Recent content by wood1e

Hi, I have a laptop that I have install a Belkin 54g wireless card in. Now the slot is on the same side as the mouse USB port. Since I have installed wireless, I get a pain like pins and needles in my thumb and hadle. Which seems to increase as I move closer and the longer I am working...

Hi, many thanks for your comment, according to my local pc world expert i should have the jumper over the MA Connectors. Which I don;t understand, as this is the only HDD that my PC has, now years ago studying a little bit of electronics, when you put a plastic cover over a connector that would...

Hi, this is a new and will be the only HDD being installed, in this PC. Anyway it appears that as the PC doesn;t know or cannot find the hard drive or CD drives, there may be a problem with the mother board. Which is fine, but if the Hard Drive can not be found by the PC, and I can't change...

Hi all, I have installed a brand new, Samsung 40 gb 7200 ultra ATA drive. I am using floppies, as the PC didn;t boot from the OS disc. So I took the boot files from the CD and copied them to four floppies, and then inserted them each time the pc told me to. Obviously I used a different PC...

I don;t know...when I have booted from the disks, the OS disc is already in the CD drive. How would I see if the PC can see the disc?

Hi, I have checked all cables, and they are fitted, and I tried both CD drives. I have kept the hard drive settings to the factory settings. therefore the CS pins arre covered.

Hi, I have just installed a new hard drive in my PC, and I want to install Win2k Pro. Now I have booted the PC with 4 boot floopys. And then pressed enter to install Win2k Pro. But my PC keeps coming up with unable to read/find CD...Can anyone explain why this is? any help would be greatly...

Many thanks for that, but i have tried all what microsoft says you should do, and even downloaded a separate file, and yet still I get to the final download, and it comes up with Access Denied...I have emailed microsoft, will let you know the out come... wood1e

I don;t know what SP2 will do when or if you can install it...thats the problem I have come across the actual installation...!!! You might want to run some anti-virus, adware software...and a cleaning software...help to try and sort out your pc.. wood1e

I bought a XP Pro upgrade, for my new machine, which is all off 4 months old!!! Microsoft really get me annoyed sometimes....I shall try and get hold of someone at the wonderful company.... Many thnaks for all your help...If anyone can come up with anything else, let me know wood1e

HI, I have been through the help page at microsoft, and none of what they have suggested works, as it does not apply... Anyone got any more suggestions?

Hi, I have tried again to install SP2 and yet again it failed, the error that appeared was 'access denied, unable to install'... I had shut everything down that I could, and I ran the code cd %Windir%\$NtServicePackUninstall$\Spuninst spuninst.exe All I got was that the sytem could not find...

OK, running an anti adware package, and then will shut everything down, and start again...many thanks wood1e

I got a disc from Microsoft...once it had said unable to install, it went in to uninstall mode.... Although I did copy and paste your line cd %Windr......and I got the response, "the system cannot find path specified" So do I need to type your line? As the install went into uninstall made...

Hi, I have just tried to install, SP2 on WinXP Pro, and when it had finsihed an error came up saying unabel to install... Can anyone help? wood1e