multi question

question #1
My computer stoped booting and i didnt touch the bios
specs:
kt-400 firedragon ultra black motherboard by soyo
amd xp 2000+
512 corsair ram
antec 300 watt power supply
phenox bios made in 1999 not sure what ver ask if u need it
dvd rom 8x/40x
cd-rw 20x/12x/48x
zip-100
1.44 floppy
30 gig maxtor hdd
12 gig maxtor hdd
6 gig quantom fireball hdd
64 meg nvidia geforce 4mx video card
soundblaster audigy gamer

i was low level formatting all my hdds and swaping an os from one hdd to another one night
i used norton ghost and powermax 4.6.1 i think it was
i switched the os from the 30 gig to the reciently lowleveled, fdisked, and formatted 12 gig hdd and that went fine then i restarted after removing the 12 and 6 gig hdds and i was going to do the same to the 30 after i lowleveled that to, i rebooted my computer with the boot disk in the drive and it froze on the boot splash screen, it was reading the floppy and when i pulled the disk out it still was, i couldnt even get to thebios setup screen. and i noticed that when i pluged it in it would boot up instantly and it would never do this so i flashed my bios and set it back to orginal settings and still nothing, lately my processor has been overheating because my cooling fan wasnt running right or something would that hav cause this or is my bios over the hill?








Question #2
I hav a gateway solo 9300 laptop
specs:
224 megs of ram
500 mhz P3
8meg video ati range mobility
ess sound ard (not sure what)
2 pcmcia 1,2,3 slots
os redhat 9 shrikie
I hav a D-link airplus dwl-650+ wireless card and rh9 doesnt hav the drivers fo my card and the ones that it has similar wont work
i hav the windows drivers for them but i dont no if i can get them to work on linux (mostlikely not) so if someone could dive me a link to ware i could get some that would be great, ifnot i will go out and buy a new a,b,g wifi card (anything for linux jimmy rigging and duct tape wil not surfice if u no what i mean)

One last question
is there an emulator or a program that will make some if not all windows programs work on linux hopefuly for free if not il buy one i remember the screen savers on tech tv hav something about that on there site but i couldnt find what they were talking about

Thanx all i know this is a long one and remember
RedHat is Royality

answer #1

If your processor had been overheating there might be some chance that you might of ruined it. Do you hear any beeps when you turn on the computer? If you have a spare processor lying around you might try switching it out.

One other thing. You might try putting the floppy in another computer and running a AV on it. If the computer froze after it read the floppy there might of been a virus on there.

Answer #2

Do the DWL-520, DWL-650, and DWL-500 have support for Linux?

The Linux drivers are free to download from the following web site http://www.linux-wlan.com/.

For detailed instructions on how to install these cards in a Linux environment click on the link below.

Linux installation FAQ.


Check here for Prism2 drivers from Intersil.

Linux driver for DWL-520+ and 650+

We do not have Linux support for the following wireless adapters:


DWL-650H
DWL-650K1
DWL-650L1
DWL-G520 / G650
DWL-520 Rev.C1
DWL-AB520 / AB650
DWL-AG520 / AG650

Source http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.as...ral%20Wireless

Follow the link as stated above. They have a the drivers there for you.
http://www.linux-wlan.com/


Windows Emulator for Linux

http://www.winehq.com/

http://www.vmware.com/download/

I think it was VMWare that they were talking about and I would also check out Win4Lin
www.vmware.com
www.Win4Lin.com

Wouldn't the program Wine work?

probably xavier, but one must have options now days so dead addict has helped us in that area :)

thanx all
no i dont think it has support for thoes cards u asked about cheyenne1212 and thanks for all of the emulators

Hexadecimal there is linux support for your wireless card. I quoted the website above there.

Just follow the link where it says Linux driver for DWL for 520+ and 650+

im cheap and i only get $14 allowance each week from dad so i cant buy vmware :( and i dont no linux for s**t so i cant get wine to work and im all out of ideas if u could give me a list of what i need to dl from wine and what i hav to type to get them running that would be great and im currently saving all my cash for some linux manuels and programming manuels so i wont need so much help soon just stick with me thanx all :)

This site should answer all your questions about Wine
http://www.winehq.com/

that clears it up thanx :)

Glad I could help you :D