Forum: Storage Aug 8th, 2005 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 3,845 A combo drive in a DVD-ROM drive that's also a CD Burner. But whatever you do, DO NOT BUY A LITEON DVD-Burner |
Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Apr 26th, 2005 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 3,089 There's actually an uninstaller for about:bank I had it but lost it when i caught the Blaster virus. |
Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Apr 26th, 2005 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 12,360 Depending on how new your computer is and how much RAM you have you might be having some overheating issues. You also might want to try disabling some items in you start-up that will help a little.... |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 2,121 You have a common dual boot problem, usually they have a timer to let you choose which one you want to use. You can either configure a setting in the boot.ini file, or
repair on your WIN2K. |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 3,720 Try booting to the XP CD and when you get to the SECOND DOS prompt type this command. CHKDSK /R I hope this helps you. |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 9,671 Is your mouse a USB mouse ? If it is then it's not supported in Safe-Mode |
Forum: Windows 95 / 98 / Me Oct 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 1,879 Have you put a different mouse on your computer anf if so, did it do the same thing ? |
Forum: Windows 95 / 98 / Me Oct 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 5,565 It's possible that your explorer is corrupted. The best and easiest way to fix it is to do a "Windows Refresh". You simply install WIndows without reformatting the drive and it should restore all... |
Forum: Windows 95 / 98 / Me Oct 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 2,575 You have a bad hard drive. When you get "Trying to save allocation unit" errors, that means some sectors on your hard drive have gone bad. Replace the drive. |
Forum: Windows 95 / 98 / Me Oct 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 2,026 Find out what kind of Hard drive it is. It might have gone bad. The best thing to do is to use a 3rd party hard drive diagnostic program to check for S.M.A.R.T. errors ( If possible ) and any other... |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 16,980 You can either use the XP CD to format the drive or use a WIN98 boot disk |
Forum: Windows 95 / 98 / Me Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 3,871 Try this link, http://www.driver32.com/search-result.asp. they have just about every kind of driver there is. That should help you. |
Forum: Windows 95 / 98 / Me Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 3,067 you need the file CDENAB.EXE it forces the CD rom to boot to the CD. |
Forum: Windows 95 / 98 / Me Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,669 The best way is to boot with 98 boot floppy and debug the HDD. then repartition then reformat. See if that works. |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 8,168 you can actually download MSCONFIG. just type it in a browser and you can find it there |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 5,641 Just boot to the XP cd and select "Delete Partition" and the reforamt as you normally would. Just make sure that in BIOS the CD is set as the 1st boot device. |
Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 24 Views: 8,861 You can go to www.panicware.com they have a free version of a pop-up blocker that works wonderfully. |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 18,112 you might not find it. it's a hidden partition. Dell uses them all the time.
you best bet is to run a debug script on the Hard Drive. That will wipe out
everything, including hidden partitions |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 2,196 try booting to the XP CD and in the SECOND DOS promt screen try this command
"CHKDSK /R" that an emergency recovery command. IF you HDD is not seen then you have to go into BIOS and make sure that... |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 9,918 low resources the best way is to disable som of your start-up items usind MSCONFIG. and if that does'nt work buy more RAM. |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 4,590 if you used the wrong serial number it might because you used the wrong number. Your best bet is to reformat and start clean. |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 14 Views: 18,256 XP does'nt see FAT 16 it can only go with either Fat 32 or NTFS.
And the software you might be thinking of "Partition Magic" |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 17,279 Check you processor fan and the power supply. Your Hard Drive might be taking a dive on you. |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 4,630 Check the jumpers on all Hard Drives they should either be in Master/Slave mode or cable select. Check with the HDD manufacturer for the jumper settings. |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 8,086 Check the IDE cable from the DVD to the Motherboard it might be bad so replace it. |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 2,076 That's a memory dump command. I would'nt advise messing with that if I were you. |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 9,726 Try using MaxBlast you can download it from the Maxtor website and it takes about 30 seconds to partition and format the HDD |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Oct 11th, 2004 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 8,616 Try running MSCONFIG if you running XP. Clear your temp files and clear you MVRAM. You also might have som spyware running around in there. any physical issues might be that your processor fan might... |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Jan 10th, 2004 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 9,111 Tyr this...
Insert the Windows XP CD into the CD drive.
Click the Start button and then click Run.
The Run window appears.
In the Open: field, type the following line
X:\i386\winnt32.exe... |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Jan 10th, 2004 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 4,615 What kind of formatting did you use ? The WIN98 boot disk or DrDos ? Try going to Maxtor website and download MAXBLAST. That's after you reset the boot sequence showing the CD-ROM as the first boot... |
Forum: Windows 95 / 98 / Me Jan 10th, 2004 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 9,926 No. You do not need .NET Framework for hotmail or messenger, although you do need a .NET Passport to setup a hotmail account |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Nov 24th, 2003 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 6,084 Go to the Nvidia website and download the "Detonator" video driver |
Forum: PCI and Add-In Cards Nov 24th, 2003 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 5,026 If the motherboard has integrated video, disable it in BIOS first. If youre running XP, uninstall the onboard sound, then go back into BIOS and disable it. Then reinstall the drivers for the new... |
Forum: Troubleshooting Dead Machines Nov 24th, 2003 |
| Replies: 39 Views: 21,875 Depending on the computer that flopy drive can most certainly hang up a system. As far as no video you might have a problem called chip creep.
Make sure that the red stripe on the floppy cable is... |
Forum: Storage Nov 24th, 2003 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 9,378 Some older motherboards cannot see large HDD'a try
breaking up into smaller 2GB partitions that should help |
Forum: Windows 95 / 98 / Me Nov 24th, 2003 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 6,411 Try going into DOS mode and type "scanreg /C" Thay will take you computer back up to 5 days. It worked for me on several occasions |
Forum: Windows 95 / 98 / Me Nov 24th, 2003 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 7,363 Try downloading DirectX 9.0 {Depending on the game} |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Nov 24th, 2003 |
| Replies: 17 Views: 9,850 You got the blaster virus or one of the variants. The only wasy really to get rid of it is back up what you need to keep and run a debug script on the HDD. The Blaster worm is memory-resident and it... |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Nov 24th, 2003 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 9,834 |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Nov 24th, 2003 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 2,339 Try disabling some stat-up programs |