port 587. After upgrading to Vista SP1, using Windows Mail, I had the same problem as a few on this board, but only with my roadrunner service. I could receive mails. However, I could send e-mails that were very short (read one or two lines), but anything of any length and I got the usual message of server connection unexpectly closed. I turned off my antivirus program completely and still got the message and could not send e-mails of any basic length. However, I did try the suggestion in a previous thread of changing the smtp port to 587 (even though it appeared to be a comcast network) and, so far, it appears to solve my problem with roadrunner (knock on wood).
View 4 Replies View RelatedI had Apache server installed on Vista Home Premium and it worked fine until the Vista security update 2 days ago. Something is blocking port 80. I ran netstat -ano and find out it is PID 4 which is System is using port 80, but I have no idea which one just added with the update to stop the service.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am using windows XP and i want to disable the usb port (i dont want it to detect flash memories or external storage devices) but at the same time i want it to detect the usb printer, so i cant totally disable the usb port ...
View 4 Replies View Relatedi miss the old audio manger when it pop's up a balloon asking you what that port will be. i need to change my computer rear line in to headphones or speakers.
View 9 Replies View Relatedparallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started either because it ia disabled or it has no enabled devices associated with it.
Vista Home Premium SP1. Is it possible to use more than one device in a single USB port? The reason I ask is that I have five USB ports, four at the back and one at the front. As the one at the front is more accessible, I use this for a Joystick I occasionally use. Can I also use this same port for another device, in this case an MP3 player, not at same time?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm asking the right question ...I have an older application (circa 2002) that connects to a VHF radio thru a serial or USB cable. The software only has provisions for communicating with the radio thru COM's 1 thru 4. Is there some way to emulate or dedicate a COM port thru a USB connection?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have an Acer laptop with Vista Home and want to get an MPV film clip on it, from a brief segment of a talk show on my Tivo. I have a Dazzle plugged into a USB port, and have installed drivers that device manager shows to be working correctly. "Help" says I can use USB as a source, but I cannot find a way.
View 8 Replies View Related(running Vista Home Premium) I seem to have lost my COM1 port (and all other COM / LPT ports with it). I use Palm T5 and need the COM1 port for synching this device. The Palm cradle is plugged into a USB connection straight into the computer (not the USB hub ports). But I get the error "The selected port, COM1, is not available at this time. Hotsynch manager will open the port when it become available."
I dont have any modems etc running, and when I look in Device manager, there is no line like "Communication ports", COM and Printer ports or something like it. Curiously, I have my old HP Laser jet 4 running smoothly - so there must be some printer port somewhere.
I login remotely to 3 servers, and if I choose 5 clients. I have full administrator rights. Suddenly, I am not able to remote into Client 01( Windows Vista). Our MS Pro says someone or something has blocked or locked :3389 and he does not know how to either rebuild it or fix it. The client, is a fairly new Dual Core Vista Machine and I was logging into it just fine, until...A major Software program was installed, and certain permissions were accessed (I do not know which ones). Then it blocked me. It is locked or blocked. We can't seem to find the one thing we need to get it back. The permissions pertained to multiple users ,using the same program on our application Server. No one, including the MS Pro would have purposely shut that port down. What I am looking at from my out of town side is: A BRICK. It Says: Connectiveity to the Remote Computer could not be established. Ensure that the remote computer is on and connected to the Small Business Server network.
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