Recent content by kiehn

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    motherboard amd k6-2, HDD/led/reset

    Im in the process of replacing my mother board and have run into one problem I cant find an answer to. I have a plug that fits on to the motherboard for HDD led reset. Here's the problem there are two sets of pins one 8 pins and the other 6 pins a space and 1 pin. The plug that fits onto it...
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    Need GOOD Antivirus for Win XP

    I'm looking for a GOOD antivirus program that doesn't mess up your system when it's updated and also includes blocking trojan horses. I'M NOT, I REPEAT NOT INTERESTED IN MCAFEE OR NORTON!!!!!!!! Thanks, Sue
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    Invalid system disk/no fixed drive

    kiehn Member Posts: 27 Joined: Jul 2001 03/29/2003 10:26 PM (NEW!) We've had numberous problems with our system freezing, restarting, constantly restoring the registry, etc. Now when I start it I get the blue HP screen and following a message stating invalid system disk...
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    Invalid system disk

    First I should say the OS is win98se HP edition. When I reinstalled the HP CD I watched all the files spinning down the screen as they usually have in the past, but this time it did not say please remove cd and reboot, there was no repsonse at all and I tried it twice. As far as the invalid...
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    Invalid system disk

    We've had numberous problems with our system freezing, restarting, constantly restoring the registry, etc. Now when I start it I get the blue HP screen and following a message stating invalid system disk. So I booted up with the boot up disk and decided to fdisk, format and reinstall. When it...
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    Win 98/Outlook 97

    yes pop3 for mail in and mail out. I can't figure out where to place the pop3 information to receive and send mail. Thanks Suzie
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    Win 98/Outlook 97

    I'm using a borrowed computer which has Win 98 with Outlook 97. I've tried following directions thru Help for a couple hours trying to setup our mail server account to receive mail. Can anyone give me simple instuctions on how to do this. Thanks Suzie
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    No Operating system/No Primary Drive/No fixed disk present

    I think I remembered you take out the battery for a few minutes which I did and reinstalled NO Change : ( Again I rechecked all the ribbons and connections.
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    No Operating system/No Primary Drive/No fixed disk present

    No, haven't tried that, how is it done???? : ) Thanks, Suzie
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    No Operating system/No Primary Drive/No fixed disk present

    I have a HP Pavilion 4533 amdk6-2 450mhz win98 Today I received the 2 PC100 128 SDRAM chips and istalled them. When I restarted my computer I got a message NO Operating system. Puzzled I pulled them back out and restalled my old PC100 128 chip. Still No operation system. So I started...
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    Computer errors/restarts repeatedly

    Thanks for your advice, I'm open to any idea's being I slightly computer illiterate. I did download and run the Memtest v3.0, twelve times. The first time my computer locked up during the test so I restarted and ran it all night long, it ran 11 times and passed without errors, which I find...
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    Computer errors/restarts repeatedly

    We've had problems with this Hewlett packard since we bought it 4 years ago. It has been refortated and fdisked more than a dozen times. I run scandisk and defrag weekly. It has never been this bad. We constantly get explorer errors, lockups, internal errors, fatal exceptions, windows...
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    Computer errors/restarts repeatedly

    We've had problems with this Hewlett packard since we bought it 4 years ago. It has been refortated and fdisked more than a dozen times. I run scandisk and defrag weekly. It has never been this bad. We constantly get explorer errors, internal errors, fatal exceptions, lockups, windows...
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    Help I'm so Frustrated

    I'm not sure how much info to include, so I'll just try to explain the situation without writing a book. Our OS is win98se with 188 ram. The last few months we have had constant errors "Windows protection errors, Illegal Operations Fatal exceptions and lock-ups" all occuring in different...
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    Primary disk failure

    My friend has an older computer We moved the hard drive and it came unpluged. When we plugged it back in we got a message "Primary disk failure" use boot up disk. She didn't have a boot up disk but I do. Can you tell me why this happened and will it be simple to fix? Thanks Tami