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  1. MamaLoca

    External Hard Drive recommendation

    Thanks for the great advice, I'll look at the Seagates and see what I can come up with. Nila __________________________________________________________________ Life would be so much easier if I only had the source code.
  2. MamaLoca

    External Hard Drive recommendation

    So I am learning the hard way, yet again, that you get what you pay for. My one year old Simpletech External hard drive sounds like it's getting ready to buy the farm. It thrashes and labors and sometimes won't let me access my files. So I am going to have to replace it. Unless someone has a...
  3. MamaLoca

    XP Home will not boot after Norton AV Install

    Yeah, I was afraid you'd suggest that. I wonder if I booted to a Knopix CD if I could read the hard drive from there and, say, copy the data to an external hard drive. I don't have a rig redily availiable to changeout the HD to 'cause right now my main rig is my laptop. I hate to have to...
  4. MamaLoca

    XP Home will not boot after Norton AV Install

    My friend's Dell Dimention 2400 will not finish the boot process. It is hanging up on the light blue XP page. She was renewing her Norton subscription. During the process it told her to go into the registry and make changes. I'm not entirely sure what she did but now her machine won't boot...
  5. MamaLoca

    Forcing laptop to use peripheral monitor

    Ah yes, I'll give it a serious look, thanks Nila __________________________________________________________________ Life would be so much easier if I only had the source code.
  6. MamaLoca

    Forcing laptop to use peripheral monitor

    I am helping a friend who has a laptop that needs to have windowsXP reinstalled. The problem is that the monitor is broken and I had it set up to use a crt monitor since it is dual monitor capable. The problem now is that something has gone wrong and I want to try and reinstall windows. there...
  7. MamaLoca

    SELECT WHERE field IS NULL not working

    That worked, thanks. I tried the empty quotes but was unaware of TRIM. Have looked it up and will try to remember it http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/string-functions.html Nila __________________________________________________________________ Life would be so much easier if I only...
  8. MamaLoca

    SELECT WHERE field IS NULL not working

    I have been monkeying with this for while now. I want to select all the records where a specific field is empty SELECT * FROM `maps` WHERE `description` IS NULL It's not working and I'm not sure why. I know the records are there cause I can call them with SELECT * FROM `maps`, and I know...
  9. MamaLoca

    Replacing a motherboard

    Yeah, I planned of changing the set up to a proper adapter, But I was on a mission and that was the best idea I could come up with on the spot, that and I was fresh out of chewing gum. Hmmm, Maybe I should gotten out the Duct tape. Duct tape does fix just about anything, even warts. Nila...
  10. MamaLoca

    Replacing a motherboard

    ALL, Done! I ended up putting the hard drive and the CD on the same cable. No pressing F1 at startup. WooHoo The case mod was minimal, I didn't have a thingy for the hard drive to fit into the 5" bay so I suspended it with rubber bands and toothpicks, and the case cover for the bay needed a...
  11. MamaLoca

    Replacing a motherboard

    Sheesh, This is a PITA The Hard Drive is connected to the MoBo on its own cable. (Only one HDD) with a single connection The CD is on a second cable that has two connections labled 0(end) and 1(middle) (CD is connected to 0). The I guess I have forgotten the original jumper configuration but...
  12. MamaLoca

    Replacing a motherboard

    Argh, OK, so I haven't been trying to access the CD Drive, but I have covered just about all the configurations and looking in the setup menu for it, I will go back ant try all again and check in the OS as well. I had a brandy new Sony CD-ROM so I am working with that since my dad seemed to...
  13. MamaLoca

    Replacing a motherboard

    So it detects the hard drive but not the CD-ROM. I have the jumpers set to WD's specifications for a single drive because that is how I interpret their instructions. The hard drive is on a cable by itself and the CD is on a dual connector cable. I see the jumpers on the CD-ROM are set to the...
  14. MamaLoca

    Replacing a motherboard

    WOW, I did it, I replaced my first Motherboard. AND it works, And I was worried. IT does have a little hicup when booting up, It says there is no Primary drive even though I made sure the jumpers where in the correct place. It says hit F2 to continue or F12 to enter setup. If I hit F2 it...
  15. MamaLoca

    Startup Problems, continuous startup loop

    Again, thanks for all the help. Yous guys rock. Everything seems to be working alright, I did loose some stuff that I plum forgot about copying, but all in all it was a success. And low and behold, this thing is as fast and efficient as when it was new. Oh, how I hate the process but oh...
  16. MamaLoca

    Startup Problems, continuous startup loop

    Reloading everything is So time consuming, I gotta learn how to image a hard drive. Now My USB is giving me trouble. My USB mouse works fine but when I go into Device Manager it says there are no controllers. So I can't get to my external Hard drive If it ain't one thing it's another. LOL...
  17. MamaLoca

    Startup Problems, continuous startup loop

    Well, I remembered this old version of Knoppix I had stashed away ( this is the first time I was ever able to get it to run, but then I never had this much motivation either) and so I am able to boot up, and access my c drive. I can not, however access my external drive. I will try what you...
  18. MamaLoca

    Startup Problems, continuous startup loop

    I can't even get any kind of screen to type that into before I can do that. I think I'll just bang my head on the keyboard for a while. Nila __________________________________________________________________ Life would be so much easier if I only had the source code.
  19. MamaLoca

    Startup Problems, continuous startup loop

    This is just NOT my week. I tried to boot up my laptop and it keeps looping through the startup screen. I get a Post Beep, and then a black screen, then back to the Startup screen. I can not start in Safe mode, I can not get it to go back to a previous restore point. I removed the battery...
  20. MamaLoca

    Replacing a motherboard

    HD Backup was a success. Nila __________________________________________________________________ Life would be so much easier if I only had the source code.

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