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 | Take your PC in to a repair shop and have a technician check out the hardware for problems. |
| | Re: Need Help Hi Bhautik. You'll find a forum section devoted to VB and VB.net by clicking on 'Software Development' in the menu at left. Cheers and welcome to DaniWeb |
| | Agreed. Some ATi Radeon cards do not handle running at AGP 8X very well in some motherboards. Stick to AGP 4X Performance difference? A few percentage points at best ;) For a 'full HL2 experience' you would need to replace the card with a considerably more capable one! |
| | I don't believe that either of you have a hardware problem. Error messages which indicate a device driver issue are usually the result of corruption in your Windows installation, and that is a software problem. Also, the presence of an antivirus program doesn't guarantee you protection against all intruders, nor … |
| | Reset CMOS and try to boot it up again. |
| | I've moved this to our Viruses and Nasties section, where you will get the appropriate help. I'd suggest you read some of the stickied topics in this section and try the spyware removal tools suggested in them.  |
| | Go into BIOS setup. If 'AGP fast writes' is enabled, then disable it. If you find that the system is set to "AGP 8x", then change it to "AGP 4x". Let us know if problems persist please. If you previously had a different brand of display card installed, you may … |
| | Check for game update patches and install any which may be available. If a particular game gives problems where others don't, it's most likely a problem in the game itself, where 'issues' arise with your particulat combination of hardware components. |
| | The problem is obviously in your PC system case. When you've changed the power supply unit you've obviously not connected everything up correctly, or perhaps knocked some connection(s) loose and now the PC is not able to start. You'll need to recheck all internal connections. |
| | Remove or disconnect everything in the system case except processor and fan, RAM, and display card. That means all drives etc disconnected! Hook up to your monitor and power up. See if you get to the POST screens, and report back with the results please. There are too many possible … |
| | The 'stickied' or 'pinned' topics in the Forum Feedback and Community Introductions sections will help explain the forums :) |
| | You have to help us first. Is the audio in your PC onboard audio or is it an add-in expansion card? The exclamation mark shows that the device is not installed correctly. You haven't got the device drivers loaded. You should have got an installation CD for it. |
| | Which Windows version please? This is a Windows problem, not a 'dead machine' problem, and I'd like to move the topic. |
| | Re: Missing IE It certainly sounds to me like Internet Explorer is actualy present and able to run, but that web pages won't load because your internet connection isn't configured properly. I'd agree that contacting the support sectionof your ISP is a good idea. |
| | Bung it in a different system, as a 'Slave' drive or as master on the secondary IDE channel, and see if it is recognised there. Then, on that system, go to Control Panel > Performance & Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. Let us know what … |
| | Have you got Service packs installed? Did you partition the 160Gb drive as one or more NTFS partition(s)? |
 | Hiya Flatline. It sounds like all images are being saved as bitmap files on your PC. Click on Tools - Options, and on the General tab use the 'Delete Files' button to clean out temporary internet files. Images should save in their correct format after that. |
| | Inside the PC case and read what's printed on the label of the power supply unit. I don't know of ANY utility program which reports that information from within Windows. Unfortunately, for some units you'd need to remove the power unit from the case in order to read the label. |
| | If you suspect problems with a new XP installation it's certainly a wise move to start over and get it right before activating :D |
| | You need: - A good AntiVirus program, constantly scanning in the background - At least two Spyware detection and Removal programs (AdAware, spybot) - A decent 'Uninstaller', which monitors the programs being installed on your system and ensures that they are properly removed later. - A good set of computing … |
| | What wattage is your power unit? It won't be the reason for the slowdowns. A genral buildup of rubbish on your Windows drive will be doing that ;) |
 | Concerned about this one: [QUOTE]A person is free to accept any scientific theory about human origins provided it is acknowledged that, at some stage, God infused an immortal soul into the human body. [/QUOTE] I'm agnostic. I do not believe that 'life' can be adequately explained by physical science, or …  |
| | Re: RAM problem Dvs, it's not a good idea to dredge up long dead topics, especially when the information you're adding is wrong. The error message mentioned is indicative of device driver problems, not of poor RAM or of a faulty drive. |
| | Definitely no advantage having dual channel enabled on an Athlon XP system. For Pentium 4 and Athlon64 systems, simply ensure that the RAM modules used are identical and dual channel should give no problems whatsoever. |
| | Perform a refresh install of Windows XP (In place upgrade) [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341&Product=winxp[/url] That will rebuild your boot section files and get XP up and running correctly again. |
