Posts by alc6379

http://www.newegg.com
http://www.froogle.com

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Do you have any specific needs? Your question is a little vague.

The /s switch is unavailable in Windows XP. In DOS, it stood for "system", basically it added DOS bootfiles onto the disk, making it a bootable floppy.

If I recall correctly, I ran this bootdisc once. The trick to getting any setup like this going is to have each needed driver available, and then select the one you want to run at boot. Is there any chance of using a bootable CD, rather than a floppy?

My guess is that "multiboot" just means it's driver-compatible with several different systems.

I dunno. The whole thing is pretty cliche.

This isn't a knock on Richard, either, I don't want him to think it is. Maybe I'm just jaded from having seen too many "If Micro$oft created foo, what would it be like?" types of jokes. I can see where some would consider them cliche, considering how there are as many variations on it as there are hairs on a person's hair.

I think it's a safe assumption to say that once someone is in the spotlight, they will always be subject to some ridcule. I think that's a given-- everyone will not agree to like someone/thing. But, what does contribute to my ho-hum "har-dee-har" attitude towards this stuff is that the premise of the jokes is cliche:

• Phase 1: Analogue Microsoft's negative licensing policy to something equally negative in the matter at hand
• Phase 2: Joke about Microsoft's poor security history
• Phase 3: ????
• Phase 4: Profit!

Hey! Did you catch that! Did I just illustrate a cliche by using a cliche? Nifty!

But, my point is that bashing Microsoft has become cliche these days because everyone pretty well knows what they're about. Unless you can really come up with something creative to bash them, it's going to be tough to get anything out of me other than maybe a half-hearted chuckle.

In order to give you a good answer, we'd need to know more about your system. The fact you're running Windows ME doesn't really tell us anything in this case.

If you could find out what the model of your system is, maybe with a label on the back, you could check out HP's website for yourself to figure out all the details on the appropriate memory for your computer.

That's only around £20.74-- right in your price range, isn't it?

But, not to be facetious or anything, but I mean, like Zachary said, you are overclocking it... My first thought response to your question was "Duh!", but I thought that'd be rude. If you're really serious about overclocking your system, you're going to want to invest a little bit of cash into your heatsink. I don't overclock, but I run a Swiftech MCX462-v on my Athlon, and it's about one of the biggest coolers you can get for it. I have OCed it before, and had no trouble heatwise doing so. Swiftech has a 64-bit version of my cooler, but it's pricey, and you have to get a fan for it:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=35-108-037&depa=0

Depending on your needs, you might want to consider even water cooling it. If you put a big enough fan on that Swiftech (I've got a 92mm Vantec tornado on mine, WAY noisy), you could pull off the same temperatures as water cooling.

Fan full blast on my XP2500 system at 100% load, I can get as low as 37-38C with my Swiftech, and that's right up with my buddy, who's running a Zalman watercooling setup. :cool:

What kind of heatsink do you have on there? 79C is a little hot for my comfort.

According to the AMD spec for that processor, they recommend 85C as being the upper limit for heat on the die. Since thermal diodes can be as much as 10C off, you might very well be running at 89C!

That is, of course, assuming that your thermal diode isn't bad. At the very least, I'd remove the heatsink, clean all the paste off of both surfaces, and make sure you've got everything seated correctly. If that doesn't work, I'd consider beefing up your cooling solution.

The system fan connector is for your Chassis fan. The Power fan connector is primarily used to fan speed monitoring on the PSU, I think.

Does the drive open if you restart your computer, or go into your BIOS?

I've heard of situations like this, where a program is demanding access to the drive, and won't let it go. Usually, uninstalling the offending program resolves the issue. I'd try pulling Nero out, and if InCD is installed, ditch them both and reinstall them.

Have you installed the latest Java Runtime Environment?

www.java.com

I'd give that a shot, and see what it comes up to.

theres a simple solution for this problem. go into control panel. then go onto administrative tools or whatever it is. then go onto services. scroll down and find remote procedure call and right click then choose properties. then i think its the 2nd or last tab, in the drop down boxes change them all to take no action. then go back to services and do the same for the 1 below remote procedure call. you pc should not shut down after 1 minute anymore. worked for me anyway.

