I am attempting to rebuild a Zeos Meridian 400 laptop (486/DX2-50). The user manual is available online but have had no luck in locating a service manual. There is no obvious way to open the case to access the hard drive. Any advice will be much appreciated.
I bought a used 4.3 GB Fujitsu hard drive at an auction. FDISK says that it had 2.1 GB (total).
1. I have "Zeroed" the entire drive (not just the 2.1 GB partion) with KILLDISK - still says 2.1 GB.
2. Have run the Fujitsu diagnostic software, FJDT_6.EXE. This software says it is 4.3 GB disk...
We have the opportunity to use either of the following two machines as a secondary computer. Since we already own both, cost is not an issue. Which would you recommend as a better choice for applications such as Word, Excel, minor photo editing (Microsoft Photo Editor 3.0), simple word games...
Our ISP furnished us with WinPoet 4.0 software to manually access the internet (using DSL). It works great on Windows 98 & 98SE - never a problem. However in Windows 2000 Pro the software fails to connect about three times out of four - it says that there is a problem with "modem or other...
I'm teaching myself how to dual boot Windows 98SE & Windows 2000 on a "test bed" computer assembled from spare parts. I have two hard drives (IBM & Western Digital). Can Windows 98SE be in a partion on one of the hard drives and Windows 2000 be in a partion on the second hard drive? Or do the...
I have just installed Windows 98SE on my IBM 380Z Laptop (Pentium II, 233 MHz, 96 Mb RAM). Following IBM's recommendation for this machine, I took the steps needed to install in APM mode instead of ACPI mode. What capabilities are not available with this operating system in APM mode compared...
I have a Dell Dimension V 350, Pentium II, 350 MHz, 384 Mb RAM, original & current opperating system Windows 98. I can flash the BIOS with the appropriate update from the Dell web site to accept Windows 2000 Professional. However I have the following situation:
The machine has on-board video...
I am building a new computer with a motherboard that supports Ultra ATA/133 Drives and understand that it is backwards compatible to older hardware. Here is my question:
What can I expect with an Ultra ATA/33 drive (master) and Ultra ATA/100 (slave) on the same IDE channel?
Will each drive...
I will be building my second computer soon and have come across a jumper setting that I do not understand:
Motherboard: Asrock GE Pro-M2
Jumper: PS2_USB_PWR1
One setting will give +5V.
The other setting will "enable +5VSB (standby) for PS/2 or USB wake up events". A note says "To select +5VSB...
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