Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge  Apr 5th, 2006 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 3,045 Anyone interested in learning to invest?
Hey,
I'm just learning how to invest and I figure that it can't hurt to learn a bit how the stock market works, even if I don't have real cash to invest.. YET. Anyone else interested? :)
There's... |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 11th, 2005 |
| Replies: 17 Views: 2,863 Re: My dog...
I really hate squirrels. What's worse is that my neighbour (she is in her late 80's, if not early 90's) has fed them for YEARS, thus there are so many of them around here that it just isn't funny.... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Sep 11th, 2005 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 2,624 Re: Can't start up my first computer
Hello again,
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~tyouken/jisaku/AMD%20XP200+/D-007.jpg <- Just to clarify these are what Janine is talking about. The reset sw def. needs to be plugged in correctly... I... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Sep 10th, 2005 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 2,624 Re: Can't start up my first computer
Hello there,
When that situation happens, it usually means that a hardware device is not working properly.
My suggestion would to remove all add-on cards, except the video card to hook the monitor... |
| Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Sep 6th, 2005 |
| Replies: 114 Views: 96,119 Re: "Show us your desktop"
This is mine, taken a couple of mornings ago. Blurred out name, web provider and some old country songs no one wants to see anyways :p
Regards,
-Emily |
| Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 Sep 4th, 2005 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 2,362 Re: Reformatted, Reinstalled, no Sound
Hello,
Hold down your windows key and then press the pause/break key. This brings you directly into system info(minus all the clicks). Go to hardware tab, and then device manager. Look under... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Sep 3rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 2,212 Re: Machine POSTS but doesn't load into windows.
Hey,
Thanks for your response. You are right, I do think the message was the equivalent to "no operating system found". I did a clean reformat and clean install of windows xp from that computer... |
| Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Aug 30th, 2005 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 2,212 Machine POSTS but doesn't load into windows.
Hello all,
I've recently put together an older computer for my mother. The computer will POST, and it recognizes the sound card, hard drive and recognizes the video card. However, after post when it... |
| Forum: Windows 9x / Me Aug 29th, 2005 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 2,347 Re: Problems with Win98SE startup...
Hello,
You say the computer was fine the day before so naturally we will want to go back to the day before (or a few days before) from the registry point of view.
Now the steps to do this (and this... |
| Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 Aug 29th, 2005 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 2,146 Re: Long shut down
Hello there,
When you say that you can't turn it on again for like five hours, is this because it is still shutting down?
If so, have you recently installed any new software, particularily any... |
| Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 Aug 29th, 2005 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 20,293 Re: Missing Desktop Icons and Taskbar
Hello there,
This is actually quite simple to fix if you have system restore activated. What has likely happened is that a key in your registry is corrupt. Anyways, here are the steps to fix it.
1.... |
