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...) showe

RE: [newbie] Looking for some advice

2003-07-05 Thread Pipkin
July 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

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

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... bu

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