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Old 08-10-2007, 02:03 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Default Re: A newb story: Buying is done...time to build

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so what you are saying is if you take that off the hard drive wont work of your mobo has that limit or are you saying that it just wont go over 150
I'm saying some earlier mobo's are "retarded" and can't do switching, so the hard drive doesn't know which speed to operate at without a jumper. Newer mobo can tell the hard drive this but older ones can't
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