How do I find out the model of my motherboard or wat kind it is?

Good afternoon, I have one Compaq Presario 4620, Pentium II 266Mhz. I would like to upgrade this desktop computer to install windows xp pro service pack 2. I do not know very well about desktop computer. Please tell me, what can I upgrade? 1. Can I use Pentium 4 with this motherboard (Titan...

When I power the pc on, it gets to the Windows ME welcome screen and freezes. It just won't go any further. I'm not very knowlegable in this area. Does anyone have any ideas as to what the problem might be or how to fix it?

When I plug in a new wireless card the adding new hardware window opens updateing new hardware database.0% then nothing. cntrl-alt-del hardware install not responding. Same thing happened when I added usb gateway.eventually worked but took hours but however the wireless card will not install by...

I am upgrading the video card on an older 750mhz Compaq 5000us pc that is running Windows ME. A label on the front of the workstation says that it is has an AGP slot that will accept 2x or 4x cards. It came with a 8mb nvidia card. As I was researching video cards I noticed that only a few list...

I have a Dell Dimension 4100 PC. It crashed the other day and I have just been able to get it to come back on line. I had a second hardrive that was empty so I installed win ME on it to and set it as my #1 HD to get the PC up and running. I was hoping to have a look (via explorer) at the...

Hi, As the subject suggests, I tried ugrading my software for earthlink and kept getting the above error message and couldn't complete the upgrade. Can you please tell me if this is necessary and what I should to. Is an interface card necessary? Thanks heaps. my email is

Is there a quick way to enable or disable the network connection on Windows ME similar to XP? Also How do you get the PC Card Indicator to appear on your task bar? Thanks, StevieBVA

For some strange reason my computer properties is only recognizing 128 megs of ram. I put 2 seperate 128 sticks in individually and it recogizes both of them but when I put them in together it still says there's only 128 megs. My Bios sees them but my computer properties doesn't. I even bought a...

Hi, I installed a new modem which is plug and play. I also installed the ME driver for this modem. Windows ME does not recognize it. I have universal plug and play setup. Does anybody have any ideas how to recognize the plug and play devices. I also tried a NIC pci card and it doesn't get...

I burned a Data DVD for a friend with Windows ME and he has a DVD drive. However, he cannot read the disk in his DVD drive. While burning I did the necessary finalization to the disk so that it can be read in regular dvd drives. Are there any codecs or any other O.S. updates that are needed for...

I tried to set my virtual memory manually and as a result ME will not boot due to insufficient memory space. Anyone know how I can reset the settings to the default to let windows manage virtual memory automatically? Thanks, Peter

When booting Machine loaded with Windows ME. The machine starts up with the scan disk awaiting to be run. When i try to run scan disk it has over 1,000,000 clusters to scan. How can i stop scan disk from appearing at start up?

Dear Friend, I was just talking to my friend, Internet marketing expert Corey Rudl, the other day and I was shocked at what he told me... He has been working day and night testing new ideas and strategies all year... Would you believe they've done 1,325 tests since January 1st! But despite all...

Dear Friend, I was just talking to my friend, Internet marketing expert Corey Rudl, the other day and I was shocked at what he told me... He has been working day and night testing new ideas and strategies all year... Would you believe they've done 1,325 tests since January 1st! But despite all...

Hi, I have a 2nd hard disk which I use as a data drive. After my computer crashed windows no longer shows the 2nd drive but it is shown in BIOS. I have system restore disabled. I have tried scanreg/restore with no luck.

I recently completely uninstalled my modem and took it out of my computer. The reason was that when connecting to the internet, the dialup adapter acted as the primary connection to the internet, which slowed my download speed since I was using a broadband connection. Now the error message I keep...

Hi My Sony vaio laptop PCG-FX301 will not play CD's but will play DVD's OK. I have tried downloading driverfrom manufacturer site but still won't work. When I insertCD get message saying Insert CD in drive E. If I insert a DVD real player starts playing it.

Gateway computer/ME operating system. Initially the standard display opened that it wasn't function, which when reinstalling indicated that it was the main display adapter. Gateway advised to reinstall driver, but I then noticed that the D drive wasn't there, so I can't reinstall the driver.. ...

Recently "installed" USB Camera but keep getting message "Cannot find VFW Driver". The camera came with it's own CD which has it's seperate section, - install device driver -, which obviously I have installed, but with no results. I am trying to work with PhotoImpression 3 and VideoImpression 1.6...