If you recently installed a program or application and know where it was installed,you may be in much better shape as for as correcting error. Here are common ways to correct problem of your computer not completely booting up or not booting up at all.

If your computer will not boot-up at all,hopefully you have made a good emergency boot disk. You can always make a windows startup disk by creating one from another computer running Windows 98 or Me.Perform following if your computer........

Won't Boot-Up At All

FIRST......Put your boot floppy disk in floppy drive and turn on PC.On some computers, you may have to access bios and select Boot priority to your A: drive.Save any changes and select "Start Computer without CDROM support" and press Enter.Once you are at A> prompt,type dir c: and press enter.

SECOND....If your programs and other files are present,your hard drive is good.Try to repair or restore your system Registry by following steps below.This may repair Windows,the Config. Sys and autoexec.bat files to where PC may boot up normally.

THIRD......If above procedure did not correct problem of your computer not booting up,type in "fdisk /mbr" and press Enter to restore your master boot record.Type "Scandisk C:" to check hard drive for errors that may have occurred. You can also type "Sys C:" to hopefully restore files needed to boot up your computer.

FOURTH......If above procedures fail to repair your computer,you can repeat first part of step one above and select "Start Computer With CDROM Support" re-install Windows.

Making A Windows XP Bootable Floppy

By Stephen Bucaro

Almost all modems manufactured today are software modems, usually referred to as "winmodems". Even though we pay a lot for a winmodem, they are cheap to manufacture because they use very little electronics. The functions that should be performed in hardware are emulated by software. This places an extra processing burden on your computer's CPU. Winmodems will not work with Linux unless you can locate a special "Linmodem" driver.

A hardware modem contains its own on-board controller and DSP circuits. This takes a major processing load off your computer's CPU. A hardware modem will make your dial-up connection work much faster. Hardware modems are difficult to find and very expensive. Hardware modems will work with Linux.

Some hardware modems known to work with Linux:

Zoom 2920 Fax Modem 56K PCI $76.00 Actiontec PCI56012-01CW 56K Voice Faxmodem PCI $75.00 ActionTec PCIV921201CW Call Waiting Internal V.90/V.92 Modem $59.99

On rare occasions Linux will locate and configure your modem during installation, but most likely you will have to configure it manually. If your computer is plug-and-play (PnP) compatible, BIOS should detect modem on power-up and allocate resources to it. To determine which resources were allocated to modem, log in as root and click on "Terminal emulation program" button on task bar. In terminal window that appears, type following command:

cat /proc/pci

In screen output that results, locate entry for your modem. Below is a possible example:

Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Unknown class: Lucent (ex-AT&T) Microelectronics Unknown device (rev 0). Vendor id=11c1. Device id=480. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11 Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=252. Max Lat=14 Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x80100000 [0x8010000]. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01] I/O at 0xe000[0xe001] I/O at 0xe400[0xe401]