Posts by Xlphos

I do not know what a ram is.

RAM is your computer memory. it looks like this for a desktop and like this for a laptop.

Do you have a desktop or a laptop?

Does this message come up straight away or does it come up after POST (say's stuff like press del to enter setup etc...)?

No, if you want a wireless network you will need a wireless router. If you are willing to get a wireless router then you can then buy a wireless adapter for your laptop if it has a spare mini PCI-E slot. This will probably void your warranty.

You could do this but you can get a usb network adapter instead of using the PCI slot. Wireless router would still be required.

Hello, have you tried clearing CMOS?

Do you know the BIOS password?

I would recommend getting an antivirus. Maybe Comodo Free, use this permanently or until you decide which one you want.

Security is the main concern, get the computer updated install security apps and then put the additional programs on.

I am a big fan of free stuff;

OpenOffice
Firefox
CCleaner
Defraggler
Registry defrag
AVG Free
Zonealarm Free

Hello. I am wanting to share a printer between to laptops. The are both vista and we have wireless router that we use. The printer is hooked up to his computer and i am sick of always waiting for him to get off the computer so i can print or spend things to him so he can print them off. I have the printer sharing on both computers on. I try add printer to my computer and it says it cant find printer. I don't know how the network is set up I just know that i added him to the router. I don't know if that means that i have a home network set up or if i still need to figure that how. I would love some help if you feel like helping thanks

Hello

If you go to network and sharing center what does it say?
Are you both part of the same network with the same settings?

Also you must install the drivers for the printer on your machine aswell for you too be able to use it.

- Let us know if this helps.

Have you tried using CSS for the style of the page?
CSS is supposed to be used now.

instead of; position:absolute; try position:fixed; fixed is supposed to be relative to the browser window.

I find W3Schools very useful.

Maybe W3Schools will help.

I believe the difference is; height is the height and min-height is the minimum height of the image.

Lets say we have an image that is 100px high. You could load the image by writing height:50px; This will be 50px high

or you could put min-height:50px; This will be 100px high as the original image is 100px.

All min/max-height does is set the limits to one or more images.

height sets the size of an image.

-Hope this helps

If your laptop is still in warranty they should give you some CD/DVD's for free as it isn't your fault the recovery partition is corrupt and creating the disk failed.

Have you altered any partitions on the disk and have you tried making the disks again?

Try this,

Open command prompt and type shutdown -s and press enter.

This should shutdown the computer.

Let us know if it does the same as before.

I believe hard drives are limited to four primary partitions.

However you can have more partitions by using extended partitions.

For example you could have C: as a primary D,E,F & G as extended and the linux partition will be primary.

- Hope this helps

What were you thinking doing that!?

What type of RAM is it?
Do you have just one stick?

Hello BenzBoy.

Try this 000webhost for hosting your website. Its free and has no ads or any other crap on it. What you put up there is what the viewer will see.

- Hope this helps, I use this host and think it is pretty damn good.

All you need now is a FTP, How about FileZilla; I think this is a good FTP program.

Good luck creating your site.

I don't think they are compatable. You could try it though boot from pro and select repair; I don't know if it will work. If they aren't compatable it should say.

I would get a linux live CD and back up any data you want. If you could get hold of an XP home CD it would be much better, you only need to repair it.

If you can't and if your system specs are quite good you may be able to run windows 7 RC.

Honeslty I think the Microsoft download would be more better. Does the monitor work now? I got a new monitor a while back and never installed the drivers and it works fine.

Depending on the price difference I would go for the Quad. Duo approx. 3+3 = 6 wheras Quad 2.4+2.4+2.4+2.4 = 7.2. Applications maybe improved to utilise quad core more and if it where me i would be thinking, maybe if i got that quad core it would have been just that bit faster. But depending on what you are doing you may only need a duo.

Don't forget windows 7 RC is out. That maybe the OS you end up upgrading to.

I think if you go to power saving options you can reduce the CPU usage, this will stop it from getting as hot but will slow it down a bit. I did this on my laptop as my fan made a fair bit of noise too.

Did you install macromedia on OpenSUSE or on Windows?

If you want to try ubuntu I would remove the usb hard drive and install it on the hard drive.

Use the live cd to shrink the windows partition, then create two new partitions one swap and one for linux. The GRUB should be reinstalled and then you should be able to use both OSes.

I don't think it likes too boot from USB in your case, play it safe and put it on your internal hard drive.

I believe Ubuntu has an uninstall option now.

If you need advice on partition sizes let us know how much space you are using and how big your hard drive(s) is.

Hello

Did you go to start and then cilck on the power icon or did you go to start > shutdown and select shut down?

What colour is the power icon? If it is yellow then it is set to go to sleep instead of turn off.

Let us know and if it is set to sleep and I or someone else can tell you how to change it to shutdown.

hello ide,

You could run checkdisk. Open command prompt and type chkdsk /r this should fix errors on disk. Bad sectors should then be ignored and not used.

Hello

Does this help?

What drivers do you have and need?

Can you give us the full system spec EG ram, mobo, cpu etc...

You may need that driver.

