Recent content by lideho

I am working on a Compaq with a 24 pin connector on the motherboard and it is using a power supply with a 20 pin connector. Is there a possibility of portions of the mobo not being serviced or underserviced by the power supply?

I would first try Belarc Advisor to id your motherboard.

In Display Properties, what monitor is listed? Changing to a generic svga monitor might help. I am not in front of a Win98 mqchine right now but I remember that being a problem every time I re-installed Win98.

Thanks for the replies bcastner: couldn't find a varient that did this NoobX: customer said last week. I didn't defrag it after reinstalling Win. Dakota81: I agree. I used the latest definitions available, too. bcastner: Thanks for the link. I agree with you and use 3 different antivirus...

I would try replacing the power supply first if their techies claim it is the likely problem. They are relatively easy to replace and cheap ($20-30 in my neighborhood). If you are in doubt about the power supply you need, remove it and take it to a local clone store.

I had a client this week with a unique problem. When he starts his computer with WindowsXP Home with SP2, instead of loading his startup items, a series of Notepad windows containing unreadable text are opened and something attempts to access the internet. Each window is titled...

Could be the cdrom in the 486 isn't capable of reading cdrw. If you only have 3MB of files, why not just use the floppy ?

Check the specs on the portable and see if it will play a vcd or svcd format. If it does you can convert the .avi's to .mpg's and burn them to these formats in nero.

If you have repartitioned the drive and haven't formatted or written to the drive, you might have luck with recovering the files using Tiramisu. I have used it on a newly repartitioned drive in the past and had great success with it. Dennis H.

Thanks, linney, that sounds like the problem although I couldn't remember the error number I got during the installation. I will look into it the next time I see the computer.

Thanks for your suggestions. Will try them the next time I see this computer.

After a failed installation of Norton System Works 2002 (the error messages said the installation program was unable to write registry keys), I went into the registry to manually remove the keys. The system refused to let me remove the keys in the Norton section of HKey_Local_Machine\Software...

You can try a data recovery software like Powerquests Lost and Found or Tiramisu.

Your system is: Primary Master= HD Primary Slave= None Secondary Master= CD Secondary Slave= HD ? This should work ok. Some CD drives have a problem as slaves. This was working before and not now? Have you tried putting both hard drives on the Primary and left the CD alone on the Secondary

Did you possibly change a jumper during switches (or lose one)?