Thank you both. I'm from the DOS age so my background is rooted there.

The file system is NTFS. It's pretty well most everything on the drive that was affected. That is my backup drive, and I...

Hello all!

This is the place to come for help on obscure problems and I have another. Any help would be cheerfully appreciated.

This morning a program crashed my large external storage drive,...

Good luck.


That issue with the D-link failure and blue screen of death still exists if the router is set to turbo mode regardless of what PC the wireless card goes in.

This thread was...

My problem turned out to be a problem with the D-Link wireless card and wireless router. This is undocumented and D-Link's customer support is superficial to the point of sheer annoyance. Return it...

Resolved! My stupid! The plastic connector between the 3 wires off the motherboard and the snap in female tip on the fan wires, was just a bit pulled out, so that it did not make contact. I thought...

Hi,

I have a question about replacing the case fan in a Dell 4550, and hope someone can shed some light on how it works. I searched a bit, but didn't really find anything describing my problem
...

PC is working fine and became the main one of 4, and I added 533mhz RAM greatly shrinking the swap file and boosting overall performance. Luckily it's working well.

The Compaq that kept failing...

Probably.

I plugged it in and expected my garage to explode. Most I had hoped for was to find a small working HD to reformat and put back into my Compaq temporarily.

No terrorist bomb or...

Haha! I guess I can't have my soup and eat it too! :lol:

I didn't get a lot of use out of the Compaq, so am miffed that I had to replace the vid card, modem, and HD.

I thought how I'd like...

Yes. :o

This all started when I thought the drive had failed after taking a format and working fine for 2 months. These are the largest drives I've ever had, and never ran into this before. I...

Okay, I'm back. :)

The tech guy up the street says both WD 300gb drives are good.

The latest problem I was having, (for those of you that don't want to watch all the reruns), is the 250gb...

Thanks,

The only thing I didn't do was disable the HD in the BIOS but the jumper settings are correct.

The current config is;

C: Primary Master, 300gb HD
E: Primary Slave, CD burner
D:...

Thanks. :)

I'm going to look at your post more carefully in the morning.

I dropped the drives off at a shop where the owner is semi-regular call in guest on a local radio show. He agreed...

BIOS setting are all correct.

While the 250gb clearly had issues with this PC, both 300gb drives after formatting and copying out Win XP files, won't boot. It now remains dead as I can't get back...

Thhis time the XP format finished, and XP copied out files to the HD.

It won't boot the XP installation CD, removing the CD states, there is a read error. So, I am stuck again. The last thing...

Sorry, I apologize. I thought I was set up to get email notifications on any replies to my thread, so thus my lack of a response until now.




I did not run mem. tests as I left this a...

Still a repeating problem with the replacement WD drive.

Error message that hal.dll isn't found, and more recently that ntsc.sys isn't found.

Chkdsk /p from Windows installation repair...

It appears to be a problem with the driver for the Dlink wireless card, and a conflict with this Win 98 PC now running XP. There were enough incidents of blue screen death, but the last time I...

Thanks!

The article outlines the basic steps I had gone throught to try to repair the installation, and of course when that failed, to go back and reinstall it each time. The author did mention...

I browse around here sometimes and think you folks are terrific. But I have to ask if maybe someone can help me on this. :confused:

This is the 3rd time this has happened on 2 different...

I apologize that I'm not a user that logs on very often. I've been doing this close to 30 years now, I just haven't kept up with newer tech.

I have an old Compaq with XP Pro installed and a new...

Thank you so much! I was losing my mind! Everything worked fine on my laptop until the HD fried, and I scavanged about 10 CD's worth of data that I wanted to save in about 22 hours of work. I went...