Recent content by ACWingit

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    Infinite reboot :(

    Running Win XP SP 2 (or at least I was). Seagate hard drive 200g 512 mb ram athlon 1.1 ghz processor All of a sudden, for no reason that I can determine, I can no longer boot the computer. If I try a normal windows boot, it passes all the DOS stuff, goes to the windows xp logo. The...
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    HELP! New SN95G5, can't install the OS

    Well, I managed to get one of the drives formatted and win xp installed. I had to use Seagate's diskwizard tool to first format and setup the drive as NTFS (I used the bootable version of the program). After that, windows recognized it just fine and had no trouble installing the OS. Haven't...
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    HELP! New SN95G5, can't install the OS

    I just put together the following: shuttle xpc sn95g5 (bios FN95S205) Corsair XMS3200XL (matched pair 1g total, 2.2.2.5 latency) Radeon X800 Pro 2 Seagate Barracuda SATA drives 1 MadDog DVD recorder Athlon 64 3500+ My intent was to use the two drives as RAID 1 (i.e. mirrored)...
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    HELP! Can't install XP on laptop

    Can't run the recovery console. It wants me to enter an administrator password. I don't have one. It refuses to let me in. :( I ran the ibm disk test (that you can download off their site). As best I can tell, the drive in the laptop is an IBM. It has a couple of tests - a quick one and a...
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    HELP! Can't install XP on laptop

    I have a Medion laptop (Best Buy's brand). It was running Win XP home. Today it announced "No operating system found" when I turned it on. I tried rebooting several times, no dice, no operating system. I took the CD that came with the laptop and followed the instructions for system...
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    Second disk drive very slow to access

    Can you be more specific? Which settings should I check and what sort of numbers am I looking for?
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    Second disk drive very slow to access

    I have an XP1600 with a shuttle mobo, 512 MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9600 Pro video, 2 western dig hard drives, 1 dvd drive and 1 cd-rw. The computer seems to be running fine but, when I go to access the second drive (which I use for backup mostly), it will sit there for like 30 seconds before it...
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    Laptop doesn't see wireless router..why?

    I have read the web page at the link you sent me to. I still can't get things working. Details follow: >>Disable all software Firewalls (including Windows ICF) Active Antivirus program or and ant other TCP/IP interceptor... Done - none were running anyways. >>Note: It is important to...
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    Laptop doesn't see wireless router..why?

    I have a linksys 4 port/wireless (802.11b) router. I have 2 computers which I want to access the internet (and my network) wirelessly. One computer is running windows xp using a wireless adapter connected to the usb port (802.11b) Another computer is a laptop that has 802.11g wireless...
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    Printing to network printer SLOW

    Well I tried the same experiment on a computer which is WIRED as opposed to wireless. Here's the scenario: Computer 1: wireless connection. has an HP printer directly connected. (windows xp) Computer 2: wired connection, Canon printer attached (windows 98se) Computer 3: Wired connection, no...
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    Printing to network printer SLOW

    I have a canon i950 printer connected to the following computer: Win 98 SE 900 mhz AMD Athlon 384 mb RAM I am trying to print a file from another computer on the network. That computer is connected via wireless 802.11b. It is: XP Home AMD XP1600 processor 512 MB RAM When I open the file and...
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    HELP! 802.11b wireless network/internet horrible!!!!

    I have a Linksys BEFW11S4 ver 2 4 port router with wireless 802.11b 3 computers on the router. Two are wired and one is wireless The wireless one is using a Linksys wireless USB adapter. The signal strength varies between Excellent and Very Good I have encryption enabled. Running router...
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    Video and mouse lockup

    bump - are there really no other opinions out there??????
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    Video and mouse lockup

    I just searched the registry for nvidia. And I'm finding things in there! Isn't the driver cleaner supposed to clean that up? And yes I know that format may solve the problem. Just hoping I could try a few things first.
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    Video and mouse lockup

    Oh PLEASE! That's a totally drastic solution to be used when all other options have been exhausted. Aren't there any other suggestions? I have reformatted this damn machine due to drive failures 3 times in the last 6 months and I REALLY don't want to do that again. It means many hours of...