Recent content by Handy1

Ya, I numbed it on the forum. Saw it after I posted and copied to Vista. I thought I had used all of the Dell reinstallation disks but I'm not sure. I loaded e 3 disks but they were vague. One did say Drivers but not which ones. I reloaded the Vista disk again and it did see the hardware...

I finaly gave up dealing with Win 8 and reformatted my Dell laptop. After reinstalling Vista I can't go online anymore. I get the message "Not detection network hardware" and " No Wireless Network Adapter". I had no problems before the change. Could it just be coincidence that my wireless...

My wife got me a 1 terabite harddrive for Christmas A year ago. After less than 6 months it died taking a lot of my files with it. Upon internal examination, it would appear that the onboard power supply failed. Burn marks evident on the pc board. As Western says component parts are...

I finaly gave up dealing with Win 8 and reformatted my Dell laptop. After reinstalling Vista I can't go online anymore. I get the message "Not detection network hardware" and " No Wireless Network Adapter". I had no problems before the change. Could it just be coincidence that my wireless...

I tried to buy the cradle from the online link you provided but they are out of stock. I picked up an external usb hard drive case at radio shak. but it is usb 2.0 and the drivers wouldn't load to my 500 mhz pent III for some reason. So I'm sitting here at square 1 again. The local shop won't...

Hi Tony, Well you were right. Upon looking at my laptop with my glasses ON I noticed "F1+Alt to enter setup" written right there on the keys. So back to your original question, Bios does see the HDD. That seems good - right? I know your right about waiting to try and secure my info but I'm...

Thanks again Tony, I will try pulling the HDD Friday when I will have the time to stay with it, and if I can get that cradle you wrote of. In answer to your question, The 1st start-up page displayed says DELL has the Bios ver. and performs what I believe is a memory check. the it goes to a...

Thanks Tony, I'll try that. Do I need a particular cable to connect between my desk top PC and the laptop or is there a way to go dirrectly to the drive? Hank

I have a Dell CPi D300XT computer with P2 and 6.49gig IBM hard drive. When you boot, Windows XP starts to load, then the monitor goes blank and nothing else happens. At this point I loose Keyboard and mouse function. I can hear the drive spinning away but nothing on the screen. I know the cause...

I recently upgraded the Bios on my Gateway PC. The PC has a Celeron "A" 333MHz chip. I want to max out the RAM but don't know how much the new bios will support. Right now it has 128 MB of PC100 168 Pin Memory installed in 1 of 2 slots. The bios I am using now are AMI OAAKW040 dated 7/15/95. I...

Thanks Ed, Boy what a differance! I went on line and got new boot & Fdick downloads and everything clicked. 98 went right in. Now I have new bugs to contend with. 1st I tried to set-up my web browser so I could download all of the MS updates. They'll probably fill my 1.2 gig hd. But no...

Thanks Ed, And thanks for always being here. I fdisked and reformatted but can'y get it to boot from CD. I set CDROM as primary boot drive in Bios but it keeps asking for a bootable disk. I've tried 2 differant 98 cd's (for new PS's) with the same result. This machine is old. Pentium Pro, 200...

I know, why would I?. Well, I have 2 machines side by each. 1 has 98 the other 98SE. The 1 with 2nd had the install program on the c drive (no cd). I tried to connect the 2 machines, via direct connect to move the Win98se file over to the other machine prior to reformatting, without success. I...

I'm looking at my sons computer to try to rid it of the nasties while he's away in jolly old England. He must have loaded the accelerator program at some point and who knows where this daosearch thing comes from. I've tried my old standbys, Spybot, ad-aware etc.. to no avail. How can I clean...

Thanks Stu, but no luck. The only think it is still doing is attempting to call out. It can't get out so it keeps opening new iexplore.exe progs. which bogs down the whole system till I have to reboot. Wish I could tell where the dial out request was originating. As this is taking way to much...