Posts by alc6379

Start by pulling all cards from the machine except for the video card. Then, find the Clear CMOS jumper on your motherboard, and clear it. See if that makes any difference.

I am running windows ME,on a Pavilion N5470 it was great for about a year, until I downloaded a program called mr fixit...Boy did it fix it! System crashed and would not start up again.I had to have windows reinstalled..It has never worked right sence..Multimedia keys don't work, system can't find DVD player....I can't run it for more then 45 mins. Or it will crash..I called HP to see if I could buy a restore disk,but I was told that thay no longer carry it...Can someone PLEASE HELP ME ?

Please don't hijack old, dead threads. If you need help, create a new thread.

What kind of components do you have? Did you you load the chipset driver before all the other ones?

there's a file called normal.dot . Do a search for it, then delete any copy of it you find. Report back to us if that helps.

Please provide some details on your situation.

What type of email account is it-- POP, IMAP, Exchange?
If you create a new user account, does the same thing happen?

whenever ;)
Day, night, both, neither, depending on need and opportunity ;)

...and current company? ;)

Following this guide:

http://support.uidaho.edu/FAQ/Wireless/WEP%20Key%20Windows%20XP.htm

You'd need to get it from your router. That basically means you'd enter into your router config page to copy the key down. How do you do that? Depends on the router-- check your router's documentation to find out how.

...also, on my Toshiba Satellite notebook, I had to physically turn the wireless adapter on by a switch on the side, I think - if it wasn't about 3,000 miles away right now I'd look at it and let you know exactly what I did. BTW, did you RTFM (Read The Friendly Manual)? ;-)

Having eaten, drank, and slept the Dell models, I'm pretty certain the cards don't have that feature. Good info for a Toshiba user, though...

Daily. I have long hair that's susceptible to getting really dirty. If I don't, then I start to look REALLY nasty.

Yes, you can. There are projects that support both. I've only made them work with Evolution, though. And, I'm running a Dell Axim X30 with Windows Mobile on it.

I'd suggest that, if you haven't already, to not hook that up to the motherboard, but to hook it up to an ATX power connector. A fan that big might draw too much current if it's using the spots included on the mobo for smaller fans.

You'd need some kind of video authoring software, like PrimeTime, or Sonic MyDVD. You should check out your local electronics retailer for software along those lines-- there should be a whole section there.

It's possible that it's based on broadcasts. I'm not entirely sure. Past that, I'm stuck. Wish I was more up on Novell to help you out. :(

I don't know a whole lot about this, but is your Novell server running TCP/IP? Might you need to make sure your clients at the new location are running Client for Netware services?

sorry, we cannot help with that. The only people that can help with that are 321 studios, and they're unfortunately shut down :(

Check this out:

http://www.sitedeveloper.ws/tutorials/outlook.htm

THANKS!!!...see my response below in your quote.

I'll respond in line to your questions:

Layer 1 consists of the "physical" stuff-- the things you could touch and manipulate, like wires, and the specifications of how the data is transferred, like +5v for 1, +0v for a 0.

I don't understand the +5v for 1 and +-v for a 0 thing, please explain that a little.

when you're talking about signalling, you've got a base voltage, let's say it's 5 volts. (I forget offhand what ethernet uses). A 0 would equal 5 volts on the line, and a 1 would equal +5v, so it would equal 10volts. That way, if it pulses 5 volts, the NIC interprets that as 0, if it's 10 volts, it interprets that as a 1. The voltages can be arbitrary, but I think they were chosen for a specific reason. What reason? I'm not sure.

Layer 2 deals with MAC addressing, mainly. ARP is a tool that translates IP addresses to MAC addresses, and RARP does the opposite.

I was reading up on MAC addressing and from my understanding its kind of like a burnt in address for hardware so hardware can be detected on a network. Am I right or way off? Look at this:

"ARP/RARP is commonly used to map the layer 2 MAC address to an address in a layer 3 protocol such as Internet Protocol (IP). On broadcast networks such as Ethernet the MAC address allows each host to …

look at my post in this topic above for ping!

thanks for hte link but Step 2: Start the Computer Browser service is fine and netbios is enabled on both!

Sorry about that-- that wasn't the link I meant to push:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;903267

Give that one a shot.

Also, if one machine can ping the other, you're probably in pretty good shape.

You should unplug the cable, and reboot the system. Offhand, it doesn't sound like your wireless card is picking up the signal, if it's enabled properly.

Great-- it's always a good idea to mention in your posts what your network setup is, including what types of firewalls. Glad you're fixed up, though!

ping...
...ping...
...ping...
...ping

The pings returned fine. Are there any firewalls installed on this system?

