Posts by bluedos82

Games.. Ah yes, the mighty CD's and Cartridges. I currenty own a 8-bit Nintendo, SNES, SEGA Genesis, N64, XBOX and 2 Playstations and 2 PS2. Me and my brother have a PS and a PS2 each. Best Game: 8-bit:Super Mario3, SNES: Mortal Combat, SEAGA Genesis: Sonic 3 (Attached to Sonic and Knuckles), N64: Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Best Game ever!), PS: Final Fantasy VII, PS2: Toss up between Kingdon Hearts and the Final Fantasy X and X-2.

The customer told me that she knew about the modem and didn't want me to fix it. She said that she was going to take it to a 'Professional' to install, yet she also wants me to put WINXP Home on her computer. I know... humans..

Dude! I figured it out.. cool

Here's Mine

This may sound silly, but how do you attach a pic to a reply?

No.. not heart.... only brain. Can't you tell I did my own... *DROOL*

Sometimes when I boot up, the computer will freeze after you hear the POST beep and all it says:

CPU Loading

It will not move at all. What I have to do is a hard shutdown, wait 10 seconds and then boot it back up and it works just fine.

Suggestions?

I got a distress call from a teacher and this is what she wrote:

how did my son's laptop dial up an overseas porn site without him knowing it? He swears he did not command his computer to do this - that there was no popup that asked him to dial when he went to this gaming site that dialed up an international porn site - what could be going on with this? Verizon says it is my carrier's fault - Internt America -

Either
A-Her son is lying
B-He signed a digital Cert. saying that it was okay
C-She just has no clue what happened

She told me that she was right there when he went to the gaming site and watched him play games. Then next thing she knows she is being hit with a HUGE fee for overseas charges and she can't do anything about it.

Verizon is the only provider out here and there is nothing we can do about it. Any suggestions?

Thanx for the help guys!

Right Rixius, and I guess he took Mega-bites?
BUt the question of Darth can eat or not is simply a mystery beyond anyone's thoughts. If you concentrated on it enough, your head might explode. I know, I am on my 3rd one this week.

Liar --> Nixion

Has anyone ever heard of a CD-ROM Destroying a CD? I Just had a teacher come to me and said that she put this CD in, 10 seconds later heard a loud POP and ejected the tray and there was nothing gut shards of a CD left. She knows that there are pieces left in the ROM.

If anyone has heard of anything like this happening, let me know. And if it has, what shoud I do about it (Other than replace the ROM)?

I get alot of errors when I go into scan disk on this one computer. It gives me that 'Scandisk has restarted 10 times...' stuff and it will not fix. I tried to defrag it last night and nothing happened. I have also uninstalled some programs that I knew were bogging it down and it is still slower than christmas.
Here are some specs:

OS: Win98
Processor: AMD-K6
and 62.0MB RAM

Any ideas?

Okay, upgrade it is. I just got in a shipment of new computers and will give one to the teacher. Thanx guys

as usual, I have no clue as to what it is. I look at the properties and it says that the device is working fine. I will try re-installing the origional drivers and see what that will do.
CSGAL- It was working just fine until the last update that I did on it.
I want to be a good techie and give the computer back the way that it was.. I want to get paid.

I have a modem on an e-Machine that will not stay open. It will open the port, hear the dial tone and then just click off before it can dial the number.
The OS is ME

Also, I just recently did an update with the drivers from the Microsoft website.
Is there any way to correct this problem?

Well, that is what the teacher told me. This is an old computer running Win98 and it keeps freezing. She tells me that it freezes when she submits her attendence (the program here is called Winschool) or when she checks her e-mail (Outlook) or does anything. If she has more than one program/window open, then it freezes. I have already been in the computer to boost the RAM (I only added 32, that was all I had at the time) It made some improvements. SO far I have it stable enough to send out this plea for help. Anyone?

I am needing to upgrade from Win95 to Win2K.
Is this possiable?
If so, what is it that I will need other than the boot disk?

Not flawed, elder, simply mad. Also, it is mind trick. If you belive that you are full, you are. I know someone who lost alot of weight on that diet. They ate, breakfast, lunch and dinner. BUt for the snack part, they belived that they were hungry. I know... weird, but they did it. I do not have the will power to do so.

Where is the best place to get a MOD chip for a PS2?
and
Are they hard to install?

There are alot of international games that I want to play...

OY! Pizza is just what the doctor ordered! It is a universal sign of holyness. That and who could resist a Pizza Hut Pizza.. with stuffed crust, pineapple, mushrooms and plenty of wor... umm.. off the subject. Anyways, I think he eats with the dark force. You know... he makes a slice levitate and then by his jedi mind meld, he becomes one with the pizza and then *POOF* all gone. Either that or he lifts his helmet when no one is looking.

