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Hi edfair, Do I translate what you said....that the electronics of the HD are malfunctioning? Because the HD makes a lot of noise with an ultrasound wistle just audible on top of a metallic scratchy noise!! The problem is why the BIOS appears locked and I can not enter to make changes...

Hi Dreamland, Thanks for your comments. Talking about BIOS please note that the PC I'm trying to fix belongs to a friend of mine. I have tried to enter BIOS few hours ago and to my surprise I have noticed, that I was unable to alter any of the settings using the keyboard arrows. I tried to...

Hello again, I feel that I have to come back and clarify a little bit more my 2nd question above. I wrote above, whether it was safe to remove the Hard Disk C:.... what I meant to say is, if I could remove via the Device Manager and specifically in the category of the HARD DISK CONTROLLERS...

Hello to everyone, I wonder wethwer you can help me with yhe following: At first few words about the ill functioning system: Operating Sys : Win98, Mobo Elite P6BAP -A+, CPU Celeron 736 MHz, Video card 3D Riva TNT2, RAM 256MB, Storage 2 HDs one IBM 60GB (7200 rpm) the other a small one...

Hello, I agree with bluescreen77 although I can't figure why 77!! There is one more reason for this kind of Windows protection error. Check through Search for Folders & Files whether Win386.exe is present in your system. If not you may have had the wrong MSDOS sys installed which is...

Hi Guys, Latest report on the above. I can't really say that the Windows protection error - restart your computer message at startup has gone away!! It keeps coming back and a couple of restarts are required coupled with a scandisk operation in Safe Mode before the PC boots OK. As far...

Hi mapleleaf, Sorry for being late in answering but I was away for some time. Thank you for your informative post regarding mail profiles. I will certainly follow your guidelines and let you posted as soon as I finish setting the profiles. Thanks again. PaulAlexander.

Hi LyonnHawke, Thanks for responding. Yes indeed in most cases I noticed that the WDM enumerator is reinstalled separately even if you unistall it provided a specific speakerphone is present in the PC. What I would like to ask is that provided there is an emulator within the Modem's...

Hi Becastner & tek-tips devotees, Thanks for keep responding to this thread. Latest report - This is the 7th day & No sign of the blue screen. Still I'm unable to comprehend what caused it in the first place!! As far as the FIFO port settings is concerned, I would like to add that the port...

Hi bcastner, Thanks for the Info it is been very enlightening. One thing I noticed after the installing of the Winsock Fix is that the downloading speed was noticably out of tune. This doesn't mean necessarily that the fix was the cause of it. If by any chance the fix resets in the registry...

Hi all, I have installed the winsock Fix and to be honnest I'm not sure wether it made a difference. The reason I'm saying this is because prior to it's installation & since late last night I haven't had a Blue screen when "cold Booting" the PC. One thing though I've noticed is...

Hi Charley62 Could you make sure that winsock.dll file is in the correct directory. In this case must be located in c:\windows. All other relative dlls like wsock32.dll,rasapi32.dll etc must be located in C:\windows\system folder. If you find a winsock.dll in the C:\windows\system folder...

Hi bcastner, Thanks for the link. You wouldn't believe this but I was trying to download this fix last night but I couldn't complete the download! My DAP program keeps timing out!! Now I'll use Microsoft's regular downloading feature. I'll install it and let you know. Any other ideas are...

Hi bcastner, Thanks for the link. You wouldn't believe this but I was trying o download this fix last night but I couldn't complete the download! My DAP program keeps timing out!! Now I'll use Microsoft's regular downloading feature. I'll install it and let you know. Any other ideas are most...

Hi Guys, Since you mentioned that a 50% mail testing was succesful, it appears to me that the problem might have been in the area of "More Settings" when adding "Mail accounts". That particular area in some ocassions is known to present problems with the settings not...

Hi Guys, I need your help in solving the following problem: At first my PC System is an MSI Mobo 6330 with an AMD Athlon 1800+ XP, 512 SDRAM (PC133) & WinMe OS. Modem Motorola SM56K Speakerphone-Data-Fax etc. The problem occurs during a COLD START. After posting & while loading WinMe a...

Hi all, Coming back on the above, it became obvious to me that Microsoft doesn't allow email downloading to two simultaneous Hotmail accounts created In Office Outlook or Outlook Express. Having though two or more HOTMAIL account icons in the opening page of the Outlook emailer, one could...

Hi Guys again, Could you please help? Any of you that is using a Crypto Best II 56K data Fax speaker PCI modem or an equivalent Conexant 56k data-Fax-speakerphone modem or even an older Rockwell 56k perhaps have experienced low connection speeds (30000 bps). If Yes. have you managed to...

Final succesful "assault" to this persisting problem, which has been creating RESTART problems for very long time. The following points are useful to be made: 1. The final cause of the problem wasn't the Video Graphics Card. I used a replacement and I noticed that the problem was...

Hi, It sounds an interesting idea the 2 profiles approach! Would you like to elaborate on the profiles method? How do you set POP3 1 & POP3 2 accounts? I would like to try this method and perhaps other people would be interested too. Looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you...