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Here's the layout. I have a W2000 laptop in my company's conference room connected to our LAN via a wireless SMC Barricade router. I'm *pretty* sure the router settings are *fine* (gateway, dns, subnet, etc.). I can get out to the internet and I can telnet, ping, etc to the other LAN computers...

Okay, some results: safe mode makes no difference- same behaviour- IE crashes in my wife's login, but is perfectly fine in my login. Doesn't the fact that everything works fine in my login kind of eliminate the possibility of a hardware driver problem (such as the via 4-1's or something else)...

I'm a newbie with XP and need some help in trying to isolate these problems. They do not occur concurrently, but I suspect they might be related. After being up for a few minutes, my wife's computer sporadically loses all sound. I've checked system volume, etc., and no problems there or in...

Just in case anyone else comes across this problem, here is the solution: CD-ROM Access Is Missing and Messages Cite Error Code 31, Code 32, Code 19, or Code 39 After You Remove Easy CD Creator in Windows XP The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Microsoft...

Man, that's a good question. I wish I had the expertise to give you the answer. Maybe Anand (or some other guru) could give us a graph that shows (everything else being equal) where the sweet spot is with regards to cpu speed versus memory speed. The question is, for your particular system, are...

A few more details: this system was upgraded from Win 98. Not sure if that's important, but it might be, I suppose.

WTF? Needed to relocate the DVD/CDR to another machine. After doing so, my standard/generic 40X Acer drive would no longer work. Shows up with a yellow exclamation in device manager. Uninstall, reinstall and it says WinXP can't properly load the driver. Swapped out...

Seems to be a drivers issue. I cleaned the harddrive with format c: and installed Win98 SE. About halfway through the hardware detection rebooting dance the mouse magically came alive. So I'm guessing the USB keyboard/mouse I hooked up had inadequate driver support from the default Win98...

Trying to fix this system for a friend. The problem specs: occasional loss of the mouse (most likely a bad USB connection which seems to be isolated to port 1 of 4), and occasional system freeze ups. The system freeze up problem was solved rather quickly, after about the second bootup when I...

There's a process/app there at startup on my wife's W98 machine that causes some serious slowdowns. It's called rndal in task manager; I managed to discover it by repeatedly pulling up task manager to figure out why a game I was playing suddenly got really choppy. I end that process, and...

hmm, actually the connection is there, but only in step with the lockup/active cycle. In other words, there when active, gone when locked up. Not sure about recent software installs etc. (wife's sleeping) :) There was an abrupt system reboot recently (2 year old pulling on cord).

This is my wife's system that I built for myself over 2 years ago so exact details are a little fuzzy: Abit bx6-2 MB, celeron 366, ATI-128 video, Turtle Beach sound card (?)...hmmm (blanks) I think the important details (suggested above) are I have an ethernet card connected to DSL router...

Not sure it is even a hardware problem, but here it is: system seems to boot fine during the early stages (Win 98), then after all the hardware is detected and Norton goes through it's routine, a strange cycle begins where the cpu/harddrive seems frozen for almost exactly 6 seconds, and then...

Yea. Someone on another board just informed me that W98 SE should be CD bootable. That will help, but I still gotta figure a way to have a working floppy. Can you even get a floppy controller on a card any more?

It's the floppy connector on the motherboard. This is a new system. I gotta have the floppy to get the CDROM up, to get the operating system up...etc. The best solution for me is I get the floppy to run off of a really cheap controller card (but it's gotta be PCI cuz' that's all I got :( ).