Replies

Q: When you say, “it loses power” do you mean a blackout of the LEDS on your box, or just a momentary glitch as if you hit the reset button?
A: Since everything happened so fast, I could not remember what was exactly happening. I would say it was just like a momentary glitch as if someone had hit the reset button.

Q: When you reflashed the BIOS, did you go into it and double check settings in all screens? For example, my newest BIOS will allow overclocking of the CPU and memory, speed & voltage. Wrong settings here will give strange intermittant troubles.
A: I did not check any settings. I just used the default and did not do overclocking.

Q: Also, have you checked internal temperatures and fan operations on your MB?
A: Where can I check the internal tempt and fan operation?

‘Automatically reboot’ was checked. I followed your instruction to uncheck it. What will happen with this option unchecked when system fails?

There is no blue screen before the restart. It seems that the PC just lose power and reboot itself when I was using the computer.

I had a virus attack on the BIOS several weeks ago. I flashed and installed the newest version of BIOS.

F.Y.I.: I do have a 250 VA UPS for the computer to prevent the power failure.

Q: Are you otherwise running 24/7?
A: It is runing from 7:00am to 10:00pm.

Q: Does it restart when you are using it, or when there is inactivity for a while?
A: It restarted when I was using it.

Q: Do you have any power-down settings selected?
A: Where to find this setting?

Q: Do you have a network card and/or modem fitted?
A: The NIC is a built-in with mother board. I do have a PCI modem installed.

Q: Have you got any debugging setup ?(Right_click My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery > )
A: Yes. The Write Debugging Information is “Small memory dump (64KB)”. The Small Dump Directory is “%SystemRoot%Minidump”.

Bruce,

There is no check mark at Work Offline on the file menu after I click on the X of the annoying message. It seems that Windows XP has set Work Offline for Internet Explorer as default at somewhere.

Dave,

I uninstall the modem driver from Device Manager and then unplug the modem from PCI slot. Cross my fingers and restart the PC…The annoying message is till there when I lauch the Internet Explorer!

Dave,

I checked the properties of modem. I did not find any related problem or setting on properties. Since this modem is required for fax operation, I can not take it out.

Leif,

I did look at that place before I posted this question. You can tell from the screen shot that there is no place for me to make any selection. Though all three radio buttons are dimmed, it seems the first radio button is selected.

Thank you very very very much!

Andrew,

There are 365 text boxes to select. How to select them all at once, as you suggested? I tried to use the white arrow Select Objects arrow. I could not figure out how to select all 365 text boxes at once.

bigaldoc,

If I copy this folder from the Win98 machine to the local hard disk of WinXP machine, the properties shows the following:
Size: 8.08MB
Size on disk: 8.25MB

What a difference compared to what was shown on the Win98 machine as I posted before! Is there a way to reduce the Size on Disk of this folder on Win98 machne?

FYI: The Win98 machine was formatted under FAT32 while WinXP machine was formatted under NTFS.

When I used the Office link to publish a report to Word. Some of the dates in the report had not been transferred correctly. How to solve this problem?

bigaldoc,

My SMC Barracade Cable Router comes with a built-in printer server. It was the reason I chose SMC instead Linksys before.

The following are the places I found the Internet Printer Server:
Hawking: http://www.hawkingtech.com/prodList.php?FamID=42%5B/url%5D
BlackIce: http://www.blackice.com/Internet Print Server.htm[/url]

jscher2000,

Does the person, whoever wants to print to my printer, need to install a printer driver in his Win XP PC?

Bigaldoc,

The firewall of my set up was the built-in hardware firewall came with the SMC 4-port cable router.