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Re: this happens to me in my pc it turned out to be a combination of overheating and using too much power | |
Re: i know i joined in like 03 or 04 and im addicted | |
Re: lol i got my ICT coursework rejected by my teacher about 2 years ago cos i used visual studio with SQL and ASP.NET to make proper websites when everyone else used publisher to make naff HTML websites. apparently the markers dont know and i quote "how to mark something like … | |
Re: it may have something to do with the fact most modems have that annoying modem noise thats a sound device and i think maybe the music gets confused as to which to use | |
Did you know NT 3.51 was supported until December 31 2001? Ive got it on floppies, anyone want it? | |
Re: usb is ok with windows 95osr2 not with the standard one. OSR2 is kinda like a serive pack | |
Re: beware viewing NTFS is ok but NEVER EVER EVER write to NTFS from linux it will break it | |
Re: thats because you formatted it and wiped windows which its set to boot by default to get it to boot from the win98 cd you need to hit one of the F keys (F10 or F2 i think - its a different F key from the one for the BIOS) … | |
Re: happens to my dell seemingly the PSU speeds up its fan depending on how much power is being drawn (it assumes more power drawn means the system is working hard therefore it tries to cool it) | |
Re: on my dell certain diagnostic lights flash if the gfx card is broken | |
Re: i dont like the reuputation system as noone ever gives you any - ive got like 600 odd posts and basically no reputation have you seen the msn q&a beta dani? i think a "best answer" type system woule be good ![]() | |
Re: thanks people this was handy for my computing homework (we were seeing how may coloirs and resolutions differnent video card memories can support | |
Re: have a look in scotland too scottish unis have agreat reputation for computer science | |
Re: do you have broadband or dialup? also, if you have broadband is it cable (looks like tv ariel cable) or ADSL (phone line) | |
Re: secondly its not "linux enterprise" there is thousands of different linuxes i beloeve what you mean is either SuSE or Redhat also, why do you want to slow it down if your cables and hubs are of the slower speed your card will automatically slow itself down | |
Re: i know wifi devices are notorious i got a £17 belkin wifi card and it bluescreened my system (even with thier updated driver) - in the end i went to the chipset manufacturers website (ralink in my case) and used thier driver, and it works no probs | |
Re: thia happens to my new dell with farcry and BF2 its cold as ice and has newest software so dont know why | |
Re: the slowness is due to the built in phishing scanner - it tells u if websites ur visiting are bad (e.g spyware ridden or known be say, fake bank sites). The scanner in the bottom right section of IE7 I disabled it as i dont like the fact that it … | |
Re: its under project or tools or something under VB 2003 | |
Re: Xp -> Vista -> Codename Blackcomb -> ? | |
Re: if u want good support and stability as well as speed and easy use debian it runs fast (in my opinion the same as puppy, im using debian version etch on a 733mhz pc with 128mb of ram) its easy to install things with "apt-get-(packagex)" You can get a 40mb … | |
Re: wow youll be 24 soon its october now ill be 17 in febuary yay! provisional driving licence! | |
How would I go about maing my own linux distro for me and my friends (students)? Are there any good tutorials? ![]() | |
Re: for bf2 i like silence but not lately as my pc has begin whining :( now i like dragonforce | |
Re: i never learnt how to type properly i was born in 1990 and got started with DOS and 3.11 age like 3 so maybe thats why (rememer KidPIX? its a great DOS program) one day when i was like 14 i suddenly noticed i was typing real fast without looking. … | |
Re: no guns for us here in the uk (but my friend does have a katana | |
Re: you can use VBA for this google for it I did GCSE ICT last year (im doing AS computing now) | |
Re: im doing AS chemistry at 6th form college , its fun | |
Re: linksys wireless g router - adsl version i have the ethernet (i have cable so dont need a modem) version and its excellent cost me £35 google "BROADBANDBUYER" and you tell it your ISP and it will list routers and modems for it | |
Re: bad luck by the way may be of help to someone - i know on my NTL cable modem and my various routers that you pull out the power and put apin into the wee hole it resets all the settings to factory defaults | |
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Re: yah overheating maybe this happens on my dell when i play bf2 is this machine a novatech? my friend has one of thier barebones ones and it does this | |
Ok ive got a pci-x radeon x600 and im running a 2 monitor setup (1x vga and 1x vga with converter into the dvi port) I have an old rage3d pro can i install this second gfx card in order to use 3 monitors? | |
Re: sometimes xp lies, it says my xp constantly uses 99% but that cant be true as i can run games etc fine | |
Re: How fast is the AMD processor and what is its intel ewuivilent? 128 will just run SuSe but 300 odd - 512 is better An old fedora like version 1 will run on 128mb ram as will a fairly compact distro like debian or slackware. | |
Re: you need to mount it (give it a drive letter and tell xp what type it is) through control panel -> admin tools -> computer management -> volume management | |
Re: is the rest of your network infected? either reinstall the system OR download windows defender (its microsofts new anti-spyware tool) - also might help to use avg | |
Re: i know my isp is tryingh to blockbittorewent traffic dur to illegal music downloads but thats a pain as i use it legally for linus isos | |
Re: do you mean you have trouble going to sites you havent visited before? this may mean the dns server of your isp is down or has been reset - if your on cable broadband then go into network connections, right click on it and do repair then poweroff your modem … | |
Ok i have 2 machines These both have NICS and 3x 2 gig hdd each - these have 64mb or ram each too and are a mmx and a p2 Basically i want to be able to go into windows and see one samba share which spans all these drives … | |
Re: this used to happen on a win95 olivetti pc i used to have. the monitor never came on and the LED stayed lit- it would boot every once in a while ok and have no problems but othertimes it would do this It turned out to be a dodgy PSU | |
Ok if anyone ahs problems with vista beta or dvd images like FC5 and cant be bothred to buy alcohol 120 then use Slax Creator to mount the image as adrive then poitn VPC to it | |
Re: uh well suse10 might not be the best place to start its kinda broken | |
Ok, mods feel free to move this as its a mix of windows/software/linux/networking Ok i have a debian server running in Virtual PC - basically, can i minimie virtual pc to the tray or something so my server can be running, but not get in the way |
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