Posts by Killer_Typo

wow thanks that fixed it, but im not sure if i got the output i am supposed to get. though i plan on working on this a little more. thanks for the help i didnt even notice that. maybe from now i should just try to work with my variables in lowercase.

it means your video card's drivers have yet to be installed. go to

www.microsoft.com and then look for a link on the side called windows update

or try this link if you cant find it

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

and let it do its thing while it checks to see if you have the latest update patch. then if a windows pops up asking if you would like to download the microsoft update patch press yes. let it install and then run an update. it will scan your os and all that other good stuff to see if your up to date, if your not updates will be placed on the left. now looking at the left side look for a spot called "Drivers" check there to see if there are any updates for your current video card. if not then dont worry we can do this the hard way :P

If there are no updates then you need to to find out what kind of card you are using, IE is it onboard card(ie you plug the monitor into a jack thats directly connected the motherboard) or is it a pci/vga card that is plugged into a slot. if its a plugged into a slot version this is easier. just open up your case and look for the make of the card. if its an nvidia card. write down the type (geforce/pny/fx....) and go to www.nvidia.com and look for …

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
///program that takes one value a and places/////////
///it to the power of another value b, defining//////
///the power function by c///////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
int main()
{
	  int a;   // defining the integer a which will be to the power of b
	  int b;   // defining the integer b which will be the integer being raised to some power
	  int c;   // defines the power function used to put a to the power of b
 
 
	  printf("Welcome\nThis Program takes  user-defined numbers\n(a and b respectivly), and puts 'a' to the power of 'b'\nPlease enter your value of 'a' below:\n");
	  scanf("%i", &a);
	  printf("\n\nGood, now enter your value for 'b':\n");
		 scanf("%i", &b);
	  printf("\n\nCOMPUTING");
		  c = pow(a,b);
	  printf("\n\nThe value of %i^%i is %i", a, b, c);
		 return 0;
}

ok so heres what i wrote and it works perfectly fine, you have to have some kind of pause or break between the scanf and c=pow or else it will give you 1^12345678..... and so and so forth. also you should comment your work more so its easier to read, its a good habbit to get into, and it will pay off in the long run.

try not setting your variables to anything IE dont set int a to anything if you know that your going to define it later in the code.

also, its good practice to space your code out so that it is readable.

IE x = "some value"
Not
x="somevalue"

its …

he is saying that he entered them and it asks for them when he starts instead of after the print out. let me try my hand with the code for a bit and ill see if i can help out. (not likely but ill try :))

It wants you to update i guess, but i dont use quicktime at all Quicktime=devil. also use somthing more like paint or, an image view program to look at pictures. theres no reason to be using a tool for watching movies to watch a picture (:P) to view with something else, just rightmouseclick the file go >Open With>choose a program:
on the list that shows up choose an image viewing program such as paint, Image View... and at the bottom click always use this program to view these files. and then click ok. but seriously it sounds like quicktime wants you to update now and wont let you hold off anylonger (not surpised though) but if do want to use a program to view movies and pictures, use windows media player in classic mode, or just install the really old version. then do what i said above but just selece windows media player. you will never get a message again about upgrading to anything because its freeeee!

did you make sure that you installed your video adapter? when viewing your desktop res and color depth hit the button near the bottom right it should say "Advanced". then hit the tab at the top that says "Adapter" if it says anything like Standard VGA compatible or the like then your video card has either A) not been installed or B) not been properly installed.

if you need the drivers for your device list your card make and model

or if you already know this you can check out

www.nvidia.com for all Geforce/FX/... (any nvidia chipset card)

or

www.ati.com for all ati chipset cards. (mostly the radeon series cards)

<?php 
/* declar some relevant variables */
$Host = "localhost"; //location of mySQL on server
$User = "michael"; //my username
$Pass = "koolaide"; //my password
$Name = "phpaccess"; //name of the database to be used
$Table = "info"; //name of the table within the database
 
		 mysql_connect ($Host, $User, $Pass, $Name, $Table) or die ("unable to connect to database");
		 mysql_select_db("$Name") or die ("unable to select DB");
		 $sqlquery = "SELECT * FROM $table WHERE opinion = 'is greate'";
		 $result = mysql_query($sqlquery);
		 $number = mysql_num_rows($result); //LINE NUMBER 23
 
