Recent content by midknight

I'll state the question explicitly, as the others have only hinted at it - does a Win98 boot floppy (or a WinMe one) allow you to read the harddrive when you boot to 'dos mode with CDROM support'? If it does, then we have confirmed that its a driver/registry issue, not the hardware wiring...

What is the card that shipped with the P3? Those things eat power for breakfast as it is, so if you stick a power-hungry graphics card in when the previous one wasn't then I can imagine there might be load issues. OEM PCs ship with standard parts, so they can spec the power source to be the...

My parents machine has a modem that does the same - check your installation disc, I had to run a little dos script to get Windows to recognise it after a reboot. I notice however 'COM 3' being mentioned - that might well be it, as internal modems pop up as an extra COM port.

The default time for power saving to cut in is either 5 or 10 minutes after the default time for the screensaver (can't remember which). Try turning off all the power saving options; the number of times I've seen the suspend mode fail to come back to life is about the number of times I've tried...

Thought that might be the case; shows how long its been since I used an AT power supply...

Is it an AGP or a PCI video card? Try the other sort if you can. Also, don't forget that AGP has a second row of contacts. More than once have I thought that an AGP card was plugged in correctly when it had only gone in halfway. edit: Doh! misread that bit saying that it works with just the...

OK, here is a novel/stupid idea: Could you use an AT one that you just flipped on and back off to simulate pressing the button on an ATX one? It would save hacking the case up, and you can even 'switch it on' for 5 seconds instead of having to hold the button down when you want to force it to...

Another problem I had that was similiar - I played around with some 'send to' settings, but that caused the floppy to get scanned whenever the send to menu appeared. Check this isn't the age old 'everything stops while Windows checks all the removable drives' problem.

The memory was some old no-name (MEC chips) CAS3 PC100 that I originally bought ~2.5 years ago for clocking a Celeron 266 to 400 (aah, those were the days). I've a suspicion that I'm not doing a T-Bird 900 any favours by running it with 128Mb of CAS3 PC100 memory, but it beat shelling out for a...

Fixed it! The problem was one of my memory sticks. It seems that the new Via and Tbird setup is more demanding on my memory than the old Celery box, so when I ran big 3D games they eventually start using that dodgy memory for AGP texture transfer and BANG! everything died. Of course, now I've...

Well, I've finally solved my VIA + TBird problems - memory. Turns out that one of my memory sticks is fine running on my old Celery-based box, but the TBird is less tolerant. Leaving it with just the one 128Mb stick has smoothed everything. I thought it was AGP related, as it only crashed in 3D...

the D drive you can't format will be the ramdrive that the boot disk sticks some system files in for faster access. You've probably assigned the C: drive in fdisk but either not marked it as a bootable Fat partition, or just need to format /s it, at a guess.

Certainly that should help Fizz; I've read about similiar problems as well, along with problems with the old soundblaster emulation on the Live. Unfortunately, I've got an ISA SB64, and the changes in the geforcefaq don't seem to help...

Is there any difference in the directory they open to, or in the view options you have selected? Mine takes a second or two longer to open the top 'My Computer' level, as it insists on checking the floppy and CD drives for any media first.

Don't worry about the onboard sound - yes its usually dire, but it can always be switched off in the BIOS. Besides, its becoming difficult to find a board without it now.