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In addition to what MarkJ said in post 539,890, it’s entirely possible to put two video cards in a workstation, one AGP and one PCI (or two PCI). This implies two monitors, of course, although with a KVM switch, it’s not necessary. Windows 98, ME, and XP will recognize the second card upon a reboot. You can then go into Display Properties and set which card & monitor you want as Primary (represented by a “1”) and Secondary (represented by a “2”). You can swap them around, should they not be to your liking. The Windows Help files are actually quite good on this subject; type ‘multiple monitor’ into the Help & Support box for more information, or do a Google search.

Right, that’s true — the photos/gifs have to have the tag in order for it to work. Not a problem there. One question, though, about the PopUp Alt Attribute extension. It seems to work the first time I try it on a page, but stops working immediately thereafter. In other words, I can see the Alt tag for the very first smilie that I check, but if I hover over another, different smilie on the same page, nothing happens. Has this been the case for you and the other loungers who use this extension, or is there something that needs to be done to get it to recognize more than the very first tag it encounters? I’m now using FF 1.5, and the ZAP settings for animations, ads, etc. are disabled.

Leif,
Many, many thanks! The Alt tags are working fine now in FF 1.5.

I must have a setting wrong somewhere, then, because I’m not seeing the Alt tags. Thanks for alerting me that they are already tagged!

Not that I know of, but there well could be a wireless solution out there.

Many inexpensive AGP video cards have video out ports, and come with a cable that hooks to your TV. Of course, you don’t want to have your TV a foot from your computer, so a trip to the nearby Radio Shack (if there is one nearby) to get an extension cable might be necessary.

Is it possible to attach Alt tags to these gifs so we would be able to just pass our mice over an individual gif and know what it ise — without having to look it up in the WOPR Smilies library? Some of them are sort of difficult to see, and the expressions aren’t always visible… They’re probably perfectly visible to someone with normal eyesight, but not all of us have it. Thanks.

Just don’t get any viruses or worms, since they’d affect both disks. You still will have to occasionally back up to DVDs, then store the backups off-site (in case of fire, flooding, etc).

Oh, I see now. You just want to slave the second drive, and use it for data storage. You’re not talking about a Raid array at all. The word ‘mirror’ threw me, and made me think you wanted to set up a Raided array.

If your friend is sure that he/she has no spyware on the computer, try the following:
1. Insert the Windows CD. When the ‘What do you want to do?’ screen pops up, click ‘Exit’. Leave the CD in the drive.
2. Click Start>Run
3. Type in SFC /Scannow
Windows will check your system, and will replace any corrupt or damaged files. This may help.

You can go to the Elite Group site archives for the board. You didn’t specify which K7S5A you have, so this link will bring you to a page where you can choose the one you own. From there, you can get new drivers, a manual, bios updates, etc.

I’m curious; do you do enough video rendering or intensive 3D graphics to warrant a striped Raid array? If not, setting up a Raid array could be a waste of good space.

Leave the battery in the computer, and allow it to remain charged — after making sure that it’s not leaking or corroded.

While imaging your drive is a great idea, it won’t work out if the drive has physical problems, as you are no doubt aware. Buying another hard drive is definitely an option; that would allow you to use the current drive as a slave. However, in order to get the data transferred to the new drive, the physical problems need to be addressed. I’d suggest investing in both SpinRite and a new drive. Use SpinRite to repair the current drive (if possible), then use your imaging program to copy the operating system to the new drive. Once you do that, you’ll be in a position to set the old drive as slave. It could then be formatted and used for data storage. Just a thought.

Chuck,
I don’t believe that Windows will load if chkdsk is on a “bad” sector, although I could be wrong. I’ve run into a situation where some of the Win98 system files were located on 24 bad sectors, and the entire o/s refused to load. Your question is valid, and, yes, I’d say that’s correct. Depending on how valuable this installation is, and how much time you have into it, you might want to download Steve Gibson’s SpinRite 6 , arguably the best disk utility out there. It’s very possible that SpinRite can completely restore your hard drive to working order, repairing the damaged disk sectors. It’s expensive ($80 US), but it’s paid for itself if it saves just one hard drive from death. Plus, if you buy SpinRite 6, you get the right to download and use SpinRite 5 (the 16-bit version). Both are superb. SpinRite has saved half a dozen seemingly dead hard drives for me over the last year or so; a copy of it is always in my toolbag. It works, and works well.

PSP 6 should work fine for you, although the interface is a bit strange! The bad news is that Paint Shop Pro 6 was considered quite buggy. If you’d like to try Photoshop Elements 1.0 on your 98 machine (as opposed to a quirky PSP 6), I have two copies, and can set you up with one of them. It runs fine under Win98. Of course, the best thing you could do would be to locate a copy of Photoshop 7.0, but that’s fairly expensive, and may be more program than you need at the present.