$i = 0;
if ($number < 1) 
{
	echo "<center><p>There were no results for your search</p></center>";
}
else 
{
	while ($number > $i) 
	 {
	 $thename = mysql_result ($result, $i, "name");
	 $theemail = mysql_result ($result, $i, "email");
	 echo "<p><b>Name:</b></p> $thename<br /><b>E-Mail:</b>$theemail</p>";
		 $i++;
	 }
}
?>

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in C:\www\databaseconnect.php on line 23
i get that error, ive commented line number twentythree. this is just a database tutorial that im working on and i hope that maybe someone can tell me whats goin on.

o and dont worry about the username password stuff, this server will never go online, this is all practice stuff.

(line twenty three is in reference to the entire php file, this is only part of it, i left out the <html> tags part)

Question, what File system are you using with your install of windows? before you said a FAT file system with win2k? you should NTFS for anything 2k and above, FAT's not good with 2k and xp (and the like).

doesnt matter someone deleted it anyways. and it wasnt really a double post. i posted that several days after i had posted the main thread, i was pointing out that no one seemed to be able to help.

There are virus/worm utilities out there, but due to the fact that there are so few viruses written for Linux, there are only a few utilities as well.

As for spyware, I've never heard of any of that stuff being able to infect a *NIX machine.

schweeet 8)

are there any good tools for removing adware/spyware from linux, or is there not any to begin with so no reason for the tools, how about virus scanners? any of those for linux? im sure there are, but i just gotta dig for em. thanks for all the help, hope that i can get this machine up and running at top performance soon (just gotta get a new monitor for it, because this one is sooo fuzzy that it hurts my eyes to read the type.)

finaly got mplayer installed...i think i did at least. having a little fun with linux. just a question though. is everything i install going to have to use the terminal?? i mean i hear alot of talk about how far its come and how you dont use the terminal as much, but so far for everything that i have done with linux i have had to use the terminal, install stuff, unzip stuff, tell linux to open certain files. not a bit issue, i just wanted to know if there are more things out there that are more for the GUI version of linux (even some of the GUI things i downloaded had to be installed via the terminal)

so here's a question... I use mozilla on my wifes fujitsu laptop, and now firefox on the new g4 powerbook... and I would swear that the firefox loads pages MUCH faster on the mac than the mozilla on XP...

is this possible or only wishful thinking???

it could very much be true. web page loading is not based on connection alone, it could be a better computer, or a computer with less going on in the background so you have more free resources so the pages load nice and fast. if you're really interested go to; http://webservices.cnet.com/Bandwidth/?tag=tm

and run that test. its a bandwidth meter, for all you know, your service might actually run better on that g4 powerbook than other machine(s).

Mozilla, in my opinion is a little bit more clutterd than IE (at least the menus are) but i find that i like it more because of its ease of use, and the fact that if a page isnt there it wont even try to load it, unlike in IE where if a page isnt there it will spend 5 minutes acting as if its loading a page only to get an error that page could not be found.

mozilla gets 5 thumbs up (mostly because of built in pop up stopper)
IE gets 4 thumbs up (because it has not built in pop up stopper, but it is soon to get one)

i need to be able to do that. im designing a website for a company and they asked that their be a search engine for people that come to their site and well wanna search for a product and such.

Tools Using to Build Site:

all the tools that Come with MX2004 W/ Flash.

ive seen alot of sites that use a built in google search engine, but thats not what i want. i wanted to build this one myself or at least find a good snipit for one so that i could modify it for their needs. thanks in advanced to any help that anyone can offer. :)

does anyone know how to build a search engine for a site? like i see the google integrated ones, but i wanted to see how it was done just for a small site because i didnt want to use the cookie cutter google version.

roffles, i realized i put flay instead of flash!

well i got it pretty much up and running, and i was able to resolve the internet error by setting some of the things for autodetect (like IP, DNS, and other things) and i gotta say im pretty impressed it actually turned out better than i thought it would. now thats not to say that im gunna dump windows...heck me and her been dating since my first computer :P (gosh im such a nerd). and thank you but no thanks, i dont smoke :P. thanks for all the help. Im running the KDE GUI interface over the GNOME because it looks so much better (in my humble opinion).

