Recent content by shuckthecorn

I thought about that but why wont it recognize any hard drives. I even switch IDE ports and it still recognizes the secondary 2 but not the primary.

I just installed a new motherboard and it boots but will not recognize the primary or the primary slave. Then it says that there is a keyboard error. I have tried several keyboards and have tried several hard drives. I have cleared the cmos but cannot get into the bios setup due to not being...

Go to START - RUN -REGEDIT Inside regedit go to Edit tab and down to Find. Then type in one of the vxd errors that you are getting. It will find it in the registry and when it does you delete it. I just want to be sure they are the errors I listed in my prior post. Backup your registry to...

Did you install a NIC in the computer? Because an unclean NIC install smoetimes gives you vxd errors like: dfs.vxd, vredir.vxd, vnetsup.vxd and even a msnp32.dll error. If you are getting those errors you need to remove those vxd's from the registry trough regedit.

I went to install my wireless keyboard and mouse drivers and the installation didnt go well. The machine would only boot in safe mode, so I did and I removed the drivers that I had attempted to load. Now the machine boots to the windows opening menu, the flowing stripe on the bottom never...

My USB scanner wont allow me to install drivers. On boot windows recognizes an unknown USB device but won't take the scanners drivers. Any help with this would be appreciated.

My laptop gets on the office DSL perfect but when I get home to use the dial up it has a problem. It dials and connects but will not surf and I cannot get my e-mail. I check my connection properties and it shows that it is recieving. Would love some help...

When I go through My Computer and double click on my C: drive the window is empty. When I use explorer on it all the folders show up. I have made sure all is right in folder options and have used auto arrange to see if they'd snap back into the window. So even though it says there are 84...

I had an employee delete a customers address book in outlook express. I did a search for *.wab that only found a default address book that didnt have any entries. I wonder if any of you know any other way to try and track down where it is, if it is still somewhere on the hard drive. And yes I...

This is an office network where I have joined a laptop with XP. The server is running NT 4.0. I can access all the computers in the workgroup and I can access all the printers and fax machine on the server. But I get a message that tells me "access denied" when I try to access the c...

I have been put in charge of fixing a compaq that froze during an XP installation. It had to be forced to shut down and did not continue to install when re-booted. It just gets to XP's opening screen and eventually freezes. The XP compatability check was not run prior to install, incompatability...

Every time this computer boots it wants to restore the registry which sends the computer in a cycle that it cannot get out of. Thus the computer never finishes booting. Any ideas?

I just replaced the CMOS battery and computer booted right up!!!!!

My computer powers on and the hard drive rumbles for a second and then stops and goes no further. No beep and doesnt even get far enough to get into BIOS. I tried another hard drive and it did the same thing, I changed the power supply and it did the same thing. I re-seated all the pci cards...

I tried everything you all posted and it still doesnt work. It just has to be a bacd CR-R.