Hehe..(sorry to laugh) but are'nt technical service support lines, simply a pleasure to deal with!
Do you have a fireconnect card? However the plot thickens!
It appears that IEEE 1394 (firewire) drivers that are present in SP1, have been replaced in SP2! Goodness knows why as microsoft sometimes work in very mysterious ways.
It is also true that windows has slowed data transfer rates in SP2 for firewire to 100 Mbit/sec. (from 400 Mbit/sec) although windows claims that they have a download fix for this which i will attempt to find for you. Does your camcorder support USB 2.0 interface, and if so have you tried it with SP2? (claimed at 480 Mbit/sec although this is rarely achieved im told).
Anyway one fix for your dilemma (to keep you in SP2) would be tocopy the old Windows XP SP1 1394 drivers (dated 8-29-2002) back to the \windows\system32\drivers directory. The three drivers are; 1394bus.sys, arp1394.sys and ohci1394.sys. You may want to copy the current drivers (dated 8-4-2004) to a temporary location should you want to restore them later. I found the current drivers were also located at \windows\Driver Cache\i386\sp2.cab. From explorer, double-click on \windows\Driver Cache\i386\sp1.cab to display the contents. Highlight the three drivers listed above, right-click and "extract". Extract them to the \windows\system32\drivers folder and then restart.
Maybe this dilemma is due to the fact that Apple created firewire and microsoft simply cant stand the fact....who knows?
As for the upgrading of XP I never, ever recommend using the upgrade disk or even the full install disc of Pro and going over the top of 'home' to anyone. This is especially pertinent if the service pack upgrades differ between the two. When asked by friends, co-workers etc who are thinking of going this route, i would say it is a prescription for disaster. Even though it's a pain to have to reinstall all of the other programs again - in my experience a "clean and lean" install after reformatting, will always work out better and there are far fewer problems in the long run. One time I was discussing this subject with a co-worker. He flat out didn’t believe it; because he had just recently upgraded using the XP"update" installation disk on his PC and had thus far experienced no problems. Sure enough, about two or three weeks later he said that he told me that he wished he had reformatted instead of upgrading; because he was getting various driver error messages and system crashes that would not go away.
Back up all the data that you can, and do a clean install of Pro. The few days you lose installing your programs again will save you weeks, if not months, of blood, swet and tears down the track. You will not regret it! Thats my 2 cents anyway:lol: ..........
Sorry twoyorkie, the title of your post threw me and i should have read the details better, but it was a late night!!! sigh....
Yeh, if your system was not supplied with an up to date O/S disc, take it back and get the retailer to 'clean install' an XP SP2 O/S.. this should have been part of the deal which he(as stein says) should have done for you already!
OK, I assume you have one CD rom drive, and one DVD drive that are causing you problems?
Can you supply any more information for us, such as where did you download this IE 7 release candidate from, and did you d/l and install anything else along with it before the problem occured? What O/S are you running and maybe some hardware specs to boot!!
A Doctor of Philosophy in Gender Science does sound very interesting indeed, and no doubt very challenging as well.
I bet this requires many hours in front of your monitor, researching varied topics to add to your current thesis?
I too, have always enjoyed the study of 'interaction' between the human species and have always considered myself fairly perceptive towards body language and vocal tones in attempting to determine anothers mindset, however without these indicators (such as online communications) it becomes far more difficult. Which im assuming is the reason you are here?
Goodluck with your PhD........
P.S Can you guess from this communication (without looking at my profile) if i am male or female........on second thoughts, dont answer that! lol
Yes, given the description of your symptoms, i would say that its definately mechanical failure within the hard drive itself!
(What was the unorthodox method?, i have read some posts involving wrapping the hd and putting it in the freezer for 3 hours with some success recovering )
OK then, this was the method i was referring to, however be warned that if you attempt this procedure and it fails, it is unlikely that even the pro's will ever be able to rescue that data from your drive. I would still recommend a professional recovery service but this decision is all yours.
