The Rig in question is a Dell Precision 390 workstation Intel core 2 duo, 2 Gegs of memory, a 180 Gegs Sata drive,
the graphic is ATI FireGL pci express 250 MB, I'm currently running WXP PRO. I've also imaged the system on a separate partition.
The Rig originally was shipped with Win Vista...
This computer is running nice, cool and totally silent on a 2.80 ghz and 1 gb of ram it's fast and reliable,
but lately it blacks out,
and turn itself off suddently!
But only while I'm burning stuff on my Sony DRU 510A external USB DVD R-RW.
I'm useing Nero 6 Ultra (totally updated).
I've...
This Sony Vaio desktop, M\No PCV RS 420,
is a Intel based PC it has a DVD R-RW drive a 512 mb of ddr 3200 ram, and run on a 2800 ghz CPU, I bought this PC in "as is" condition with no Hdd,
I was told that the Hdd was taken out cause of data in it, no further explanation was given,
I said to...
What is the tern HOSTID mean, and is it the same as a MAC address
when I go to Run and type cmd then IP config I get this:
IP address #= 9 number string
Subnet Mask #= 10 number string
Default Gateway #= 10 number string
Which one of these is the HOSTID or MAC number,
and are string of...
This Rig was sold by me, to a friend of mine in good working order it has WinXP Pro sp2 (clean install) on a new 40 gb WD hdd, I also updated the mem to 512 mb etc etc!
The 200W PSU is good (I tested it)it's Gateway original equipment.
The next day he goes on and install a 300GB Hdd,he "say"...
I extracted this drive from a non working PC and installed it in a 1.7 ghz, 512 ram Rig with WXP pro SP2 - Nero 6 ultra (updated)
every thing is connected and jumped properly
I booted the Rig and the drive is recognized in my computer and DM,
it reads all data cd's well but not music,
and it...
OE address book is somewhat compromised, and cannot be opened.( When I click on the address book icon a flag say:Unable to open address book. The address book is not installed properly.
I have hundreds of addresses in there and I would like to retrieve them before I do a clean install.
Is it...
This eMachine is a desktop Rig, that I just bought it in a auction, and I noticed when I boot it up,
the Wxp black splash screen usually say Windows XP professional (in large red letters),
but on this Rig it only say Windows XP and that's it,
the word "Professional" is not included,
altho this...
I have a client that I've upgraded his PC to a larger Hdd (his was going south fast!)
WXP Pro is installed.
Now he needs to save his vast address book and a large list of mail (about 600 files ),from his old drive to the new,
but I must confess I don't know how to do this !
How can I save...
I've bought a Soyo K7M 333 board PC, (in a garage sale!) The owner told me that for unknown reason it won't boot,
after trying everything in the book I gave up,
so I took the k7M board out, and installed a asus A7V333-X,
the CPU Athelon 2100 that came with the soyo k7M 333 board with the...
I just got this nice old IBM 570E laptop,
it had W98 se and the system was running poorly so I formatted it and installed W2k,
but now upon cold boot I often get the white screen instead of a black screen with the IBM logo,
(this is happening before POST and the initialization beep)
now let's if...
I want to upgrade the memory from the default 64mb and add a 128mb more if possible,
this Compaq Armada M700 laptop it don't seem to have the usual opening at the bottom of the laptop to accommodate more memory,
( as in most laptops)
the only opening at the bottom is for the modem,
I'm in a...
This Rig "was" running just fine, but lately it first started to lockup when on line then offline some time when I burn or backup large files to my backup HD or sometime for no reason at all it just lockup,the mouse is moving but it won't open anything cntl alt del key are useless no menu start...
A friend of mine gave me a seal boxed Norton AV 2003 Pro, since all the good free AV are charging now,
I decided (reluctantly) to install this bloated thing.
Before downloading the updates,
I did a test scan of C: to be sure that all is "well" and it finished the scan without a problem.
I went...
Few day ago I bought this Compaq home PC 5bw 160 W98se without the restore CD's, this Rig was a mess,
spyware,viruses, trojans and lot's of OS files missing, after a few hours of trying to fix things,
I decided to do a win 2000 clean install. (I've several unused boxed copy of W2k and Wxp)
I...
My current hdd on this Rig is a 40gb drive formatted to NTFS and is making noises it will soon go south.I've the 8 installation disks, but I'm NOT going to USE THEM, (I have my reasons.)
Here is what I want to do instead.
Install a WD 80GBhdd , format it to fat 32, then install EXP pro and...
HP Pavilion 511n with WXP Home.
After cleaning it of spyware about 100 or so and several viruses using Nod 32 untivirus and deleting some BS.. HP programs
I got this baby to run great and quite fast (1300 GHZ and a 40 GB drive) you know this Rig was sold without the system and application...
I've made a bootable XP startup CD disk, by coping the files from the 6 floppy's using Nero express bootCD, But upon reboot, it opens in a black dos screen, and not in the usual blue screen as it does when booting from the 6 XP floppy's, how is it done so that it will boot exactly as the Wxp...
Here is what I'm trying to do: I want to install a new Sony CRX 220 CD RW on my Promise Ultra 133 TX2 controller card,
on it I already have installed,
a WD 60 Hdd (unjumped) on Chanel 1 and this drive is working.
But when I tried to install the CD burner jumped to CS, on Chanel 2 it did not...
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