Neighbour complains that she can no longer load her Scrabble CD. I manage to get it to start via the Run box but it will not start from its normal shortcut and other CDs cannot be read. I started to do some long overdue housekeeping and when I got Scandisk it would start, recycle many times but...

Hi I recently purchased a new ATI Radeon 9250 PCI Video card for my PC but the PCI slot is a different configuration than the ones in my PC. I don't get it. I thought PCI was PCI (not PCIe which I know is different). My existing slots have one short row of connectors followed by a break and...

I recently purchased a new hard drive, 250GB. I already have a 30GB installed which is formatted with Fat32, when installing the new drive I was wondering if I should format this with NTFS or Fat32, or even convert both to NTFS if its better. Any advice would be great. Brian Keating

I believe I will have to replace my battery soon as spasmodically on boot, my clock boots to a nonsense date (ca 2010?). The box is 4 yo so a new battery is not unreasonable. Will replacing the battery reset the BIOS to default settings? Is there any software to save to disk (3 1/2 or cdr / cdrw...

I try to run disk defragmenter and it keeps re starting and will never get past 10% complete. ANY suggestions ?

I am trying to hook up a new Palm Pilot to my PC. When I try to Hotsync the PDA, the system recognizes the new hardware and freezes during the install. A tech friend told me to install a PCI to USB card. Her idea being that the motherboard was being drained of power (older computer) and the new...

Hi guys, I have a desktop pc (running windows ME) connected to a laptop via an ethernet cable. The Laptop has a broadband connection and I am running internet connection sharing. My question is, will WinME hang if it can not renew its address from the DHCP server, on the laptop? Will any NIC...

On my WinME box, I originally installed the OS with a dedicated swap partition (F:) on the main physical drive. A while later I moved the VM to a separate spindle, for sake of extra speed: - added a dedicated swap partition on the second physical drive - labeled it 'SWAP' - relabeled F: to...

I recently installed a wireless card in my IBM Netvista (2271) PC all went well. About ten days latter the machine starts up but no signal to the monitor. After about an hour or so the system appears to have re-booted and the monitor comes into life? So I took out the wireless card and...

I tried installing a SIIG USB2 PCI card in my relatives Gateway PC running Windows ME. After installing the card in the PC and during the boot process an error message is displayed saying something like "unable to start cmdinst...". After "OKing" out of that, the system then detects new hardware...

Hello, all, I was using my mother's computer because mine blew the motherboard/pcu chip. Because of errors that developed on her hard drive, I installed mine as master and hers as slave. I did this because I want access to files and programs on hers, most importantly a driver file that I need for...

Hi, I hope you are doing well. I am having the Op Sys NF problem. I can boot from a floppy disk and change to the C drive, but can't get a file/directory list. If I run the DIR command, I get what appears to be a list of DOS commands residing on the floppy disk. I say that because the byte size of...

anyone got any ideas on this... twice now I've installed microsoft updates (through auto update facility) and following the restart the PC will not complete loading, leaving the PC hanging with the desktop loaded but no input through the keyboard or mouse (arrow cursor plus hour glass). I've had...

Can I use 100 mhz memory in a machine that uses 133 mhz? I want to run a test on my system, but I don't have enough 133mhz memory. I have 512 mb of 100 mhz memory that I can use if it will work.

My wapicc does not respond "P - sear MFC1

Hi-The last few days I have been receiving the message- Windows found new hardware on my computer-but it does not list the hardware. It asks me if I would like to do an automatic search for a better driver or specify the location of the driver. I hit automatic search-then it says please wait while...

My floppy drive is broken and my Windows Me installation is acting screwy. Windows Me won't start. Is there anyway to boot to a DOS prompt without using a boot floppy? I could fix the problem if I could just get to one lousy DOS command prompt. I can't afford to replace my floppy drive yet, and...

I have installed cd burner and the software and when I try to use program I get the message no CD-R or CD-W drive supported. How do I make it make contact. I suspect this is a windows problem.

I am experiencing this same problem. My external F drive causes my main computer (to which it is attached) to hang frequently. However, it does not cause my other computer (laptop running XP) to hang. My machine is hanging even when I don't access it. What brand do you have? -----Original...

Can't install, screen says put ME disk in, do that and get message iyuv_32dll and also program files\common files. Computer thickie, please help