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Some years back a bootable disk was used as a key for some systems to prevent anyone but the authorized person form accessing the hard drive or files on the system. I have fixed boot issues in past by copying the boot disk to the hard drive. This sometimes overwrites files that maybe holding...

I don’t know for sure about the Toshiba 6100, but the Toshiba model that I owned had a coin type battery holder located on the bottom of the laptop under the sticker with all the data-nomenclature. I had to peel back the sticker exposing the coin battery holder. There is a round cover (part with...

Compaq machines can be real fun to work on. There is a lot of proprietary stuff e.g. special memory etc. You may need an F10 & diagnostics disk. Or try tapping the f10 key while booting and see if you can get into the configuration, or diagnostics utility that is normally on the hard drive and...

Try placing the primary (C:\) hard drive on IDE one (0) as master and then install the Secondary hard drive on IDE two (1) as master, or slave- see what happens. Also check your bios settings, what are your IDE options and are they enabled or disabled, try default settings. You might be...

Try the xcopy32 command: xcopy32 C:\ . D:\ /e /c / h /r /k Or: xcopy32 C:\*.* D:\ /e /c /h /r /k Apply your own driver letters copy from to, e.g. C:\ to D:\, or D:\ to C: The xcopy32 command can copy hidden files etc. the switches are (e) copies folders, the ( C ) continues to copy after...

I think the AMD 2600 XP processor produces around 70 watts of heat and temps as you described are well within the normal range. You can go to www.amd.com if you are concerned, and need further data. Mike

Normally you should have D.C. Voltage of approximately 3v, 5v and 12v, the +2.45V Reading that you have is a little low. That might indicate that the power supply, or the on board power regular is not putting out the proper voltage. However software driven voltage-monitoring utilities are...

When doing an upgrade you should always run setup of the new operating system from with in the old system. In other words you boot up your old Win 98 system that is currently on the CPU hard drive, and after Win98 is fully up and running then pop in the Win 2000 pro disk and run setup from...

I have found that the best method in some situations is to copy the win98 folder to the hard drive and do the reinstall directly from the hard drive. You direct the install to go into the same Windows file folder if you want to have (keep) the same previous Windows settings. If however the...

The problem could have something to do with the chipsets/ drivers on the motherboard and chipsets/drivers on the add on IDE card. Slot placement and IRQs do come into play. The brand of add on card can make all the difference. We needed more IDE spaces for my son’s machine and all PCI slots were...

Do a right click on the desktop and go down to properties and click on the button. In the display properties window click on settings. In the settings window click on the advanced button. In the video card properties window click on the adapter tab. In the adapter window click on the change...

Two suggestions: go into control panel and bring up modems, look and see if more than one modem is listed- delete those that do not seem correct. Also you can go into the system panel device manager and look at modems and other devices, delete those that do not seem correct. Or you can delete...

The problem does seem to possibly be related to the AGP slot connection. However, go into the bios and check you settings, make sure the, Primary Graphic Adapter” is set to “AGP” and “Enable”. Try graphic Win size at 64, and AGP 4x, (or 2x etc. Match slot and card settings) control enable- if...

Plug it in, and do a new hardware search and see if Windows will find the device and install it. Other than that, If it was me, I would do a web search about drivers for a parallel CD-ROM device. Good Luck! Mike

Sounds like a good power test failure- put the memory back in, unplug the power connector and IDE cable from the hard disk, then try to boot up. Proper pin alignment must be maintained on connections. Some IDE connectors are not keyed and the connection could be reversed. Also it is possible to...