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Hi all... I'm a bit of a computer novice here who could use some sage advice on backing up your hard drive. I've done some research and it seems to me that a good way to go is to have an external enclosure containing a backup hard drive. But when it gets to some of the finer points on...

Hi all... It appears I broke a fundamental ?rule? when I installed a new hard drive and OS (98SE) on my Dell Dimension 4100 by not installing the Chipset Software Installation Utility (INF Utility) and updating the 815E chipset drivers before installing my other hardware and drivers and...

Hi all... Bit of a newbie to all things technical so need your help on this. I have a computer that's about six years old. Asus P2L97 mobo with 266 mhz Pentium Pro processor, running Win 98 SE. Been working fine for a long while with a very small hard drive (I'm NOT a gamer). A friend...

Hi all... Bit of a newbie to all things technical so need your help on this. I have a computer that's about six years old. Asus P2L97 mobo with 266 mhz Pentium Pro processor, running Win 98 SE. Been working fine for a long while with a very small hard drive (I'm NOT a gamer). A friend...

Hi all... I'm hoping someone can help me. My computer is showing all signs of Blaster worm virus (multiple crashes, same RPC warning as others). I have followed all the steps with FixBlast making sure to disable system restore, verify digital signature of repair tool and then running the tool...

Update for anyone following this thread: I swapped the video cards in my new and old systems and the outcome surprised me. First, I discovered that the Matrox Millenium was installed in one of the PCI slots on my old system and is a smaller (shorter) card than the GeForce. This confused me as...

Slappy... The computer definitely seems to be booting up fully. There is a LED read-out on the board itself which indicates that it is going thru a full and proper boot up. You mentioned BIOS resetting. Is that the same as resetting the CMOS by moving the jumper on the motherboard to a...

Guys... I do not see a POST screen. The screen simply stays unchanged (black) with apparently no signal going to it from the vid card. The cable and monitor are both good as I tried them both on other computer -- a 6 year-old PC with fairly primitive hardware. Can I swap video cards...

Anyone offer some sage advice? I built a system 6 months ago and it's been working fine (Win XP with Gainward GeForce 3 Ti200 video card). Suddenly it started acting up and the monitor wouldn't display an image (just stayed black). The monitor power comes on okay but it doesn't get any signal...

Help! I am completely stymied with this problem. I have MS Word 2000 and accidentally uninstalled Avery wizard. So I went to the Avery website and downloaded again and re-installed. Trouble is, I now have TWO Avery Wizard icons on my standard toolbar in Word. Only one of them is "active" and...

This is weird... I just did a re-install of Word 2000 over my current version (as I thought it had gone a little glithcy and may have gotten corrupted). Now I have a strange thing happening. Everything works as normal EXCEPT now I can't save anything! When I click "Save" or "Save As" to save...

Thanks for your help on Word 2000!! Do any of you know if Norton AntiVirus 2000 (v. 6.0) and Norton Utilities 2000 (v. 4.5) will run in Windows XP Pro? ( Trying to find out how much of my current software will translate into my new operating system.) Thanks, Larry

Thanks for your help on Word 2000!! Do any of you know if Norton AntiVirus 2000 (v. 6.0) and Norton Utilities 2000 (v. 4.5) will run in Windows XP Pro? ( Trying to find out how much of my current software will translate into my new operating system.) Thanks, Larry

Okay thanks... Here's the follow-up: Same question but will Norton Systemworks 2000 (v.3.0) work on Win XP as well?? No longer a MS question. Larry