Recent content by terbolee

Hope this does not offend...have you disabled ANY software-based firewall on your computer? If so, try the following: 1. Lower the security-level on your browser to say, medium 2. Allow cookies to be received, say, from Google

1. Disable any firewall on your PC...any recent upgrades? 2. I liked phatrabt's suggestion to reset your router to the factory settings. If you do that, check your manual, get the router's original IP address so you can connect to it again. 3. If PING is not consistent, check connection to...

That's the way wireless works. While others here may shed more light to your question, your wireless router, called Access Point, steps down to half the speed after a certain distance...say, 3-feet. And then the speed is halved again after another 3-feet. Not sure what the exact distance is...

Hmmm. Interesting problem. When you formatted it, did you use FAT16? As far as I know, XP's FAT32 can create problems sometime. Hope this helps. Ta!

It's not worth trying to make it work, okay? Guess, I need not say much more since other experts here have responded to ya! If you still want to give it a go, post again and I'll see if I can help, okay?

Something tells me that I might need to perform a low-level format to fix my 4GB USB flash memory stick. Can't get warranty help. Anyone done a low-level format? If so, which program will do that? When inserted, Windows reports that it's a 1092GB drive (Yes...1 TB!!!). As such, FAT32 format...

Many thanks to you and to the others here who got me the answer I was looking for...in less than 30-mins!!!

I use a Ghost floppy disk. You can create one using the Ghost program. Use Nero to create a bootable CD from the floppy disk. On my shelf is a cheap 20GB drive that contains my fully working XP, drivers, programs, etc, MINUS my data files. If my C-drive goes crook on me, I connect my 20GB...

I already have two IDE drives. If I get a SATA drive, will it become just another drive? Yes, my motherboard has SATA ports. Somewhere I heard that the SATA drive "must" become the primary drive...is this true? Many thanks.