Hi Oded, Thanks for the answer. 1-I did some web-search about the 1.5V question. If I understood correctly, there have been a change in the standard for the voltage of the signals used with the graphic cards: It used to be 3.3V and was now lowered to 1.5. Inserting an old-type card into the AGP slot of a new motherboard will damage the card, the motherboard or both. The arangement of the dents is intended to prevent one to do it (mechanically), but not every manufacturer complied...And then there are some transition cards which are meant to work with both types of signals, but are sometimes misinterpretated by some motherboard, with resulting damage. Seems that I have to go to a better video. I guess there are worse predicaments ! 2-This 20Gb disk was brought to me by a windows user. His report: When I try to boot I get an unending row of 00 and 01 values. Suspecting a corrupt boot sector, I tried fdisk /mbr from a DOS formatted/s floppy. As this did not work (do you know any better way ?), I mounted it as first slave in my computer and was able to save his data. And there it remained as he could not make use of it. With time, getting short of space in my first disk, I started to use it. As far as I know, no one used a knife to cut out the boot sector.
I take the opportunity to thank here Baruch Even for his precious piece of information and Ariel Biener for his suggestion. But I am affraid that following it will jump-raise the cost of the Sempron-based system that I am buying. Cheers, Avraham ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
