Forum: Web Browsers 14 Days Ago |
| Replies: 8 Views: 553 Would installing the lates drivers replace the missing nvwdmcpl.dll file or is this a Windows issue. A Google search reveals lots of info and ways to replace this file. I don't want to download... |
Forum: Web Browsers 14 Days Ago |
| Replies: 8 Views: 553 I haven't had much time this past week to look into this issue further til now. I'm not sure if this is the cause of the problem but tonite I opened my Control Panel ( classic view ) There are 2... |
Forum: Web Browsers 20 Days Ago |
| Replies: 8 Views: 553 I'm using XP Pro service pack 2 BTW!! |
Forum: Web Browsers 20 Days Ago |
| Replies: 8 Views: 553 I just looked and it's already set to " Always use ClearType for HTML " and changing the refresh rate makes no difference at all. |
Forum: Web Browsers 22 Days Ago |
| Replies: 8 Views: 553 I've been using IE6 for a long time without any problems, but due to many websites I visit prompting me to upgrade my browser to IE8 because they wouldnt be supporting my browser much longer, I... |
Forum: Windows Software Sep 21st, 2009 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 473 Well whatever the problem was it's cleared up now :) It wasnt working for approx 4 - 5 days but today I tried it again and it was working normally, their player and samples load and play ok.
Dougie |
Forum: Windows Software Sep 19th, 2009 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 473 That was the first thing I did, but to no avail :( I talked to a person today who was having the same problem so that kind of eliminates the issue being with my computer. I'm in Canada and the... |
Forum: Windows Software Sep 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 473 I listen to a lot of music samples on Amazon.com and it always works ... until today. When clickin on ' listen to samples " it trys to load the samples for a long time then prompts me that I need to... |
Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Aug 15th, 2009 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 497 Thank you for your quick response. I'm still not sure that I'm completely clear on what you said lol!! So the " effective " CPU bus speed is 1066 but not a true 1066 mhz.?? |
Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Aug 15th, 2009 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 497 My Mobo is an Asus P5B Deluxe, Processor is a Core 2 Duo E6600 and RAM is dual channel OCZP800R22GK. This computer has been running for 1 1/2 years without a glitch. But I recently downloaded CPU-Z... |
Forum: Monitors, Displays and Video Cards May 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 898 A friend of mine bought a new LG 22" monitor, Model # W2252TQ as an " open box " but the driver CD was missing. I went to the LG website to get the drivers. I downloaded a file there that was... |
Forum: Storage Feb 23rd, 2009 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 668 Thank you all for your responses.
I already have an external hard drive for backup exactly like my internal one, it's even partioned the same.
I would actually like to use about half of the... |
Forum: Storage Feb 22nd, 2009 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 668 I have a 320 gb sata dard drive that I've been using for about a year. There are three partitions C, D and E. C and E are about 150 gb eack and D about 20 gb. Due to (my music) collection growing now... |
Forum: Monitors, Displays and Video Cards Oct 19th, 2008 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,428 My video card is a BFG GeForce 7600 GT OC and my monitor is a Samsung LCD model 2443 BW. I'm using XP Pro. I'm not having any problems with this system and everything works perfectly, but a recent... |
Forum: Windows tips 'n' tweaks Sep 13th, 2008 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,228 I want to dress up Win XP by changing some of my icons to custom ones. I had plenty of icons for when I had Win98 but never got around to doing anything with XP. Does anyone know of a good (safe)... |
Forum: Storage Jun 9th, 2008 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 5,185 I think that I mentioned before that I have tried several different SATA optical drives already to no avail. Thanks for the link, i glanced at it and it is a ery long thread lol and I will read it... |
Forum: Storage Jun 9th, 2008 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 5,185 Usng an IDE drive would at least mean that I will have a drive thats working while I sort the SATA issue out lol!!
I was hoping to find someone on this forum that was having similar issues with... |
Forum: Storage Jun 9th, 2008 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 5,185 The hookup was the easy part lol!! Since I put this computer together, originally everything seemed to work OK including my sata DVD drive. During the first month I was in the process of ripping my... |
Forum: Storage Jun 4th, 2008 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 5,185 Hi caperjack;
I'm not sure whats going on here. This was "my" original posting. I cant find the original thread now for this question. The last I heard was a posting from you last weekend asking... |
Forum: Storage May 26th, 2008 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 5,185 Thank you all very much for your help, it's perfectly clear in my mind now. I meant to get this drive installed this weekend but got busy with other stuff..... will do it next weekend.
