what would cause the computer to suddenly black out? I
think the basics are ok: 400W power, 1800XP Athlon, 512m
of DDR ram - the 40G HD has about 1.5 gig empty - maybe
this has something to do with it. grateful for any

I have a system here which had only 128 ram and an oem 32mb vid card.
I put in 2x256MB crucial sticks and a GF3 64mb.
Now when I try to power up, I get three beeps each about a second long, then
a pause and the beeps continue.

I have been experiencing a blank error message box which
is displayed with a "close" button which allows me to
close the application that I am running. However, the
system is left unstable and I am forced to restart to

Every time I start my computer, it locks up(after every
thing is loaded). I have to restart it twice before it
actually runs without locking up. What can I do to correct
this problem?

For the last three days each time I start my computer I get a message on the
screen "It's now safe to turn off your computer." The computer just hangs
there and the only way that I can get it to start is by rebooting and going
into scanreg/restore and restore a good registry. I need ...

Several weeks ago, I noticed that everytime I started my
PC and logged
on to the web, my Home page was being redirected to a web
page with the

I was wondering if anyone could post how to disable start-
up icons that are on the gray task bar. I would appreciate
it since the help number from Gateway told me that they
could not help me with something like that.

I have been trying to install a new font on my notebook
computer which has windows 98.  When I go to My
Computer/Control Panel/Fonts and open all I get on the
File menu is: (Active) New - folder/shortcut, fonts, work

Hi!  I have a notebook computer with windows 98
installed.  I am trying to install a new font I need for a
program.  When I go to My Computer/Control Panel/Fonts and
open this all it shows under "File" is:  (active) New -

I haven't been able to open WMP 7.1 since the 10th April when the
wmplayer.exe file was modified (I don't know why or how).
So today I uninstalled it and downloaded the setup file from Microsoft.
When I run the setup up file I get this error message:

A new pest  appeared on my machine yesterday; when trying to print a web page a notice appeared
headed
Micro Soft Explorer
and stating that a difficulty has been encountered and Microsoft had compiled a report about it and

What is "Detole" & what does it mean?

The Windows Explorer on my PC is misbehaving. The deviant behavior is consistent, aggravating and absolutely deadly to productivity.
Am keeping fingers crossed that a solution (other then reinstalling the OS) is available.
Outline of problem:
The problem with Windows Explorer occurs ...

I have just saved some space on my hard drive by saving
all my personal files on CD they are all word documents
and password protected to stop my nosey siblings from
prying. the problem is that all they have to do is order a