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First check the BIOS settings to see if they agree with the contents of the computer. If they are weird, the backup battery is suspect (if present). Try disconnecting all of the following. Then reconnect them one at a time (with power off) in the following order: 0. Try all …

It's probably a hardware error. It could be any of the following: - Loose connection: card/motherboard socket, disk drive cable, or RAM stick. - A card or device failed. Don't overlook the keyboard and mouse. - That USB pen is not correctly installed. - The hard disk format is corrupted …

Gateway computers often have a tricky little quirk which prevents installing any OS except one sold by Gateway.

You are probably overloading the input. Digital clipping sounds like loud crashing or snapping sounds superimposed on the music. Turn it down and try again.

You can't do that. USB is serial, not parallel. You have to use a parallel port on the computer, or you need to add a parallel port card, or a parallel/serial converter box.

This sounds like one of the following: - A power glitch or other disturbance damaged your file. - A virus (maybe included with one of the games) infected the file. - A Word or Windows upgrade detected a problem which already existed.

Not necessarily. The hard disk could have had magnetic, as opposed to physical damage. Reformatting fixes that (and erases everything, so back up first). Power failures often cause magnetic damage.

Use the task manager to find out how much memory is being used by what. Ctrl-Alt-Del starts the task manager. There are several possibilities: 1. A Windows upgrade ate up the memory. Microsoft is known for creeping featurism and memoryeatitis. 2. There is some program starting itself "for your convenience". …

Do people devilishly delight in driving other people crazy with moving objects????

Several possibilities: 1. Is your connection speed too slow for the download. If so, the player stops until the connection can catch up. This is normal. 2. You may be waiting for one of those maddening ads to load first. Look at the status line to see what the browser …

It's supposed to do that. Let it reboot. This is a necessary part of the install process. Rebooting starts the system running the already installed software, so it can install later software which needs the already installed software to be running.

This "2 accounts" problem is created by some server masters with little minds. They don't seem to understand that husbands and wives might have the same email addresses for monetary reasons, but neeed different posting names.

It would be easier to write Congress and ask them to abolish DST. It wastes energy anyway.

Unplug the keyboard and mouse, and install a new computer? You are flying low over the road now. If you want faster, you probably need to reduce overhead. Don't run more than one program at a time.

I'd say he did a restore instead of a backup. It copied the default file to the BIOS instead of copying the BIOS to the backup file. As a result, the computer doesn't know what hard drive it has, so it can't access it. There should be a utility in …

If this is windows, you somehow logged in a second time as a guest. Use the shutdown entry on the start button to log out of the guest account. The computer should then start up again in the administrator account.

Try opening it with the "open file" entry in the File menu of Firefox. The trouble is probably that you are addressing a path on your own computer. I didn't know you could put a DOS/Windows path in the src attribute. Maybe the trouble is that IE allows that, but …

add [inlinecode] align="top" [/inlinecode] to the iframe tag.

Are you trying to transfer directly from a camera? If so, there may be timing issues between the camera sync and the internet sync. Copy it to the hard disk first. Then upload it.

It may be that the reason you aren't allowed to change display resolution is that your display card can't handle the higher resolution. If you attempt it, and the card can't do it, the display becomes unreadable, and it takes a very complicated procedure to get the computer to work …

Also look for the following: 1. Visiting the same infected website again (it could be one you have no reason to suspect). 2. Infected removable media which reinfect the computer whenever it is used. 3. Another computer on local net is infected. 4. An infected server or router. 5. A …

This is my list of things to do to change my old code to make it validate: 1. All html tags and properties must be in lowercase. 2. Close all nonempty tags, including p, li, tr, td, dd, and dt. [code]<tag>contents</tag>[/code] 3. Make all empty tags self-closing. Be sure to …

Those things are annoying! I hate pages which change just as I am about to click. I once bought something on eBay because the page shifted just as I tried to click on the bid button. It put the Buy It Now button where I clicked, and I didn't notice …

I can think of some other causes for random restarts: - Damage left behind by viruses, spyware, or power failures could have corrupted some system files - A loose connector - Bad power (surges or sags) - Static electricity - A failing power supply - A bad motherboard or card …

If I picked something in the clipboard I want to convey to a certain user, I don't want you messing with the clipboard contents. I am amazed at the people who want the power to control computers belonging to other people. Their minds belong in jail.

Nope. The 100 gubbies is the unformated raw space. The 95 is the space after the formatting has been added. The rest of that is the format itself - sector headers, file tables, and directories.

