Posts by dcc

Have you tried using Last Known Good Configuration?

One of the first things I would do is to install SP2, there are important security issues that this addresses, among other issues that M$ didn't get right at the time that XP was released.

How do you change the Bios temperature so it doesnt shut down?

Those temperature settings are there to protect the CPU from overheating, if you are exceeding those limits then you need to address the problem. As Chacky wrote this just bypasses the problem, you run the risk of overheating the CPU and damaging it.

If you open zone alarm and go to program control you will see two tabs in the right top corner, if you click the program tab you should be able to have the messenger listed as trusted.

Try unplugging the cord from the wall receptacle for about five minutes, plug it back in and try it.

If you download Everest Home Edition you can monitor the temperature as seen in your BIOS, it will show you the voltages as used as well.

When you changed the HSF assembly did you change the thermal compound as well?

If you go to the web site of the manufacturer of your hdd they should have a diagnostic tool that you download and copy to a floppy, you boot from the floppy and it will tell you what shape the hdd is in.

What kind of hdd is it?

Is your PSU a 20 or a 24 + 4 connector type? If it is the 24 + 4 is the small square four pin connector connected to the motherboard?

When you look for bad capacitors you're not looking for burns, a bad electrolytic capacitor will look bloated, like a can of warm pop that has been shaken up, the top of the capacitors should be flat not domed. It may also have a liquid discharge at its base.

The reason that I'm asking specifically about the P4 connector is because CPU is powered up from it and the motherboard may not power up without it, and btw...your block tester doesn't test the output to that connector. It may tell you what is happening at the different rails but not what is going on with the wires or connectors.

What kind of weird noise, clicking, whining, rock and roll? Can you tell what part of the computer the noise is comming from?

If your PSU doesn't have enough wattage it can produce these results.

Let's try this from another angle, what make and model is your computer?

Thanks to M$ and their releasing IE7 with all of its bugs people are having problems similar to yours. One work around that seems to have worked for others is to switch the updates from automatic to manual, reboot and download updates, change back to automatic update and reboot.

Have you tried Partition Magic or Acronis Partition Manager? You should be able to get a free trial download, not recomended for dialup users, it's a large fiel.

DO NOT USE WD-40!!! This is a solvent and has NO use in a computer! What are you thinking, next you will be using duct tape to hold your case cloased.

Try what has been suggested in regards to connections, and see if you can latch the case as that seem to be one of the problems. You should also run a disk check, the sound you're hearing might well be your hdd going south.

Have you run any scans for virus, malware, spyware, trojans?

Doing a quick google on this it looks this may be a trojan, try downloading Asquared, reboot into safe mode and run a scan with it.

The Seagate Barracuda is a good hdd, if I was in the market I would deffinitely make this one of my options.

As for what NCQ is, you will have to just read this.

The PSU that you have listed is the same one that you listed in the first post in this thread, and we've already told you it would work and how to use it.

The question whether this PSU will work isn't going to be the issue, it's going to be what you are going to have in the system. With 580W you should be able to do most what ever you want...to a point.

If your friends motherboard only has a 20 pin PSU connector then you should be able to disconnect the last four pins of the 24 pin connector and use it like that. What color are the four wires on the four pin connector that you were referring to that you attached to her motherboard?

Are you trying to install your OS on two hdd at the same time?

Rather than formating why don't you use something like Kill Disk or Drive Wipe and start fresh with the installation of the OS.

If you have the CD that came with you hdd you should be able to partition it before you start the installation. I would suggest making a partition of about 15GB to 20GB for you OS and other windows applications and use the remainder for files. This way if you ever have to reinstall the OS you won't loose the rest of you files.

How much RAM do you have, and how much space do you have on your hdd? Have you defragged the hdd since you reinstalled the OS?

Is this the only drive on the IDE cable? If it is try changing the jumper on the rear from cable select to master, if it's not and it's connected to the middle (slave) connector change the jumper to slave.

The hdd from the original computer will have the drivers from that motherboard and when you install the hdd with another motherboard it will try to install the driver for that boar. This is usually more than the system can handle. The one time I tried it the OS became so buggy that it was inoperable after three reboots.

Why not just wipe the drive and reinstall the OS.

