Recent content by gustho

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    SCSI question

    I had 5 devices on the scsi chain. ID 0 internal hard drive ID 1 internal hard drive ID 3 External tape drive (terminated) ID 4 internal hard drive ID 5 Internal CDROM drive I removed the ID 4 drive because it went bad. The SCSI bios on bootup sees all the drives...
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    System halts until printing is complete

    I constantly run into this problem on a windows 98 box while printing. Whenever I send a job for printing the system literally hangs (means I am not able to do anything else until the printing is finished). For your information the current spool settings 'Start prining After the first page is...
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    Asf format to format playable on Regular CD player

    I was wondering, if it exists, a way to convert music that is in .asf format to a format that can be ripped to a CD to be playable on regular CD player. TIA.
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    Pentium v/s Celeron question ?

    I was wondering if I could get some of your opinions on a question that I have which I am unsure of, I have two Toshibha notebooks which I would like to put to use appropriately based on performance : 1) 490XCDT : PII 266Mhz, 160MB RAM. 2) 4090XDVD : Celeron 400Mhz, 64MB RAM. (L1...
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    No Alert From AntiVirus Software

    For those who have used Mcafee AntiVirus..... here is a question? I know I have the latest update....(scan engine 4x with the May dat file)..... but one the users that I support was infected with a Homepage.vbs virus inspite of having all the latest updates. So what is the point of having the...
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    Application error notes.rip

    I have a user that is using Excel97, when he attempts to create a chart the following error occurs "Application error occurred : notes.rip" and in the same window header it reads "Quincy for Win32". Any one experienced these errors. I have poured throught the website of M$...
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    Home networking - sharing Cable Internet connection

    Thanks for the tip
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    Home networking - sharing Cable Internet connection

    Can someone either point me to resources or help me to setup a home network with a cable Internet Connection ? Basically I have a cable connection already setup for one computer. Now I have a Notebook and I would like to use the Cable Internet connection simultaneously using just one connection...
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    email sharing using Win98se - ics feature

    Yes, you probably got it right. Basically I want one Internet connection using ICS and have multiple machine on the home network pickup their individaul emails on their repective machines. If that's what you understood and if you know how to do it - would you be kind enough to share the information?
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    email sharing using Win98se - ics feature

    Is it possible using ICS feature in win98se to access two or more email accounts from two or more boxes from the internal network ? For ex, let say I have 3 boxes: 1,2,3. If 1 does the ICS stuff, 2 and 3 are nodes on the internal network. Is it possible for 2 and 3 to pick email using two...
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    Auto insert CD notification does not work

    Inspite of enabling the 'Auto insert notification' option, the CD once inserted will never start automatically - any idea why ?
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    Quantum Atlas V - Ultra 160/2 SCSI

    Hi guys, I am hoping to get a good deal on a 18.4GB Quantum Atlas V hardrive(Ultra 160/2 SCSI, 6.3ms, 4MB Cache, 7200/10K rpm). Was wondering if anyone had any comments good or bad? Also, does this drive have an Ultra 2 LVD connector?
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    System not powering up

    It was indeed the power supply. I just replaced the power supply and the system appears to be working fine. Thanks for your input anyway.
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    System not powering up

    I have a system that does not even power up. No lights. no display. My first guess would be power supply..... does any one have any other suggestions before I start yanking out the power supply.
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    System Losing time

    Thanks guys. It was indeed Windows that was not keeping the right time! After rebooting (which I did on Monday) up till now(Wednesday) the system is showing accurate time. Since I know now that rebooting will help in keeping the system clock correct ..... Is there a utility in Windoze'98 that...