An old PCChips M747 motherboard won't boot after the BIOS was updated. Before the flash, the BIOS ID was: 61-1208-000747-00101111-071595-M747-M747V3.0-H Release 12/01/1998S After the update, it was: 61-0525-000747-00101111-071595-M747-M747V3.0-H Release 05/25/1999S I used the aminf332.exe flash...

Hello group This might be off topic but hoping somebody here is familiar with these problem. As this is first time I experienced this and I am at a loss why this happen. Just today I experienced a unique behavior of the task manager that just lost its minimize and maximize button and even the CPU...

I bought a 8 GB thumb drive and am finding that data becomes corrupted when more than 1 GB is stored. If there is less than 1 GB of data stored, it works fine. And it also works fine if I copy more than 1 GB of data onto the drive until I remove the drive from the USB port. After the drive is...

Hi there, we are trying to install a 1U rackmount server (67cm deep, 12Kg) into a data rack cabinet which has punched columns only on front. I find many fixed cantilever shelfs (even long: 4U and bearing 35Kg), but that would be a problem with rear connections of the computer when pulling the...

I was recently given a Lexmark Optra S 1855 laser printer with the duplexer. The printer works fine. I'm unable to get the duplexer to work or be recognized by the printer. I did the normal search on Lexmark's site for the manuals, however, they don't seem to have them online. I did find one...

Hi, My cable wireless modem is too far away in the house and behind too many walls from my home cluster that I have set up an old computer as a relay PC. The network looks like this: Wifi cable router ..

I have an older ATX system that runs fine once started but has a curious problem upon start-up dependant upon climate. Whenever the cold weather hits and it's cooler (~65 deg.) inside than during the summertime (~77Deg.), the system will almost always 'freeze' upon start-up requiring a second...

I backup my files weekly -- Word; Excel; photos; genealogy files; financial files; bookmarks; address book. (I use Hotmail and rely on Hotmail to save my email.) Currently I use an external hard drive for my back up -- once a week I take the ext HD from where I keep it stored, plug it in, copy...

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Having had problems with my DELL XPS 450 running Win98 and having formatted and restored the drive I found that my ALL-IN-ONE fails to print standard size envelopes though the size is selected in the Word 97 Envelope dialog box. It prints the #10 envelope in stead. It must be the printer since I...

I have a 250GB drive that makes Explorer repeatedly crash when it is plugged into the machine. Windows is completely unusable. The drive does not seem to be making any weird noises at the moment, but it was when I unplugged it, when I came home one night. It could have been a head crash? Is...

Win XP Home; Office 2007; Microsoft two-button mouse with central scroll wheel (USB) My mouse has started behaving erratically when I use the scroll wheel - say in a large Word document if I scroll up or down with the wheel the window jumps back to the original place I was at in the document. If...

Occasionally, we have to power-cycle our DSL modem and I'd like to automate it. What I envision is a device or program which will detect the inability to reach an outside address (google.com for example) and, if the condition persists for a period of time, power-cycle a device that's plugged into...

Hi All, I've added a second graphics card in a spare PCI slot on my 4+ year old Mesh Matrix (A7N8X) and it has become the default and if the monitor is left in the previous AGP card there is no signal. I suspect I need to do something in the BIOS but haven't got a clue what. Can anyone advise...

Howdy, I have a Win2000 box in our home. My son often uses it. Yesterday, I wanted to use it to view something on Youtube, but was surprised to discover that I had no sound. As I checked the sound settings (expecting to find the

I did a Crucial system scan it tells me the i can go for 8Gb for ram:) so i install it four 2 Gb PC 5300 667 DDR2 and no Boot OK they didn't work let's try Two 2Gb it starts to boot right up to the Windows XP greating and hangs So i put the old ram back in Four 512 PC 5300 667 DDR-2 DIMM and...

I have three computers hooked to the internet thru a cable modem and router. All works well. Using Win xp & Win 2000 pro. If I bypass the router and connect a computer directly to the modem it won't connect. It has to be on the network. Why? Rudy

I have a PC here that should be 2.4GHz but I can only get it to run at 1.2GHz. It's running at 100MHz x 12 when I believe it should be running at 200MHz x 12. It appears that board supports my CPU but it's hard to tell with there being so many P4s on the market. I have installed the latest bios...

Back in the day, back when John Wayne was with us, back when Dirty Harry was a hero, and back when Real Men used DOS -- there was a DOS command that allowed you to copy only files that had changed since the last copy operation -- the command may have been XCOPY or COPY with various switches,...

New motherboards seem to use 8-pin extra power connectors for the extra CPU power. My current Core 2 board has a 4 pin 12v socket for extra CPU power. My power supply has a 4 pin 12v extra connector to match. If I change my current 775 board to a newer 775 board with an 8 pin socket (plus more...