The core2duo is faster, runs cooler, and is more efficient. I'm first and always a AMD fan, but even I have to admit that at the moment Intel is the better CPU.

Hey dino...what make and model are the graphic cards, and what make and model is you PSU?

There is only the one P4 four pin connector ( two yellow and two black wires) which connects next to the CPU and only goes on one way.

There is only one 24 pin connector, and you know where it goes, and it too will only go in one way. In the picture I saw of you PSU I couldn't tell if it has a detachable four pin section so that it can be used with older 20 pin motherboards, my PSU has that feature, it just slides up and off. You will want that connected to the other 20 pin connector. Some 24 pin motherboards will not power up properly without the other four pins.

Goldeagle2005...your response wasn't posted at the time I was looking up his PSU, but it's good to see that great minds think alike. ;)

Is your PSU a 20 or a 24 + 4 connector type? If it is the 24 + 4 is the small square four pin connector connected to the motherboard?

I found this on my first try at googling the motherboard.:cool:

Two things to look for on the motherboard would be bad caps and burnt traces which would be signs of a short.

interesting.... Because my laptop uses DDR RAM and this SO-DIMM came out of a printer..

DDR means double data rate, opposed to SDM and DDR2, this has nothing to do with OS DIMM. SO DIMM means small outline dual inline memory module, these modules are about half the size of the modules used in desktops.

Actually, most of the confusion was in the 2 different pics of the 24 pin Molex connectors, one showing the numbers going around in the opposite direction than the other. Not sure whats up with that??

Dougie

I didn't even take the pin configuration into consideration as there is only one green wire in the harness, makes it pretty straight forward.:rolleyes:

A momentary switch is differentiated from a on/off switch in that a on/off switch when placed in the on position will stay there until you turn it to the off position. A momentary switch only stays closed/on as long as you push the button. The power button on your case is a momentary switch.

You wrote that the LED lites up on the motherboard when it's powered, but that nothing else happens. Does this mean the CPU fan doesn't spin? If this is the case you may have a problem with the motherboard.

That could be hard on the lithium ion batteries, they don't like to be completely discharged, I wish you luck. You also may want to look at the CMOS battery, it sound like that may have gone as well.

Sorry you had some confusion, I should have just said the green wire and a black wire, there's only one green wire in the bundle.

Glad to hear that you got it sorted out.

Have you metered out the momentary switch? If you don't have a meter disconnect the switch from the header and short the two terminals and see if it fires up. Remember that it's a momentary switch action, so just make a quick contact between the two terminals.

Did this start after a M$ automatic update? There are several references to this being the problem related to that error code. The work around for this is to turn off automatic updates, reboot, then manually go to windows updates and install the updates, turn on automatic updates, reboot.

an old win98 version of easy cd creator isn't going to burn dvd's anyways ,the dvd drive should have come with dvd burning software ,if not ,you got ripped off !!goto store and demand software !

Where have you been shopping?:eek: I have two NEC 3550As that I bought from Newegg and neither one of them came with bundled software.

clm dn mn itz gna b ok
i rly ht thz crp 2...

I got it!

Another peeve I have. I hate reading a message broken up with lol. It's getting to be totally meaningless and awkward to read. For one, lol looks like it should be part of the sentence, whereas LOL you know is not a word. Or better yet :lol: but in moderation.

Another similar thing is when people say "I'm so stupid lol" or some other self-denigrating statement. Laughing when you do something dumb is OK, but making a statement about being dumb and laughing about it IMHO is :sad:.

Also :rolleyes: I hate :evil: when people put :)'s after every :-| few words :confused: :mad:

There is another one like that you like might want to like add to the like list. How absurd.

Then there are the self depredicating blonds. I'm not sure, but isn't that an oxymoron?:cheesy:

We will just have to hope the kids are none smokers.;)

tdale wrote...Another dumb question...let's say that I change power supply and it still doesnt turn on. Can I make the drive a slave without having power to the unit.

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#1Yes, it's setting one jumber on the back of the drive.

#2)For your PSU: Big change you just blew your fuse.. That's what it's there for. Repare costs 5 bucks I guess. Don't try it yourself, the capacitors might still be charged and if you're unlucky they will hurt you very bad.

