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| | ok.... let me start at the beginning.... I developed a Registry problem...Tried using the Reocvery CD's....problem not fixed...talked to a guy at a computer repair place who told me that bout the best way to fix the problem would be to format and reinstall ME....I got a ME startup disk.. … |
| | Hi All I posted this on the Internet Explorer Forum but I think it may be more of a Security issue so if anyone can help me I would be very grateful. I have a desktop PC - W98, 256 Mem, 40G HD. Internet Explorer has always worked well on …  |
| | [COLOR=Black][COLOR=Navy][SIZE=2]I just bought a brand new 120 gb 7200rpm Samsung SATA Hard drive to replace my 80gb Maxtor 5400rpm ATA Hard drive because it was acting up and i decided to get a new one. Anyways, i just got it in the mail and to my dissapointment i have IDE … |
| | I just bought a new hard drive as i said in a post below this one and still have my old one in my computer. I have a IDE cable that has 3 40 pin connectors. One to the mother board, one to the HDD and another for another HDD … |
| | Hi to you good folks..firstly can I say I'm not very technically minded so if anyone can help will you please keep it simple..thankyou...... running XP pro. just put a second hard drive in as a slave for storage...went to disk management..storage and tried to make a single partition (fat32) … |
| | I keep getting the blue screen of death. :sad: I am running win 2000 sp4 256meg ram ,1.7 pentium 4 maxtor diamondmax 120 gig aopen AX4BS-V I thought it might be the hard drive, so I put a new WD120gig in. I started to format for the install of win …  |
| | If I were to do a back up of my C: drive on to an external hard drive and then for some reason my computers hard drives are erased or get a virus, would I be able to put the back up back on my computer and have all of …  |
| | To make a very long story sort of short, I messed up big-time! :( I just installed a new 200 GB hard drive as master (the comp. recognized it as F drive) and used my old 80 GB drive as slave (recognized as C drive) and everything was going fine … |
| | Hi all! I have a problem I hope you can help me with. Computer Info: 500SE Special (Gateway) Intel (Nimitz) Pentium 4 - 1.8 GHz (400 MHz) mobo DDR 256 MB PC266B RAM integrated video card I was working on the PC when the screen went black, the keyboard stopped … |
| | I currently have an EIDE drive with Windows NT 4.0 running on it and installed a SCSI ultra2 hard drive to allow for more storage. I cannot see the SCSI drive in the Windows NT environment although the BIOS has detected it. I have looked for software and drivers for … |
| | I hope someone can help me with this because the frustration is overwhelming right now. I'm on a Mac G4 running OS X, using what I believe is a Rage 128, although I'm not entirely sure how to check that. My Internet browser is IE 5.2 for Mac. Today, out …  |
 | Hey all, I just got a new motherboard it's and Abit-wb6. My question is does anyone know any sites where I can download the manuals on it. What is the biggest hard drive you can put in it? whats the board worth? I found it to be worth between 100$ …  |
| | i am getting the following message on boot up stop: 0x0000007B(0xFAF73640,0x0C0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000) i have checked the hard drive and it is o.k it boots up fine in another p.c it wont even boot up in safe mode please help if you can thank you |
| | I just installed my new motherboard and got it to boot everything up. There is just one little problem.:evil: Every time it gets to the windows bootup screen, the entire computer resets. It doesn't matter if I put it on safe mode or regular boot. And I am currently running … |
| | My "hard drive" keeps restarting itself before it gets to the welcome screen. I can read the contents of the HD but I can not get access to my documents because it is denied. I dont know what else to do?? |
| | I bought my machine 1 week ago. WheneverI try to run McAfee Stinger or Norton Anti-Virus from my PC the Hard drive starts whizzing round and then shuts the machine down without any warning.:sad: Any ideas? Is it a virus/worm or a hard disk problem? |
| | Well..it appears that I am nto the only one with problems..everything was fine until around 10:00 tonight and then the IE icon no longer works.. even if I click on a .htm on my hard drive the program will not open. It gives an error saying that it can't find … |
