Posts by alc6379

You didn't smell anything, did you? If you just built it, you might not have installed your heatsink correctly.

I hope you don't mind me cutting and pasting my advice from another thread, but it applies here, too:

Strip the system down to motherboard and processor. Disconnect all external peripherals, and disconnect the power and IDE cables from the motherboard. Remove the PCI and AGP cards as well. This way, you can trace back step-by-step what part could be causing the failure.

I would suspect an incompatibility, personally. Is swapping/returning for credit an option on that RAM?

What kind of motherboard is this, and what is the pattern of beeping?

Those are the first two questions I'd be asking. Once we get this information, we'd be able to tell what was going on, as those beeps often key you into what particular component has failed.

Failing that, strip the system down to motherboard and processor. Disconnect all external peripherals, and disconnect the power and IDE cables from the motherboard. Remove the PCI and AGP cards as well. If it's still beeping, then you'll have at least isolated it down to either the power supply, motherboard, or processor.

Does the fan on the processor spin at all?

Additionally, if the Mouse will still move, but the system just doesn't respond, it's more than likely a software problem, and not one of hardware. If it were a hardware problem, the system would likely lock hard, and the mouse wouldn't move at all, either.

Is the board dual channel? It sounds like that memory just might not be compatible with the board. I'd look at RMA'ing it, or at least trading a friend, etc.

OK, Next time I will use my grammar classes I took 15 years ago and apply them to the heading of my message. Good Day.

It will be greatly appreciated-- it's not that we have some kind of rule about it here, I'm just trying to ensure that everyone knows the best ways to get other members to read and respond to your posts. :)

Please name your threads more suitably in the future.

Help Me Please!!!!!!! tells us nothing about what your issue is. "Please help me solve my random restarts" might have been more appropriate.

I don't think it would really matter on that-- how does it run in the actual bash shell? If I were you, I'd run it in bash, and then see what errors, if any, occured. Fix them, and you'll be in good shape on either editor.

I'd hope that gedit or kwrite, either of them, would use the actual interpreter from the bash shell, so it would all be the same.

Got any links? I've never heard of one, but with a lifetime warranty, I would at least consider dropping one in a server box that I'd never touch.

<edit> Just checked out their website, did a Google search. Never used one, or know anybody that used one, but if you don't plan on doing anything like overclocking, it might be pretty nice.

Come on, 100mhz?

We're not talking the difference between a Pentium Pro and a Pentium 2 here-- we're talking a 4.5% increase in speed. I really doubt that's going to yield even a difference that you could notice on a chip like that.

Heat's always a factor, but I've never really had to crank up my Tornado on my AthlonXP 2500 (usually run it on lowest, cools just fine) unless I'm upping voltages, really. And, even then with the cooling setup I've got, I don't even really need to, because I run at around 39degC under load, and I might bump up to 42-43 if I start fooling with voltages. Looking at that, I'm still WAY under any threshold for thermal issues, but that's because I've beefed-up my heatsink a good bit. Given sufficient cooling, (I like Swiftech's coolers, many people like Thermaltake's for air cooling) "burning out" your processor shouldn't be a concern, especially not with such a small overclock.

By the way, what type of heatsink, fan, and thermal compound are you using?

http://www.frozencpu.com/scan/se=Water%20Cooling/mp=menu_search_top.html?id=yRtdy8bk
http://sidewindercomputers.com/waterblocks.html

You should be able to use your same pump, reservior and tubing with a new waterblock. In fact, companies out there make waterblocks just for this application.

disclaimer: I just picked these two links out because I use them semi-frequently. There may be better and/or cheaper options out there.

ok, since nobody seems to know, is the only reason the hp mobo proprietary because it doesnt fit the case? Could i just buy a different brand mobo same socket and just kinda hang it out the case? it might be "ghetto" but its ok, i just need to know if a different brand mobo will work with all the HP components i.e. psu, ram, processor, pci cards etc.

If I were you, I'd just yank all of the usable parts out of the HP, buy a new case and mobo, and install it all in the new case. Cases are cheap, (you can get one for $30 with PSU if you're not choosy) and all of your old HP parts (with the exception of the heatsink on the processor) should work on a new motherboard.

