50,473 Archived Topics
Remove Filter  | |
| | I can boot to desk top without a problem, yet after I've been using my system for a bit and then decide to shut down I can't boot up again because the monitor won't kick on. It tries, but then goes off, so I haver to hard shut down, I …  |
| | Hi, I recently put in a new motherboard into my second computer because the other one broke. Everything loads of fine and works, im using a Windows 98 boot disk right now. The only odd thing is that when booting up it cound NV RAM to 1300000 when I really …  |
| | I am receiving an error msg which reads, iedll has caused an error in <unknown>. Does anyone know what this is caused by and how to fix it. |
| | i was on my computer last week and all of a sudden i get this box counting down to zero before my computer shut down. when i tried to turn it back on it stopped at the booting up screen and displayed a message that said "error loading operating system" … |
| | I have an HP system AMD Athlon 850mhz, standard 16bit sound card. I am in the rpocess of upgrading my saound package and want some adivce. I have read lots of good thing on both the Santa Cruz and Audigy cards. I'm unsure if the Santa Cruz is compatible with … |
| | WindowsXP Home, IE6 with all updates, Ad-Adwae run daily. I think my IE6 is corrupted, there are many websites that I cannot connect to. An example is ESPN. When I click the link on IE, it looks like it starts loading, but never finishes.The blue bar goes about 1/3 of … |
| | hi i have a win98SE OS. 512mb of ram. why 512 when only 256 is available i Don't know Anyway is there actually a memory manager that actually works? Tom :eek:  |
| | I have a PCI Motorola SM56 Speakerphone modem and an ISA sound card. When I place a phone call my voice from the PC is not being heard at the telephone end. The voice from the telephone end can be heard at the PC though. I thought that there was … |
| | Help I'm using xp Eplorer 6 sp1. I have no problem when connecting using lan at work, but at my home i can not connect as the (never use a dial up connection is highligted) and i can't seem to change this, if i try too add a connection i … |
| | I built my computer. New motherboard,cpu. When I put the cd burner in the computer would not boot at all. When I put a differant cd-rom in and it boots just fine. Is there any way to find out what is wrong or how to test it. And is there … |
| | i want to get some low cost speakers to put on my xbox. i have read reviews on both of them they are about evenly matched. i was wondering which ones should i buy out of the two. |
| | I have a cable internet connection via USB and cable modem. I installed an ethernet card to connect via ethernet. I plug the ethernet cable to my computer and to the cable modem and no internet. Do I need to change the settings on my computer in order to connect … |
| | Hi, I have a Celeron 300MHz of 1998. Recently I bought an AGP Card to replace the one in it. But when I installed it, it won't work. I checked the AGP card. It is alright and works when installed in another system. I have no reason to suspect that … |
| | Hi i am facing a problum that there is a Electricity on my monitors secteen ...YES On Glass Secreen .... i dont know what is that problum but when ever i touch my monitors secreen then i face a electrical shock i am sure this is not a static charge … |
| | Hey there. Recently installed OS X on my beige G3 (I know, I know.) In the process, I cannibalized an old hard drive from a Windows machine. Here's my issue: the "new" HD worked fine for a few days. Then it crashed, then it crashed HARD...had to reformat. Ran Norton, … |
| | I recently had to reformat my harddrive, i had some issues that had to be dealt with..so anyway, i re formatted my hard drive then reloaded my windows 98 and everything is fine..except..now my video seems messed up..i only have 16 color capability now..so even this webpage does not show …  |
| | i want to make a boot floppy for a original MAC computer (has 68k CPU. 4MB ram, 30GB SCSI hard disk) anyway i real just want to play around with it. i want boot floppy images, nothing i have to compile. openBSD boot image would be cool, but what about … |
| | I'm having problems with my computer booting up. I turn it on and all the fans and stuff start working and it sounds like it is booting up, but nothing shows up on the moniter, the keyboard and mouse does not light up, and CD rom wont open or respond. … |
| | I have been having problems and Im not exactly sure if it is interent explorer or not but that is what we use to get on the internet and every time we close out explorer it stays at the bottom. the whole window disappears but not the little box that … |
| | Hi everyone, for the past couple of days i have been unable to sign in to my hotmail account / messenger. i also cannot even access the msn homepage - i get the "page cannot be displayed " message. on the faliure to sign in to msn explorer i get … |
| | the past few days when i use i.e. i get an error message saying explorer needs to close. it seems to always happen if there is a popup on whatever page i am looking at, but sometimes there doesn't appear to be a popup when this happens. when explorer shuts … |
| | Hello all..I am not very handy with computers but here goes. I have a 900 athlon and I am having problems with my computer freezing. I have purchased many types of pc133 ram and many of them make my computer freeze VERY often while others don't freeze as often. I … |
| | Hi all, The problem I'm having is that after about an hour of my PC being on, everything freezes. The HD indicator LED stays on, and sometimes the CD-ROM drive is accessed. I then have to turn the computer off and leave it for 30-60 mins before being able to … |
| | a guy at a local computer shop was telling me about a card he had ordered, rather expensive too. anyway it descriptions is bit likie nothing i have every heard about, but it dont mean no one has ever created one. he described a custom card that has the ATI … |
| | Ok basically.. im a noob.. a friend is helping me build a somputer stup online and i ran into some trouble.. [url]http://compuplus.com/insidepage.php3?id=310&sid=tz9szpo1n3ik84g[/url] My friend says that (in the link) the p4 cpu can also be used as a motherboard.. i dont know if this is true but if it is …  |