| | Hello all... I just reformatted my hard drive, and I am trying to install windows 98 back on it. I can not find my authenticity code. Is there any way to get a new one or find out the code for it from the cd. computer rookie!:-|  |
| | Quick scenario: Home built computer, P3 1000; Asus CUSL2 MB; 320m Ram. This machine has worked fine for years until I tried to be all cool and finally upgrade to XP (from 98). Went for a clean install, and never could get to main setup, after first reboot would get … |
| | I have an ATI radeon 7000 in our "mediabox" computer. I am trying to run HALO by Microsoft. The Specs: Media Box Processor: Intel Pentium II 350 mhz Hard Drive: maxtor 20 gig Mother Board: Asus P2B OS: Microsoft Windows 2000 pro Video card: ATI Radeon 7000 w/ s-video Ram: … |
| | i've a 80G seagate barracuda 7200.7 which was installed with win xp pro and the master drive. i reformatted it recently n now i can't reinstall my windows xp for some reason. i didn't think of it as a problem as i thought i could use it as a SLAVE … |
| | Hey all, I recently added a cdrw to my machine. The drive letter for my backup hard drive was E: So I figure when i added the cdrw it wanted the default lettering system but E: was taken. During this time, XP somehow created and evil twin of my backup … |
| | HijackThis is a [free] program designed to scan your computers settings for things related to spyware and adware. HijackThis will not delete anything initally; it will just report on what it finds. You can download directly from [url="http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/HijackThis.exe"]here[/url]. Save it to a place like your desktop, and run it. When … |
| | 1. [color=black]Western Digital - The drive some how it must of shorted out.[/color] [color=black] It was setup as my slave drive and the problem for me[/color] [color=black] is that this drive has valuable pictures and file.[/color] [color=black] [/color] [color=black]2. [/color] [color=black]Seagate SCSI Hard drive[/color] [color=black] This drive went install the … |
| | I have a feeling this one will challenge you senior techies out there bigtime -- about 2 weeks ago my IBM T21 just started spinning the hard drive CONSTANTLY whenever I would visit Yahoo sites (my mail server, for one thing) using IE6. Most all else works fine, except whenever …  |
| | I formatted my hard drive and installed the correct driver for my modem. When it is installed on Com Port 3, the computer recognizes the modem but it does not detect the dial tone on my telephone line. When it is installed on Com Port 1, the computer cannot find …  |
| | I have a Western Digital 40 gig hard drive. I installed XP pro on it using the NTFS file system. Is there any way to go back FAT32? DOS will not see NTFS to my knowledge. thanks |
| | :cheesy: I going thought the web looking for a fix for my Xp system with boot section of my hard drive and I found a real good web site for tech support then help me to fix the issue. It is whatwrongnow.com. |
| | I recently bought a brand new Sony Vaio PCV-RS 420 from best buy and have been having problems ever since. The 120 gig hard drive is partitioned oddly (13 gig for drive c, and 107 for drive d) and I dont know if that is why. At least 2 times …  |
| | My friend installed XP over ME, and now it's killing his hard drive...he wanted to know if anybody can provide any insight as to how to remove Windows ME now. Thanks!!  |
| | When I browse the internet its so slow and when a page loads all the graphics start off as boxes with red x's in them. Then gradually the photos and graphics begin to load. I am getting alot of script errors and games aren't working as well. I am getting … |
 | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Use Hibernate and Standby to Conserve Batteries[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]Fast User Switching can be turned-on with Windows XP Professional only when your computer is not part of a domain. Power Options in Control Panel lets you adjust … |
| | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Set Performance Options in Windows XP [/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=2]Windows allocates resources according to its settings and manages devices accordingly. You can use the System tool in Control Panel to change performance options that control how programs use … |
| | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Change Drive Letters in Windows XP [/color][/size][size=2]When you add drives to your computer, such as an extra hard drive, a CD drive, or a storage device that corresponds to a drive, Windows automatically assigns letters … |