That's a great temporary fix, but you're still infected.

The RPC service is used by tons of stuff. One of the most notable things is that Lexmark printers use the Remote Procedure Call services to make their printer drivers work.

So, if you do that, you just get more time to do your troubleshooting and get the appropriate fixes applied. If you don't follow through with something like the Stinger tool or some other antivirus, your system is still active, and can even still be infecting other systems.

I know this is an old thread, but...

Wait, it couldnt be sasser, lol. Every AV picks it up. Also I dont thinmk sasser is a boot sector virus. It could be a problem with some hardware, (maybe). but Definatly windows. Well thats BOD for you. Good luck removing the problem. Hint, i know formatings a bit*h, but heres what you do, make a DOS boot up disk on another PC, …

Thats sounds like a fun assignment now go do it.

Exactly.

Read the Announcement.

Closing the thread; it should have been tuskyballer's responsibility to read our rules and adhere to them.

It's possible to install most any x86 OS on any x86 system. The hard part is finding drivers for the devices in your system. From looking at HP's support website, they don't officially offer drivers for that system that support Windows 98. Your best bet would be to do some research with Google, and see if you can't download drivers from some 3rd-party that will work in 98.

By the way, what's so "cloak and dagger" about the whole situation? :confused:

IS this a good thing? :cheesy:

It sure is a good thing! For each bot that is crawling our site, that means more people can find the help they need on search engines. Every eyeball on our site is potential ad revenue :cool:

Hrm. Very informative... thanks!

This sure beats the method I was using-- yanking the cords out of the wall, and then just slinging the thing over my shoulder like a bag.

It's a little long, don't you think?

I'm sure all of the stuff in there is pretty neat, but sometimes it's a little annoying to see a sig longer than the actual post. Think about those people who'd post "me too" in a thread, but have a >10 line sig...

hi,
why would u be hesitant in giving retail price? pcix has a couple of yrs to completey make the agp obsolete. how can one judge whether the used card is in good working condition from ebay? if buybest is selling at 129$ at retail(ati's ati radeon 9600xt) then what should be a reasonable pricr for a used(say 3-6 month old ) card? i saw bidding raching even in 80,s(still going) for a 9600pro.

thanks

I would venture to guess he's suggesting that so you don't sink too much money into this current system. Then, if you buy a new card with a new system, you won't be out too much.

The only thing you could do is run something like PCAnywhere, or VNC, to export the desktop's image over to the laptop. But, if you're gaming or watching video, that's not going to be a very suitable solution...

I have the same monitor with same white screen and I have had no luck trying to repair it. It is a fault with the monitor and Dell will take no responsibility for it if you are out of warantee. Go out and buy a new one. Sorry if that's not the answer you wanted, still useful I hope!

If you disconnect the monitor, and it's white, that would show that the monitor has failed. Dell monitors are set up such that when you unplug them, they run a self-test that shows if the monitor's actual display functions are working. If not, the monitor is bad.

If your monitor fails outside of warranty, well, that's tough! You should have bought a longer warranty.

What about the monitor did you buy a mac monitor wich cost more than the mini itself witch I think is dumb.

Have you seen the Apple monitors? They're positively wonderful! The reason why they're so expensive is because the color purity on them is bar-none, and they've got some really awesome screen sizes.

Besides, the Mac Mini comes with a DVI port, and a DVI-VGA adapter. Anyone with a PC would be able to just hook up any old monitor you'd have.

To add to what Christian said, make sure you don't have any frivolous programs installed. If it's a G3 system, it might have a pretty small drive, (under 10GB is small, IMHO these days) which can fill up pretty quickly if you have lots of stuff installed. So, consider uninstalling any unneeded programs, too.

Do you have an installation CD to boot from?

What I'd do is run Disk First Aid from that CD, and see if you get any better results. Sometimes when you're not booting from the affected disk, you have more capability to fix problems if you have to move around blocks and files.

