Posts by Catweazle

What processor does your system use? If you have an Athlon XP processor then don't bother abour dual channel memory because it won't do anything for your system.

You do NOT need to have special modules for dual channel configuration. It would be advisable, however, to have the second module identical to the original module. It should really be the same make/model.

Sometimes, mixing RAM modules from different manufacturers can cause problems even in standard configuration. This is especially true when cheap, generic (unbranded) RAM is used. I'd personally never 'mix and match' different RAM modules. I always think it best to sell off the original module and purchase two matched modules for the upgrade.

Uninstall the Compaq keyboard software.

Not really if you know what you are doing then you will immediatly be able to tell waht the problem is.

Wrong. Experience will enable you to be more successful with making 'educated guesses', but will not equip you with sufficient skills to 'immediately' know what is wrong when a PC malfunctions.

There can be multiple potential causes for a PC malfunctioning. The problem here has been the way the PC was constructed. brtnrdr44 is faced now with the need to do something which should have been included in the initail contruction. Test a barebones system to ensure that the basic components function correctly, then add other components one by one to isolate the reason for the failure to boot correctly.

Any other procedure will be guesswork.

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 by right-clicking the folder and choosing Properties, then on the Sharing tab enable it to be shared and give it a share name if you want.

Use My Network Places to locate shared folders on other systems on the network.

Debbie, if you haven't got access to spare parts which you can swap in and out of your PC to isolate what the problem device is, then your best alternative is to drop it in to a repair shop and have a technician identify what the problem is for you. (Don't authorise repair work - just get a report)

Then come back here and we can advise what sort of components are going to be suitable and cost effective. No real sense in flying blind on guesses.

Not a dilemma to me mate :)

As a member I seek only to have an enjoyable and interesting discussion. As a moderator I seek only to ensure that things don't get off-track and out of hand.

Makes no difference to me if people change their minds or not.

With all due respect, that's a pipe dream, not a solution. It's been appropriately and honestly noted by people responding here that there are limits to what technology can do.

Your suggestions are not strategies this person could adopt with her son, and are inappropriate responses because of that.

Try some of these tips.

Moved to Windows XP section, by the way :)

I'm a bit stumped I have to admit. It seems strange that the system is correctly identifying monitor and display card, yet still exhibiting such behaviour. Are you sure that the monitor is actuall an IBM 6331 as reported?

Perhaps you could try locating and reinstalling a device driver for the Cirrus Logic display card?

Hi ButterflyChaser, glad to have you aboard :)

Those last two comments are a waste of space.

it's definitely science, not religion.

is simply a broad, blind statement which serves no real purpose other than to denigrate all people who believe in any faith whatsoever. The comment is so broad and blind, in fact, that it is virtually a statement that 'science' IS your 'religion'.

It's not really science, because there are too many assumptions made, including an assumption that religion is false. If any one of those assumptions is proved false, evolution is false.

This is another nonsense statement. You criticise the fact that assumptions are drawn, completely ignore the fact that a belief in a religion depends upon assumptions also, and then make the completely unjustified claim that if any particular scientifically investigated theory is shown to be invalid, all other theories should be considered disproven also, even though they be completely unrelated ones. You seem to be trying to say that scientific 'method' should be disregarded completely, and that's just plain silly!

Ctrl+Alt+Del in normal mode. End Task everything except Systray and Explorer. Then defrag.

Surprised you didn't find it. ieview download gets it really quickly.

http://ieview.mozdev.org/

It's a plugin that adds an "Open in Internet Explorer" entry to the right click context menu.

Horses for courses. Firefox won't render every web page correctly and there are some sites which simply refuse to work without IE.

But for those there's always 'IEView plugin' :D

Oh crikey! I reckon they'd have some in a shop closer than that, but hey! The Caribbean is a decent place to go anyways!

[img]http://www.reservetravel.com/v4/hotelimages/pegs/UI/25031/re_25031_b1.jpg[/img]

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? Find a friend with a Windows 98 system and make one on that ;)

Did you click 'Apply'?

Try playing it on a mid-range DirectX 9 card and you might change your opinion about "no adverse effects" ;)

I've run it on a GF4 Ti4200 and an FX5900XT here. Like your Radeon 8500, the Ti card will run HL2 at a reasonably acceptable framerate. But bung it on the DirectX 9 card and have a look and all of a sudden it's "Shit, that other card didn't do it properly!"

:D

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 for audio recording and editing! Just grab an affordable Pentium 4 or Athlon64 system, and ensure that the optional extras include plenty of RAM (at least 1Gb) and plenty of hard drive space. A couple of 120Gb drives (or better) would be great!

