A neighbor of mine is using a 10 year old Dell running Windows 95. The
8 gig hard drive is partitioned into a 2 gig primary (the C:\ drive),
and an extended partition of three 2 gig logical drives. All of them
FAT, not FAT32.

ive installed an Epox 4BDA with a  400mhz p4 and 2x256mb ddr ram. i
have an agp graphics card in it.
when i turn the machine on the fans power up etc, but i get a
completely blank screen and a stange beep code.

Not sure if right newsgroup, but here goes :)
Got a problem with my HD's, and before I go off and buy new ones,
thought I would come on here and hope some helpful soul can offer any
advice.

I am trying to connect a Toshiba 160GB external HDD via USB2.0 to
win98se. According to the manual the HDD is only suited for win2000 and
XP. Win98se recognizes which HDD I want to connect when I plug it in,
but proceeds by asking me to provide the correct driver - which I do

Has anyone used these new round IDE drive and floppy cables for any
length of time? They appear a terrific idea, but one never knows until
one works with them for a while. Does anyone has issues with them:
become brittle under constant heat, don't conduct reliably/as fast a

I was on the internet yesterday and my PC locked up.  When I tried to
reboot, I received the following error message "Invalid System Disk -
Replace
the disk, and then press any key".

I'm helping a friend get his PC working.
His PC is has an ASUS P5RD1-V Deluxe which has an on board ATI Radeon
X300GPU.
The PC powers up but there is no display at all.

I have a Shuttle XPC case with power supply and all the other goodies,
except for a motherboard.  I don't want to sink hundreds of dollars
into a new case and all the trimmings when I just need that one piece.
I can't seem to find anyone that sells seperate motherboards.  Does

My computer shuts down before fully booting, even in safe mode.  I have
fitted a new CPU cooler and cleaned the PSU fans but still cannot boot.  The
problem started when I fitted a new CPU cooler.  The computer would
eventually only work when on its side (?) and then refused to boot ...

I have a homebuilt pc with a Gateway Brookings motherboard.  I upgraded
several components for my nephew (HD, DVD-R, video card).  Upon
completion it worked great, except I noticed that the onboard sound
isn't working (sound card has the yellow exclamation point in W2K

Either way...pushing the button or software "eject", the CD drive (Asus
S480/AH) opens and immediately closes. Will not stay open.
Any work-around?
Windows XP Home.

I'm looking to build a system with 1 vid card and SLI capable.  I plan
to run 2 monitors off of this one card.  However, should I add a
second vid card and run the system in SLI can I still do 2 monitors?
Or must I d/c one and game then connect the 2nd monitor when I am

ECS Nforce-3a Motherboard
AMD Sempron 3400+
The thing wouldn't POST, I tried everything you oculd think of. The
bare system, out of the case etc. I sent the CPU back and they said it

Howdy:  This is probably a silly question, but  if I have a Compaq
computer with WinXP on it and I need to wipe it clean to get rid of a
whole mess of worms and trojans (she's a Limewire addict!) can I
install a retail version of WinXP on it or do I have to have the

I have a PC with Pentium II 233 Mhz/ Intel 440LX motherboard.
Running windows 98, and after we have installed wifi in our house, and
upgraded this pc to
a Wifi PCI card, it became ubearably slow after about 30 minutes from