Can you please help me with a fix to a problem with my Compaq and/or its OEM Win95A? On startup all I get are “COMPAQ” banner screens and then straight into the desktop with no “Windows Starting” or banner screen. This makes it difficult to press F8 or DEL (or any other key) at the appropriate stage of startup. When I asked Compaq Support for a solution I was offered a fix to be downloaded at a cost of $25! (more…)

We are having some problems with the internet and I was wondering if this had anything to do with our server (being a proxy server). The problems are:
a. Whenever we try to download something, the download program we have tells us that the host (the one we try to download from) is not responding.
b. When we try to log onto the MSN Gaming Zone it gives a message: “Failed to establish server connection”.
c. The ICQ and mIRC chat programs won’t register somehow (even though we put in the correct information).
d. Every 1 out of 4 web pages take 15 min to load.
We are running a Celeron 400 with IE5. Maybe you could shed some light on these problems because we are wasting a lot of internet time trying to find the solution to the them. (more…)

I recently upgraded to Windows 98 and I’m having a rather annoying problem. Somehow my machine seems to think I have a standard VGA monitor with only 16 colours. I have gone through the display settings and tried to change the colour palette but I have a choice of only 2 or 16 colours. I suspect that I will need to reinstall the display driver but since the machine came with everything on board I am not sure what sort of driver I am looking for. The monitor is a 17″ OSB but the user instructions give no clue to what sort of driver to use. My driver and utility disk mentions 2 drivers FYI Trident 9750 AGP/VGA and FYI Trident 9850 AGP/VGA that sound likely candidates - but I have no way of knowing which would be suitable. Any suggestions would be most welcome. (more…)

I receive the following message when trying to access some information (latest stock quotes) from the Australian Financial Review web sites: ‘An error has occurred in the script on this page: Line 423, Char 2, Error Permission Denied, Code 0″. I am then asked if I wish to continue running scripts on the page. I have also received script error messages on some other web sites. What could be causing this? I am using Windows 98 and MS Internet Explorer V4.0. (more…)

I run a Pentium II-300c with Windows 98. Recently I had a self-inflicted problem and returned the computer to base for adjustment.When the computer came back I could not call up the Card Games (Freecell).When I click on the icon the following message appears. ‘Cannot find CARD.DLL. Windows needs this file to run C:WindowsFreecell.EXE’. I have tried all sorts of things without success I hope you can help. (more…)