Something like that. And yes, we did read the fine print. We thought that it might be worth a shot, but so far, we are not impresssed. I would not advise anyone to get it unless you have a decent dial up line. Ours... well, we live out in the middle of BFE and it is just bad.

And the light saber thing would be cool too

Riiiiiiiiiiight. I can just see Darth walking into a Pizza Hut, guards surrounding him, making other customers leave or else the force will take them over. He goes to the counter and says...
"*breathe* I would like your special" The kid behind the counter asks "Which one would you like, sir? We have a lovely anti-astmatic pizza."

"Yes, *breathe* I think I would like that. *Breathe* does it come in *breathe* a large?*
"Yes sir it can, anything else I can get you?" Darth looks around and all the troopers shake their heads no and continue to be on guard.
"No young one, that will be it. *breathe* I will need 23,345,5678,766 of those pizzas, all large *breathe*" Kid looks at him and disbelief.
"It will take us weeks!" Darth waves his hand
"You will make my pizzas"......

I have the NetZero HS and it is not what I thought it was. The 'high speed' only applies to pictures, links and text. It DOES NOT apply to downloads or anything that requires alot of bandwith. So, it looks like the web is faster, but only on things that you are looking at. ALSO, when you get the software and use it fo rhte first time, the pictures come out blurry! Not a good thing. You will have to adjust the settings. And the more defined you make a picture, the slower the connection.

Another thing is the price. It might say that it is only 14.99, but that is what it is per month and you have to pay 6 MONTHS IN ADVANCE.
The way that I see it, when my 6 months are up, I am ging to the $10 program. Still cheaper and the same stinkin speed.

This is cool. Do this towards the end of the month.
Did you know about the *2 feature? Yeah, this little baby can save you $10 a month on your bill. All you have to do is to dial *2 and press talk. (If the voice says that you need to have an upgrade, take it. It costs nothing to get) You will hear 'Press 1 for English 2 for Spanish' Select your language and listen to 'Clair'. This is just an automated machine. Wait about 3 seconds and say (into the phone) 'CREDIT FOR DROPPED CALLS' Then 'Clair' will say something like this:

'Got it! Credit for a dropped call. Please hold while we retrieve your account information. We apologize for this inconvience. Your account has been adjusted for 1 minute of courtesy time at the highest local airtime rate.' When this is done, just wait for her to say 'How can I help you?' again and repeat the process. DO this 20 times and it saves you 10 bucks a month off your bill. If you have more than one phone, have all your phones take 10 off. We have 5 phones, so that takes $50 off our bill each month!

Also, did you know that if you have a 2 year contract with Sprint, you are eligiable for an upgrade? I'm not sure what that means, but I know that it is cool.

But I just thought that some people who have Sprint …

I might only be a padawan (I have the tail to prove it), but I think that Jedi should count as a religion in this debate.

I went with Teleportation. I always wanted to just be able to think of being somewhere and then just being there. That and that it is the other superpower that I would want at the moment. I mean flying through the air can get you where you want to go, but it is just not fast enough. I am late all the time

I am on the computer about 7-10 hrs. I mean 8 hrs at work and then about the remaining 2 hrs playing FF X and FF X-2 with my computer on for the play guide. SO all in all... yeah, long enough.

THanks for the info. Fixed. Thanx again

www.driver.com

Are you sure? that just took me to a website to host.

Does anyone know where to get a PCI Ethernet Controller? I need one so that I can get onto the network.

How can I get drivers for the PCI Ethernet Controller? I need thm to get onto a network and the I-Net. Any ideas?

I got this message on my computer that was in a *.txt format on my desktop and I have no idea how it got there.
Here is what it says:

An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
Unexpected Signal : EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) occurred at PC=0x88D7C29
Function=Java_sun_awt_windows_WToolkit_printWindowsVersion+0x1CB9
Library=C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_02\bin\awt.dll

Current Java thread:
at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.nativeHandleEvent(Native Method)
at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.handleEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