Here's another tip to try for your situation. If you can access by IP address, but not by name or through the Network Neighborhood, this might help:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318030

That's kind of a broad question. Have you tried google searches for each of your topics? I'm not entirely sure that a forum is the best place for step-by-step instructions on ground-up server configuration...

Hi there,

Please don't ask how to work with pirated software on this forum. It's against our rules. Since you've been informed of this, future violations will result in being banned from the site.

Thanks.

what part of it gets cut off? The top, bottom, or sides? If you just tweak the resolution on it, keeping in mind that it's Width X Height, you should be able to get it in there.

Personally, I'd try 600x400, and see where you end up...

Thanks for the help

Glad to help-- be sure to let us know how everything goes!

Ah yeah that's true I suppose, just haven't come by any programs that do that as far as I know, thanks for your replies :)

Glad to help-- if you're really interested in checking out cross-compiling in action, check out NetBSD. They wouldn't have been able to compile everything that they do if not for cross compiling-- it's simply not feasible to compile an entire native OS on and for an Amiga with a 40mhz 68040 processor, when you could do it on a dual Opteron system!

Just a quick heads-up on the Mac CD drives-- a lot of times, they're just standard IDE drives. I've had luck getting ATA drives (CD and hard drive) working well on just about every model of Mac I've used that's had an ATA connector, from the old LC series Macs, up to B&W G3 machines.

I'm going to gank Lightninghawk's pic... hope he doesn't mind:

[IMG]http://kurtkoenig.homeunix.net/dataentelecom/TCP%20IP_files/osi.jpg[/IMG]

Layer 1 consists of the "physical" stuff-- the things you could touch and manipulate, like wires, and the specifications of how the data is transferred, like +5v for 1, +0v for a 0.
Layer 2 deals with MAC addressing, mainly. ARP is a tool that translates IP addresses to MAC addresses, and RARP does the opposite.
Layer 3 is IP, mainly. That's where your IP address comes into play, and that's where routing functions take place at. Again, IP addresses mean nothing if they don't correlate back to a MAC address on Layer 2.
Layer 4 is TCP, or UDP, or ICMP, even. This specifies what "port" to listen on for a particular service. I equate this out to being in an Office building-- you've arrived at the building (the IP address), but you still need to specify what office you're going to (the TCP port number)
Layer 5 deals with entering, leaving, and staying in that office. "Handshaking" is a common term to see in this layer.
Layer 6 takes the data we've recieved from the lower layers, and formats it properly for the requesting application. This deals with things like character sets (ASCII, EBCIDIC, Unicode, etc)
Layer 7 is where all of the data is actually worked with. The previous layers were just there for the data to reach the final endpoint of the application. This can be anything from a web browser, …

Could you contact your ISP and have them change your username? That's a really long username-- the reason why most don't accept more than 15 characters is because that's a "sane" limit on the amount of characters a username should have.

I mean, do you really need your ISP user name to be "this_is_my_isp_username_at_home"? If you look at it like that, that's really freaking long. Or, do you have to put username@ispname.net in there?

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: Probably. If the router supports it, you can just string a CAT5 cable between the two of them. You may have to get a special kind of CAT5 cable called a "crossover cable", if the router isn't smart enough to properly configure its ports, though.

While I agree with Christian, you shouldn't solve social issues with technology, There are ways this can be done. I'm not sure if your router will do it, but both Linux and NetBSD (I'm sure others do, too) have something called QoS (Quality of Service). You can apply a different "priority" to each type of traffic using those tools. If you're really serious about this, that's one way to go.

...Of course, a "social" approach would be to ask your roommates "Why am I paying an equal share of this bill if I'm not doing equal downloading?" If all else fails, get your own 'Net connection, like DSL if they have Cable, or vice-versa. They have no right accessing something that they're not paying for, and you shouldn't be stuck paying equally if they both ate steak dinners, and you just had soup.

How are IP addresses assigned on these systems? What is the system in question's IP address set to?

Not entirely sure what you're asking there. Are you wanting to do VPN using devices that run embedded OSes? :confused:

It should be pretty straightforward. Do you have to use Static IP addresses at either of these locations? (ie, are you assigned an address at these other places, or do you just plug in, and go?)

Normally, in IE, there's an option to only dial out when another network connection is not available. If that's set, you should be in good shape. If you just have dynamic IP addresses at the other location, you should just plug in, restart the system, and be good to go.

Moving thread, applying a bump to it. It's been in the Networking forum for some time, surprised noone else caught it.