I see quite a few errors which can confuse browsers: 1. You have capitalized tags which are closed with lowercase tags. This causes rendering problems with some browsers. 2. All tags must now be lowercase if CSS is used. An uppercase style selector won't select the same tag in lowercase, …

I suddenly can't get to many websites I have bookmarked, including: - Yahoo - Geocities - Several small overseas servers - Terraserver - Yahoo maps Your pages are also showing some of the ads broken. What's going on? It's like a large portion of the Internet is down.

The DST II Bug is coming. It will strike on March 11 (one week from today). On this day, all computers running operating systems other than Windows XP or Vista, or Mac OS 10, and even those systems if they are not connected to the internet, will change to DST …

I had that problem with Windows NT, and it turned out to be a network card which was issuing its recognition signal before Windows was ready for it. Windows got the wrong byte as the first byte, and sat there waiting for the correct signal.

It's censorship. :D It could be some kind of copy-protection on that DVD that is shutting down your computer to keep you from saving the contents to other storage. I had that trouble with one drive with every Disney DVD I have. It's purposely designed to prevent copying.

You have a piece of hardware (probably an accessory card) with a stuck-on interrupt line. Often this is the result of an unseated card or a loose drive connector.

Sounds to me like someone needed some extra disk space for downloads, and deleted what to him seemed like unnecessary files. Going back to an earlier system date won't undelete files. And if the disk space was used for other purposes in the meantime (downloads and defrag will both do …

I can think of some possibilities: - The boot sector is missing from the hard disk. - Loose cable inside the computer. - The hard disk is not working right. Older ones get bearing freeze and won't spin. Or the computer may have been movede with the power on (headcrash).

Once the email is popped to your computer, where it came from is not immediately known to Outlook. It's on your hard drive. The automatic configuring works when Outlook is interacting with a remote server which has the emails stored on ITS hard disk.

If it's an older computer, the backup battery inside has expired. It's a NiCd battery which is charged when the power is on. Without the battery, the CMOS RAM forgets what is in it. Then the computer forgets what devices are installed in it. Newer computers use an EAM (Electrically …

The only thing I can think of to make the taskbar visible is is the Windows setting "Taskbar always on top." But Alt-tab switches tasks without the taskbar. I just tested it, and it works.

Use thead, tfoot, and tbody to divide the table into multiple parts. Then sort just the tbody part.

It must be the moon phase. I had a different BBS notifying me of a personal message on an old email address this week. I had been getting the notifications correctly for months, but suddenly it changed back.

The computer has forgotten how to use its peripherals without the battery. With some computers and peripherals, you don't even get a screen, because the computer has forgotten how to display. And it has certainly forgotten what hard disk you have. If you have a strange video adaptor (Amdek or …

This is a test of the edit. It works for me. The spelling errors are gone. Maybe your browser isn't updating the page. IE did that to me after the upgrade.

CSS time! The overflow attribute of a block element (such as div) can be set in a stylesheet. [code] <style type="text/css"> div {overflow: scroll;} </style> [/code] You can choose overflow to be visible, hidden, scroll, or auto.

I can think of only a few causes for this: 1. Your old banner was somehow incorporated into the flash image (maybe during image editing). 2. There is a place you missed in your code where the old image is still referenced. 3. Your browser is not refreshing.

Selfish, aren't we? If your page code is going to run on a user's browser, it must be in source form. The browser itself needs source code. It's an interpreter. The code is never compiled. If your code won't run on any domain except yours, it won't run on anyone …

It's possible you are set for a character-coding setting that sends character codes the site does not understand.

Anything that is in constant motion is annoying to me.

Where's the . in front of pullquote in the stylesheet? Where's the required mime type parameter in the style tag? [code] <style type="text/css"> .pullquote { put your styles here } </style> [/code]

[code] .listbuster {list-style: none;} ..... <ul class="listbuster"> <li>thing 1</li> <li>thing 2</li> </ul> [/code] gets rid of the bullets.

The problem is that the deprecators in W3C took away the center tag, and left us with nothing easy to replace it with in CSS. They are thinking in terms of newspaper-style publishing, where the text is important, and the image is an obstruction the text must wrap around. There …

There are several goofy differences between how IE renders and how FF and other browsers render. IE is usually the culprit, because it won't stick to standards. If you are trying to put a border on an inline object, it often does not work. Try enclosing the object in div …