Just use your order number to re-register by going to help/register... If you do not know your order number send an email to support@modelworks.com with your name, email address, the name of the product and when and where you purchased it. If it was purchased by someone other than you, please provide details.

Think long and hard about whether you need to do this. You will lose all your recorded programmes, plus all planned recordings and series. But it might be necessary if your V+ is playing up badly. Remember that if Virgin Media swap the box you'll lose your recordings anyway, so it's worth a go as a last resort. If you decide to go ahead with the reformat, this is how you do it. You need to do all this using the remote, not the front panel buttons.

Warning: Reformatting erases your file system, so make sure you don't need anything on that file system or that you have an adequate backup of the files that you need. Step 2: Turn off the computer, and then turn the computer on again. If the computer boots to the CD, skip to step 4. NOTE: Some Dell computers allow you to boot to the CD by pressing while the computer is booting. Select IDE CD-ROM device when the Boot Device Options menu appears. The Inspiron allows you to hit F12 at this point.

Contact the WinLABS Help Desk at Bowling Headquarters for assistance in backing up your database to floppy disk, zip disk, or CD before the format. As an additional precaution, you can click Upload Backup in Tools, Send/Receive Data, to send a backup to Bowling Headquarters. We then can assist you in the reinstall/restore process to ensure that there is no loss of data and that you are able to process successfully. The activation code is like a "key" to let you use the software.

No. eBahn Desktop serial numbers and activation keys are tied to a single computer during the activation process based on your computer ID. For this reason, we strongly advise that once you have activated your eBahn manual, you do not reformat or make hardware changes to your computer. If either of these happens it is likely that eBahn will not recognize your computer as the 'same' computer.

Contact us BEFORE you do that and we'll guide you through what you need to do regarding your RaceXpert files.

Serial numbers and activation keys are tied to a particular computer during activation. If you have to do either of these, it is likely that eBahn will not recognize your computer as the 'same' computer. Before doing these types of things to your computer, please first deactivate your serial number through the eBahn License Manager. We currently allow up to 5 transfers per calendar year. Every January 1, the number of transfers you are able to do resets to 5.

Yes, but only with Linux and homebrew software. PSBBN checks the firmware of the HDD and Sony customizes the firmware of their HDD units. Until someone manages to crack the firmware and make it so you can put the changes on your own hard drive, you need an official HDD unit from Sony to use with games. Here's proof that the Sony HDD is just a relabled Maxtor hard drive. I've scanned my hard drive right here.

Ans: A standard 40-wire IDE cable WILL work with ATA-33, ATA-66, ATA-100 or ATA-133 drives but it will only allow 33MB/s performance. However, it is recommended that you use an Ultra ATA 80-wire/40-pin cable no matter what your drive rating for several reasons: wire/40-pin cables offer improved data reliability and signal integrity by adding 40 more ground wires than standard 40-wire/40-pin IDE cables.

If a Fujitsu LifeBook can support Windows 2000, does that automatically mean it can support NT? If not, could you send me a list of LifeBook series that support NT.

Early Beige G3 machines (those with a "Rev 1" motherboard with an ATI RageII+ chip) do not support slave IDE drives. To use a second hard drive with this machine, you would have to attach it to the internal or external SCSI connector, use install a PCI IDE card. Later G3 machines do not have this limitation. See http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/IDE/index.html for more information. I have a revision A or B iMac.

ZIF drive cables and connectors are very fragile, so take extra care when working with ZIF equipment. Currently there are two types of ZIF drives, one manufactured by Toshiba, and the other by Hitachi. Each manufacturer used a different cable specification for their drive interface. To image a Toshiba drive, connect the Tableau TC20-3-2 ZIF cable to the adapter label face-up. Then connect the cable to the Toshiba drive, positioning the drive label face-down.

Yes- if you have a v.12 or 13 PS2. HD Connect is an IDE connector soldered to your slim PS2's motherboard which allows you to connect an IDE HD and play games off the Hard Drive. To do so, you will need a DMS 4 Pro SE modchip. HD Combo is a similar product which also runs off the DMS 4 Pro SE. A premodded DMS 4 Pro SE with HD Combo sells for around $270. Using ToxicOS, you're able to load games off the HD, like you would with a fat PS2. The solder points for HDConnect have been removed on the v.

No software of any sort can truly low-level format today's modern drives. The ability to low-level format hard drives was lost back in the early 1990's when disc surfaces began incorporating factory written "embedded servo data". If you have a very old drive that can truly be low-level reformatted, SpinRite v5.0 will do that for you (which all v6.0 owners are welcome to download and run anytime).

Windows: By default, the preferences are stored in HKCU/Software/BitWise Chat/BitWise. Optionally, you may store the preferences in BitWise.ini in your home folder by pressing "Setup" prior to logging in and specifying you wish to store your preferences in that file rather than the registry. Detached mode allows you to use basic client features even when your computer cannot maintain communication with the BitWise server.

Both Netscape and Microsoft have measures in place that limit the number of cookies that will be saved on your hard drive at one time. Both Internet Explorer and Netscape conform to the RFC 2109 limitations on your total cookie count to 300 (this includes a limit of 20 cookies per individual domain). If you exceed this, the browser will discard your least-used cookies to make room for the new ones.

After a cookie is transmitted through an HTTP header, it is stored in the memory of your browser. This way the information is quickly and readily available without re-transmission. As we have seen, however, it is possible for the lifetime of a cookie to greatly exceed the amount of time the browser will be open. In such cases, the browser must have a way of saving the cookie when you are not browsing, or when your computer is shut off.

Check question number 6 about startup disks; most people need these because of hard disk problems. Apple provides an "erase disk" option on their main menu which will re-initialize some but not all hard drives. Apple also has a "disk test" utility to test formatted disks. There is also a popular control panel add on for "SCSI probe" which is helpful, check various Mac shareware sites for it.