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Stealth P2P network hides inside Kazaa – Get rid of Kazaa ASAP! By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com April 1, 2002, 5:35 PM PT A California company has quietly attached its software to millions of downloads of the popular Kazaa file-trading program and plans to remotely “turn on” people’s PCs, welding them into a…

Fixed DMA on Hard Drive Thank goodness for the Internet! I finally deleted the checksum entries per the note about doing this in the registry. It reidentified the hard disk. I guess I was getting CRC errors before. Anyway, now I’m Ultra DMA Mode 4 on the main hard drive and Mode 2 on my…

Windows XP and unsticking PIO Mode Here is another piece about this. Will try this next after an uninstall. CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives can revert to using PIO mode, despite being set to use “DMA if Available.” This article explains how to make Windows XP redetect the DMA capabilities of the drives. This behaviour occurs…

DMA Mode for ATA/ATAPI Devices in Windows XP. I can’t get my boot drive on my P3V4x into Ultra DMA mode anymore. STaty stuck in PIO. Tried to toggle the setting, but it won’t stick. It used to work under Windows 98.

www.firmware.fr.st. Wow, yet another firmware page. I can’t believe this goes on and on.

The firmware forum – -. I think that my firmware is bad on my Lite-on CDRW. The stuff from the internet is now making coasters. The discussion on the LIte-on forum seem to all say this. Amazingly, there is actually an entire forum and website on firmware flashing so I’ll check here.

LiteonitWell, taking the mirror off my hard drives has improved stability. I haven’t had a single chkdsk problem since I got rid of the hardware mirroring, but now my CDRW keeps breaking. Am installing the latest firm called R32XS0R.zip updated 02-04-2002 in the hopes that it will help. Also uninstalled Nero and deleted the CD…

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2003 XTR Preview! Shimano’s flagshDrivetrain: It is still 9-speed and compatible with current 9-s components, although there are updates in drivetrain technology. The new crankset is still hollow, but is now a two-piece setup (the bottom bracket spindle is one-piece with the driveside crankarm, the left crankarm clamps onto the splines similar to a BMX…