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You can't do any "Upgrade" to an older version of windows. You'll need to format the hard drive and start from scratch, but Yes. At this point virtually any hardware that has Vista drivers has XP drivers (but not the other way around). Take Hughvs advice and go to toshibas …

You need two drives for raid, Keep it as IDE. It sounds to me like you've got a defective SATA controller on your motherboard. See if you can find somebody who will let you borrow a PCI SATA controller and see if that fixes the problem.

LOL, I'd guess that you have a 15.4" or smaller laptop with no dedicated numpad. I don't know why it would be "B" and "N" as they're a row too low but see if there is a function key (usually a blue "FN" near the ctrl key). Hit it and …

If I had to guess I'd say a shot HDD. Go into your Bios and see if your Hard drive shows up, make sure it's set to be the boot device. If it doesn't show up then check the cable connections, try swapping the cable from your CD to your …

Try "windows update fix" ([url]http://wiki.castlecops.com/Windows_Update_Fix[/url]) It essentially reinstall, restarts, or reconfigures all the components required to do windows updates in one action, rather than you having to manually configure all of it. I've had great luck with it.

Any physical strain on a circuit board or it's contacts can damage it. If you're careful it should be fine, just don't do it excessively or when it's not needed.

The problems could be virtually anything, but I think that 1400rpm is very low for a CPU fan. It sounds to me like you replaced a dead heat sync with one that's not performing properly. If possible I'd replace the fan, although since you're using a sempron anyway you might …

It sounds to me like an overheating issue. That would explain the un-responsiveness as well as the "complete freezing" the system experiences when it beeps at you.

See if your mail client (or mail provider if you use webmail) has an anti-virus plug-in.

I'd go to add/remove programs, enabling "show windows updates" and remove the updates that you just installed. If that fixes the problem you should reinstall one-by-one until to avoid the update causing the problem.

Check out Ispell. There are other tools for this but it's the first that came to mind. Essentially you install it and it will automatically use spell-check in any text-field you're working in, whether it's a browser, IM, or office program. You can change the dictionary as you please to …

hit F8 an start with boot logging, tell us where it stops.

It's panicking on driver installation. You usually see this on repair installs but it can happen if windows doesn't like some installed hardware (usually video). Pull out everything but video, one ram chip ram, CPU, and HDD. If at all possible put a different video card in (since your board …

Picture is blurry because it's scaled to the window, if you open it in its own window or tab (or follow the photobucket link) you can click to display at full size. I'm not familiar with cacheman, does it have a feature somewhere to show processes from all users? That's …

Hosted remote support software to compete with Logmein helpdesk and . I'm looking at setting up my own DimDim server, they offer the service, but it's open source so they have a public package to host on your own or modify for your own release. If you hosted this on …

We got that part, to paraphrase zeroth for you: Take the ethernet cable connecting your modem/router to your wireless router, disconnect it from the WAN port and just connect it to one of the LAN ports. This will bypass it's router functionality and simply run it as a switch. You …

The generation gap is why there is an IT industry in the first place, It would be pretty hypocritical of me to make a living off of doing IT for people who didn't grow up with computers but not helping you out on my favorite forum. Welcome to Daniweb and …

Is there an Icon anywhere to access the webcam, or a keyboard hotkey that effects it. If there is use it and see what program comes up.

Sounds like a registry issue, have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling it in windows? Also, in modern systems (unless it's a dell) master/slave doesn't really matter. If it works as master I'd consider switching them around.

I suppose it is possible, but not through phone numbers (to the best of my knowledge). A bluetooth phone and matched device must be set up to work together, but once they're configured they can pair automatically when in range. This could be your authentication. This isn't a very practical …

Does the drive show up in My Computer? and can it read disk?

In my experience, using adapters on a computers TV out is hit-or miss at best. The only way to be certain it will work is to keep with the same output format (RCA-RCA, S-Vid-S-Vid, ect...).

I'd suggest "adobe photosop album starter edititon" or Googles "Picassa". They're both easy to use, and featurefull enough for most home users. If he needs something more powerful and is willing to spend money on it Photoshop Elements is great. PS: I'm a big fan of GIMP, it's free and …

Was the "show processes from all users" function enabled? Right now I'm on a 1.5ghz Celeron M laptop, and just working on Daniweb and running my (particularly lean) background processes has me at 50% spiking up to 70. That's not an excessive CPU usage for a system that slow.

It should be the username and password from the laptop. Are you actually talking about pinging? I've never heard of authenticated pinging. Do you mean when you try to access the shared resources? What are the operating systems involved? You can disable authentication in file sharing (allowing you to access …

Does your CPU fan spin and LED's light up? You might want to check with Dell support to make sure this is a compatible board, many of the Dell desktops have proprietary power supplies that fit but wont power an incompatible board.

