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Thank You for your responses. Last year when this pc came in it needed a hdd. It did not have any disks. I contacted HP and they sent me a new set. They worked fine last year but when I went to use them now they said not for this model. I contacted HP and they told me to del partition and create...

Hi, Last year I was fixing a HP Pavilion A350n in my shop. I needed to replace the hdd. The hp did not come with recovery disks and the customer did not make them with the application recovery disk maker. I ordered disks from hp and they worked fine. The computer has come in again because of...

also want to add that I tested the ac adapter and it is putting out 19v. Also that sometimes it would boot and there would be the windows sound other times no sound. Now it won,t boot. Also, when it boots it boots to the hp flash screen and you see HP then it shuts down. also tried memory in...

Hi, I have a HP Pavilion N4515 Notebook that will not boot. When I turn it on the lights go on and I hear it begin to run, then it turns off. It makes no sound to indicate any failing parts. I have tried it with the battery in and out. I have removed the HDD and tried it, also swapped with...

I have a Microsoft wireless router MN500 connected to a cable modem connected to a Dell desktop running W XP Pro upgraded from W98 with a RJ45 NIC installed 256 MB RAM. Also a Sony Vaio laptop with XP home and a Microsoft wireless notebook adapter MN520 and an Acer laptop with a Centrino and...

Hi, I have a Gateway Profile 3. I opened the case to replace the cd. When I put the case back on the eject button for the pcmcia card slot was not ligned up and it popped off. The mechanism that slides back and forth to eject the card fell of and I cant put it back together. I need a picture of...

Hi, I set up a p2p network. The pc acting as server is running W98 and the workstation is running W95. The reason for this p2p is to share a proprietary software for a mall store. Someone else started this project and was going to use direct cable connection and two Netgear FA310TX NICS. When I...

Hi, Thanks for the answers. I am not sure what you mean by auto detect of the media. Also would you explain netmask. these new machines are on the same network using either thinnet or coax and are not connected to a hub. the cable is ok. The other machine connects to the network at the station...

Hi, I had a network that is using bnc connectors with coaxial cable(a dual nic bnc, rj45). Previously three systems(win 95) were running fine. I built two new systems running win 98. I installed the same nic in each. The nic is a dual rj45 and bnc. It connected to my network in the lab using the...

Error loading user.exe reinstall windows I ran sfc on a system running W98 SE. I got a message that user.exe is corrupted and that I should restore it. I tried to restore it from the W98 disk but it could not find it. I made sure it was looking in the right location. Then I thought if I went...

Hi, I wanted to load win95 onto a packard bell 486 computer running win for workgroups. I looked at the recovery disks and the multimedia cd and multi media master cd and thought I was going to be able to restore the system after I fdisk and format. After doing the fdisk and format the axcel...

Hi, Go to any search engine and type in A Plus brain dumps. Be aware that all information in these brain dumps is not correct. it would be wise to rely on several sources and compare information. www.coriolis.com is another good source for reference material.Also www.2test.com www.fargonews.com...

Hi, I am working on a laptop made by Chembook. It has a Celeron 366 with 64 mb of ram. The customer said he was getting an error message of Wait HDD. I did see the same message while I was working on it. The HDD seems to freeze periodically and the message Wait HDD in a small blue rectangular...

Hi,I went on a call to service a desktop that is running W/98 and is on a network. I am not familiar with networking and how it is all set up. The client attempted to run a backup and backup to a tape drive that is internal.When she did this scandisk automatically came up and required that she...