Smartdrv.exe **** - You got me on that one. There was an old error in W95 - "While initiallizing device IOS error." or some such. Came up on...
Great info you gave me. Yes I know the old Tiger Eye / PIIX3 - And for Win95a (this covers initial OEM editions or the W95 Upgrade) you need...
From safemode run msconfig Edit the startup folder options to remove any items related to the Pinnacle product. (note some items are...
Doctored it a bit for ya.
Most machines have a boot order. Some ( Like my Hitachi Visionbook ) have a specific boot target and will not search beyond that specific boot...
Tagged - Cause this Franken Version W98 has intrigued me.
I had a customer who was running W2k on a 300 Celeron & 64mb. Talk about a dog on boot - the real boot time killer was the Norton A/V. But...
To get into BIOS you usually press the DEL key during the initial boot sequence. On some Compaq's it is F10 when the cursor is on the top...
As a once upon a time Gateway tech I can assure you that if the PIIX3 or PIIX4 busmastering drivers are not installed properly you will have...
Yep thats a good Katami CPU. You would use the pliers on the black plastic "half shell" side where the black plastic pins come thru. There are 4...
System Restore With luck you a revert your system config with system restore to a restore point before the web cam install. Good Luck.
Gateway and several other OEM assemblers used bonded heatsinks with a fan duct so that the case or power supply fan also served as the CPU fan....
This will sound crazy. . . But there are a bunch of bad bugs in the Adaptec ASPI v4.7x.x So how do you fix it? - First Download and install...
This is not uncommon for boards based on Intel 815 chipsets. You can boot to the CD, but windows won't load the busmastering driver. If this is...
This was recommended to me. Try this Swap Manager - it is simular to "BayManager" software used to swap items in laptops. - @ $6.99 it might be...
I love mine! I'm running a 1.3GHz on a slot-T on what was a GATEWAY PROFESSIONAL pIII-450. This has been running for almost 1 yr. I have...
WARNING Some mp3 players that read burned CD's only read ISO-9660 style 8.3 file names. Also any non-DOS 6.22 approved characters used in file...
Hardware support removed I have a nice uber $$$ Nikon legal size SCSI-II scanner that XP freaks out if it is attached. Likewise with my desktop 3...
Try this. If your MBD has a clear CMOS jumper go through the proper proceedure to Clear NVram. If no jumper, go into BIOS and "Load Defaults"...
Its more often a matter of overlooking the obvious. We forget the things we allready know, and go searching for a more complicated answer to our...
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