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Ok so i have this floppy image that just prints a message now the problem that i am running into is that i have to jump to memory location 0x1000 and then jump back to the original place but have no clue how to do it this is what mbr …

I have had to replace the hard drive in a Mac iBook G3 that I was working on, and was trying to reinstall Mac OS X 10.4.6. However, the disk refused to load correctly (possible CD drive error, as I know the Mac disk to be good), and I also …

My laptop was working fine this morning. Went to use it this afternoon and had a blue screen saying a problem was detected and it needed to shut down to prevent further damage, then it did a memory dump. I tried booting it up in safe mode and it just …

Hello world of DaniWeb, I'm experiencing an annoying "error". Here's the case: a while go, I had my PC running both Vista and XP until Windows 7 came out. So, I decided it's time to upgrade. The problem was that my graphics card (GeForce 9600 GT) suddenly stopped working properly …

I have found many tuts explaining how to do this, and i think im doing it correctly. all up to actualy putting the iso's on the drive. how do i do this, do i just put the iso in the root and modify the menu.lst accordingly or do i have …

Hello to all I have an Acer laptop and for about 4 years i never had a problem until yesterday. When i'm trying to open my laptop is shows nothing. Just black screen. The power works fine. The power button lights up and when i press the eject button on …

Hey, I really hope you can help me on this. Recently I bought a cheap Laptop Toshiba Tecra A4 at Ebay. It was said there is a hard drive defect only...it's not. When I try to switch the laptop on the lamps go on and the DVD drive starts to …

My MacBook Pro 4,1 doesn't want to load OS (can't find it) and displays the blinking folder with a question mark. I have tried everything I found on the forums. Mac does recognise hdd. I could copy all file from my hdd to remote hdd using terminal. However still every …

My computer has crashed again!! (for the 3rd time!!) and it says "BOOT DISK ERROR PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK" which I have done...Windows XP....Now its sayin it cant set it up,as it cant find the drivers!!!...help me PLEASE! I'm gonna throw it thru the window soon ! If anyone can …

Help! My hp dv6428 was running yesterday morning, but then it suddenly froze when I was not using it. I performed a hard reset, but the machine will not boot up. The power turns on, and I hear the disk spin for about 2 seconds, but then nothing else happens. …

Hi, I am working on a clients machine, original problem was file ext association. I fixed this with driver updates and also ran a registry fix just in case. The files ext now work fine...but 12 hours later the machine boots to a blank desktop (existing desktop background is there) …

Hi all. Just today I had been on the computer for some hours. I turned it off, and then on again, and got an error saying that the NTLDR is missing. I did my research and apparently I need to restore my XP Home Edition with my Windows XP CD. …

Hi everyone. So I have your average Windows XP emachines PC. Just a few days ago, I booted and installed Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit on my pc, to make it dual booted. I just wanted to see what ubuntu was like. Pretty nifty, nice graphics, etc. So I go to uninstall …

PLS HELP ME WID DIS PLS>> i am trying 2 develop anew operating system. and i am learning on it. my problem is dat i want 2 create a bootable CD. i want sum software dat wud load my program(an executable(EXE)) i heard dat exe files cant be loaded lyk …

I have been having trouble upon bootup of my XP running desktop. Lately (past month), if there is any removable storage device plugged in (ie memory card plugged into the port on the printer, cd in the disc tray, etc) the OS will not load. It just sits there will …