Poker & PC Upgrades Part 2
A few weeks a go I told of how I went for to play a game of poker and ended up doing a PC Upgrade. Now I warned you all that I was definitely no electrician and this is exactly why the blog is titled what it is.
I got to the game OK and started work on the machine, the lid came off and the power went off (at least I remembered that part) and in went the memory. The machine was booted back up and like a dream recognised the RAM. Next came the problem part, I had to back up the files from the current hard drive, install the new one and then put the files back on the new drive. Luckily I had 4 system restore Cd’s waiting for me……. I’m jumping a head of myself because I didn’t even get that far. The drive I had ordered was totally the wrong sort, I needed an IDE drive, but what I had was a SATA drive. There was no way this was going to work. So I sent the drive back and went to look for an alternative.
Now when I looked all I could see was SATA or PATA drives. No IDE drives.
This is where I learned something, a SATA drive is a serial connected drive and a PATA drive is a parallel connected drive. The PATA drive connects through the IDE cable so I now have one of these on order.
I always thought that drives were advertised as IDE so I wonder if some sort of globalisation naming has taken place and IDE drives are now referred to as SATA. Anyway crisis over and I will put the hard drive in at the next poker game.
As for the poker that evening? I put the least cash in the pot, which ended up being pretty massive and I clawed my way back from only having 2 chips to stay in the game til the last hour. So a mini victory for me.
Tags: , Hard Drive, PATA, PC Upgrade, SATA
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April 24th, 2008 at 4:51 am
Thinking of PC upgrade I wanted to know which is the newer processor Is it Intel Core 2 Duo or Itanium?
April 26th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Hey Farhaj, I would suggest you go for AMD. hearing a lot of good reviews for AMD.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:23 am
I’m having problems with my DVD/CD-ROM drive at the moment. Last week for some strange reason I noticed the drive wasn’t showing up in Explorer. In Device Manager there’s the famous yellow exclamation mark next to the drive and if I uninstall/scan for hardware changes it says the registry is corrupt and gives me a Code 19 error.
I searched on Google and found an Upper Filters/Lower Filters registry edit, but this doesn’t work and quite honestly I’m stumped.
Occasionally my Primary IDE also has a yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager, but on last reboot the warning symbol went away. My earliest restore point doesn’t fix the problem unfortunately…
Any ideas??
–Steve
April 28th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Have you tried editing the registry manually Steve?
April 28th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I removed/deleted the Upper Filter/Lower Filter entries manually - that’s about all I could find to do.
I also noticed on the weekend that iTunes gives me a warning on startup:
“The registry settings used by the iTunes drivers for importing and burning CDs and DVDs are missing. This can happen as a result of installing other CD burning software. Please reinstall iTunes.”
I reinstalled iTunes, removed some other CD burning software, but still I don’t have a CD/DVD-ROM drive..
June 7th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
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June 27th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Don’t suppose anyone has any ideas about my Code 19 error? I’m still without a DVD/CD-ROM drive…
July 1st, 2008 at 9:36 am
@ Steve - Try this site - http://aumha.org/regfiles.htm
There’s a registry patch called cdgone under “Restore Missing CD Drive”
July 25th, 2008 at 1:46 am
tried the link, but still no luck.
however, on the recommendation of a friend i just ran the “system internals” tool which is part of Spybot 1.5.2 - a registry checker that looks for incorrect filenames or non-existent paths. the results weren’t terribly exciting, but i clicked the “fix selected problems” button, uninstalled the problematic CD/DVD-ROM from Device Manager and then scanned for hardware changes.
Typically this is where I would get the Code 19 error, but lo and behold tonight the drive installed correctly! Woo-hoo!!! You wouldn’t believe how happy I am - this has been bugging me for months.
Just wanted to let you know,
–Steve