Recent content by mrsttn

Thank you for the explanation, so I did not loose any memory from my hard disk based on your definition. But the thing still looks strange because I would have actually gained memory based on your definition. I took your definition of 1GB under win OS (1,073,741,824) and multiply by 76GB shown...

I re-formatted my 80GB hard drive to NTFS (it was NTFS before) using the format command under windows explorer on my PC running win2000. I left all options in default. It took almost 4 hours to complete, and I now have only 76GB. What happened? This does not look right. 4GB is a lot to...

I installed an old graphics card and was able to boot up my PC. Apparently the built-in video card was grilled so having a separate cideo card now helps solve the problem, so I didn't need a boot disk after all. My Device manager is now complaining about missing Multimedia Controller Driver...

Thank You, Pweegar and marcs41, for the suggestions. Yes I get your point, and learn the lesson the hard way. I will never, never never unplug my PC again. I was able to turn off my PC, waited 5 minutes, and rebooted again. Still getting the black screen. Literally black whole with nothing...

Thanks for the suggestion. However, my PC did not boot up when I inserted the window 2000 installation CD in the drive. I still got the black screen, and it would not show me the option to boot from CD-Rom. I double checked my monitor by plugging it into another working PC and the monitor...

I have a 600 MHZ celeron processor with windows 98 on it. I decided to rebuild it with windows 2000. The rebuild went fine, however, win 2000 had progrems with my graphics display, because the screen came up distorted on the upper half portion of the the monitor. I then went into safe mode...