Recent content by Dinah

Hello, I'm building my first system from scratch. I'm ordering the Enlight EN-7237 case. Do I need 18" or 24" IDE cables? I plan on using the new round ones. Thank you in advance for your help, Dinah

Before I tried installing the Voodoo card I changed the video adapter to standard video adapter before rebooting to go into the BIOS to change the AGP onchip setting. I noticed right away that something was amiss because it read out as a standard PCI video adapter. There is no PCI video card in...

I finally got over to my friend's house to install the video card and ran into a major obstacle. In the BIOS, the "onchip video" option is not there. This is the motherboard that the instruction manual is for and all of the other settings are there exactly like they are supposed to be...

Thank you, gentlemen, for your help. I really do appreciate it. Dinah

I have a friend's son that wants to install a new Voodoo3 3000 PCI 16MB Ultra High Speed, High Resolution 2D/3D Accelerator video card on their computer. Her current system is a K6-II 333, 128 mgs ram, Windows 98SE, with a Pine super-7 motherboard that has the Via Apollo Super MVP4 chipset...

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Thank you for your answers. My current hard drive is a 30g IBM Deskstar 75GXP and I had trouble with it right after the initial install of Windows and most of my programs. It was super quiet but I had heard some high pitched scratching type sounds. (I had installed a new 56X Afreey CD-ROM also...

Thanks MasterTech, I do not use the software from my ISP. I go into DUN and Internet Explorer and input all of the settings needed. The settings that remained the same (for sure) that I remember after doing a format and using IBM's erase feature in DOS were in the DUN Server Types: logon to...

What is a low level format? If you really want to start all over with a clean slate what steps do you take? I have deleted the primary partition, created another and formatted a hard drive only to end up with some of my own settings for some parts of Windows after a clean install. This has...

I don't know if this is the sound your descibing or not. I just installed a new hard drive and after doing a clean install of Windows 98 SE and using only the "drivers" from the Creative CD that came with my MP3 SoundBlaster, I was going nuts with more of a "pop" sound when...

Thanks Jonny, That is usually what happens when I turn on the surge protector - you see a brief flash of the LED lights. But, I used to have to physically push the power button in to get the computer to come on, now it powers up all the way without pushing the button. I don't leave the power on...

266 Pentium II 160 RAM 30g IBM Deskstar on Promise Ultra 100 PCI card Afreey 56X CD-ROM (primary master) Hewlett-Packard 8100 CD-RW (secondary master) Internal Zip drive (secondary slave) SoundBlaster Live ATI AIW 4mg Windows 98 SE Upgrade clean install All of a sudden, my computer is powering...

Heretik, I'm trying to contact my friend about trying Safe Mode. When she was telling me about her problem it sounded as though she would get through the Bios boot okay, and then it would hang there. If you can get through the Bios boot, you should be able to enter Safe Mode? Thank you for...

I have a friend that deleted a whole bunch of files pertaining to her zip drive and some more files that she ?doesn?t remember?. When she turned the computer back on the next time, Windows wouldn?t boot. She thinks that if she could get to the Recycle Bin and restore the files she would be okay...

I do have the Intel AL440LX. Do you really think that there is no advantage to getting the Promise ATA 100 controller card vs running it with the original IDE controller ATA 33? I don't know anything about RAID yet and wasn't planning to set it up that way, but I really thought the controller...