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A broken pin may be re-soldered, if you are good and patient beyond nominal human endurance. If the specific pin is one of the many ground pins, you may probably get away without the pin. You can check out www.sandpile.org for your specific CPU's parameters & pinout (as well as www.intel.com)...

You said: then tryed loading a ps2 mouse, computer restarts then has yellow mark on mouse in device manager. What was the conflict? In Dev Mgr, view the Resources Tab via the properties settins, uncheck the automatic settings box, and change the resources. NOTE: the bottom window will explain...

Are the COM ports enabled in BIOS? Cycle the BIOS settings for your onboard COM ports and use KB to view Device Mgr settings and select refresh. cwpaul Conrad W. Paul cwpaul@syd.eastlink.ca Creative Solutions to Challenging Problems

Have you turned on the power switch located on the PS unit itself and have plugged it in? Forgive the facetious remark, but often the obvious can never be seen or noticed. If you hear the hard drive going through its built-in diagnostics, then the PS maybe OK. If other components such as the...

You should provide a bit more information, but you could search the MS knowledge base at http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp?fr=0&SD=GN&LN=EN-US cwpaul Conrad W. Paul cwpaul@syd.eastlink.ca Creative Solutions to Challenging Problems

Provided that you've checked cable connections & drivers. Provided that you've check the directory of the CDs that fail. Pick a few random files and copy them to your drive then delete them if they came through ok. Provided that you've checked performance on a good CD (one that the system...

Celerons tend to lock their frontside bus frequency at 66 MHz while a PIII may have a 100 MHz or 133 MHz FSB. This FSB represents a massive performance boost because memory transfers and I/O benefits. cwpaul Conrad W. Paul cwpaul@syd.eastlink.ca Creative Solutions to Challenging Problems

My suspicion would focus on the NVidia drivers, but to rule out other problems, I would take the following procedures. Hold down the CTRL key and boot to command prompt. At the prompt type: Scanreg /fix then sandisk C: /auto to make sure all is well. Then reboot or type WIN then [enter]. Then...

Resources are that silly chunk of memory 64K in size. If you have 50GB of memory, your resources are still 64K. It is the percent of that 64K table that matters. In the most simplistic of terms, this table is the table that holds all references to all the other tables. Just on an aestheic...

It took less than a week or so, before I ran into the same problem or reasonable facsimile thereof! The PC Gods decided to throw my own solution in my face. In my case, I had added a 8x4x32x CD burner. I had burned a few CD-r & CD-RW. The burner was set for master and the Creative 48x...

This strkes me first as a cleaning problem, then as an alignment problem and possibling a configuration problem. The first place I would go is to check the Propertie settings in the Device Mgr. If it shares a cable with your C: drive, is it configured to Slave? Clean the CD-ROM drive...

RE: Ghost Buttons It occurs when some programs/procedures close out in a particular mannner and fail to refresh/update the screen. If you ALT-CTRL-DEL and End Task on (for example) Norton AntiVirus, in a few seconds, you get an End Task panel. If you End the Task, the small NAV icon will...

It would help to know what kind of computer, type of video card & ram plus the type of screen saver. cwpaul Conrad W. Paul cwpaul@syd.eastlink.ca Creative Solutions to Challenging Problems

Safe Mode will not have access to the registry, so it will know very little about your system except what it learns on the fly. If color settings will not change, then you may have video driver problem. Right Click on your desktop and choose properties. Choose the Settings tab. Just...

To Get WordPad using your OEM Disk Got to Start> Settings> Control Panel >Add Remove Software With your CD in the drive, Choose the Windows Setup Tab of the Add/Remove Software panel [middle tab]. Highlight Accessories the click Details. If WordPad is checked, then uncheck it. This will remove...