Move XP Hard Drive Into New Motherboard

Really easy. But this only works if de original moderboard and if your harddrive still work. So put it back togeder. For first-timers

1) Go to control panel
2) Double-click de system icon
3) Go to hardware tab
4) Click device manager button
5) Find de IDE ATA/ATAPI CONTROLLERS and expand de tab. Its not de primary or secondary controller, but right-click de first controller.
6) Choose update driver
7) Choose de option to install from a list or specific location.
8) Click next
9) Now choose de “don’t search. I will choose de driver to install” option
10) Click next
11) Now highlight de Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
12) Click next
13) The Standard controller will install
14) Reboot and log in
15) The standard controller is completely installed
16) Shutdown de computer
17) Remove your harddrive, and it will boot with de new moderboard.

Digital Photo ID Cards

Q: What do you need to make a Digital Photo ID Card?

A: Makin’ digital photo ID cards typically requires several components all workin’ togeder.

  • 1. You need a computer on which you run de photo ID badge software. You cannot print de cards on a PVC card printer without a computer � de printer can’t perform anythin’ without de computer.
  • 2. You need software and it must:
    a) Offer a database to store de names and personal information of de people for whom you want to issue badges.
    b) Provide a way to integrate image capture with de database � not only import images, but associate de images with specific database records.
    c) Provide a way to design and edit badges.
    d) Send badges from de computer to a card printer. Badgin’ software, like oder business applications, comes in a variety of “flavors” � from low-end to high-end. That is, in addition to performin’ de simple processes described above, de application may come with many oder “features” which enhance de usability and functionality of de application. Features might include requirin’ a secure log-on, allowin’ de user to add, delete, or edit database fields and create or print reports, etc.
  • 3. You need a PVC card printer to print de badges. PVC (polyvinylchloride) is de same material that your white plastic household plumbin’ pipes are made out of. It is porous enough to allow colored inks to be absorbed into de surface of de plastic usin’ a “dye sublimation” process, yet durable enough to last years. The PVC printer allows you to print a photo ID badge directly to a plastic card. The non-digital process required cuttin’ and pastin’ an instant photo and insertin’ it into a laminated pouch which must den be sealed by sendin’ it through a heat laminator.
  • 4. You need a digital camera or oder “input” device. Your PC and software must allow you to:
    a) Plug in a camera.
    b) Capture de image through de software. More versatile systems will allow you to capture portraits through video cameras, digital cameras, scanners, or by importin’ from a file �an “import from file” feature allows someone to send a picture to you by email as a file attachment, which you can den import into de database.
  • 5. Additional hardware may be required, such as a video capture board for certain video cameras, tape backup device, UPS (uninterrupted power supply), etc. Video capture boards, for example, are installed in a PCI or AGP expansion slot on your PC’s moderboard. The camera usually plugs directly into dese boards. Special lightin’ may need to be set up where you take portrait pictures. If you want to incorporate fingerprints and signatures in your database and badge, den additional image capture devices will be required for them.
  • 6. Consumables are also part of de package. You will need blank or pre-printed PVC cards and printer ribbons (usually in rolls which print from 250-350 cards per).

Computer Acronyms

— A —
ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
ALI - Acer Labs, Incorporated
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
APC - American Power Conversion
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASPI - Advanced SCSI Programmin’ Interface
AT - Advanced Technology
ATI - ATI Technologies Inc.
ATX - Advanced Technology Extended

— B —
BFG - BFG Technologies
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
BNC - Barrel Nut Connector

— C —
CAS - Column Address Signal
CD - Compact Disk
CDR - Compact Disk Recorder
CDRW - Compact Disk Re-Writer
CD-ROM - Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
CFM - Cubic Feet per Minute (ft�/min)
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CPU - Central Processin’ Unit
CTX - CTX Technology Corporation (Commited to Excellence)