These are the steps to be followed:
Put your HDD in a waterproof plastic bag in the freezer overnight. Retrieve in the morning, hook it straight up and if it responds, go like a 'shot dog' to haul your data outa there before she warms up again.
This can be effective on drives that are giving 'data read errors' or even drives that are not spinning up!
My only logical explanation for this phenomenum is that metal contracts when its cold.....so the drive platters shrink, increasing the clearances for the read/write heads. Usually if your drive is not making a clicking sound, your successful in retrieving your data.
It's a long shot and should only be attempted at your own risk, although it can be a saviour to one of our worst nightmares.
It might be possible that your hard drive has suffered some sort of mechanical failure... Do you mean that the drive is no longer recognizable by the BIOS? Were there any strange or unusual noises coming from the drive when you last attempted a boot sequence? These are certain signs of HDD failure in which case you shall need the help of professional data recovery services. I do know of a very unorthadox method to which i have used to certain degrees of success in the field, but i am loath to explain this method for fear of the criticism it tends to attract!
Impact IT Solutions (Sydney) come highly recommended, however im sure that there are many reputable services in your local area! They provide free quotes and work on a...No data, No charge policy. http://www.impactit.com.au/datarecovery.htm
Recycle bin info files serve as a window to the past. Your windows operating system contains numerous recycle bin info files spread throughout hidden areas of the hard drive from which they were deleted. When files are deleted from windows explorer, my computer and other windows applications your O/S keeps track of any files sent by the user to the recycle bin by generating temporary info files. These info files are hidden in a folder on the drive, termed a Recycle folder. Long after your recycle bin is emptied, these temporary info files remain. In short your data is still there and accessable by the right software until such a point that you overwrite the data clusters on the drive(ie format) PC inspector (file recovery) is another popular program in addition to the one i previously gave you. http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
Be patient and systematic with your approach and you will succeed... Let me know how you get on......tell dad that you still have his data, you have just misplaced it, thats all.
Any site is only as good as its content, administrators and moderators....I honestly believe that paid sites will never gain ground on a well contented free site. We are bombarded with so much 'pay to play' content on the net these days that most people will just look elsewhere for their fix. The true measure of any site still remains the number of hits it receives which remains the core interest of where companies will place their advertising dollar. Some of the best sites available to me, personally, are FREE and will always remain so!!!
did you install any new software before the problem arose? downloaded any new files that may be the cause?
Try and think back to when the problem reared its ugly head and what you did in the days or hours preceeding....
To eliminate dodgy software as the cause, backup all your programs and uninstall the lot......try your O/S barebones and then add them back one at a time till she goes arse up again.
Slow and painfull i know, but it is a process of elimination!!
This is on the proviso that you do not suspect malware as the cause....
Wow, what a great thread! I write this response partly to congratulate and also to 'bump' in the hope that more members and guests can read up on how an excellent question and great responses can better help us all to stay safe, and hopefully one step ahead of the bad guys!!
Well done to all three of you, i sincerley believe this is one of the best forum threads i have seen in a long time....
Cheers for the insight (reps well deserved and added to by digitalocksmith)
Do you mean that you re-configured the jumper settings on the back of your CD drives or have you interchanged IDE channels with your hard drive(s)?
I am assuming the internal drives you are running, are doing so with an IDE interface?
If so, it is advisable to run your hard drive(s) on your primary IDE channel.....and your CD drives on the secondary IDE channel. Interchanging this can lead to conflicts for resources within your system! I may be way of track here, however your problem description sounds suspiciously like a resource conflict!
Does the problem occur when using another web browser (IE or similar)?
If not then Steins idea should restore your FF to its former glory!
If it does then the problem may be more deap seated, and just to be sure, post the issue particulars in the malware (viruses and other nasties) forum for help on the matter!
There are those among us who get their cheap thrills at the misery and expense of others... they are in the same basket as those that manufacture malware.
Pathetic, small minded, individuals with the intellect below that of a house brick.... (sorry to all house bricks)
Report all issues to the necessary authorities (google etc).
