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    Floppy Drive started activating on shutdown

    Sorry to come in late on this one!! I seemed to remember having this issue with some systems after saving to a floppy (which you mentioned you may have been saving/accessing files on floppies lately). Try to save a file to your hard drive and then shut down. Alternately, you could clear your...
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    Control Panel error message - CWBMSGBX.DLL

    geeze, sorry mattjurado -- I had not looked at the link you posted, but it is nice to see that those recesses of my brain seem to have been on the right track!! Nice catch on that one! Mudskipper ----------------- Groucho said it best- "A four year-old child could understand this...
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    Control Panel error message - CWBMSGBX.DLL

    This seems vaguely familiar...did this computer every have Client Access installed on it (for IBM AS/400 emulation)? If so, maybe try to re-install and uninstall it again so that it correctly cleans itself up...? Mudskipper ----------------- Groucho said it best- "A four year-old...
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    Shaggy Dog Stories

    Okay, okay...this is long, but hear me out! This one works better with an accomplice. Your friend (in my case, it was my brother) tells you to relay to the group of people what you did to the cat when you were little. If you protest too much, then any group of people will naturally want to...
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    How many times we abbreviate and then expand a little of that ?

    I hope that you don't mind my reviving an old thread. Recent conversations have brought this issue to the forefront of my thoughts!! Right or wrong, acronym abuse is one way that you can make a really bad impression with me. I would be hard pressed to hire a hardware technician that replaces...
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    Microphones not working

    I'm assuming that you are using some version of Windows, here.... In the Volume control, did you change the options (properties) from Playback to Recording before you checked to see if the mic was muted? ....I've seen many people miss this setting.... Mudskipper ----------------- Groucho...
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    Dial Up Networking Problem

    Actually, when you first start up Windows, does it ask for a password? If so, and you hit "escape" or click on cancel, then Windows won't save the DUN passwords. If so, then this is very fixable. Mudskipper ----------------- Groucho said it best- "A four year-old child could...
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    Misunderstood Song Lyrics - that make sense...

    Okay, I can't resist--how many of you out there also really thought that Hotel California by the Eagles went like this: "On a dark desert highway, Cool Whip in my hair..." Mudskipper ----------------- Groucho said it best- "A four year-old child could understand this! Quick! Run...
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    Cyan/white problem on Intel 82852/82855 graphics controller

    Hmmmm.... I once worked on a desktop that got garbage all over the screen, but only when drivers were loaded up. After alternate drivers were tried (and failed), we swapped the video card out for an identical card, and all was well. We could only figure that a portion of video RAM was being...
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    New Power Supply and NOTHING!!!

    I've also had that problem when the switch on the back (110v v.s. 220v) was in the wrong position.... Mudskipper ----------------- Groucho said it best- "A four year-old child could understand this! Quick! Run out and find me a four year-old child: I can't make heads nor tails out...
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    Computer does not start for more than 1 second

    ...check the back of the new PSU to ensure that it is set properly (if yours has a swtich) between 220 and 110... Check to ensure that your CPU fan is plugged into the CPU fan power tap on the MB. It seems like it should be simple, but there are many things that it could be!! Those...
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    Curious display issue

    Geeze. All that typing for a "duh". The doggone thing was installed in 98/ME compat. mode for some stinkin' reason and was set to run at 256 colors..... Oh well...you can bet that I won't forget to check that next time.... Mudskipper ----------------- Groucho said it best- "A four...
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    Curious display issue

    I have a really interesting problem, and I'm completely stuck -- can anybody offer an insight here?! A friend of mine is running Windows XP Pro. Everything was running fine (so I am told), when one day the software for the printer starts acting up. Supposedly, nothing really changed (but...
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    CD-ROM not recognized in windows

    bwadding-- Have you, by chance, gone into safe mode and looked through the device manager to verify that you don't have duplicate entries relating to the IDE controllers? Also, have you removed them from safe mode and restarted? TT4U suggested this earlier, and I'm curious to know if you tried...
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    98se - Floppy won't in windows work but will in dos mode

    I would also be curious to know if you can read the floppy from Safe Mode...? Mudskipper ----------------- Groucho said it best- "A four year-old child could understand this! Quick! Run out and find me a four year-old child: I can't make heads nor tails out of this!"
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