Arghhhhhhhh! Yup my 'tattoo' has been wiped and I don't have a master CD. Obviously the low level format had totally blanked the disk but I can't fDisk it coz the BIOS is locking the disk until it gets properly tattooed. I hate vendor lock in! Grrrrr! Do any of you out there have the following...

Folks, the subject says it all. I will continue to monitor postings to this newsgroup in the unlikely event that someone will want and I can provide useful info about his/her system. But I will give up if I think I am wasting my time. alt.sys.pc-clone.packardbell R.I.P. Neither RTFM and Elector...

Problem: MSWord has been accidentally deleted from Packard Bell system (PB9533). We have the PB recovery disks (I'm sure word will be on there) but wish to avoid destroying everything on the hard drive just to reinstall word. any ideas? cheers cw

Does anybody know where you can get the chipset utility and bios update for the P. Bell 450 motherboard? I have w95b reinstalled and the icons flicker when i click on them which is what usually happens without the chipset drivers. This is 75 mhz with a 528 mb hdd. Thanks. -L

I can see it on the motherboard, but I can't make out the markings on the cell or battery. Who knows what the correct replacement is? Thanks.

A while ago i got new restore disks for my pb A950-TWR computer from metronoid (sorry if wrong, really bad at names). First of all since i no longer had the credintals shrink wrapped to the case i tried to look at it from the mobo but it can't be found. I said heck with it and proceeded with the...

Hello! I just scrapped my old PB Multimedia S616. It served me well for all these years. Befor sending it to it's final resting place I took out the 2 memory sticks. There are both 32MB. I also have the MASTER restore CD (175710-00) and the Master restore Diskette V 8.41. I have used these several...

Hello Ben! ( and anyone else who would like to contribute ! ) Now that my PB collection has grown to about 13 machines, I have noticed that only the Platinum models have L2 cache, and even then it's only 256k. I am referring to the Socket 7 LPX boards by the way. The Socket 4 Pentium 60...

Hello,,,,,:) :) :) I have a (circa)1995 Packard Bell Legend 822CDT with the PB600 Motherboard. The original BIOS has been upgraded. The files included in the update are PHFLASH.EXE, Autoexec.bak (a bat file to execute the PBFLASH), BIOS.ROM, BUILD.MAP, CRISDISK.BAT, MAKEBOOT.EXE, MINIDOS.SYS,...

I was trying to nstall a netgear card in this machine in the last few months and then this error started showing up in the boot sequence 'IO Device irq conflict" and then you are given the option to hit F1 to resume. I removed the netgear card and drivers and even reloaded the OP sys but the error...

"metronid" wrote in message ... I do not think that this newsgroup is dying It may be a little constipated Just needs something to get it moving properly I visit priorityonesupport quite often They seem to be getting many...

I purchased a PB system back just before they stopped selling them in US and it came with a ReadyScan 636i USB scanner. I upgraded OS to XP Home and now the drivers for the ReadyScan 636i USB scanner are noe XP compatable and all the ones I find on web are not either. Can someone help me out here...

I have recently been having trouble playing video on my computer. It is of the .AVI format and uses a DIVIX codec. But when i play the video off my cd drive (or hard drive) i get more of a slide show with music. I increased the buffer size on my cd drive to 20 seconds with no change. I fixed the...

X-No-Archive: Yes I just installed a new hard drive in my iXtreme 9505 and it's working just fine. It's a Western Digital 80GByte and I used the Data LifeGuard utilty (Win XP) to partition it....'looks okay....'but.... 'Every time I reboot, Win XP keeps telling me it's "new hardware found"...

I had two four gig HDs set up on my 98SE sytem and they worked fine. Now Im trying to install a new HD and FDISK doesn't as if I want support for large disks and I end up with a 500 MB drive. WHat could be wrong ? Roscoe

Hi, the hard disk on my pc a packard bell aloh@ with windows me embedded on the hard drive has failed, i bought a new hard drive and contacted packard bell who said they would supply new recovery cds at 42 euros.which is fine but they said i would need tech support which will cost 49 euros !!. for...

Hi. I have a new Hi. I have a new EasyNote K5285 with 512 MB DDR base memory, i wish to expand to 1024 MB but can`t find the slot! Can anyone tell me where to install the expansion memory? Se: http://support.packardbell.co.uk/mypc/index.php?PibItemNr=spec_mem_kigem for info.

Hi I have a psckard bell pb 130 computer that I want to upgrade with the following parts: -tv tuner -radio -bios upgrade (it will not allow anymore ram than 16 meg) -media select -80 meg of ram Now i need to know what online stores that ship to canada would supply me with those parts at a good...

I've got an old PB Multimedia 110, the h/d was taken out to be used in another machine and I want to make it work again. I saw it boot up and run Win95 when I first got it, and it was barely used, so I know the computer is basically sound. I have everything that came with this computer, all the...

Just to stir up this group a little, I need to say that I got myself a PB Axcel 46CD desktop system today. Customer housecleaning, along with other work I did there. Haven't touched it yet to see if it powers up or what is inside. Any interest in either the whole system or parts? Assuming...