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It's coming through the mb speaker because I still haven't configured my sound card and I have no audio yet. I know the chime notification sound that you are referring to and it's not that. thanks.

Hi Linney, there are no enties in event viewer that correspond to the beep in OE. There are some warnings in there: WinMgmt, event-5603, user-SYSTEM: Userenv, event-1517; WinMgmt event-63 but not sure what they mean. I just opened OE again and as soon as a new email downloaded into my inbox...

Hi all, I reinstalled fresh from the Dell disk. Everything was perfectly normal except I get one single beep (sometimes) when I delete an email or change to another identity. Computer was getting 11Mbps download speeds and was blazing like I haven't seen in a long time. I started updating and...

thanks for the replies. Usb wireless kybd/mouse work fine, it was just the ps2 kybd that caused that noise. I had a suggestion to try ctrl + esc when it is trying to boot but that didn't seem to do anything but it might have cause a BSOD to come up for the first time. The error was a stop called...

Might be a mouse issue but still not sure. I dug up 2 old ps-2 kybds. I was using a MS usb wireless mouse/kybd which I removed after shutdown. When I tried each ps2 kybd with a ps2 mouse, I got a rapid beeping on power on. The only continuous beep I found in the bios code tables said...

Thanks for the reply. I disconnected a usb webcam, no help. I ran malwarebytes fast scan and it found 26 items, including installers and a few trojans, and removed them. I then did a deep scan and it found 3 more installers. I was hoping this was the cause of the freezes but I rebooted as it...

PS-more info...malwarebytes ran a check and found all kinds of errors so I did try to download and purchace it for $29.95, but when I completed the credit card section another verification window popped up and wanted my ATM pin. That's a new one on me. I tried to enter it a few times and the...

OK, went to that website and don't really want to pay $49.95 for Windows repair/cleanup etc. Also I found no references to memory or hard drive checking on that website. I did not know that my logs can't be analyzed until I test my memory and hard drive. Is that what you are saying ? Do you...

Hi, I'm running in safe mode because my xp pro won't boot up. It gets the the XP splash screen with the status bar then after about 15 seconds goes to a graying blank screen with only a mouse pointer. Sometimes the pointer moves and sometimes it freezes after movng it for a few seconds. I was...

Jumping the pins did nothing. This computer was on borrowed time anyway (9 year old first gen celeron!)and not worth any more time or money put into it because in my town, good working PIII 833 towers are going for $50-60, and older p4's are about $100, so I'll go with one of them and she'll be...

thanks Tony, so I guess the next thing to look at is the power supply ? I guess I can't check voltage output since nothing comes on. Any suggestions other than trying a new power supply ?

PS: The reason that I am focusing on the power switch is because the owner of the computer said that the switch starting sounding "scratchy" when it was pressed after the computer started not turning on.

Hi, I'm trying to get on an old HP Pavillion 8650C working. (1999 !) When I had the computer plugged in, depressing the power switch did nothing so I did a continuity check of the switch circuit after removing the plug from the pins on the board. The user said the computer just stopped turning...

I thought that you made 2 partitions to put separate the system folders and files and the user data folders and files. I guess I should have just made a C: and a D: on one partition, right ? I'm a little rusty with loading OS's It's just an 80G drive and I believe there's no issue with a bios...

acewarlock, sorry I wasn't clearer stating one physical drive w/2 partitions. Freestone and Linney, thx for the clear explanations. I will suggest to the computer owner to start fresh. I'll read up on the links. There was one other issue. Originally we wanted to use the disk to upgrade the...

Hi all, I'm new to loading XP onto a computer. (Hey, I didn't get a VCR until 1992 ! ) I just did a full installion of a licensed copy of XP, and I created and partitioned a C: and a D: drive. I didn't see anything about setting a primary drive or as the active drive, (like on a W98 using...

thx for your post Tony. As easy as it was to navigate to that, I hadn't ever thought of that access path. pretty cool. I'll keep your secret, ha ha ..sshhhhhhh

Task Manager never comes up. The small warning box comes up on the desktop only, TM doesn't open at all. He'll probably wipe the drive. I don't see how he can run any a/v or a/spy if he can't click on anything. Even if he tabbed to the address box (if there is one on the task bar) it seems...

Just wanted to comment on Spybot S&D and free Ad-aware. I've used spybot for about 5 years, as well as free adaware. And like tony, i use trend micro house call and free AVG. On the hardware side I have a simple dlink 11b router with the new version cable modem. I haven't had any problems with...

goombawaho,thx for the task mgr link. maybe he can click on the desktop and then use the tab button to get down to the task bar and the address box if it's activated. Thanks everyone for the replies and suggestions. I'll show him this thread tomorrow at work and probably reply back.