well, it previously had WinME on there and played the dvd's fine. i THINK it had an older version of powerdvd on there. i'm gonna try an older version of WinDVD or PowerDVD and give that a shot... i'll post me results afterward.
my aunt just picked up a older lappy... compaq 1925/celeron400mhz/196mb
not flashy at all but it's primary use is for minor stuff. i DID come w/ a dvd drive. i installed win2k and powerdvd on there. problem is that all dvd's played are VERY choppy (video and audio). is this a software...
a while back, i was going to upgrade win2k w/ xp on one of my lappies. partway through, something went wrong i decided to not continue w/ it. since then, i always am given the option to load win2k or the xp setup. if i don't select anything, it defaults to the xp setup (which i don't want)...
hmm... what if i try to buy/borrow a pcmcia cdrom? think that'll work?
i did the 2 partition thing, as you all suggested. partition 1 (c:) the larger one and partition 2 (d:) being the bootable, active partition w/ the Win2K files on it. when i power up, i get "cannot locate operating...
this one doesn't... it DOES have a pcmcia slot. i'm thinking that i may need to pick one up and see if that does the trick. the thing is that my local fry's doesn't carry them. i'll have to check elsewhere.
ok, so if i do it that way the 7.5g partition is my c: and the smaller one is my d: drive. i need to format d: to make it bootable (format d:/s) and just format c: like normal? or should i make the smaller one c: or does it even matter ????
yeah, this whole thing is really bugging me too :confused:
i don't see CD/FDD in the BIOS. it's definately not one of the items in the boot order. there, all it shows is atapi cdrom, floppy and hd. i don't see anywhere in the bios referring to USB. now in the advanced tab, it has a...
ok, i have a sony vaio pcg-sr7k (no internal floppy or cd-drive, only external usb ones). had win2k on there when i bought it used w/ tons of viruses. i decided to format instead of messing w/ each virus. b/c the drives were all USB, i coulnd't format using fdisk and reinstall the OS w/ the way...
yeah, you can see the card but it has the exclamation point over the icon and the device status says that the driver can't be loaded. i tried updating the driver w/ the one on the cd (which is how it was installed originally anyway) but no luck.
i may just go the 'extreme' route and...
did that and still not working. the status of the wireless-g adapter says something to the effect that the driver isn't loaded, but under driver version it displays the most current driver.
i called linksys and the rep thought it may be a defective card. i took it out and tried it on...
the office i work at has a wireless network that i've been trying to join but no luck so far.
i just installed a wifi-g card by linksys in my lappy running xp pro. after the install, in device mgr, the icons for the wifi card all have exclamation points. when i click on any of them, the...
when i get to my router's (also a linksys) admin page, what do i need to do to 'configure' it?
my client machine is running xp pro. would i be disabling "xp zwc" somewhere in the router's admin page? couldn't find it. what is the zero utility in XP?
sorry, this AP didn't come w/ any...
just got it and was installing from the linsys cd....
during the beginning part of the install, i get the msg "the setup utility was unable to locate an AP on your network. please make sure your AP is powered on and any cables are properly connected"
it's all powered up and conneceted to...