| | hi all, this is my first post so go gentle!! when im opening some web pages im getting the following message your current security settings prohibit running active x controls on this page as a result this page may not display correctly. ive gone to control panel-internet options-security-custom level and … |
| | Hi, I'm using windows xp proffesional, and I'm wondering what I have to do to get my settings in the way that the views allways is shown in the list mode in the windows explorer. Because now I have to change the views in every directory and it takes way … |
| | Recently, I began working at a small graphics design firm, where I was unluckily given an old 19 or 20 inch monitor (SuperScan Mc 801 RasterOps) which is clearly ailing. It works OK, but for as a graphic designer, it isn't acceptable screen quality. The problem is that there are … |
| | Hello, I received an Area-51 Alienware computer about two weeks ago, and am having trouble with what I assumed to be the monitor. Everything worked perfectly up until three days ago. At said time, I returned home to find my computer monitor kind of flashing from off-black to on-black. Even … |
| | Ok heres the story. Yesterday I tried to turn my laptop on and nothing happend so I looked it over and it turns out my 13 yr old brother decided to take it apart for a better look inside. Well I noticed that he took the CPU out and when … |
| | well this is kinda 2 topics in 1. i had started a new cable internet account and went out and purchased a new cable modem, a real nice one. built in signal filter and all. anyways i go to use it, call up the company to register the new MAC … |
| | my ie 6 goes offline when i haven't used it for a few minutes. i.e. can't load any webpages. i've tried releasing (ipconfig /release & ipconfig /renew) at the dos prompt and it works occasionally. is there a setting in the registry that may have been changed. i'm also running … |
| | I have recently purchased a refurbished dell pc that had been wiped leaving no operating system just the initial start up, but after switching on the pc i am prompted with a c:\> which i can't get past, does anyone know how to do this so that i can install … |
| | I am currently at college, and they require that I install a specific version of IE talored to their network... I have done this. However, when I try to get to one of the sites to register my port (otherwise it will be shut off, dont ask me why), IE … |
| | Working on a p4 1.6 with winxp ,it had the w32 blaster work plus a lot of spyware exe's in Registry ,current version/ run ,it would just sit at the desktop ,i removed the worm,spyware from msconfig ,now it runs at the desktop but some program will run for just … |
| | i keep getting this error message poping up on my screen when im on the web, i have reinstalled IE-6 and i still get the message, what could be the problem |
| | my IE doesnt refresh auto when i switch pages like it usually does... anyone kno the prob? |
| | can anyone please help, ive just upgraded to win 2000 from win 98, i had a second hard drive which i used for all my media files & i compressed it using drivespace 3, i cant access this hd without mounting it 1st but i need drivespace 3 to do … |
| | What is the big problem with XP home seeing ANY other M$ OS shares? Server is Win2kpro, Laptop is XPhome. Server is sharing a folder that's needed by Laptop, laptop can't see 2kpro??? I'm basically here for info on possibly WHY this is happening and maybe something simple that can … |
| | First let me say that I a newbie so forgive me for any 'faux-pas'. I'm doing some work for a youth helpline charity in the UK and they need to centralise the way they work. I've installed redhat 9 and got samba 2.2.7a working, but when trying to use roaming … |
| | Well up until 3 weeks ago everything was fine when using IE to surf the net ,until bam one day it decided to make surfing a living hell. Everytime i try to directly enter a site address in the address bar it redirects me to some porn site, at first …  |
| | when loading a page up on IE6....the browser shuts itself down and i get a message on my desktop: An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM. Unexpected Signal : EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) occurred at PC=0x2AB53784 Function=Java_sun_awt_font_NativeFontWrapper_registerFonts+0x14C0 Library=C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2\bin\fontmanager.dll HELP PLEASE |
| | I've run into 2 motherboards in the last month that had bad capacitors on them (Bulging, Leaking or both) that was causing wierd power problems, and startup problems. I heard about this one on the web about 6 months ago, yet haven't seen anything personally until just now. One mb … |
| | Here is my question about using Styles or Winblind type themes mods for windows xp. Is there any more of a performance hit, over the standard XP themes, on the system? |
| | I have a media program on five CDs which I find I cannot view. I'm running Windows XP Professional. When I run the first CD it installs several files after making changes to config.sys and win.ini files. When I click 'open' I get the message "Can't run 16 bit Windows … |
| | I'm really having trouble transfering my mp3's from my old 80 Gig HD to my new 160 Gig HD. Everytime I try to transfer them, I get a message saying.. "Access is Denied". I really have no idea why this message comes up and doesn't let me play the file. … |
| | I am using a Blekin F5D6020 card in my laptop and have been trying to connect it to my existing network which uses the now discontinued Intel Anypoint USB wireless network adapters. I cannot seem to get the two to recognise each other, I believe that intel adapters need their … |
| | Ok, i have a Dell Dimension XPS from like '97 or '98 its got a 6 gig hd right now and an intell pentum 2 with like a 500mhz mother board, also it was made for windows 95 but i have windows 98 on it, now i need to know …  |
| | Anyone know what modems work best in SuSE Linux 8.2 Personal? or should i just go with an external? |
| | Hey all, i am having trouble getting sendmail to work, all i need it to do is send on any mail to the main smtp server which can then send to the correct user. in the .cf file the smart host field shows 'DSmyserver.mydomain.com' which is correct as far as … |
The End.