This happened after I rigged up my USB printer to a friends computer. After I had disconnected my printer and set his LPT printer back to default I noticed the screen had gone black but then went into vga mode. I assume it was because was still looking for my USB printer, could not find it and...

Hi Got a question am hoping that someone out there can help me with. Here goes, I have a machine which is running windows 98SE recently it has developed a small problem. When you use the dial up networking to go online the modem grabs it and it works however when you open the browser it can't...

Can you put a slideshow from my pictures on your screensaver on windows 98.

My computer now only has 2 colors and 16 colors and i would like to get back the 32 and 256 colors. How do i go about doing that. New video card put in: ati radeon 9200se please help, thank you in advance

I am new to this stuff and I have run into a problem. I want to look at and possibly change the folder option but when I try I get a message that the restrictions on this computer do not allow access. I have no idea what is going on. I got ythis computer from my brother and he assures me that...

I've recently replaced my hard drive and reloaded Windows and all of my drivers. My new video driver has some issues which I can't seem to figure out (I have the nVidia Riva 128 and have downloaded the appropriate driver from their website since for some reason my old one wouldn't work any more)....

When I leave my pc on for a long time I find that when I return to it all the text on the start menu etc and also the text on any applications that I have left running resembles bar code stripes and iscompletely unreadable. Any wording left that is recognisable, eg on the startup menu...

More likely to be the monitor than the video card. Check to see if there is something that may cause interference in vicinity of the monitor like a fluorescent light. Typical, you can disable onboard video in BIOS -- Jon Hildrum DTS MVP

Hi, I'm in the process of upgrading the memory of my Windows 98 machine after a system crash. It says in my PC manual that I must install PC-100 compliant memory modules if the processor operates over a 100 MHz system bus. As my PC is 4yrs+ old now, there is a strong possibity that this machine...

Hi, Thankx, Large pixels on every page - EVERYTHING LARGE BLOCK OF PIXELS IN EVERY PAGE / and blurry. After getting picture from sister ( really huge ) thought I could resize them to view fitting page. Pics were too large for me to view - so I went rumaging around and I think I told the computer...

Seems like I'm not alone with this problem. I amn running W98 on a Dell Monitor model E771p. Tried all the suggestions for resetting but none work. Looking for the answer. Thanks.

ok i did what you said but i dont have the windows disk at all so i cant get any drivers. Where do i go to download them?

Greetings, When I first went to several of my folders lastnight - I thought someone had hacked into my harddrive and deleted a bunch of folders. After almost getting the FBI involved (no exageration - as there's only a short list of people who would have done it)by accident today I discovered the...

I've lost the use of about an inch at the bottom of my screen. This is both on my desktop and all applications. I would so appreciate some help with this....as I've tried everything I know....which is not alot. I've read the other posts on this board...but nothing is helping.

I HAVE INSTALLED ABOVE AND ATTEMPTED TO CHANGE COLOUR SETTINGS IN DISPLAY ALL I CAN GET ARE 2 OR 16. MICROSOFT SO CALLED SUPPORT HAS JUST SENT ME IN A LOOP FOR DAYS WITH NO HELP WHATSOEVER. CAN ANYONE SORT THE PROBLEM I AM GOING BROKE WITH THIS RUBBISH

I cannot set the video resolution above 640 =D7 480 with 16=20 colors and I don't know what to do... any help would be=20 grateful, the same computer had earlier on been set at=20 32bit true color. Thanks for your help James

I have done the debug thing to find out my driver type and it shows that I have an ATI Mach64 SGRAM BIOS 4.131 T-H (C) 1988-98, AT What does that tell me?

I can no longer single click on a picture as I once did to bring up a small image on the left side to preview before seing the full screen view. I believe it is called a thumbnail. Thanks

I have just installed a Microsoft Internet Keyboard and a Language Icon appears on the Taskbar near the clock. I want to remove it. I have gone into Keyboard Properties, Language Tab, To the "Enable Indicator On Taskbar" and clicked to remove (removed tick), clicked apply, and then OK. The ICON...

I want to extract new copies of files in order to replace missing files and repair damaged files for the purpose of avoiding a reinstallation. I think there is a good chance that this will fix the current inoperable state of my Windows 98 machine. As I can't boot to Windows (not even Safe Mode),...