Question: Recently I needed to install a new heat sink fan in my 486 DX2-66 computer. I got that in OK but, when I was installing it, my controller card got half unplugged. When I turned my computer on nothing happened – just a blank screen. It wouldn’t boot up or anything. Then something sounded […]
Question: Occasionally, when I shut down my computer, I get the dreaded blue screen of death: a fatal exception has occurred. All applications have been shut down prior to this error. I’ve replaced the printer driver, updated the sound driver, disabled McAfee virus scan program, all to no avail. I cannot attribute it to specific […]
Question: I want to switch my hard drives around and change the corresponding drive letters. I have a Pentium 133 mHz machine with a 545 meg Seagate drive and a CD-ROM. I recently added another 2.5 gigabyte IDE Samsung hard drive. I kept the old drive as drive C, the master drive. The new drive […]
Question: Would you please tell me how to have the URL line appear when starting the Internet? Currently we have to do File > Open in order to type in an address. I am running Windows 3.1. It was there at one time, but we must have deleted it. We are using the help menus […]
Question: At home I have an old computer — a 486 with 4 megs of RAM — with Microsoft Word 2.0 on it. I’m in the process of sending out my resume and had created it on my home system. I updated it on a friend’s Word 97 program and printed it out. When I […]