Hello Group I bought some maxell discs that are 8 speed. They have a warning about damaging my drive. They say I need to upgrade my drive with a firmware update. HELP................. I have a packard bell with a dvd-r rewriter. The Packard Bell website as been no help and neither have the...

Hi Group; I have a PB 950 and recently lost the main hard drive completely. I had a second HD installed and thought I had all my files backed up, but it doesn't boot, and I can't get the old drive to work at all to get any of the system files. I tried booting with a Win 98 disk, but no luck with...

Want to buy the follwing processors Xeon 700 Mhz 1 Mb cache 5/12 V sl4xv / sl49q ( 174448-b21 ) any brand Xeon 700 Mhz 2 Mb cache 5/12 V sl49s / sl4xx ( 174449-b21 ) any brand Xeon 900 Mhz 2 Mb cache 5/12 V sl4xz ( 222627-b21 ) any brand Xeon Dp 2.0 Ghz 400 FBS sl6em ( or any other step ) Xeon Dp...

Hello alt.sys.pc-clone.packardbell NewsGroup,,,,, :) :) I have an old PackardBell (vintage 1995) and it is running like a champ with W98SE,,,,,, I would like to insert a PCI NIC card and have tried only one ( a 3Com Nic PCI),,,this one did not work and actually would not allow the PB 600 to...

Hi there. I do not mean to offend anyone. If you are going to link your webcam to here or boast about matt parker or discuss anything inappropriate in this forum. Look somewhere else! There are other forums around the net for you freaks and since my son uses this forum, i don't recommend you come...

Hi-- First off, Happy New Year to everyone!! OK, so I have an older PB system, the 685 MB with a Powerleap (and Mr. BIOS) running at 400 mhz, 2 megs of vid ram, 128 meg mem, 56 k Aztech modem. . Is there anything I can do, a trick or a tweek that can make it a bit quicker on the net? Are there...

Hi I posted this at the PB Alorica Tech site (hardware) . Maybe someone here knows a solution, I'm working with an old PB motherboard, a 68x series. I want to upgrade the BIOS. I have done this before with the download from this site without a hitch. DNOR.12 was completed with no...

I'm thinking about buying one of these notebooks, but can't find anything that says how good the battery life is. Anyone here know? -- David

My mate has just installed Win XP Pro on top of Win98, but can't use his Packard Bell Active Board mouse and keyboard anymore. Is there a driver or patch or something else he should maybe download in order to get them to work, or is he looking at a new mose and keyboard? He has a PB iMedia with a...

On my new "ixtreme Gold H5409 Power Cinema TV+" by Packard Bell (vidéo card ATI X600 DVI,on slot PCI Express, 256 Mo DDR), the game "Age of Empires 3" always freezes the computer.Is there any explanation?

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.

Out of the 14 PB's I have in my shop, I have one that is pretty old. It's a 286. Still runs. Anybody got that beat? Let me go dig it out and I'll post the model number and name.

1. Table of Contents 2. Introduction and Intent 3. Spamming and Netiquette 4. How to ID your MOBO 4.1. BIOS string 4.2. FCCID# 4.3. SYSCRED.EXE 4.4. System Configuration Lookup 5. Drivers for PB devices 6. Links

ALT.SYS.PC-CLONE.PACKARDBELL FAQs Author: Anthony Last updated: 02/13/2003 A HTML version of this FAQ can be found at... http://pbfaq.tripod.com COPYRIGHT 2003 BY ANTHONY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS FAQ MAY BE USE IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE...

ALT.SYS.PC-CLONE.PACKARDBELL FAQs Author: Anthony Last updated: 02/13/2003 A HTML version of this FAQ can be found at... http://pbfaq.tripod.com COPYRIGHT 2003 BY ANTHONY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS FAQ MAY BE USE IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE...

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Hi there, I need a little help. I recently Purchased a new hard drive for a machine that came off the arc. The hard drive is a western digital 20 gig drive. The machine is an old pentium machine from 1992 roughly. I have installed windows on the machine but noticed after that only 8.6 gig is...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Packard-Bell-Riser-Card-52F53-146537-01_W0QQitemZ290195220247QQihZ019QQcategoryZ3666QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem I just bring 'em up as I seem 'em. bob

Look on the back of the nit for a letter like L N P OR Y followed by nine numvers and a plus or the manufacturer # 84 with some digits -I think also nine I forgot the exact amount for the manufacturer # The form factor is called LPX and it basically means the bus uses a riser card for the pci and...

Hi, I seem to remember that an accessory for Packard Bell computers was different color bezels and accents. Anyone know where to get them now for the old PB computers? Thanks, Rock