Recent content by tlow

You're all correct, I just needed someone to say it, I guess. Thanks again.

Hi, we'd like to upgrade the motherboard of an old HP Pavilion 8140 pentium/200 PC, I recently installed Win xp pro on it and now its slow. Is it posible to upgrade to a generic board so that it will run faster, if so what's the best type?. I also want to remove the OS, what's the fastest way...

Hi, I'm getting these errors messages "rundll.exe or msngr.exe" errors etc... each time I try to install hardware or software...it tends to freeze alot & need rebooting...what should I do? The PC runs on a Amd k6 cpu...I'm out of ideas other than reintalling the OS, only thing that...

I'm running win2k on a 5 year old HP Pavillion Pentium 200Mhz intel with MMX, 2M EDO video memory, 256k pipeline burst, I added another 64M edo 72 pin simm ram to the existing 64M, now the system shows a total 130,612kb but I do not notice any difference in speed, the graphics is really slow...

Sorry for the late reply, and thank you all techies out there with the really good and knowledgeable suggestions. Yes, you're right dxd, it was the BIOS setting. I re-set the BIOS default and it worked. Thank you all, Tony

Hi, When I play cd or mp3 music on Media Player or Winamp, it will stop frequently after playing a few songs. The CD-Rom will keep spinning and the harddrive light is on for a long time, then it start playing again for a few seconds and then stops again...it continues like this while the cd is...

Hi, Thanks to ayjaycee and dxd for your response. Now I'm unable to boot to the cd-rom or the floppy, but managed to delete the D partition with fdisk, however, when I tried to delete the primary dos partition C: It won;t allow me to delete. Message: "Could not change partition because the...

Hi, I'm running Win98, dual boot with Win2000, but it is does not load (some errors with ntkernal files etc). I'd like to format the 3 gig harddrive which has 2 partision C & D. I have a bootable WIN2000 CD but it will not let me install or format the harddrive. Error Message: Cannot format...