Recent content by Camion

It's running XP Home SP1. Will the process described in the Misc notes leave all of the programs intact, my son's game settings, and the drivers? He would kill me if he had to spend hours (days?) getting things back to where they were. Will it automatically wipe the data files, or is my backup...

Thanks Fern No, I didn't reformat/reinstall. After reading that article, I thought no way I could expect success with my level of expertise in these things. It would be easier to start over and build a new computer from pieces I have laying around. Looks like all I'll need to buy is a more...

I replaced an MSI board, an Athlon 1600+, and 512 ram with an Intel 865perl, P4 2.8, and Kingston value ram (2x512). Everthing else is the same. The mobo splash screen comes on, and I can get to setup, but in the process of trying to boot I get a dos like screen that starts out very politely...

Thanks neovan. In my searching around everywhere I came across that but I didn't hit the dropdown arrow to see the choices normal, minimized, and maximized. Next time I'll be more thorough and spend two hours before I come to the forums. Thanks.

Used to be that, whenever I opened the Internet Explorer browser from the desktopo, that it would open as a full screen maximixed window. Recently it opens in the small size, that I always have to maximize. I have looked everywhere I could think of, and can't find any place to change this. Does...

Nobody mentioned one particular large manufacturer of mainboards to avoid, so they must be good. So I guess I'll go out and get me one -- Intel.

Thanks boys, it worked. I can see again. When it rebooted it found both the monitor and the card as something new, and installed the drivers that were already in there somewhere. It's funny why it can't reistall drivers from device manager, without taking it out and putting it back in. I'm glad...

I have some wierd problems since I put a new HDD Fujitsu 20 GB, (very quiet!) in a Dell Latitude CPi 266XT laptop. I flashed the BIOS with help from the Dell boards. Windows 98SE seemed to load okay, along with Office 2000, and Norton Systemworks Pro 2003. Sometimes it just freezes, and I have...

I am planning on installing a new hard drive, XP (from 98SE), and two more sticks of RAM (way cheap now), and I was wondering what order I should do it in. How about this -- First I put in the new drive (Barrracuda V) as a slave, and get it going. Then I install XP so the drive has some...

Its my impression that you'll have to wait awhile, since the 1x1-T series (digital) is about the best LCD around. See the review on Anandtech, and tomshardware. BTW you can get all the specs you want on the Samsung site.

I have replaced HDDs on desktops without a problem, but never on a laptop. I want to replace the drive on a Dell Latitude CPi D266XT with a (quietest?) Fujitsu ATA100 type drive, since the current drive is starting to sound like a wheat combine. Am I going to run into any compatibility issues...

Thanks for the edification about why it works out to 7v. Now if I could only understand why the neutral wire in my house is bonded to ground.......( I probably wouldn't understand the explanation anyway) Thanks oldfart --- camion

I run fans at 7v, similar to the way that oldfart does it, but with fewer steps and no risk of plugging the wrong thing into it. I accomplished the same thing by just switching one wire in the connector that is attached to the fan. Leave the red wire in the fan connector where it is, so that it...

I have a machine with an MSI K7T board with an Athlon XP 1800, and want to expand the memory. There is a Corsair 512 MB DDR 2100 (cas 2.5) stick in there now and I was wondering if there is any problem adding a 512 of a different brand, like Munchkin, Crucial, Kingston, or whatever. Also, is the...

Thanks WW, It's fixed. It's wierd how this stuff works. I tried EVERYTHING, except the thing that worked, of course. For your curiosity I used the following phrases on Google -- move icon, can't move icon, desktop icons, desktop icons+troubleshoot. For all of them I also got tons of hits...