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Thanks! That's quite helpful. -betsy

Hey all, I was wondering if anyone knew how good my chances are of picking up a wireless signal in Seoul, Korea. Trying to decide whether to splurge on a wireless card, after finding out my room doesn't have internet access. I'm pretty much located in the middle of a busy and active city...

Thanks guys--I'm not sure what went wrong w/the first install, but as it turned out, I tried using a *different* XP disc for a fresh install and that one worked. I guess there was just sthg wrong w/the 1st disc. My laptop's quite happy now. -betsy

Yeah, I had already tried the BIOS. It doesn't work--just goes straight to the error message screen. But I've been talking to ppl and they say that the ntldr problem is fixable, once you know how. So I've been working on that...

Well, I've decided partition magic is evil. There's something wrong with the computer, and I can't get it to a) boot from CD and b) boot at all. It says something like NTLDR is missing, and press ctrl+alt+del to start. I take full blame because apparently I missed the section that tells you...

Yeah, the problem with that is that when I try to delete existing partitions in that installation screen, the parts with ME on it say that "temporary files required for installation are located in this section and cannot be deleted." It doesn't give me an option to go ahead anyway, it just say...

Hey all, I've got WindowsME on my laptop, and want to upgrade to XP on a CLEAN SLATE. However, I've tried a couple things and can't get it to overwrite or otherwise format the sections that have ME. Now I've got 2 OSes on the hard drive, and would like to know how I can completely erase it...

I came to the forum to ask a similar question so I'll just expand on this thread... when I use the XP disk to try to replace ME, it won't let me format the part that has the existing OS. I just can't do it. It tells me (when I try to delete that particular partition in the installation...

Thanks to everyone who helped me with the last problem. Now, I'm trying to add 256mb ram into my sony vaio laptop. It currently has 128mb. Question 1) I heard somewhere that if you have 2 sticks of ram in a comp, they have to be exactly the same type, etc. The guy at COMP USA told me...

Now when you say case...is this a special case? So, if I just unhook my HD and take it to, say, Circuit City or something, they can tell me what to do? Please note that I, while capable of installing hard drives onto my desktop and knowledgeable about what gigs are, am rather computer...

Hey all, I can't find information on google about this so either I'm not searching correctly or my question is a silly one. I am going to have to start using a laptop which comes w/only 10gigs as opposed to my current desktop which has 2 hard drives, a 40 and an 80. Is there's some sort...

-ellis hanson I love this quote. -betsy

if you build, it will come. or we have to wait for the moderator to approve it. -betsy

Haha. I'm finding these hilarious. (I'm in the process right now of rediscovering physicsforums.) This picture's a year or two old, but without a digital camera or a scanner, it is all I can give. :)

Hey all, I'm trying to get some general background history/refresh my memory. Now everyone and their mother knows the names of Copernicus, Einstein, Galileo, Newton, etc. But can you guys think of some lesser known figures such as Gauss who have made very important discoveries within physics...