Recent content by chadwick300

I need to find an entry-level IT job in Augusta, GA. I have a two year technical diploma from a local college and I'm A+ certified. I also spent a week doing some contract work. If anyone has heard anything or knows a person who worked for a guy who was room mates with a person who pumped...

How much do most technicians who work in a local repair store make?

What causes a bunch of characters to be on the screen when the computer first boots up? To go into detail: When I cut the computer on immediatly the screen fills up with a bunch of 99s or zeros and dashes. It doesn't do any memory checks or anything. It seems to me to be a motherboard...

I've pinged by IP address. Both can ping the router.

They are on the same workgroup. And I have shared folders setup but cannot access them from another computer. I'm really stumped about this one.

To continue the previous post. My Network Places on the desktop computer shows both computers but can't access the laptop. It should also be noted that when I tried to ping one computer with the other it wouldn't take as if they weren't connected. I hope that's enough information.

I would greatly appreciate some help on this. I'll try to be as detail and descriptive as possible. I'm trying to set up a simple home network between two computers so I can share a printer. One computer is a regular desktop computer and the other is a laptop. At one point I had broadband...

I installed a SCSI adapter card in a friends computer that is running Windows 95. The card was originally in that computer and worked fine. After I put the card in the PCI slot and booted up I installed all the right drivers and such, but the OS will not recognize it. The card is well seated...

I know that there have been attempts in the past to standardize Linux. So that they have a similar system for unpacking files and programs(ex. RedHat .rpm, Debian .deb) I wonder if they will ever be successful in standardizing Linux to make it somewhat easier to learn and use.

After selecting Windows 98 in the grub menu it acts like it wants to boot, but then it just hangs up. At first I suspected that I had Grub looking on the wrong partition for it, so I tried telling it a few different places to look. Unfortunatly, that did nothing to alleviate my problem. So I...

So where in Linux would I see my NTFS and FAT32 file systems?

Is there a file format that can be read by both Linux and Windows?

I have recently set up my laptop to triple boot Windows 98 SE, Windows XP, and Fedora 2 using the GRUB boot loader. I installed Windows 98 SE first and booted the computer to make sure it was working, and it was. Then I installed and Windows XP and again checked to see if it was working. So...

I was wondering how you would protect the hardware components from ESD when you are working with an acrylic case. If you clipped a grounding strap to another metal object your body and the computer could still have different charges. I don't want to zap a motherboard by accident.