"See attached picture / Gateway support. Please open BIOS, and checked to verify CD is set for boot up device before system HDD. Gateway...
I did it all, step by step (and you were right, I had simply copied the program previously. This time I burned it.) Again, no response. The...
Can't get into safe mode. And yes, it is supposedly booting from the cd as the first option.
Nope, Ubuntu doesn't show up at all. The machine comes up on the Gateway screen. When I go to restore, the message says Problem seems to be caused...
Okay, if she hasn't already called in the pros, I'll try Ubuntu next week. Thanks.
My daughter has called in professional help. I'll let you know if anything interesting occurs. Thanks for you assistance.
I downloaded the Bart Pe disk but it didn't work on my daughter's machine (although it worked fine on mine, but then mine isn't ailing) because at...
Thanks. I'll try that and see how it works, let you know Friday.
My daughter's Gateway laptop will go the Gateway screen which allows me to get into bios but only shows blue screen after that. XP was factory...
Dennis L, I am using AOL 9. I cleared the browser cache as you suggested and all is peaches and cream. Thank you.
When I go to a website (my own) via AOL on this xp office machine, I see an outdated site. I know it's outdated because I changed it three days...
I used the Kelly Korner regedit fix and it removed the A: ghost in My Computer, but the external floppy drive still comes up as B:. I then went...
The Kelly Korners regedit download is for XP and I'm running win2000. Will it work? Also, this is what the regedit would be: ÿþW i n d o w s...
No luck disabling it in Bios, it still comes up as B:. I once knew a way to change the registry to accomplish this switch to A:, but that was for...
Ti, I disabled the floppy drive in Device Manager, as you suggested, but, as I feared, my external floppy comes up as B:, not A:. A: is simply...
"to change the drive letter of your external floppy to A: " Sorry I wasn't clear earlier. Yes, I want to do precisely that.
I have inherited a Compaq Presario 1700 laptop that has no floppy drive. With a usb connection I have added an external floppy drive, currently...
This won't solve the root problem, but it may simplify your life. Create shortcuts on your desktop for each of your removable disks. Determine...
<<Then put it into my comp, with new same MB.>> Do you mean the same MB as your son's?...Congratulations, well done.
I haven't done it but see no reason why it wouldn't work assuming your machine has the cpu and memory to handle the new mb, and it certainly looks...
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