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  1. billybee

    How to fix my MBR?

    Boot to the XP CD, choose R for repair to go into the Recovery Console, type fixmbr at the command prompt. Bill B A+, Network+, MCP
  2. billybee

    all drivers have disappeared!

    It seems very unlikely memory or expansion cards would cause this particular problem. In my experience bad memory will either cause blue screens when the bad chip is accessed or a failure to post. A bad expansion card simply fails to work, but doesn't cause Windows registry corruption. It does...
  3. billybee

    all drivers have disappeared!

    Thanks for the replies. Still haven't sorted this out yet, but did a complete reinstall again, computer will boot up fine in the shop over and over again. Took it to the client's office, and at first the BIOS didn't see the HDD, then restarted, booted to Windows and it reported a registry error...
  4. billybee

    all drivers have disappeared!

    Just did an install of 98SE on a new HDD, after installing the drivers, (graphics, sound, network card) rebooted several times all was good. Now the customer has called back saying when she booted up the colors were "messed up". Had her go into Dev Mgr and every driver I installed is...
  5. billybee

    Computer freezing- usually with IE

    Hello. I believe the problem turned out to be an overheating processor. I had it happen with the screensaver on after I posted the original post so I ruled out IE. I checked the proc temp (Athlon T-Bird 1GHZ) with the mobo diag program and it was 147-149 degrees F. Uh oh! Ran down to the comp...
  6. billybee

    need some help installing a new cd rom driive

    I believe if you'll look more closely you'll see that the CD ROM and the Hard drive are on one cable and the floppy is on the other as the two cables have different numbers of pins (34 for floppy, 40 for HDD) You can't have two devices set to master on one IDE cable- they would be fighting over...
  7. billybee

    Computer freezing- usually with IE

    Thanks for your reply. As I mentioned, the virtual memory (pagefile) is set at 1152 MB (2 X 512 + 128). The RAM passes the memory test OK- I don't have an extra 512 MB laying around to swap it out with so I guess it will have to become more of a problem before I go buy some more and go that...
  8. billybee

    Computer freezing- usually with IE

    Hello. Lately I've had an intermittent problem with my PC freezing- locking up. Usually it happens when I'm browsing with IE (v6.0)- it seems usually right after clicking a link or otherwise loading a page. It did happen once when syncing some offline files. When it happens there's nothing to do...
  9. billybee

    floppy drive, mouse not working

    Hello. I'm trying to repair an old Packard Bell for my Uncle. It is running W95. When booting the mouse is detected, but doesn't show up when OS is loaded. In device manager the PS/2 mouse port shows a problem as does the sound card. I disabled the sound card but still no mouse. The computer...
  10. billybee

    Can get on internet, but cannot see others in Net. Neighborhood.

    Can you ping the local loopback? Other computers? Are you using a password? Logging into the same domain or workgroup? Workgroup or domain name spelled correctly? If you can connect to the internet, it's not the NIC. I had this problem with a small workgroup when no passwords were entered...
  11. billybee

    can't get out of safe mode

    Sorry, I left out "click properties" after right clicking on desktop Bill
  12. billybee

    can't get out of safe mode

    To set resolution, right click an open area on desktop, click settings tab. You can set colors and screen area here. Bill Burnette A+, Network+

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