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To: Magnatizer who wrote (15193)	1/22/2001 7:57:13 PM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Something here might help Mag. pcguide.com About the office chair...now that's a serious problem...get a new one! egghead.com tc :-)

To: Magnatizer who wrote (15193)	1/22/2001 8:15:21 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

hi mag the office chair not reclining may be the worst of your probs. <g> but, moving along to the case at hand.... if a tap on the box fixes the display prob, perhaps reseating the vid card would be called for? just a wag, mag. <g> if you are getting messages saying your <cd-rom drive letter>:\is not accessible, i would be leaning towards replacing it, depending upon age of unit. if it's like 3 yrs or more, replace. if less, maybe it's a simple matter of making sure that the drive letters assigned to it match in the properties settings dialog accessible via device manager. i think they are called start and end drive letters. if your cd-rom drive is e:\drive, then put e in each box. it may require reboot. i have had this work, as well as unplugging the ribbon cable from the mobo and reinserting it, but the probs were merely symptomatic of a drive going bad. i swapped it out for a new 50x delta drive that cost me $20 at staples. i'm happy. the network neighborhood situation i'm going to have to think about some more. maybe some other suggestions will roll in for you on that. more later. keep us posted. hope this helps :) mark

To: Magnatizer who wrote (15193)	1/22/2001 8:39:31 PM
From: Nemer	Respond to of 110652

Mag ... came upstairs to the office area to watch the Stars play the Vancover Canuks and saw your dilemma(s) mark has what I would suggest on the video .... pull out and reseat the card ..... should it be "on board", and IF you have a spare .... stick a card in a PCI slot .. the MBrd will over reach the AGP and see the PCI as primary ... you might try that ... on the CD ..and "possibly" the NeighborhoodNetwork pull up the System Properties screen .... Start-Control Panel-System-Device Manager then look and see if there are any Xs though any of the devices listed ... check them out from there .... no need for me to go into how to do that right now as you might not have that problem and the hockey game is getting ready to start and I"ll have to do it myself to give you the correct steps ... I'll be standing by during intermission/delays ..... ggggg Nemer edit ... 30 seconds into the game and the Stars already have a 4 min power play ... Go Stars .... re edit ... Star 1 Canuks 0 had to go into the second 2 minutes but Modano did score I gave my wife a high back leather LazeBoy (sp doesn't look right...ggg) for her downstairs office and I'm sitting in a high back cloth LazeBoy in the upstairs one , where I also have a low back LazeBoy ... I can recco them, but FIRST flip yours over and take a look and see if any of the big screw setting are wrong ....

To: Magnatizer who wrote (15193)	1/22/2001 8:43:17 PM
From: bosquedog	Respond to of 110652

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To: Magnatizer who wrote (15193)	1/22/2001 9:21:46 PM
From: Magnatizer	Respond to of 110652

CHAIR IS FIXED! Now to the secondary stuff ;-)

To: Magnatizer who wrote (15193)	1/22/2001 9:39:07 PM
From: Magnatizer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Vid card... I should have noted I have moved this card from one PCI slot to another with no positive result. I believe my problem is in the monitor. It's getting up there in years. The CD rom is not showing up in device manager. The computer is not recognizing it at all. I think I will take mr. marks suggestion and go for a new one. I looked at tc's site and the amount of information was overwhelming to me. Besides... for 20 bucks I get to tear into my machine! ht Mag