New question.

im trying to get mplayer to work. so far ive gotten flay and mozplugger (i plan on using mozilla because i didnt like the other browser that it came with) but when i try to intall it all i get is errors. i go like this

Prompt> su -i
Prompt> Password:
i enter my password.

i go to cd home/..../location of .rpm file

and i type

./name of rpm file.rpm

and i get an access denied error. so i thought well that sucks. so i look in the book, and hey what do you know theres a thing there on how to intstall it.

it says use

rpm -i --nodeps nameofrpm.rpm nameofrpm.rpm
which i didnt get. like this is what the line looked like

mplayer-1.0pre3.i386x.rpm mplayer-common-1.0pre3.i386x.rpm

…

yup, i installed all of the packages except for the server packages (i dont plan on hosting any servers untill i can get my own place and get a connection such as ADSL because i hear its good for running servers).

so far the only problem ive run into with linux is this.

Monitor issues, it was out of sync with my monitor (it was trying to run at 1280x1024 at 80mhz refresh rate) i was able to solve that problem.

getting the darnd thing online. i supplied it with an internet connection, but it wont go to any web pages. do you think that could be related to not knowing the onboard nic card that i am using? what can i do to resolve this issue.

New issues. how can i remove the little graphics next to all of the text in the linux version of the start menu, while their nice little graphics they are to busy for my eyes are cunfuse them often.

i hope to get good enough with linux to be able to use it with the same ease and flow i use windows (ive been running windows since 95, and a little of pre 95, so i know my way around windows like the back of my hand :))

the book i got for linux was called "Official Fedora Companion" Your Guid to the Fedora Project
its by redhat press. so …

Okay... lemme get this straight:

One network has

A B C D

The other network has
A E F

A is on two networks? Who's the gateway for the first network? If A is connected to the network E and F is on, A could be used for an Internet gateway. A probably wouldn't be the gateway for B, C, and D, though.

Is this about right?

Yup A is on two networks. its on our main Network between all of the computers in the house (a wireless nic card) and a network between 2 other computers ( the onboard nic ). so yeah you have it right.

A--B--C--D------Networked together all Via Wireless/Wire Lnksys/Netgear routers
|---------------Networked together by a Netgear 6 Port Hub
E--F

thats how it looks. E and F have no internet, but when i enable internet sharing on A E and F can connect (well not F anymore since i put linux on it, but im working on that part).

Now when i enable network connection sharing, does it only share its connection with computers that have no internet connection?? or does it share it with all? i need to know this and if it does share it with all computers that are on the network, is there a way that i can limit the sharing to only the computers E and F. thank you for any help that you may be able to offer :).

well i started the Red Hat install today, i finaly got the thrid install disk to work. well about half way through the install it gave me an error message about a package being missing from the cd. so i thought, well what else can i do but go and buy a copy. well i didint exactly go out and buy a copy, but i got a book that came with fedora Red Hat, and im installing that right now. im looking forward to this new learning experience. Anything in particular that any of you have to say about fedora?

ugh, that third iso is still giving me problems, ive downloaded it from several different locations (about 4, which took me a total combined time of around. TO FREAKIN LONG!!! sorry about the caps, o and one server disconnected me at 96%, i was 4 freakin percent from finishing the download. and amessage poped up, You have been disconnected from the server! BAHHHHHH BAHH IT ALL TO HECK and BACK!!! sorry again about the caps.) and each time i burned it failed after 18 percent. and on one of the burns it made it to 23% and then just hung for over an hour. im not sure what to do anymore, other than just go out and buy a copy of red hat linux, which is not what i want to do.

are there any places that you know of that offer faster downloads than 100 KB a sec, im hoping to get a server that allowes at least 250KB a sec transfer rate.

so far ive gotten two of the discs burnt, but the third one is being a tad bit crappy about it, and im not sure wheather or not its the crappy 50 gallon jug of cds that im using or the fact that i might have downloaded a bad ISO file. so far its failed on two discs at different percents so im guessing it had to do with the cd's, and both time right when it goes to fail it makes some weird noises in the CD-Burner drive, so again im guessing its a crappy cd!!! hope i can get this to work.

wow, thanks that really helped out. ok, now i have a new question.

ok lets say i have this setup.

