Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations Mike Lewis on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  1. ajstrauss

    Rules for optical mice

    I am experiencing a LOT of erratic behaviour from my O-23G AOpen optical mouse (PS.2 and USB) on different operating systems. Is all optical mice this sensitive for the surface they run on, or is the AOpen product of lower quality.
  2. ajstrauss

    WHERE THE %&#@ IS THE "SHOW DESKTOP" ICON IN XP?

    Right-click on the taskbar and select "Show Desktop"
  3. ajstrauss

    Search in WinXP

    Hi All My search function in WinXP died. Being unfamiliar to WinXP and not finding another way to correct the problem, I reinstalled Windows. Now the search function does work but it takes VERY long to a search. Any suggestions on how to fix this. Thanks
  4. ajstrauss

    Modem dissappearing

    Hi I was pleasantly surprised at WinXP's ability to find and install drivers for my external modem, when all I did was turn it on. However after a reboot the modem's status in Control Panel becomes "Not present" and I have to remove it and reinstall to get it working again. Any...
  5. ajstrauss

    Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo) problem

    OK All You can relax now, the problem was solved by a stroke of luck. I started swapping around hard drives and the CD-ROM changing Master and Slave etc. The pins on the back of the CD-ROM drive for setting it to slave were bent and didn't make proper contact. I bent them back, replaced the...
  6. ajstrauss

    Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo) problem

    None of the above has helped. I tried to install Windows95 and got it working halfway. "The Secondary IDE" in Device Manager is happy but the CD-ROM connected to it is not picked up in Windows (the BIOS does pick it up during bootup). Anyone with any more suggestions?
  7. ajstrauss

    Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo) problem

    Hi butchrecon Same drivers I used on that motherboard previously. New installation - no viruses. Controller worked fine up to now. Disabling UDMA did not help. Any other suggestions? PS. The mobo uses an Intel 440BX chipset
  8. ajstrauss

    Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo) problem

    Hi there I am trying to get a system up and running using Win98SE on an EPOX 3BXA Motherboard. Everything seems fine except for the "Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)" problem listed in device manager. I have tried various drivers and updates. The registry does not contain the...

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top