hi i have my o/system running on my ide ports. However i need to free up my ides and put my o/s (operating system) onto an ide card. i cant move the o/s drive straight over to the ide card as it says something about invalid mac adress ?. Is there another way of doing this without formatting and am i doing some thing wrong ? Can someone plz explain wht i have to do ? Thxs inadvance Jon

Interesting, whatever it is you are wanting to do. 3.6 GHz CPU would suggest that the Dell machine is new. If so then the hard drive should be running off of the SATA controller and not IDE. If it infact is running off of the SATA then you only have one IDE channel available for a CD or DVD ROM or Burners. So, what have you got and what are you trying to do? And, that something about a MAC address...can you be more specific with that message? Bryan

hi m8 its not the dell i got the problem on. Its my other system the problem is ive installed windows onto a h/drive thats on my ide (motherboard) however i want to move this h/drive (operating system as well onto my ide card. But when i do this it omes up something about invalid mac address ? Is it possible to do this with out formating and startin from a fresh ? Thxs Jon

You can't change a mac address, it's hard coded into your network card.

Take a look at smac. Please let us know if you found someone's advice to be helpful.

In visiting the SMAC link my firewall jumped on it because the site is wanting to send a UDP message. (I denied it and the page opened fine) I don't get it on a second visit to the page. What is UDP? Quote User Datagram Protocol. A communications protocol for the Internet network layer, transport layer, and session layer, which makes it possible to send a datagram message from one computer to an application running in another computer. Like TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), UDP is used with IP (the Internet Protocol). Unlike TCP, UDP is connectionless and does not guarantee reliable communication; the application itself must process any errors and check for reliable delivery. www.startech.com/glossary/glossary.cfm End of this particular quote But, what is UDP used for? What is it's purpose, specifically, in entering that web page? "from one computer to an application running in another computer" I assume the application it is referring to on my PC is Internet Explorer. Anyone know the answers and does anyone else's firewall jump on it? Bryan