Recent content by CloudRanger99

JP in NZ, do you have IE running when you experience the lockup? I guess you do, since Task Manager (produced by Ctrl+Alt+Del) lists it as a running process, but I not going to assume. And are the lockups experienced only when running Office 2K ... i.e., is there a specific combination of...

Appears that after visiting some web site, my IE was modified. It now has a new toolbar underneath the Address Bar. This new Toolbar is listed as Accessories under the View|Toolbars of the main menu bar. This Accessories toolbar has an empty search field area for keywords and rectangular...

Hello, I recently had an unzip trial offer application program expire. I am trying a new unzip program now. The old one had an installer. The new one does not, it is just an EXE file. After installing the old unzip program, I noticed that everytime I double clicked on a ZIP file, this...

I went backinto FDISK and simply made the partition on the second Hdd a Primary and this resolved the issue of the 2.5 GB drive showing up as a 4 GB drive. Not to look a gifthorse in the mouth, I do not plan to pursue this anymore. I am sure there is a basic arcitechtual reason creating a...

I found out the motherboard manual was wrong and it depicted the Primary controller and Secondary controller in reversed positions. I swapped the Hdd cable and the BIOS's Auto Detect setting saw the hdds as Primaries now. I also discovered that the second hdd was not jumpered correctly thus...

I recently installed a second IDE hdd on a old WIN98 machine. It's a 2.5 GB Samsung (WU32543A). But FDISK and WIN98 see it as a 4 GB hdd. In the beginning, I initiated Large Hdd Support to start the FDISK session. Switched over to the second drive. Deleted the previously created partition on...

Hello, I recently purchased a used, working computer. Upon closer inspection, within the Award BIOS, I noticed that the only Hdd was configured as a Master on the Secondary conroller. However, according to the mobo manual, this one and only Hdd is physically connected and jumpered as a Master...