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| | Can anyone help, Ive been at this problem all week!! Installed new hard drive , modum , cant adjust screen area 640x480 16 color . I restart pc pop up says cant used the display settings u choose , Ive tried to remove monitor and restert thinking it would detect … |
| | I had to install a new hard drive , 98 came with my pc , lost everything ! borrowed a factory 98 and upgrade from a friend . I have a 19" screen that is stuck on 16 color 648x480. 5 days now , I also notice in device manager … |
| | I was running on my machine a Seagate Serial ATA harddrive (120gb) and had data corruption of the registry (Windows XP Pro). The data on the partions was retrieved but the data that was under the administrator account on the C drive is currently being stopped by the administrator password. … |
| | I hooked up the data cable correctly, and I did a auto detect and cant detect the second hard drive. I am running WIN XP powered it up but no detection, what am I doing wrong. :rolleyes: |
| | Hello , I will try cover my problem, I was using windows 98 that came with my PC had a little problem with fault errors , so went and purchased widows 2000 pro , down loaded everything was good , using 15 gig hard drive , well it took a … |
| | I have two hard drives on my system. The first drive has Win XP. I was reformatting the second drive to load Win98 when I stupidly started to format the d: drive. (Which is where Format.com had put What had been my C: drive.) It went about 20% thru the …  |
| | I'm trying to make an eBay ad with an HTML editor (FrontPage '02). What I'm selling is over 1500 rare collectible cards, and I've very painstakenly created a worksheet using Excel '03. My whole objective was to create the worksheet (spreadsheet or database, not sure if I'm using the right … |
| | Hello I have win 98. And had a problem with using the maintenance wizard to defrag and clean up hard drive. It kept restarting itself and I had to defrag in "safe mode" However everytime I use the safe mode for that it messes up my icons on my desktop … |
| | Windows XP SP1 Dell Inspiron 1100 Last few programs are Spyware Guard, Spybot, Ad-Aware, Microsoft Office XP, Norton Internet Security, Chapura, Palm Desktop. Intermittent I reformatted my hard drive this weekend. I am working through some other problems in the Security forum. I reinstalled Outlook, and then i installed the … |
| | What is the best / fastest way to format a hard drive that currently has windows 98 on it? I currently don;t have any computers avail w/ xp to put the hd into. -Ron J |
| | Hi there. for the last couple of weeks I am trying to find a solution to my problem but with no luck. There is a program written in C++ which can fine the mac addresses of the bluetooth addresses that are in range. As soon as it finds them, it … |
| | Okay guys, I want to install a new hard drive in my computer. I mentioned this in another thread where I fluffed up and had to reset the Bios... :o Here is the situation, I have a Dell 8300 that came with an original Western Digital 60gb and I want … |
| | When I go to check for errors on the hard drive and the puter reboots to check for errors I get the message "cannot open volumne for direct access and then it says windows has finished checking the disk. please help lbarnes |
| | i'm trying format my hard drive .. after i formatted it does not see drive c:.. and partition is active.. windows 98 startup disk |
| | I just recently reimaged a freinds dell laptop with his XP restore CD. while going through the process of formating I found that his origanal configuration had a partitioned hard drive. Not knowing why it was origanlly set this way I just went through and formated the second partition (it … |
| | Higuys, I need your help. I've had two operating sysytems installed on separate partitions of one physical drive: Win XP on C: and Win 98 SE on D:. I was able to choose between them via dual - boot menu. They worked just fine until I installed a new hard … |
| | I am using Win98. I was having problems with invalid page faults, mostly in winsock32.dll, and program freezing, mostly but not only IE5.5 and Outlook Express 5. I eventually found a virus in winsock32.dll and ended up reformatting the hard drive. I thought that would be the end of it. …  |
| | I'm ordering my new computer mid August. These are the final parts i'll probably order from newegg and have my friends put it together for me. Let me know if anything is incompatible with something. Thanks. Case: NZXT Black Mid Tower Case with Side Panel Window, Model "GUARDIAN" Processor: AMD … |
| | Hi again.. been running XP on a new computor. However, on the computor posting the above message is displayed and says put in original CD and try to repair as the file could not be found. No problems as reformatted and installed all systems again. Few days later after running … |
| | After 2 years of running Windows XP Pro on my DELL desktop (PIII,996Mhz, 256mb ram) along with 2 sons and my wife, the PC is starting to screw up. Have tried some registry cleanups, I defrag every month or so and try to keep track of stuff but it's gotten … |
| | I am installing a new hard drive for a friend on her mac g3. using the panther OS. I am totally new to mac. the new disk that we got does not contain any formatting software for the mac. just windows. I have done this many times before on a …  |
| | I have an Gateway desktop 933, serial number 0023510410. Here is my problem, I bought this computer used with no hard drive. I installed a hard drive, with all the drivers from Gateway.com with the above serial number. In device manager everything is working, except I have a pci unknow … |
| | Hi, I'm new here so please excuse my mistakes here ! I am an internet-aholic you might say, but I'm also one of those people who just want to turn my computer on and it work, never having to do anything than maybe install a new program or two every … |
| | Whenever i start windows, i get an error message that says about a missing module in bridge.dll. I know this is a spyware problem, and i have downloaded a program called Hijackthis. I have scanned my hard drive and saved it to a log file. All i need is an …  |
 | hello, i am trying to install a western digital 40 GB 7200rpm hard drive into a gateway 2000 p5-100. the gateway originally came with a western digital caviar 31000. on the top of that hard drive it reads AT compatible 1083.8MB. i was able to install windows 98 on the … |