Some online activities will install software which communicates in a similar way to a trojan. In fact, they ARE trojans, albeit ones you've invited in.

This is usually how the poker games operate. It's almost like a "super cookie", or a client that authenticates to the website. I don't trust sites like that; why not just use cookies?

SATA --> serial advance technology attachment

I have a game, but I fear the games are getting to numerous and large in size, and it makes some of the moderators mad.

WYSIWYG --> What You See Is What You Get

Don't worry-- we won't be closing any threads unless they get out of line with the rules, so basically, no cussin', spittin', fightin', or spammin', and things will be cool.

naggling-------> (created by John Nagle, the Nagle algorithm is used to automatically concatenate a number of small buffer messages); a process that increases the efficiency of a network application system by decreasing the number of packets that must be sent.

Googling:

The act of using Google to search for information

Try this Google search:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=create+PDF+documents+free

There seem to be quite a few of them around. My father in law uses these packages pretty frequently; I'll see what he uses, and whether it's freeware or not.

Could this thread have been named more clearly, please?

Help Me, QUICK! is rude, and it tells us nothing about what your problem is. Please don't assume your thread is more important than someone elses in the future, and please try to be more specific.

But, Coconut Monkey's dead-on. Have you installed it yet? What does Device Manager, or the documentation for your card say?

This part of the fourm is not for help you will recive more help when it is placed in the right spot.

Erm... This post is over 5 months old. I think it's safe to assume nobody was going to answer it, OurNation.

As a suggestion to the OP, though, you might want to try calling Panasonic technical support. If it's designed to pull one at a time from a stack of that many, it might be a bad fax.

I did it right yomatbytte or whatever endes in e eat begins in e and you said but a definition.

I think you missed the technical part of it. A suitable response could be, say, electronic:

of or relating to electronics; concerned with or using devices that operate on principles governing the behavior of electrons; "electronic devices"

See? Now you'd add a technical term that began with a "C".

Okay...

I figure it's time for me to weigh in on this thread. I've unlocked the thread, and folks are free to post in it and enjoy the intent of the thread.

I think it was the poster with the "potato pie" that threw me off, but I think I missed the point of the thread. I wasn't trying to throw around my powers or anything, I just believed it, at the time, to be redundant. My mistake-- a technical word association game is pretty cool, in my opinion.Further in concurrance with the concensus of the moderatorship, stuff like this isn't against the rules, and should not be locked.

So, I'll state it publicly, I don't really care for games like this, but I'm going to let the games fly unless they break a forum rule, despite what my feelings on them are.

Hey, welcome aboard!

I always like hearing people's "back in the day..." stories. Feel free to chime in at any time!

Closing thread-- you've already posted this question in another forum. Moreover, this thread was in the wrong forum, anyways.

edit the boot.ini file
set default on w98
if that works; set timeout = 0

no screen anymore!

mifa

Exactly. I know this is an old post, but if you wanted to change it, this would be the trick:

old one

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home"
D:\="Microsoft Windows 98"

New one should be changed to:

[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=D:\
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home"
D:\="Microsoft Windows 98"

That should do the trick.

HiJackThis logs should be posted in the Viruses, Spyware, and other Nasties forum.

This group policy doesn't work?
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/prork/prdb_cdk_zhvj.asp

There might be a way that you can script it, and add it to the logon/logoff scripts to change the resolution, too. A combination of locking down the settings tab and scripting the display resolution at startup/shutdown should do the trick.

in the command prompt, type in

ipfconfig /all

and see what your IP Address is. If it's something other than 169.254.xxx.xxx, then you should be in okay shape. If it is not 169.254....., then try pinging what's listed as your default gateway. If you can ping that, then ping what's listed as the DNS servers. If you can get there, then try running ipconfig /flushdns, perhaps.

Also, try disabling any firewalls. I don't suspect any malware personally, but gefflong could be on some track I'm not aware of. But, in a situation like this, I generally start performing TCP/IP troubleshooting, which usually leads me to the likely source of the issue. That error you provided sounds like a firewall issue, so your firewall would be a good place to start.