My brother (an MSCE technitian) still insits Socket A is on the way out so its irrelivant really. the new semp is the one to as like you said it is on the Socket 754 NOT the Socket A which the XP is on. btw I DID mean the newer semps on skt 754 so i was right surely?

No offense, but MCSE means that you're competant with Microsoft software, not neccesarily hardware. Not inferring that your brother's this way, but I've seen MCSE's who'd just assume sit on the floor, and cry while rocking back and forth than install a new hard drive in a system.

I agree with Coconut Monkey: Socket A can still be a very attractive platform. But, I would disagree for a "budget" platform-- If I were to build a brand-new system, I still might consider going for an Athlon XP Socket A system, as the price point is still there, and the performance isn't stinky, or anything.

Sure, your Athlon64 3200+ with a 6800 Ultra will spank my Barton 2500XP with an FX5700LE card frame-for-frame in any game, but when we're talking "normal" usage, you may as well keep running an 800mhz PIII or Athlon.

Socket A and even Socket 370 boards are still being manufactured, and the market is still healthy for them, in my opinion. Even though the new system I'll build in the next year or so will likely be 64-bit, I wouldn't feel like I short-changed myself …

Caperjack's suggestion is one thing to try, and here's another:

Sometimes power supplies have circuit breakers in them. Try simply unplugging the system for 2 minutes.

If that doesn't work, disconnect all external devices, unplug all of your drives, remove your RAM, and remove all PCI/AGP cards. Then, see if you get a light. If not, then you've more than likely got either a problem with your power supply or the motherboard. I hope you're still in warranty!

On Dells, that light is called a "flea power" light. It generally indicates that the ATX connections on the board are supplying power, so when you hit the button, it should respond.

Have you run CHKDSK on your hard drive recently? If it's hanging, there might be something going on with the hard drive, or the filesystem on the drive. As far as those errors with OE are concerned, are you running Norton, or some type of email scanning program? When was your last virus scan performed?

Also, on how much RAM to have: The more the merrier. But, you're right, if at most you never take up more than 300 MB worth of programs, over 512MB of memory probably won't do you any good.

I would actually tend to agree with these statements. The only thing that I can say is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

But, there are some things that you can do to make your computer "seem" faster. Uninstall programs that run in memory if you don't use them, or disable them from starting up if you don't use them frequently. Run a browser like Firefox that allows you to modify how the browser acts so it more effectively uses the bandwidth you have available. Make sure spyware and other garbage isn't cluttering up your system, and if you're running FAT32, defrag every now and then.

There are quite a few things you can do like I listed above, but none are really "tweaks", per se, they're just good computing habits.

Try hitting "ctrl-alt-del" and then hitting del again. It should take you to a login screen, where you might be able to type in a user name.

Have you tried logging into safe mode yet? You might still have access to the Administrator account.

Also, you have to watch carefully. If you've already followed caperjack's advice, there's a little message that will show up, saying

Press any key to boot from CD.

This differs from the Windows ME/98 install CDs, which bring up little menus, asking what you want to do. To my recollection, 2000,XP, and 2003 server all use this new method to choose booting from CD.

Alex,

While I Agree with it being taboo to alter a dynamic link library, however, it seems to me that the resource kit changes the logo for IE (and from what I can tell, IE only). This doesn't solve the problem of changing the animated logo in the "my computer" window (and the others like it). It's quite a difficult task, understandably confusing, and if there is a solution that is more elegant, I, personally would like to use it.

Actually, if you look through that link I provided, there is a section regarding the animated logo in the corner. It was towards the bottom, if I recall correctly. I know it can't be too difficult, since dozens of ISPs use that space for customization.

What are the specs of your system?

It's possible you could have a hardware issue, like bad RAM, or a video card going funky. When did this happen? Have you made any hardware/software changes on the system recently, like a driver update?

So, did we change hosting companies, or just servers?

cdt1983, next time just go for it

you can always re format your hard drive later

That's kind of um, dumb advice, no offense.

"Just going for it" might not have helped him. What if he burned the CD the wrong way? The he wouldn't have been able to even boot from the CD.

the reason i need help is beccause i need to hand it in soon, that why

I know.

But, instead of posting it to a forum, get to coding. Someone here might be able to help you, but I'm focused on how your post seemed to convey a sense of urgency that we're not required to share here.

We're a free help forum. If we don't help you in time, you got what you paid for.