| | Hey, I have a 400mghz Imac with 196 mg of ram and a 10 gb hard drive. I just upgraded my operating system to 9.2 which is working fine. I would like to try Os X. Is this possible and will it work without too many problems or should i …  |
| | Hello, this would be my second posted question today. Anyways, I wanted to scan my hard drive using Norton Disk Doctor (from Norton Systemworks 2002). But when I check/click the "fix errors" button, and press the "Diagnose" button to scan my disk, a window pops up saying: "The Operating System, … |
| | Hello. Recently I have been having problems with moving files around on my computer[i]. [/i]For example, let's say I have a file called "x". When I try to move file x from folder A to folder B, when I try to access file x inside of folder B, it refuses … |
| | Hey, a couple days ago i was working on my step mothers computer installing more RAM (256MB) I turned the computer back on and seconds later i smelt burning metal. I quickly unplugged the computer and opened it up and removed the RAM I had just installed into the PC. … |
| | HI. I keep getting popups that have "windows messenger service" in the title and they adveritise anything from porn to spyware removal to discount drugs. This is really annoying and I can't seem to get rid of it. I have run spybot, adaware, a trojan horse program, hijackthis and AVG … |
| | I have windows Me in my system. Basically I am trying to erase my hard drive but I cannot use the fdisk command.. Whenever I run it and I get to the screen that gives me the warning you are about to delete your drive, I hit enter and get … |
| | Recently my mouse has begun to hesitate whenever my hard drive is working. This is a new behavior, 1-2 weeks and is frustrating. I have also noticed that when this hesitation is occurring, my keyboard is also inoperative. I have recently downloaded the most recent CWShredder and this didn't help. … |
| | We are trying to load Windows NT on to an IDE hard drive. We formated the HD and the setup says the software loaded to the hard drive and then when we try to boot from the hard drive - it just searches for the boot sector and won't do … |
| | I just installed windows 2000 nt professional on an ECS motherboard running an amd 2400. Everything is fine excep i have no sound. I can play music directly from my cd player, but when running sounds from my hard drive, i hear nothing and at times get errors from playes …  |
| | I receive a 'Insert disk into drive c:' when I boot up WinXP. My C:\drive is a removable drive, with my hard drive on d: I have updated and run Ad-aware, Spybot Search and destroy, AVG Free Anti-virus. Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is my HijackThis logfile: Logfile … |
 | here's what I have, 1Ghz AMD Athlon 10GB HDD - primary master - FAT32 40GB HDD - primary slave - FAT32 Windows 2000 Pro the problem: It just happened, probably by a virus of some sort... my slave drive suddenly disappeared, there's this unknown device that show's up on the … |
| | my system is hp510n 512 mb ram 40 gb hard drive. i can open ms explorer and nero, mirc fine. but i cannot open my computer or hp pavillion or i.e. my desktop keeps shutting down due to error. i try all three options but they dont restore my active … |
 | Long time, no post. Anyways, I have had some luck with updating some of the computers in the school from 98 --> 2K, but lately there has been a MAJOR problem. There are some computers that I run the install, delete the partition that has 98 on it. When I … |
| | Athlon 2100+ Geforce 4 Graphics card 512MB ram NForce2 Mobo 40 gig HD Windows XP Pro Hi guys, I'm really stuck and hope someone can help me out. Sorry if I put this in the wrong place. Ive' had AOL Broadband for about a year now. Recently (in the last … |
 | Is there any way to make a restore disk for a system I am building a friend? He some what computer smart. But I want to make a disk so if something happens to his system he can just pop in the disk and it will look like it did … |
| | My comp freezes when I start a game. For instance when I open quake I can choose options and what kind of game I want to play but then when I load it up it usually freezes as soon as it's done loading. I got an 810lr motherboard with pc133 … |
| | Hey all just got hold of my first working mac. I don't have a monitor but this G3 has S-video connections. So I pluged it into my TV and it works. My questions are A: how big of processor can I put in it? B: What is the highest amount … |
| | Hey good people - I built my home page to enable me to launch frequently used programs from the browser, among other favorite links to the web. I used to be able to click on a hyperlink such as -file:///c:/path/program_name.ext During some upgrade in the past (XP Pro?, SP1?), IE … |
| | Hey guys, My grandmother's computer keeps rebooting itself. My dad and I can not figure out what the heck is wrong with it. When he told me what it was doing my first thought was the Sasser virus. So we went and looked it up on the Microsoft updates page. … |
| | sometimes my screen just fades to black for no apparent reason at all. i could be sitting idol reading a web page or playing game, sometimes it happens when im not even doing anything (IE its just idoling on the desktop) its not a heat issue for i have tested … |
| | I just got xp and reformated my hard drive and installed as per instructions from my friend. Everything worked right. I shut down the computer for the night and the next morning when I started it and went to the internet as soon as I hit the connect button on … |
| | Hello, We have a problem in our network and we've tried almost everything that we can think of. We run novell 6.x and our problem is that we get "the blue screen of death" on any of the workstations. Saying: fatal exception error 0E in 0028:C001545A after that we get … |
| | I use Windows 98, with 500mhz, a hard drive of 20G (with plenty of space), and 256K memory. I'm having an intermittent problem when using Internet Explorer. I connect using SBC DSL and am extremely impressed with the speed. However, too many times to count, I will click on a … |
| | I just installed a new hard drive on my G4. Now the computer will not recognize my new monitor. When I boot the computer the green light comes on the monitor but then it goes into sleep mode. How can I fix this. Okie |
| | I am running a Dell 4500S machine with windows XP home installed and I wanted to put linux on my machine. I would prefer to boot linux from my external USB hard drive but I dont know if this is possible. If it isnt possible, then how can I install … |
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