Have you any problems with other websites?

Do you have hotmail? if you do try logging in. That is a service from microsoft.

It seems strange that microsoft things are blocked.

Hello

Do you know how to use CSS?

I use <DIV>'s.

in your case in the CSS I would try...

#column1
{
margin-left:0px;
width:10%;
height:100%;
position:absolute;
}

#column2
{
margin-left:10%;
width:80%;
height:100%;
position:absolute;
}

#column3
{
margin-left:90%;
width:10%;
height:100%;
position:absolute;
}

Then in the HTML...

<div id="column1">
<!--content here -->
</div>

<div id="column2">
<!--content here -->
</div>

<div id="column3">
<!--content here -->
</div>

I am not sure if it will work as you want but it will be something similar too this.

- Hope this helps.

If you get a CD you may be able to repair XP.

Have you tried navigating to Microsoft using IE.

Have you got automatic updates on?

Yes, nothing seems to work
Funny thing is the web address is correct in the browser, but it shows google.com on the screen

Have you run a virus scan?

Try opening command prompt and type ping google.com and try ping microsoft.com .

Okay can you tell me where is stops and tell me what is says.

I suggest entering safe mode with command prompt and type chkdsk /r - This will take quite a while, this will repair some errors on disk.

Do you have the XP CD?

If you have the XP CD I think you can change/install the language for US/UK english. Have a look for the language bar on next to the clock.

Did you download the US version?

Hey guys,

I have had a problem with my laptop where when started up the screen remained blank however i fixed this problem via a post on the forum so thanx for that....

....but now when the laptop is booted up it goes to the Toshiba screen where you can press F2 to go to "Setup" or F12 to go to "Multiboot" then it will go into the "Window XP" Screen with the green loading bar however soon after this the screen goes blank and remains like that despite leaving it running for a while..

im not the greatest pc user out there unlike alot on here altho if im shown/told what and ho to fix things then ill have ago, but please try not to get too technical on me will you lol

anyways thanx in advance for any help you guys throw my way

Mouse

Hello Mouse,

Have you tried safe mode? Press F8 after the startup screen and before the windows loading screen.

- Let us know if you can enter safe mode.

For now you can download updates from Here until your problem is solved.

If you are after updating to service pack 3 try This.

You'll be better off trying to update using IE as windows update uses ActiveX.

Have you tried using the windows update from the start menu?

Hello,

What is your OS Vista or XP?

How big is you hard drive?

Are you after dual booting XP and Server 03?

You could back up the file on drive 'D' format it and reinstall server on that. Or you could shrink the D partition and create a new partition and install it to there and remove the corrupt OS from the boot menu.

hi all , I have installed ubuntu 9.04 , dual boot with xp , ubuntu can read the xp files but window xp does not see linux ( ext4) . does any one know of any ext4 driver for windows xp ?
thanks

I don't think there is any mate, I use an intermediate partition to transfer files both ways. You can have a partition of NTFS or FAT32 i think.

Hello darrenw89,

From what I can see the microsofts print spooler is corrupted or missing.

have you tried running chkdsk?

perhaps a repair of the OS will help.

Reinstalling the drivers will not harm the computer and you may aswell try it.

According to this they need formatting, and yet they work fine inside a computer. Strange.

Have you just bought this?

Are you after transferring data over from them or just use them for extra storage?

If you have a linux CD that may or may not work.

If BIOS detects then It could be a windows issue.

Try going into BIOS change nothing and quit and save changes.

Is the OS XP or Vista?

Maybe its a graphics problem.

Have you any different cards to try?

Try reseating your Ram.
If you have more than one stick try them individually.

Hi

I would use OpenOffice if I were you. You can even save documents in Microsoft Word format.

As for recovery try This.

- Hope this helps.

If the HAL error persists then check out this link Here.

If you manage to fix it I suggest running that backup pretty soon.

Alright, now we know a bit more.

Can you go back into the recovery console and type chkdsk volume: /r replace 'volume' with the drive letter or just try typing chkdsk /r this should repair some errors on disk.

can anyone send me the link or material to learn CSS

I would use W3Schools

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=CSS%20tutorials

Thats an interesting way too google something, I'll have too remember that one.

I think W3Schools has some good info, check it out.

fixmbr only fixes the master boot record data will not be affected.

I Like to use Ubuntu. Download the .iso and burn it to CD using ImgBurn then boot using the CD and copy the files you want to external hard drive.

Hello denisejane,

So what you are saying is that it wants to install itunes to the drive 'J'?

Here is what is suggest...

Run the installer. Accept the licence agreement and the click next.

You will be presented with this screen...

Click on change and type the same as what is in the picture without the '(x86)' unless you know you have a 64-bit OS. This should install it on your windows drive.

- Let us know if this helps.

Yes I think that will work.

But if doesn't work you may have to reinstall the OS, if it comes to this then you can back up your data using a linux live cd.

Or If you have a large hard drive you could install XP on another partition and transfer the data over.

Boot order looks all right. RAID can be excluded as you are after booting from hard drive.

Can you get into safe mode or anything by pressing F8 after the POST screen?