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| | I'm an Anime fan, guess I'll list my favorites. :) Ranma 1/2 Tenchi Muyo Martian Successor Nadesico Neon Genesis Evangelion Love Hina Magic Knight Rayearth Key The Metal Idol I could go on, been watching since the 1960's heheh.  |
 | FIgured I'd say hello here, I said hello in the describe yourself thread already, but seems this is the place to actually be heard. ^^; Hello. I'm a PC oldtimer, more a hardware/OS guy than anything else. Have enjoyed watching pro's like Catweazle and others helping people, and thought maybe … |
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| | That's a toughie. Being retired I haven't actually gotten to work with any drives over 120gb yet. That said, I would consider it unlikely the drive would be recognized if you had to install special software to make it recognized by Windows the first time. However, you didn't say what …  |
| | If that's a bios password, you can reset it by clearing the bios, (however it being a laptop, you might find it a real chore to find the jumper for clearing the bios). Try giving a shout to IBM and tell them your problem, they probably can tell you what … |
| | Think they'd take a student ID from the 'School Of Hard Knocks'? No fair, cause I'm old, and STILL learning, thanks to MS changing stuff all the time. I should get the discount, too. :p |
| | These days most port scans you see are coming from trojan infected zombies out there. (PC's infected with any of various virii or malware often hook up in vast botnets, ready to send out tons of spam, or to attack websites or users in a vast Denial of Service attacks. … |
 | Your used copy of Windows ME bought you 1 slightly used SEARS poncho, (NOT a REAL MEXICAN poncho, mind you), with a big mustard stain on the chest. One slightly used can of Chopped Prunes |
| | Head to Creative's website, and download the newest drivers for your card. [url]http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/[/url] Install the latest drivers for your card and reboot, should fix you up quite nicely, and fix all the errors you've listed. :) Good luck! |
| | Does your monitor have Onscreen Display? If that works, I'd bet there's nothing wrong with your monitor. Your short list looks about right to me. Good luck, hope you find the problem. :) |
 | What kind of mouse? If it is cordless, it has only been fairly recently that cordless mice have come into their own for FPS style gaming. If it's not that, there are a lot of things to consider, first off, though, it looks like your PC might be a bit … |
| | Hmm, tricky, as it could be any number of things. First thing I'd try in your position is: Hit F8 throughout the bootup, see if you can boot up in safe mode. If you manage that, try using System Restore to restore your machine to a time when it was … |
| | Re: drwin Hello, I'm new here, just found this spot, and registered to add to this topic. Nice to meet you all. I notice this thread is a bit old, but I have a bit to add to this mystery. Earlier tonight, out of the blue, I was browsing one of my … |
| | Another thing you might try: Search your hard drive(s) for a copy of that missing file. You did say you were deleting DUPLICATES, I would assume somewhere on your hard drive there is still one copy of that file. Move that file into your windows/system32 folder, and see if that … |
| | I'll add to this: I've seen similar things with other PC's, and for some of them, it turned out that there was a CD in the drive, and whenever My Computer got opened, it waited while it scanned the CD before it would display anything. If that's your issue, you … |
| | Most excellent, this one goes into my vault. Nice work, Antioed. :) |
 | Re: PC wont boot up! Hmm, when was it last working, and what were you doing with it last? Tell us about your machine, what CPU? OS? You get no video whatsoever? You can't see the power on self test when you have the memory out? If not, I'd be less sure about it being … |
| | It does sound like a bad Power Supply, but you should check all your power cables, as if you plug, (for example), a floppy drive power connector onto only 3 of the pins, it will fry the rubber off one of the wires, which smells rank, and smokes like a …  |
| | Sounds like you have a sticky key, (tab key maybe?). Either that, or you have built in 'funtions' in that keyboard and its driver that are doing things you'd rather it didn't. Look in your control panel, under Printers and Other hardware, look for Keyboard, open it up and see … |
| | Fantastic Voyage Star Trek (Insert number here) This Land ([url]http://www.jibjab.com[/url]) Alien Run Silent, Run Deep  |
| | Actually there are ways to resize partitions, and transfer space to one from another, but they involve buying tools like Partition Magic, (now owned by Symantec, the makers of Norton products). Here's a link to their website: [url]http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/[/url] There is also a trial version around, but I couldn't tell you …  |
| | Put your old hard drive back in your old machine, (I hope you still have it, and that you can boot with it!), then turn OFF whatever password protection you turned on, so that the files are unencrypted. Then you should be able to put the drive onto your new … |
| | Do you have software called Callisto Newsreader/Bulletin Board Browser installed? That's the only program I can find with the name Callisto. Lots of LSP's are spyware/adware etcetera, but this may not be the case for you. If you haven't taken any steps to prevent spyware/adware/malware and worm/virii infections in your … |
| | I'm not quite sure what to say to this, and I don't want to put my foot in my mouth, so I won't make any general observations on the situation here. I will say that you could probably figure out what is loaded in your PC, but it sounds like …  |
