Yeah wildfire - I'm confused too. ;)
Very nice piece of work there Frank and thanks for posting your results. Hopefully, jsctolitz shares the pleasure of your ingenuity and...
Welcome wizman55. We're glad to have you joining the BBS community and are looking forward to seeing you on a regular basis. I don't think any of...
Ouch! Should anything like this happen in the future, plug a decent CRT monitor in and you should be able to see your way through to change the...
neilvw, I've got to believe that an XP installation on this machine is possible. In fact, my curiousity got the better of me and I poked around...
jsctolitz, Glad to hear that. Now, remember as you do future Java updates, go into your control Panel's Add or Remove Programs and uninstall...
Head over to this page and read the directions. Then select the offline installation download and save it. Once saved, close all windows and...
Jimboe Instruction as follows: If no glory, repost and we'll go to the next step. Welcome to the BBS ........... ;)
glarkin, If you followed Matt's advice and booted into safe mode, you may have stumbled on a way to fix this. If not, boot into safe mode and...
Chuck, This isn't what you want to read but I'd encourage you to give serious consideration to copying off all of your data and reinstalling...
Sven Although this may sound a little presumptuous, perhaps the more important question relates to the pricing of this laptop. I would agree...
I stand corrected. I was thinking touch pad all along - never even differentiated track point until you put the Dell in there and that went right...
Glad to learn that you were able to "jury rig" this but will still go back to my post #6 encouraging you to re-check your connections on the...
I believe your problem device was a Winbond memory stick. As an aside, one should take note and proceed with caution when mucking around with...
You can enable or disable at will and this is not the same as removing the device. If you elect to remove it, Windows will redetect it the next...
Shot in the dark but ....... When you replaced your keyboard, there was a small ribbon cable that had to be disconnected from the old keyboard...
OK, so use the basic default setup but set your year, date & time and then auto-detect your HDD. You may have some different options for type of...
Yes. And, I'm inclined to agree with Pete's assessment but let's run through a few things before sticking a fork in it. ;)
No problem. Further to Pete's post with detailed instructions, lets try zoning in on the most common elements first. Yank the memory and the...
I wasn't that lost but thanks for the vote of confidence. In post #3 you referenced swapping out the floppy and in post #8 there was no floppy...
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