jbennet

You can make one in about 5 mins using visual basic or something like that ;) but im not making it for you because you sid [quote]need a virus[/quote] and i dont want you to make a virus as viruses are bad

You need to stick in the XP cd then hit F6 when it says HIT F6 FOR SCSI/RAID DRIVERS. You will need a floppy disk (only floppies work) with the SATA card driver on it (in .inf format, i think) You cant install XP on SATA without a floppy (and …

What OS are you using?

You can tweak the auto-login even more using TweakUI

You most likely wont be able to upgrade your video card. HP and Dells have very crappy power supplies (barely enough to run the system they ship with) and these are usually custom in terms of size and wiring meaning an upgrade one wont fit, or will probably fry your …

Is the motherboard toucing the case and shorting out?

What distribution are you using?

Why do more people use 1280x800 than 1280x1024? 1280x1024 is a "common" resoltution whereas 1280x800 is widescreen?

[quote]And also one thing, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.[/quote] is the key phrase here also less swearing would be nice :)

Welcome!

Welcome!

A dead motherboard or power supply sounds likely

[quote] [LIST] [*]College Seniors Failed a Basic Test on America's History and Institutions. [*]Colleges Stall Student Learning about America. [*]America's Most Prestigious Universities Performed the Worst. [*]Inadequate College Curriculum Contributes to Failure.[/LIST][/quote] Wow you american colleges mustnt be very good then. Im british and i got [B]32[/B] out of [B]60[/B] …

Wireless print server? Also the max length for usb cables is not very long

This thread is from 2005 0x00!!!

Yes, you are likely to kill yourself if you do. Get a new one

Welcome! Have you finished your book yet davey?

heres what it said about me: [quote] [LIST] [*]you are a realist. [*]you believe in tradition, are friendly, and remember dates (birthdays, etc.) [*]you are emotional and naive, they care little for details and are a risk-taker. [*]they are insecure or are living through a period of major change. [*]You …

You may need to enable it. On my dell (SATA/IDE) BIOS i get the options for: SATA 1 ENABLE/DISABLE SATA 2 ENABLE/DISABLE IDE MASTER ENABLE/DISABLE IDE SLAVE ENABLE/DISABLE by default only the SATA hdd and IDE cd drive were set to enabled

[quote=Ezzaral;429175]"Fade to Black" - Metallica[/quote] I agree! I also like the unforgiven and nothing else matters. IMHO ride the lightning was the best album (st. anger was crap and wtf was wrong with the drums/bass on and justice for all) Metallica reads like poetry Life it seems, will fade away …

Try hitting F12

i get this on my really old pc. Wont play dvds on less than like 640x480 which is shit cos it has like a 1mb graphcs card

sounds like having 3 drives is drawing too much juice. you may need to upgrade your power supply

Welcome! My biology teacher is from NZ. Hes really cool

I think that its to do with the fingerprint reader. [URL]http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Not+been+enrolled+with+the+client+security+solution&meta[/URL]=

Welcome!

[quote=Infarction;438268] I know some of you never leave the computer (jbennet, I'm talking to you :P)[/quote] :) On the computer: Generally hacking/tweaking my system into shape (a bit hard since its a dell - a.k.a crap) Programming stuff (or trying to ;) - i like VB and PHP Playing with …

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DDR3 will happen before 2010. Btw, SLI/Crossfire is overrated. I have an nVidia SLI board and the graphics performance from 2 mid-spec cards is a lot worse than just having a single top end card (and costs about the same) And i dont know about 45nm cpus sorry.

Welcome! Your bio makes you sound a lot like one of our existing members, ancient dragon, maybe he will stick his head in and say hello :)

If you dont have your instillation cd you might be able to do it another way Immediately at startup when it says dell push control + f11 and see what happens. On my dimension desktop this activates a hidden recovery partition on the disk where you can reinstall windows (you …

Okay, i think the samsung 160gb SATA drive on my dell dimension 5150 is dying I keep getting BSOD error 0x24 and the dreaded "non system disk or disk error" mesage but booting into recovery mode from the XP cd and running chkdsk /r , fixboot and fixmbr has fixed …

Are your speakers broken?

with relation to moving data it all depends on access. If you can get access via telnet or a GUI like phpmyadmin or cpanel, you can make use of MySQLs built in backup commands such as "dump" [url]http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqldump.html[/url]

Yes, its a virus. Do not buy it or they will steal your credit card details and install more viruses. Run a scan using adaware and spybot and remove it

[quote]am able to boot using a DOS bootable floppy. but m not able to move the file using DOS commands.[/quote] Because DOS doesnt do NTFS. XP is NT based not DOS based. You need an XP CD really

Use the XP cd and a floppy disk with the SATA controller/motherboard drivers on it Boot the XP cd and then you use R to get into the recovery console (like DOS) where you can run Chkdsk. I cant rememember where it is, but at some point it will say …

Yes, do as hollystyles says. Right click on the desktop and choose properties (you can also go control panel -> display) and change the selection box and slider highlighted in the attatched picture down a notch and see if it helps. SECONDLY, DO YOU HAVE ANY MAGNETS NEAR YOUR SCREEN? …

Why not media player 11? I hve over 80gb of music in it

I dont know to find it out using APT?

welcome and yeah, dont bump threads and dont make them in more than one board

Do you have any P2P like bittorrent, kazaa or limewire? Also do you have any IM running like MSN or AIM

The battery might be extinct

Tor is a proxy service? Type ifconfig in a console and tell us what it says

Welcome! I too like VB.NET and access databases I recommend the Microsoft Press books (VB 2005 Step By Step is the best)

Please tell me you didnt put the battery in the wrong way? (if so you might have killed your pc)

cant be done on windows.

Sounds like a homework question to me. A) its not illegal in all countries B) its extrememely hard to track these pirates C) the police have better things to do

[quote=cscgal;20552][I]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/I] [COLOR=green]Disable XP Boot Logo[/COLOR] It is possible to disable the XP splash screen, which will slightly speed up the overall boot process. Be aware that removing the splash screen will also cause you not to …

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