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Thanks NooNoo. I'll see what I can find with the NIC power settings, although I've already searched but have not found anything yet.

Good call on the DHCP lease - I'll investigate that too.

I...

Got an old case that I'm going to use to build a server. I've got a motherboard manual which tells me what the headers are for the front panel (e.g. hard-drive LEDs, power switch, reset button etc...

Hi there,

When you first turn your laptop on, you'll probably see a black screen with the word "Toshiba" in big red letters across the screen. if you look at the bottom left of this screen,...

Toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop with US Robotics PMCIA wi-fi card Win2k Pro (sp3). I downloaded/installed new drivers for the card this weekend, but problem persists.

Can't be 100% sure, but I don't...

Cheers for the tip. Although our network is already pretty sweet - only thing I should need to do is allow it to talk to the wireless access point (which resricts devices based on MAC address). ...

That looks pretty sweet - cheers duder!!

I wasn't sure if the printer needed to have an ethernet connection, but with the Linksys device it looks like I can use my existing printer. That would...

Cheers duder.

I already did a bit of googling, and found a couple of wireless printers. Wasn't sure exactly how they work though. Do they have an ethernet port and a plug-in adapter or...

I'm looking for a printer that I can connect up to either a print server or even maybe a hub or something so that it can be permanently online.

At the moment, our printer is connected to my...

Same here - the utility reports RealTek, but I've got soundMAX on-board sound.

Shame - that would have been a cool little utility!

That's pretty cool - I thought they would be more expensive than that...

Definitely worth looking into - thanks duder!

Might get one for my laptop, too, since I don't think I have USB 2.0 on...

I've got a failry old Toshiba laptop that I gave to my girlfriend. Fairly low spec by current standards, but still quite useable.

Anyway - it doesn't have a USB port, although device manager...

Careful if going into the registry... Probably best to get an app to do it for you.

Ad Aware is good, as is "HijackThis". If you download and install both, then run each in turn, that should do...

Just found some info on aticwd32.

Apparently it's related to your graphics card - if you DON'T have TV-out, then you can uncheck this item. If this has any positive impact, maybe you could...

Homer80,

Sorry - I didn't initially see that it runs fine in safe mode ;)

Apart from the trojan identified by vip2, you might also want to try disabling your AOL Instant Messenger to see if...

What happens when you boot into Win98 safe mode?

If it doesn't spike (and lock up) then you know it's either:

(a) an application or other software that has been loaded on since the OS was...

Thanks Mike.

I didn't see your reply 'till this morning, so in the meantime I ran several defrags plus a startup checkdisk (chkdsk /f /r). Checkdisk found a couple of bad clusters which it...

When you say you try to reload Win98, which process do you follow?

Normally I would boot from floppy (with CD drivers) and run the Win98 installation from the Win98 CD. It should "repair" the...

Perhaps the keyboard is faulty?

For example, if I helpd down the space-bar on my keyboard during startup, the PC would beep like crazy until I let go again.

If it doesn't happen in safe mode,...

I'm running Win2k (sp3, plus a bunch of hotfixes) on my work laptop.

I'm trying to copy a VMWare image to a 'safe' network location, but part way through the file copy it bombs out and gives me an...

Looks like it was a combination of both NIC and TCP.

Reinstalled TCP/IP, which sorted out the VPN access - I suspect that would sort out the PCMCIA card, too although I haven't tried it yet. Plus...

For sme reason, my replacement IBM Thinkpad laptop (T30) won't connect to my wireless LAN with the built-in wireless card. So I installed a PCMCIA card that I know works fine on a different laptop....

Thanks NooNoo.

DDR is cool - as far as I remember (it's been a while since I bought any new bits) DDR is not all that expensive. Just so long as it isn't Rambus, as last time I bought some it...

Did you get a chance to build the system with the mobo out of the case? It's possible that you have a short somewhere (e.g. one of the case screws might be shorting out the mobo). If you can build...

Hope this is the right place to post - sorry if not!

I'm looking for an upgrade mobo for my girlfriend. She's currently using my old Intel 440bx with a PII 266 CPU. It's solid as a rock (and...

Sorry I can't offer any information, adept.

I just wanted to say thanks for a particularly cool link though - I've never seen the Internet Storm Centre before - but it's now in my favourites!
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