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I've sold dozens of USB/serial adapters mostly to boaters for use with a GPS.
Sold probably a half dozen diff brands, usually no name without many problems. Do run into problems with older odd...

I think you've hit it on the head - no mention of Sempron Support for this board at Abit http://www.abit-usa.com/downloads/bios/amd.php
The last Bios update is two years old.

I would have to...

Check for spyware, trojans and viruses again with an online service such as
Trendmicro's Housecall http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ and MS Antispyware from www.microsoft.com under popular...

Seen this before when the old PC was running XP Home or Pro and the the User Profile was password protected or User was using file encryption.
After data was transferred to another drive it was no...

Can also happen if phone properties is set to "pulse" instead of "tone"
Anyone still using rotary phones?

Other possibility is a modem hijacker

Other machine was on of our tech boxes we use for testing SDRAM and other cards.We use it to test AGP and PCI video cards and it is a slot PII board. Good question though as maybe it doesn't have...

Common sense has prevailed. Customer is upgrading mainboard, CPU, RAM, PSU and going to AGP video. Thank you all for having a look.
Cheers!

Hi all. Just looking for your thoughts on a situation I have with a customer's system that we've tried to upgrade his video card on. Customer's system is a Celeron 400 with CD-ROM, CDRW, 512SDRAM...

Yep, noticed it too, especially with floppy disks.
Wonder why?

Has she tried the usual - virusscan with up to date virus defs. and check for Spyware with Spybot or Adaware

Available at security.kolla.de or www.lavasoftusa.com

Also check out www.grc.com

In our 9 years in business we've built over 5000 systems using the following mainboards, Shuttle, QDI, ABIT, ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI as well as the odd Intel, Soyo and IWill. We are the only company...

Well, my NAV 2003 subscription runs out in 10 days so might as well give a try.

Mystery solved. Thanks!

Hi All. Have a client keeps bugging me about this.
A file shows up on his desktop -> ~.tmp
He deletes it but next time he boots up it's back.
It first showed up on one computer a year ago. He just...

Our company builds 1000 systems a year and this happens at least once a week.
Nothing wrong with anything except brand A mainboard and brand A RAM aren't compatible with the XP install. Most of the...

Hi Jeb. Never did resolve this one but I'm sure it just refers to a incorrect .dll version somewhere. As long as everything works I'd just leave it alone.

We are currently having mega problems with Maxtor single platter 20GB and 30GB drives. Had another batch of 30's would only format to 2% then quit and some 20's that were very noisy. Haven't had any...

Check out rankings here.
http://www.motherboards.org/rank/Intel/total/motherboard-rank.html

Not on the list but boards I could recommend are Asus P4S533 and GigaByte GA8SR533P.
Lot's of features...

Here's another "me too" post. Had 4 new 20GB Maxtor's come in all DOA. We've had best luck with WD but even they're not perfect. I offer one guarantee to all my customers and that is the hardrive...

ahhh... why not just burn 70 minutes of music and use the remaining 10 minutes for drinking beer and chasin' wimin.

I know it ain't right but it works for me :D

Sorry, couldn't help it.

Have you tried different DVD software like PowerDVD?
I've fixed a few customers DVD skipping problems by upgrading the software. I couldn't tell you if there problems were with rented or bought as...

You're most likely correct. I'm sure the rundll file was updated by other software added later. Customers problem is the machine has to be sent away for the software to be re-installed. It's...

I have only used the file and settings transfer wizard on a drive where windows was working. I think that's the only way.
Also as NooNoo mentioned you Ghost 2002 for WinXP

Oops! Let's try that again.

Have you tried the WINXP File and Settings Transfer Wizard?

Run the wizard with just the old drive installed. Save the file to C:\

Install the new ghosted drive...

Have you tried the WINXP File and Settings Transfer Wizard?