Posts by chrisbliss18

I know there are ways to do this, but I don't know what they are.

I'm curious why you want to set the connections up like this. The router will portion out access to the connection intelligently. Unless all the machines are trying to do downloads or uploads continuously (as in they never, ever stop trying to take bandwidth), you would severely limit each machine's total bandwidth availability by setting up the connections like that.

For example: if your network were set up like that and both of your wireless connections were downloading large files, only half of your total available download bandwidth would be in use, which, in my opinion, is very wasteful.

So, my question is: what is the problem you are trying to solve that causes you to want your network setup like that?

Are you sure the monitor has the problem and not the system? If the system doesn't provide a signal, the monitor will stay in sleep mode.

Try the monitor on a different system (that works) in order to get a "second opinion".

I'm sorry I wasn't specific; the error comes up after the computer shuts off due to overheating. Afterwards, when booting, it gives me that error.

I still don't believe that the error message is because of the way it was shut down; rather, that it is because your system is improperly configured and your motherboard is noticing a mismatch in how you have the system configured and how the components work. What is probably happening is that the logic on the board knows that the current configuration will cause system damage or a non-functioning machine, so it is defaulting itself to what it believes will be a functioning configuration so that you can boot up the machine and make the appropriate modifications, not so you can just keep running the machine as is.

In my experience, BIOS error messages refer to current situations, not past situations (there are very few exceptions, but you do not need to concern yourself with those). So, if your machine boots up and reports, "Overclocking Error. Press F1 to enter change system configuration or press F2 to continue.", your system is saying, "Your system is currently improperly configured. Press F1 to fix this problem or press F2 to ignore it and hope it doesn't cause a system failure."

I did some reading on your board, there is an advanced section in your BIOS menu that gives you the ability to set overclock options. In that section, is your "AI Overclock Tuner" set to …

Exactly. You cannot do the initial setup on a wireless router using a wireless connection. On that subject, you should never change router configuration settings using a wireless connection since you run a risk of kicking yourself off of the router.

Did changing the settings cause the error message to go away?

The problem is that he wants to remove a group of lines based on the appearance of a line that has connected in it, not that he wants to remove all lines that have that word in them.

Read your documentation carefully. Wireless routers need to be configured by a machine that is directly connected to it (with a CAT5/network cable).

Wow... Just wow...

So let me understand.

1. You haven't even tried running the machine yet, but you are planning on upgrading it based on specs alone?
2. You spent $2500 (a rediculously large amount of money to spend for a system now-a-days) on a machine that you believe is inadequate to run a current game?

I don't mean to sound rude or mean, but it sounds like you did no planning when you purchased the machine, which is the equivalent of throwing money into the wind.

The first thing I recommend is at least trying the machine out before selling yourself on buying additional components.

If you try the machine out and find that it is not fully adequate to meet your expectations but is still able to run the games you want to run, I'd recommend waiting a few months (since prices on new video cards usually plummet fairly rapidly) before trying to sell the 6800 and buying the 7800. If you wait, the potential loses from selling the 6800 will be smaller than the price savings on the 7800.

In the end, the decision is up to you. I never spend more than $1000 on a box (I build my own) since anything more than that is spent paying the premium price of new tech. However, I know that many of the gamers and computer users out there simply must have the newest tech. If that is you, and you …

Should I change to the deafault BIOS settings? Though I doubt it will work, as I'm the only one using the computer.

Try it and see if the error message goes away. If your BIOS is giving you an error, you should never ignore it.

Here's some code that I threw together. I wasn't sure exactly what you wanted to do with the information, so I had it print the non-connected information to the screen while ignoring the connected information. This should allow the code to be very easily adaptable to what you want to do with your application. This code assumes that the data is in a file called searchAndReplace.txt.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

open(FILE, "<searchAndReplace.txt") or die "Error reading input file 'searchAndReplace.txt'\n";

while(my $line = <FILE>)
{
        next if($line !~ /^PIN/);

        if($line =~ /^PIN connected/)
        {
                while($line = <FILE>)
                {
                        last if($line =~ /^\s*$/);
                }
        }
        else
        {
                print $line;

                while($line = <FILE>)
                {
                        print $line;

                        last if($line =~ /^\s*$/);
                }
        }
}

exit;

Have you tried reading the My PC won't start - Read this first! thread? In that thread, Catweazle gives a very detailed sequence of steps to take your machine through to try to diagnose the problem component.

Unfortunately, not many major brands build systems with AMD chips.

IBM, Dell, Toshiba, and Sony are currently all Intel-only.

Compaq, HP, Fujitsu, Gateway, and Acer offer a selection of systems available with either AMD or Intel processors.

Why are you doing the copying and pasting method?

