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Hi all A M8 has an Acer Aspire 1355LC laptop running WinXP Home SP2 When he boots up and try's to open a folder or open a Word file, initially it takes ages (up to 30 sec's) But after this they open very quickly ! This is a Athlon XP-M 2600+ with 256MB of DDR SDRAM so surely it should fly...

Hi All In trying to get a Win98 system to recognise a External Zip100 drive I installed a Via Busmaster driver, it didn't help but changed the Hard disk controller to a "SiS 5513 Dual PCI IDE Controller" which does not recognise the CD Rom either! How can I reinstall the drivers to the...

Hi All This is proving to be a real pain ! My home built XP Pro system consists of 2 80GB drives. The Main drive is partitioned in a 50 (OS), a 5 (Back Up) and a 20 (Ghost image area) A Slave drive consisting of 60 & 15GB partitions. I can quite happily make an image in the main drives 20 then...

Hi All I am just dipping my toe into the cold waters of Networking !!! If my setup has a SPI firewall can I ditch any other firewall's installed on any computers that use it ? I think I can guess at the answer but would like to be sure! Many THX Hag

Hi All I am thinking of setting up a wireless network to supply broadband to my house and two neighbours I have looked at Belkin, D-Link, US Robotics & the Linksys 54g Wireless Routers My head is now spinning with all the facts and figures (and Promises !) so thought it best to turn to people...

Hi all How do I make a floppy that boots up to the "A" prompt using the minimum of space so that I can add my collection of most used dos progs onto one floppy Have tried format with the "/b" & "/s" but the "/s" is not recognised, so how do I tranfer the...

Hi all PC World (spits!) have a Athlon 2600+ AMD Processor in a Box for just over £60.00 Is this a good deal ? (Dabs have it for £90.00) or is it already out of date as an upgrade ? If its a good'un which MOBO would you guys recommend ? THX All Hag

What error codes/reports are you getting ? If none and system auto-restarts you can turn this off to get a report Right click My Computer Select Properties > Advanced Startup & Recovery Settings Untick Auto Restart Then note error codes My guess is "Page_fault_in_non_paged_area" ! Hag

Hi all Our exchange has finally hit its trigger point & I am looking to get broadband ASAP ! To cut costs I am wondering about sharing the connection with next door (Both XP) Has anyone any experience of this ? Think wireless would be the easiest, would this be able to keep up with broadband ...

Hi All A m8 was given a OLD system which had Win95 installed Which I foolishly offered to install Win98SE for him Went through Device Manager and copied everything The CD Rom was in place and working I then did a format and using the startup disk and CD tried to install 98 The system starts up...

Hi all A M8 has uppped his memory by 128MB but it appears that the computer is only showing it as 64MB !!? His Mobo is a Intel AGP set FW82443LX which I believe equates to a 440LX ? Have been into the BIOS and changed the "OS select for DRAM >64" to OS2 (from "Non-OS2")but...

Hi All I am working on a scanned image of an old photo, the colours on the monitor match the original but when printed they are different. I have checked the profiles on the monitor, scanner & printer and all are the same and match the monitor. Any ideas ? Hag Monitor-Tatung C9R...

Does anyone know of any problems with modems and XP ? I have gone over to XP (from ME/98SE), nothing else has changed with my system , a 800MHz Athlon, 40Gb harddrive, 640Mb RAM, Radeon 8500LE, Intel 56K HaM Data Fax Voice Modem. Know when I try game over the net my ping stinks ! It wasn't...

Hi Am thinking of building my next computer ! I'm into Audio/Visual stuff and will need a minimum of 5 pci slots (ATX Tower ? 400w ?) Think I'll go for about 512 of DDR initially and about 80GB Hard drive Prefer AMD Athlon (just loyalty really !) Can anyone recommend a MOBO ? Any other tips ...

Hi all I spent many MSN Messenger hours trying to sort out my Mum-in-Laws computer problems It would be very useful to be able to interact with her system and "see" what is going on I know there are many software progs out there but which one is the best Any imput would be appriciated Hag

Hi all My bro-in-law has just phoned to say that his system won't fire up after suffering 2 power cuts (due to lightning !) his monitor & system both have power When he turns it on the monitor immediately goes into standby When he turns his system on the fans start but little else He is running...

Hi there Is it posible to partition a hard drive then install the os plus all the main programs(PSP,Photoshop,scanner,printer,plus all the upgrades ect) to the main partition and then back this up to the other partition so that when the main partition is formatted I can then install the whole...

Hi All My Mother in Law (luv'er!) has tried to install MSN Messenger, a digital camera and a Agfa scanner But they all hang when we get to the "Installer Shield" bit ! Have totally cleaned up the system using Norton Utilities with no change, McAfee says no virus ect Any ideas ? Is it...

Hi When I click on a link, shortcut or file nothing happens if I click on it again nothing. If I look at programmes active I see a list of "GO"'s which I have to "END" before I can get anywhere, any ideas ? Innitially on startup I do not get this problem, it seems to crop up...

Whilst trying to back up or create CD's, I get the following:- Power on, reset, or bus device reset occured Can any one throw some light on this error ?? Thanx HAG