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  1. AWS
    Re: Need Support... Welcome to Free PC Help Forum. Why not start a thread in the Windows forum so we can ry and help with your problem.
  2. AWS
    Try this. Open my computer and head into C:\WINDOWS\inf. It is a hidden directory so you might have to change file view properties to show hidden files and folders and uncheck hide protected system files. Scroll down to msmsgs.inf. Right click and click install. After that try add/remove programs.
  3. AWS
    Search the registry for any reference to systinit32.exe. Once you find them delete the keys. You can then remove the exe without getting the warning. Also look in C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserAccountName\Start Menu\Programs\Startup to see if it is there. If it is delete it from there.
  4. AWS
    Well, welcome to the comunity.
  5. AWS
    You can buy replacements. The laptop we have will only last 2 hours on a full charge. It's always best to have a spare. One to work with and one on the charger. Don't let the rating fool you. No battery will last for more than 3 hours of extended use.
  6. AWS
    OH, You don't know the key combo to get into bios. Most bios use delete. There are a few, older Phoenix bios, that use alt key. My laptop it's alt/insert.
  7. AWS
    Make sure the cmos battery isn't dead. If it is dead or weak it won't keep the changes after reboot.
  8. AWS
    Newer motherboards can detect master/slave settings by the way they are attached to the cable. Your Dell can recognize drives jumpered to cable select. Your Compaq probably doesn't recognize cable select so you have to set the jumpers. Both ways work.
  9. AWS
    What do you want to know about them? Post your questions and we'll answer them.
  10. AWS
    Connect the cdrom and cdrw to the same cable. Set cdrw pins to master and cdrom to slave. Pins are on the back of the drives next to the cable connection. Configuration diagram is on top or bottom of cdrom
  11. AWS
    Does the scsi bios load or does it even get that far? The only thing I can think of is a setting in the scsi bios has to be changed so it works on 9x.
  12. AWS
    It is the main file AOL uses. If you uninstall AOL and reinstall it it will fix the error. If you don't have AOL installed then you where hijacked by coolwebsearch. I doubt that is the case since mancore.dll is also a part of AOL and is the file that is corrupt.
  13. AWS
    Right click My Computer. Select Advanced tab. Click in Startup and Recovery Settings. At the top uncheck time to display operating system. You can also remove the reference to the OS you want to get rid of by editing boot.ini, but, I advise against that. If you have 2 installs on 2 different disks or seperate folders then after you make the changes above just delete the other install by removing the directory.
  14. AWS
    On the board isn't there an extra jumper to hook up another jack? I think my son put some kind of an adapter that takes up a drive bay that has speaker and headphone jacks. Might want to look into something like that. I know my case has jacks on the front and they are connected to the sound card with the same type cable that connects the cdrom.
  15. AWS
    More than likely the cmos battery is dead. Look on the motherboard and you'll see what looks like a coin. Take it out and replace it. After you replce clear cmos and reboot. Set the time and load optimized defaults. Everything should work.
  16. AWS
    For raid you need 2 disks. There should be an option in the motherboard bios to disable raid on the controller so you can run one drive. I have one sata drive running without a problem by shutting off raid on the controller.
  17. AWS
    If Norton is disabled and ctrl/alt/dlt then you have a virus/trojan. Use one of the online scanners to scan for it and clean it. Best to boot in safe mode with networking and do it that way. You could also use the Norton rescue disks if you created them. You more than likely have something nasty and need to get rid of it.
  18. AWS
    I thought maybe settings and transfer wizard would work, but, I was mistaken. As Gavino said netwrok connections are tied to hardware so unless the hardware is the same across all boxes you'll have to manually change each one.
  19. AWS
    Download MS anti spyware and do a scan with it and then rerun hijack this and repost the log.
  20. AWS
    OK. Try going into bios and disable the onboard nic. Then boot into Windows and remove the nic from device manager. Shutdown, complete shutdown not restart. Start it again and head back in bios and eneable it. Boot to Windows. Windows should reinstall it and it should work. If that doesn't work then it is possible you have a problem with the motherboard.
  21. AWS
    To rule this out. Make sure the floppy drive is plugged in correctly. I know I have many times encountered the same error and everytime it was because I had the floppy plugged in the wrong way. If you are sure it is plugged in correctly and can get in bios disable the floppy and try to boot again.
  22. AWS
    Sounds like a resource conflict. Do you have a card in pci slot1? If you do try removing it. Slot 1 and onboard nic usually share the same IRQ. This used to happen a lot with Windows 9x. While rare for it to happen in XP it does happen when you have to devices using the same irq that are incompatible with each other.
  23. AWS
    More than likely a driver problem. If it was a hd problem you would get an invalid disck error. When exactly does it lock up? If it locks up just after bios loads it is probably the video drivers. If it gets to the Windows screen, the one just before Windows is loaded, it could be a network problem or a problem with software that loads on startup. Overclocking will also cause this.
  24. AWS
    I never heard of it until now. Let us know how good it is at releasing updates.
  25. AWS
    Delete C:\WINDOWS\msmsgr2.exe. You'll have to set folder options to view hidden system files and folders. Open regedit and remove this registry entry HKLM\..\Run: [_Cat4] C:\WINDOWS\msmsgr2.exe Then do an online virus scan.
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