Windows ME My cdrw & dvd both will not run ,System will not detect them ? What to do ?

Can anyone tell me what sets the bus speed for RDRAM? I have looked in the BIOS setup and can find nothing. What I want to know is if I install new memory rated for a higher speed with the machine run at the speed of my old stuff like SDRAM? If I install the mem by itself will the system step up...

hi i am using a toshiba satellite 2805-s201 laptop yesterday while i was woking on it, its a/c wire got entangled with my chair and as i moved the laptop felt on the ground.(though it had carpet on the ground) later i tried to restart it and i found a message stating that "system unstable" now i...

After I installed an internet explorer or update an my computer started to hang and I got the error error message: Windows could not upgrade the file %1 from %2 %1: %2 Your computer may or may not continue to start after this error message. I tried renaming the Wininit.ini but my search function...

Hi A family memeber of mines has Windows Me they turned it off one night and now it will not come back on it powers up and runs a bios check then it displays a message "Verifying DMI Pool Data" then on a black screen it displays "Disk I\O error" "Replace the disk and then press and key" then if I...

Recently did Windows ME Automated update that added some ASP"something" to my desktop. Now, NO mouse will work. Did unistalls/ reinstalls, scandisk, PS/2 mouse install, USB,optical. No luck. Could not run registry diagnostic without a mouse. Any ideas? I'm guessing an INI issue? Thanks!

My computer doesn't recognize a new LexmarkX75 printer that I just installed. It was suggested to me by Lexmark support that my USB ports need to be reloaded. How do I do this? Any other suggestions? Thanks

I have win ME in my SATA hard disk.If i connect IDE cdrom in parallel then pc is not booting.It says boot failure.If i revert back then it's booting fine.

Hi, I'm running a Sony Vaio PCG-F150 Laptop with Windows ME. I've installed a Belkin F5D5020 PCMCIA Network Card and have the internet available through a D-Link DI-704P router. I'm having a problem where if I have the network cable connected to the laptop when I boot up, Windows freezes up and...

I want to run defrag. Something is running and will not allow drfrag to finish. Wgen I try to start Windows (Me) in safe mode I get the "keyboard error" message and cannot get into safe mode.

My cd and dvd drives are not being recognized when I open My Computer. The only thing I can think of that I've done differently is defragment my harddrive. In device manager it shows an ! on the floppy controller and the primary and secondary ide controllers. I tried searching for a driver; It...

During bootup, message: "Floppy drive failure (40)" Replacing the drive doesn't help.

My desktop has suddenly decided, when switched on from cold, to switch itself off after about 2 secs. The time span is so short that I cannot, apparently, change into any other mode or boot from a floppy. Can anyone help me out with things to check or something? TIA

quick question, are there any dial up modems that will connect at a higher speed than others? i have a new emachines and it will only connect (on a good day) at a max of 24Kbps. i have an old systemax that will hit 28.5Kbps. not much difference i know, but anything faster would be appreciated. is...

Hi All: I have built an ME machine without a floppy drive. This causes the "Install Hardware Wizard" to crash every time it searches for Drive A. This happens whether or not the controller is disabled in BIOS. Is there a patch (registry hack?) that will also remove Drive A from Windows? Omar...

I have accidently deleted my pictures from my computer and am desperate to get them back but I have deleted from the recycle bin too. Is there any way of getting these back????? Please help me.

The msg wants me to "replace the disk, and then press any key". I can put in a boot disk and can see all my files in c: drive. I put in diagnosic cd from dell and ran scandisk and it says "the fat media byte is missing". If I typed in "sys c:", I understand that might correct boot sector, but I...

Is it true, upgrading RDRAM from 256 to 512 is wasting money because Windows ME does not use memory efficient? I had crisis a few days ago and reinstall windows me on my Dell 8100 which has P4 1.5 GHZ, 256 MB RDRAM. So it has no junk right now. From my lesson, I got Spybot and Ad-aware loaded for...

i have used the quick restore c,d, two times the last few days. i get an error message of an exception oe has occured at 0028; IT MAY BE POSSIBLE TO CONTINUE. IT SAYS I INSTALLED WINDOWS ME ON WHICH I HAVE INSTALLED A VIRUS PROTECTION SOFTWARE. I DONT THINK SO. I WAS JUST USING THE QUICK RESTORE TO...

Okay here's my problem. The darn thing wont boot up! It's got a green power light and a red activity light. When I boot the red activity light stays solid and the green light doesn't go on at all. It just wont boot. It doesn't even start to read the cd- rom drive which it's suppose to do first. So,...