GrimJack

You know, while I was troubleshooting my mobo problems, I decided to add the washers to see if that was the problem - I placed them between the case and the standoff - that should be as good and a whole lot easier to accomplish, but then I'm kind of …

I am keying this on an old Celeron2 300mh - I overclocked it to 450 mh in 98 and it is still running fine (I do keep the case cover off now and take it outside to give it a b.j. with one of the cans of air). If you …

[font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=2][font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=2]I am building my 2nd kit (built 1st one in 99 - still going strong but it won't run either Deus X2 or 1/2Life2 so...). My first question: is it worth $100 to buy the cpu/MoBo/memory pre-built and tested (with free 2nd day shipping)? Would it be better to go …

I always keep the palm of my left hand resting on the frame of the box so that everything I touch is at the same potential (and I don't walk bare-footed on wool carpet holding my cat just before I decide to play with the innards of my pc). Get …

You know your getting old when you think todays kids don't have it as tough as you did or have as much fun as you did. Afdrano has it right - you gotta get over the fact that the world is changing around you. It is not better or worse, …

I googled and got: [url="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=internet+backbone&btnG=Google+SearchThen"]http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=internet+backbone&btnG=Google+Search[/url] then I chose: [url="http://www.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/Terms/internetbackbone.html"]http://www.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/Terms/internetbackbone.html[/url] and this is where I ended: [b] Internet backbone[/b] This superfast network spanning the world from one major metropolitan area to another is provided by a handful of national Internet service providers (ISPs). These organizations (including Net 99 and Alternet) use …

I had the same problem so I looked around and found PowerDefrag at this site: [url="http://www.powerdefrag.com/"]http://www.powerdefrag.com/[/url]. It works for me. Grim

I use [url="http://www.zipzoomfly.com/"]http://www.zipzoomfly.com/[/url] all second day shipping is free and they have a lot of special Grim ps I live in the US

If you are going to reinstall XP - and it sounds like you are, then you should contact MS. Re-installing XP will appear to the registration folks as a pirated copy (I think -- I am not sure what all the tests are). You can't just copy the old drive …

I have heard good things about SpinRite but you will need to have a boot disk. Here is a link to the site -- it is not free. [url]http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm[/url] Grim

It would seem to be loading at startup; have you looked at your startup list to see if there is anything suspicious in there? If you have NT or above, you have some system monitoring tools available to see what processes are running. Do you have firewall that monitors what …

[size=2][i]On DSL you need to dial up before your connected to the Internet unlike cable, that sometimes is very annoying, after a while it's just a pain in the ass when you want to surf but, you need to dial up every time you want to connect to the Internet …

[i]The exclamation point has been nicknamed "bang" for as long as I can remember. (Back in the uucp days, you would give an email address as "machine1, bang, machine2, bang, machine3, bang..." for "machine1! machine2!machine3!...")[/i] In the UK, the bang is called a shriek -- I kind of like that. …

Zachery, I think he means that his mom has aol - moms get a pass on using aol. In IE, is Tools/internet options/programs/"Internet Explorer should check to see whether it is the default browser" checked? I also found this in help: [i]To reset Internet Explorer [color=#ffffff]settings[/color][/i] [i]If you installed another …

Hey! Watch it! Don't you be dissin' my machine (well, actually my machine is 300 mhz overclocked to 450 but close enough) -- I can play Max Paine on it, what more can I ask for . Any way, regarding the 1st problem: <i>80 GB(can only use 31 gb out …

I don't have a copy of WinXP pro handy - when you are in "New Folders - Sharing " and hit F1-help does it say what the "User Limit - Maximum allowed" maximum is - I assume it is 10? Here you can find MS powertoys which includes tweakui which …

I googled "eankhtkm" and got nothing! GrimJack

Hey, I still have a serial mouse! Not to assume anything, have you run the lates virus/worm scanners? have you run the lates spyware killers? Have you checked the scheduler to see if it running something at that time? Does it freeze the same time each day or after the …

I dont' think ping will do it google is your friend [url]http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=help+ping&btnG=Google+Search[/url]

[i] As a rule of thumb, I do not store personal information on my main HD's. Instead I have a external HD... [/i] Hmmm, this would be a good use for those keychain USB drives! I am considering buying one and this sounds like another good reason (encrypted file of …

There are (at least) 3 on-line distributed computing sites that work by using your spare cycles: The most famous is seti@home which is looking for inteligent signals from space [b]http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu [/b]folding@home which tests protein folding [b]http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ [/b] climates.net which, umm.. runs climate projections [b]http://climateprediction.net/ [/b] I am sure there are …