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    Serial Mouse Will Not Work!

    I think you have possible resource conflicts between built-in ports and ports on add-on card. Try to disable built-in ports and look what happened.
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    Windows 2000 & Hibernation

    Yes of course. Some drivers does not support hibernation. Also check up free space on your disk - the HDD have to contain enough free space for HIBERFIL.SYS file which size have to be equal to RAM size.
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    PCI Controller vs. MaxBlast2 - which is best?

    NightOwll i440BX chipet have an integrated PCI IDE controller with no more than UDMA33 support. The native BIOS have HDD size limit at 32 GB, after upgrading the BIOS the limit will be 137 GB (may be; if you will found the new BIOS image). If the BIOS will be reflased you will be able to use...
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    escd wont update after installing nic

    greyowl71 Do you have the configuration utility for NICs? Sometime it's possible to run this utility in DOS with NIC installed and chande default settings in NIC's configuration flash...
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    Heatsink and Vibration

    Replace the fan or entire cooler.
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    escd wont update after installing nic

    To resolve the hardware conflict set back BIOS parameter "Resources Controlled By" to default (Auto) and try to install the new NIC in different PCI slots. Read information provided on screen as a PCI devices listing and check all devices and IRQ line used by each. Don't install the...
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    Intel BX chipset MOBO memory problem

    Using REGISTERED DIMMs influences on the full memory size, that is 1 GB RAM you can have only without memory controller's lines overloading. REGISTERED modules create much smaller loading and consequently using of them allows to use full capabilities of i440BX in addressing memory. i440BX...
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    Intel Mobo incompatability

    Be sure correctly set the voltage switch on new PS (115/230 V).
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    Intel BX chipset MOBO memory problem

    Hi guys!!! Look here: http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/29063301.pdf (Intel® 440BX AGPset: 82443BX Host Bridge/Controller Datasheet) page iii: Integrated DRAM controller — 8 to 512 Mbytes or 1GB (with registered DIMMs) — Supports up to 4 double-sided DIMMs (8 rows memory) —...
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    W98 SE Explorer doesnt show Drive letter for Secondary SCSI HDD

    You have formatted the second HDD width Adaptec SCSI adapter BIOS. It is LOW LEVEL format fro the drive, but not partition created. Run fdisk, select 2nd HDD and create partition. Reboot. The run Explorer, right-click on new disk (9.1 GB) and choose Format. After this you will be able to use new...
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    HDD doesn't boot on first try, boots fine on 2nd try though (almost)

    pmonett How much power your PSU produce? I think you need at least 300 W PSU. And disable Fast Boot parameter in BIOS - give to your HDD the time to be prepared to work.
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    Parity Memory error

    Check the memory and, if bad memory found, replace it. To test memory visit to http://www.simmtester.com and download DocMemory Software. Make the bootable diskette as described in manual, boot from it and test the memory.
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    windows version selection prompt during boot up

    You can edit file boot in boot disk root.
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    COM Port Problem

    First of all, check up the software, what port (COM1 or COM2, ...) it uses. Try to select another port it the settings. If it's impossible, check up quantity of ports in system. If your new computer has built-in video and only one COM port on the back panel, it doesn't mean the system board has...
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    Windows98 and Samsung monitor drivers

    Try to delete both monitors from device list and let the system to find one again.

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