Posts by goldeagle2005

One other thing, overclocking can void your manufacturer's warranty. It's your gamble.

Yes, but a gamble worth it if:

>you are an extreme power user
>your warranty has expired.

I'd overclock anyways. I love squeezing the juice outta my system...

Will it? But if the mobo doesnt support PC3200 RAM, will it still run it at the speed of the slower RAM? I mean, will the PC3200 RAM even work on such a board? I'm not clear on this...

You sure your NTFS access permissions allow you to delete files?

The fact that the monitor says that its in standby/power saver mode means
-->it is in those modes
-->it isn't receiving a signal

Now as you've checked that the computer is on (are the LEDs glowing and fans spinning?) and yet you get the message, your problem lies somewhere in the CPU. Fisrtly, do you hear any beeps when you power up the computer? You should hear a single short beep. This means the POST was successful. No beep or many beeps (short and long) indicate either a loose connection or a hardware malfunction. Try starting your computer after disconnecting the new hard drive. You said that you checked your RAM sticks in another machine. Try getting that machine's RAM in your computer and see if your computer powers up. If it does, your RAM sticks are the culprit. If not, check for loose connectors on the hard drives, the optical drives, the power plug going to the motherboard. Also, ensure you have seated the RAM modules tightly. To be sure, once the RAM modules are seated tightly, you can barely see the gold connectors. Also ensure the locks on the RAM slot are in place when you install the RAM.

If you were messing with the pins while the machine was on, you've blown your mobo and have to get a new one. If not, try removing the BIOS battery and reinstall it after half an hour. If this doesn't work, get back to us and we'll go from there.

To answer your question, no, you can't do what you suggested.

It can be mixed if the motherboard supports the higher speed RAM. If you mix 2 RAM sticks, both will run at the speed of the slower one...

AMD chips DO NOT have a heating issue anymore. In fact, the Intel Prescott core based chips run hotter than AMD and yet cannot match the performance provided by AMD. All processors will heat up if the heatsink/fan isn't installed properly.

Also, AMD chips can and are overclocked. I myself am running an old Athlon XP 2000+ with a stock speed of 1.6GHz at 2.00GHz with no extra cooling fan and the stock AMD provided heatsink fan combo.

Do you know? You can take remote photos using your K700i. (Without user interface). Yes, just put the phone somewhere, it will take and send photos automatically (for the specified interval) to your PC.

How do I go about that?

Oh, ok. Thanks. And here I was thinking that I had a new portable music player. Imagine this: If the headset function was as I thought, you pair the phone with the computer, launch WMP or Winamp with a playlist of all your fave songs, and use the Remote Control feature to play, pause, skip tracks, control volume etc. The idea is appealing isn't it? With a Class 1 bluetooth dongle, you get a range of a 100 meters as well...enuff for your entire home.

I guess you can still do this if you have a Bluetooth headset. Cool...

Well, thanks again, Priya. Appreciate your assistance.

Then what does "Headset" in the supported bluetooth functions mean?

I just got a new USB Bluetooth dongle and paired it with my Sony Ericsson k700i. The phone supports the Headset feature, which means that I can use the phone as a headset. However, the software I use (blue soleil) doesn't detect this feature when I tell it to browse the phone's services. All the other phone services work just fine. Is there any other software suite (bluetooth) that I can use?

Also, Windows doesn't automatically detect the USB dongle. It just says "USB Device" when I connect it afresh. After loading the drivers from the CD, the device works fine except for the problem stated above. But, Windows XP doesn't show the "My Bluetooth Places" icon anywhere. How can I use Windows' inbuilt Bluetooth features? Thanks

Almost all the teachers I know only know theory stuff, and no real world stuff. It's a shame. :(

The same situation in my college. So much so that our lab in charge asked me to teach her how to install Windows XP...

yeah computers hae become an integral part of our life ... anywayz welcome to daniweb community Carolm.

You said it, nano...

Well, you could include a header like "53,000+ registered members, 19,000+ active members"

I guess you're referring to the T9 method of entering text...www.t9.com

Try attaching the HDD in another computer and see if you can access your files there...

umm also, it could be a failing pick up lens. If the device is under warranty, get it replaced.

What he said!

To be clear, Im an AMD lover too, but many ppl still want to go by "Intel Inside"

Try reinstalling DirectX 9 and your nVidia drivers

Honestly, I can't understand what you have written. Can you be more clear?

Could you be more specific? What kind of disk is it? Does it have a Write Protect notch on it? Some disks require you to physically remove the Write Protect from the disk before they can be written to...

I think its your RAM sticks that are at fault. Try replacing them with known working modules...

Its not a tough task, nor does it involve cracking tools. You just need to reset the NTFS access permissions. Right click the Documents nb Settings (DnS henceforth) folder and choose properties. Click on the Security Tab and click advanced. In this new window, click the "Owners " tab. Double click "Administrators" in "Change owner to". and select the check box below it(I dont remember the words, but it means you want to replace the owner on all objects below this folder). Now click OK thrice to exit the folder properties. Now, again right click DnS and choose properties. Select the security tab and click advanced. In the window that pops up, click on add. In the window that pops up, type "everyone" and click OK to exit the properties. Now you'll be able to access the files

If you have any problems, let me know...

