yes i found a resolution..

I bought another junk 2600 on ebay and swapped motherboards... >.<

Thats the only way i could clear up the problems.

Plus i ended up getting the 1200MHz chip with...

Fren,

Thanks for the reply, I'll try cleaning the ram contacts. There was no upgrade to the system, this was the ram that came stock with the machine. The only thin i dont understand though is if...

Hello all, I'm hoping someone can shine some light on this problem.

Recently my dell inspiron 2600 notebook started locking up and BSODing randomly.. Upon the restart from one of these failures,...

yeah, i had though about that, but the LCD is white even before the OS loads... so it's go tto be a hardware issue... i have reinstalled all the dirvers on a fresh XP installation... no luck....

Yeah, i know, there seem to be a lot of laptop LCD not working threads, not one of them could shine any light on my particular problem..

I own a Dell Inspiron 2600 Laptop. And up until the other...

hrmm.. i appreciate the link, however im ot sure this is an OS problem, as its happening before the POST.. im not aware of any drivers that load before the OS boots, unless they are native to the...

yep, looks like i did... 512MB of ram..

No viruses and no spyware, I run norton AV full scans every week and ad aware scans daily. also I have a hardware firewall which keeps me relativly clean.

As I said, since it is a custom machine,...

Hello There!

I was chatting on skype and MSN one night with a friend and all of a sudden my USB mouse tablet stopped responding, everything else kept going fine, so i rebooted. Now when the...

ok, I think i found a remedy for anyone in the same boat as me... the file that was messed up and causing popup errors was MSDART.dll...

I googled that and came up with the problem i was...

okay, did that... but now i have a ton of popup errors with office XP...

should i just wipe windows and start over?? is it worth trying to save office XP?? or is there a fix?

J

Hi again..

It appears that I am cursed... I just gotmy XP pro machine back and running on a fresh install and reinstalled all my software and it was running perfectly... then i went to upgrade...

sure, no problem..

on the PC that has the file you want to share (aka the source).. right click on the folder that has the files... (or you could even do this to the C: drive itself)
and...

are these computer both hooked up to a router which then connects them to the internet?? if so, you can probably set up a LAN with shared folders, and pass the files that way..

well, i got a fresh install of XP installed now, and the only thing that seems out of place, is my backup folder i kept on the second hdd is corrupt.. i cant access any of the most recent files i...

i apologize for the triple post... but the edit button didnt show up on my last post... New information for those who are trying thier best to help me out..

I can now get into windows setup...

hello again, sorry about the double posts...
I ripped open my case and pulled everything apart riht down to taking the HS/fan off my video card, to clean everything... needless to say there was...

thanks for the info, however that didnt work either... tried unplugging everything i could except for usb keyboard and mouse, and ran Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, it played well for about 5 minutes and...

well i set the BIOS to allow startup from any key press and that didnt work.. i guess its only for PS/2 keyboards.. any other thoughts? anybody?

the CPU temp according to the BIOS is 140F, :!: that seems a little hot... i've got plenty of fans, all of which are running full bore.. why would it be this hot?

hrmm.. good thinking... ill have to try that... ill post the results

eh... i'll have to go look, im not sure if that will be an accurate temp reading or not because the computer isnt under any type of a load pre-boot time..

I'll go look and edit the details into...

i do have one, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having a USB keyboard..

i obviously dont want to have 2 keyboards sitting on my desk..
there has to be a way to make this work, otherwise...

Hello all,

I've searched for this vigorusly but to no avail...

My question is.. is there a way to get my Saitek USB keyboard to work pre-boot.. Here's my problem, When I first turn on my...

To get into the Windows 2000 / XP Safe mode, as the computer is booting press and hold your "F8 Key" which should bring up the "Windows Advanced Options Menu" as shown below. Use your arrow keys to...

phew, here we go..

P4 3Ghz HTT with 1GB RAM...
Running on an MSI mainboard, the model number escapes me at the moment.
400W PSU
Sound: Onboard Sound
Video: AGP NVidia GeForce FX5200
2...

have you tried deleting the file in safe mode?

i know it has worked for me sometimes when i get something off Ares P2P..

hello all, first post, be kind plz :eek:

anywho, ive got this machine i built myself, running Windows XP SP2 all availible updates installed.
Everytime I go to run a full screen game, (ie final...