I was running two hard drives in my computer. The primary hard drive (c:) died. I replaced it, loaded Windows ME again and the new drive seems to be working fine. It is jumpered and cabled as the primary, master drive (like the one it replaced). I reconnected the second hard drive and it was...

My son had a new game for Christmas, went to put it on the computer (ME) and it said there was not enough room. So he went into the winme folder and deleted a file, now we can't egt passed the password file. Can't get into safe mode I have tried putting in the restore disk, but nothing. Anyone out...

i got a new digital camera and a kingston data traveler I and both are usb drivers. Neither one is showing up in the computer. The digital camera shows a full connection yet it wont recieve any of the pictures off the camera it's self. The data traveler shows up in device manager with a big red...

I am trying to squeeze the last megahertz out of my old, slow Compaq Presario 5000. It is running a 750 MHz AMD Duron chip under Windows ME. I would like to add a DVD drive to burn a DVD of the production my son is building with Pinnacle Studio 8. He has been able to author on VCD; but we want to...

Hello all. I am currently reassembling a pc in which the floppy drive light has been staying on and saying it has failed. I reversed the ribbon cable and now there is no light on the floppy but it still fails it says floppy error 0*01 something like this. Could it be the power connection? Any...

I've been messing around with an old computer and decided to upgrade the operating system to Windows Me from Win 98se. The upgrade seemed to go just fine until I got back to the desk top after the upgrade was complete. In checking "My Computer" I found that the floppy "A" and Hard Drive "C"...

-----Original Message----- How can I increase the RAM to 1 gb +? I have 2 x 512k DDR400 that I would like to install. I have checked the Motherboard and it will handle up to 3 gb of RAM. When I install per the directions from the Motherboard manufacturer, WIN ME hangs on startup and just...

I have 2 op. mice, 1 IBM, 1 Logitrol, neither one will let my computer power down, either connected or disconnected. Is there any way to change this? Email would be appreciated. Thanks.

When I try to adjust the volumn from my keyboard, the calculator pops up with no effect on the volumn. I have an IBM Netvista. The problem has only been with me for 3 months but never used to happen. email please!

Where is the GOD DAMN product key for the damn game located on the box... Cause i cant find it!!! -- Brother In Metal

Hi there, I m having major problems on my other computer and for some reason in some programs the keyboard wont work at all and in others it will work to some degree. When I say to some degree I mean that about 6 or so keys will work and the rest wont for some reason. Would anyone have any ideas...

Hello, after adding Rambus memory to my system it became completely unstable. The bios sees all 768MB. And All memory has been throughly tested with Memtest and Memtest86. In a variety of configurations (512MB,128MB,and 768MB). No errors reported, no problems. So once I go beyond the...

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...

Anyone- I have installed a new internal Pioneer DVD / CD Writer (Model A08XL) that reads and writes to a wide variety of different media. I installed it in a Dell Dimension 8100 running Windows ME at 1.4 megahertz with approximately 384 MB of RAM and 20 GB free disk space. The problem I am having...

toddler was pushing keys (this has happened before, but we can't remember how it was resolved), certain keys do not now work (backspace, h, windows start). any ideas how to fix? - the keyboard itself seems to be in tact, so not a hw problem.

hello,i had to get a new cpu. the one i had was a 800 and the new one is a 850. well after installing i have no sound.. not sure what happened. please help

I have a Samsung DVD ROM and for some reason when I insert a DVD it does not play. Even if I go to My Computer and click on D: it tells me that there is no disk in drive. Any suggestions? Cheers, Canna

Hi, I have had trouble with my D drive. In device manager it says it a Samsung SD608 DVD ROM but it does not play DVD's. If I put a DVD in the drive it doesn't even register that there's a disk in. It will accept music and data CD's and I have tried installing up to date drivers. The strange thing...

I now have two 4g hard drives. Want to remove one of them. Every time I disconnect the hard drive I can not boot the computer. Wants a disk to boot. Have changed the BIOS and fdisk the second hard drive. Computer shows no hard drive, but also show the primary as disabled. Help

I updated my Mcafee and it found this JS/exploit-Dialog Arg Any ideas how to remove it? It can't be cleaned but I haven't tried deleting it. Any advice on how to go about rectifying this?