| | [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread24692.html[/url] You'll find your answer in that topic. |
| | Did you scroll down? The answer to that is visible on my PC, and I'm most certainly NOT logged in there! |
| | dcc, if you spent 2 1/2 hours dowloading something, surely the sensible thing to do is to copy it to CD before deleting ANYTHING? |
| | Here are the directions for performing an in-place upgrade install, which should leave your programs and data in place: [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341&Product=winxp[/url] |
| | On both PCs, right-click My Computer and choose Properties. On the 'Computer name' tab, ensure that both PCs use the same workgroup name. Then you have two options for sharing files: 1. Place files to be shared in the 'Shared Documents' Folder 2. Share a different folder on your network … |
| | Good comments in this topic already. Removing his privileges to use the PC is the obvious answer. But be sure that he's actually viewing porn. Just because there are porn links in internet history doesn't guarantee that porn sites have been visited and viewed. Those links in history can also … |
| | Assuming you've already identified and removed all the intruders on your system, you could perform a refresh install of Windows to fix any damage that has resulted. [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341&Product=winxp[/url] Note: you will most likely need to reinstall Windows updates afterwards. |
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| | Misplaced topic. This should be in the Tech section. Please state which Windows version you are using and I'll move the thread to the appropriate place for you. |
| | Re: Firefox vs Avant Bad. Avant appears to be a decent browser, but it's really a 'shell' built on top of the Internet Explorer browsing engine. Kinda defeats the point of changing from IE in the first place ;) |
| | If you want to have your system capable enough to play the latest and greatest (and upcoming) games I wouldn't settle for less thana 6600GT. The display card is the most important component for games performance, and skimping on it can only end up with a system which will leave …  |
| | The Pavilion 522n, if powered by a 1.8GHz Celeron or thereabouts, is relatively low powered, and 256Mb of RAM doesn't help much as it restricts Windows XP quite a bit. The use of file sharing software such as eMule makes things slow because your system is most likely uploading files … |
| | That's because you need to boot from a Windows 98 startup floppy disk, format the hard drive, then pop the Windows 98 CD in the drive and run 'Setup'. there;s no prompt yet because the Startup floppy will allow you to boot into DOS. Didn't make a Startup floppy disk? … |
| | Hi, adding more RAM won't really help much at all. Your problem is that the 9200SE display card you have is a quite underpowered card that is more suitable for desktop applications and older games, and quite UNsuitable for modern 3D games. Replacing the display card with a better one … |
| | Hi and welcome to Daniweb. We ask that people post their questions in the appropriate sections. I'll move this to the 'motherboards, processors and RAM section for you, as that's the most appropriate place. The answer to your question is easy. ANY recent system is going to be good enough … |
| | [url="http://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2.nsf/web/A94021105C0E27FACA256DD4003C57AC"]You'll find an answer here.[/url] |
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| | Hi, and welcome. I've edited out your email address. We like people to create topics in the appropriate forum sections and have their problems dealt with in the topic itself. That way, any helpful information offered is available for others to see also. |
| | Hi, and welcome to DaniWeb. If you visit our Viruses, Spyware and Nasties forum section [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum64.html[/url] and start a new topic there you will be able to get assistance with your problem. |
| | You stop when signs of system instability first appear. You need to run serious tests to make sure the system is stable. Prime95 is a commonly used program - if a system can run that for hours on end without crashing, it's pretty stable. You need to monitor temps, but … |
| | Which Windows version. You can move My Documents to another drive or partition. You can also move the default programs installation location to another drive or partition. Right-click My Documents and choose 'Properties'. The button is there to enable you to move it. Do it for any user you like. … |
| | Moving this to the Windows software section. Is MS Office currently installed? If so, download, install and run Belarc Advisor. The report it generates will include the product codes for all MS software installed on your system, including Windows itself. |
| | Hi, an Welcome to DaniWeb. One thing we ask is that newcomers read the announcements and stickied topics you 'll find at top of page in each section, such as this one: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread24425.html[/url] We'd like to to have a good look around before posting questions, read the information stuff such … |
| | Hi jayder, Is this a legitimate retail or OEM Windows XP Pro CD? If it's a copy it may not be bootable. |
| | Hi Anahita Post the link for that pdf file and someone here could read it and check for relevent geometry settings. (Me for example :)) Sounds like geometry to me. Maybe it can be corrected, maybe not. |
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