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I'm pretty sure that the DVD part of the CD drive is gone. XP Pro won't acknowledge that the disk is in the drive. Is there anything I can do to get the drive to see the DVD?? It's sees the CD burner just fine. Both units are made by Sony. CSC Wheels [lightsaber]

Yup!! I'm getting messages I've created in triplicate back in my inbox in Outlook Express 6. I've also been getting varing msgs about server dificulties and the browser sometimes won't call up a page unless I click on "Try Again" I repaired explorer tonight so I'm waiting for the...

Fdisk the drive and nuke the partitions, then run the Quick restore CD again, be sure to follow the instructions given with the disk. Basically remember to use the Numlock key at the Compaq Logo and the numlock when the menu flashes. [lightsaber] CSC Wheels [lighsaber]

OK: First of all, boot into safe mode. To do this restart the computer and as it is running the POST, tap the F8 key until you are presented with a menu. Choose safe mode. You are now in a VERY BASIC OS. Next click on start then run and type in MSCONFIG In the window that pops up click on the...

Thanks Guys!! I put a newer MOBO in and the drive was detected and is running 98 fine on a 2 gig partition. I'll create a new boot floppy with FDISK on it and repartition it tonight. [lightsaber]

OK: My computer is a Celeron 433 on an Asus B2B-F MB. The HDD (10gig Fujitsu) began showing bad sectors on the disk, so I did what I could to get around them. When I rebooted the computer reported a boot disk failure. Fine, I bought a new WD 40gig and tried to install it. It won't show up in...

I just had a siliar problem occur. This could be the XP activation issue. The user must call Microsoft (Mickeysoft) and activate the OS officially. [lightsaber]

Hi Everyone!! Here's the problem. Compaq Presario (nuf said?) running XP and IE 6 trying to log into a Java based website. User gets logged in but when she tries to access a part of the website she needs she gets "NT authority is shutting down." [lightsaber]

Reboot the machine, asd it's starting up tap the F8 key until you are presented with a menu. choose safe mode, this will have the effect of loading a very basic windows OS with none of the fancy drivers or anything else. then once you arte in window, go to start, run, type in MSCONFIG and click...

Thanks guys, just brought them down into my home box. [lightsaber]

Could one of you fine people recommend a utility for cleaning up the startup list of unchecked items in W98. [lightsaber]

Try Scanreg /restore in DOS mode. You should be able to retrieve the registry from the day before the file was erased. [Lightsaber]

Somehow you would have to create a program that can read the date of the files to start with. From there you could either create a file with the file name in them and instruct winzip to zip the files mentioned therein or have them zipped on the spot. The problem you face is two fold. One is to...

Clean up your resources as well. To see how much is being used, right click on my computer, choose properties and then performance. The system resources should be no less than 70%. If the resources are below that then you need to do the following to clean them up. Start/run/msconfig Click on the...

My work is as a tech support person for a major Corp. Our callers are trying to log in to a web based app and getting the following error. N > or = to N We are all baffled by this one and would to know what this is and what to do with it. Calls are coming in, please help..... [lightsaber]