Broadly speaking a hard disk can fail in four ways that will lead to a potential loss of data:
Firmware Corruption / Damage to the firmware zone
Electronic Failure
Mechanical Failure
Logical Failure
Combinations of these four types of failure are also possible. Whether the data on the hard disk is recoverable or not depends on exactly what has happened to the disk and how bad the damage is. All hard disks also develop bad sectors which can lead to data loss and drive inaccessibility.
Yes, providing your memory modules(how ever many you use) are precisley identical in make, manufacturer and format, then size does not matter!
My asus A8V deluxe has the same set up as yours(by the sound of things). I have 4 DIMM slots, 2 on one bank, 2 on the other. On each bank one slot is blue and the other is black. ie A1 blue, A2 black..and the other bank....B1 blue B2 black. I run a 2g kit in dual channel mode ie 1g stick in A1 and 1g stick in B1. I have added 512's of the same genere into A2 and B2 with no drama's good luck
sorry about the delay Debden..... you know how it is (wife and two daughters under 2)
Quote from wife (god bless her) "im sure your pute is jealous that you married me". probably the other way around honey!
Anyway back to business...... mmmm. i see the big picture now!
Sadly the dilemma you face is more often than not, a trial and error situation that usually involves many possible variables.
After reviewing the situation and taking on board the efforts of yourself and your brother in law, im still stuck on one point. You mentioned that you have already replaced your hard drive and im assuming that you 'clean installed' your O/S after this fact, to no avail (would this be correct?) One would assume that this should take care of any registry conflicts you may have had, however this is not always so. Please satisfy yourself that all these possibilities can be eliminated: Hardware: Defective or mismatched components in your computer. Aluminum Migration & ESD: Premature ageing and “Electro Static Discharge” can make a computer very intermittent. Operating System: Some versions of Windows have bugs that can cause these problems. Drivers: Buggy or down-level drivers can cause many problems. Software: Some programs have bugs in them that can cause these problems. Memory Fragmentation: Do you often see the message, "System is dangerously low in resources" If so you are probably suffering Memory Fragmentation. CMOS Settings: Improper CMOS settings can cause many problems. Changing …
DVD+R and DVD+RW DVD+R and DVD+RW formats are supported by Philips, Sony, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Ricoh, Yamaha and others.
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Unfortunatley there is not much you can do to change this, however it's no problem to simply use supported format removable media!
As for the drive being unable to read disks, this is one of those 'many possibilities' situations for which i would carry out the following diagnosis steps ( in this order ) before coming to any conclusions! Inspect the Disc
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With this in mind, it is possible to entertain the concept of saving client state with cookies using Java Servlets.
If you mean 'installed' programs in your program directory(folder that says 'program files'), leave them as they are along with all your operational system files(windows etc) on c: messing with these can disrupt your current system balance unless you know what your doing.
You can download new software programs straight to local disk I: and save them there, but it is only when these programs are installed on your system, that the necessary files are stored in 'program files' disk c:
'downloading' and 'installing' are entirely seperate issues however most people confuse them as nowdays its all done for you automatically.
ahhrrrrggg...cringe, vaccum cleaners create more static electricity than a rave party on shagpile!! This static electricity has the ability to 'fry' any electronic chips and circutry in your computer instantly.
Hard to say if your husband has sent your motherboard or cpu to computer heaven or not, but it dont sound good. Can you tell us more on exactly what was done?
From what i can gather, sounds to me like the tech. has installed one 'physical' Hdd that has been patitioned into two sections. These 2 partitions being termed, local disk C: and local disk I:
Also sounds as though your windows operating system, program directory etc have been retained on c: so keep it that way.
While keeping all your system operational files on c:, the logical thing to do would be to keep all your important documents ie. music, photo's, video's (including all your downloads) etc on patition I:
Access local disk I: through 'my computer' and set yourself up suitable filing system, with folders that display what you keep.