COMPUTER.

A B C D and they all have internet alright. now lets say computer A is on another net work with computers E and F and E and F dont have internet connection. now if i do internet connection sharing (as i have tested) E and F both gain internet access. but what about B C D, does that mean their internet is now running off of A? or are they still using the internet as usual. And if their internet is now shared with computer A is there a way to limit it to only E and F so that B C and D are still using their regular connection? any help would be greatly appreciated.

woop woop, just finished downloading Red Hat linux Version 9. (took a little over an hour, all i did was look for faster servers), but now i have a bigger question. how do i extract the ISO files, or do i just burn them to CD-ROM and their good to go. After burning them to CD-ROM, do i boot from them, or insert them while windows is running?? again im a wee bit lost on this. thanks for all the help and any future help that you may be able to offer me.

you can get the .iso files from http://www.linuxISO.org. That's where i got mine

cool, the only problem with that site was that the transfer was extreemly slow (im on cable so it wasnt my internet). i think ill start before i go to bed or somthing like that.

This is my project thats due tomorrow
can someone do the rest for me?
i am lack of time now....
coz i got my final tomorrow too

they dont do others homework here, your going to have to do it, best that you can hope for is a direction to go in, and maybe some hints, but you cant expect someone to just write all the code for you.

i dont know very much about c as of yet, but from what happend to me and looking at your source you forgot to add a line for what to do if your choice is somthing other than 0 1, it needs a value for Null (no entry) and all characters numbers from a-z 2-9 (because 1 and 0 are being used they are excluded) because when i just pressed enter the program got stuck in a loop and started spitting a line of text which i couldnt read, as fast as the computer could. also when it asked for a name, it never gave me a chance to enter my name, the program merely proceeded to the next line.

what exactly does it do, ive read a little on it, but still am not sure. does this mean i can take the computers online connection, and its network connection (to computers that have no internet capability) and bridge them so that all of the computers have interenet capabality if i set the computer with the bridged connection as the uplink??? im a little confused as to the use of bridging connections. any information would be greately appreciated.

That looks good. Did you clear out the temp internet files?

yeah, but when i do there always seems to be some even though i clean them out. ive tried going to IE properties then clearing them out that way, and iv tried using disk cleanup, but there always seems to be some.

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 11:11:21 AM, on 6/5/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cisvc.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Iomega\System32\AppServices.exe
c:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\vso\mcvsrte.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
c:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\vso\mcshield.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\hkcmd.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\DSentry.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Dell\EUSW\Support.exe
C:\Program Files\Iomega HotBurn\Autolaunch.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Works Shared\WkUFind.exe
C:\Program Files\MUSICMATCH\MUSICMATCH Jukebox\mmtask.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\vso\mcvsshld.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\agent\mcagent.exe
C:\Program Files\SETI@home\SETI@home.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\vso\mcvsescn.exe
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\ymsgr_tray.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cidaemon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cidaemon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\Dennis McMahon\My Documents\hjt\HijackThis.exe

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://www.dellnet.com
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName =
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.ocx
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {11359F4A-B191-42d7-905A-594F8CF0387B} - C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\lexbar.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll
O3 - Toolbar: &Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msdxm.ocx
O3 - Toolbar: Dictionary.com - {11359F4A-B191-42D7-905A-594F8CF0387B} - C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\lexbar.dll
O3 - Toolbar: McAfee VirusScan - {BA52B914-B692-46c4-B683-905236F6F655} - c:\progra~1\mcafee.com\vso\mcvsshl.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [IgfxTray] C:\WINDOWS\System32\igfxtray.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HotKeysCmds] C:\WINDOWS\System32\hkcmd.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [DVDSentry] C:\WINDOWS\System32\DSentry.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [DwlClient] C:\Program Files\Common Files\Dell\EUSW\Support.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Drag'n'Drop_Autolaunch] "C:\Program Files\Iomega HotBurn\Autolaunch.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Microsoft Works Update Detection] C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Works Shared\WkUFind.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [System MScvb] C:\Documents and Settings\Dennis McMahon\Local …

thank you, ill get right on that!

