• WShotpepper251

    WShotpepper251

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    • in reply to: New Mobo Search- mindboggling #1533174

      The mention of 8-bit and 16-bit hardware suggests the motherboard would also need ISA slots on it, those have been gone for some time. Another kicker with new boards is the BIOS may not have support for floppy drives, I’ve kept an old WinXP computer just because I have an Epson combination 3.5″ and 5.25″ drive in it for recovering data as needed from the floppy disks. Some boards may be available with support for A: but no mention of B:.

      Thank you Berton for your response!

      Fortunately, converted all my floppy data into CD,dvd, or hd image bak’s.

      Unfortunately, my xp machine died both the mobo and power supply crashed beyond revival. Don’t need the ISA but my current system supports both IDE and SATA so I plan to move the win7 machine to an xp machine for the needed interface.

      Appreciate your input!

    • in reply to: New Mobo Search- mindboggling #1533145

      Do not upgrade that PC, keep it for running your old stuff.
      There appear to be plenty of mobos with 1 x PCI slot so you may need 2 PCs for older hardware, although you should be able to get more modern cards to do the work.
      What are the cards that need PCI?

      cheers, Paul

      Geovision – version xp compatible
      Telephone answering machine- version xp compatible and/or have system win7 compatible not win10 compatible.

      Thank you for your input!

    • in reply to: Random shutdown #1383591

      Had a similar experience and difficulty locating the problem. Mine was related to the Pc being connected to power strip attached to the battery backup. Apparently the strip didn’t convey sufficient voltage and power sags caused the shutdowns.

    • in reply to: Windows 7 Not Genuine Copy #1376058

      Thank you all for responding.

      To clarify: Sunday received the Not Genuine OS message from Microsoft along with a Black background. RE-activated and received “Genuine OS” validation, but the black screen remained.

      Contacted MS tech support, yesterday and learned as one of the responses here in the lounge indicated that I could change the background screen in “Themes”. Also learned that starting an Administrator run command “SFC /scannow” will likely fix any downloaded update problems – and apparently this was what created the black background.

    • in reply to: XP reboots without apparent cause #1318636

      It’s interesting to see how a query takes on another life. The thread about Whocrashed looks good, but another piece of TSR software ( or is that active resident software today)?

      Still all of the responses are helping the learning curve.

    • in reply to: XP reboots without apparent cause #1315321

      Thank you for all the responses- haven’t found any loose screws(tightened the head- now bald) Ram seems to be good, but the old battery back up is the likely suspect as it sits there quietly – glib. Usually remove all internal case dust biannually. Tracking the event logs are showing no anomalies.

      So I’m still looking for the Ah ha moment.

      Again thank you for the input!

    • in reply to: XP reboots without apparent cause #1314371

      Thanks for your reply Joe! Must be asleep at the keyboard didn’t think to prevent autorestart. Will study logs on next occurance.

      Thank you again.

    • in reply to: XP reboots without apparent cause #1314370

      Thank you for responding! New power supply and ram when new mb obtained. Had similar issues with the old mb which was about 6years old when replaced.

      Keeps me thinking the battery backup could be at fault. Rarely do we have power failure and/or surges that are noteable.

      Thank you again.

    • in reply to: Certificate cleanup for most personal computers #1296983

      Susan Bradley’s article about removing root certificates, presented another twist fo ther view of my computer’s certificates. About one third of the certificates were outdated, yet they remain in the system.

      How can I determine what should remain- if any of the outdated certificates? Some were expired as early as 1999.

    • in reply to: It’s time to move up to Internet Explorer 9 #1284950

      We live so far off the beaten track that Win XPpro could last us forever. Don’t play games, only email and try to avoid sites requiring Adobe to view, we even still use pencils and paper.

      So what is the real gain to installing and hasseling with Win7? Just to upgrade Internet Explorer.

      Applied for the next moon base, but must be woefully behind the technology curve.

      H

    • in reply to: Computer unexpectedly and repeatedly shuts down #1230693

      Also check the cpu fan, the power supply fan and case fan. OEM is usually sleeve bearing and need occassional oiling. Plus as previous input all of the dust in the case and within the power supply housing. Also you may want to examine some of Fred Langa’s old information about frequency of cleaning case and connectors.

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