Recent content by jwwrs

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    Need your help! Card/TV Recommendations

    Thanks guys. Went with a VGA-Video converter. Appreciate it. Got my thinking in the right direction.
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    Need your help! Card/TV Recommendations

    Mods, If this is in the wrong forum, do your thing. I'm doing some work for a local non-profit org. They have a donated Presario 7596 computer. They also have an older 32" TV with only a cable input and RCA inputs(1 vid., 1 audio). Here's my problem. They need to be able to play DVD's and...
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    maxtor acoustic management

    Thanks all, Here's the workaround. First, the reason I went to the controller is that my bios/MB doen't support drives over 40G. I've got an older Gigabyte board with the latest award bios flashed on it. To get AMSET to work, I got a copy of Caldera DR-DOS and it booted right to an A:>...
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    maxtor acoustic management

    John, Yes, to both questions. Maybe this is the problem. The hdd is set up on a Maxtor ATA133 pci card. After the floppy does it's thing, the system goes through an auto detect for the hdd on the pci card. I have the bios set for A-CDROM-C as the bootup drives.
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    ok WTF is so good about fight club???

    I thought it was a good movie. Maybe ya gotta be a little open minded. I'm 51. Then again, I think 12 Monkeys is a great movie.
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    maxtor acoustic management

    OK guys, Tried the w98 boot disk, also ms-dos BD(6.22). Both give me a "NTDLR is missing, press ENTER to restart" message. Help, help, me Rhonda!!!! hdd's are NTFS, if that helps.
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    Why do laptops make a faint, high frequency buzz when you call for CPU task?

    Neo, This may sound crazy, but when I was a lot younger(in my thirties) I could hear High frequencies well outside the normal range. This included floresent lighting fixtures. I'm an electrician and when I would be in a room with variable frequency drives, I would have to wear earplugs. As...
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    maxtor acoustic management

    Thanks John. But been there, done that. When all 4 disks are finished, the only 2 options presented are INSERT WIN2K CD or EXIT SETUP. Am I missing something?
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    maxtor acoustic management

    I guess I'm just retarded on this one. How do I get to a C:> prompt in W2K to install acoustic management. Running 80G off of Maxtor ATA133 pci card. TIA