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hi my final year project requires the server to detect boot failures on the clients and find out the reason of the failure. for that i will need my BIOS to detect the keyboard,hard drive etc and report the reason to the server over the n/w. Any help will be …

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I need help on how I install a second Hard Drive onto my PC, I know there is a way to install XP without having to reinstall the whole thing, I'm just not sure how.

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Help, I need to wipe my son's Hard drive and re-install XP pro. Well he's 13 going on 21 and he's been looking at stuff he shouldn't be even considering at his age. Would someone send me a step by step procedure for formatting and re-installing XP pro? I want …

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I just ordered a new motherboard and I wanted to know if I can just plug in the old hard drive and it will work? I heard somewhere that you wont be able to just plug in the hard drive but I dont know, thanks

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Hi there can a dead hard drive be revived in any way. evry time the machine is booting it says invalid system disc replace the correct one. any comments?

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Drivivng me nuts!! Trying to go into my banking details, renew a domain name, renew my anti-virus and other similar areas I was getting diverted to a spy-ware search-page, so I ran AdAware and Spybot which removed this but now when I try to access banking info I get the …

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I installed lock folder XP on my D drive and i did the most stupidiest thing in my life.. i set lock folder XP to protect my D Drive! Now i can't access to lock folder XP to unlock my D drive, all because Lock folder XP is install in …

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Not sure if this is the right board but yesterday I've been having problems with my computer, I thought it would be the monitor cuz when I turn on the hard drive, the monitor and the modem, the screen comes out black, as if I haven't turned on the monitor …

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hi. I'm Jason. I'm new here and I am asking for help everywhere so if you have an answer to my problem then please e-mail me as I will probably forget to check back here. ok so my dad wanted to change the administrator password on his computer. he didn't …

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Whenever I scan my system using the [B]spybot search and destroy [/B] utility, I always get, with every scan exactly five DSO exploits Every time, I click the check box and every time it tells me it has successfully corrected the problem. Yet like I said before, scanning my system …

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hi, i'm looking to buy a second ide hard drive to my current system but i'm unsure if my system will accept it. My current specs are amd 1900+ 512ddr (pc2100) ram geforce 5700 pcchips m830lr mobo 60gb ata/100 hd win xp sp2 I'm looking to buy a ata/133 7200rpm …

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My mothers AMD tower always had problems (mostly because she downloaded practically everything she saw) but recently, aside from all the hideous pop up ads and unwanted programs invading her privacy and downloading themselves onto her computer, her internet has gone completely offline. The CICERO tower was recently brought back …

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i think i read all the forums and rules, so hopefully i am posting this ok. if not im sorry ahead of time. :sad: i am having problems with my computer. im on xp. its not been acting right, but adaware, avg, norton, and pc cillian thing say im clean. …

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Like many of you, I've been endlessly frustrated by Home page hijackers, like CoolWWW, Zestyfind, about|blank, about:blank, LopDotCom, and so on. I have tried all of the free "Shredders", "Blasters", "Sweepers", "Bots", and other programs intended to get rid of all of that garbage I DID NOT WANT ON MY …

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i have windows xp pro but not installed i have the setup files the cd key on my pc and when i tried to upgrade my pc the blue screen of death appeared saying DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL_TO or something like that and it is follow by the usual. The problem is that …

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Hello, I have 2 hd, master ata100, slave ata66 . Transfer mode "Device 0": Ultra DMA. Transfer mode "Device 1": PIO Mode. When I use explorer and access the second hd, the all computer slow down, the mouse can't even move for a few seconds. What is happenning? I try …

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Hey guys, I'm hoping you can help me out. I have a Windows 2000 server running on a dual 2.4ghz Dell poweredge 2600 with 512mb ram. 2 hard drives: disk 0 is 36gb, and disk 1 is 76gb. the system is for our DVD archive system and has a DVD …

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I just recieved a Compaq Persario desktop. I believe it's a 5000 series. specs: AMD Athlon 1.1 ghz 128 megs of ram 60 gig hard drive 16 meg Nvidia graphics card dvd-rom cd-burner Windows ME The machine boots up and says "operating system not found". I then rebooted it with …

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I've just purchased a new computer, and I'm a little etchy on if I bought enough hard drive space. I currently use my computer for programming, web dev, and graphic design. I'm expecting to use a total of 5 GBs worth of program files for all my needs, but I …

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Tomorrow or Wednesday i'm ordering my hard to build a new computer. I'd just like to make 100% sure that everything is compatible with everything else. Also will I need to purchase any extra cables or accessories? Case [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-144-001&depa=0[/url] ASPIRE Turbo Case X-Dreamer Black Mid-Tower Case PSU [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-153-008&depa=0[/url] Thermaltake W0013 …

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Hi, I turned on my PC last night and the computer powered up for about a second then died. However the power light stayed on but none of the fans were going. I messed around with my PC and found out that if I disconnected one of my hard drivers …

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Hey all. I'm new to this site. I hope there's someone on here that can help me out. My computer is freezing up on me and I don't know why. I'm running XP Pro. My CPU is 700 MHz Intel Celeron. My RAM is 320 MB. My video card is …

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hello added a new hard drive had problems with nero incd deselected incd made startup diskette because old master harddrive was getting full hard drive got full and now the whole thing is wierded out - it runs, but the monitor has everything about twice as big as it should …

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I've had a high-speed connection for several months, and I've never had a problem downloading or playing videos. But a couple of days ago, my media player suddenly crapped out on me. When I attempt to download a video, it takes a long time to connect. When it finally does …

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i am unsure what is the best way to format a hard drive using Windows ME. what would the best way be?

