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 | Good that you have it working, I found that Max Payne 2 has a known issue of crashing during level transitions and they are working on a patch for it- pissed me off that I have to wait for the patch to get farther in the game.  |
| | It probably will say on the processor, if it is a socket processor it should be engraved on the heat transfer plate on top of the cpu (forgot the real name for that part) while if it is a slot processor it should say on top of the heatsink in … |
| | Re: bios problems Hmm, if he flashed it wrong it may be a problem, do you know if he really flashed the CMOS? If not then just clear the CMOS using the clear CMOS jumper next to the battery on the motherboard, it consist of 3 pins and has the jumper normally across … |
| | Do you hear a post beep? If not then maybe the speaker isn't connectec properly so make sure it is and you may be able to troubleshoot it with the beep codes. Have you tried different RAM or reseating what you have, have you cleared the CMOS with the jumper … |
| | Try degausing the monitor, if a magnetic field or any kind of magnet was next to the monitor is can cause distortions on the screen and degausing it will fix the problem. Use the menu on the monitor itself and you should see either "Degaus" listed or a symbol that … |
| | Get a book from the Novell Press, here is the CNA book: [url]http://www.novell.com/training/books/book.html?book=bookCrt&val=0[/url] I failed the Novell 6 CNA test by 5 questions and I'm going to retake it soon, if you can find or purchase a preptest online it could be a big help as well as many of … |
| | Sounds like you just used the same hard drive but did not reinstall XP, is that correct? If so then that is your whole problem, when changing motherboards the best thing to do in all cases is to reload the OS, if not then your just asking for trouble and … |
| | Are you sure your connected, your work may need you to have a Wep key enabled and installed or it could use Mac addresses for access. |
| | When booted up search for Format.exe, copy it to a floppy, restart and hold down F8, select boot to command prompt. Insert the floppy and at command prompt type A: and hit enter, type Format c: to clear the drive, or you can use the XP cd and boot from …  |
| | Oh no not a 600YGR, those are bad laptops, I've replaced motherboards on about 30 of those things. Sounds like a definite motherboard problem (I thought maybe it was some Hibernation mode thing till I saw you say what model you have), I've seen similar problems with those here at … |
| | Sounds like your power supply is flaky, if you have access to another one try replacing it. |
| | I think it is a great network OS and is very reliable for server uptime, of course I work in a Netware environment and they recently went from 5.1 to 6.5 in our building. The new features of Netware 6 with iPrint, iMap (browser based map of printer locations so …  |
| | Yeah it would have to be a CNA or possibly CNE for Netware 4.11, I doubt they offer test for that since they are now upto netware 6.5 but a CNA on NW 5.1, 6, or 6.5 would probably work. |
| | Unforetunately there isn't alot you can do with laptops, taking them apart is very difficult for the unexperienced and there are not many parts you can replace. Sounds like your motherboard may be bad, most laptops that I have taken apart have the AC power connector on the motherboard and …  |
 | Yeah 256MB would be minimum to run decently in my opinion but 384 should definitely be good enough (you could run it at 191MB as well but it may be a bit slow). |
| | we need more info, do you get the net from cable, or dsl, you say cable connects ok is that the light on the cable modem or what? have you verified that you are getting an ip address if you are on cable or dsl? |
| | If it's ATX you can track the wires from the power button to the motherboard, if AT the wires will go straight to the power supply. Do as Catweazle said and also check to see if you loosened the IDE connector for the hard drive when reseating the cards.  |
| | Disable Fastwrites in the Bios, there are other bios changes you can make, when I get home I'll check mine out and list a few options for you to try. |
| | Re: power supplies I agree that just spending $30-50 dollars on a good quality power supply is your best option, I like Antec's PSU's best but Sparkle and Enermax make good ones as well. |
| | You could just add another controller card to your pc, or you could buy a board that has your 2 standard IDE controllers and a Serial ATA controller. |
| | Yeah I'm with Cain on that one, sometimes fans get louder when they are failing, probably ball berring fans and they are starting to wear out. |
| | You say it restarts when the Windows logo appears, have you pressed F8 before the logo appears and select Safe Mode? If it will boot in safe mode then it is likely a driver issue, have you added anything recently hardware, or eve software wise? |
| | You can run with just one stick of RAM if it is DDR and not RAMBUS, sounds like a dead board but I had a Shuttle board once that would not post until after I moved the cmos jumper to clear and powered on (nothing happened when I did this … |
 | Are you wanting to format just to create a new partition? If so you could probably avoid that by using Partition Magic to create a new partition with unused disk space, I haven't done this with XP but I have in Win98 and Win2000. Norton Ghost is a good program …  |
 | Re: modem If nothing else you can pull the card and look at the chipset then do a search from there, if your lucky it might have the make and model printed on the PCB. If you go into the Device manager and click on the modem it may show you some … |
| | Does it seem to run at startup, if so go the start/run and type MSCONFIG then click the startup tab and look for anything related to WUPDATE and deselect it and hit apply and ok, you'll need to reboot. WUPDATE sounds similar to Windows Update, maybe that is trying to … |
| | Right click on "My Computer" then select performance- see how many resources are available, it is best to have it over 80% if you can and when it is 50% or less it will run like a dog. Go to Start/Run and type "msconfig", click on "Startup" then uncheck any … |
 | Re: Games act weird Have you gone into MSCONFIG and made sure you don't have a bunch of programs running in the background at startup? If not then deselect the progs you don't need at startup like Office, etc.., your PSU may also be a part of the problem as said. |
| | Did you try hitting F5 or F8 before the flash screen finishes, doesn't sound like a BIOS problem if you are getting stuck at the Windows login menu. To get to the BIOS you should either have to hit DEL, F1, or F2.  |
 | Are you using User or Share authentiction, and are you using the same workgroup names on all the PC's? I have a test RH9 server on my workbench and I've got SAMBA running using user authentication and I can access it with XP on my laptop. Normally when I access …  |
| | Re: Advice Please That machine should definitely be good for another 12-18months or even longer if that is all you use it for, if you were a gamer then that would be different but it is still a pretty decent system. |
| | Have you tried reseating the memory or using another stick, also make sure all the cards are seated correctly. Worst case is you can pull all the RAM and start it up- listen to the beeps and see if it is the same, if not then RAM should not be … |
| | Re: Fps??? Yes the PCI card should be an improvement but don't expect a miracle, that ATI card is definately not the latest and greatest chip out there but it should make a nice difference. I agree building a newer pc would be better but if your rig is pretty new then … |
| | Go to another pc that the disk works on and search for the file, put it on disk or copy it to the pc over the network and try that. |
| | Re: Black Monitor Is the unit connected to a surge protector or UPS? Sometimes faulty electrical wiring can cause wierd problems like that, if possible try plugging the monitor to another outlet to test it. Does the monitor actually power off or does it just lose a picture on the screen with the … |
| | I agree that Novell it easy to setup: setup and install the server, setup a user account, go the the client pc and load the Novell client, reboot then search the tree, the context, the server and then login. I had such a hard time trying to get SAMBA up … |
| | Re: Which is better I agree with sticking to the 9200 which I believe is based on the 8500 (could be wrong here though), but between those 2 cards I would go with the 128MB 533 memory- there are very few if any games that will even use 256MB of video RAM from some … |
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