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PC issues.

by Mar 20, 2012 11:14PM PDT

My grandfather has a Dell Dimension B100 that has bad some recent issues.

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Correction.
by Mar 20, 2012 11:15PM PDT

Sorry, Its a Dimension B110.

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Re: primary drive
by Forum moderator Mar 20, 2012 11:32PM PDT

The primary drive is the master on IDE 1. That's physical, not something that's defined in the BIOS. So you have to open the case and switch cables.

But, most likely, the PC won't work after you do that, because it will try to boot from a non-bootable drive. Then you need to reinstall Windows on that 80 GB drive. Take care!

You don't need a disk from the ISP to set up a LAN. It's perfectly allowed to have a LAN (home network) without it being connected to Internet. In fact, you don't even setup a LAN. A home network sets up itself if two PC's that are configured rightly meet each other.
But it isn't clear what happened, indeed.

Kees

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