Recent content by just1fix

Well I finally took these tests and got through the nervousness and passed A+Core, OS, and Net+ with a 636, 633, 638 respectively. Not bad for not working in IT at all, not yet anyway. I have gone to numerous sights (MCMCSE, PAssitnow, Actualtests, techexams, examcram) and took the practice...

I just scheduled to take the A+ and Net+ exams. Does anyone know if they can schedule these tests on Saturdays or early evening as I can't afford to burn vacation time for these as I have quite a few tests in the future as well. I asked ProMetric and the girl had no idea. Thanks again

Thanks for the info. Our instructors swear by Actualtests.com, which is where (supposedly) most if not all the actual questions are for Cert tests. Of course you have to pay $100 and only half of the questions give explanations on correct/incorrect answers. I also heard that MCMCSE.com is the...

I currently work in a health insurance company and our company is in the process of changing all computers to XP Pro because we were running 98 on all machines(about 600) and all computers are being changed to XP Pro as your OS needs to support NTFS v5. Anything below supposedly non-HIPAA...

Of course you can have all the knowledge in the world, but "HR Monkeys" like to see some type of training of work experience to get your foot in the door. One of best friends has an incredible amount of knowledge of networking as he has several servers in his house (gaming) but he does this...

I went to three different schools and one would give me about 6 hours, which is nothing. ITT would have given me 12, but I heard not so good things about them.

Just wondering for those of you who are going through formal training, what is a reasonable price to pay for certs vs. 4 year degree. The package that I have is instructor and online training with books and videos for A+, Network+, Server+, Security+, MCSA, MCSE, and CISCO (CCNA). My package...

Oops sorry, I have XP-Pro SP2 on all computers except for one downstairs in which I have 2003 Server Enterprise. On the router, DHCP is enabled (as well as the computers), SSID is enabled and all the computers have the same name. No security is enabled at all since I only use this for school...

I have a home-networking problem I'm a little stumped with. I have a total of four computers. One upstairs with a Motorola cable modem connected to a Links wireless router. The other three I have in the basement. All the matching cards are installed with the downstairs computers. I have had...

I have a home-networking problem I'm a little stumped with. I have a total of four computers. One upstairs with a Motorola cable modem connected to a Links wireless router. The other three I have in the basement. All the matching cards are installed with the downstairs computers. I have had...

I'm currently attending the Microsoft 2277B course, onward and upward for my MCSE, which I should accomplish just short of two decades from now. My instructor currently went over DNS Forward and Reverse lookup zones, Root Hints WINS Active registration partners, Push-Pull Replication. Can...

Got a ? on the CompTia exams. I am getting ready to take the A+ Core/OS. and the A+ Network next week. I understand that the scoring goes from 100 to 900 points. To pass you need to score around 500-525, depending on the exam. The passing score is in the middle range of the 100-900 points...

Thanks again for the info. I downloaded the diag utility for my hard drive (Western Digital HD) It didn't seem to do anything. What happens now is the disk will crap out when it says it is 100% formatted. I install 2003 Server or XP and an error comes up saying that HDD cannot be detected. I...

Thanks for the info Ski. I did this and it formatted the hard drive or I think it did. It said format 100% complete and then an error message came up saying that the hard drive incurred some problems and format could not be finished. Now when the computer boots up I see the cursor on the left...

Here's my problem. I have a Pent 4 Compaq computer with XP Home and I want to delete this format the hard drive and do a clean install of Windows 2003 Server. This is the only hard drive I have for this system. I have a CDROM and DVDROM drive, but I do not have a working floppy drive for this...