I don't think for a moment that your problem with running Norton Updates will relate to bad sectors on the hard drive, which is what scandisk detects. Do you have a previous topic about Norton updates? If so you should follow up your problem in that topic. I'm usure what you are referring to in relation to that matter, and it sounds like you refer to previous discussions here at Daniweb.
Good try, but that doesn't really help. VT6307 identifies one of the controller chips on the motherboard but not the board itself.
Is the computer a 'Brand name' one? If so, what is the make and model of the PC? That would help.If it's a recognised product line, the specific number is needed as well. e.g. 'HP Pavilion' is inadequate but 'HP Pavilion 6000' would identify the PC.
Run it and report back what the tool identifies the motherboard as please.
CMOS is the memory chip that holds your BIOS settings. It's powered by a (usually round) battery on the motherboard. If you remove the battery, wait a few minutes or longer for residual charge to trickle away, and then replace the battery the BIOS settings will be reset to factory presets. That process does a better job than setting defaults in BIOS Setup.
A BIOS problem is specifically what I referred to above. BIOS updates have to be obtained for the specific motherboard in the system, which is why we're trying to identify it. 'Flashing' the wrong BIOS update can stuff the motherboard for good. The update will have to be downloaded from either the system manufacturer (if a name brand PC) or the motherboard manufacturer (if not a brand nbame PC).
The cable which came with your card is an S-Video cable. You don't need …
Here's a guide to manually removing Norton productsto enable you to successfuly install later versions and alternative products.
Symantec/Norton is the devil, in my view, and McAffee is not much better at all. These companies rest on the laurels of their market share, and have gained that market share purely through the bundling deals they've done with manufacturers rather than through excellence of product!
No argument that the products do the job of virus detection etc perfectly well. But the products are slow and clunky, have incompatibilities with other software, and are 'clingier' than just about anything else available. In a commercial environment you may be stuck with them, depending upon company policy, but for the private user a combination of AVG Free Edition antivirus and ZoneAlarm or Sygate Personal Firewall beats them hands down!
Hi punky. What is the make and model of your motherboard please?
I recently had the same thing happen when trying to install a GeForce4 Ti4200 card in a system to replace the onboard video for a friend.
Turned out that the BIOS needed to be updated before the card could be recognised correctly. The same might be the case for you, depending on the motherboard in your system. You may need to download and correctly install a BIOS flash upgrade.
Other than that, check that the card is firmly seated in the slot and that connectors are firmly attached. Also reset CMOS (by removing and replacing the CMOS battery if necessary) and try again.
I'm fully aware of what is being referred to, jwenting.
Care to explain with a little more clarity what you're referring to in relation to 'upgrade'? Just like any other Windows XP CD an 'In place upgrade' (or repair installation) can be performed with an OEM Windows CD. There is certainly no 'Upgrade version' of it, but then why would there be when the licence is for newly sold or home built systems and tied to a single machine?
No need to be sorry. Repost your log in that section. get your system checked for unwanted intruders, and come back here if the assistance there doesn't resolve the matter for you. :)
Do you mean that you followed the instructions I linked above, beleted the original title (Chinese), replaced it with a new title (English) and it still showed up as Chinese? If so, did you reboot the PC and check again?
Check the Support section (you'll need to indicate your location) and from the Software Downloads section get the diagnostic utility PowerMax. Further information about it is on their website.
could you possibly let us know what the brand name and model number of the drive is?
There are tools available for download on the manufacturer website which are better for checking drives than the ones included with Windows. We can point you in the right direction if we know what drive you have.
I'm not understanding your question here. Are you asking how to use the network feature to copy files from one machine to another? Alternatively, are you asking how to back up the whole system onto a different machine, so that it can be loaded back in working order later?
As fast as the processor is and as large the amount of RAM you have installed, it doesn't necessarily mean that everything is going to happen in an instant.
Transfer of data between components is a bottleneck, the way Windows and software is configured can be another.
It sounds to me that there is a delay in the process of initially locating the file. This could be incorrectly configured drives causing a slowdown, but it's more likely to be a software cause.
Is Windows set to index files on the drive? If very large numbers of files are stored on a drive, Windows Indexing can actually slow down access, rather than speed it up! Are files compressed? That would cause a delay in access? Is antivirus software set to scan all files on access? Yet another slowdown.
You're never going to have file access occur instantaneously. The drive heads have to be moved to position from 'park' to access the file for starters. But the access times could certainly be improved, and you'll need to look at your software and settings to find what's slowing it down.
For an experienced person shorting the two pins for the front panel power lead will certainly power up an ATX motherboard, if the power is connected to it of course.
But if you don't know what you're doing, don't mess with it ;)
Hi itserver, and welcome. On the menu you'll find that we have a whole forum section for Web development, with many sub-sections. Please explore them and feel free to follow your questions up there, where you'll get more specialised advice.
If that improvement was after using oil as described, then yes, you should plan for replacing the fan. You've only postponed the inevitable and it'd be much better to replace it BEFORE it ceases to work. If you wait till it stops you might just end up with a fried processor.
From reading this I'm sorry to say that it does indeed sound like your problem is a severe one. Unless you have someone knowledgeable available to repair that motherboard for you it would cost more than it's worth to get a technician to do it for you. And I daresay if you had such a person available to you then you wouldn't be asking us!
A secondhand motherboard/processor/ram bundle sounds the best bet, or a secondhand motherboard which is suited to your processor and RAM.