Have you tried moving the files without using that method, such as dragging the files to a new destination with the right mouse button held down, releasing the button while hovering over the new destination, and selecting "Move Here"?

Does moving files using that method create the same results?

It is not the components that are the issue (at least, it's not that your system isn't powerful enough to handle L2), there is some other problem at work. I have an AMD Athlon XP 2600+, 1GB DDR333, and a geForce 5500 128MB AGP, and the game runs smooth as silk for me.

You may think that your machine is clean, but that is not always so easy to determine.

There's a good chance that you have configured your machine incorrectly in BIOS. If so, this will have severely reduced the performance of your machine.

Rogue is right.

From your description of the problem it would seem that you have an LCD monitor or a fairly large (>14") CRT.

If you have an LCD monitor, know that LCDs have what is called a native resolution. The native resolution defines what resolution the monitor should be set to for optimum image quality. Setting the display to anything else will cause the image to be blurry or improperly rendered. If you have an LCD, find out its native resolution and set your Windows desktop and all your games to run at that resolution.

If you have a CRT, know that the 640x480 resolution is considered outdated and is rarely used on desktop or in other applications. A resolution of 800x600 is considered to be a bare minimum resolution and 1024x800 is considered to be the current standard.

I don't know how much you know about graphics, monitors, and resolutions, so I will give you a little bit of information about what the resolution is. The resolution defines how many pixels will be used to produce an image. More pixels per image generally mean a clearer image with a smoother appearance. Thus, running your display at a resolution of 800x600 or higher will produce better images.

With all of that aside, is there a reason why you want to run games at 640x480?
What type of display and computer do you have?

The AGP slots are backwards compatible, so there shouldn't be any issues running an AGP4x card in an AGP8x slot. Read your motherboard's manual carefully to ensure that you have set everything up properly. I haven't worked with boards that have both AGP and PCI-E, but I'm sure that you need to make some jumper or configuration modification to tell the mobo which slot to use.

I'm just shooting in the dark here since I don't play WoW anymore, but I'm sure that, as they update the software, older systems will increasingly be unable to play the game. Your processor is fairly old and is most likely the current bottleneck to your system's gaming ability.

If your card has ONLY the white multi-pin connector on it, then it has only a digital output interface and cannot be used with an analog CRT monitor. If what you have is an analog CRT (the video cable coming out of your CRT monitor has a 15 pin plug on the end), then this card will be useless to you. You should either take it back for exchange/refund, or buy a digital monitor that you can use it on. Sorry!!!

That is not correct. All t-hill666 needs is a DVI to VGA converter. Most video cards that have DVI-I plugs come with them, but some don't unfortunately.

Right-click your desktop and select "Properties". Click the "Settings" tab. Click the "Advanced" button. See if there is a tab on the popup window that says the name of your graphics card (mine says "Quadro FX 500"). If so, click it. If you don't see that, click on the tabs until you find one that causes a box to "slide" out to the left of the window. Once you are on that tab, select "Overlay Controls" from the slide out box. You will see a slider labelled "Brightness". While running some video, adjust the slider until the brightness is to your liking. Once it is, click "Apply", click "Okay", and click "Okay" again on the Display Properties window.

Cell phones will frequently send data across the network in order to check for voice mail, updates, etc. This data transmission will often disrupt nearby electrical devices. When my cell phone connects to the network, my speakers hiss, pop, and make nostalgic analog modem sounds. I can usually tell that my cell phone is just about to receive a call by the specific noise that my speakers create.

This site should give you a step-by-step guide on how to set up the port forwarding for any of the games that your son wants to play.

The following is something that can work for you, but I do not recommend that anyone does this. I am only offering this piece of information since you seem to connect your son's machine directly to the modem often (thus removing it from the protection of being behind a firewall).

You can configure one machine to be in what is called the DMZ. The DMZ is an area completely outside of the protection of the firewall. This allows one machine to be outside of the firewall but still be connected to the router and allows other machines to be connect to the router as well. Since this one machine will be outside of the firewall, there is no need to configure port forwading; all of the DMZ computer's ports will be wide open to the internet. Of course, this means that the machine in the DMZ is not protected by your hardware firewall and is prone to attack. In order to add a machine to the DMZ, find the internal IP address of that machine (run "cmd", type "ipconfig", and press enter; the IP address of that machine will be listed), go to the DMZ screen in your router setup, enable the DMZ setting, put the last digit of the IP address you want to be in …

According to this article on NEC's Swedish site:

ND-3550A complies with the new RoHS-directive, meaning that all components are lead-free.

do i have pci express ? i doubt it

No... You don't.

