It seems this is the week I get to learn much more about my system than I ever wanted to.
I've got several issues happening with my system (HP Pavilion 6835/WindowsME).
It seems my floppy disk isn't reading any diskettes. I've restored the BIOS settings to default, checked for possible device conflicts by removing the device controller and re-booting to let it reload again, but to no avail. I tried to make (another) start-up disk and got a message saying: "Setup cannot initialize the disk you inserted. Error: disk sector was not found. Click Ok to continue". I think next I need to check cable connections between floppy and motherboard, BUT, I've never seen the inside of a tower, and I'm a little intimated by it, and am nervous about screwing up my system. Anyone have any "for dummies" instructions on how to identify what I'm looking for, and in the event I'll need to replace the floppy whether the process is fairly simple to do myself (and how ?)
Next, I noticed my BIOS needs updated (maybe the reason for my other systems problems?) but the instructions say to save the download to a diskette. Because of my problem above, that's not possible - can this be done using a CD-RW, or CD-R ?
System Restore - I've noted several posts indicating that the system restore feature doesn't work after some time in August, 2001. Yet, up until a couple of months ago, mine always worked great. All of a sudden, it doesn't work at all. Its not that I get the 'system restore didn't happen' error message. Its that I start the System Restore, and let it run (and run and run - one time, I set it before I went to bed), and it never did anything so I had to re-boot just to get it to stop - then I got the message that it couldn't restore. I understand there's an update out there that needs to be downloaded, but the downside of that (as I understand it) is that all previous restore points are deleted. My concern is that something seems to have happened to my system recently, and I'd hate to start a square one with a problem. Any thoughts on that ?
And finally - I updated my keyboard drivers the other day and everything went well until I re-booted. Now, each time I power up, I get this message: "c:\programfiles\netropa\one-touch multimedia keyboard\mmkeybd.db does not exist". I click on the ok button and my keyboard works fine, but how do I stop this message from appearing at each start-up (and why does it say that anyway???)
Thanks for staying with me throughout this lengthy post! Hopefully someone will have some ideas to help me out ? I'd appreciate it very much !
Have a great day all
Lisa
I've got several issues happening with my system (HP Pavilion 6835/WindowsME).
It seems my floppy disk isn't reading any diskettes. I've restored the BIOS settings to default, checked for possible device conflicts by removing the device controller and re-booting to let it reload again, but to no avail. I tried to make (another) start-up disk and got a message saying: "Setup cannot initialize the disk you inserted. Error: disk sector was not found. Click Ok to continue". I think next I need to check cable connections between floppy and motherboard, BUT, I've never seen the inside of a tower, and I'm a little intimated by it, and am nervous about screwing up my system. Anyone have any "for dummies" instructions on how to identify what I'm looking for, and in the event I'll need to replace the floppy whether the process is fairly simple to do myself (and how ?)
Next, I noticed my BIOS needs updated (maybe the reason for my other systems problems?) but the instructions say to save the download to a diskette. Because of my problem above, that's not possible - can this be done using a CD-RW, or CD-R ?
System Restore - I've noted several posts indicating that the system restore feature doesn't work after some time in August, 2001. Yet, up until a couple of months ago, mine always worked great. All of a sudden, it doesn't work at all. Its not that I get the 'system restore didn't happen' error message. Its that I start the System Restore, and let it run (and run and run - one time, I set it before I went to bed), and it never did anything so I had to re-boot just to get it to stop - then I got the message that it couldn't restore. I understand there's an update out there that needs to be downloaded, but the downside of that (as I understand it) is that all previous restore points are deleted. My concern is that something seems to have happened to my system recently, and I'd hate to start a square one with a problem. Any thoughts on that ?
And finally - I updated my keyboard drivers the other day and everything went well until I re-booted. Now, each time I power up, I get this message: "c:\programfiles\netropa\one-touch multimedia keyboard\mmkeybd.db does not exist". I click on the ok button and my keyboard works fine, but how do I stop this message from appearing at each start-up (and why does it say that anyway???)
Thanks for staying with me throughout this lengthy post! Hopefully someone will have some ideas to help me out ? I'd appreciate it very much !
Have a great day all
Lisa