Hello,

You are going to need the traditional things: keyboard, mouse, network card, computer, and electricity.

Seriously, you will need media to install from, and will need somewhere to put it. I suggest setting up one computer to do this.

My setup at home is a RedHat 9 Linux server, with 512 MB RAM, and a 5 GB Hard drive. You could setup RH with as little as 64 MB of RAM, but I would keep the minimal Hard Drive setup around 5 GB. You may have heard people brag on how they got Linux installed on 512 MB of hard disk size... yeah, you can do that, but such a configuration is highly customized.

If you want to go RedHat, know that it is "dead" as of version 9. Version 9 will install nicely, and will work for you, just realize there will be no more updates to it. The RedHat Project has migrated into Fedora, (fedora.redhat.com), but it seems that it is not ready for primetime yet.

I would download the CD's as .iso files, and burn them, and install from them. Or you can go to your local Barnes and Noble, and buy a linux book (I like the yellow and black RedHat Linux 9 unleashed) where the disks come with the book. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE .ISO if you only have a modem!

There are other distrobutions out there, and I am sure others will comment on them.

Good luck with your install, …

Ok, so i want to set up a linux box but i need to know what i am going to need to set it all up. any help would be greatly appreciated. especially if i could get some help such as links to downloads, and tutorials on setting it up. thanks in advanced for any help you can offer.

thanks, do you recomend any C/C++ compilers in particular? also, do you know of any direct links to downloading Linux free? im a linux noob and have only used Windows for my computer needs. ( though i have a machine that i can run as a linux box )

so is this log clean? its not for my computer by my moms as i stated. im just posting this in hopes to get things running better than they are. i ran ad aware and spybot search and destry andremoved over 200 bad files/keys/folders and such. and did a virus scan, but i wanted to make sure that it was really clean.

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 7:42:19 PM, on 6/4/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cisvc.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Iomega\System32\AppServices.exe
c:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\vso\mcvsrte.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
c:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\vso\mcshield.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\hkcmd.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\DSentry.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Dell\EUSW\Support.exe
C:\Program Files\Iomega HotBurn\Autolaunch.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Works Shared\WkUFind.exe
C:\Program Files\MUSICMATCH\MUSICMATCH Jukebox\mmtask.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\vso\mcvsshld.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\agent\mcagent.exe
C:\Program Files\SETI@home\SETI@home.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\vso\mcvsescn.exe
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\ymsgr_tray.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cidaemon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cidaemon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\Dennis McMahon\My Documents\hjt\HijackThis.exe

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://www.dellnet.com
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = http://red.clientapps.yahoo.com/customize/ie/defaults/sb/ymsgr/*http://www.yahoo.com/ext/search/search.html
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL,(Default) = http://red.clientapps.yahoo.com/customize/ie/defaults/su/ymsgr/*http://www.yahoo.com
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName =
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.ocx
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {11359F4A-B191-42d7-905A-594F8CF0387B} - C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\lexbar.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll
O3 - Toolbar: &Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msdxm.ocx
O3 - Toolbar: Dictionary.com - {11359F4A-B191-42D7-905A-594F8CF0387B} - C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\lexbar.dll
O3 - Toolbar: McAfee VirusScan - {BA52B914-B692-46c4-B683-905236F6F655} - c:\progra~1\mcafee.com\vso\mcvsshl.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [IgfxTray] C:\WINDOWS\System32\igfxtray.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HotKeysCmds] C:\WINDOWS\System32\hkcmd.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [DVDSentry] C:\WINDOWS\System32\DSentry.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [DwlClient] C:\Program Files\Common Files\Dell\EUSW\Support.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Drag'n'Drop_Autolaunch] "C:\Program Files\Iomega HotBurn\Autolaunch.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: …

boot your winxp (do you still have your xp cd?) if you do put it in the drive. go Start>run> Clear out anything thats in there and type SFC /scannow and hit enter. that will scan though your windows xp install and replace all major system files with the disks version. i was able to fix a few problems on my machine and my moms machine with that. but for you not being able to boot your 9x install, im not sure because i dont run dual boots.

