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 | You said they both lose connection when you try to download, did this just start happening when you connected the laptop? If I'm understanding this right, the desktop can download fine, but the laptop crashes the whole thing when it tries: I'd think this is an issue with ports, which … |
 | There are CD bootable versions of XP available, but their legality is questionable at best, but google it if you're interested. You can use a CD bootable Linux distrobution as salim suggested (not all can work with NTFS, but I'm assuming PCLinuxOS can if he suggested it). The third option … |
| | Re: %SystemDrive% A desktop folder shouldn't be system critical. view the contents of the folder (from safemode wouldn't be a bad idea if you're worried it's a virus) if it looks like junk move it to the recycle bin, if it looks important change the name and reboot. If you have trouble … |
| | I think you're talking about something like a "configurator" script? It's where, rather than listing every variation of a product and letting a customer choose one, you let a customer make upgrades or changes to a product before ordering Examples: no customization; size 11 brown shoe size 11 black shoe … |
| | That's a file for a Mac, .DMG is not a windows format it's for Mac (and I believe can be relevent to linux, but I could be wrong) and the file indicates it's for an Imac. If you have a dedicated video card you probably want to go to Nvidia.com … |
 | Shockwave assault was the s**t, never played it on straight up DOS, but it was a DOS/Windows game that ran using DOS |
 | There are two kinds of benchmarks in use today: Synthetic benchmarks run a series of tasks and score how well they perform. Real-world benchmarks monitor frame rate and other performance indicators during actual use of the system (usually game-play) and give you the informations (FPS) or a score. There is … |
| | look at the network adapter, are both lights going? if not it could be a bad cord/device/NIC. If you have a CD bootable Linux disk (everyone should) you can boot to that and see if it will work, that'll tell you if it's hardware or software. |
| | Are you using a premium version of Vista? Drive encryption could cause this. I've never seen what happens when you enable drive encryption but that would be my best bet. If you are using vista, look into drive encryption. If you're not specify your operating system and we'll work from … |
| | Most comp[lex software wont install in safemode. Uninstall AVG from safemode and restart. If it goes to your desktop you know that was the problem and you can reinstall (or install a different program) from standard mode. |
| | I agree with compdoc, try switching out the Memory. You've done about all the troubleshooting I could suggest but here's what's left: Try a CD bootable OS, Linux live CD or miniPE BartPE (if you're comfortable with the questionable leval situation), ect,... You could also try installing the OS on … |
| | Did you try switching the HDD's to secondary and the CD/DVD to primary IDEs? If it's a problem with the IDE controller it wouldn't matter if there the cable was good or not. Did you try the windows disk in both drives? sometimes a bad drive can mess up an … |
 | Re: software memory As far as I know there's no way. The program will use what it needs to and the OS will manage providing it. If your software is dropping to virtually no memory usage and not responding it means it's crashed. Try reinstalling it. |
| | Re: buetooth There are som MINI PCI network cards that have built in Bluetooth. Check on ebay or in online shops looking for "wireles+bluetooth+MINi PCI" Here is an example of what you would want to find. [url]http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=bluetooth+mini+pci&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=1537245932356196134&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&resnum=1&ct=result[/url] |
| | There are a lot of factors: Do you mean you wont be assigned an IP (you're stuck with dynamic) or that you wont be provided with it (you need to find it on your own via the modem/gateways managment account) Will this connection be for the infrastructure, for web access … |
| | Re: about vista What in particular would you like to know? If you don't have specific questions it would be easier for you to just check out Microsofts site. My impressions from my time with vista (I worked with it a little in Beta, and adopted early on as a secondary os): It … |
| | How to do it depends on your router model, What's the brand and model? There will be a setting that says something like LAN IP settings, or DHCP settings. You can set the IP range it will assign here. |
| | Is the internet down on both your computers? Try resetting the modem then the router, there are ways to check connectivity through the routers control pages, but it's specific to model and I don't have that info so resetting is probably the best bet. Your firewall being enabled shouldn't change … |
| | We just covered this post about connecting a laptop without a network card to a network, it has most (if not all) the info you'd need. [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post637159.html#post637159[/url] The short of it is that the easiest way is to pick up a network adapter (Cardbus or USB) you can get them … |
| | I'd think it's the PSU, You're really pushing a 600 watt PSU (Neweggs simple PSU calculator says your set-up uses 615 assuming one HDD, which means you should have atleast a 650-700 for safety). Usually an overworked PSU wouldn't shut you down until you were doing something to strain it, … |
| | Re: Weird problem That option will hide the message, if you want to solve the problem, those warnings can be useful because they'll tell you if a virus disables your security software. If you want to try to resolve the underlying issue try reinstalling your software and see if it shows up. |
 | ATX is the screw patern/ size /Power specifications for standard motherboards. There are also micro ATX boards that fit the same cases but are shorter (probably not relevant to you). Virtual all motherboards use the ATX standard, but I know that some of the larger manufacturers used to use their … |
| | Re: Please help Switching power supplies, or using a PSU tester. A lot of local computer shops will test a PSU for free if you bring it in, since it takes less than two minutes and it's a good way to get a potential customer in the door. |
| | Laptop mobos are tricky to test, because you can't just hook it up to another psu. I'd say it's probably a broken connection between the power jack and motherboard, or a bad motherboard. There shouldn't be any fuses in the system, and trying to replace any integrated components on a … |
| | Re: HD failure ?? I'm in a similar situation right now and havn't had time to resolve it yet, but I'll fill you in on my steps so far: I wasn't able to reinstall windows either (different errors, but same steps) I'm going to try using MINIPE to boot to my system, that will … |
