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Hi Sprude27, A good friend and co-worker of mine had a very similar problem about 6 months ago. It turned out that the people that put the computer together for him used a 230 watt power supply for an Athlon 1.4gig processsor and the heatsink/fan provided wasn't up to par. His chip kept...

Here's a link to an almost identical post a little while back. thread602-109693 Hope it helps. ! Caution ! All letters typed above are the direct result of staring at computer screens for extended periods of time and the consuption of massive quantities of caffeine. Beware!

Update: Requested another cable modem be sent to the house so that I could test it. They sent a guy out to take a look. He booted up the computer and cable modem (which had been turned off since rebooting it every time you rebooted the computer was the only way to get a connection). It...

Thanks Ma3x323 for your ideas. That release & renew deal worked for all of one night. After it stopped working, I tried pinging the addresses that Roadrunner gave me to test while talking to them earlier in the week. I was able to ping Roadrunner no problem, but I couldn't ping ANYONE else...

I have a Dell Dimension XPST600 (p2-600, 256MB RAM, 26GB HDD, etc) running Windows ME with a Time/Warner 3Com Cable Modem (looks like a big shark fin). When I start up the computer, there are no error messages. If I try to access email or to browse the net, I get nothing ("The Page...

Hi Bill, I've only been under the hood of about 6 or 7 laptops. And the fist few, I did the same thing as you have....look for screws and take 'em all out and the laptop still wouldn't come apart. In my limited experience, its always been the keyboard that "pops" out or slides off...

I did some checking and a 32x CD Rom will probably rotate at about 7000RPM. That's more than 100 revolutions per second (also known as fast). Some CD Roms boast speeds of more than 10,000RPM. To put things in perspective, consider the wheels of your car. Say a car is travelling at 60mph...

Does the operating system still recognize the cd-rom drive?