I bought a Packard Bell 486 DX2-66 in 1995, refurbished. It was $999 (excellent price at the time), and ran very well for 5-6 years. I have now relegated it to a retro-gaming system - it's a lot easier to get 1990's games running on that puppy than on a new system. Yesterday I turned it on for...

De: "Pascal ROMEYER" Objet: Blocage de la souris lors d'un son Date: lundi 26 janvier 2004 18:40 Ma souris stoppe lors de l'émission d'un son. Je tourne sur un portable EASYONE AMD-2 450 (380 avec 256 Mo RAM, car le proce est un fainéant qui s'économise au delà de 64Mo) Il...

Ben I was googling Emachines and came across some of your posts. Drivers for Emachines and other info. It is out there if you ask their techicians the correct info. I was looking up a T 6540 The tech was very polite and helpful. Actually they switched techs 3 times for my questions

Zoals in voorgaande post (zie: "Notebooks Igo 5000: FNF22k.exe" van 2003-05-21 in alt.sys.pc-clone.packardbell) heb ik nu ontdekt met Sygate Personal Firewall (SPF) dat dit tooltje FNF22k.EXE me toch wel verdacht is. Het tooltje is nodig om de navigatieknop tussen de muisknoppen van de touchpad te...

Bill please check your master CD’s before 170991 for any files called navigator. I am looking for navigator 2.0 Perhaps you know what Master Cd has it

My daughter entered wrong password too many times, now system on boot ask for service tech. password. Any one know this password? I can't call any PB service center. thanx Topper

Hi there it's john again, I am trying to install a pentium 1 pricessor @ 166mhz to upgrade my packard from 133mhz. When I installed the processor, hooked up the fan and put the cover on again the computer booted fine but instead of saying the processor speed was 166mhz it said it was 133mhz. My...

Of course a new BIOS is the best option, but can be risky if the exact BIOS cannot be found from a reputable site. It is often worth a few bucks to buy a BIOS from a company like unicore rather than ruin a motherboard with a bad flash. The option to install a PCI controller card is a good one,...

Hey all, I have a Packard Bell 486 that I have installed RH 7 on. I haven't used the box in awhile. When I boot it can't find the hard drive. All my bios info is correct (date/time). I have set the bios to "Auto detect" and it doesn't work. I can't look at the hard drive because I can't get it...

Hello, I got a cicero computer from a buddy with some problems but he wanted to keep some of his info, instead of just copying it to cd I partitioned the hard drive and reformatted, and tried to install to windows me that came with the computer. The computer crashes, in the last stages of...

Hi to Everybody, i ve a notebook I go 3000 and i have this kind of problem. When i watching a DVD video or play a 3d game the video become black but audio is on. I must turn off and turn on again. I notice that fan dont' start when i work or watching DVD but fan started only firt time when i turn...

A friend has a PB with the following problem: On boot-up a black screen message comes stating, "CPU setting incorrect". I do not know the model number. I do know the CPU is a 233. Any help on what the above means and/or corrective action would be appreciated.

I was asked to build in a CD rewriter in a packard Bell computer. He wants to use Ghost 2003 for writing images to CD. I don't have much experience with PB but I'm aware it has its peculiarities. Are there any 'Packard Bell'-pitfalls or special issues to take into account before I start? And what...

I recently got a mr.bios update but here is the problem Whenever i enable the 256kb cache module the hdd led stays lit even when the drive is not working. Do i have to adjust something to fix this?

Hi I have just bought a Packardbell computer and I am having difficuty in burning a tape from my camcorder onto a cd-rw disc. please could you give me any advise on way to go about doingit. Very many thanks for your co-operation in the matter. Hope to hear from you soon. Cheers

X-No-archive: yes Would it be possible to remove the memory from my old Packard Bell and install it in my Gateway?

Hi there, I have finally bought awindows 98 upgrade cd and one of my friends did the same. But when he did it he could not run navigator or anything else that was on the hard disk that was packard bell, only the things that came with the computer (navigator, cd's,programs, etc)would not run. I...

Packardbell iMedia Hi, a friend has somehow unplugged her speakers ..(this imedia has the Monitor mounted type) .. She has plugged in all the colour coded connectors but still there is no sound .. trouble is she has an extra wire with a plug which she can't find a socket for. She no longer has...

I have a PB 9505 and running Win XP. I attempted to install a Kodak CX6200 Digital Camera, but the OS keeps telling me it can't find the driver. It's on the CD I got with the camera and I've already installed the camera to a Gateway PC succussfully. Why won't it install to the PB?! The camera is...

I just connected a firewire card to a PCI slot in my PC, but I can't seem to get the machine to find a driver for it when requested. I have my Win XP Pro CD in the drive, but Windows says it can't find a suitable driver for it. What do I do next? Geo.