Posts by Catweazle

There are many suggestions to give you. the most important of them is the suggestion that you thoroughly read the Stickied topics in our Viruses and Nasties section, and follow the relevent advice contained in them. You have some rather nasty intruders on your system. It's God's punishment to you for viewing those adult sites!

Luckily for you, the kind souls who assist people in that section will be able to offer you redemption!

:D

Wow! That's like putting on sunglasses on a really bright day. Felels wonderful! :D

Hope you get it sorted out soon. That folder idea was only a shot in hope, really. another method you could use is to borrow a copy of Windows 98 and make a copy of it for yourself. You could use that when asked for the Windows files location ;)

Check in the Windows directory on that Compaq Evo to see if there is a subdirectory called \Options\Cabs. Lots of Compaq models have used this directory to store the contents of the Windows 98 CD, and if that's the case for you you will be able to browse there instead of using a Windows 98 CD.

That wasn't me, by the way. oalee made a mistake! LOL

Hey Thinka, do you reckon you could change the font you're using to type in your posts? That one hurts my old eyes something chronic!

If you mean visual difference, for identification purposes, then you'd need to remove the heatspreader to see it. The die core of the Winchester is about 40% smaller. If you are trying to identify which processor core you have, it'd be best to check the OPN code on the processor. For the Newcastle cored 3500+ that is ADA3500DEP4AW and for the Winchester core 3500+ it is ADA3500DIK4BI

Does that help?

If you mean a difference in performance then no, there's not ;)

No Dani. this refers to a shell extension which allows you to use a GMail account as a 1Gb drive.

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

Just why the hell anyone would WANT to is beyond me, though. A small amount of storage space, an excruciatingly slow data trasfer rate for most people and still an annoyingly slow data transfer for those with even the fastest of net connections.

No, you can't 'combine' 51 such accounts into a single storage space - not with this shell extension anyway. And even if you could, it would be damn near unusable.

The cost of a couple of cases of beer gets a decent hard drive. Adding another of those to your system is a far, far superior thing to look forward to :D

Seconded.

Thanks for being a helpful and pleasant member of the community here. Keep it up mate :D

Not much, it seems crunchie. Not a great deal of insight in "404: Not Found"

LOL

If your system only provides USB 1.0 or USB 1.1, you would need to add a USB 2.0 controller card to the system. Prices for those start from around $AU25.

It won't effect your broadband, by the way. Broadband currently isn't quick enough to be effected.

Sounds to me like the drives are dying, eXistenZ. In your situation, I'd be trying new ones.

Unworkably slow, I'd consider. USB 2 data transfer rate is 480 megabits per second, while USB 1 provides only 12 megabits per second.

The other drives are not being recognised because they will be formatted as NTFS partitions, rather than as FAT32 partitions which Windows Me uses. The Windows 9x versions do not have the capability to use NTFS partitions.

To enable them to be used without formatting, you will need to install a 3rd party software utility which adds that capability to your version of Windows. There are free utilities available which allow Windows Me to READ an NTFS partition, but to get full read/write capability you will have to pay for the software, I'm afraid.

Here's the most widely used one:

http://www.purenetworking.net/Products/NTFSfor98/NTFSfor98.htm

When a file is deleted, even after the recycle bin is emptied, it is not actually 'wiped' from the hard drive. Only the link to it in the directory is removed. The file contents themselves remain in place until that particular location on the hard drive is written to again.

File recovery programs work at a level below that of Windows, scanning the drive for such 'file fragments' and attempting to link them together to recover what they can and place it in files which can be accessed by your OS.

Do not use the WD program to create your partitions. Use the Windows XP installation routine to do so, and simply create the partition for Windows. You can create further partitions later from within Windows itself.

Note, though, that you can only create or remove partitions using Windows. You cannot resize or merge them - partition management software is needed if you need to do so later.

I'm starting to think that it's the fact you have used a single large partition for your system partition.

Start over, remove the partition on the drive and this time create a smaller partition and install Windoes to that. Having a partition so large is clumsy, inefficient, and can cause problems on some systems.

Best practice is to have a partition of around 10Gb for Windows, a partition of 10 to 40Gb for programs (depending on how many and what you plan to install), and a partition or partitions for data files. Moving the default Program Files and My Documents folders to the partitions of your choice is quite easy. Huge drives like that were not envisaged when Windows XP was developed, and particularly if you are using a first release copy of the OS, recognition problems can occur.

Yes, they work with plain old USB, but be warned, they are painfully slow when used with that transfer standard.

