Recent content by jayjaykay

When I have prbs like this I try this. grap yourself a copy of linux knoppix www.knoppix.net,( if you havent already got one) boot it up with your hard drive and see if it is accessible, if it is you can simply reformat it, or put your dodgy hard drive into a pc running a healthy windows...

badbigben has hit the nail on the head, this mobo needs to have balanced ram, especially if you have set the board up up to use ram interleaving, it never likes unbalanced values. I had a clietn try and do this very thing. Either use all 512 or 1gig Jim

Make sure that your motherboard And or bios is set to a compatible ram rate eg 133 266 400 etc, mismatched fsb/ram rates could be the problem, with your blue screen probs.

Movies and media stuff Mac is the only way to go, supports more formats easier to navigate, slick interfacing solid operating system, look at it this way Microsoft movie maker is more of an add on and is useful for having a play , where as the mac was built for multi medai applications - no...

Are you sure these are firewire ports and not USB? if they are fire wire ports and not being recoginised in your devices list , it may be that they are not enabled in your bios setup. Get into your bios set up and make sure Firewire support is enabled. Jayjaykay

The simply way would be to lock down USB access from within the bios

I have had this very problem, it is the generic USB contoller software that is integral to XP, thats why it will work on your other machines because hey use 3rd party drivers. As above delete and reinstall fron the devices menu or how I did it was to run the win XP disc and go for the repair win...

When you boot from your xp cd, your system will be checked, for exsisting operating systems and particions, here you can delete or create new particions. you will then be given the options of how to format your newly created particions options are, Fat 32 or NTFS both options have a (quick)...

Yes got into safe mode, but into safe mode and its still a problem, but not the same message in safe mode message reads " Privacy expert module system failure code 089" I think this may be a mbr problem that is looking for another ( Spyware,adware prog etc) but is unable to locate it due to...

Hi All I have a customer, who is in a panic with a locked up pc running windows Xp Pro, on start up it all looks A ok but then when loaded produces a window with the following statement "PRIVACY EXPERT 7 SCREEN CO-ORDINATOR" and nothing else, this has locked down the entire system, I have...

If you have not already solved your problem it may be worth noting that some m/boards (Unfortunatly I dont know specific models off hand,) but I do know that some abit and asus m/b have a cut off sensor that shuts down your pc automatically to stop damage if it senses that you machine is...

I have recently serviced & re installed win 98se on two different Dell TX500 desktop machines, both of these have and do suffer with random shutdowns of varying degrees, I have checked the power managment set up on both, and all looks well. Does anyone know something that I Don't about this...

When you reboot your system you will get a menu of which os system to boot. For more info on booting systems in win 2000 go to start-help-and- dual booting in the search box, from the related topics it will tell you how to set either of the systems as the default os system at boot up.

I have done some research on this if only out of curiosity. I wont bore everyone with the statistics of it all. but on a performance / Ram size debate I ran the same machine with 256 512 and 768 and found the maximum performance difference between all three ram amounts as follows 256 - 512ram...

I have a toshiba tectra 510cdt laptop, which has been running Win nt4, I have deleted & reformated the hard drive in order to reload win98 se but I can't get it to boot from 98 start up disk in the floppy drive, it won't even give me a dos prompt to work with, just a flashing cursor line in the...