Ok I'm going to buy a new battery for my mobo and see if that helps any. Also now about 20% of the time when I boot the comp up it freezes at the point where it says "verifying dmi pool data" any idea what could be causing that to happen? Also what is a "cap"? Thanks for your continued help with...
Hey so I recieved my new 40gb hd in the mail today. I unplugged my 160gb and set it to slave & plugged in the new hd and set it to master. Then I booted my comp up and went into the BIOS and set it to boot off CD first. After doing that I put in the Windows CD and booted to it and started to...
Hey so I recieved my new 40gb hd in the mail today. I unplugged my 160gb and set it to slave & plugged in the new hd and set it to master. Then I booted my comp up and went into the BIOS and set it to boot off CD first. After doing that I put in the Windows CD and booted to it and started to...
Ok so you're suggesting I replace the mobo battery to see if that fixes the problem? If I were to do that what kind of battery would I want to buy for it? It's an Abit KV8-Max3 mobo. Will try to find out.
Yeah I really want to get into Linux, need to buy another HD though because I'm crap at installing a dual boot. Although I guess that's all the more reason to try. Screwed up last time though and took me like 3-4 hours to fix without losing data.
I was just using the C drive for pagefiling since It's the fastest partition at the front of the HD and to bump the windows install to the D drive to add an extra security level since a lot of virus/spyware try to install to C.
Alright so I went to bed last night and let my HD diag utility run off the floppy in DOS mode at bootup. It ran for 8.5 hours and I didn't get any messages or anything like that and it just seemed to be still going. Is it supposed to take this long? I'm wondering if I typed the wrong command in...
Sweet thanks man, I've been wondering how to do that forever and havn't turned up anything on google about it. Also would you tell me how to get to the root of the drive my windows is located in while in DOS? For example my windows is located in my D: drive but when I try to systemroot or type...
Ok I did some research last night and I think I'm going to focus on learning these before I start my first semester: 1. Hexadecimal 2. Assembly 3. TCP/IP and Sockets. I spent about 4-5 hours yesterday starting to learn about Hexadecimal, anyway do you guys think this is a good direction to start...
I let the diagnostic run for about 35 minutes but It's taking too long since I need to use my comp now, I'll have to let it run when I go to bed. How long do you think It'll take on my 160GB HD? Also if there are errors on the HD is there any utility which I can use to attempt to repair the HD...
Alright I tried that but I need some help because I can't get the diagnostic to run. I downloaded the diagnostic floppy boot file but the FAQ says to format the floppy as an MS-DOS boot disk and once I do that it only leaves 850 or so KB left but the utility boot file is 1.4MB so it won't fit on...