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Hi WOW...You learn something every day. Thank you for your reply. The machine seems fine now with the new CMOS battery. Computers....who'd have em??????

Hello again friends and thanks for looking my problem. I have just built a new Pentium4/3.0/ECS,FX648 mobo. Anyway after the initial build and test the machine was left for a week before being powered up again. Then i got a CPU has been changed message which i associated with a low CMOS battery...

Hello again friends and thank you for looking. I have what on the surface i thought was a real easy problem but i am ashamed to admit that it has got the better of me. I use XP PRO and up until recently never had a log in set up. So when i switched the machine on it booted straight into windows...

Hello again friends and thanks for looking. I have this problem thats driving me absolutely crazy. When i try to install a program(windows works suite 6.0 to name but one)the installation wizard starts then after a about 60 seconds the installation stops and i get this message...

Hi friends and thanks for looking. I find myself here again seeking knowledge from the most wise. I also am a little ashamed as i feel i should know the answer to this question but here goes. I have a nifty little program called tuff-test pro which has served me very well over the years in fault...

Hello again friends and thanks for looking. I find myself here again seeking knowledge from the most wise. My question is... What is meant by a matching pair of CPU's?? I often see processors for sale as a matching pair. Secondly I am going to build a dual processor system(xeon dual 3.06's)do i...

Hi friends and thanks for looking at my problem. A friend of mine picked up a spy ware/virus type nasty. The symptoms were that when he booted up the machine Windows XP would start to load then go to blue screen which said that windows was unable to load due to spyware XXXXXXX.exe (cant remember...

Hello friends and thanks for looking at my problem. My machine runs fine until i connect to the internet when windows gives me this error message.... bc code 10000050 bcp1 e203efb8 bcp2 00000000 b3p3 bf903c97 bcp4 00000001 os version s12600sp20 product 256-1 can anybody give me any...

Thanks for the advise guys....As always tek tips answers my question. This site is the best.

Hello again friends and thank you for looking. I have been repairing PC's and doing new builds for quite a while now. I am going to sit the A+ next month and i feel i am at the level needed to pass. After that i want to start learning networking,but before i do i want to learn XP inside out...

Thanks very much for the advise guys as usual tek tips is awesome. After a fresh installation of XP all is now well again. Apart from my friend that is who is beyond help even from tek tips!!!!!!!!

Hello friends and thank you for looking. I have a problem with a friends PC. Its a brand new machine(built by me)its a 2.4 celeron/256ram/80gig hdd/dvd writer/epox motherboard. Its been working fine for about 4 weeks then my friend says its given him the blue screen of death twice(he has not...

Does the machine give you the screen which says "its now safe to switch of your computer"??? If so you must go into control panel>power options and your looking for a check box which says APM(advanced power management)put a tick in this box. and see how that goes.

Its now official!! I am a total numb scull. The problem was that the hard drive jumper was set to slave and the system bios was not seeing the hard drive. So I set to master and hay presto. I just cant believe I made such an error. That should have been the first thing I checked. Talk about cant...

Hello again everyone. I have tried manually installing it and also using my unattended installation disk(which i have used many times before so i know its OK) but the machine keeps re booting and going straight back to the very beginning of setup. I have 10 of these machines(vectra VL 750) and...

Sorry guys i think i have not made myself clear. I have an unattended installation disk which requires no input from myself. I am not pressing any keys at all. As you say when setup restarts i normally see the "press any key" stuff. But on this machine i don't see it and setup starts right from...

Hello friends and thank you for looking at my problem. I am trying to install XP PRO on a Hewlett Packard Pentium 3/750MHz/256ram/20 gig hdd machine. All goes well at the beginning when you get the message "setup is inspecting you computers configuration" I format the hard drive(ntfs) then the...

Hello friends and thanks for looking at my problem. I have just moved house and am unable to connect to the internet in my new place. My PC was fine in the old house but not in the new one. Basically if i query the modem in device driver it comes back with success. I rang my ISP who told me to...

Sorry guys i totally forgot to tell you how the problem was solved. It was all down to micker377 and his suggestion to change the setting in the BIOS market "when power is resumed" just set this setting to OFF and all is now well. Thanks again guys!!

Thank you everyone for your help. This problem is now resolved. What a top site this is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!