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  1. skyblue

    repairing ribbon cable

    in replacing the RTC battery on an IBM Thinkpad, one of the ribbon cables between the keyboard and mainboard broke. its about 1/4inch wide and has 6 traces and connects to the little mouse button. i'm trying to reconnect the ends by scraping off the plastic on one side of the ribbon ends to...
  2. skyblue

    XP OEM re-activation

    ok, i know that the 'official MS party line' is: an OEM XP install is tied to the machine it is installed on and cannot ever/forever be put on another pc. i build PC's and install the OEM XP myself on them. there are different ways to install the OEM XP, one is to tie it to the BIOS of the...
  3. skyblue

    Thinkpad CMOS battery

    thanks for the reply.. that link was the correct hardware manual...looks like i have to take off a few things, but doesn't look impossible, so i'll take a wack at it. thanks.. thanks, eric
  4. skyblue

    Thinkpad CMOS battery

    before i start into something i'll regret later.. has anyone replaced the CMOS battery in an IBM Thinkpad 1421 iSeries laptop? like, is there a site somewhere that shows what has to be removed to get to it? thanks. thanks, eric
  5. skyblue

    NTFS or FAT32?

    well, yes, my mind was already made up. i was hoping someone would mention something that would be a killer reason to go with NTFS. but the only reasons seem to be that its 'new'. being 'new' isn't a good enough reason really. thanks for the comments. thanks, eric
  6. skyblue

    NTFS or FAT32?

    on a new unformatted, unpartitioned disk, i never get the FAT32 option.. so i'm not sure if it is because the HD is unpartitioned, or because its greater than 32Gig. anyway.. most people are telling me to go with NTFS, but i'm going to stick with FAT32 on customer's PC's... there are to many...
  7. skyblue

    NTFS or FAT32?

    take a look at the Microsoft Windows XP newsgroups, http://communities.microsoft.com/Newsgroups/default.asp?ICP=windowsxp&sLCID=US&newsgroup=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general especially the Security forum... a big bunch of the questions are from home users using NTFS as an administrator and...
  8. skyblue

    NTFS or FAT32?

    on customer PC's i build with XP, should i use NTFS or FAT32? NTFS seems like it offers little for the home user. and watching all the problems people are having on the Windows XP security newsgroup with "permissions and security" when they are using NTFS makes me think i'm just...
  9. skyblue

    NTFS or FAT32?

    on customer PC's i build with XP, should i use NTFS or FAT32? NTFS seems like it offers little for the home user. and watching all the problems people are having on the Windows XP security newsgroup with "permissions and security" when they are using NTFS makes me think i'm just...
  10. skyblue

    Buzzer with new Cases?

    on new Cases i've been lately, they don't have a speaker in them, but there is this little Aspirin sized button with 2 wires about 1" long connected to a 4 pin plug. i assume this is a buzzer that is supposed to replace the speaker. is this a buzzer? and does anyone ever plug these...
  11. skyblue

    Battery Replacement

    ok.. just to let you all know... i pulled the battery, put the new one in.. took about 5 seconds... rebooted and it took me automatically into the Bios... anything that i had previously altered, including the date and time was reset to the bios defaults. i think when you guys say it doesn't...
  12. skyblue

    Battery Replacement

    ok, thanks.. seems the systems i have yanked a battery on lost the bios info before i could turn it back on. just wanted to make sure pulling the battery while it was on wouldn't cause something else to pop due to the open circuit. thanks, eric
  13. skyblue

    Battery Replacement

    to prevent losing the BIOS info when replacing the battery.. is it possible to replace the battery while the PC is running? (don't worry about me getting a shock, i'm accustomed to it.. hehheh) thanks, eric
  14. skyblue

    XP Home on an existing workgroup

    by manually connect, i mean i browse the network and when i see the win2000 box, i click connect, it asks for a username/password and i'm connected. it shows me a couple icons for the printer, myDocuments etc located on the win2000 box. then on the XP box, i go into control panel, click on...
  15. skyblue

    XP Home on an existing workgroup

    i've got a windows workgroup with 3 Win98 pc's and one Win2000Pro PC. a DeskJet printer is attached to the win2000Pro box. i created users with 'users' privilege on the win2000Pro box for the win98 users to be able to print. this all worked fine. just removed one win98 box and replaced it with...
  16. skyblue

    PC Tech Vacuum

    thanks for the reply... i think i'm going to go with this one, unless someone has a better alternative... http://store.yahoo.com/raymond/hancomvac.html thanks, eric
  17. skyblue

    PC Tech Vacuum

    need a good ESD safe Vacuum for PC repairs.. anyone have any suggestions on what to buy? i'm thinking that one that blows as well as sucks would come in handy. thanks, eric
  18. skyblue

    Quicken 99 won't register

    on the Quicken site, they say if you use any Quicken before 2000, you are SOL... they are no longer accepting registrations. unfortunately you can't use it on a re-install without registering it again! i was hoping someone would have a hack or something that i can just change a registry entry...
  19. skyblue

    Quicken 99 won't register

    Quicken has terminated support on versions prior to Quicken 2000 and when re-installing everything on a PC, Quicken 99 won't run past 10 attempts without registering it, and Quicken no longer will accept the registration!! their only 'solution' is to buy the latest version. anyone know where...
  20. skyblue

    HP Pavilion and no POST

    ok, thanks for all the advice.. the memory is a possibility i guess, since he did add a memory stick right after he bought it, so i'll find out if he thinks that the problem started about the same time as the new memory stick.

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