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  1. Eskimo69

    need help with bios proformance

    It's all good. I was jokeing sometimes I do that I didn't mean to hurt anyones feelings. :)
  2. Eskimo69

    PC turn off itself

    It sounds like when you touch it you are becomming ground are you one of those who bust the ground pin off your power cable to get it to fit in a old wall outlet that means most likely your case is holding a charge which could be very dangerous on components but I think if it was doing that you...
  3. Eskimo69

    multiple video cards

    actually it depends as much on the mobo as it does on the OS I have two cards in this one onboard intel peice that I don't use and a voodoo banshee. If I felt the extreme need to use the intel thing I could at any given time infact even in unison with my pci card. my other mobo if you have two...
  4. Eskimo69

    Computer Building problems

    Do you get any beeps besides the one that means cleared past post. Make sure you are using the case switch instead of the psu switch. the psu switch turns of the psu the power button turns on the mobo. Fans some boards it matters and some boards it doesn't I have all mine going right to the psu...
  5. Eskimo69

    need help with bios proformance

    I had no problems getting the hard drive to show up in post or with the way I connected things my hd was shot. If you had been intelligent enough to read the post right before yours you would have known that I already bought a new HD and it is running right next to where I am sitting right now...
  6. Eskimo69

    Backdoor assassin.k

    does anyone know where I can find information on how to get rid of Backdoor assassin.k I can't find it anywhere. I've tried symantec trend-micro and searched the web useing msn, google and yahoo nothing's comeing up.
  7. Eskimo69

    Hard Drive Or Mobo?

    I got it going turns out my hard drive was bad and so was and my cd-rom suddenly went bad also. so I got a new maxtor 20gb hd, and a 54x cd-rom and it runs wonderfully. (now I just need a new monitor)
  8. Eskimo69

    need help with bios proformance

    It had way too many bad sectors it didn't help but I couldn't get on here till today so..... Anyways I built my other new computer. specs are 400 mhz celeron, 16mb nvidia agp video, 20gb maxtor hd (new!!!), 54x cd-rom (new!!!) windows 98.... thanks everyone for your help
  9. Eskimo69

    Hard Drive Or Mobo?

    Does anyone know if this board supports pc133 as well as pc100.
  10. Eskimo69

    Hard Drive Or Mobo?

    Ignore my other threads
  11. Eskimo69

    Open up the case on a Toshiba Satellite

    My toshiba Tecra just has a slide over faceplate with the led's and stuff right on the front and then you can pull the drive out from there without takeing out one screw!!!
  12. Eskimo69

    Hard Drive Or Mobo?

    It only has master cs and parkI have no Idea what park is supposed to be and it doesn't recognize the drive in this mode. I just tried the cables I'm using now and it didn't seem to help. I'm kind of wondering if it's the 3.5 drive or something. I dunno, It reads from A: like it's supposed to on...
  13. Eskimo69

    Hard Drive Or Mobo?

    Just the cd-rom is on cs even if I just disconnect the cd-rom I get the same thing. I've changed the jumpers on the hd quite a bit something I don't understand though is why the diagram for the hd jumper settings has 3 sets of pins (6 pins) and the back of my drive has 9 pins?? I may have tried...
  14. Eskimo69

    Hard Drive Or Mobo?

    I think I said I tried that. Well anyways I tried that and got the same results. I think I am going to end up getting a new HD or a cheap used one and if there is problems I can always take it back and if that isn't the problem everyone can use an extra hd.
  15. Eskimo69

    Hard Drive Or Mobo?

    k got this Intel al440lx. If I boot to a floppy disk with my hard drive attached it takes about 5 minutes to get to a prompt screen scandisk won't even initilize and neither will windows 98 setup. Fdisk takes a few minutes to load. My CD-rom is on the primary controller on cs. If I disconnect my...
  16. Eskimo69

    Can a website zap a hard drive ?

    I've asked many people including true techs, People with bachelors degrees in this stuff and you know I have yet to have a specific answer. Some say Yes a virus could possibly fry your hard drive others say no it's impossible even if it deleted his mbr isn't that fixable (nvm off the subject)...
  17. Eskimo69

    need help with bios proformance

    If I disconnect my hard drive I can boot from a floppy within seconds could there be an IRQ conflict or DMA. Is my hard drive bad. ANY INFORMATION WOULD BE HELPFULL!!!!?
  18. Eskimo69

    need help with bios proformance

    Okay this is getting on my nerves after I got the bios back and running I installed all of my drives ect. BUT it takes me about five minutes to boot from a floppy it took me 3 hours to try and format the hard drive. I didn't have the patience to wait for setup to work and this my friends is why...
  19. Eskimo69

    Memory bug in AMD processors.

    My computer only supports pc-100 I've tried thousands of chips all the way from 64mb to 256mb
  20. Eskimo69

    Computer Building problems

    wow this could answer my question. SO on ATX boards you have to have a fan connected to the headers for the post to complete? Or did I understand wrong?

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