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  1. Joelee

    CANT FIND CD ROM DRIVE

    You can install the drivers from a dos prompt. if you can't locate the original drivers for the cd-rom, you can d/l a generic one and install from a floppy. Here is a site that lists common drivers, make sure you grab the right one. http://digilander.iol.it/pnavato/drivers/ Joelee
  2. Joelee

    FD not accessible in WinME

    I found an interesting article pertaining to your problem... here is an excerpt: If the floppy disk drive formats properly in MS-DOS however does not format in Windows it is likely that Windows or a program within Windows is preventing the floppy drive from working. Attempt to End task all...
  3. Joelee

    P4 & ABit BL7 boot problem

    Check out this site. Since you have not given a BIOS type, it would be impossible to properly identify the problem from the POST code you listed. Here is a site worth looking at for troubleshooting POST and BIOS codes http://www.bioscentral.com Good luck. Joelee
  4. Joelee

    flashing on light w/long tone

    Here is a website that will give you the beep codes for many different bios manufacturers. You need to check and see what your BIOS is and then you can look at the chart to find the reason for the error Hope this helps http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm#05 Joelee
  5. Joelee

    Video RAM on old cards

    Look at this, it is an excerpt from Webopedia.. good source http://www.pcwebopedia.com/TERM/t/texture.html Joelee
  6. Joelee

    Custom PC Freezing - Cant figure out What is causing it

    I have the Soyok7 dragon board. You can install the raid drivers and the ata drivers for the other 2 ata connectors whether or not you use them. Make sure your raid is disabled on the board with the appropriate jumper settings, refer to the manual. I have a zip installled on the secondary set...
  7. Joelee

    Computer reboots on shutdown, will not shutdown

    A friend has an older system, running win98. Although she chooses the shutdown dialog, the computer will go to reboot. She has not been able to get the machine to shutdown on it's own. It may be a motherboard issue (its 5 yrs old). Any comments would be appreciated. TIA Joelee
  8. Joelee

    Can I save my Hard Drive ?

    You can run fdisk program from a floppy disk to set up the new partition. Then if necessary you can also run Fromat from a floppy disk by typing at the prompt format c: I formatted a hdd once and had a devil of a time trying to get it to partition. I eventually did it by the above method and...
  9. Joelee

    Soyo K7Dragon Motherboard IDE controller conflict

    I just installed a new Soyo Dragon mother board with an AMD 1.33 Thunderbird chip. Running Win98. After loading the motherboard drivers, I get a Primary and Secondary IDE controller problem. (You know, the little exclamation in the device manager) I have removed and reloaded the drivers with...
  10. Joelee

    firewall question

    Depending on the type of firewall you are using, you can allow certain programs to access the internet. The firewall blocks access from unauthorized sources. If your Norton is up to date, and you are not getting virus alerts, then it is safe to say (barring something new that Norton doesn't...
  11. Joelee

    IDE / ATAPI Troubles!!!

    Did you play with any settings in the BIOS or just the hardware? When you don't set the slave and master jumpers on the drives they will not be recognized properly, I have never seen incorrect settings disrupt video. * Check the video card in another machine * Check the monitor on another...
  12. Joelee

    IDE / ATAPI Troubles!!!

    Generally the cable will have a red line designating the #1 pin position. The drive on the rear should have the pins numbered i.e. 1 and 40. Make sure the red line on the cable is in the number one position on the drive and MoBo (the board should have the #1 and #40 position numbered as well.)...
  13. Joelee

    Harddrive Table backup

    Here is a link to the Debug program guide. http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3/asm/debug/debug.htm Hope this is useful. Joelee :-{}
  14. Joelee

    Power on 24/7

    I have been in this discussion before :-) . There does not seem to be any longterm problems with leaving the system on 24/7, in fact some would argue that turning it on and off is more damaging to the system because of the power surge. This is provided that the system unit is well ventilated...
  15. Joelee

    Cannot boot system after installing video card

    I have had this issue with cards that are not compatible with the board. You can try booting up in Safe Mode by striking the F8 or CTRL key before the screen says "Starting Windows" If you can boot to the desk top, then you want to disable hardware acceleration in the Display...
  16. Joelee

    rundll32.exe

    I used the norton tool to remove the virus sircam, however it didn't restore the rundll32.exe. The machine I was working on is running Win95. Can I use the clean copy of rundll from my win98 machine and install it on the 95 machine? Thanks, Joelee

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