What type of setup is this computer running? Were other systems downloading things while the test was being run on this system? What OS was it? Are there firewalls installed? If so, which one?

Those are a few to start with :)

Make sure NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled:

http://ecross.mvps.org/howto/netbt.htm

If you're getting access is denied, are you using Simple Filesharing on both systems? That usually indicates that the guest account is not enabled on the system that the access is being denied from.

Here's a great site to help out with Windows networking issues:

Windows XP Network Problem Solver

The page says it's SP1 specific, but it works for all version, from RTM to SP2.

I think you've got your terminology mixed up. There's compiled on and compiled for. I can have code that's compiled on an AMD64 machine, but it's for a PPC machine.

Like I was mentioning earlier, it's just a matter of knowing how to translate the source code into the machine code that the target processor can read. The translation is a task that any machine can do, because it's just processing one form of input into another form of output. That's what computers do by nature.

Case in point: I've got an old Sparcstation with a 60mhz processor. If I need to compile something for it, rather than wait an hour for something to finish, I can compile it on my Athlon XP system in a fraction of the time. That's because I have appropriate cross-compilers for that platform.

Without getting into the specifics of machine-specific instruction code, the important thing to keep in mind is that one machine can compile code for another system quite easily, because all it compiling is, essentially, is taking one type of input (source code) and outputting it in another form (machine-specific code). There's logic applied to optimize the machine code, but even still, all we're doing is taking an input and translating it to a desired output format.

It just "is"-- all compiling is is translating the higher level code to machine language. That, at heart, is just translation. Any machine can do that.

I, too, lack partition space on my drives to install it. Maybe I'll look at throwing it onto a Xen virtual machine, or something.

Junior year is a little late, IMHO, to consider changing majors. Not that you shouldn't, but I think you're going to have to do some hard decision making-- maybe CS isn't for you; Is there a computer topic that does interest you?

If you can salvage anything from your previous education, do so. Make it apply to your new career, whatever you decide to do.

You're probably right about a bad board. Just because power's going to it doesn't mean you can't have a bad chip on the board, blown capacitor, or something like that.

At least you know what part you're looking to replace, since you were able to get that processor running in another machine...

If you just read "consumer reviews" to determine what to buy you'll never buy anything as the only people who usually voice their opinions are those who are unhappy...

I know several people who have Dell systems, and all are quite happy with them.

Same here. Don't most people realize that the most vocal people are the small minority who feel like they've been gipped? The satisfied folks are busy doing things with their working products. :D

Seems neat, though I've never used it. Perhaps you'd like to give it a whirl, and let us know what you think?

Pull everything that you can pull-- optical drive, RAM, MiniPCI cards, hard drive, any PCMCIA cards. See what happens then.

If you've got nothing, then, you're probably looking at either a bad motherboard or a bad processor. If you're out of warranty, then that stinks-- you'd want to contact Dell and purchase some replacement parts to fix your unit.

Here's the link, straight from the horse's mouth:

https://www.delladapterprogram.com/Main.aspx

Tells you what you should do to get your replacement AC Adapter.

1: Your issue probably isn't the power adapter. It's probably dead, mind you, but you're probably looking at a motherboard replacement. Here's what you need to do: Pull the memory, MiniPCI cards, optical drive, and hard drive. Use a known-good AC adapter, and see what happens then. If nothing happens, then you're looking at a bad motherboard or CPU. If you're calling Dell Spare parts, I'd shoot for a processor and a motherboard, and replace them both if you're going in there.

2: The "bottom" of the laptop "is" the laptop. There's nothing too interesting under there. There's like, a fan, and that's it. You remove the motherboard from the top of the unit. That means you yank the keyboard off and pull the palmrest.

If you have any more questions, let us know, and we'll split this thread out. The issue isn't directly related to a bad power supply, so there's no need to clutter up this thread-- this belongs in the "Troubleshooting Dead Machines" forum.

Hotkey management?

I've never really used one, but the closest I come to it is Perfect Keyboard.

http://www.pitrinec.com/

disclaimer: I don't represent them in any way. I just happen to like their software. :)

Closing thread. This topic is already being discussed here:

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread36649.html

I agree. Having worked in the computer manufacturing field for a good while now, I can only say that I can empathize with your situation. If they're not fixing stuff, PESTER THEM. Write letters, ask to speak with managers, do whatever you have to do.

If you're not getting the service and support out of them that you think you deserve, be proactive. Believe it or not, companies really don't want P-O-ed customers, and most will do what they must in order to resolve your issue.