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  1. Smar969905

    Dell laptop battery question

    How old is the battery? It could be that like any rechargeable battery, it has reached the limit of its life and just won't hold a charge. I have a drill battery that no matter how long I let it sit on the charger for, it will say it is charged, and it won't have any power once on the drill...
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    Hard Drive is chirping

    I am going to go out on a limb and make some guesses about your hard drive: A. It is an IBM or B. It is old I have an IBM drive that started doing some funny things, like if it was an old drive, and it was actually not that old. IBM had a bunch of their hard drives made by Hitachi, and...
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    Invalid System Config (Bios)

    Make sure to save your current BIOS before updating, then do the update. If you still have problems after updating BIOS, turn off the computer, pull the power, and pop the battery out. Give it about 10-15 seconds to be sure everything clears, then put it all back together and try again. Buen...
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    Network Connectivity

    Greg, 1. I can successfully ping myself via the loopback. 2. I also had the same problem when I booted into Suse Linux. Along with that, I have wiped my hard drive and started fresh, so Windows should have picked up the drivers automatically. In looking on the Netgear website, the driver for...
  5. Smar969905

    Network Connectivity

    Please...anybody, I need help on this one. Smar969905 Young, foolish, and occasionally knowledgeable...
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    Window 98 upgrade to XP using Ultra133 TX2 IDE drivers

    NEVER UPGRADE AN OS!!! Backup the files you want to save from your system now, then make a boot disk and in the system root folder, copy the file format.com to the boot disk. Next, restart the system with the boot floppy in and when you get to the dos section, you should be at an A:\>. If...
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    I'm also thinking of buying another newer motherboard

    Franklin is right. When you get a new system, get the latest and greatest mobo you can afford, because everything else that plugs into a mobo can be taken off and upgraded fairly easily later on. So in getting a new mobo, it should be for a whole new system. Smar969905 Young, foolish, and...
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    Memory Question

    Here is where you would get the update for your bios: http://www.ecsusa.com/downloads/bios.html Instructions for how to do it all is on the page there. Bios is pretty easy to update, so if you know how to turn a computer on and type a little, you'll be great. For the ram, I don't know what...
  9. Smar969905

    hibernate, sleep or shutdown?

    I have had no experience with Win NT4, but I have had the sleep thing on my computer that was running XP Home, and if I didn't wake it up within something like 10 minutes, it wouldn't wake up right and I would have to restart anyway. For the Hibernate option, I don't know if there is any...
  10. Smar969905

    Fan on Motherboard going out

    You have me confused here. You started saying the fan is on your mobo, then go on to say it is on the video card. Is it a fan on the motherboard or a fan on the video card? If it is the mobo fan, those are easily replaceable. Remove the entire heat sync and fan unit from the mobo, and most...
  11. Smar969905

    How much electricity does a PC burn per month?

    Here is my reccomendation: Get a list of all your pieces of hardware, so an itemized list of everything that your computer has in it, including processor, sound card, graphics card, hard drive(s), and all your peripherals, external drives, speakers, mouse, monitor, keyboard, printer. Now do...
  12. Smar969905

    Mouse and keyboard not working.

    I was working on a system a couple months back where the keyboard wasn't working after the post, and I found that it was completely in the bios, and after I messed around in there for a little while, I did figure it out. I don't remeber for sure, but I think that it worked out that I had to do...
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    One more Question about Memory

    Make sure the memory is the same speed (ie 2700, 3200) as your current stick, and make sure the board supports that speed of memory. My step dad has some PC2700 Ram in his system, but the board is supposed to have 3200. The 2700 works, but his system occasionally has some issues and will crash...
  14. Smar969905

    Network Connectivity

    I have a system that is now about 2.5 years old, and it recently decided to not be able to use the internet. I didn't change any settings on the box, and it worked fine one day and didn't work when I went to use it a couple days later. Since then, I have wiped my harddrive, fdisked it...
  15. Smar969905

    Network Connection Issues

    Well, thank you for the advice. I have tried the tool, and it still didn't work. I have tried everything that I can think of to get my network going again, but it just isn't going, so I am going for the one method that is 100%...backup and reformatting the drive. Maybe I'll switch to running...
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    Network Connection Issues

    I am running Win XP home on my system and recently it stopped receiving any information from the internet. I do have 3 seperate firewalls on my system, and have rebooted with none of them running, and the problem persisted. Strangely, it did work before and I never did change any settings. I...

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