You get tabbed browsing with Firefox, and once you've used that you'll not want to go back. You get less spyware and 'nasties' when you use Firefox, and that's a big bonus.
There's no need to uninstall Internet Explorer. Simply install Firefox and when prompted choose to set it as your 'Default' browser.
That first one is free and should do the job. Use your normal software to compose the document, and then print the document using the pdf creator instead of your printer.
Or you could use the free OpenOffice suite instead of MS Office and get a pdf feature included in its normal feature set.
And I'd suggest you visit our Viruses, Spyware and Nasties section for advice about how to ensure your PC is free of intruders! The title bar has most likely been changed because of a 'net nasty' infection you've picked up.
Sounds like there is a combination of driver corruption and a game that needs to be patched with an update. Again I'd suggest that a format/fresh install is the best way to address such a situation. Tracking down and correcting the specific source of the problem can be a lengthy and tedious job.
Moving this to the Windows XP section because this is not a 'dead machine' issue.
in the past 2 months I downlaoded a game called ROSE.
Downloaded from where? Perhaps that is the source of your problem. Also check for any updates to Halo which have not been installed. If the downloaded game has corrupted display drivers, directX and such you MAY need to format and start over to correct the problem.
The uninstall or disable the network card or onboard LAN on your PC. That message is definitely related to the network connection, not to the modem's internet connection. You have a network device loaded and enabled, it's looking for the network, it doesn't find one and you get the error message.
right-click My Computer and choose Properties. On the hardware tab choose Device Manager. Right-click the Network Adaptor and choose Disable.
There is an Add-on available called Microsoft Proofing Tools for Office 2003. Each local version of Office 2003 contains support for a limited bumber of languages. Proofing Tools adds the full support for all available languages. It's got a Greek dictionary and thesaurus, but no grammar checking I'm afraid.
Better solution is to move one of the wires from the outside pin to the middle one. They will be held in place with a clip, which you can depress by pushing on it with a pin. You'll see the clip on the side of the connector, and when depressed you can pull the wire out of the connector.
Which one you move depends on the layout of the front panel connector header on the motherboard.
Some motherboards 'lock' the speeds of FSB, PCI bus and AGP bus. Some need the ratios to be altered manually.
But if your board has had BIOS updated it should recognise the processor at default settings and work. Reset CMOS and reboot. See if it POSTs and boots into Windows.
The 'device driver' message suggests to me that BIOS settings have been manually adjusted, and are incorrectly set. this can cause device drivers to have hiccups, because the relevent bus speeds are running too high.
Contact your isp and see if they are currently experiencing problems. I've currently got a similar problem, because my ISP is having some difficulty with server upgrades.
Install Mozilla or Firefox browser. See if you can access the Hotmail account when using one of those. If so you'll have isolated the problem as one which relates to Internet Explorer.
Identify the make and model of your laptop. Visit the manufacturer website and check their support section for information about your particular laptop. There will possibly be information provided there which tells you haw to restore system files, reapair Windows etc on that laptop.
Many laptops have the system and installation files stored on 'hidden' partitions on the hard drive and/or need special keypresses at startup to access them.
I searched yesterday for the tool to help with cleaning up someone's PC for them. I found that the manual removal instructions had been taken down from the FAQ/Knowledge Base, and that the link for the removal tool led to a "Page not found" message!
Norton products are notorious for not 'letting go' properly when you uninstall them. MacAffee products are sometimes pretty misbehaved in that respect as well.
Changing from one to another is definitely a process where format/reinstall is an alternative to consider. It might just be easier than tracking down all the 'hooks' that have been left behind when you've uninstalled ;)
Hi Davy Mac. I'm unaware of any way you can stop that happening, and I've hardly ever seen it happen in Windows XP. I suspect it's older software you are using which makes it happen.
The reason is poorly written programs, basically. Programs work in complicated ways, and sometimes they open 'Windows' we don't need to see. (I'm sure everyone has at some stage een the border of a window flash up and then immediately disappear. There are 'hooks' into the Explorer shell which programmers can use to make a window visible or hidden, and to make a taskbar button appear or not. The blank taskbar buttons usually appear because a programmer has changed a window to taskbar-ineligible while it is still visible. The windows need to be set to hidden before taskbar eligibility is changed.
Solution: Use a better written program :)
Edit: Could you please stop capitalising the first letter of every word? You're making my eyes bleed!
It's not truly a front side bus because, in theory, the Athlon 64 processor can communicate with system RAM at the full speed of the processor, as the memory controller is on the processor itself.
With other processors, the front side bus was used because processors operate at higher speeds than RAM. It's like a corridor joining two large rooms, and even if you open the doors wider you can still never push more through it than it's width will allow.
With the onboard memory controller of the Athlon 64, although clockspeed and divisors are still being used they don't adjust how wide the 'doors' are opened. It's the 'corridor' itself which is being widened when adjustments are made, and if RAM fast enough can be obtained it can be as wide as those large 'rooms' themselves.
So for other processors front side bus is effectively and potentially a 'bottleneck' because even if RAM can run at the high speeds of processors, front side bus chokes off data transfer. For the Athlon 64 no such restriction exists, and if RAM speeds increase the extra data transfer bandwidth potentially available can be used.
Step 1 - Determine what type of RAM module your system uses Step 2 - Buy a module of it Step 3 - Plug it into a spare RAM slot on your motherboard (with the PC turned off, of course)
