There is alot of good suggestions here.
Unfortunatly if your looking for a fool proof 100% no fail situation, for little money, i'm afraid you won't find one.
PC components are not built as durable as they once were, for the main reason that consumers demanded cheaper prices, and companies...
Sounds like you have both drives set as master.
pull out the drives, on the back where the connectors are, you should see a jumper with 3 settings, cable select/slave/master.
It is important that when 2 drives of any type share the same IDE cable that one be set as master, and the other as...
My only system left that I kept is in my Sig
I had 3 P4 systems in total, and 5 P1, 1 P2 system, and a 486sx.
Each system was found a good home, as they were too much maintenance for me.
I took the best of each system to create my solo system in my signature.
My router is a Netgear WGR614
http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WGR614.php
It's been working great thus far!
Although if your looking into wireless, they have better models with double the internal speeds now.
Mine is 52Mbps.
If you have the opportunity to try another brand router, do so!
I've gone through 5 Linksys routers in total, after dealing with RMA's and purchasing new routers because I thought the old one was just defective, I gave up and went with Netgear.
My new router gives me no headache at all, and...