Ho hum...

People do realize that the site admin has no control over what content is in those banners they aggregate, right? With that in mind, it's not like Tom's Hardware is trying to shoot either Windows or Linux in the foot...

*** I am posting information that can be referenced as DOCSIS compliant specifications, THIS IS NOT 1337 HACKER STUFF, please do not remove this post.

Don't worry. We know it's not 1337 hacker stuff. :) In fact, it's quite interesting stuff!

Did you run the Drive Setup and format the disk? I believe with 8.1 you have to use HFS, as it's not HFS+ aware. Anyway, why such and old (old old old) OS?

OS 8.1 will run very well on that hardware-- I think that's what it originally shipped with, anyways. But, you need to run Drive Setup first if that's a brand new hard drive.

As a matter of historical fact, OS 8.0 was the first OS to ship with HFS+, supporting a greater than 2GB volume without ugly kludges. If you really want to get a nice system on that G3, try running OS 8.6-- that's my usual choice for hardware of that vintage.

It's just looking for something to boot from. Did you disconnect the hard drive, or similar? If the hard drive's connected, somehow the Finder or System files might have gotten corrupted. If you have the Mac OS CD that came with that system, you may try booting from that by pressing the <C> key at startup to boot from the CD-ROM. At least then, you might be able to see if your hard drive is still there.

If it's anything like the Blitzz PCI adapter that I've got, it might be running a chipset similar to the ADM8211 wireless set mine has. If that's the case, good luck.

You might be able to do a Google search and learn to use the native Windows drivers through ndiswrapper. The only success I had with that card was in FreeBSD, using ndisulator, and that was with the Windows drivers being adapted through that tool to work in FreeBSD.

What version are you trying? It sounds almost like a bug. If it is, the only recourse you might have is to use the most recent version, or file a bug-report with the developers to see if they have a fix.

If you're trying to install it on a SATA drive, it won't be labelled as hda. Do you have an hde or an hdf? That's what my SATA drives showed up as in most every 2.6.x kernel distro I tried.

Knoppix should come with IPTables pre-installed, but you might have to install it. I don't know what the package for it would be called, but you might just be able to use apt-get to install iptables, since Knoppix is Debian based.

But, it sounds like you've got some skewed impressions of how to work with your new Linux system. Sure, you have to patch it, and it's a good idea to close as many ports as possible, but you should study up more on how to disable unneeded services and configure permissions, rather than concern yourself with the prospect of spyware and viruses on your machine.

yeah, i fugured that one out. i just hate to pay for it. :rolleyes:
but it looks so freekin good. i may have to bite the bullet and dish out the dough. do you all think its worth buying?

Here's what I'd recommend:

Download their Community Release version and run it for a while. If you like it, buy their boxed set, or donate some money. If it's really valuable to you, you should plonk down some cash for their effort.

Personally, I've done just that-- I LOVE FreeBSD, so I've purchased the FreeBSD Power Pack, and I'm regularly picking up schwag from freebsdmall.com, where some of the proceeds go to the FreeBSD Project.

Great links, gang! Thanks!

if you're talking about at the command prompt, you can make an alias in your ~/.bashrc file:

alias rm='rm -i'

That will make it "interactive"-- prompting you to delete everytime you use the command.

No, I don't mean that at all. In fact if you uninstall the program, then reinstall it using a borrowed CD, then you'll run into problems with Product Activation.

But if you use Control Panel > Add/Remove programs and select the entry for Office, you should get an option to 'Repair'. Using a borrowed CD should work for that, I believe.

If it's the same version of the software, you'll be okay if you've still got your product key. For instance, Me and Terry each have an Office 2k3 Pro disc, each with our own product key. I can borrow his disc and use my product key, and everything would be okay.

Should be okay, I don't see why it wouldn't work. It falls within the system requirements for Office 2003:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/standreq.mspx

Has the hard drive been formatted? Can you see it in the BIOS?

How do you know it's corrupted exactly? What error messages are you getting?