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good luck finding pc66 ram unless you look online. try Kingston memory or Crucial "Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when land sharks start circling the boarders you can just cut them off at the corners?" - Aesop Rock

it may be trying to scan the floppy drive on shutdown and hanging when it finds no media "Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when land sharks start circling the boarders you can just cut them off at the corners?" - Aesop Rock

wester digital do have a very high failure rate as of late, the store where i work stopped selling them because of this. "Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when land sharks start circling the boarders you can just cut them off at the corners?" - Aesop Rock

disconnect or remove all non vital components, all you need to get video is Motherboard, Processor, Videocard, Power Supply and Ram. then power try to power it up. also if that does not work re-assemble it out side the case, the motherboard could be shorting due to contact with the case...

it sounds like a motherboard issue "Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when land sharks start circling the boarders you can just cut them off at the corners?" - Aesop Rock

make sure that there is not a print job pending from this machine. other wise it wont let you remove it if has a print job cached. "Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when land sharks start circling the boarders you can just cut them off at the corners?" - Aesop Rock

there are usb to lan adapters, they work great! "Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when land sharks start circling the boarders you can just cut them off at the corners?" - Aesop Rock

it sounds like the make file is corrupted. you may want to try downloading the file(s) again from another source and try it again. Or you missing something that make file needs. look at the read me files and check your dependancies "Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when land...

it depends,in the bios, there may be an option to disable onboard video. that is usually if the video is onboard and the system has an open agp slot. if it only has pci slots chances are you may be out of luck. what kind of computer is it. "Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when...

it is true, i learned by trial and error. for some people that does not always work. some people need to be pointed in the right direction. i wasnt taking a shot at you edemiere, you do make a good point. ;) "Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when land sharks start circling the...

People always replying RTFM is one of the reasons newbies stop trying learn linux and other non MS operating systems. we should try to be a little more supportive of those who seek answers we may have already discovered ourselves, knowledge is a resource, share the wealth. phpdude is in the...

er... so i forgot to say, yes the new centrino chips are faster and use consume less power which means more battery life "Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when land sharks start circling the boarders you can just cut them off at the corners?" - Aesop Rock

the centrino processor may be marked at a slower megahertz but actually perform alot alot like the 2+GHZ processors because they have 1MB of cache on the processor, the reason that they dont mark them faster is because the dont want to Rip the AMD marking scheme. the core clock of a 1.2 centrino...

not unless you download a program that can correctly identify your chipset (i forgot the name of the program) "Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when land sharks start circling the boarders you can just cut them off at the corners?" - Aesop Rock

I would disable plug and play, and find the correct drivers manufacturer. Sometimes windows generic drivers dont work right. "Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when land sharks start circling the boarders you can just cut them off at the corners?" - Aesop Rock