Save money on the system, spend the savings on the RAM and hard drives :D

Oh, and a nice crisp LCD monitor would be good too. You don't need anythiung but an entry level display card.

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 ;)

You'll find an answer here.

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.

Hi Betul, and welcome to DaniWeb :)

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 http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum64.html and start a new topic there you will be able to get assistance with your problem.

Does your computer have a manufacturer name and a model type printed on it please?

If not, could you download and run CPU-Z and/or Everest Home Edition and let us know what thise utilities report the motherboard make and model to be. (I'm not really happy with the idea of a technician who uses an online scan to find drivers. I like to be SURE that the drivers going onto a PC are the correct ones!)

Agreed. Recommended are the budget or 'Value' lines from reputable manufacturers such as Kingston, Corsair, Kingmax, Geil or OCZ.

Other cheap generic RAM modules can have conflicts when different brands are mixed in the one PC.

It should not really matter if the RAM you get is PC2100, PC2700 or even PC3200. When used together all modules will operate at the speeds/settings of the lowest rated module installed anyway.

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 in the background while you are trying to perform work with it. File sharing operates in both directions, remember.

Add more RAM is the first thing you should do. 256Mb is not adequate for efficient use of Windows XP. Then visit our Windows XP and Viruses, Spyware etc sections and get help with cleaning up temporary files and clutter from your system, and with detecting and removing internet 'nasties' from your PC.

Oh wow! That almost falls into an "Are you for real?" category, senegal! Short answer, I guess, is basically 'higher price'. Cards with better graphics chips are more expensive as a general rule. There's no such thing as a 'cheap' graphics card which is 'good' for highly demanding 3D games.

But there are a couple of factors to look out for:

* Recency
Graphics processors which are developed more recently will generally be better than older models. Each generation of graphics chip adds more function and power to that provided by the previous generation.
* Position within a product line.
Each 'generation' of graphics chips sees display cards which range from low powered to high powered. Higher powered models will generally be 'numbered' more highly. In the current generation of NVidia cards, for example, the 6800 display cards are far better than the 6200 cards.

In short, more functions, more processor clockspeed, more RAM speed = better display card.

Identify a card which seems interesting, Google for reviews and benchmark tests, compare the information you uncover with similar information about competing products, make your purchasing decision.

But don't, ever, just think that you find the cheapest possible card with enough 'RAM' and that'd be good enough. Shitty cards with more RAM are still shitty cards ;)

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 rather than some magical 'stop' figure what you need to be carefuul of is rapid or large rises in temperature. If you're going to continuously run a system overclocked you should seek to ensure it gets no hotter than normal ;)

As I've mentioned elsewhere - don't get sucked into thinking that because a display card has more RAM it must be better. That's not true. A card is only 'better' if it has a better graphics processor.

If your technician was worth his pay he'd have installed necessary driver updates for you! What he's said is misleading. If those particular drivers need updating you need to get the updated versions from the system manufacturer or motherboard manufacturer.

Let us know what make/model your computer is please, or what make/model the motherboard is.

Placing the temporary and internet files on a separate partiton will not keep nasties 'isolated' from your OS installation. Windows acesses and uses temp file storage no matter where you relocate it to, so if you let in 'nasties' they'll have their way regardless.

Best approach is to use antivirus and anti spyware software tools, and to regularly clean the system. If something fouls the system it's because you weren't careful enough ;)

A 'restard' is when a really, really stupid person presses the Reset button to see if it makes the DVD burn more quickly!

Even in Australian dollars $400 sounds more excessive than you'd need to outlay. Check pricing in your area and local currency for the NVidia 6600GT and the ATi X700 pro - both quite capable mid-range cards.

RGPHNX, lotta words there simply to say that SOME AGP 8X cards might not work on earlier motherboards.

In reality, just about ANY AGP 8X card will be fine in an AGP 2.0 capable motherboard, as almost every such card ever made is backwards compatible. Only a very small number of manufacturer/type/model AGP cards were restricted to AGP 8X only - perhaps a handful at best. Similarly, only a very small number of AGP 8X capable motherboards won't also accomodate AGP 4X cards.

Simple way to be sure? When purchasing a particular AGP 8X card, name you motherboard make/model and insist that the vendor guarantees the card will be suitable for the motherboard. If the vendor says it will work, and it turns out that it doesn't, then it's the vendor's responsibility to fix things up, eh?

No! Sorry to have to downplay the card you've recently obtained, but a 9200SE is, (coz it is SE) a cut down version of an already underpowerd card.

