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 | 2k's filesystem can be FAT32 or NTFS If you upgraded it or its not like a buisnessey model or ex-nmetwork then its probably fat - right click on the drive and do properties to see the filesytem type cos NTFS supports 1tb but FAT32 has a limit |
| | Make a timer and enable it and set the interval Then draw a progress bar (installer type one) then put this code: sub timer1_tick progressbar1.value = progressbar1.value + 1 |
| | 2k and nt4 is possible. something like (i dunno the bootloaders name but it comes with some partitionmagics) dunno bout 3.51 |
| | Dont Run It With No Cpu Fan It Will Melt (really) Buy A New One For Like £20 And Use Compressed Air To Blow Out The Dust Reguarly |
| | Re: 2nd H/D Slow why not just bin the smaller older HDD and have 2 opticasls on one channel and it on the other |
| | 2 - 4 gig + if u want really new games, video editing and VISTA 1 gig is ok for most games (on my 1gb machine BF2 left me with 6mb ram and 2 gig of pagefile used) 512 is ok for office etc.... 256 can be used but slowwwwwwwwwwwwwww … |
| | I use some generic chinese stuff in my TP and it runs fine wven with a 64mb in slot 1 and a 512 in slot 2 |
| | I have a radon x600 and 1gb ram and COD2, Far cry etc... (grahics intensive game sbasically) sometimes do that to me its either No ram left, hot gfx card, hot cpu |
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| | Re: Shortages?? are you saying you screwed it up more by changing some settings? Reset all the settings back to default by pulling out the battery for a while (looks like a watch one on the motherboard)  |
| | Power failure probably sent a surge up the line and fried your PC :( Is the mobo / psu black or has blown capacitators? This happened to my pc befoore and the lesson is :USE A SURGE PROTECTOR |
| | How old is it? Li-Ion atteries slowly degrade as soon as they come out of the factory and usually last less than 5 years (soemtimes as little as one as was the case with my thinkpad) If it can use AC power but just doesnt charge then its probably the … |
| | On my 5150 dimension its Control and F11 or something like that (similar to ibm thinkpads) during the bootup (cant remember if before or after post) to bring up the symantec system restore thing. |
| | I did this to my thinkpad. There is a hidden recovery partition. When you insatlled your friends XP you probably wiped it or the master boot record (usually theres a thing it it where you can push f11 to recover or something). All the recovery CD for my thinkopad did … |
| | If your instaillation is corrupt there is an option to show the XP installer your ME cdrom (even if its an oem version). this worked on my fujitsu siemens recently |
| | I just baught a toshiba E750 new with Windows 2003 and for £115. is this a good deal. I know it got bad reviews and is a bit old now but I find it a solid PDA. But many are calling for an SE upgrade. What benefits would 2003 SE … |
| | I am a novice linux user (I am 15). I have run mandrake, fedora core and suse in the past because i liked thier configuration tools but now I am using slackware. I know how to install programs using RPM but how do you install .tgz or .tar.gz files ? … |
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| | How can I make my own linux distro? Im 16 and a relative noob to this. I usually run Mandriva/Fedora/PCLINUX/Slackware. However, I managed a basic gentoo install and know my way around tools like vi, the shell and gcc and thaught how great would it be to make a new …  |
| | RAM is a must do and a word of warning, it is extremely hard if not impossible to upgrade a graphics card on a laptop. |
| | I have an R30 thinkpad win 98 pentium 3 1000mhz model with 128 ram. I know I have a trident cyberblade card but does anyone know what model as I need the correct driver? I have tried thier website and it offers no help.  |
| | Sorry, i doubt it will run and if so, probably not to a satisfactory level. I have a machine with the same specs and it wont run very much at all. What is it you are trying to run excatly ? |
| | My Faves are X.org, XDM and WindowMaker - simple yet productive. Personally XFeree86 is to old, KDM too flashy and ICEWM is just horrible. GNOME is good as its like the mac or WIN2K in that its simple, sleek and fast. Its also good for people with disabilities. KDE has …  |
