I went into bios by hitting delete several while booting anyways accidently I
hit enter while looking at pci devices under advanced tab and there are irc
numbers like 3 5 and 11 I have a compaq 5000 a series can anyone tell me the
configuration of the numbers oh and a diable and ...

After having my computer shut down for 2 days while I was out of
town there is a loud roar coming from the cpu.  What should I look
at first  to track this down?  I'm afraid something is about to
crash, so I backed up some important data files already, but this

Geez, have I got a lot to learn!  :)  That's one reason I enjoy newsgroups.
I have never used a flash drive, though I have seen them over at Fry's.  I
think I'd like to try one for primitive backup purposes and portability's
sake.  They're certainly cheap enough, and I do have USB 2 ...

I just bought a 300gb Seagate hard drive which I eventually plan to use as
my boot drive when I upgrade to XP. My system is a Dell Dimension 4100. In
the meantime, I'd like to use the new drive as a slave. The Seagate disk
documentation seemed to indicate that if I upgraded my ...

my problem is:
After running Windows a while and open and close many programs or surfing
the net and i don't close the browser (indifferent which one), the free
amount of RAM goes to zero percent. The system freezes, i get dislpay

I recently purchased a samsung CD-Rw ,but the problem is that it does not
function as a writer,only as a CD-Rom.
It shows up as a CD -RW in device manager,but in my compiter it shows as a
CD-Rom.

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 ...

Hi, I am working on an elderly persons computer and have a question. I
formated a Win 98 SE machine and did a clean install of Windows Me per the
owners request. My question is this: What DOS command can I enter to change
the video color setting from 16 bit to 32 bit. For some ...

I can't install my USB Flash (Kingston Data Traveler II
Plus 256 MB). As I was trying to install, Windows ME asked
me for a file called USBNTMAP.SYS.  Unfortunately I have
lost my installation disk. Could I get that file from the

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