I am trying to help out a friend. They have a 500meg hard drive that has been compressed. They have at least 2 different virus on the drive. While working on cleaning it up the system locked up on me. I want to reformat the thing but need to try and save some information from it first. I tried...
Had a guy call me up to help him with his hard drive. He told me that he had shut down his computer and when he went to restart it went past the bios and hanged. He tried using the Win98 setup disk to try to fix it and it wouldn't go. I told him I would take a look at it. I met him at work and...
I have had several WD drives. Each time I got rid of one for a bigger drive. I put the old ones in my friends systems. They are all still going strong after 3-5 years. The Expert 27 gig is what I have in my system now. It has been running for almost a year and have had no problems with it. I did...
The only way you will be happy is to go somewhere to listen to the speakers before you buy them. What would sound great to me may be too scratchy or tinny to someone else. It will be your ears that have to listen to them.
If you are looking for a 5.1 system, try Creative's desktop theater 5.1...
Oh, about the DirectDuo,
The current DirectPC has a Fair Access Policy. If they feel that you are using too much of the bandwidth, they will hit you with the FAP and slow you done. I have heard of people saying it was worse than a 2.2K a sec download. I am doubtful that the new 2 way system...
Have you tried your modem at your friends house, or tried his at yours? Just want to make sure that it is the phone line itself and not the modem or setup. I assume that you have the latest drivers for it?
A few more things to do,
Line test
The above will take you to the 3com page explaining...
A few things to try
Do you have any other phones or answering machines hooked up to the line? They could be adding interference to it, unhook them and see what happens. Try dialing a single number in you house and listen for line noise (you will have about 30 seconds before the off hook signal...
Look at teledisc.Teledisc
Most users will have two-way connections that provide up to 64 Mbps on the downlink and up to 2 Mbps on the uplink. Broadband terminals will offer 64 Mbps of two-way capacity. This represents access speeds up to 2,000 times faster than today's standard analog modems...
Have you tried making a start up disk? Of course that is assuming that you are running win9x.
Does the cd-rom power light come on when you start the system? If it doesn't you could have a loose power connection.
Is the Cd-rom listed in your hardware?
start-settings-control panel-system?
Need...
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