lick finger first, then place in airflow - makes it far easier to suss - side of your finger the air is hitting will feel cold (even with...
Hi more knowledgable folks may know better but this doesn't look too good to me details I'm taking it that IE6SP1 on W98 is vulnerable?...
Hi surferdude all very true it was thinking of the kinds of surges, rather than their size, which I was finding interesting three wires in...
large difference between UK and US re: Surge Protectors - different mechanisms involved because N linked back to E differently. Interesting......
Jake no I didn't get a CD - I did download some files from Biostar, incluing a file inf6.exe which could well be the one mentioned in the...
result of trying the "without rebooting" method (this done from pretty fresh install of W98SE without attempting the motherboard patch; video and...
Hi Jake many thanks for the suggestion - without rebooting! - perhaps about the only thing I haven't tried so far ?!? will try this...
Geri - what's the model number for the Pavilion please, HP made quite a lot of different types of these... also helpful (if not a...
finally found another floppy drive to swap with => problem was down to the floppy drive. Odd though - it worked fine when there was a disk in the...
Todd - another slant on this would be to try to determine what's needing the extra stack pages - from what you say it's in your startups if...
surferdude - you've cheered my heart! I wish someone would have a crack at the unknown device thing, it's driving me nuts... thanks for the...
what happens is that I (still) do have a problematic yellow question mark in Device Manger - the main problem being that I haven't a clue what...
Hi Biostar M6TWG motherboard w. Crystal onboard codec trying to identify an "unknown device" which is causing a yellow ? in device manager...
ahh I think I see what you mean... Line(mains) ->-> UPS ->-> SurgeProt ->-> Computer yes, seriously bad idea... == ...but...
Hi Jean thanks for posting back - well done for sussing the monitor - horizontal scan needs quite a lot of "ooomph" and blows up quite readily...
Newt (or somebody) - explain a bit, pls? best wishes, HJ
Hi a floppy connected to the onboard controller on a M6TWG motherboard; although the floppy drive seems to work fine, when Windows tries to...
Matt - (grovel, grovel) sorry, I've wildgoosechased you :o with the - the splodge isn't on device manager, it's on the images! - and...
Jean - good luck see if you can get the make and model number for the monitor when you go over, pls? ;) other thing to check: try Device...
same here (6.1.7.0) best wishes, HJ ...currently experiencing a slight sense of deja vu...
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