Diane Listen to me, don't listen to the prophets of doom get a new CMOS battery. This is a much ignored little piece of equipment, apart from making your clock run slow, what else can a dying one do? Well just little insignificant things like by not sending a tiny current to the chip, the battery can't remind it of the settings the motherboard needs every time the computer starts up. When the battery runs down, the microprocessor can't locate essential information about the settings and the structure of the hard drive. If it doesn't remember the hard drive's who, what, and where, it won't remember how to use it to find your data. I daresay that it loses The Geforce drivers. Well that's my diagnosis, I may be completely wrong, but at least I give you hope and my suggestion does not cost much. So give it a try you may be pleasantly surprised. Paris
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/a_ztechnicalcomputersupportforall/ ^v^ ^v^ ^v^~~~~ Paris's Optimistic Reply To ~~~~^v^ ^v^ ^v^ --- In [email protected], "pekoe4849" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I tell? Would that fact that it won't read a single solitary > floppy be a clue? When I do a Windows disk check, it says it's fine. > But it won't read any disks. I'm having trouble with my hard drives > (and XP) at the moment, and I can't even boot a rescue diskette. > > Since I'm here, I'll ask you...I'm getting a "Non Systeme Disk Error", > which I read in the help menu means Windows can't find itself (must be > a trickle down from the 60's), and it's probably a hard disk problem. > My computer appears to be working fine and then--boom!--black screen > and the disk error. However, along with that, I'm having these > problems (have for about two weeks): > > 1. Clock is seriously losing time. > 2. Floppy drive won't work > 3. NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX/MX 400 drivers arent' working. (yellow check > mark next to it in Device Manager). I've uninstalled, reinstalled, > uninstalled, installed updated drivers, etc. Nothing works. (or if it > does, it doesn't last. The new drivers won't work at all. It let me > 'rollback' to the older drivers once and the checkmark went away. But > now it won't ever rollback. > > I have three hard drives and don't even know for sure which one is > bad. I only know it's not the new one. ;) > > That's it. A freakin' nightmare. > > Can someone please help? > > TIA, > Diane > If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
