Thanks Matt, Picked up something called Zoom Player. Works. Now I just need to upgrade my video card to something with more RAM (mine is SIS...
Shopping for RAM Thanks for all the advice folks. I am out shopping at Used Computer stores for some RAM. No since in letting usuable RAM go to...
No new info yet Please don't close this out yet. Storms of life have caused a delay in getting my friends computer. He has had not BSODs...
Well, guess I'll have to stop being so cheap and buy some decoder software. Downloaded some "free" stuff but they wanted to add "browser helper...
I think I will do that. It never hurts to try. The file I downloaded wasn't the right one. didn't work. I will keep trying
No need to mess with it if things are going good. I stay with what I have for now. Thanks for the advice Mitch
Thanks. The file I found is WMEncoder.exe Is that correct? I have Media Player 9 on my system. Don't think MP 10 will work on W2K
Got a used dvd-rom/CD-RW for my computer today. tried to play a dvd and got an error "no dvd decoder installed" where can I get one? Mitch
The only thing the integrated driver software told me I needed was the AGP to PCI controller (and I really don't know what that will do for me)....
Matt, Downloaded Everest. Found the info for my motherboard, chipset, etc. It is an Amptron PII-3726 (M)T Motherboard ID...
System is using XP Home. Boot order is CD, Floppy, HDD. Will download file recommended by Surferdude and try that out. Mitch
Ok, I think we are almost there. I got the audio and proper video drivers installed. As I said his system has not crashed in almost a week now....
Trying to make a bootable CD to run MEMTEST. Got the ISO file and wrote ti to the cd but system will not boot from the cd. I read the...
Mike, I am at Jim's now and his system is booting real slow. It gets to the desktop just fine but is taking forever to load the firewall....
will do. Mitch
Thank ya'll very much. Went to Crucial.com and it said my system can handle up to 512MB RAM. It couldn't find some information about my system...
sorry no one has replied. The first thing I would do it see if it will start up in safe mode. Start your computer Press F8 it should give...
I have a used Intel 400Mhz system with 128MB Ram (two sticks of 64MB PC100 memory). Can I buy a stick of 128MB PC100 memory and put it in the...
Mike, Jim blew out all the dust. He said it was horrible. He took the fan off the CPU and he said the heat sink was caked with gunk and was...
While I was at work I thought a lot about what has been going on with my system. I haven't had any real problems since you cleaned it up for me....
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