Dynamic libraries:
0x00400000 - 0x00419000 C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
0x77F50000 - 0x77FF7000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\ntdll.dll
0x77E60000 - 0x77F46000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll
0x77C10000 - 0x77C63000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll
0x77D40000 - 0x77DCC000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
0x77C70000 - 0x77CB0000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll
0x77DD0000 - 0x77E5D000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll
0x78000000 - 0x78086000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
0x70A70000 - 0x70AD5000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHLWAPI.dll
0x71700000 - 0x71849000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\SHDOCVW.dll
0x76390000 - 0x763AC000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\IMM32.DLL
0x629C0000 - 0x629C8000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\LPK.DLL
0x72FA0000 - 0x72FFA000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\USP10.dll
0x71950000 - 0x71A34000 C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.10.0_x-ww_f7fb5805\comctl32.dll
0x773D0000 - 0x77BC2000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll
0x77340000 - 0x773CB000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\comctl32.dll
0x771B0000 - 0x772D1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll
0x5AD70000 - 0x5ADA4000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\uxtheme.dll
0x74720000 - 0x74764000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\MSCTF.dll
0x75F80000 - 0x7607C000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\BROWSEUI.dll
0x72430000 - 0x72442000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\browselc.dll
0x75F40000 - 0x75F5F000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\appHelp.dll
0x76FD0000 - 0x77048000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\CLBCATQ.DLL
0x77120000 - 0x771AB000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\OLEAUT32.dll
0x77050000 - 0x77115000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\COMRes.dll
0x77C00000 - 0x77C07000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\VERSION.dll
0x00990000 - 0x009BB000 C:\WINDOWS\System32\msctfime.ime

That is the error that I get when I try to update a phone number to my internet. I have an XP that will not update the phone book. We have switched ISP's and the disk that they (netzero) gave us does not work on the XP computer. I worked just fine on my 98 and ME... someone help me.

I would have to agree with Faranth on that one. Why 95? The OS is no longer supported my MS help and there are better systems out there

That's the thing though, this isn't a Linux machine, this is WIN 98. It is weird.

Registry hacks? details...

What are some of the things that you can do to speed up a computer? I know that you can do a disk clean, scan for viruses, clean your cache out, and do critical updates... but what else is there that I can do? Also, what can I do Hardware wise?

More problems on my end....

Computer boots fine but it has error msg...

Illegal Operation... WINHDD..

The computer will continue along just fine, but what is WINHDD? I have looked on Google and Microsoft to see if they had anything... but nothing came up. Help here?

Another problem that I am having.....

Okay, I re-installed Win98SE and it started fresh... When I try to install it (OfficeXP) this time, it says that I am missing fileMSFR3EN.DLL. I have checked the disk for the file and there is no such file.
I have inspected the disk and it is scratched up a bit.. nothing major, just the little scratches that one gets from constant use. The disk will work in other computers, but not this one. I tried to install one program at a time (i.e. First I did word, then Excell, ect.) and that didn't work. Any ideas?

It truns out that when I left, the user decided to go and mess with the settings and reset the setting for it to go to system stand by after 30 minutes. They couldn't get it working and so I had to set it back

me once more!
Alright, I have a monitor that turns off automaticly. I have already checked the powersave options and it is turned off. I have it set on ALWAYS ON and nothing shuts down unless the user shuts it down. But it still turns off for some reason. The teacher who has this computer says that they have to turn the computer off and on about 5 times a day. Any thoughts on what might be causing it?

ALSO forgot to mention: I did switch out the monitors, they are both good and perfect working monitors.

You have 98 and its upgradeable to win98 SE,
Office XP is not reallymeant for win98 !!
You don't need the upgrade to install win98 full versions there is a trick .Restart windows with the win98 bootdisk,at the a:\ prompt type REN C:\windows\win.com win.old ,there is a space between win.com and win.old
Then type, Setup and install win98se over win98,you will be aked if you want to install to c:\windows000 ,say no and then rempove the 3 ,zers so that it overwrites win98

I just did that and now it is saying that it can not finish the install because the file MSOADICT.DLL is missing. I contacted a fellow geek and he said that none of his XPOffice Cds had the file on them. Also, he told me that they installed Office from the network at one point, but many of the installs failed, so they stopped. Any ideas?

Oh...

Well, the problem has been fixed. Thanks for the help guys (and gals)

I asked someone in the tech building what to do and they said to delete config.sys and autoexec.bat. So far it seems to have worked.

I know that it really isn't meant for 98, but all I do is what I am told. If the admin says to do it, I do it. (Not trying to sound mean)

Man, where was this about 3 months ago when I needed it! UGH! Oh well. You guys do a good job.

I have Win98 on there and it says that it can be updated to a 'newer' version on 98

Alrighty then..

Another computer that I need to put Office XP on will not let me. It gives me

ERROR 2355: Setup cannot access a file cabinet. Check your connection to the network, or CD-ROM drive. For other potential solutions to this problem, see C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\1033\SETUP.HLP.

Also, when I put in the Win98 CD, it tells me

Warning SU0168
Your computer already has an operating system installed, which cannot be upgraded by this version of Setup. Please obtain the Windows 98 Upgrade.

How do I obtain the upgrade? and do I need this upgrade to install XP Office on it?
This computer has had Office XP on it before and it worked just fine