I would be... |
Forum: Storage May 25th, 2008 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 5,185 But what is the function of cable select?
Dougie |
Forum: Storage May 25th, 2008 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 5,185 Ok Thanks Guy's. I think I have it sorted out in my head :) I find that some of the manual is difficult to reaad/understand.
My DVD burner is an LG GSA-H55N. The jumper has 3 selections: C-S-M, I... |
Forum: Storage May 24th, 2008 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 5,185 I have a SATA DVD drive thats not working. I have an IDE drive on hand and wanted to use it for now. My MOBO is an ASUS P5B-Deluxe. There is only ine IDE header on this MOBO and one IDE cable... |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Sep 25th, 2007 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 2,415 It's been awhile and I should do an update regarding my errors in my Windows Media Player.
There was nothing wrong with my Media player after all LOL!!! My music playlist had become corrupted... |
Forum: Storage Sep 25th, 2007 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 1,716 My MOBO was replaced but it was the same as the old / defective one, both MOBO's were an ASUS P5B-Deluxe, so it wasn't like they replaced it with a new, different one, the same chipset etc.
When I... |
Forum: Cases, Fans and Power Supplies Sep 21st, 2007 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 3,814 Thank you CHAKY!! I have a Fluke digital multimeter with a very high input impedance, approx 10 megaohms and should put little if any load on what it's measuring, so what you see is what you get... |
Forum: Cases, Fans and Power Supplies Sep 15th, 2007 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 3,814 Hi;
I was wondering if anyone knows what the +12 and +5 volt measurements should be under no load and also under load? One would think that under no load ( nothing connected ) the voltages should... |
Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Sep 15th, 2007 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 3,609 I have a new ASUS P5B-Deluxe MOBO, BIOS v.0614. When I tried to install a utility called " ASUS update " from the CD ROM that came with the MOBO it wouldn't install. I just got a pop up message that... |
Forum: Storage Sep 10th, 2007 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 1,716 I recently had a defective MOBO replaced by ASUS. It's a P5B Deluxe. After reinstalling the MOBO and all original components the BIOS wouldn't recognize the HDD, a Seagate 320 Gb SATA drive. After... |
Forum: Storage Sep 2nd, 2007 |
| Replies: 0 Views: 574 I've been looking at buying an external hard drive to back up my main internal drive. So many different interfaces, USB2, firewire etc.
My MOBO is an ASUS P5B-Deluxe and has an external SATA plug... |
Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties May 14th, 2007 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 1,453 Thanks gerbil. I suspected that, but wasn't sure. I did partition off the rest of my new 320 gb HDD using the disc management system. Never did that before LOL!!
Thanks for your help :)
Dougie... |
Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties May 14th, 2007 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 1,453 I've recently installed AVG Anti-Virus free edition. I've done a couple of scans with no viruses found. Then today I did a scan, and right at the beginning of the scan this showed up under the "file"... |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Apr 23rd, 2007 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 2,415 I don't think that Media Player 9 can be un-installed as it is part of Windows XP. It's not in " add and remove programs or windows components ".
What problems are you having with version 11 ? |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Apr 15th, 2007 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 2,415 I tried to open my media player today and instead of getting an error message and closing down the player, I was promped warning that my playlist was corrupted and it asked if I wanted to create a... |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Apr 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 2,415 Thank you for your reply rubbersky.
I did as you asked and I have several error notifications with red icons. What do I do now?
I did actually update to the WMP 11 the first week I had this... |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Apr 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 2,415 HI;
I hope that I'm in the right forum for this topic.
I have a fresh install of Windows XP SP2 in a new computer just two weeks ago. I've been using the Media Player v9 with no problems ... |
Forum: Storage Apr 3rd, 2007 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 1,599 I have a Plextor PX-716SA/SW CD/DVD drive installed in a new computer. When I have an audio CD inserted, it playes OK, but when I go to My Computer and hover the mouse over the drive icon or right... |
Forum: Storage Feb 2nd, 2007 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,941 I wonder if this would work. Has anybody tried this. I came across it on the Toms Hardware website. It's called a " bridged USB cable ".
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/248
Doug |
Forum: PCI and Add-In Cards Jan 20th, 2007 |
| Replies: 0 Views: 1,133 I have everything for my new computer except for the sound card. I was looking to buy the Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music card.
... |
Forum: Storage Jan 19th, 2007 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,941 Is there a program that I will need in order to copy files from my old IDE drive to the new SATA drive if I temporarily put the IDE drive in the new computer?
I was just thinking that there are... |