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Greetings all, I got a copy of SuSE Linux 10.0 from a friend of mine and decided to try it. It loaded fine, detected all my settings and hardware, downloaded and installed all updates. Then I had to reboot. D'oh! On normal boot, my computer locks up at "Starting firewall initialization...

Hi leopold99, Thanks for the info, I will look into my mobo's specs and see but I think it might be too old. I've also wondered why they aren't rechargable. Thanks

Hi one raven, Thanks for the heads up. I did replace the battery on my thinkpad with no problem but I did not know about the loss of battery life by touching a lithium. I will definitely keep this in mind. The idea of a watch battery just occurred to me earlier today, so I wasn't sure if it...

Hi one raven, I have been searching by computer name, haven't had a chance to pull the battery out yet. The computer still boots so I didn't find it that urgent. My thinkpad did the same thing when it's CMOS battery died (booted fine after I re-entered the CMOS settings) for a few weeks...

Greetings all, I have an old Compaq Presario 4862 in which the CMOS battery recently died and I can't seem to find anyone that carries a replacement for it, in the physical world or online. I am curious if a watch battery would work as a replacement if one could be found with the same specs...

Thanks, milkweed, The first 2 are no good, but the third actually gives me some PDFs that contain info that will help. Shadow

Greetings all, Recently I acquired 2 rather overbuilt computers, an HP kayak XU and a kayak Xas. I can't find any specs online for these computers. The Xas runs fine but the XU does not boot. Doesn't pass POST. I get a beep error of "beep 'pause' beep beep beep" all the same length. Any...

Greetings all, A quick question. If I ghost my existing hard drive to a larger one, will it recognize the new drive's size? I went to backup my C: drive to my D: drive (both on the same drive, partitioned) and I had to resize the partitions. About halfway through my computer discovered...

Stryderunknown, Thanks a mil. That should do the trick (once I fix the floppy drive.) And it will be firewalled. Shadow

Greetings all, I have a hard drive loaded with windows 2000 and converted to NTFS. My client wants it formatted and partitioned in the Win98 setup. I am unable to format the win2k drive. I've never done this before, so I do need some help. Everyone - any directions on how to format a...

Greetings all, Can anyone explain to me what VoIP is and how it works? No matter what searches I run I get articles on who's doing what with it but not what it actually is. I'm assuming it has to do with using the net to make free long distance phone calls. Any links to more info would be...

Dawn One Raven, Thanks, I ask because I have an affinity for redheads and I happened to find a few images of Dawn on the net and had no idea where she came from

She is a rather well built redhead toon with tattoo tears on the left eye and, usually, a chain wrapped around her left forearm and a rose and thorns wrapped around her right forearm. She is mostly seen in various revealing uniforms. Can anyone tell me who this character is and what she is...

zagen, Try www.accessmicro.com or tigerdirect.com. Tiger is a bit more expensive but I've never had any trouble with returning merchandise (which does not happen often) Shadow

Thannks Gorditov, R207 is a 51 ohm 5% resistor, bands are green, brown, black, gold Shadow

Why am I here? Well, I accidentally "discovered" this forum during one of my random surfs and, after lurking for a while, I realized that there were many and varied, not to mention intelligent and well versed (mostly) opinions and views throughout this forum. I knew then that I wanted to belong...

I am a collector of silent weapons but I also like things that go BOOM!. So this is mine. I use a prog called Wallmaster to size the images to fit my monitor without distorting them. If you look close, you can get an idea of the size of this by the tire tracks in the foreground. Shadow

yumyum, Thanks, Tested it out on my laptop and there's no spyware (I always check freeware progs for it). Looks useful, will try it on my desktop. Shadow

Pollux, Yeah, checked the hard drive, there's nothing related to AOL there. And I know how you feel about the expert thing, but that's why I post here. ------------------------- Wet1, How do I look for scripts? Thanks, Shadow

Hi all, I don't like AOL. When I was a newbie, I tried them (on a different computer) with disastrous consequences. Anyways, I'm using a program called Regcleaner to, guess what, clean my registry, as I'm a bit nervous messing around there myself, and I've noticed that whenever my machine is...