No battery needed to boot. mattman, I have an older pentium box that has a proprietary battery, dead and no longer available. It boots and...
Danger! Agree with Chiles4. Make sure you're NOT grounded. Desconnect power from mains and touch outside of power supply near where power cord...
Guaranteed. This one will work on all voltages! :D The manufacturer is the most important factor in the equation.
sidermike, I don't think you need worry about the voltage. Electronics on the card take care of that. My mobo has 4X and my graphics card is...
beth1949, Hold control key down while booting to get menu and select dos. Then at the c:> prompt type scanreg /restore Note: space before /...
TRACK 0 Bad samir. This thread may give you some encouragement. mattman, I believe that error message ( "TRACK 0 Bad ") comes from the OS,...
robwhite, I think that, if you can access the BIOS setup program, just choose the default settings (there is usually that option) and you...
silverwork, It does sound like you may be infected, but it could be hardware as you first thought. If you can get into BIOS suggest you set...
I don't think the BIOS will give you any message re: a drive it can't see, will it? It certainly can't hurt to try a LL Format, but I tend to...
I just ran across this. The concept might interest you, but not the price! Have a nice weekend. :D
squirrel Now I see what you're doing. That's not the case. ctrl-a marks only the directory, in your case the root. It doesn't include the...
Review: The original question? I don't think it's a problem so long as the drive works. Proves nothing; it must be dead (you connected and...
maybe more specifics? When I look at properties of a folder I see "size" and "size on disk" and the difference is, I think, called "slack ",...
Good luck. Hope you find an answer. I just dont think you should feel bad if you don't.
I've seen some OEM machines that call the CD M: (older IBM. and Compq) and I always thought it was something in the proptietary bios. I never...
squirrel, All folders (= directories) except the root contain at least 2 files: "." and ".." which point to self and up 1 level respectively....
Jason2Jason I'm glad to see Miz's suggestion; I haven't a clue what else to try. Sounds like some chip just needs to warm up?
Old mobo? Hi Pete, Have your friend read this USB1/2 comparison. It still sounds to me like hardware incompatability. Are the 2 mobos the...
Get USB2? Installing a USB2 PCI card isn't expensive.
is there a firewall??? Has anyone determined if she has a firewall?
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