Last night I tried running DX81ENG.exe. Please tell me if that the proper way to do a reinstall, because that did not fix the problem. If that...
I have Windows ME and DirectX 8.1: When I tried running dxdiag, I got this message: "Dxdiag has detected that there may have been a...
Thanks for the replies. I'm not sure what happened, but the cordless phone (plugged into the same surge protector) blew its battery - so I'm...
I was trying to reinstall windows98 over itself on older computer (not mine) and everything goes seemingly well until the step where windows...
For those who helped me before, you know that I recently did a reinstall of win98 on mom's older computer. Everything so far seems to be working...
Hi! Billybob, Markp62, Rockster2u,& Alice - Many thanks to all of you who responded to my frantic cry for help! You will be pleased to know...
[B]Rockster2u[\B] wrote [I]you aren't worried about losing anything from your HDD other than drivers .... get a phillips head, flashlight and...
I am kind of hoping this format will be a last resort thing to do. I wouldn't be too worried about it if I was certain I could get everything...
Markp62, thanks for the links. One of the free ones will check the processor and its function. I think I will try that later tonight or tomorrow...
Thanks for the replies. First, to answer BillyBob, When you did the re-install did you do it after pointing to the Win98 folder on the CD.?...
BillyBob, Thanks for replying so quickly! When you boot up do you get the DOS Menu that gives you several choices by hitting th F8 key or...
BillyBob, Yes, you are right, I did make a mistake when I said that it transferred the tools to the cd. It did in fact say drive D and I know...
Markp62 - Thanks for that info. I had already copied the win98 files to the c drive, but I had not been rebooting to 'without cd' mode before...
BillyBob, Oops, forgot to answer about computer. It is a home built machine. Started with windows 3.1 then my mom's friend re did it with...
BillyBob, It did have only 5 registery entries but all were dated over a year ago. Now, there was a time during all these fixes that I had...
I have so many problems with this computer that I don't know where to start! Have been trying all kinds of things to fix it, and well, I've got a...
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