Your only realistic option is to stick to less demanding games ;)

By the way, it is impossible for someone on a forum such as this to confirm DEFINITELY whether it is motherboard or processor in a situation such as this. It will USUALLY be the processor, but only testing can confirm that.

This article explains:
http://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2.nsf/web/CE642AC8F2032DC7CA256F39001F4DCF

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:
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread24425.html

We'd like to to have a good look around before posting questions, read the information stuff such as FAQs etc, and then find the appropriate section to post your question in.

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 is what you need to do!

Glad you enjoyed it.

On a serious note, I hope you haven't damaged components other than the power unit, but it's quite possible that you have. If so, not much you can do about that except bang your head against the wall, I guess.

the 64Mb AGP card should'vebeen fine, as that mobo accomodates AGP 4X cards. Perhaps you simply knocked something loose when you changed it over, or failed to reset CMOS before trying to boot up again.

gerbil, it's a shame that people try to micro-analyse procedures such as this, instead of simply finding the instructions and following them!

:D

Oh heck! Please don't think I was trying to 'win an argument' with belama there. I was merely making the point that megabytes doesn't really matter much.

The X700 Pro is still an admirable mid range card, don't get me wrong. I just think the 6600GT is a better mid-range card.

A good way to make choices is to Google for reviews and benchmarks. Searches such as (replace xxxx with the card types/models):

xxxx xxxx comparison benchmark

xxxx benchmark review

are useful for uncovering detailed analyses of different card types and their relative performances. Spending some time reading through the various tech site reports that such a search uncovers is time well spent!

Overkill, and you've obviously needed to go beyond the basic disk, primary partition structure to get that. You can have four primary partitions and I can't really see a need to go beyond that.

Let's look at what you have:

C: D: P:

Should not be any problem if they're all on the system partition. Nice setup you have, of course, but if you clean out temporary files and defrag the partition on a monthly basis, not really necessary. your structure will most likely be getting a performance boost, but I doubt it would be detectable to anything but benchmark testing. Microsoft's comments about moving the pagefile were made BEFORE the era of large, fast, modern hard drives such as your 160Gb one.

E: G: K:

No reason why these can't be folders on the same partition rather than separate partitions.

F: H: I: J:

No reason why these can't be folders on the same partition rather than separate partitions.

Don't get the impression that I'm condemning your partition structure. I'm not. In fact, you're possibly getting a tad more performance from that structure than you would otherwise. But going to the extent that you have is not an activity I'd recommend as necessary.

I'd have a system partition of 10Gb to 20 Gb. On a 160Gb drive you should find that allocating up to 20Gb is no sacrifice at all. Another partition for programs, and split the data …

My personal opinion would really be the sapphire x700 256mb cuz ive had great experience with sapphire and there the extra 128mb for cheaper than the 6600GT 128mb (on misco).

Lesson number one: GAME BOXES TELL LIES!

Read the 'requirements' on game boxes and you'll get the impression that 'more megabytes' matters. It doesn't!

For the very, very best display cards, which can play those games at very high screen resolutions and very high levels of filtering and texture detail, the extra megabytes of display memory will come into consideration for storing the large amount of data generated through working out those high details. These are the cards which are in the $AU800 and over price range (whatever that is in your currency) nit the sort of cards we're talking about here.

The cards in this partucular price range won't gain any extra benefit from having more than 128Mb of graphics memory. Sure, they can DISPLAY those extremely high details, but if you try to run a game with the graphics options turned up to the max it'll be like trying to watch a game that's being shown via a slide projector, it won't be smooth and fast game action!

The topic I linked above contains links to twodetailed articles. Read them thoroughly. Ensure you follow and understand them. Ask questions if you need to.

Do all the preparations BEFORE you begin!

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 you disappointed. Lesser cards will cetainly RUN the games, but if you find yourself having to cut back on image quality just about from the get-go, then it's a real piss-off! In all seriousness, cutting corners elsewhere inyour life to scrape up the extra quids is something you won't regret, if it's at all possible.

Download install and run the most recent versions of AdAware and Spybot Search & Destroy. (Make sure you check for updates before running them. You'll find download links amongst the stickied topics in out Viruses Spyware and Nasties forum section)

An antivirus program on its own is not enough to keep out intruders.

If those two don't find any intruders, read the instructions about HijackThis in that forum section and post a log in a new topic there for someone to check for you.

Let us know how you go after that please. The messages in themselves probably do not indicate there is something wrong with the registry. they are most likely the result of something which has surreptitiously made its way onto your system.