USB 2.0 or Firewire add-in cards are also rather inexpensive if you shop around.

How is the hard drive partitioned?

What size partitions do you have, and are they NTFS or FAT32?

Does this occur after you've gone through the process of installung Windows, copying Windows files etc, and then the system reboots? Or does it occur before the Windows installation process?

If the former, it could well be that your system is set to only boot from CD during the install. When the reboot occurs, it needs to boot from the hard drive instead, so when your system reboots, go back into BIOS setup, change the boot order to enable it to do so, then Save and Exit. The reboot should occur from the hard drive after that.

Did you install all the Windows Updates again? There are some (early) updates which address issues that may cause this behaviour.

Hi smarkles. I'll move this to the correct forum section for you, and we'll see what sort of response you get there.

Yep. When you get to the section in the installation troutine where you are asked which partition to install Windows to, choose to delete the existing system Partition(s) and create a new one in its place. Install Windows to that, and all should be well.

If you installed Windows with the SATA and RAID options enabled in BIOS, your system is likely to be having all sorts of confusion looking for them when it starts up. I'd be installing fresh with those options disbaled, and the motherboard configured for only IDE drives. You should not need to install RAID drivers during the installation either, if you are not actually using the feature.

Hi dandimmit,

I've had a look at your motherboard manual, and in addition to the 'Boot order' setting there is also another setting where you choose 'hard drive priority'. It's on the Advanced Menu, and its described on page 59 of your motherboard manual. If you have this set incorrectly, when your system is trying to boot from hard drive, it won't find the right one ;)

I suspect it's a dying laptop! If you have to ask such a question, then perhaps you are too unsure to be fiddling with the thing yourself, and would be best advised to take it to a repair shop to be looked at. If you have any confidence in your ability to pull things apart and tinker with them, you might try looking at the cabling which connects the internals to the screen. It might be in bad repair.

Jumper the drives as 'Master' and 'Slave'. Then attach the Master drive to the end connector and the slave drive to the middle connector. that method works for just about any combination of drives you can fit to an IDE channel.

Very, very occasionally, you might strike a combination of equipment which will not work in that configuration. In that case, you will likely have success in setting both drives to 'Cable Select', in which case the drive on the middle connector will be recognised as Master, and the drive on the end connector as Slave.

In the very rarest of circumstances, you might strike two drives, one of which needs to be set to Cable Select and the other specifically jumpered, in this circumstance, remember that Cable Select configures the middle connector as Master, unlike specific jumpering. You'll have to work it out for yourself if you strike such a combination, but I'm sure one of the two preferred methods will work for you.

Civic, there are linked articles and other links within those mentioned in that topic. If you dig down through it I'm sure you'll find information which will lead to the resolution of your problem.

Experience tells me that when problems such as yours arise, there has been more than one instance of CD burning software installed, and the problem is created by the reultant conflicts and corruption in the OS.

Quite frankly, the most straightforward and sure way to resolve it is to start over and install clean again. If you'd like to avoid doing so, then weeding your way down through all the links and sites the link above leads to will contain your particular solution somewhere.

That comment is uncalled for, and it surprises me to see it uttered. Are you having a bad day, jwenting?

I'll see YOU in the Viruses and Nasties section, because that's where I'm moving this discussion :)

No offence to you either, Saint, but the more sensible approach is to perform a full reinstall to put Service Pack 2 ON the PC. :)

It's like an OS upgrade, because it impacts on just about every function of Windows. If system corruption already exists, it'll be magnified afterwards. That's the case with an upgrade install, and it's the case with this Service Pack.

:eek:

That wasn't me!

I'd say you will too. I've only seen this behaviour reported once before, and it had to be reinstalled from the CD to replace the Calculator.

I think local retailers are an expensive way to purchase components, but I can't advise you where to purchase. Any drive caddy which allows for USB 2.0 and/or Firewire would be suitable. Choose what your system has available to use.

Let us know what part of the world you live in, and I'm sure someone will advise about good online stores to check. I suspect my own favourite Australian ones might not be too appealing to you ;)

Try the suggestions in this topic please:

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread17630.html

Let us know if they work for you.

Which Windows version please. this topic belongs in the appropriate section, and I'll move it as soon as you let us know.

Connected via USB (or Firewire) it should be hot-swappable. Like a big memory stick, really :)

Could be, Ryan. If that Router is also an Internet gateway, with NAT protection, or even better with SPI protection, then you could disable ZoneAlarm anyway if you choose. I personally just use my modem/router, and have no problems at all.

