Recent content by Democritus10

Take out the memory and the video card and listen for beep codes (make sure your speaker from the case is plugged into the appropriate pins on the mobo, even if you have a speaker built into the mobo). If you don't get any, it's your CPU or motherboard (assuming your power supply is fine)...

Try this link The info on there has worked for me for making Win2K and XP bootable CDs. Sometimes you have to press a key when you see the "boot from atapi cd-rom" text...double check the BIOS to make sure the boot parameters are set properly. If they are, then try making another CD with the...

Check the little USB symbol (pseudo-trident) near your USB ports. Some companies are smart enough to put a little plus (+) sign next to the original USB symbol to designate that it is 2.0. However, I have had some USB 2.0 ports without the "+" so it might not be standardized. A "+" means 2.0...

Since you've already cleared the CMOS....try setting the jumpers in the mobo to the safest configuration (e.g. FSB 200 instead of 266). Does the cpu fan spin when you attempt to turn on the computer? If it doesn't, unplug the power cord from the power supply, turn the power supply switch to...

Also, check under your bed before you go to sleep. There's sometimes a little troll that lives there and comes out at night to surf the web and uses instant messenger to communicate with the troll network.

Sorry, this may be a silly question, but it has to be asked. Is the cord (red and white) from the case's power switch connected to the proper pins on the motherboard? I assume that the CPU and everything else is installed also? You need to be a bit more explicit in your post in regards to how...

Most likely your CPU is fried. But to be sure, unplug EVERYTHING that is not essential from the mainboard. Leave only the cord from the power supply to mobo, the cpu, the cpu's fan, the speaker cord, the power switch cord. Unplug all IDE cables, power going into hard drives, CD-ROM, PCI/AGP...

If you really want a good photo scanner, you better be willing to do without the autofeeder option. Scanners with autofeeders are generally designed to be better for text (OCR). Next, decide if you'll want to scan slides/negatives/other transparencies or just prints. If you do need to scan...

How do you really lose unrecoverable data anyway? If it's unrecoverable, you don't have it and can't lose it. Or you still have it and it's unrecoverable, but you haven't lost it. :P

Try the following: 1) Go to Start->Settings->Control Panel->System 2) Click on the "advanced" tab 3) Click the "settings" button in the "startup and recovery" box 4) In the "system failure" box, uncheck the "automatically restart" box. If this box was not checked, then ignore me. I used to...

If you're familiar with 'msconfig' in WIN98, you can copy that file and put it into Windows 2000 here: C:\WINNT\System32 Then just do Start>Run>msconfig as usual. But unlike WIN98, you won't get the the other tools in the usual System Configuration Utility (config.sys, autoexec.bat, etc). But...

Partly true. You may use up to 2 sticks of unbuffered RAM, but if you want to use all 3 slots, then you'll need to use Registered RAM.

I'm having USB problems with my KA266-R with Windows 2000. Everything thing was working great (after I figured out that one has to set a zip drive to 'none' in the BIOS for the RAID drives to be recognized by fdisk, etc) until I enabled the USB ports in the BIOS to install an Epson 1270 printer...

The issue is not with the RAID controllers. There is, installed in the motherboard, a RAID BIOS, which acts in a similar to things like EZ BIOS, etc. When there is a RAID BIOS, no drivers are required in order to partition and format the drives. I've used several other boards with built in...

Thanks, but the free fdisk did not work (it recognized a 0MB drive). But I got everything to work by setting my Zip drive to 'NONE' in the BIOS. Strange little quirk with the board.