Sure, you probably just disabled that in Folder options. Open My Computer, then click on "Tools" -> and then "Folder Options..." There should be an option that says "Show hidden files and folders" under the View tab. Check that, and then hit OK. They should show back up.

Are you actually running a domain? If you're running a domain using Roaming Profiles, you could just put this link into their roaming profile.

You could just as easily run this in a workgroup setting, without AD, and use Local Users and Groups. That's probably what I'd do in your situation. It's probably just more straightforward to create the requisite users, set up individual shares and permissions, and then have each of them create a link to their share in My Network Places on their local machines.

Given the description you've provided, Media Center might be a good choice, if you can find it retail. Basically, all Media Center is is XP Pro, without Group Policy and the ability to log into a Domain. So, I'd personally spring for Media Center, and have the (mostly) best of both worlds.

It's because you're not running at your optimal resolution in Safe Mode. Certain laptops have software that will "stretch" the picture to fit, but it normally doesn't help in Safe Mode. Essentially, you're supposed to run at some really high resolution (like 1400 x 1050 for SXGA+) and that will fill up the screen, but running at 800x600, or 640x480 in Safe mode won't. This behaviour is dependant on what type of screen you've got.

If turning hardware acceleration off helped the issue, then it could have something to do with your video card, or your video drivers. Have you updated the drivers, or changed your video card recently?

It sounds like you might have an issue with a function called overlay, which is a process your video card would use to perform MPEG decompression, and other tasks.

What is the description along with those events? That can tell us more about what is going on. Also, what section are they in? Security? System? Application?

If all you need to do is start your computer in Safe Mode, hit the <F8> key just before Windows should load up. It will present you with a menu to chose Safe Mode.

I personally wouldn't feel comfortable recommending someone modify a DLL file in the way you've described. Most people don't know this, but nearly everything in Windows is customizable by some kind of script, WMI control, group policy, or registry setting. Try these links I've found from the Internet Explorer Resource Kit:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/ie/6/all/reskit/en-us/part5/c20ie6rk.mspx

Apparently, if you have the Resource Kit (Don't ask me where to get that from), you can change all of this stuff through some type of Wizard. They make these things available for ISPs (Comcast is one, for instance), so they can rebrand IE to suit their own brand identity, so you think you're on "their" Internet.

Have you checked out what's happening in the User Accounts control panel? Do the accounts still have names there?

If you haven't installed anything or changed any settings, it might be the work of spyware and viruses. Run a scan with some spyware and virus scanners. Also, try running System Restore back to a date when you had user names displayed.

i need example, i need the code, as soon as possible

That's nice. I need a new car, I need the vehicle, as soon as possible. Let's both sit here and wait to see who gets one first.

It's okay to post a question like this, as you've shown some effort, but it's still considered rude to insist that someone help you ASAP when others have been here before you, waiting patiently.

So then i can move around and do my develepment in any pc? Sounds kool but i think while installing Visual C++ .NET the installer creates some additional file in the windows directory and some other system locations. Suppose I have WindowsXP installed in C drive and i install only Visual C++.NET in my USB hard drive. Now can i run visual C++ by plugging the usb harddrive into any pc(win 2000/win XP)? I have never worked with a USB hard-drive and i apologise in advance if i said something stupid.

You probably won't be able to do as you've described. But, you should be able to at least install the actual program files to the hard drive, if available space was a concern.

i didn't know that. are you sure??

I'm pretty sure. I've done it before in fact. I can't remember the exact steps off-hand, but you have a few stages that you can work with Python scripts. Once of those ways involved making an executable that contained all the code from the Python interpreter that the bytecode needed to run. If I remember to, I'll pull out one of my Python books and figure out again how it was done.

That figure just for VC++.NET doesn't startle me too much. My "Typical" install of the entire Visual Studio.NET Enterprise Architect takes up nearly 5 GB if you count the MSDN documentaton.

What's that smell? Oh yeah, the smell of a dead thread resurrected! :o

Oh well, no bother. It's still topical, I guess. I have a Yahoo! messenger account, but I never use it. I can't stand the amount of spamming I get from it...

I'm sometimes on AIM as alc6379. If you can catch me, you're welcome to give me a holler.

