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| | Hi Rachel, and welcome to DaniWeb. This is not good news, this is usually indicative of a failing hdd. If it still works start transferring the files you want to save either to another hdd or DVD. Usually when they start making this kind of noise they are on the … |
| | I started the thread regarding the shooting a Va. Tech, and this evening I received the following message from cscgal telling me that it had been closed. [B]Hi dcc, The following thread that you created has been closed ----- Thread: Shooting at Virginia Tech Forum: Geek's Lounge ----- It is …  |
| | What can one say, they have too much time on their hands? The obvious problem with threads that are several months to several years old is that the problem has already been taken care of in one fashion or another. There's always the possibility that the member doesn't even return …  |
 | As you may have figured out most people will see a hijack this file and will run the other direction, it is also helpful to place it in the proper forum if you want it to be read. If you have only run scans with Norton and Adaware then you … |
| | Thirty two people were shot to death today at Virginia Tech, twenty five others were wounded, and the gun man took his own life. I'm speechless.  |
| | Did you format and partition the hdd? |
| | Hi nm1234, and welcome to Dani Web. I know that the people at this site are good, but we are not psychic. :rolleyes: Care to share with us what make and model your computer is???? Usually beep codes come from the motherboard, look in you user's guide and see what …  |
| | The following can cause the CPU to over heat. 1. The heat sink fan isn't working. 2. The heat sink isn't firmly attached to CPU. 3. The thermal compound between the CPU and heat sink is inadequate. 4. Accumulated dust interfering with the air flow. Check for these and let … |
| | Another possibility would be bad caps. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague]This[/url] article will show you what to look for. |
| | If your hard drive is installed in a PC running Windows XP, you can go to Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Storage - Disk Management. You can then right click and remove the partition that you want. You then can right click on that and restore … |
| | alc6379...I have to disagree with placing the DVD and the hdd on the same IDE calbe, this means that the slower drive is going to dictate the speed for both devices. I would place the CD and DVD on the same IDE cable and leave the hdd one a cable … |
| | Please list the error code, my winrar free trial expired and I'm not interested in pursuing it at this time. |
| | Where it say all floopy drives are disabled try enabling it. |
 | What motherboard are you going to use? |
| | Having more RAM is important in ripping and burning movies, but there are other variables. The length of the movie, the type of encryption, the amount of space you have on your hdd. I have about two hundred movies backed up on my media computer for my home theatre, and … |
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| | The quick way would be to use a utility like [url=http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Disk_Maintenance_and_Repair_Utilities/WipeDrive.html]WipeDrive[/url] to wipe the hdd and then format and partition the hdd and reinstall the OS. |
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| | Try wiping the hdd with something like [url=http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Disk_Maintenance_and_Repair_Utilities/WipeDrive.html]WipeDrive[/url] and start with a fresh format and partitioning. |
| | There are no jumpers for master or slave on SATA drives. Is the hdd seen in the device manager? |
| | My free trial with Panda Antivirus Platinum is twenty two days away from expiring, and I'm not 100% sold on them, there were some less than satisfactory events. I have a grand total of six months experience with my home computer, so I'm going to have to rely on our …  |
| | I found the following PM today and wanted to share it with you all, it is a scam. Has anyone else received this message? From Miss Anne Marie Bayo. 13 Hours Ago From Miss Anne Marie Bayo. Abidjan. Cote D'Ivoire Email: (annemariebayo1@yahoo.fr) West Africa Dearest One, I am the only …  |
| | How much RAM do you have in that older board? Insufficient RAM can cause freezes like that, especially with XP which is a resource hog. You can reduce the drain on the RAM by only having one page open at a time. Another thing to look for with older boards … |
| | Re: OS removal There are a couple of ways to go about this. One would be to use a utility like Partition magic to remove it. The second is the easiest, either reformat or wipe the drive with something like Wipe Drive, partition the hdd and reinstall the OS. |
| | I guess you could say that RAM is like cars, some are better than others, some are more expensive, and there are lots of different manufacturers. There are high performance cars that cost more yet, and the same can be said for RAM. You can find less expensive modules and …  |
