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Yes. com1 Should be labled Serial Port on the PC.

You mouse does not work? First few things I would check is make sure your mouse is plugged in all the way if its a ps/2 style mouse check to make sure none of the pins are bent ps/2 style is round. If your mouse is usb try moving it to another usb port also make sure the mouse drivers/software is installed

This has to be a problem with your installation disc itself make sure it is not scratched. If it is a backup copy the files may have gotten corrupted. You will need to a get a new copy of the installation disc to be able to install.

you need to buy a new mainboard along with processor, p4 mainboard available at you local store worth about $60 an new processor range form $70 - $200 but may varies depend on the stregth, if your mainboard using old type of memory it must be replace too with ddr-2(most ram for p4).
but base on you buget, i can give suggestion what to buy if you tell your budget is, but here i can say that you must buy 3 things - processor,ram and mainboard all of them around $120

Have a AMD K6-2 500 clocked to 550 Mhz reliably
32 Meg Video card
512 Meg memory
Has updated FSB to 100 Mhz (not 66)
Dual HD
Dual CD-ROM drives
Hows this for an upgrade?
I'll sell it for $30 plus shipping

Hi,

Lightly tapping with your finger tip should free it.  Alternately you may use a dull pointed object like the non-writing end of a ball pen and knock on the stuck switch.  If neither will free the stuck switch, you may need something thin yet strong to slightly snap it off its current backward angle and set to realign properly. The idea is to squeeze the thin whatever between the green button and the housing and force realign.  A fingernail pusher would be ideal.

Good luck and kind regards.

It came with WIn 98. Here is the webpage for your particular model e-machine,where you can e-mail a tech question to E-machine tech support.

http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html?cat=Desktops&subcat=eTower%20Series&model=eTower_366i

Normally upgrading bios does not require flashing the bios. But in order to find out the max amount you can upgrade too requires some info off the motherboard. You need to get the model number off the board to look up the info

your machine is a little on the old side and can only hold a maximum of 256mb. That is 128mb chip per slot. Crucial does not sell it so your best bet would be an ebay search. you do not have to flash your bios to use the max ram, but you should check to see if there are other reasons to do so.

If your system is USB 1 rather than USB 2 then some flash drives will not work. Not all usb 2 flashdrives are backwards compatible. My kids flasdrives will only work on my usb2 ports & will not work at all on my wife's computer which has the older usb 1 ports.

When you open youtube, there is a volume controller in youtube video window. Use that to increase volume

if able update the firmware on you drive and see if that helps. may need to replace the drive

Hi Angela'
Usually printers are shipped without USB cables.
There is no particular cable you need for your printer.
It is a standard USB printer cable which you can ask for at your local computer store.

there are no restore disks for win98.
if you want to "mirror" two hard drives you have to use the "raid" facility in the bios

regards

yes

Maybe you need some audio driver, this driver drives your audio to be outputed to your speaker. audio driver are apparently included at your motherboard setupdisc.

That can be caused by a number of things , your best bet is to take a look @ this guide...since there are so many things it could be , this breaks it down to make it easier to figure out where it is coming from:

http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/shtdwnse.php

Hope that helps you out!

Check your BIOS settings, specifically the diskette drive setting. Next, check the cabling to the drive itself. Your problem may have nothing to do with the diskette drive, but check it out. Next, have someone download hard drive diagnostics for the brand of drive in the machine. You could have errors on the drive, and a diagnostic program may locate, repair them. The startup disks, these do a full system restore, reinstall of the operating system? The machine will boot from the first startup disk and begin the reload process?

Nearly all computers made in recent years use a CR2032 battery. You can pop the old one out to make sure, but if it's about the size of a quarter this is probably it.