| | You might want to add that there appears to be an issue with 64bit AMD Athlon processors, particularly with some older drivers, (like the Sigma Realvision Mpeg decoder card's drivers, for example). It, apparently, has something to do with the new DEP (Data Execute Protection), which so far only AMD's … |
| | Catweazle's right, as usual. I run a 600 watt Pioneer Home Theater system connected to my SB Live, with the optional Digital IO daughtercard. PC games, so far, seem to use Prologic, and for Prologic, if your amp has it's own decoder, than all you need is a stereo output. … |
| | Hello everyone. Looks like I've stumbled onto a pretty nice community here. :) Name: Rob Nickname: Hey, you... Hair: Brown, gray, blonde, we got it all up there, (what's left of it, anyway). ;p Eyes: Baby blue. Seriously. Location: Maine, USA Age: Somewhere north of 40 Job: Retired, former PC … |
| | It's not the 'mother', but it's probably her first cousin. :p |
| | Ahh, I see you got somewhere with the info I gave you? Good. Try switching the two modules around. Sometimes a module will work in one slot, but not the other. Switching may also let you know if perhaps one of the modules has failed. |
| | Whoa, back up a sec here. The last line of your POST says 'Boot failure system halted'? I'd say you have more than an OS problem here if you're failing your POST sequence. At least, that's what it looks like to me. |
| | Have you read the sticky topic in this forum about SP2? There's a fix for DiVX posted in there involving DEP that has been helping some people with their SP2 woes, (especially those with AMD64 bit processors). I'd highly recommend trying the fix to disable DEP for starters, it's easy … |
| | Try testing by setting Drive-0 (the old hard disk) to master, and put it on the secondary controller. If you have no problems like that, then go back to your Jumper diagrams, you must have missed something. (Some hard disks have a master AND Master with slave present setting, and … |
 | I think both those programs are 'possesors', meaning your PC is possessed by them. I don't run either for that reason. :p Anyway, if you hit Control-Alt-Del you'll pull up Task Manager. You should be able to find a running process on the Processes page called 'msmsgs.exe', click it, then … |
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| | I've been following this for a while, and it occurs to me you could very well have a yet 'unfound' bug. Meaning that perhaps it is a bug the AV companies haven't found yet. Especially if none of them are finding it on your system. I don't know what Antivirus … |
| | Ahh...could something have changed his DNS settings? Just a thought. |
| | Dani, Well, it might not be what you need, but there does seem to be a number of problems with SP2 that can be traced back to it's habit of defaulting to DEP being turned on by default. Look in the 'Things you should know before installing SP2' thread stickied … |
| | He may have an even bigger problem, judging by the specs on that notebook: 133mhz (or SLOWER, that was the fastest in that series) Pentium. I doubt its bios supports bootable CD. :( |
| | Re: Doom 3 I'm kinda opposite that way, I'm tired of the 'same old same old'. I've been playing these things since Wolf3D first game out, and it's getting monotonous now. I wish they'd come up with something truly new. |
| | You've got some spyware and adware in that PC, you need to post up that hijack log in the Security forum, that's where the experts who could help you hang out. ALso, read this thread, it will give you some good advice about how to clean, and defend yourself better. … |
| | There are a number of malware and virii programs that will cause the 'IE6 will not open anything in a new window, even if right-clicked.' problem you describe. Among them a program called Pop_Up_Killer. A few BHO programs, (browser helper objects), can cause the same or similar symptoms, you need … |
| | It'll all be well and good if any Pentium over Pentium 500 runs faster than the previous. If Intel does stupid things like come out with a Pentium 510a that is actually slower than the 500, it'll suck, and lead to great confusion. This is my only concern on the … |
| | It's possible there were problems at Microsoft's end, as I've seen that happen. If it keeps happening after the next few days, I'd suspect it's on your end. Until then, I wouldn't worry too much. (For the record, I've had a few problems hitting Hotmail the same two days, which … |
| | For starters, go here: [url]http://supporten.terratec.net/[/url] Look for the Search box, type 1816 in there, and hit enter. You'll find the latest (and last) drivers written for your card. (It is now unsupported, so...). Download them, and install. I hope that fixes you up, best of luck to you!  |
| | Also be sure you've gotten all the Windows Updates for your machine, as it's possible one of the updates for Windows has changed something which Ad-Aware is dependant upon. |
 | I stick with IE, but have formed a very firm opinion that those who aren't extremely computer literate should use Firefox or Opera, and only use IE when a page won't work correctly. A week ago, I would have just tooted IE's horn, but watching poor Crunchie trying to help … |
| | Re: couple problems DId you disable the onboard sound in your BIOS before installing the sound card? (Looks like you have an SB Live! or an Audigy, judging by the em10k driver) You must disable the onboard sound in your bios to keep the two from interfering with each other, (could be your … |
| | Sounds like you've got the refresh rate set too high. Do you get something onscreen reliably in safe mode? I think you're saying you do, so I'd bet you somehow set the refresh rate too high. It has happened to me a few times, and once I actually had to … |
| | I'm with dlh6213 on this one, bad cable would be the first thing I'd be looking at, as I've seen this exact error with a cable that was severely pinched, (had a kink in it, pulled tight!). |
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