i am working on a dell computer that has never had sound. I went to check in the device manager but nothing shows up. i tried to use add new hardware and nothing happens.
i tried reinstalling the...

well i am at the point where i will upgrade agian.

so which distro should i try this time. currently useing suse 8.2

important features
support for the 64 bit CPU's (athlone64)
easy to use...

yep, sounds like it is just too goold of a card for the board. if it is geforce 4, redeon 9000+ or any other newer card it may not work.
stuff is cheap get a new mainboard and CPU

those monitors do produce alot of static. clean it! thats all u need to do. if u got shocked by touching metal parts then i would be worried.

i want to make a boot floppy for a original MAC computer (has 68k CPU. 4MB ram, 30GB SCSI hard disk)
anyway i real just want to play around with it. i want boot floppy images, nothing i have to...

if u live in or around western or southern ohio i have a heads up. Only 3 modems are supported for cable internet use in time waner areas, which cover at least 95% of this area. You have no choice...

memtest is nice, can take some time too. however i also own the equipment that u use to test memory, but i still run memtest first. hey im lazy

well this is kinda 2 topics in 1.
i had started a new cable internet account and went out and purchased a new cable modem, a real nice one. built in signal filter and all. anyways i go to use it,...

well they can be easy to fix, but do it your self. compaq dwanted to charge me over $1000 to repair a screen on a laptop. i paid 100 for the parts and did it my self.
chances are the inverter...

i get 3 choices of file sytems when i install linux
ext2
ext3
riser(spelling??)

anyways what are the features of each and which is better to use, meanin most stable, supported and reliable

well i downloaded the disk installation version. it has 3 images to make 3 install floppies. well they do work and all but installation is completely FUBAR.
first off format.exe does not work...

I was working on a system this week and i cam upon something i had yet to see. a dual BIOS system.
Why would u have a dual BIOS system, i have never seen or even heard of it.

i guess i should...

i got it fixed, took a bit. also think there may be a bad port on my router ( i hope there isnt!!)

problem solved.
its a virus'
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html
so my original suspion was correct. i thought so when i notice MSblaster.exe running...

yes it is annoying and spyware should be outlawed. but it will not be, at least in the US, for some time.

use the adware from lavasoft to get rid of all spyware. also some pages, mainly porn...

windows or software bug. by the way what is trillian? if it is a P2P thing, napster or kazaa like. then it may have gotten a virus. also if u have used up 60 some gigs that too may be the issue. ...

well i am not bashing MS because of this but for other reasons. personaly i find their methods a bit over the top. and the fact they control almost all the desktop market, which is NEVER good for...

on my system now, the system in question is a neighbor's.
you cant boot into safe mode or any other mode. i have tried disablesing the RPC, but it will not let me.
i was thinking of makeing a...

as u can see this is a problem. i only get 50 seconds before this shut down. how do i kill this process? and kill it i want to do.

more microsoft lameness, but hey its the american way, right?

gives RPC error. how do i kill this. if it is activation how do i activate

it seems to be the activation issue. winXP loads up and after a minute it starts a cont down to shut down.

i installed my modem for dial up at my dads. however back home i still use the LAN/cable connection.

now i think it made dial up the default internet connection, how do i set LAN/ cable to be...

well at it agian. once agian i have had to tell people why i cant fix it.

here is the storym
my brother bought a game for his new computer. game hs modest, to low end, system requirements. ...

not sure what the problem is, shows up on boot and everything. says it works but it does not connect. i have it set on DHCP, however i think it tries to use my onboard card first, might be problem....

i'll have to check out OSX then. that was my biggest complaint with MAC's was the lack of a command line. hey point an click only does so much, some things are better done in a command line.
anyway...

yea once it gets cleaned up it runns great
i turn all the pretty crap off. most people dont realize how much that 'pretty' stuff takes up

well I install windowsXP and have found i really hate it. It has crashed more times than any other windows version i have ever used! and now outlook will not start
anyway what programs are out...

well i decided to remove linux from my laptop. so i booted up a freedos floppy and removed the linux partitons. however i also had win2000 installed and wanted to give it the space the linux was...

windows 3.1 can be ran on a 286, it has standard mode for that.
that is part of the fun. sur eit may not be able to run most of today's programs. however working with older systems is a...

i have been toying around with an old Tandy 1000TX. for those of you who dont remember, or where too young, it is a very old system. It is a 286/10Mhz, 640K ram and CGA graphics.
anyway i want to...

i have a laptop wireless card and i want to use it with linux. I am sure it is a setting as it detects everything correctly.
specs 650+ d-link wireless PCMCIA
suse 8.2

in a mag i found a picture and a link to this:
http://www.embedded586.com/epc/ts3400-spec.php

i tlooks like its a stand alone system. however what is it for exactly? who uses it? and why is it...

when i am installing office 2000 on my laptop i keep getting this error
1933: cannot update protected windows file, similar to that.
well i have installed office on this same system and OS, just...

i need to install some programs, mainly SDL_perl, for a few games. however how do i do this.
i get the tar.gz file and within is many other perl script files. the readme says this and only this. ...

just wanted to know. is there any form of a command line in the MAC OS under normal install?
if not has there been programs released that add a command line to it?

i do have the C++ in 24 hours book. so i guess i will start with C++. anways thanks for the help

sorry that involves the internal IDE version of this drive. I have the external USB versiion. so the IDE part will not help.
how do i get linux to detect the drive first, cant mount what it cant...

how do i use the LS-120 drive(imation 120MB superdisk) with linux. i can detect it by probing hardware but thats it.
i am useing the USB version and suse 8.2. how can i use my drive.

well at least u are not giving me bogus BS like the morons in other forums.

seeing that i only need to be out of it once it seems a bit too much. i just want to turn it off for the install. I really dont want to change boot unless i have to

by the way the ctrl+alt+F1 is...