| | Re: cd-dvd freezing It would help if you could provide the readers with some basic specs, what software were you using, what make and model is you burner... |
| | Hi Jim, and welcome to DaniWeb. You're on the right track, use the voltmeter to see if you have the proper voltages. If I'm not mistaken you have two fans, a case fan and a CPU fan, and both should be spinning when you start the computer. One fan failing … |
| | With the known good PSU installed and its fan doesn't spin up it looks like the motherboard. The PSU requires the motherboard to make contact between the green power on wire and ground in order to turn on the PSU. Another thought here, try jumping out the on/off header and … |
| | Some drives and players are confused by DVD-RW media's lower reflectivity into thinking it's a dual-layer disc. In other cases the drive or player doesn't recognize the disc format code and doesn't even try to read the disc. mechbas...what is the difference in technology used to burn DVDR and DVDRW?  |
| | Please provide us with the make and model of you computer, or motherboard if it's a home brew. |
 | Look on the bottom and see if there is a panel cover held in place with screws, if there aren't it most likely will be as caperjack described.  |
| | Does you computer go directly to the BIOS without going through the POST? While you're in the BIOS can you navigate with the enter, up/down, esc, +/- keys? Can you exit it by pressing F10,Y, and enter? |
| | I see that the hijackthis log shows that you have SP2, so I guess we can discount that being the culprit. I had to laugh, I tried to use the help link that was provided in the log...it didn't work. I did a little digging around and found [url=http://slees.net/2006/09/16/fix-to-faulting-application-svchostexe-version-5126002180-faulting-module-netapi32dll-version-5126002180-fault-address-0%c3%970000a3c0/]this[/url], I … |
| | If it is a USB keyboard and it is not enabled in the BIOS and was working previously you may want to consider replacing the CMOS battery. |
| | When you say that you settings are changed are you referring to the settings in the BIOS? If it is change the CMOS battery. Your problem could be your RAM or PSU. You could download and run [url=http://www.memtest86.com/]Memtest 86[/url] to check out your RAM. As for the PSU, if you … |
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| | Read [url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828031]this[/url] and see if it helps. As for the SP2, as I recall you can't uninstall it or reinstall over it. What was the original problem? |
| | What you are describing are double sided module, your motherboard may not be compatible those module. You may have to phone HP to find out. If you can see if you can get you money back. This is one of the reasons that I will not buy from Ebay. |
| | Re: How hard is it? There should be a square four pin connector next to the CPU, that is where it goes. jbennet...how many post have you made??? And you ask these questions without providing us with information that is a must in order to help?!? The manual should have instructions for wiring the header. …  |
| | Did you reformat and partition the drive first? |
| | Re: Please Help Me ! Did this hdd have a OS on it when you received it? Did you format and partition it prior to installing the OS? |
| | I found this, hope it's what you were looking for. -Click Start, Select "Run" -Type "GPedit.msc" -Expand the "local computer policy" branch -Expand the administrative templates" branch -Expand the "network branch" -Highlight the "QoS Packet Scheduler" in the left window -In the right window, double-click the "limit reservable bandwidth" setting … |
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| | If it will burn the DVDs I don't think your problem is the drive, have you tried reinstalling the drivers? What software are you using and what are you trying to burn? |
 | Your're on the right track, the width of the CPU’s address bus determines the maximum amount of RAM that can be used. If you want to read more about this go [url=http://www.karbosguide.com/books/pcarchitecture/chapter21.htm]here[/url]. The other determining factor is the OS, W2k and XP have a limit of 4GB, but with Vista … |
| | Go to [url=http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/1393b.aspx]this[/url] site and scroll down till you find Correcting Problems by Using Chkdsk and read what is there. |
| | That socket 755 will require DDR2 533/667/800MHz memory, so yes you will need to upgrade your RAM as well. |
| | As you may have already figured out the BIOS will not recognize a hdd that large in a system that old. You are probably looking at a limit of 10MB to 20MB. Try downloading [url=http://www.shareup.com/SIW-download-23742.html]SIW[/url] and see what the BIOS is and then google it to find out the max … |
| | Re: Psu Overload? I guess you now realize that you should try hot swapping items in the case. Not knowing what happened to the PSU when it went bang, all I can say is yes there is a possibility that other components could have been effected. You won't know until you install the … |
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