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onedtent -- following your suggestion; however, "New and Open...Shortcuts" has a red X indicating 'Not Available'. I then looked at the Installation Options on my original retail CD and the "New and Open...Shortcuts" also has a red X there also. I was looking for this to possibly speed up the...

I am running Office Home & Student 2007 in Vista. I seem to be missing a feature called the Office Startup Assistant. I looked at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=826318 "Frequently asked questions about the Office Startup Assistant in the 2007 Office suites and in Office 2003" for more...

The power supply fan on my five year old HP Pavilion 760n failed some time back and the psu ran without any fan cooling for an indeterminate period, possibly as long as a year. It so happened that I have bought a totally new computer this year, so did not replace the old psu or fan. Once I...

Possibly indirectly related: a number of web sites and forums report that a 32 bit operating system cannot usefully use 4GB of RAM. Some reports are that anything over 2GB are wasted, but other reports say that something closer to 3GB can be useful. In my own case, I have 2GB of RAM and a core2...

I appreciate the various advice from you all, especially the electric shock warning. I will probably not attempt to replace the power supply or fan, as I don't have that kind of skill. I will be replacing the whole desktop very soon. This is a very helpful group, thanks!

This is very interesting...I did your 'toothpick assist' test. I was able to move the fan blade with the toothpick, but it was not at all free-wheeling. After several nudges with the toothpick, it began turning slowly on its own, and after continued nudging, is now spinning at what seems like...

Computer: HP Pavilion 760n desktop; five years old Power Supply: HiPro I have just noticed that the fan on this power supply is not running, but do not know how long this has been the case. The area around the grill is warm to the touch but not ‘hot’. The computer is running normally, no...

The offending discs played fine in a separate computer yesterday. So..maybe I have a flaky, but not defunct CDRW in my computer that works unless the discs are also flaky? I am in business for now, will post again if more info. John

For reasons I don't understand, I inserted one of the offending discs into my CDROM just to try it again, and it read fine, and I was able to transfer the files to my hard drive...had tried multiple times previously, but now it works...not aware of having done anything to fix the problem...I...

To make a long story concise: my CDROM drive works fine with most discs (music, data, programs); however, two data discs recorded by someone else will not work. The discs have Word and Excel files. Things that happen (or don't) after inserting either of these discs are: -the drive appears to...

Trying to polish off this thread... garebo suggests I try format c: after fdisk. Result is "Invalid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable. Format terminated". I also tried format d: and format e: with the messages "Invalid drive specification". I have tried using the...

Hi guys. I am in process of obtaining another Quantum hard drive, since the two I have not yet responded to our ministrations. Actually (and this is a bit funny), I have bid on a package of three, yes 3!, Quantum Fireball TM 3.8GB drives in a package on Ebay. The total price was about what I...

...same capacity, 3.8GB. Earlier postings in this thread were about my attempt to make the new hard drive work. My last post is about work on the *original* hard drive. I have been trying to 'flash' the bios as suggested. Here are results of recent experiments with that original drive...

...with zeros. Fifth Test: Advanced Test Scanning the drive.... LBA: 0 Blocks: 0 Read verify command failure, uncorrectable ECC. (Whole Disk Scan) *Note difference from Third Test This drive has failed one or more tests. If you do not have a backup of the data, please do so now if possible. You...

Hi y'all. Appreciate the recent advice. I see two things you are suggesting: 1. Try replacing the ribbon cable. 2. Flashing the BIOS. I have hesitated before trying these options, mainly because it has seemed that the present BIOS and ribbon cable have properly recognized the...

garebo asks whether I have changed out the IDE ribbon cable. No I have not. Because the BIOS is able to correctly identify the *old* drive, I have assumed that it is ok. That is a good point, perhaps I should try changing it out anyway. I counted the pins on my cable and there are 40, of which...

...recognize the refurbished disk manufacturer on one out of five power ups. LATER NOTE: it now appears that on about one of five powerups, the BIOS *does* recognize the new hard drive as QUANTUM FIREBALL... But next power off/on does not recognize the drive. Perhaps the problem is an...

Houston Chronicle writer Dwight Silverman reviewed the latest ATI cards in a recent column. Here is the web reference: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/tech/weekly/1604419 John Hanley

...is the position to use it as a Master drive. There is only one hard drive in the system. The Quantum line is now marketed by Maxtor. 2. With the *old* hard drive positioned in the case, the BIOS recognizes it and labels it as Primary IDE Master [QUANTUM FIREBALL]. With the *new* drive...

TedM was kind enough to email me a W95 Bootdisk File to create an A:\ drive boot disc, on my good computer, for the old Sony. Here is how I proceeded. I followed the instructions below, but have gotten stuck again, at the place where noted: "I know you don't know me, so be cautious here...