- Is this only in a certain game or is it in all games?
- Have you tried changing detail settings, changing the rendering engine from OpenGL to DirectX or vice-versa, or modifying other graphical options?
- Have you tried going to the nVidia site, downloading the latest drivers, and installing them?
- Have you gone to your graphics card manufacturer's website in order to check to see if there are known issues such as the ones that you are experiencing?

- Has your card ever worked properly? If so, what did you change just before it started messing up?
- Are the other components in your system capable of running the game smoothly?

Here's a tip for you in the future. If you lose drivers for your system, go to your system's manufacturer's website (Acer), look for a support area or an area that mentions driver downloads, and then search for drivers for your specific system. In your case, go to this page, select "Notebook" and "Travelmate 4010", click "Search", and then select the driver that you want to download.

Have you repeated this process with files of a different kind, such as image files or standard text documents?

If so, does the same thing happen (file can't be read, etc)?
If not, try it and see what happens.

Once you dropped it, you sent the drive on a death spiral. It just took a few days to have the drive destroy itself.

Seagate drives have awesome 5 year warrenties and will replace almost any damaged drive (as long as you don't do something to void the warrenty -- like open the casing on the drive). You can learn about Seagate's drive warrenty support here.

A quick way to format the drive is to right-click My Computer and select Manage. Select Disk Management under the Storage section on the left of the Computer Management console. Find the new drive on the right pane, right-click it, and select "Format...". From there, it's up to you on how you want to configure the new drive.

That's right.. I need to get access to "My Documents" under my Log on password hence I am open to all suggestions.

What J is saying is that you will be able to get access to those "private" folders as well. The notion that you won't be able to is bogus. Running the program won't damage anything. Give it a try and see if it retrieves the files you need.

Your system may be overheating. If this is the case, the motherboard is turning the system off in order to prevent your system from frying itself.

- Are all your fans running?
- Is the fan on your processor spinning at full speed?
- Does your case have proper ventilation (fans that intake air and exhaust it out the back)?
- Have you removed the heatsink from the CPU and reinstalled it lately? If so, did you reinstall it correct (cleaned off the old thermal compound, put a very thin layer of new thermal compound on the chip, and very carefully replaced the heatsink facing the correct direction)?
- If you open up the side of the case and point a very powerful fan into it and then start up the machine, does it run a bit longer before restarting?

Double thread. Please refer all comments to the other thread.

As for your "powers on when plugging in", this could be caused by a BIOS setting. There is a setting in many newer BIOSes that tell the computer what to do after a power outage. There are usually three settings:
- Stay off
- Power on
- Last state

If your's is set to "Power on", then your computer will boot each time you plug it in. I have my machine set to "Last state". This setting turns my computer back on if it was on or leaves it off if the machine was off.

It sounds like your power supply may have had its internal breaker tripped when you plugged it in and it didn't start up. When the internet breaker gets tripped, you usually have to unplug it for a few seconds/minutes and plug it in again in order to be able to start the machine.

If your BIOS is telling you that you have an "overclocking error", you should load up your BIOS config settings and make sure that you don't have any overclocking features enabled. It's very possible that you or someone working on your system tried to "tweak" some settings and ended up configuring the machine to run in an unstable mode.

Can you be more specific about the wording of the error?

Case prices have gone up recently. Cases of a certain quality that I could get for $25 and free shipping now cost a minimum of $40 and cost $10-$15 to ship. The only reason I can come up with to explain this trend is that there are many more computer builders/enthusiasts now than there were a few years ago, which has driven up case demand and the prices along with it.

Most of the places that offered cases at rediculous prices don't exist anymore. Newegg is still one of the most competitive places, but they too have increased their case prices over the past year or so. I checked their site and found that you can't get that case for less than $80 after shipping. It's a shame.

It sounds like the primary issue is that the system is locking up. When this lockup occurs, you get the dreadful audio loop and the graphics are shutting off (causing the monitor to go to standby mode).

I'd say that your motherboard's hardware monitor is doing its job and doing it well. What it is telling you is that the voltage supplied on the +12V rail is too low. This type of problem can cause many problems from system lockups, boot failures, and component damage.

I recommend that you replace your power supply with a compatible one. If you are not sure how to check for a compatible power supply, take your entire machine to a local shop that you trust (try to find a small shop since the big name guys (Best Buy, Circuit City, etc) usually employ kids that know next to nothing about computer components) and ask them what type you need to replace it with.

OEM software is intended for use by resellers. It is exactly the same as the regular retail software short of the packaging and other materials.

It sounds like one of your disks went bad, not that your BIOS went bad.

Why is your Windows XP CD not bootable? In my experience, all non-upgrade WinXP CDs have been bootable.

To test to see if your system can boot up, this will ensure that your BIOS isn't corrupted, burn an Ultimate Boot CD. This is a utility CD that you can use to do various things. It will show if your system is bootable or not. Try it out and let us know if it loads.