Make sure, of course, that your systems use the same workgroup name and that file and printer sharing is enabled on them.

Courtney, if you let us know the name of your email program and your web browser program, it would help us a lot.

Double post here. I've just reread your question. It's a bit convoluted. Sentence structure would help a bit ;)

Is it the message board itself which is giving trouble. If so, then finding out and telling us the name of the message board software in use would help.

On the Tools menu, choose Internet options
On the 'Security' tab, choose 'Custom Level'
Scroll down to the 'Downloads' entries, and ensure that 'File Download' is set to 'Enabled'.

Does that help?

Format and fresh install is by far the preferred method. Ensure you back up dat to external media beforehand, if you don't wish to lose it.

What internet browser do you use on your system please?

Topic closed. Please continue the discussion in the linked topic.

You do that by fitting it into a USB external drive caddy. It's quite a simple task, and they're not excessively expensive. (About the cost of a drive itself, or a little less.

Use the new copy to do a refresh (over the top) installation, use the CD-key that comes with it, and all should be well. You'll need to reactivate the installation, but the new CD key should be used for generating the activation code, so it'll go through as a new installation. :)

Be warned, if your system has problems, an over the top install will probably make them worse, not fix them, so you'd need to format and start over anyway if that happened ;)

Oh dear!

helloimtim:

Of course Firefox has some security issues of its own. There are some, although many less than for IE, but that doesn't make it 'as bad as' IE. The unique security isues of Firefox are mild in comparison. What you arte trying to do is suggest that a vehicle with a crack in the turn signal indicator lens is just as bad as a vehicle with a back wheel missing!

catch:

Your suggestion to lock down access to a limited user account and Security features turned way up high might sound good and all, but it leaves the system very limited as to what can be done on the internet. I'd maintain that it would render the system, for many many popular activities, unuseable!

whoever gave negative feedback to someone for expressing their view:

If I found out who you were I'd ban your ass quicker than you could blink! That's disgusting! :twisted:

Lyari

Point one:

The monitor on that PC is dying. Pretty soon it's gonna go 'poof' and it'll be black all the time! get an old secondhand monitor that works, and use it instead.

Point two:

Create a new topic when you have a question to ask us please, don't 'piggyback' your question onto a really old topic such as this.

tmm5899, if you're still receiving messages from this board, I'm really sorry your question didn't get answered when iy was posted, but you'd have to identify the video card (if it's an add-in) or the motherboard (if it's onboard video. You do that by having a look at what's printed on them.

That's a disgusting response from Compaq. Even if there is a BIOS limitation at around the 60Gb mark, it doesn't work by 'adding up' the total capacity of all the drives in your system! A BIOS limitation is the maximum size for any one drive. Compaq's (HPs) advice is an utter nonsense!

Switch off the PC before you open it up. (At the mains power, not just Windows shutdown or the power button.

Try one RAM module in slot 1. Reset CMOS (instructions in your motherboard manual) Boot up and see if it starts.

If not, repeat the procedure using the other module. Make sure both times that the module is firmly and completely seated in the RAM slot. Make sure also that your video card is firmly and completely seated in its slot.

If neither module gives success, take it to a technician for testing. Either your RAM or the motherboard could be damaged.

On some older systems there is a ssetting whereby you choose from a list of possible combinations, and it's usually called 'Boot order'.

On most recent systems, in an 'Advanced' menu in BIOS setup, you specify the device for:
1st boot device
2nd boot device.......

and so on.

Some systems, of course, may have it elsewhere in the menu system.

Make/model of your computer please, or preferably make/model of the motherboard.

Agree with caperjack.

Write down the CD key code, and underneath write down codes using any and all combinations of codes which would eventuate from a mistaken character. These could include

8 and B
0 and O
6 and G

amongst others.

Try all possible combinations before giving up ;)

Hang on a tic.

The hardest part is actually identifying what type of RAM module you need. Fitting it is the easy part.

If you dream of 256Mb, it's highly likely that your system uses the older SD-RAM modules, rather than the newer DDR-RAM modules. Those are harder to find nowadays, and are expensive to purchase new. Purchasing seconhand is the way to go.

If your system is a really old one which uses 80-pin EDO RAM, then modules are REALLY hard to find, and must be used in pairs.

Some details of your system would help. Make/model of your PC and/or make/model of your motherboard.

Edit: Forget the EDO-RAM comment. There aren't any such systems for Athlon XP processors :)