#1)What are you planning on using this hdd in if it's to be used as a slave drive? In any application you will need to have it powered via the four pin molex connector. What Nick was referring to is the jumper on the rear of the hdd which changes the configuration from channel select to master or slave depending on the location of the jumper. There is a diagram usually found on the top of the hdd which shows the jumper configurations.

#2)There is a slim chance that could have happened, but not likely as the PSU was set to be used on 230V, so it didn't see a overwhelming amount of voltage. The capacitors on most all PSUs are pc mounted with the potential being underneath the board making it a little bit hard to discharge them directly, but it still can be done. The charge on these capacitors will last for many weeks, don't believe it if someone tells …

This is one of my pet peeves as well, with all the toolbars with spell check there isn't any reason for misspelled words. Unfortunately there isn't a grammar check at this time...at least not in my google toolbar.:lol: My biggest problem is getting caught up in the moment and writing run on sentences that seem to go on forever with no end in sight when it would be a simple matter of applying punctuation or just starting another sentence if I remember while I'm in the throws of impassioned writing.:eek:

I have to agree that text messaging does seem to have a detrimental effect on the written form of English, u no wt i mn?

In my previous post I stated that I spoke English like a native followed with the word "how". When I was growing up in the fifties the usual response from the Indian when greeted in a western was either ugh or how. I chose how because one of my favorite plays on this response to the reply was in a Groucho Marx movie where the Indian raised his hand palm forward and spoke "how", Groucho without missing a beat replied "three minutes and leave them in the shell".;)

It's so sad when you need to explain something that was intended to be humorous.

You will have to short the PSON to ground.

http://pinouts.ru/Power/atxpower_pinout.shtml

To be specific you need to short pin 14 (Green wire) to any ground (black wire).

The fan connector on the motherboard may have a fail-safe feature which detects the presence of the fan and will shut the system down in its absence. You can purchase and install a intake fan in the front of most cases that will satisfy this, you will need to buy a fan that has the same type three pin/wire connector that the motherboard has. The third wire is the sense wire and is a must in this application.

You will have to short the PSON to ground.

http://pinouts.ru/Power/atxpower_pinout.shtml

You can have M$ send you a CD with the SP2 for two dollars as I recall, even with dial up that is a large download. If you install the SP2 that should update some of the security issues.

I am good at English. Honestly I am.

I speak English like a native...how.:rolleyes:

Thanks once again, I hope if I ever have a mental lapse like that someone will take similar action. I get enough spam without inviting it.

I'm sure the rexluporum was implying that this should be done in the safe mode, but I will point out the obvious just to be sure.

I you don't find anything when you run the scan/s you might try using the last known good configuration, if that fails you can try a system restore.

Hi happygeek, I think that this is probably a little late as it has been posted for a week now. I had used that address to explain that she was inviting anyone from around the world to email her what ever they wish, and that she might consider editing it out. She did not reply to either the email or in her thread and hasn't returned as of this morning. If you still wish to modify the post it can be found here.

Thank you, dcc

if you don't get a response, that doesn't mean it isn't being read and acted upon.
PMs like that will likely be read and acted upon, but you won't get a response telling you so.
PMs asking for personal help or other favours will however be discarded.

Just for the record, the thread is still active and has been since 01/01/07, and there hasn't been any change to that email address. I know better than to ask for favours, and I never anticipate receiving a response, and I find it curious that you feel that you need to explain this to me.

Thanks Dani, I will remember that for the next time.:cheesy:

Please check the event viewer and tell us what it shows at the time that this is happening. Show what appears under Source and event.

It's not unusuall to get the occasional corrupted download, these things happen. I've had problems installing drivers from a CD, and even W2k which I've used many times in the past, this one time it wouldn't recognize the product code. Go figure.

It's true that you shouldn't PM the mods with "frivolous" messages, but if they have the time to post a public rebuke they should also have the time to respond to your question in the forum.

When you take a hdd that has been used with another motherboard there are drivers that it is used to seeing, and when you install it with another motherboard it tries to recognize the new drivers from that board, this confuses the hell out of it. Sometimes the hdd can recover from this, other times it can damage the registry.