— D —
DDR - Double Data Rate
DDR-SDRAM - Double Data Rate - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
DFI - DFI Inc. (Design for Innovation)
DIMM - Dual Inline Memory Module
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory
DPI - Dots Per Inch
DSL - See ASDL
DVD - Digital Versatile Disc
DVD-RAM - Digital Versatile Disk - Random Access Memory

— E —
ECC - Error Correction Code
ECS - Elitegroup Computer Systems
EDO - Extended Data Out
EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EVGA - EVGA Corporation

— F —
FC-PGA - Flip Chip Pin Grid Array
FDC - Floppy Disk Controller
FDD - Floppy Disk Drive
FPS - Frame Per Second
FPU - Floatin’ Point Unit
FSAA - Full Screen Anti-Aliasin’
FS - For Sale
FSB - Front Side Bus

— G —
GB - Gigabytes
GBps - Gigabytes per second or Gigabits per second
GDI - Graphical Device Interface
GHz - GigaHertz

— H —
HDD - Hard Disk Drive
HIS - Hightech Information System Limited
HP - Hewlett-Packard Development Company
HSF - Heatsink-Fan

— I —
IBM - International Business Machines Corporation
IC - Integrated Circuit
IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics
IFS- Item for Sale
IRQ - Interrupt Request
ISA - Industry Standard Architecture
ISO - International Standards Organization

— J —
JBL - JBL (Jame B. Lansin’) Speakers
JVC - JVC Company of America

— K —
Kbps - Kilobits Per Second
KBps - KiloBytes per second

— L —
LG - LG Electronics
LAN - Local Are Network
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
LDT - Lightnin’ Data Transport
LED - Light Emittin’ Diode

— M —
MAC - Media Access Control
MB - ModerBoard or Megabyte
MBps - Megabytes Per Second
Mbps - Megabits Per Second or Megabits Per Second
MHz - MegaHertz
MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second
MMX - Multi-Media Extensions
MSI - Micro Star International

— N —
NAS - Network Attached Storage
NAT - Network Address Translation
NEC - NEC Corporation
NIC - Network Interface Card

— O —
OC - Overclock (Over Clock)
OCZ - OCZ Technology
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer

— P —
PC - Personal Computer
PCB - Printed Circuit Board
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
PCMCIA - Peripheral Component Microchannel Interconnect Architecture
PGA - Professional Graphics Array
PLD - Programmable Logic Device
PM - Private Message / Private Messagin’
PnP - Plug ‘n Play
PNY - PNY Technology
POST - Power On Self Test
PPPoA - Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
PPPoE - Point-to-Point Protocol over Edernet
PQI - PQI Corporation
PSU - Power Supply Unit

— R —
RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM - Random Access Memory
RAMDAC - Random Access Memory Digital Analog Convertor
RDRAM - Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
ROM - Read Only Memory
RPM - Revolutions Per Minute

— S —
SASID - Self-scanned Amorphous Silicon Integrated Display
SCA - SCSI Configured Automatically
SCSI - Small Computer System Interface
SDRAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SECC - Sin’le Edge Contact Connector
SODIMM - Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module
SPARC - Scalable Processor ArChitecture
SOHO - Small Office Home Office
SRAM - Static Random Access Memory
SSE - Streamin’ SIMD Extensions
SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array
S/PDIF - Sony/Philips Digital Interface

— T —
TB - Terabytes
TBps - Terabytes per second
Tbps - Terabits per second
TDK - TDK Electronics
TEC - Thermoelectric Cooler
TPC - TipidPC
TWAIN - Technology Without An Important Name

— U —
UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
USB - Universal Serial Bus
UTP - Unshieled Twisted Pair

— V —
VCD - Video CD
VPN - Virtual Private Network

— W —
WAN - Wide Area Network
WTB - Want to Buy
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get

— X —
XGA - Extended Graphics Array
XFX - XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine
XMS - Extended Memory Specification
XT - Extended Technology