I've managed to get my immediate access query issues resolved, so no need to answer the earlier post.
rt.

Croc - its a 128mb ATI Radeon 9700 TX.

Hi campers,
I have a problem which has arisen from buying a new motherboard which has a different drive controller than the last one. I am running Win 2000 and I now get an "Inaccessible Boot Device" error and the system crashes. The system is looking for the old controller which is obviously not there.
The internet has been quite useful in providing info and I have attempted to follow that advice and I am now stuck.
I am trying to repair the old install with my W2K CD but I cannot remember what the Administrator password was when it was originally installed. I have tried everything I think it might have been but just can't get the right one. Without it I am stuck as I don't really want to wipe the drive and reinstall everything except as a last resort.
Does anyone have any helpful suggestions?
TT

Time Traveller, how about buying a new hard disk and doing a clean installation on that. Then you can use the other as a backup and copy all the files you need from it.
The current price of a 40gig HDD is around 50
Just an idea, D.

skinny, will ask my suppliers on Monday for you.
D.

Croc,
That is my next plan but was just trying to get everything working without the extra expense just yet.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
TT

Campers? I know the sun is out but really........

edit forgot the smiley :-)

David,
Many thanks - will try that
Best wishes,
Richard

Seymour,
You've gotta lighten the mood somehow!! (;-))
TT

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Hello

I have a DELL laptop 8200, 10 mths old. The battery now dies after about 10 mins from a full charge. Previously it would last 2 hrs. I'm doing nothing different usage - wise.

Any thoughts on this much appreciated

Kevin

Kevin, you'll find Dell won't honour the warranty - batteries not part of the warranty. My Dell laptop battery is just about good enough to shut down if the mains goes off. I think long term you have to either use the battery or leave it out and use the machine on mains, I think the memory effect is significant espec if you (like I do) use it on mains all the time.

TT :-)

SC

Thanks for that. I used to run it on the battery for the first two hours of each morning and then switch the power on, but I don't get that opportunity now. The machine is fine though.
Kevin

psued11, try running the battery totally flat and then recharging it fully, and repeat a couple of times. Otherwise get a new battery...

Rechargeable batteries generally don't like being used in the way you say, they prefer to be discharged each time (memory effect).

Hi
I've downloaded the update version of ie6 (previously had ie5) from microsoft website. My problem is I can't open any attachment in outlook express. It's there but not highlighted. Any ideas as to how I might overcome this problem.

Many thanks.

Harvey

Harvey, Tools/Options/Security tab and untick "do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus."

Kayak

Thanks - tended to run it to only 5 mins battery life

Think a new battery is about 50

Kevin

I struggled with enabling Messenger last night, but couldn't get it to accept the new e-mail address I wanted applied. By creating the new identity, I lost all the contacts details in my main identity and it looked as though logging on to messenger shows everybody on the site my e-mail details, which doesn't sound so great. BT Helpdesk could see the problem but couldn't sort it, saying it was an Outlook Express issue.

Now I appear to be permantly 'online' even though I did my level best to disable the wretched thing. Removing the programme clearly didn't work! If I am, as the icon says, online, I don't know how, because I've deleted everything I can think of.

If anybody could spare a minute to add any illumination, I would be most grateful.

vasey, right click on the icon and click "sign out". Unfortunately the icon is very difficult to remove, but signing out will make it dormant.

Thanks Kayak, I've done that a few times now. It seems to reappear when this heap of junk is switched back on and unnervingly tells me I'm online!

Obviously Messenger will only activate someone logging on from a real e-mail address, but does it really display that to anybody reading the site? Sounds crazy but there didn't seem to be a box where I could select what name I wanted as a username.

vasey, if the icon in the tray has a little red circle with a white cross then you aren't online, and if you right click you won't get an option to sign out, only to sign in. Are you saying that it signs you in automatically on reboot? If it does that, try right click, sign in, and untick "remember my name and password on this computer".