aprila434
December 7th 03, 12:13 AM
>-----Original Message-----
>we have a pair of Fry's Electronics 7240M computers that
>are supposedly networked together (we still haven't
>figured out how to get it to work though) On my
boyfriends
>computer, In "my network places" i changed the ehternet
>card from the one that came on the computer to the
realtek
>one that the phone co put in, as it is set up in my
>computer, almost immediately i got an error message from
>microsoft. then 5 days later, his computer locked up and
>now just continually cycles thru the start up cycle, we
>very briefly see the BSOD, but only for a split second,
>could changing the ethernet card do this? If so, how do
>we fix it? The only cd we have for the computer is a
>recovery cd, and we can't afford to lose the info we
>currently have on the system, which if we use the cd, it
>will erase everything!!
>.
>He has WinXP Home Edition on his computer.
>we have a pair of Fry's Electronics 7240M computers that
>are supposedly networked together (we still haven't
>figured out how to get it to work though) On my
boyfriends
>computer, In "my network places" i changed the ehternet
>card from the one that came on the computer to the
realtek
>one that the phone co put in, as it is set up in my
>computer, almost immediately i got an error message from
>microsoft. then 5 days later, his computer locked up and
>now just continually cycles thru the start up cycle, we
>very briefly see the BSOD, but only for a split second,
>could changing the ethernet card do this? If so, how do
>we fix it? The only cd we have for the computer is a
>recovery cd, and we can't afford to lose the info we
>currently have on the system, which if we use the cd, it
>will erase everything!!
>.
>He has WinXP Home Edition on his computer.