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  1. alan2273

    floppy drive troubles

    I have a shuttle which I have just put a floppy drive in, the drive does not power up when it is switched on, but if I turn the ribbon cable the other way round the light on the floppy comes on permantly ( which says that the ribbon cable is in the wrong way.) So by putting the ribbon cable in...
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    Device driver frustration.

    If I click on my computer and right click either of my two hard drives the computer reboots. They are both Maxtor 80gb SATA drives. Right clicking on any of the other drives, ( USB 2 external hard drive, ZIP drive, USB2 floppy/card reader), causes no problems. I also tried going in through...
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    need help with boot ini file

    I have just put windows XP Home on a friends computer. He wanted a small partition and a large partition on the main drive, which I did with no problem. When I installed XP I put it on the small partition(E) instead of the main partition(C). When I realised what I had done I reinstalled it to...
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    need a little help

    Windows XP home. Just a quickie, I have just built a new computer and it is running like a dream. The only problem is I cannot remember how to change the keyboard from US English to UK english, it is 2 & 1/2 years since I last did it and I have fewer brain cells now. :rolleyes: Any advice...
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    Need some advice concerning SATA drives.

    I am building my first computer containing a SATA drive. When I put XP on it and install the SATA drivers at the prompt, will it automatically recognise the drive and if I put another drive in at a later time will that also be automatically recognised..
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    doom3

    Is my setup good enough to run doom3. AMD2200 (1.8ghz) 1Gb 266 DDr (2 x 512) Leadtek FX5700
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    SuSe

    I have a duel boot system XP & Mandy 10 I have 2 seperate hard drives, XP is on the C drive and Mandrake 10 is on the D drive. They are both runningt great at the moment, what I want to know is can I install SuSe to the D drive and will it find its own partitions and will it affect LILO the...
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    Mandy 10 & Sound

    I cannot get the sound to work, in the configuration it has the correct driver and it has to be initialised (aRTs) I have gone to System/ Configuration/KDE/Sound/Sound System but cannot find aRTs to initialise it, can anyone help.
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    Boot ini missing

    I run a duel boot ( XP & Mandy 10 ) when I boot up and select windows from the LILO splash screen it comes up invalid boot ini file booting to C:/Windows and proceeds as normal. So I entered msconfig in the run box to see what was wrong with the boot ini file, only to find it is not there any...
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    Andy 1

    Has anyone heard of a virus/trojan called Andy 1 and how to remove it?
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    pictures

    How do I put one of those pictures under my name
  12. alan2273

    [FIXED] Flaming

    Flaming I have just joined this forum as I run mandy 10 as well as windowsXP. On reading the linux forum guidelines it says no flaming allowed ( what is flaming )
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