I'd probably try a pci video card if you have one laying around, other than that I can't think of anything else other than it just went bad somehow.

First of all be sure that ram wasn't inserted backwards. If it was then things could have fried.

Things to check:
*Be sure that all of these are plugged in and tight:
All IDE Cables where...

maybe you need to delete all your partitions and then repartition before you format. do a web search on the ultimate boot disk & get someone to burn it onto a cd for you.it has all the tools you need.

could be a virus. make sure you have updated your antivirus scanner and do a complete scan. might also want to check for spyware

you need to push f8 during bootup and go into safe mode. then uninstall that program

i'd probably look for a used monitor for your exact monitor from an online auction.

Sometimes in aggrevation the ide cables can be ruined. Also, sometimes motherboards will lose function in one or the other, primary or secondary. It takes patience as all computers may be different...

could be a bad monitor or even a bad video card in your computer. other things are possible, but those are the most likely.

Maybe try reinstalling your os, maybe put the disk in & hold the c button down during reboot. Hope it works.

Try booting into the bios settings. hit del, or f1 or f2 as computer restarts (try all) look for boot sequence & see if it can be changed to external drives

if you're not in need of win 98, use the ranish partition manager which can be downloaded free online and delete the fat partition then change the boot on line one to standard & hit f2 & reboot.

just for giggles try holding down the c button while booting up, with a bootable disk in it

I've bought 2 Dells recently & they do not give you all the drivers, just some. Some may need to be redownloaded.

Do an upgrade to XP, do not choose new installation. It should run good enough to atleast burn cd's to save your data. Right click on all the files you want to save in xp & send to your cd drive.Do...

double click on your speaker at bottom right to get full volume controls. check all volume adjustments. Or try installing a new desktop theme or something. themeworld.com has plenty of themes with...

Dell has your driver available for any modern windows operating system,you just have to login to your account at their website to get to it.

Sometimes viruses can disable them, but drives do go bad too.I'd buy a new drive.

Try deleting the driver for the usb & reboot. Be sure to unplug everything from the usb ports before rebooting.Do not plug anything in until the driver reinstalls itself. Good luck.

You should be able to reassociate the file by right clicking & choose open with.

if you can get a copy of Mandrake Move, or any bootable linux operating systen, then you could download those files online & go thru mnt/windows and place those files in c:\windows. That would work....

There are many things that can cause that to occur. Try using system restore & go back to a date just before it happened. If You can remember what you may have done just before it happened then you...

you need to boot off the cd. if your computer won't boot off the cd, try hitting delete button after rebooting to get acess to bios settings. (Some computers may be F1 or F2) look around for boot...

I'd get a cd drive off of ebay.

If you have an oem cd, then try doing an overlapping install. In other words, rerun setup without formatting. you will lose nothing.

I agree, the partition deleting and repartitioning is always a good idea before a format. If while you are trying to install & it has a hard time copying, try installing using another cd drive. Also,...

Also a bad cdrom drive can cause install problems as well.

i'd just get another one to replace it, it'd be cheaper.

was the computer unplugged during repair?????

that would explain it if it wasn't.

you can get XP online at pricegrabber.com for not much over fifty bucks

If you tried formatting from dos & it didn't work cause maybe you have an ntfs partition & you are trying to format with a FAT format disk. Do a web search on Ultimate boot disk or ultimate boot cd....

it may not have copied all the files. stick the cd & try booting off that & reloading windows. you may have to change settings in the cmos to be able to boot from a cd

No guarantees, but try startup control panel. you can download it from download.com

what's wrong with lilo or grub?

If nobody else will help, then I'd take it at a loss & reinstall your operating system

I'll try it out & see how it is. i just need a version that runs the home network good myself. I usually stick with Mandriva for that reason, but I really like Suse alot too.
Thanks.

Download Suse 9.1 personal. it is just one cd that you'll have to download & it has alot on it. So if you only have dialup, one cd is easier to download than 3 or more with other distros. But if you...

The secret is installing XP first & leaving partitionless hard drive space free before installing Linux. then just use free space. I'm sure that was what he figured out.

I usually just use Opera with java on My Mandriva LE 2005, but thought I'd try to get Firefox to work with Java, so i followed the directions by placing the link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in the...

I'd try uninstalling Norton & go to www.free-av.com & download the free antivirus & see what it finds. if you have to create another user to get things working right, that is fine.

I think Gnome looks more like a Mac than KDE does. KDE can be Beautified just like as in Windows.