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- Editing Website Template
- I am new to website design. Have downloaded a few good free templates to use with Frontpage.Trouble is On all the headers it says 'Your Logo Here'If I take that part of the header away to edit it and put my company name on it, looks okay but when I...
- Tags: editing, header, off-topic, shantie@..., templates, Web site, website
- Discussion threads 2006-10-20
- Laptop Monitor Dead
- Packard Bell Easy Note MS280dwLaptop still boots up as you can faintly see monitor working. First up I connected an ordinary monitor, booted to the XP boot up window and then nothing. I then started it in safe mode and came up okay on CRT Monitor. I did a system...
- Tags: hard drive, hardware, laptop computer, monitor, shantie@..., windows
- Discussion threads 2006-10-20
- SHUT DOWN PROBLEMS
- No markings on this motherboard, guessing it is an MSI but has a 533 Cel processor.Computer had XP pro on it. Worked okay until shut down, would go through the shut down process and can hear the hard drive shutting down, but would then give message "It is now safe...
- Tags: ACPI, BIOS, chipset, computer, Microsoft Windows XP, motherboard, shantie@...
- Q&A 2006-05-24
- Cold Boot Problems.
- Weird one. First boot of the day, the computer goes through all the post proceedure, then shuts down, after that you can start it as many times as you like and all is well??I have replaced the cpu fan and disconected the case fan but still the same. Thought about...
- Tags: cold calling, power supply, PS, shantie@...
- Q&A 2006-05-06
- DVD RAM DRIVE
- Could someone explain to me what DVD Ram drive means. I have installed a lot of DVD drives and never come across this problem before.Problem is Computer has one LG DVD Drive and one LG CD rom drive. Both have power but do not read any discs. In My computer...
- Tags: LG Electronics Inc., disc, DVD-drive, DVD-RAM, DVD-ram Driver, shantie@..., LG DVD, LG DVD Drive, CD-ROM, CD-ROM drive, computer, IDE
- Q&A 2006-04-30
- Re-installing XP on SATA drive
- I have just had to replace a motherboard and XP will not boot up properly just keeps restarting, obviously due to the new configurations of the new board. Anyway boot to XP disc to try a reinstall and says cannot detect any drives.The SATA drive is recognised during the Post...
- Tags: Serial ATA, shantie@..., Microsoft Windows XP, motherboard, BIOS, F6 Key, SATA Drive, SCSI
- Q&A 2006-04-27
- Power failure/surge damage
- Would like your opinion on the following.New system I sold approx 15 months ago. Asus P4S800-MX board and Cell 2.6 cpu. WinXP home.Owner is an old lady who uses it for card games and emailing relatives, so no hard work. No problems until last week when system just would not...
- Tags: storm, computer, CPU, board, shantie@...
- Q&A 2006-04-01
- Dial up settings conflict with Network
- This is complicated but thought I would give it a try. Three computers in a Hotel. One in Bar has software to control pokie machines. A network cable runs between it and main office computer to access the Wildcat software for pokies. Bar/office must have IP address bar 203.0.35.1 office...
- Tags: broadband, computer, IP, IP address, shantie@..., it management, office computer, network, router
- Q&A 2006-03-06
- New XP Pro disc Spk2
- I just sold two systems exactly the same, no problems at all with the first one. Second one I used a new XP Pro disc. Problem was would not shut down, I put it down to Nortons, uninstalled this but did same thing. Did a complete re-install incase Nortons files...
- Tags: BIOS, disc, Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2, shantie@...
- Q&A 2006-01-29
- Partition with Linux
- I think I have messed up this hard drive as I do not know anything about linux. Anyway a 40gig seagate had been partitioned by someone else into three partitions. Middle one being linux. Not understanding Linux I fdisked and formatted the hard drive. Installed XP Pro. but noticed a...
- Tags: Linux, hard drive, Microsoft Windows XP
- Q&A 2006-01-29
- Master Boot Record
- Hard drive problems. 60gig Maxtor. Was working fine with dual boot Win98se and WinXP. (both Fat32) I upgraded the motherboard and Cpu to an Asus and Cell 2.6 cpu. On first boot up all I got was disk error and asked to reboot. There were no discs in drives and...
- Tags: disc, hard drive, Microsoft Windows XP, motherboard, shantie@..., W98
- Q&A 2006-01-27
- ISDN internet access
- I cannot get broadband and have signed up for ISDN. My sons computer is networked with mine and he can access the internet using internet sharing. When we change to ISDN, what do I need so that he can still get on line, and can he do this without my...
- Tags: C, computer, Internet access, ISDN, modem, router, shantie@...
- Q&A 2005-09-23
- Lost Network
- Three computers networked, all with Winxp pro.Two computers in one room and the other one is in another room probably on approx 30ft network cable. This is the one with the problem. The lady working this computer phones me every two days saying she has lost the network and cannot...
- Tags: computer, it management, network, network card, shantie@...
- Q&A 2005-08-08
- Hard Drive disk repair
- Seagate 20 gig hard drive. Win Me would not boot.I tried it on my computer with a IDE to USB connector, which normally I can view data on the drive and back it up. Hard drive was recognised but only had one folder in it which was empty. Right clicked...
- Tags: Dir, disk, hard drive, shantie@..., Win-ME
- Q&A 2005-07-16
- Control Panel Icons Locked
- Windows 98se. If I double click on any icon that has anything to do with the system for example all icons in Control Panel, get message saying "you are not authorised to access these items" Okay I have seen this with Win2000, WinXP etc. but not with Win98. There are...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 98
- Q&A 2005-06-24
- Formula Problems
- I want to make a formula that will apply to the whole spreadsheet/workbook.eg. A B C D E - E being the TOTAL columnDaily figures are added to A B C D, and a total is needed in column E, to continue down the page. Okay this is easily done...
- Tags: E
- Q&A 2005-06-24
- BIOS Settings
- Motherboard is Asus P4M266 via chipset, and cell 2.4 cpu. Owner said the last time she booted up it gave message saying the CPU settings had to be reset. I have had the system for the last two days and can not find anything wrong with the computer. Bios settings...
- Tags: BIOS, shantie@..., motherboard
- Q&A 2005-06-04
- Boot up Shut down then Boots up
- This one has given me a headache!!!Asus A7v8x mxSe M/board & AMD athlon 2600. Initial problem system would try to boot, shut down and would boot after a few tries. At first I thought it might be the on switch on the case. I disconnected everything except the hard drive,...
- Tags: battery, BIOS, CPU, new case, shantie@...
- Q&A 2005-04-27
- Reset CPU speed at boot up
- Asus P4s800 m/board 2000Cell cpu. I have noticed over the last year that occasionally at boot up I am told that the cpu speed has been changed and to reset this in Bios and restart computer. This has happened since new, seems to happen after downloading/installing/uninstalling something, causing an error...
- Tags: CPU, BIOS, battery
- Q&A 2005-04-17
- Network Access Rights
- I have three computers running XP Pro, networked peer to peer, they can all see each other but cannot acces each other because of log on passwords, which I have not set. For the last two hours I have gone through the security console section and still cannot find a...
- Tags: culprit, firewall, firewall setting, network, Nortons, password, shantie@..., windows
- Q&A 2005-03-12
