Re: [newbie] Looking for some advice

2003-07-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 04:10, C T wrote: I'm experiencing a number of strange behaviors with 9.1 These things happened in this order: The first thing I noticed was the icons for CD/DVD and CD/R-W disappeared from the desktop - this was maybe the 3rd or 4th time rebooting a new

Re: [newbie] Looking for some advice

2003-07-05 Thread John Richard Smith
C T wrote: 1) The first thing I noticed was the icons for CD/DVD and CD/R-W disappeared from the desktop - 2) A few days later, I'm running a tone generator program under WINE - a Windoze program that *does* work in Linux. It worked fine for a while - then suddenly WINE would exit, failing...

Re: [newbie] Looking for some advice

2003-07-05 Thread C T
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 08:43, Aron Smith wrote: Any and all thoughts/ideas/guesses welcome. Curt Just a thought but how old is the CMOS battery in you box? after about three years you would start getting strange results in most any O/S. (of course I get strange results all the time

RE: [newbie] Looking for some advice

2003-07-05 Thread Pipkin
2003 05:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Looking for some advice On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 04:10, C T wrote: I'm experiencing a number of strange behaviors with 9.1 These things happened in this order: The first thing I noticed was the icons for CD/DVD and CD/R-W disappeared from

RE: [newbie] Looking for some advice

2003-07-05 Thread C T
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 21:27, Pipkin wrote: Hi there Am running dual boot (Mandrake 9.0/WinME) However, had similar experience in Windows approx 5 days ago. However, noticed that although system folders' files (eg first Control Panel; then on reboot primary hard drive, etc...) showed