The EULA for Windows XP Home states that you can install it on one single processor machine, at any one time. Basically, you can install it on another machine, activate it just as normal, and you'll never notice anything. However, if you ever load up your other machine running XP Home, it will want to reactivate, which will result in the other machine needing to reactivate next time... etc.

XP Pro's EULA is about the same, with the exception of Network installs, multiprocessor systems, and the number of network connections it can have. As far as I know, you can upgrade XP Home or Pro until the cows come home, too, provided the upgrade is a "Valid" upgrade path. Like, upgrading from XP Home to Server 2003 wouldn't be a valid upgrade-- you'd have to reformat and reinstall, and you'd likely need retail media.

So long as you're within the confines of the EULA with terms of how many copies you have running (one at a time for a single license), it doesn't matter how many times you've installed it in the past either. I've got an MSDN license (10 users per copy) of XP Pro, and I've at least done 20 reinstalls with it now, and I've had no problems.

Newegg.com , tigerdirect.com , amazon.com only you can pick the design you like lol. Look for one with a built in powersupply if you can. But your lookign at oly 60 bucks so well see what we can do.
http://newegg.com/app/manufact.asp?catalog=7&DEPA=1 (start here)
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=property&DEPA=1
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theres alot. just keep looking.

60 quid is more than 60 bucks, mind you right now, I think a pound is worth about $1.90 US. So, he's got around $120 US to spend.

You can still have the password to the account, but if the files are encrypted, you're out of luck. The only way you encrypt files/folders is if you go into the Advanced options on your folder and tell it "Encrypt the contents of this folder".

The tech was wrong, though. You can assign a password to a user account, and their data will still be available to look at. Unless it's encrypted, that is. If it's encrypted, only the user who encrypted it (the actual userid, not just the same username or password) will be able to access it. If this is the case, you're going to be in bad shape.

When I mention Administrator, it's an actual account set up by default on your system. There's your names you set, (say, jazzbo, user2, user3, etc), and you can put them in the Administrators group, but the Administrator account has full access to everything on the system, and normally supercedes any file permissions in place on a hard drive. If any account would be able to access them, it would be that one. Some systems, though, only allow you to use Administrator in Safe Mode, which is okay for this purpose.

I think I know where Comatose was going with the Unix bit. If the files aren't encrypted, you could use some bootable LiveCD like Knoppix to access the drive, and copy the data off somewhere else. But again, even that won't work if encryption is in …

I've "modded" my case, but for purely functional reasons:

2 holes in the side panel to accomodate two 92mm Vantec tornados
holes drilled in the front for better air intake from the front 80mm fans on my hard drives.

Like someone else mentioned, my system's under a desk, so I don't care about the looks of it. I do have 2-3 LED fans in my box, but that's just because they happened to come on some device I was installing in the system, not some aesthetic decision.

You can make money off your blog too, with adwords from Google :D

Not on this site. It's something within the forum; on your own blog site, you can do whatever you want, really.

Did you encrypt them or something? If you did, there's not going to be much of a way to get them off, as that's kind of the point of the encryption. But, if it's just a permissions problem, logging in as the real Administrator account might allow access to them.

Why not just use VNC?

http://www.realvnc.com/

It's free, and does the same thing. You have to install a client program on the machine you're accessing from, but that's no big deal-- I've seen Java clients for this, too, so it can be web-based if need be.

That's the SASSER virus. Run Stinger:

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger

...moving to Security forum!

Why didn't I close this thread initially as off-topic?

It's cool to post stuff like this, just in the appropriate forum. Feel free to take this discussion to the Geek's Lounge, where off-topic discussion is welcomed.

Just as a side question, does C++ support regular expressions and/or regex matching?

Just by searching Google with the terms "c++" + "regexp", I came up with a header called <regexp.h> , for whatever that's worth.

Try this:

• Ensure monitor connections are secure to the video card
• Reseat the video card
• Try a different video card.
• Attach the monitor to a different computer, see if it gets video there.

The USB device might have had something to do with it, but I'm somewhat doubtful. This should be troubleshoot just like any other no video issue initially. Do you get any video at all (BIOS Startup messages, etc), or nothing?

Alright so should i just put another coat of grease on?

You can do that, just be sure to clean the old layer off with alcohol or something similar.

AWESOME fix-- I can attest to this fix working-- my wife's machine had the same issue some time ago, and it works great afterwards!