| | I have 2 80 gig drives. Install and can be seen in the system props. When i try to look for it in my computer it dose'nt see them. It only sees my mian one the C: drive. I dont understand. before i formated i could see both drives. everything … |
| | I am pc tech and I am coming across a problem that I am not sure what is causing it and I need some assistance. Between yesterday and today I have had three clients come in with XP & 2000 crashing. Three separate cases. The error message that comes up … |
| | I have an IBM ThinkPad T22 It is about 2 - 3 years old I am not totaly sure because I received it as an x-mas present this year. Every time or just about every time I shut it off or put it into sleep mode or close the screen …  |
| | i'm installing win2000. i booted from cd, bios finds both drives, everything seems normal. win2000 setup starts up, begins to loads files it needs. after loading files, right before the actual install begins i get a message the 2000 can't find any installed hard drives. it tells me to check …  |
| | My computer config is P-IV 1.7 Ghz 512 MB Ram it started dunno how - but i located blaster worm in my pc - and installed fixblast from symantec removed it - and it was running fine. but than my computer started to freeze every 5-10 minutes. I formatted my … |
| | :sad: Okay Here is the problem!!!!! I had someone rebuild my computer for me. Everything inside is new. He installed Windows 98. After having problems with that we tried to install Windows Xp and that never happened, could not install, had errors coming up. Thought the hard drive was bad. …  |
| | My icons did all work properly til I took out a small hard drive and put in a bigger one from an old computer last week. I then loaded up XP Pro again and installed IE6. v. 2.60. Now I find that many clickable icons dont work anymore! I get … |
| | Here goes..... My uncles machine stopped booting, it kept resetting the system and I couldn't get it out of this somewhat permanent funk so I decided to make it a slave on my PC and back up his stuff onto DVD. My uncles hard drive is a MAxtor 20gB running … |
| | I have a situation where I am recieving this error: 'STOP: c0000218 (Registry File Failure) The registry cannot load the hive (file):\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE' when booting a hard drive on one computer, but it works perfectly when the drive is attached to a different computer. I've scanned the forum and found out … |
| | Specs: MotherBoard: Asus P2B-F Processor: Intel Pentium III clocking at 450mhz Hard Drives: 40gig WD (master) 60 gig maxtor (extra) RAM: 512 megs of PC-100 CD-Roms: sony 48x/24x/48x cd-burner, 16x Matshita (spell?) dvd-rom Extra Goodies: tons My question is will my motherboard see a 120 or 160 gig hard drive? … |
| | I have only built one computer so far, but I have spent enough time researching to know that there are some very knowledgeable people here. I am trying to build my daughter her own computer from some old stuff so she is not bugging me every 5 min. to play … |
| | For some reason my computer got REALLY slow. REALLY SLOW! So I thought ahead and backed up my current files and then turned off the computer so that it wouldn't crash while I was at work. I came home and turned it on only to see "Disk Read Error" with … |
| | when ever i go into my downloads folder my computers hard drive spins up to full speed from just opening the folder even when i havent clicked on anything else in the folder. the computer just sits there using max cpu usage for no reason then the only way to … |
| | [center][i]Running Windows XP Home AMD Athlon XP 2200+ ATI Radeon 9600 PRO 1 gig pos ram but works. MSI Mobo.[/i][/center] [center][i]Maxtor Hard drive X 2, 1 40gig one 20 gig Mouse Keyboard yeah im cool... ATX kase, Koolance, PC2 or what ever... [/i][/center] Hi, I have 2 hard drives, one … |
| | when my win 2000 boots it goes to the blue screen of death. it says this: "*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x00000003,0x00000006,0x0000000,0xBFF72364) DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL *** Address BFF72364 base at BFF6E000, DateStamp 3cb4d2c0 - IdeChnDr.sys if this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears … |
| | Dell Small Business has a great value on the Western Digital 250GB 8MB Cache 7200 rpm Hard Drive for $250 - 20% instant off - $70 rebate (good through 2/27) = $130 with free shipping |
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