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  1. aldog

    To Gamma; Or Not To Gamma?

    Many good video cards have the ability to adjust color, contrast, gamma, ect. by using the Display Settings, rather than the monitor or Adobe Gamma. Make sure you have the latest driver for your video card. Go to the Control Panel, and then go to the Display, and choose the Advanced Settings...
  2. aldog

    250 GB Maxtor HD

    Are you sure the person did not remove any CL jumper? Some hard drives require a Cylinder Limitation jumper for the bios to recognize the hard drives size.
  3. aldog

    250 GB Maxtor HD

    You could enter the bios setup and manually enter the hard drive's Cylinders, Sectors, and Heads to tell the Bios exactly what size the hard drive is, or you could use a disk management software by Maxtor.
  4. aldog

    Help! Computer restarts itself when installing new software.

    Check to make sure your fans are running and that the cpu is being properly cooled. Many random restarts are caused by overheating/insufficient power. Also, your system may have the option to automatically restart when there is a system error. I'm not sure about Windows 200, but I would check...
  5. aldog

    I'm fixing up an older Pentium Pro

    If this is an OEM computer, it is best to get the BIOS flash from your computers manufacturer. Many times, the hardware in a prebuilt system is specially modified for that particular system. For example, I have an Intel motherboard, but I got my BIOS update from Dell's website. Because the...
  6. aldog

    Trouble adding slave

    Try jumpering BOTH hard drives as cable select. Both hard drives need to be jumpered as cable select or NONE at all. You cannot have just one drive jumped as cable select. I would try to boot Windows in safe mode, and then go to the control panel and see if the new hard drive is recognised...
  7. aldog

    Have major headache: Have ancient

    It may be that the hard drive is too large for the bios to regognize. If the computer is that old, the bios will most likely be limited to the size of the hard drive that it can handle. I am dealing with the same issue right now, of getting a bigger hard drive to work in the old Packard Bell...
  8. aldog

    Modem Setup in Red-Had 9.0

    Some (most?) versions of U.S. Robotics modems, formerly refered to as 'winmodems' will not work in Linux. I'm not sure about Redhat 6.1and winmodems...that's old. But I do know that with my Intel 536ep 'hardware-based' modem, I have to recompile the modem's driver everytime I upgrade the...
  9. aldog

    CD-RW performance problem

    You might have read-ahead enabled. When you put a cd in the drive, the computer searches for an autorun program(s). Go to the device manager and disable read-ahead. what operating system are you using? In Windows 98, this would be the "auto insert notification"...turn this off and...
  10. aldog

    Can't use HD full Capacity

    PICKER50, an operating system will not even load if the partition is not set as active. Are you using a FAT 16 or FAT 32 file system? Is the volume compressed?
  11. aldog

    hitachi hard drive in laptop will not format

    A usefull tip about the debugging: You MUST follow the procedure exactly as it is stated. The folks who wrote the debug command know more than you and I combined...lol. This tool is usefull if there is a virus, or a disk-locking program preventing you from using FDISK, because you do not use...
  12. aldog

    hitachi hard drive in laptop will not format

    DEBUGGING A HARD DRIVE: Try to debug the hard drive. This is typically an undocumented procedure because it is PERMANENT. The DEBUG command takes a few minutes, but it does a lot of nice little things...like destroy the partition table and reset track 0 the FAT. It destroys ALL partitions on...
  13. aldog

    Can't use HD full Capacity

    Two things: cluster size and file slack. If you have large cluster sizes, the files take up more space becasue of the unuseable cluster space at the end of the cluster (file slack). You could use a program to make the cluster size smaller and thus have less wasted space. This would give you...
  14. aldog

    Win XP on two hard drives

    WARNING! Microsoft only allows ONE copy of Windows XP per system. This means that if you want to have two copies of Windows XP, they have to be on different computers. I tried to install two copies of Windows XP on different hard drives on the same computer and Microsoft kept on destroying...
  15. aldog

    Hard dirve that sounds like a jet engine.

    Usually people leave cds in the cd-rom or cd-r drive and forget that there there. If your operating system has auto insert notification on, the computer may be trying to read from the cd any .exe's that might be on it. I'm not saying that this is the case with you, but if the cd-rom is right...
  16. aldog

    Possible hard drive problem?

    If the computer won't start in safe-mode, then select F8 and step-by-step and hit yes for GUI, hit no for Config.sys and Autoexec.bat files and yes for everything else except device drivers...this should work.
  17. aldog

    Possible hard drive problem?

    Start Windows in safe-mode. Go to Start--> "Run", and type in: msconfig. You most likely have enabled your config.sys or autoexec.bat file by accident, or else there is a bad line. You can disable these files from being loaded at startup by clicking on the tab and unchecking the...
  18. aldog

    unable to delete a file that i never installed myself

    http://www.alanluber.com/pcfearfactor/officialxupiterpage.htm This website pretty much explains what it is!
  19. aldog

    unable to delete a file that i never installed myself

    Also, This is an ActiveX. You can stop activeX 's from downloading by running Internet Options in the control panel. Select the Security tab in Internet Propertiaes and choose Promt for downloading Assigned/unassigned ActiveX programs. I always see the menu popup from Xupiter.com asking to...
  20. aldog

    unable to delete a file that i never installed myself

    Hello. Xupiter is a program that has been downloaded from the internet. It is a browser toolbar and right now the United States government is investigating what is is and where it came from...and how to delete it.

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