From your description, one can't tell at what point you're at. The first test of a new computer being built should be when the mobo is installed,...
Paul, You haven't "please post your computer's description." yet, and it may help to know what sort of computer we're discussing (MoBo, CPU,...
You have a dimm that your BIOS doesn't like because it's not PC-100 compliant. See this. If it works, forget it.
Joe Locke, I've found norton's (now symantec's) Ghost to be the best backup in your situation. You can get it with system works 2003 for...
If you need to follow matt's suggestion to "try a repair or reinstall of Windows ", first fdisk your HDD (from a win98 boot disk) and delete and...
noahdfear, A very good point, and correct, of course. Thanks. I was mollified (fooled) by the fact that two viri were already found and removed...
Hi PAUL SHILLAM, That log looks clean to me for practical purposes. You don't need to run a lean, mean, computer. :) Only suggestion is...
PAUL SHILLAM, Forgot to say, compute for a day and then repeat the cleaning with spybot, adaware, and an antivitus to see what they find; be...
charlesvar, 2 heads are better than one; was hoping someone would chime in to help. Great minds.... :D
Yes, XP has a firewall; but a lot of us prefer to use another and turn off XP's. Please get offline and close all programs and re-run...
Nothing. Air comming in at the front blows over the mobo and out the back. Cooler the better!
Hi bmartin, Possibly this, from 'help' applies: Suggest you open explorer and see if the connection appears in the left pane. Also,
Hi shadowhawk, Check your mobo manual; mine wants memory inserted in high to low slot order, but memory size is irrelevant. RE: PCI-E...
I don't recognize a firewall running. Only if that's true, get a firewall and install it; recommend free zonealarm from the 'links' above....
Sounds like a memory cache mismatch; try going to control panel, system and dbl-clk advanced tab and settings button under performance, advanced...
Turning off XP's recording to a drive will not prevent reading from any drive, and it should be turned off to use Nero. See this thread for more...
PAUL SHILLAM, You need a firewall, ad-aware, and spybot as well; download them and hijackthis from the 'links' in my signature and update the data...
Victor, Johanna makes a very good point. Also, if there's a chance you can get your recovery disks from storage, you'll save lots of money too....
The manual indicates the presenceof a battery at the top of chapter 3:
Victor, Guess I'm too curt. The command text was just edit and the bold text was to be placed in boot.ini as its contents in the dos editor. No...
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