"metronid" wrote in message ... I was on vacation using my daughthers laptop It was purchased 12-14-2000 from gateway It has honestly been used 3 times Maybe 4 times Each time for vacation

"David Francis" wrote in message ... On booting up my 'puter (Iconnect 1170 Me) I had notices that S.M.A.R.T. is disabled but can be enabled. My question is what does this exactly do to the machine and will it be of any...

internal sound on imedia packiebell... ever since i had the damn thing everyso often tthe sound will cock up and stop... in yahoo voice chat it cocks up every 2 minutes leaving me with no sound untill a reboot... its done this EVERY instal of XP... any advice please? and im not reinstalin...

I have been given a PB laptop Easy Note VX 3700 to sort out the DVD drive. The drive is I believe a Toshiba SD-C2302. It will read DVD's but not CD's. The help I would like is:- (1) How do I get into it? I have located 6 screws on the rear and 2 more hidden under the battery, but the case still...

Anybody know where the chipset utility can be gotten for the pb 600 motherboard? I'm using w98 and not the PB cd and don't have it. I wouldn't know how to extract it from that cd either. Also, what is the command from Dos to check a disk for bad sectors with no windows installed on it. When i try...

after reading this off topic messages, I have to ask............. ??????ARE YOU TWO MARRIED?????? YOU TWO ARE GOING AT EACH OTHER SO MUCH IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'VE BEEN MARRIED FOR YEARS!!!!!!! :-)

Well I am glad to see that there is once again quiet in this group. I hope everyone's Packard Bell computers are running at top condition. Now this is the way this group was before the "other" person started posting in February. Everyone have a great week. W.

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"metronid" wrote in message ... Did you send an email to him at work? At home? I will send one from this post and see if he replies to me. He is only a state away from me and Ben. Elector

You can get the manual he http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/manual/mnu/spt_mnu_detail.php?UID=259& NAME=MS-6156BX However, I don't see any information indicating a USB header. Moreover, the pinout for the connector on the back panel, shown on page 2-36, strikes me as odd. It shows: Pin...

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Does anyone have a Packard Bell Platinum 650 system recovery boot floppy (Win 98SE) that could be zipped up and emailed to me please? My PB650 has crapped itself totally and I've had to reformat the HDD. Now I cannot restore the system because the recovery disk has gone missing and the CDs have no...

" Anthony" wrote in message ... "Clockmeister" wrote in message ... It appears to be some sort of modulator for RF-out from a TV-out video card ...

( French ) Hi, I received the brand new computer I was waiting on : P.Bell Imedia 9663. All seems to OK, ... but ... has someone just once seen this poor SmartLink Askey 2800 CNR Modem working faster as 37 kb ? It drives me nearly crazy. It never goes faster.

Has anyone successfully installed the ubiquitous Aztech PCI 288Q3DS sound card in Windows 2000? I am currently getting away with using the Trident Microsystems 4DWave NX PCI drivers for Win 2000, but they are barely tolerable and don't support all the features of the sound card. PB were good enough...

Thanks for all the answers about the fan, I am still investigating the problem. Meanwhile, nobody answered the last part of my question, which was... By the way, is the Platinum 650 sold in Australia the same as the PB650 people talk about on this group? Mine has a PIII-650, MS-6199VA M/B...

Thanks Elector & RTFM for your kind advice. Perhaps I did not explain it properly but the 4 port I bought is the portable plug in type with a one metre cable and does not have any power supply of its own. I have now taken this out of use altogether but the problem still persists from my two...

Can anyone tell me what the original list price was for the PB Legend 4610? Just curious because a friend just lost one in a fire, and we were wondering what it cost back in the day. Thanks in advance.

My machine has a groaning fan sound when it is cold. It goes away maybe after 5 minutes, sometimes after 30 minutes or more. It has been doing this for over a year, so I don't think it's a critical problem, just really, really annoying. I tend to want to kick it to shut it up, which can't be good...

I have a PB Pulsar C300 which is nearly 5 years old and is running well except that I have trouble with devices that connect to the USB ports. Each device will install OK and usually run OK for a while and then sometimes they no longer show on the computer. most times they will not reinstall at...