I would recommend a flash drive for what you are wanting to do.

You seem to misunderstand how a CD-RW disk works. It's not some kind of databasing system that can track slight modifications to files, it's just a standard file system with some limitations since it's a CD-RW. If you want to add files, that is easy to do, but if you want to modify or remove files, you would have to empty all the disk's contents, and rewrite the data that you want to be on the disk. So, if you were keeping this entire manuscript as one file, each time you updated that file, you would have to empty the disk, and rewrite that file.

I don't fully understand why this manuscript has to be modifiable on a portable medium. Will you be working on this on many different systems? If so, the flash drive would be ideal and would give you the smallest risk of data corruption/loss while offering a greater level of cross-system compatibility than the CD-RW would. If you are not going to be modifying this manuscript on many different systems, just keep it on the harddrive of the system that you use.

Well... You didn't just do an Operating System reinstall. What you did was you used a recovery disk that was specifically designed for completely different hardware. These recovery disks don't stop at reinstalling software, they can also modify the software on a chip inside the computer, called the BIOS. In essence, you could have rendered your motherboard unbootable by running that recovery disk. If this is the case, there is no way for you to repair what has been done since you cannot load the system to a point that will allow you to reset these changes.

If the BIOS is functioning correctly, you would hear some beeps that would give you an idea of what is wrong with the system. Since you don't hear any, your BIOS is either completely damaged or some hardware problem just happened to occur right after you ran the recovery disk.

I suggest that you try to contact HP tech support and ask them if there is a way to undo the damage.

A memory dump is when the program outputs the raw data in memory with very little formatting to aid readability. This is done on critical errors like this to help debuggers find errors in their code. The memory dump itself is not an error; rather, it is information that may be pertinent to tracking down the actual cause of the error. The problem is that the information in the memory dump is of very little, if any, use to end users like us.

I'll be going home in a few hours, so I can do some more thorough checking on your specs then.

If the cable fits, it should have the same pin configuration considering that they modify the pin shapes when the change pin configurations. So, my guess is that the old powersupply will work just fine with the new board. However, in order to make sure that you don't damage any components, I would recommend getting a newer powersupply just to err on the side of caution.

Try completely uninstalling Nero using their Clean Tools. Reboot and reinstall without the InCD software. Try doing a new transcode. If it breaks again, apply this patch and try again.

Some other ideas are:

• See if you can successfully burn a much smaller video (around 10-20MBs) to the disk.
• Try lowering the burn speed.

What are your system specs (CPU, RAM (type and size), available harddrive space, DVD burner specs, and type of media you are trying to burn)?

It will stop it from running at startup. If anything else runs it (which I don't believe anything else will), it will start. If you want to totally prevent it from running, search for the file and delete it.

Are you running Windows XP?

I still suspect that it's not your RAM timings. Why would your system have an instability caused by inproper RAM settings only while running a specific set of applications? As I said before, test your RAM using Memtest86. This program will thoroughly thrash your RAM to check for issues.

The common theme with your situation seems to be your video, DirectX gaming in paticular.

You say that overheating cannot be an issue. I agree that this is not likely to be your problem, but just because your room is cold, doesn't mean that your system isn't overheating. If your CPU doesn't have a heatsink that can disipate all the heat that it is generating in a short enough time frame and/or if your case isn't properly and adequately ventilated, your system will overheat. Get a software package that can report your system temps, like Motherboard Monitor. This will help you in finding out if temperature is any kind of issue.

I'll do some more research on your setup when I have a bit more time. It's possible that you just need to do some settings tweaking, such as making sure that your multipliers are properly set.

"AMD Athlon 64" is a brand of chip. Do you know the model number of the system, such as V4000, SR1030Z, etc?

Did you try out Everest?

stupidfly, did you try any of the offered suggestions?

Nobody suggested copying the file, and if the system can't find it, find a different means to replace the file, such as "sfc /scannow".

I really don't have much info about Vista, but I am intrigued about why you want to run it so much. Are there any major features that you want from it?

Get Everest: Home Edition. It's free and provides very detailed information about your system.

If your system is from a well-known manufacturer, such as Dell, HP/Compaq, Gateway, etc, it is possible to look up such information from the brand and model number of the system.

Read what MartyMcFly posted again. You are going on a completely different tangent than he is.

The program is old, very old in computer software land. The problem is that the hardware and operating systems have changed so much, that it is very hard to support such old software.

You can also try to add some files to your c:\windows\system32\ folder as shown here. Microsoft also has a similar solution (more difficult but more robust) here.

If the previous fixes don't work, you can try using this guide to configure the program to work correctly. This is kind of a hit or miss type of deal. Sometimes it works, other times it won't.

Hopefully one of these solutions will work for you.