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My daughter has somehow managed to lose her CD-ROM in Windows 98. It was working ok a couple of days ago but now when she tries to access a CD it tells her the drive isn't accessible. I've looked at the startup and the BIOS detects the CD-ROM correctly. When I check W98 it says there isn't a...

My CD Rom drives aren't being recognized by windows. There also shown in the device manager as well in the Bios boot menu as being OK. However each gives an error that says the drives are not accessible and the device is not ready. The drives are new so I don't believe its a hardware...

I get the following system error " Unable to create a Node Manager. Make sure MMCNDMGR.DLL is registered" whenever I try to use windows defrag. What is the correct format to register a missing dll?

My hard drive are connected to a Ultra ATA/133 PCI controller card which provides additional two extra controller channels. The extra channels do not appear in the BIOS settings. How can I fdisk, and install an OS on the hard drive, connected to a PCI controller, if it doesn't appear in the...

My video card was replaced with a new ATI Radeon 9200, 8X AGP,128 DDR video card. The bios menu screens which are being displayed bounce severely until windows loads. This happens whether I'm restarting windows or starting from a cold boot. The description would be similar to hitting a...

I recently installed a Radeon 9200 SE video card which I used to replace a NVidia MX 4400 video card. By making this change went from a 4X AGP to a 8AGP. My motherboard supports it. Now during the boot cycle the menu jumps or has hiccups during that process. Otherwise everything else works...

I recently installed a Ultra ATA/ 133 PCI-to-ATA Host Controller. This controller was to be used to run my two hard drives and the on-board motherboard controllers are to be used to run the CDR. CDRW, DVD, Zip and floppy drives. What should the order be for the boot sequence? My hard drives...

How can I reset a BIOS that I have been locked out of because of a misplaced password. I have a Asus A7V8X-X Motherboard, with a AMD XP 2100 CPU. How can I reset the Bios to bypass the password requirement?

I want to upgrade my hard drive to a larger size and faster access to get better performance out my older system. I recently found a sale on hard drives which appear to be a good buy. Its a Seagate St118202LC, 18.2GB,SCSI, 10,000 RPM 4MB Buffer, Hard Drive for $16.00 found here...

Recently, when I try to logged on Windows will boot up for a second, then turn black then display scrolling colors in a vertical pattern on top of a black back round. Since I am unable to log on I can replace the video drivers which may be corrupt or need updating. In effect I am locked out of...

I'm considering purchasing a larger hard drive to replace my current 10GB HD. I noticed the specs for the Hard Drives are written as follows: W.D. Caviar SE 40GB 7200/8MB/ATA-100 EIDE Hard Drive. Besides being a 40GB Hard Drive what is the meaning of the numbers given?

For unknown reason, I have lost the active desktop feature in windows. When I log on the following error message appears "the file 'Show Desktop.scf' on (unknown)is needed". Also, when I right click on the taskbar all of the features are grayed out. The only option available to me...

I am unable to run scandisk. Everytime I attempt to run scandisk windows locks up. I have to reboot in order to unlock windows. I tried to run windows in the safe mode and scandisk will run until it begins to search for the allocation tables then stop. I able to restart by using the...

How can I reinstall quick launch without completely reinstalling windows 98SE? The following message appears when I open Windows: "The file 'Show Desktop.scf' on unknown is needed." With exception of quick launch and active desktop windows seems to work fine.

I have a Hewlett-Packard 970cse Deskjet Printer that is configured to use a USB cable. I have not been able to get the printer to work inspite of adding the latest drivers. There are no flags in the device manager. The following is displayed: USB Hewlette-Packard Deskjets- Deskjet070C...

I desparately need help in finding the correct file extension for yahoo mail. I'm trying to download my email onto a floppy disk but unable to find the correct extension to locate it on my hard drive.

I'm currently running windows 98 SE on two different hard drives, 11 and 13.6 respectively. After restarting the smaller drive "C" I received the following error message: " An operating system cannot be found ". My operating system had been working fine prior to shutting it...

How can the author link to or correct an existing thread? Note: A correction or addendum to posted thread and title.

I'm using Win98 SE with MSIE and MSOE 5. Both are severely corrupt and cannot be repaired. I haven't used either for weeks because neither will open without errors. I'm able to use other browsers however, with frequent error messages. Since I'm unable to repair,delete or update to a later...

I have and use two hard drives 13.6 and 20gigs respectively. Both are similiar but not exact. I use them as a backup to each other for when windows crash. On one of the drives, win 98 has become so corrupt, I am unable to reinstall windows over it to replace the corrupted files. Can I copy...