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Hello, A couple of months ago we had lightning strikes and several of our PCs were affected. I've replaced parts and all of them are OK except my son's PC. When I push the power button nothing happens. No fans come on, no beeps, NOTHING! So I thought the PSU was bad. Replaced it with a brand...

My dad's PC will not connect to anything using IE. Every address returns "Page cannot be displayed" message. However, if I go to command line and ping something it comes back with a reply. Doing "ipconfig" returned a strange name in the DNS Suffix field. I didn't write it down but it was...

Hello, We had some pretty heavy storms here the other day with lots of lightning. It really did a number on the pcs, laptops, xbox, etc. in the house. It "fried" the NICs of all the computers connected to the network whether they were turned on or not. It also seems to have hosed the linksys...

Hello, I just finished putting together a new PC using this motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813127029 When it boots up it doesn't recognize my CD/DVD drive. I know the drive works because I just took it out of another PC where it worked fine. I've checked...

Hello, I am building a gaming PC for my 15 year old son for Christmas. A lot of the games he likes to play just don't work well on the pc he has been sharing with his siblings. My budget is about $700. I'd love to hear feedback so I avoid mistakes and get the best possible system for the...

Hello, I have PaintShop Pro X. In old versions, when I would choose Eraser tool and started erasing it would make the erased area the color I had selected in the background properties. Now when I erase it makes the area transparent. In other words, it shows the checkerboard pattern. This makes...

Hello, I just upgraded a PC from Win98 to XP Home Edition. After upgrading, I installed Sims 2 for the kids. There was some kind of problem during the beginning of the install that asked me if I wanted to send the data to MS but there was no error messages that I saw. Even though the error...

Hello, I want to display a message like this: Day x of construction. To do this I want to have a function in a js file that takes two dates, calculates their difference and returns an integer value. I have a file called functions.js which has a bunch of functions I'm using in my site. One...

Hello, I had outgrown my old case so I moved everything into a new case. When I try to boot up it won't boot. During bootup I can see that it detects my hard drives but when it tries to boot it displays message: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and press ENTER" My configuration is...

Hello, My hard drive has started "cranking" a lot lately. Whenever I try to do anything on it the hard drive activity light stays on and I can hear the drive cranking. I tried doing a defrag but it didn't seem to make a difference. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for...

Hello, I have a Win98 pc that will NOT recognize the mouse or keyboard. It boots up and stops at a warning message that says... "Windows did not detect a mouse attached to the computer. You can safely attach a serial mouse now..." I've rebooted the machine. I've unplugged and plugged...

Hello, Just upgraded home pcs to XP. Can't figure out how to share whole drive between the computers. Went thru what I thought was the process but now I only have access to the "Shared Folders" section of each computer when trying to access from another computer in network. Any...

Hello, I wasn't sure if this was the proper forum for this but I didn't know where else to put it... After installing XP I installed MS Office. In my haste, I didn't uncheck the option to install Outlook so it overlaid the version that came with XP with the old version of Outlook. I've tried...

Hi, I'm wondering if it is possible to tell UltraDev what permissions to use when "putting" files on the remote server. I have a site defined where my local machine is NT and my remote is a Solaris box. When I create a file locally and then check it in it is placed on the Solaris...

Hello, I know that there must be a way to eliminate the login prompt but I cannot figure out how to do it. Anyone know how? Thanks! PS - I know I can just hit escape key and it'll take me to the default desktop but I'm looking for a way to keep the prompt from coming up at all.

Hello, I'm sure this is a really simple thing for someone who has done it before but I can't figure out what I need to do in order to add a 2nd hard drive to my pc. I bought a new pc with a hard drive but I want to reuse the hard drive from my old pc. I've installed it in the case, connected...

Hello, I have an AMD Athlon 950 PC running win98 that has decided to stop booting up :( It wouldn't boot from the hard drive so I thought maybe I had a bad hard drive, virus or something like that so I tried a boot disk. It gets to the point where it displays this message and then nothing...