Recent content by garbageman

I am using a Compaq Deskpro 4000, 133MHz with a Maxtor hard drive 1.6 Gig. running Windows 95. After the PC has not been used for approx. 15-20 mins. the drive appears to be frozen, no keyboard or mouse. Have to turn PC off and back on to use PC. Other than this PC works great. So far have...

kb224 and fenris, I should have mentioned that I have the Microsoft Office 97 Pro Suite, but have Wordperfect 6.1 as another wordprocessor because I like some of the features. Any time I have a dialog box open such as when you use FILE / PRINT and the dialog box opens to select print options the...

I am having trouble with my mouse moving too slowly. The mouse has been cleaned and works fine at the desktop (when no applications are open) however, when I move it up to over the buttons area at the top of my Wordperfect application it all of a sudden crawls as if in slow motion no matter how...

<b>edfair and bdux,</b> <br>&nbsp;The drive was not exact replacement, old drive was Western Digital 100 meg. replacement drive is conner (now Seagate ) 40mb from another old PC. Bios on IBM does not support drive geometry of replacement drive, there are 47 and none match.&nbsp;&nbsp;I copied...

Working with a 386 IBM, replaced with another drive. Copied programs over. When installed PC comes up great then gets error message. &quot;Serious disk error has occured while writing to drive C: Retry (r)?&quot; This occurs after the main menu of the program comes up, and I try to make a menu...

Thanks Jeff, it's kind of what I thought but really wanted some imput. People in this forum seem to be really knowledgable in this profession.

I am 41 years old, have recently completed my Associates Degree in Information Systems and have been in the Network and PC support area for 1 year now. I decided to change careers at 40. I have 10 years of prior Supervisory/Management experience under my belt. I want to progress in the...