I had a PC that seemed to have died after attempting to (foolishly)
install unknown RAM cards into it. After a certain card was put in, it
would not turn on, not just not boot, but not turn on at all, as if it
were not plugged in.

Hi, I have a 30Gb Quantum which has XP on it. It has recently stopped
booting, it comes up with a Please Insert System Disk error. When I
stick it in another machine with XP on it the Hard Drive comes up as a
RAW format disk instead of a FAT32. If you click on the disk it says

I just installed Windows XP Home on a new computer with an AMD FX51
processor and an MSI K8T Master motherboard.  In the proporties under
my computer it says that the processor is an AMD FX51 running at
~801MHz.  Does anyone know if this is an error with XP or the

I have had my Dell 8200 about 18 months. It came with the Geforce4 Ti
4400. Recently,at bootup, the Dell logo was scrambled, and I got an
error message that said that my graphics card was faulty.  It would
not even recognize my Samsung monitor. Since I had a four-year NBD

I have a hard drive 20 gig. the hd has two partitions 1)primary dos of
2gig
2) extended dos 6gig.  I try to delete the partitions to make one
large drive and when I try to delete the ext dos partition, I receive

I know some of you are taking a wait and see attitude towards Prescott,
but this article puts a different twist to the normal banter.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13803
It seems like IBM's patents are finely going to be useful for different

My PC just shut itself off. I mean everything but the 3 fans that are
apart of the case stopped. After an hour...it all started back up. Any
ideas?
Here is some info about my setup:

Hi all! A couple of questions about XP.  If I by a used computer from
another party and it comes with XP, do I have to, as new owner of the OS,
have to also purchase and reregister it.   Does the original owner of the
computer have the right to sell the OS with the computer?

I have a Socket 8 motherboard here, I think that it's a Compaq due to
the boot behaivior (tests RAM, cursor jumps to top right, etc), and
it's marked on the bottom PB 644047-006. Is anyone here familiar
enough with Compaq's to identify it? I'll gladly post more info if it

We are in need of used computers, monitors, printers and other
computer related items immediately on regular basis in container
loads. Interested parties may contact immediately with availability
and best minimum prices. Thanks. Contact: glx01@hotmail.com

Where can I find technical documentation regarding the workings of the
Intel 4004 microchip?

Hi to all.
I recently upgraded my old PIII-800 system, and am giving that to my
wife.
She is now using an OLD PII-350 system.

Does anyone out there have a Maxtor 80GB Diamond Max Plus 9 hard
drive?
Through a combination of bad luck and stupidity I have lost my master
boot record and maybe my boot record (what's the difference?).

Some of our keyboard keys have become intermittent (its like typing
with boxing gloves on). Easily solved though....or that's what I
thought. I simply bought a replacement (PS2 standard 102 key qwerty).
However, when installed, it produces a boot up error 'Keyboard error

My daughter has a Dell 2300 that is coincidentally 1 month past the
warranty.  It will start up and shut off within 1 minute.  It doesn't
matter if I boot from hard drive, floppy, go into safe mode, or go to
setup screen.  I don't know how to try to isolate the problem. (Mother