Just go in your BIOS and chose the bootup options. Both hard drives will show up. You choose the priority of what the operating system boots off...
Installed SP2 for Windows XP and can now see the entire 500 GB of the hard drive (or more correctly, the 467 GB that it equates to). Expanded the...
Further research shows that Windows XP needs SP1, or maybe even SP2, to handle a SATA disk drive bigger than 127 GB. I'll install SP2 and see if...
When I installed Windows XP on a new 500 GB hard drive, it found only 127 GB. Do I have to do the rest of the drive as a new partition? Or did I...
Thanks for the suggestion, MarkP62. I edited the registry as you instructed, and it solved the problem.
I used to have AVG running on my ThinkPad laptop running Windows 98. I removed it, but the uninstall option was not available so I deleted all...
Further shopping found a sale on NewEgg for the Kingston memory. Comes with free shipping, although sales tax is charged. Total price of $31....
I found an upgrade kit of two 1GB sticks of Crucial memory for $33. Kingston is $5 more. Any recommendations for brand?
I checked and my laptop can only take 2 GB. It looks like I can get that for about $35. Not bad. I'll post to let people know if I see a...
I bought a cheap Compaq laptop with only 1 GB memory that runs Vista. One of the gadgets I have on the desktop is a memory meter, and that shows...
Thanks, Pete. I see the temperatures now. I don't see voltages, but maybe they are elsewhere, or not enabled on my system. Looks like the...
I agree with Ranger. If your CPU was fried, it wouldn't slow down. It would not work. Did you used to get higher readings with PC Wizard...
Continuing the off-topic, unfortunately. I took the suggestion to try SIW, but I could not find voltages and temperatures.
You should be able to use any kind of external monitor. You may need to install a driver for the monitor.
Replacing disk drive It does seem best to replace the disk drive, for safety's sake if nothing else. It's probably four years old by now....
I may take your suggestion to get a wireless keyboard. I've taken a look at those before, but never bought one. This gives me a good excuse....
Keeps getting worse and worse. I ran chkdsk /r and it found and corrected some disk errors. Now it says the hal.dll is corrupt. Working on that...
Point well taken. I'll pass that message along to my sons. I am still curious if anyone has seen this type of behavior before. That is, the...
"Twisting and pulling" may have been the wrong words to use. My sons aren't using any force. Just straightening and rearranging the connecting...
The computers are networked. Part of a home network of two towers and four laptops. These are the two towers. Both are running Windows XP. One...
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