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Wow, thank goodness I've only had this happen to me once on my wife's desktop. I got so frustrated troubleshooting it I ended up disabling the onboard sound and installing a 30 dollar Creative Labs Soundblaster card. Fixed the problem right up. about 6 or so months later, I performed …

Usually means you have corrupted or viral infested video files in the directory. Welcome to the downside of bittorrenting files from unsafe sources. Only resolution I can think of for you is to go through your videos until you find the culprit file or files and then remove them.

LOL I think when I had RC2 on my desktop I garnered a 2.5, due to having PC2100 memory and only having 1.5 GB to boot, and also because I have an older Nvidea 6200 256MB AGP card.

Don't worry about the 1394 connection. That is for networking firewire devices. As for your normal connection, if you have your firewall turned on and/or behind a router of some sort, you are probably ok there too as that will block ping requests. Hope this helps,

Business edition for me. And that will only be to give it a good look over. Windows XP is finally stable after 5 years, and is what I have to support at work. The Business edition comes with everything short of Media Center, which I have no use for. I …

Well I have been using a PC since I started in computers. I stopped and used a mac mini while I was getting my Apple certifications. I guess it really depends on what you do the most. The mac was great for authoring dvd's and doing pictures and such. But …

Here are some things to try. First thing, shut down your pc, open it up and verify the Master/Slave/Cable Select jumper on both your cd drives. Make sure they are both set to Cable Select. Alternatively, you can jumper one as Master and one as Slave. Second thing, check the …

What goes into a pc usually equates to what you want the pc to do. Are you looking for something that handles Windows and Office fairly well? Are you just interested in a web surfing and email system? Or are you possibly a gamer? You need to sit down and …

With most modems I have seen, when you are using the USB port for connection to a computer, the ethernet port becomes disabled automatically. If that is what you have at the moment, you will need to pop an ethernet card into your computer, pick up a decent 10/100 WiFi …

Sounds like you actually have two problems. In regards to broadcast messages: If you are connected to a "switch" instead of a "hub," you will not recieve broadcast messages. Switches are intelligent and route packets differently than a standard hub. A hub broadcasts packets to everything connected to it. A …

Linux can have some undesired after effects on hardware. I've even seen a monitor go pop and start smoking after having misconfigured the X server. My suggestion, back up your linux partition then perform a secure erase of the hard drive just to make sure there are no viruses left …

I may be able to help better if I knew why you were trying to achieve this. I've looked through the configuration files for Firefox and I do not see an option to prevent it from accessing your hard drive.

Just wanted to stop in here and say hello to everyone. My name is David and I have been a "techie" for a little over a decade now. I'm currently employed by CompuCom Systems Inc. and am located in the Greenville, SC area. I'm always available to help if anyone …

This is a laptop right? Last time I checked, laptop keyboards have the numeric pad associated with standard keyboard keys. For instance on my Thinkpad if I turn Num Lock on then P becomes *, U becomes 4, I becomes 5, etc. Look for how to toggle num lock off …

Hiya, Sounds to me like a possible firewall issue. I'm not familiar with that specific modem. I do know, however, that some dsl/cable modems have a built in firewall that can be set to block certain domains or IP ranges. Find the manual for your modem and read it over …

Reinstalling the program then Uninstalling it again is probably the best or easiest way to get rid of them. Otherwise you can manually uninstall by simply deleting their program directories, removing the icons from Start Menu, and if you are feeling really squirrelly, checking your registry and removing the program …

[quote=raybay;294933]There is absolutely no difference between the OEM W98SE and the W98Se sold with your computer - None. Except in the drivers. Go to the manufacturer of your computer or to the manufacturer of your motherboard, download and install all the drivers, consider updating the BIOS, and you will have …

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Here's a few questions: Is your new mainboard the same as your old mainboard? If the answer is no, locate the driver cd for the new mainboard and use it to install the drivers for it's onboard sound. If the answer is yes, then you may need to go into …

Possibilities: 1. Bad patch cable. Try a different patch cable. 2. Bad port on switch/hub/router. Try a different port. Additional information needed to help any further: When you say it doesn't see your network, do you mean it's not seeing the other computers in your network? Because if you cannot …

Way too expensive for my tastes. Besides I must be blind or something I think because I watched a demo at a local electronics shop of a blu-ray movie and normal dvd upscaled to hd playing simultaneously using same hdmi cables and same 52" plasma high def tv. I did …