Recent content by kethnaab

I have an emachines M6810 with the Mobility Radeon 9600 graphics chip installed. I was unable to open Unreal Tournament or Half Life, so I tried to update the driver to the latest version. I downloaded the catalyst drivers, and followed the preinstallation routine (uninstall all ATi...

I want to burn movies to take to Iraq with me to play on my DVD player on my emachines laptop. However, I notice there are DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD-DL....egads my head hurts instead of asking someone to explain the whole damnt hing to me, is there a good DVD FAQ out there...

oh god this is painful i had the damn thing jumpered wrong. it was jumpered as slave instead of master *shakes head* when all else fails, check the OBVIOUS. *sheepish look on face, hands in pocket, looks at ground, scuffs foot in the dirt*

i tried booting from the hard drive made adjustments in BIOS, ejected CD, etc. no dice. Sideswipe, that is interesting information, I'm going to look into that.

hurm "couldn't open boot partition to check for a signature" I caught this message before it rebooted, once again, into setup any thoughts on this? PLEASE!?!?!

whoa. I had no information on the HDD, it was empty. I think I did a "clean" install. as in, there was nothing on there before I tried installing.

I am trying to install XP Pro from the CD onto a Windows Celeron 633 with 192 MB of RAM and a 30GB HDD. The computer recognizes the CD and HDD, asks if I want to install any 3rd party drivers and the like (F6 button) It keeps on going, formats using NTFS, starts copying files for...

Okay, this is giving me a helluva time. I managed, after much difficulty, to get the damn Raid drivers installed and XP Pro installed. Formatted C:\to be 8GB, installed XP Pro, booted into windows. oddly enough, i saw no icons on the desktop, but I have zero experience with XP, so I wasn't...

crud. I just found the iwill website, but all the .pdf manuals are not downloading for me. If anyone has the shared PCI slot layout for the KK266-R, or knows of a website that might have this info, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.

Hello, I have an older system with an Iwill KK266-R motherboard. I remember there used to be a website that had info on this motherboard, i.e. which PCI slots shared IRQs and such. I'm looking to install a new network adapter and I want to make sure it doesn't "interfere" with the network...

just a little bump, if anyone has any "anecdotes", i.e. "zone alarm is great, norton IS bites, used them both, etc" thanks all.

what is zone alarm and avg? Do they do all the stuff that Norton IS and AV do, without the annoying crashes and whatnot?

*scratches head* huh?

WHOO!!! That rocks! Thanks!

Okay, I seem to be having a helluva time with this combination. I got Comcast Cable Modem Internet access, and I have WinXP Home. I got Norton Internet Security 2004 w/NAV. Well, it seems to cause freezes in all types of programs, especially Outlook Express while downloading email for the...