Then its simply a matter of 'moving ' the important documents that remain on c: into the relevent folders you have created in I:
You need to re-direct your downloads to the folders on I: by accessing tools>options>folders (or similar) at the host sites your D/L from!
Overclocking Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Review NordicHardware posted an article where OC guru Robert 'crotale' Kihlberg overclocks Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 using a series of different types of cooling. "This is our third detailed overclocking article here at NordicHardware and we will thoroughly dissect Intel's top model, Core 2 Extreme X6800, in the same manner as we've done with AMD's FX-57 and Intel's Pentium 4 660. As usual we will use a number of different cooling solutions ranging from regular air cooling to more extreme compressor setups. http://www.nordichardware.com/Reviews/?skrivelse=487
The office of information technology (help desk) is great reading for all those that would like to know more on this topic. Here is the link most pertinent to this thread, however, navigate your way around and read, read and then read some more..
Confronted with a similar situation to yours on my older system not so long back, I kept the old drive as the master(c:drive, or local disk c:) and added a new 80g as a slave on my primary IDE channel. My Operating system, program directory etc I have kept on c:, while i keep all my important doc's (ie music,video's, software, photo's of the kids etc) on d: .....that way if things were to go wrong, (touch wood) i can simply format c: and do a clean install of my OS, all the while keeping the good stuff safely tucked away on d:!!
Yes, you are correct....everything that runs on your mums computer is stored on that Hdd that you want to replace, including the O/S itself. This means ofcourse if you change the Hdd, you will have to load all your programs back on to the new Hdd (time consuming and lots of rumaging through cupboards for the old install discs if you dont have a backup or a restoration CD handy) If more hard disk space is your goal, why not just add(not replace) a new Hdd configured as a 'slave' on the same IDE channel (primary) as the current one! This will allow you to utilise 2 Hdd's and save you loads of work also allowing you more space ( 48gigs is better than 40)
Formatting a Hdd means to erase all programs and data on the drive so that you can 'start again' and clean install the O/S. This does not apply to your situation as you will be either 'adding to' or 'replacing' the Hdd. I think what you were probably asking earlier is that with windows XP, you can format your Hdd as part of the windows installation process!
Hope you can make sense of my ramblings and if your not sure, ask before you proceed!!!
Ok, its got to be a configuration problem then..... If you havn't tried this as yet (for windows XP) navigate start>control panel>sounds and audio devices, click the audio tab and check to see that your mobo's onboard audio is listed in the dropdown box as the default sound playback device. If its not, click 'advanced settings, then the 'performance' tab, then 'restore default settings'..... double check your volume settings while your there.
Dont be mislead...sounds like a free virus scan only (cant check out cause your links dont work). This probably means that If the scan does find anything on your system, you'll have to purchase the full version to get rid of it!
One of the best ways to delete Cookie's and Temp files on your drive is a great little program called CCleaner. Its freeware and you can download from http://www.ccleaner.com/download/ They do ask for a donation, however that is entirely up to you! (I don't.. hehe)
After install, make sure when you access the program, that you 'uncheck' all boxes next to the items you DONT want cleaned.
If you have multiple Hdd's, you can still select which drives to clean, as well as what to clean ofcourse!!
Is the problem occuring when you try to play audio or video discs in your CD/DVD drive? If so check that you have connected the 'internal audio cable' from your drive to your mobo (im assuming you have onboard audio). You need to route the audio signal from the drive to your mobo's audio soulution!
Its unlikely that you damaged your onboard sound during installation if you were careful and methodical
If you need certain numbers from the physical drive itself, i would advise that who ever is seeking this information should contact the manufacturer for details... as your hands are bound by the evil chains of warranty! lol
For XP, navigate: start>control panel>system, select the 'hardware' tab>device manager, expand 'disk drives' then right click on the hdd in question. select properties then click the 'details' tab. from the drop down box select 'hardware ids' and bingo.....info should include brand name manufacturer,interface type,model no,serial etc, all you should need!!