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Here are my specs: Motherboard: MSI 648 Max series Power supply: 350W (I think) CPU: P4 2.4GHz w/ 533MHz FSB RAM: 512MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM Video Card: ATI Radeon 9500 Pro w/ "Doom 3" Beta Catalyst 4.9 drivers Hard Drive: Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM ATA133 Sound Card: Integrated with Motherboard LG …

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I have a new hard drive and i think that i need to move it to the master position, and that i need a bootable diskette. How do i make a bootable diskette? thanks dan

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On wed Sept 11th i reloaded XP due to sasser virus,at some time during my reinstalling of such things as , Yahoo Messenger,Adobe photo deluxe,winmx etc, i began to recieve these warnings, purporting to be from Windows as follows : MESSENGER SERVICE message to infecte on 8/12/2004 80:07:14pm *Warning! Your …

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I just put a new hard drive on the computer and have been having a lot of problems with the cd burner. first it wouldn't burn because it thought there wasn't enough room in memory - it was detecting only the room left on the original harddrive. then it would …

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Hello everyone! This is my first post. I am very frustrated and hope you can help. I am running Win 2000 on an older computer. My brother saved my previous hard drive programs to a folder within the new setup. Attempting to use some of those programs may have contributed …

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I have a HP Pavilion XE748, 700 processor, 325 memory. I have never had do replace a hard drive before, but I know I can do the physical work. The problem I'm having or think I will have is how do I get the new drive working with my machine. …

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I am looking into getting a new hard drive and I need one that can at least read and write at 4Mbs (but I want to make sure it has more) but I can't work out from the info I am five about the hard drive it can do that. …

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I have two HP computers that have trojans that I can not get rid of so I backed up everything to computer 2 and then purchased a new Maxtor 6Y120PO drive and installed it on computer 2 with all the information I wanted to save. The instructions did fine and …

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hey, thanks in advance. i've got an ugly problem. i have a seagate hard drive (80gigs) it used to have win2000 on it. i ran my xp disk from win2k but it didnt install over win2k and created a dual boot. so i set my pc to boot from the …

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Hi, I was initially trying to partition my 40g ide hard drive to have Windows and Linux installed on it.. I used fdisk to delete the partition and then created a primary partition of 75% to install windows back onto. The problem is that when I try to install WME …

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My computer specs: ASUS A7N8X E-DELUXE 1 GIG CRUCIAL PC 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 3200 + SEAGATE 160 GB 7200 The Problem: I just recently reformatted and i cant get into windows because of this error: WINDOWS COULD NOT START BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING FILE IS MISSING OR CORRUPT: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM I …

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I had Windows XP installed in my computer and Old 98 fiiles remain on hard drive. Can I remove them without messing up windos XP?

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NETWORK SPECS. 2003 Compaq Presario with Windows XP Pro Home-built 350 MHz processor PC with Windows 98 Home-built 450 MHz processor PC with Windows 2000 Pro All 3 are connected on a LAN with a Linksys LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter and a Linksys router. I don't know if these are …

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I have Win XP Pro on a new Dell. How do I further partition the 80 gig hard drive? I have a 98SE computer with a 4 gig drive I would like to backup to part of this newer machine's hard drive. Can/should I format a partition in fat32 for …

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I am trying to move 20 Gigabyte hardware from the uncle's Win ME celeron computer to my sister's Win 98 pentium II computer so she can have more memory. I start up the computer and it says that the hard drive has failed. I tried reformating the drive but the …

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I have a 80 GB external maxtor that is in a separate companies case, that has USB and fire wire, on my old IMAC i used the usb and everything was fine.... I just purchased a used powerbook g4 1 gh with superdrive 15 inch.... so I thought great now …

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I have a IBM ThinkPad T22. I have been using this machine for about 2 and 1/2 to 3 months now. It has been a good quality(sp?) machine for a while but all of a sudden when I boot or re-boot it it will just sit at the IBM ThinkPad …

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Until last week I was running Windows 98SE and WinXP Home as a dual boot setup on my Athlon 2200XP machine. Having decided I no longer needed 98, i migrated any useful files to a seperate hard drive. The original Win98 installation was on the C drive, and Win XP …

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hi everyone, I need help on a single document interface (sdi) i have created. I created the sdi using the CRichEditView as its base class. I know that the printing functionality is already added by default but what i need is that when the program is executed by me a …

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:rolleyes: Problem Description: i have few microsoft game and im runing in to a problem i had a 20 Gb hard drive but was geting to small for allgames and all other stuff so i got a 120 Gb hard drive and partition to 3 part label drive d, e …

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Last week, I dialed-up my sterling dial-up connection, to discover that for some reason, the sasser worm, which I had long ago been infected with and i THOUGHT that I had properly cleaned up, firewall and all, was back. My system was being shut down, with the authority of the …

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I have a tecra 8100 laptop that will not boot. When you try and power it up you get absolutely nothing. Sometimes you will get a constant beeping, but it doesn't happen each time. The green indicator light for the power comes on but the hard drive will not spin …

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I recently had some problems with a hard drive and decided to reformat. I did that and reinstalled Win98 and all was ok until the next time I rebooted. Then it would freeze in the boot-up process. I was unable to do anything so I reformatted again and reinstalled Win98 …

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I have just upgraded my G4 dual processor 1.25 to 10.3.4. I am also using Protools 6.4. I have 2 gigs of Ram. Now my second scsi hard drive is not recongized. :sad: When I placed back in old machine (G4 400, OS 9) It is still not recongized. Please …

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