| | Re: KDE or GNOME I have an older PC and use GNOME insted of KDE for its speed as i has less bells and whistles and ocasionally sawmill. However, I upgraded from FC1 to FC4 (with GNOME 2.0) and things have changed alot. I would ahve to say that KDE is easier to configure …  |
| | On most MP3'S it says NEVER to format it. If you do this you may have knackered it but if you have the disks that came with it the software should eb able to repair it. |
| | Hello, I have an oldish P3 IBM Thinkpad R30 with 128 of RAM (But 8mb is shared with the graphics card). It came with M$ Windows 98 and I would like to install linux onto t. I have some linux experience, mainly on older network servers. However, I am dubious … |
| | No, you cant flash the bios on machines as old as that. However, most NIC'S are generic and win98 should have no ptrobs detecting them. You may need drivers in rare cases (usually proided on floppies) Basically, make some space on your router - either 2 or 1 slots - … |
| | Re: Weird Problem Did you do a clean reinstal off of IBM ddisks / revcovery partition or a vanilla one. IBM OEM disks and recovery partitions (I have an R30) have a directory under c:\ibmtools where all the drivers, help, extra programs etc... for the thinkpad are kept. For paralell to paralell its … |
| | I got the same "exited abnormally" emssage with fedora 1. Apparently it means your CD is bad or your drive makes errors.  |
| | Fedora core 1 and i think later versions, come with FIPS for partition resizing. |
| | This is the legacy section but there isnt an area so ok. Does anyone here know how to network windows 3.1? |
| | I have a HP SureStore DAT8 SCSI Tape drive in my server - is that what you have? Check the scsi ID'S and connections to make sure its not a hardware problem. Windows 9x came with Microsoft Backup - hidden somewhere in acessories and accessible by selecting C and right … |
| | I could tell you how to do it in ms visual c++4 if thats ok? |
| | Right, I have a dual PII 266mhz each Compaq Proliant 1600r Rackmount Server with 512mb of ram, IDE CD, 2gb IDE HDD, and 3 2gb SCSI HDD'S. Should I install GRUB for fedora on had1 or sda1. The IDE HDD is new by the way. I know the server is … |
| | Machines with no server things like mail, http and samba etc... load very quick but yeah - the more services - the slower it boots. |
| | I could give you some help but I have a compaq prlioant 1600r rackmount. Its old but has basically the same array config software although I warn you that I take no responsibility for loss of data. |
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| | I got an LG CD burner - no probs and well supported etc.. DONT BUY EMPEREX DVD BURNERS - THEY ARE REALLY POOR!  |
| | I have an old compaq proliant 1600r rackmount server with 512mb of RAM and a Pentium two - three hundred odd MHz... Anyway, I baught a second P2 CPU of equal power , already on the server - specific CPU board off of ebay and took out the blank board … |
| | I have a fedora 1 server giving the cable conection to my XP laptop but I dont know about the other way around. P.M me for a howto and maybe we could reverse it. |
| | ASP but it only runs on ms 2000 or 2003 servers, not on linux or NT. |
| | I have 5 old msdos 3.1 disks . QBASIC is on the 5th. It came with an old Win 3.1 machine from late 80's / 90's. I could send it to you.. |
| | I have a IBM ThinkPad R30 and you can push f something to go into setup when it boots and you see the IBM logo or another F-Key to choose a boot device. Network etc... is available on my model. Under the BIOS setup on mine you can chose legaly … |
| | Are you using linux, solaris, os/2,windows or macos? |
| | Hold down the windows key and push pause / break and tell me what the system version information says |
| | Do you get the thinkpad F11 recovery prompt? |
| | I know of a third - party tweaking tool for doing stuff like disabling run etc... if thats any help. P.M me for info |
| | I have an oldish machine but it runs fedora (just). However, i got a new but old HDD so I could install more packages and decided just to reinstall. My rig is a server with 3 scsi drives (2gb each) and a 2gb IDE HDD. (new). I am installing from … |
| | Using a samba (Windows) network printer . I know that in most red hat based systems run redhat-config-printer from X and click new then select the samba server, push the arrow and hit the printer. Be aware it may not be supported and passwords etc... may be a problem. |
| | Hey, you can get AVG for linux now its recent but i read in PCPLUS or PCFORMAT that its available. |
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