Hi merlin thanks for taking an interest on such a trivial annoyance... but it's got me going and I would like to know a cause if poss. I'm...
Hi BB and all BB, I must add a bit of a caveat before anyone gets too enthusiastic about trying the modem in another machine. I still...
Hi all problem more annoying than severe: On the advanced settings for the volume control, there's a checkbox called "Spatial" - which now...
Hi try allowing 30pixels for the width of the vertical scrollbar, so from an 800px screen try 770px usable width... this usually works but...
Hi Trogg excellent news! I'm afraid it looks like you have a dud modem though... there's a couple of other possibilities but they are very...
Hi Trogg 'n' all sounds from what you say like it's PCI as they have smaller sockets - usually brown I think?, the big old black one's almost...
Hi - is it a PCI modem, pls? also, is FDC on the motherboard or on a expansion card? what Rookie says makes lots of sense although I'd be...
Hi again mattman - thanks once more for your remarks, unfortunately having lost too much time on this one - had to get the Compaq running...
Thanks Mattman, I'll give it a go. But I thought that a zero-fill was what I'd just done... not sure that the mbplus2 utility really did what it...
Dear Mahmud I know that the drive is small by today's standards, the other HDD in the Compaq is 30GB (split into 6) The normal function of...
Nice one Mike, thanks... Best Wishes as ever, Hugh
Hi all is there any way that I can make a _totally_ clean install of Windows98 onto the C: partition of a PC which has old versions of Windows...
Hi I'm having hassles with reinstalling an old Quantum Lightning (?=maxtor?)730MB HDD upon which I want to put a clean install of W98. I've...
Hi Mark not sure if this clarifies or muddifies but: I've had v. similar problems for years with a HDD which needs a BIOS kludge - much older...
addition to the cumulative list of things to do after uninstalling AOL: Uninstalling had indeed created a couple of oddities (understatement)...
Hi BB several keyboards here don't worry. Only one COM port is fried. Didn't get further than the 1488. No ports fried on the other PC Can...
ahh sussed why I was thinking of 'K' only actually it should have been 'k'; keyboard sends 0x00 then 0x6b for AltF4 and 0x6b is 'k' that's why...
Hi BillyBob just picked up your latest: to unworry things a little, although the new ISP is NTL, our internet connection is very much dialup,...
Mike - it's all working! the problems were 1 and 2 and they're fixed 3's just a puzzle not a fault - it happened at the same time and I thought...
briefly!!(if I can manage it) we've already stopped paying AOL but there's nearly 2 months till it runs out, that's when I'll rip it out - and...
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