martymas

hi team im in the process of retrying mandrake 10. in the past ive been critical of the linux sys"s and i still hold that view. that it is a hard sys to come to grips with for the ordinary user. i must mention handplane and hitest went out of their way to try and help me and i appreciated their input. and rather than. critersizing this forum.because of them i felt it better not to post on this forum. however i want to retry mandrake 10 i had it on once and i found unlike other linux oses it found all hardware drivers. but that dam modem driver. but it looks as tho im going to have to us

hi TK good to hear from you.this isnt to solve your problem but to say hi dont see you much on this board so it is good to see your post. i see your posts at g4 but cant waffle on over there. you take care regards marty

yes i agree thesidekickcat unfortunately people will be people. and hurt others feelings. some times i get angry .and i turn my compt off so i cannot go in and answer . a post i feel is detrimental to a thread. or to the people who try and help. i have regards for pete_c who has to decide wheather to warn a certain poster . or let it go. i have not been to leoville, so cannot comment. all ive heard is what other posters have written here. its a pity because boards are designed to help people like me but there are times when g4 has posters that do the same . human nature i presume.

hi team thanks for your input most of the input ive already accessed. but you both have pointed out parts of the info that i hadnt . accessed. the memory thing was one part i didnt see in my search when i first came in contact with the 64bit thing i contacted microsoft [local branch.] and they said go to microsoft support,which i did . and they advised me i could either download it from there. or sign up and get the cd sent to my address for free. tho i had to pay for shipping and delivery. so i signed up. but decided to install it from the sight. what i didnt know was it would take eight hour

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un fortunitly this incident im posting about was at tech support. yes the board over there is raging about the change of name. us from the old techtv board shouldnt worry about that weve had those changes before. i try to make contact with the posters i know. and i agree those mods have a hell of time trying to sort out the good posts from the bad ones. this morning i was there and some one has had his hand smacked for spamming the board. or talking about some one in his family who has cancer. i dont agree that is spamming in the first place some one else highjacked the thread. so im glad t

thanks jcl can you tell me what difference is there between 34 bit and 64 bit i went to microsoft several weeks ago to change my sys from 34bit to 64 bit but it was an eight hour download . and im on dial up. so that fixes that microsoft has been advertising this 64 bit thing. and im guessing it is to prepare us for longhorn ect marty

hi disregard this post ive found what i wanted . i had to google it and i havent got google on my sys. i had to go to my isp website. it seems ie7 will be saved for longhorn. so that settles that. marty

hi team is IE 7 available for download. i just watched a program from the UK . called click on line and they spoke of IE 7. but i missed the first part of the program. so i couldnt tell if it was still in the beta stage. ive been to microsoft support but cant find any reference to it any ideas marty

hey mikex i love it sounds like george bush try and get every one else to do there dirty work. marty

recently i posted saying i thought g4 was improving . well i just read a post where they were flaming each other . about a mouse and mouse pad . one poster called another a troll.and so forth. and that particular poster only had 78 posts. so i hightailed it back here. to safety.because i felt like getting in there and.have my say. g4 will never be a board of moderates like this one. to many know all kids. who learn at achool . and it takes more than theory th operate a compt. and there are a lot of you like my self have not had formal training.to operate a compt . but i would rather depend on

yes it is bit harder on dial up. mandrake couldnt detect my sound card and modem. but if could go to the konsole and extract them from the cd. but ididnt know the commands.i knew some of them.but some wasent goodenough . so here i am with 4 linux operating sys. mandrake 9.1 mandrake 10. lycorus. ubuntu. and i cant use them unless i get dsl or cable fast connect. so in the long run tho linux is free. no one is aware of the cost to run them. i had mandrake on for a year and i liked it.. but only had a 4.58 hdd . which wasent enough once you installed all the software and updates. so i bought a

or the time it takes to find drivers for linux hardware on dialup linux is for the rich. and tech minded. not ordinary not so techminded people. i know ive been there marty

yes i think your battery needs renewing. to test this restart your compt go to your bios . at the standart c-mos setup press enter. when in there scroll to all errors and using the up and down keys change to no errors . press esc. f10 then Y then enter. then restart your compt and if that checksun is still there your battery needs changing . a new battery ie need to sustain those settings. if you go to hardware forum i have a post there asking the same thing. but i cant find a battery for my out of date mobo. good luck marty

can you send it as a html link through your email. marty

yes i jennie171 agree with you when i was a new user. i fell into the same trap. but if it wasent for the posters at techtv c.f.h i would have struggled to learn. so my thanks to chappie pete_c and beluga who created this board . there are many others to many to mention. but your post is a reminder to new users . to take care. yes your post is a good one . marty

yes bizness has become so competitive now these tactics are used all over the world . look at dot.com- martha stewart -enron. and it is aimed at us the not so well informed. tho in my case i woke up many years ago. not very often i down load any appli unless i know what im doing. i have a friend who subscribed to a telephone service from the internet and before he knew it some one had sent him a bill for this service .because he had signed for it. the goverment of my country has banned this sort of scam since then. and im on to bet he wasnt the only one.who got caught. an other example. a nig

have you read the security notes in win updates . all navs are suppoesed to be compatable wth sp2. i have 2 scanners on my sys. and i havent had any trouble. tho i must stress one isnt nortons. so looking at your post your problem is either nortons or you. there arnt may people who have problems with sp2. and the ones that do blame every thing else but them selves. tho in your case yours is the forth post ive read where sp2 and nortons clash. as i dont use nortons so i cant comment. tho it looks as tho nortons does clash with sp2. good luck marty

hi tg1911 those links need time to study several look like my mobo but ive put the links in my favourites. so i can study them thanks marty

hi just discovered this compt is a pentium 166. not sure if this helps or not . marty

hi team when i got this compt my task was to try and get it internet ready ok ive done that. but the battery thing has got me stumped ive had the mobo. out of the case but i dant find any thing which looks like a bat. i asked the owner for documentation. but he said he bought it from.a second sale so im stumped .there are several cubed shaped components. but which is the battery. sure the machine is old and probably not worth perservereing with for me it is an achevement to get it in working order . i may have to take the mother board to a compt outlet and see if they can identify the bat i

thanks murtu52 im heading away to look for it. marty

to test your standby disable hibernation. you can go in and enable it later. while your in there see if there is a tab with APM. if there is open it. and check the box enable power management support. marty

hi team i posted this on another board and i get plenty of answers . but none solved my problem i have this very old compt . the specs says pentium [R]. i cant get the bios to keep my settings and i understand the battery needs to be renewed . the battery has been discribed as the shape of a round coin. no wher can i find any thing resembling a coin . so i presume because of the age of the compt it must be some other shape. i have win98se installed and it goes fine im even on the net with it . but when i close the sys down. on boot up i have to go to the bios and reset the checksun. error

here is one i saw on discovery chanel infinity. does infinity accumulate or dissappear to nothing . an example take a blade of grass split it down the middle and so on and so on. this boggled my mind when i saw it on .discovery chanel rough science. damit gave me a head ache.from now on all i will see is grass. marty