Computer Help Needed!!!

[Freedom]

Once you get through THIS mess . . .

I can tell you how to set things so you don't have to wait for it to shut down.

[krazyaboutkatz]

Well I just tried what Candace suggested and it still didn't work. My computer is a Compaq Presario 5000.

[Catty1]

If it's a model 5000US, you do have an older tower. You can go to www.crucial.com and download their scanner for a custom check. You don't have to buy the RAM from them, though.

Your machine takes PC133 RAM, with a max of 256 MB per slot (according to my manual check at crucial.com, your tower has 3 RAM slots). This stuff is expensive to buy, but if you know anyone with an older computer, or are on Freecycle, you might be able to get this for free!

It seems you were able to get into Safe Mode, so you might want to back everything up and reinstall Windows XP. I haven't tried backing up data in Safe Mode, so someone else here will need to see if it works.

[krazyaboutkatz]

Candace, I'm not really sure if I was able to get into safe mode or not. When I pressed Ctrl Alt Delete 2 times and then F8 nothing happened. There was no list to choose from. The only thing that happened was that security manager popped up. I then went to My Computer and right clicked on the C drive,chose properties, went to tools tab and selected error checking and clicked ok. I checked off the first box which didn't actually say find and repair errors but it was something close. I then shut down the computer and restarted it and the blue box did pop up and it went through the error checking but then it just went back to all of the temporary profile settings.

Brain is supposed to pm me with a step by step instructions on how to change or rename my profile. I'm hoping that this will work.

[Catty1]

k - make sure you upgrade the RAM too...maybe Brian has some he can mail you.

[krazyaboutkatz]

Well still no reply from Brian. I guess he was too busy today. I'll probably just end up calling someone locally to help me. Thanks again everyone.

[Catty1]

Patience - Brian will be in touch. I've had to contact him at times too, and he does get busy. Just hang in there!