Well as of late the only coding that i know is HTML coding, and thats because it is fairly straight forward and easy to do. Ive tried some C programming before i even had the big sams teach yourself book, but it didnt help much, it was too long and not very interactive. i had a hard time learning with its tutorials because the book never showed how to bring it all together. it only showed, he you have a for statment this is how you can use it, but not, he you have a for statement, it can be used several ways lets see how. Im basicly looking for a good book on it, not a big 400 page book, but a nice short one, with tutorials on building programs, and not just the simple printf("hello world") string. the most ive done is using C to make temperature converters and such. but i was hoping to build somthing more from it.

Does anyone know of any good reads that are indepth but not filled with useless text and by that i mean tons of pages that go off topic about where C and C++ originated and why. i just want to get my hands dirty in it and learn it like the rest. im not looking to go and become a software engineer, its just somthing that i would like to learn and am willing to learn if someone would be willing to take me under their wing …

have you tried HiJackThis im sure a complete log file will be able to better show us what we may be dealing with.

not sure if it was posted, host file is located in

C:/Windows/System32/Drivers/Etc/ for win xp/nt/2k and for 9x users it is located in just C:/Windows/

so far so good. ill post again tomorrow with another update.

Hey K_T,

If you can, try the new monitor for a couple of days or so. If you don't experience the problem, it might very well be an issue with the moni itself. As I said, trying yuor problematic monitor on another system will pretty much tell you for sure.

yeah, the only issue with that is sometimes it can go up to 2 days without an issue, so i cant sit and wait around for it to happen so ill just see if it happens again on this machine with new monitor. keepin my fingers crossed! (if it happens again ill just pull and ol'yeller on this comp and take it out back if ya know what i mean ;))

i switched with my dads ViewSonic P815 Professional Series monitor. its pretty huge, but its soooooo dark (the brightness contrast at max look like 50% on old monitor) but ill give updates on if it happens again. thanks for all the help that you guys/gals have been able to offer.

yeah, usualy after awhile it comes back (a few minutes) but what i dont get is this. i thought it might be a PSU problem so i got a 410W power suply compared to my old 310W power supply and it didnt fade to black for awhile, but then it started right back up after a few days. though it may have happend at night i dunno because my computer is on during my sleep but the monitor stays turned off. also its not like a fade fade to black. its alsmost like everything gets bigger. likes its fading out to the edges and then goes black as it does that.

alright

TeleVideo
SVP300 Super View Pro Series

Resolution.
1600x1200
Color Depth
32
Refresh Rate
72Hz

the drivers are custom written drivers using Power Strip But this problem occured long before i made the custom drivers.

ill try that and get back to you, its just that i need this monitor because my only other monitor cant display anything about 1024x768 and i need 1600x1240

sometimes my screen just fades to black for no apparent reason at all. i could be sitting idol reading a web page or playing game, sometimes it happens when im not even doing anything (IE its just idoling on the desktop) its not a heat issue for i have tested several cards(also monitoring the temps and it happend to the other cards too), and its not any loose wires ive opend up the machine and checked through all of the wires everything is nice and snug.

Also when it fades to black i can still do things, i just cant see anything at all. The monitorlight doesnt change like it does when it sleeps (it stays green, but when its out of sync or asleep the light is yellow)

heres my system specs.

WinowsXP Svc Pack1
P4VXASD2+ (motherboard serial number, make is Mainboard)
P4 1.8 Ghz Proccessor
160GB maxtor Hard Drive
1024 MB DDR RAM
PNY Verto 5600, 256 MB
Soundblaster Audigy (Creative)

any other specs i will gladly give them to you. thank you for any help that you may be able to offer.

i was hoping i wouldnt have to do that, i dont want to have to pay for their good services (hence im setting this up from my house, cuz im cheap), but i also do not want to have to append anything to my site like .dyndns.org

what do i do about dynamic IP's if im trying to host a website off of my main machine. is there a program that can compensate for an everchanging IP or do i have to just modify the files on a regular basis to make sure that the dynamic IP is always kept up to date. any help would be greatly appreciated.

what the hell. please dont crap my thread with your HJT log file, please create your own Thread for it.