And if you ever have unallocated space, I strongly recommend Disk Management to format the space as a valid partition. It takes just 30 seconds to complete the process, including a quick format

One suggestion...I feel that running chkdsk from the recovery console performs a more thorough scan than from the Windows Command Prompt. From recovery console, run chkdsk /r

I don't think Outlook Express even places an icon in the system tray...
MS Outlook does, and double clicking this icon launches MS Outllok fine..

Yeah. Try ZoneAlarm. And under all circumstances, stay away from Norton Firewall

me --> The Greatest (such modesty!!)

8-12 hours a day

Hey
I just noticed that if a user posted 166 times, yet his title was Junior Poster. Wasn't a person with > 100 posts but < 250 posts called Posting Whiz?

Infact, my title as Senior Poster has become Junior Poster (with 290 posts). What happened? Why have I been demoted?

Well, you can simply delete the old installation after you boot into your new installation.

To get rid of the choices you get...
I'm assuming you installed your old installation on C:\Windows and new on D:\Windows.
Open C:\boot.ini.
There, you will find some lines like
multi(0)\disk(0)\rdisk(0)\partition(1)\Windows="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect....
multi(0)\disk(0)\rdisk(0)\partition(2)\Windows="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect....

To delete the old installation choice(ie> C:\Windows), delete the line with partition(1).
Note that Drive C: will be partition(1), drive D: will be partition(2), drive E: will be partition(3) and so on. Just delete the line with the partition number corresponding to your old installation.

Rainy --> Resident Evil

Once you figure out how to set it as the master/slave, configure your first drive (the one with the OS, ie. your old drive) as the master, and configure your new drive as the slave. Now you shouldn't have a problem during bootup.

Not a problem at all. Glad to hear the problem's solved...

Try lowering the volumefor the microphone in Recording Controls. Click Start>Run>sndvol32<press enter>. Click on Options>Properties. Under "Adjust Volume for", click "Recording". In the Recording Control applet that popsup, lower the volume for "Microphone".

If this doesn't help, i suspect the microphone. Try a different one.

Interesting. I've never seen mismatched RAM timing bring down the system only while playing games. Usually, mismatched timings bring the system down durimg system startup. Good to know your problem's been solved. And thanks for letting us know something new.

Water+electronics=messed up hardware. I'd suggest you get a new microphone.

Considering you're getting errors only while playing games, I'm bound to agree with chrisbliss18's analysis that your RAM is fine. If it wasn't, your system would crash during your DVD encoding. I'd sugggest you reinstall DirectX 9.0c. If this doesn't help, re install your nVidia Drivers . Worst case scenario, perform a clean install of your operating system.

By the way, if you could reproduce what it says in the blue screen, it would help us pin point the problem.

tart --> prostitute

(Wow - jumped from apple pie to prostitutes in only 3 turns!)

prostitute --> Pathetic working conditions

Danyael's post got me thinking. The old 250 W PSU will not have the 4 pin, 12 v CPU connector. I'll bet that's the source of the problem. I suggest you get a minimum 420 W PSU from Antec or iBall. these are compatible...

To be sure, I'm using the 32bit XP on an AMD 64. I have noticed a slight performance boost, even in 32 bit XP. When I installed XP x64, however, the OS felt much more slick. However, I switched back to XP 32 bit for a critical reason: hp has not yet made available a 64 bit driver for my printer (Deskjet 3325)...the moment the driver's released, I'm heading for XP x64.

Also, Nortin AV 2005 doesn't run on XP x4. However, avast! AV is freely available for XP x64 for home users.

I will unplug the hard drive completely in an attempt to get a POST. I believe I have already done this and not gotten anything on the monitor.

Since you've already tried this step before and you know that your RAM is working (so I gather from your previous message), I'm fairly confident the problem lies somewhere in your mobo and/or your CPU...

If you can, check the CPU on another working motherboard. If this system does not start, you know the CPU is the problem. Next, check a known working CPU on your mobo. This will help you narrow down the problem.

Mc Donald's --> YUM!

well he started it by insulting my opinion. i hope he learns to respect others opinions and not make any smartass comments.

Remind me again how I insulted you or your opinion? I was just commenting on it and giving my views...

dinner --> junk food..

Please... lets not get off on the wrong foot with each other here. We're all entitled to have our own opinions and everybody's opinion should be respected whether or not we agree with it.

we might not agree now... but later in life we might cos things change.

this is a general discussions forum and post about which groups you like and may (or may not) be a die hard fan of.

Yeah, you're right. That was turning into a meaningless squabble. Thanks for clearing my perspective on the issue.

Definitely an AMD lover...

I agree with chrissbliss18. The fact that you aren't seeing any BIOS sign on messages and (I assume) hearing no POST beeps, I suspect a fault somewhere in the motherboard. If the problem has been happening right from when you put the machine together, your mobo was DOA (dead on arrival). In this case, you can go back to where you purchased it from and request them for a brand new piece.