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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (923)	5/31/1998 2:55:00 PM
From: khalid jaffar	Respond to of 14778

>>In DOS and Win95 I do not believe there are any software options to change drive letter designations of hard disks (removables and CD's can be changed). I am not so sure about NT. << In NT, you can use "Disk Administrator" to change drive letter designations very easily.

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (923)	5/31/1998 4:05:00 PM
From: peter michaelson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Thread: As one who's reluctant to spend a lot of money on hardware, I noted with great interest Tom's Hardware Guide's enthusiasm for over-clocking a Celeron 266 chip on a Bx motherboard. If I understand correctly, he thinks one can get the equivalent performance of a Pentium II 350 but spending $150 on the CPU rather than $550. "Celeron has not got any L2 cache and is otherwise identical to the other Pentium II CPUs. ............ Now the sweet thing about the Celeron is the fact that it's using the Deschutes core, as already mentioned. This core was designed to run at least 333 Mhz as in the Pentium II 333. The 0.35 micron Klamath is already reaching 300 MHz without a problem, so that you can imagine that you will hardly find a Deschutes core that doesn't at least do 333. These cores are used in a Celeron and the Celeron is specified to 266 MHz only to not damage the sales of the Pentium II 233, not because the core wouldn't be fast enough. So here we are, Celeron is the number one overclocking CPU and if you should run it fast enough, you can even reach Pentium II 350 scores, particularly in 3D games as Quake II, but by paying less than a third for it." tomshardware.com down almost at the end of the page And this from home.hawaii.rr.com 05/25/98 "Celeron processors overclock to 448MHz!!! Tested on an Abit BX6 motherboard with 128MB of PC100 SDRAM, the Celeron runs at 4x112Mhz!!! Benchmarks in Norton's Utilities place the 448Mhz Celeron as a PentiumII 300-333 for integer performance, but it's off the scale for Floating Point Operations!!! CPU was run at 2.6v, but strangely, the BIOS lost that setting after a reboot. 2.2v is still solid. CPU temp is close to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, but not unbearably hot. "Unreal" is simply amazing on this machine. Special thanks to Zog for the specs!! " Anyone reactions would be helpful to me. Thanks, Peter

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (923)	5/31/1998 11:40:00 PM
From: LTBH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Well lets slow down and define some things first. Floppies, CD ROMs etc are physical devices usually with a single letter designation. Most BIOSs allow you to define the letter designation and characteristics of these devices. IE: A Drive; 1.44MB; x". These are then the given characteristics for this drive. Most BIOSs also let you position the bootable occurrence of this device in the string (sequentual series of devices). P II & III are BIOS functions. What may or may not occur if one attempts to force these in OS to a value contrary to BIOS, I'm not sure. Next there are hard drive letters and hard drive partitions and hard drive bootable partitions. Normally changing the occurrence of C Drive in the BIOS string, simply repositions its occurrence. The partition that was C prior is still partition C and the data that was on C is still on C. Adding or removing a second HD to your system will change the partition designation for all partitions AFTER C. I also assume that you have C as your primary active partition. However your primary active partition is still C Drive. You could have A Drive bootable first in BIOS of course. SCSI controllers/drivers can do some interest things like spanning drives etc (makes one partition of all or two parts of two HDs. However getting into the vagaries of unique SCSI functions is beyond what I was attempting to communicate. Also care must be taken when adding a second HD that has an active bootable partition. Conflicts may occur with your "real" active boot partition. I am not sure how dual boots circumvent the two boot problem. Also I was trying to convey in my prior message that I am NOT an NT person and NT questions need to be addressed by another. I do believe that in a dual boot machine, your active partitions retain their partition/drive letter designation but the non selected boot is masked in some manner. (who can shed some informed light on this?) Networm