It's unlikely you are going to unplug his cheapass home depot toilet with a
3-foot snake. You will want the closet augur as described earlier; it's about a five-foot tubular device with a crank handle on the top end and a bent shaft covered with rubber at the business end. You stand a much...
What he sez...;) UPS sucks and is regularly shamed by FedEx on this issue as I've had them sit on a package for four days when it was right here in town...
If you go to the Windows 2000 support site at MS and do a search for mergeide.reg you should get a hit for troubleshooting the STOP code you are getting. I'm also posting a thread from another hardware forum where an abbreviated set of instructions for using mergeide.reg are posted by Major...
Does it do anything at all? Do LED's illuminate, does the cup fan turn? Here's a great Troubleshooting Link for starters, I would pay particular attention to the power switch and power supply as possible culprits. Once you've eliminated them from the list of likely suspects it's fairly easy...
Each of the disk manufacturer's have a downloadable drive utility/testing program available on their support sites that will create a bootable flopppy for drive diagnostics and other useful tools like acoustic management, low-level format, and quick and long testing to recertify the drive...
Nice find GregANDTECH. You could also download the DLDIAG hard disk utility from the same WD support download area for drive testing and diagnostics as it will also return the drive model, serial and firmware versions. I can't remember whether the download creates a bootable floppy like most...
I think if you download the hard drive diagnostic utility from the manufacturer's support site--most of them you just download the .exe or .zip file to your desktop and open it up to create a bootable floppy--and use it to do a complete low-level format of your hard drive and then, if you want...
Of course you can run Memtest to check out the memory, but if you just get the error and there is no associated application crash, or IE shutting itself down and wanted to call home to Mommy you could simply go to Tools>Internet Options>Advanced and tick the check box for "Disable Script...
First, get some thermal past as I can't believe you haven't fried your cpu by now.
Next, strip your system down to nothing connected but the cpu/hs fan, floppy, vid card, and one stick of memory. Depending on which bios--either AMI or Award--the beep tone you get will have a different meaning...
Have you tried booting to the IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test boot floppy and then doing a complete low-level format of the drive? That should take care of it.
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