| | I've had great luck with AVG, Avast is good too, but I like AVG better. I use it with microsofts security tools (mainly windows defender) and either comodo or zonealarm home (both free firewalls) It gives me a pretty strong security structure based entirely on free software. |
| | I'm having trouble with my RAID0 array (2x250GB SATA1), I think one of the drives hay be bad/corrupted* but my system freezes when the array is enabled. I'm thinking about disabling my raid adapter and running chkdsk, ect on the individual drives. Since I've never tried this before I'm worried … |
| | I doubt you're saving more than a couple of watts. Most of the power used is to power the tube in the first place and will be pulled no matter what color you're working with. If you look at your black screen it will still look "lit" that's because the … |
| | Re: Need Help Is the disk still in the drive? Try hitting Delete at the post screen and see if you can change the boot order away from the disk, or disconnecting the dvd drive to let the system boot without the disk drives in the equation. |
| | Is it your desktops drive that "clicks" when this happens? Even if you're keeping the game information on an external, your internal drive is still being used for system files and your swap partition. You can reduce "strain" but there's always a load on your system drive when you're gaming. … |
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 | You can get a desktop or laptop built to whatever specs you want. Desktops are easy to build yourself if you're comfortable with it, but most people wouldn't be (if you want to learn how, this forum is a great resource). It really depends on what you want the prtability …  |
| | The hub isn't assigning an IP to the computer, try unplugging the hub, plugging it back in after thirty seconds and trying it on the computer again. |
| | Does it give you an error message, or just not do anyting? does right click>open work? |
| | Is this the only system on your network? You probably didn't get the router set up properly. Un-plug your modem (and battery back-up if there is one), plug it back in, do the same for the router and it will work. If you set them up in the wrong order … |
| | First off, NEVER post a full email address on a forum, it will take longer to sort out the spam you're going to get from crawlers than you'll save by posting it. Next time just set the forum settings to email you when you get a reply. I would really … |
| | If you're reformatting the drive during installation and still getting a freeze while set-up is going it's probably an issue with hardware, most likely your hard drive. |
| | I'm a little confused on this, are you tryign to splice the fan from an old PSU into power for additional cooling on your case, or coolinf for your PSU? It wont run on 12v, I'm pretty sure that those fans are 5v. Try splicing it to a molex socket … |
| | Vacuuming definately keeps dust down. Use a dust mask when if you're blowing, and it wouldn't hurt vacuuming if the dust still irritates you. It does sound like this is an isolated incident so it might not be a problem with other computers. It could be because you're not used … |
| | Athlon 64 X2 CPU Asus or MSI boards give you pretty good quality and are generally priced pretty low. 160-500GB HDD (less than 160 or over 500 costs more per GB, 160-500 is pretty consistant) Probably give him a decent integrated graphics unless he'll be paying "serious" games, which I … |
| | It sounds like it might be an issue with the router or the system you're using to confiugre it. If you have a different computer you can use to configure the wireless router that might work, or at least tell you if it's the router or computer. When configuring the … |
| | Does the message tell you what application failed to initialize? You shouldn't have to reformat. If you feel that your system is running properly other than this (programs are responsive when loaded, no viruses, ect,...) you can do a "repair" install, which should fix the issue without deleting files and … |
| | When you say it wont boot to bios do you mean: You can't access BIOS settings There's no BIOS information desplayed on boot (blank screen) You can't boot past BIOS Are you very experienced with PC hardware? The only thing I can think of with the information I have so … |
| | Re: network card? For wireless you would need: One of these for and internal install [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2052810031+1133010139&Configurator=&Subcategory=31&description=&Ntk=&SpeTabStoreType=&Order=BESTMATCH&srchInDesc=[/url] or One of these to connect through USB [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2052810031+1133010001&Configurator=&Subcategory=31&description=&Ntk=&SpeTabStoreType=&Order=BESTMATCH&srchInDesc=[/url] or One of these for a laptop that didn't come with integrated wireless [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2052810031+1133010246&Configurator=&Subcategory=31&description=&Ntk=&SpeTabStoreType=&Order=BESTMATCH&srchInDesc=[/url] Different types vary in speed and range, anywhere from 54mbps (fine for most short … |
| | No, any time you change the hardware hooked up to a cable modem the modem needs to be reset, and because ethernet has to be a point-to-point connection there aren't "switches" like you see with serial or USB devices. Many, if not most, cable modems also have a USB connection. … |
| | Re: NTLDR missing... There's no reason to think it's fragmentation, and there is no "repair your operating system"option in recovery console, you can only perform specific repair tasks and need to know which ones are relevant. To attempt to repair using recovery console insert your Windows disk and when prompted press R to … |
 | I don't think there's a way to disable it aside from manually going in and uninstalling the devices when you don't want it. I don't know what your settings are, but if you set your "my computer" to arrange by type it's less of an annoyance because the removable drives … |
| | Networking card MIGHT be responsible, MAC Addresses are one of the things monitored in windows authentication, but wont do it on it's own. Since your OS crashed during game play I'd guess that there was a driver issue that played a part in it. |
| | Re: estimate this??? To build the system described you'd probably be looking at around $100 with used parts on ebay. You'll have a very hard time finding a 1.5Ghz cpu and a 64mb graphics card new. Check out Newegg.com, tigerdirect.com, pricewatch.com, ect,... to check out prices on modern hardware. I built a bottom … |
| | That's a new one, every virus I've ever seen that hijacks a homepage sends you to their site, or a site you'll get infected from... Never to about:blank. What browser is this? I'd bet my first born on IE, but sometimes I get surprised  |
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