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Alan Jeffs
I have two identical machines, 18 months old (out of warranty!) that I
bought from Staples for my twin girls. Their supplier at that time was
Proteva - now out of business. The network connectivity on both has been
nothing but trouble, kicking out at ~3 month interval. At first I returned
them (twice each) for repair/recovery under warranty. Then I found that
vacuuming out the dust bunnies seemed to work for a while (why?). Now that
doesn't work.
The ethernet connection is on-board so, perhaps, the solution is to put a
separate ethernet card in the PCI slot and disable the on-board one. I
understand that I'll have to do this in the BIOS - that I am nervous about
changing. The OS is Windows ME Home.
Anyone with other suggestions? Or, exactly what do I do to the BIOS?
Alan
bought from Staples for my twin girls. Their supplier at that time was
Proteva - now out of business. The network connectivity on both has been
nothing but trouble, kicking out at ~3 month interval. At first I returned
them (twice each) for repair/recovery under warranty. Then I found that
vacuuming out the dust bunnies seemed to work for a while (why?). Now that
doesn't work.
The ethernet connection is on-board so, perhaps, the solution is to put a
separate ethernet card in the PCI slot and disable the on-board one. I
understand that I'll have to do this in the BIOS - that I am nervous about
changing. The OS is Windows ME Home.
Anyone with other suggestions? Or, exactly what do I do to the BIOS?
Alan