How much Memory do you have and how old is the computer? If you have 256mb of ram in a computer that's had time to build up junk even the recomended page file size might not be enough.

if the video card and monitor are known good, there's no issue with the connections between the two than that leaves the motherboard. It's either an issue with the BIOS (corruption or settings) or a physical defect in the board. If there is on-board video hook the monitor up to …

This sounds like it has to be on their end, do you have another computer (maybe a laptop) you can hook up to the modem and see if it works? If changing a computer doesn't fix it it's almost certainly not something that you'd be able to fix as most …

First off, did you try the "return to last good settings" option when you hit f8 during start? Usually update issues like that are a fluke and reinstalling will the OS will keep it from happening again, but XP isn't a terrible idea. A lot of people still prefer XP …

Hi all, I've been around daniweb for a while now but never got around to introducing myself. I'm Fredrick, Owner/Operator of OlyComputers in Washington state. I specialize in Networking and small business desktop support, and I'm a big fan of DaniWeb.

I'm assuming you mean replace a 256mb stick of PC2700 RAM with the 1GB pc3200. Usually Yes, you'd need to check your particular motherboard since some boards have a maximum size for memory modules. Generally speaking though a gig stick of PC3200 will work in any system that takes 168 …

Oracle should have installation instructions for the software. What's the problem that you're running into when you try to install?

You should be able to access the drive with the built in drivers in win2k, if you want to use the more advanced features of the drive (back-up software) it should be on the drive, or if it's on a CD shouldn't be hard to find on the manufacturers website.

John is right, the short of it is that you left the MBR intact but changed the partition scheme so the original boot record isn't valid. Take his steps to correct the current boot record or just put a new one on it.

you can add whatever you'd like to the end of the file name, but you have to remember that these are not the original files you were working with (as far as the operating system is concerned). They were created fresh on the day you pasted them and have no …

You can't reinstall without A disk, but it doesn't have to be YOUR disk, if you have a friend with a windows disk it should work as long as it's the same version (should be the OEM version). Be very careful though, if you're wrong about the version you wont …

Yes, boot INI is a just a text file. You can use the windows recovery console (hitting R when you boot from the windows install disk) command line to access and edit it. If you have a CD bootable OS (probably Linux), another operating system on the computer, or if …

You should be able to join the domain, but you may have to add a second network adapter to your system so that your desktop is connecting to it through your router/switch. I don't know if it would see a virtual ethernet port without a structured network as a valid …

What do you mean "restoring" your cumputer? Did you use a restore disk, last good settings, repair install, or something else? by "newest version" do you mean the newest version of 7 or the 8 beta? Is this just a problem in Internet explorer, or windows explorer as well? If …

I just ran across this problem a few weeks ago, It could be a bad drive. Drives handle CDs and DVDs a little differently; it is possible, although not common, that the drive will stop reading one or the other. In the case I worked with the drive would occasionally …

I'm really not sure what it is that you need, if it's the exact problem mentioned in that thread they seem to have resolved an answer. What I can tell you is that the SP3 redistribuatable update will not help you do a system recovery, it's not bootable. If you …

If I'm reading this correctly the partition is 180GB (if that's the case you should follow Capers instructions as well since no drive size I know of would partition to 180GB) and you don't know where the extra 60GB of used space is? I was discussing a similar issue with …

Unfortunately Symantic Antivirus 2009 (as well as most current antivirus software) is not compatible with windows 98. If it's not an option for you to upgrade to a more current operating system I'd suggest using Clamwin ([url]http://www.clamwin.com/[/url]) it's the only Anti-Virus program I could find that was: 1: Compatible with …

Go to the system manufacturers website and download the drivers for you system, you can do this after you install windows but it's probably safer to just download them and put them on disk first. They'll usually be self extracting zip files with an EXE to install.

When you load with the recovery disk does it recognize the Hard drive as being installed?

try logging in, going to control panel, users and passwords and create new users. If these accounts work properly you can transfers the files you want to keep over and configure it as you need

Look into winventory, PStools (almost posative their inventory only needs to be installed on the server) and oscinventory.

probably a restore file for some kind of back-up program. I'd change the file name (add a 1 to the end) and reboot. If you have problems boot to safemode or a recovery console and change it back, if you don't experience problems wait a week and delete it.

Serial ATA is an interface standard used for communication between a motherboard and a drive (usually hard drives but SATA optical drives are becoming popular). As the "serial" component of the name describes it works in one channel, only sending data once, instead of "Parallel" PATA (standard IDE) that sends …