Posts by caperjack

start by taking the hard drive out and taking it to the tech guys and see if they can recover the data ,this will also tell you the harddrive is the source of you problem,you say you never touched the ram ,it may be bad ,ram can go bad ,you would need to have a stick of same type ram to put in ad try it to know if its the ram.

I have a T6420 E Machines that powers up, but doesn't boot the keyboard/mouse is not reading. Plus the machine seems to be making a different noise than it normally did (sounds louder). Is this the motherboard or the processor. And what is an affordable alternative to put into the machine so i wont have this problem again. Any help would be appreciated.

sounds louder ,did you open the case to see if any or all fans are working ,also not full of dust ,could be a heating problem ,could also just be a bad power supply ,and bad power supplies lead to bad motherboard .really hard to tell you what to put in to fix it,as it it be many things . and to never have the problem again, is impossible ! you own it, you will always have problems .

I use both ,alchol 120 for creating and burning images.
I use Nero for making music cd's and converting .avi home movies to dvd home movies.
but you only need nero as it will do both .

yes, that blinking cursor geneally indicates a corrupt/dead hard disk or filesystem

not saying it isn't ,but that usually comes with a missing hdd drive or operating system,error message ,i say usually

the utlitmate boot disk has virus scanner .
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

also this from bootdisk, can be downloaded and burned to bootable cdrom of bootable floppy disk .
http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk/

Bingo, tryed a DVD movie and same thing.... damn now i need a new CD/DVD Drive. Cheers m8

sometimes its always the simple things ,don't know about where you are at but dvd drives are cheap here.

hello, i use alcohol 120,and nero 7 ,both will support using multiple drives ,i have two burners one is dvd and other is cd-rw ,i can burn 2 cd-r at once with both programs .
also there are duplicators on the market to do this with out even owning a computer .
http://computers.listings.ebay.ca/Drives-Controllers-Storage_CD-Duplicators_W0QQfclZ3QQfromZR11QQsacatZ31509QQsocmdZListingItemList

Hi,

Just bought a Western digital 10,000 rpm sata Hard drive that I'd like to use for boot. Motherboard has 6 ata ports + an IDE. Have an old IDE HDD as master w/ an IDE cd-rom. When I plug in the sata hard drive it isn't recognised by computer bios. If I change the IDE hard drive to slave then it isn't recognized.

So what's the problem with these sata hard drives? Why does nothing recognise them?

Update -- if I disable the old IDE Hard drive and only connect the sata, when I boot from a CD-Rom then no hard drive at all is found. The bios recognises it as sata-1 but after that it's dead.

when installing winxp on a sata drive you need to hit the f6 key when asked, to install drivers for the sata ,these drivers are usually on the motherboard disk that came with the computer .the drivers will need to be on a floppy disk to load . before the drive will be recognized by winxp

hello ,get Everest program to tell you all about you computer and its hardware ,you may even find a valid link to a bios update for you board .
http://www.filehippo.com/download_everest_home/

Check the list for help on 0x0000008E errors
http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

I would do winxp repair with the winxp cd and go to recovery console and at the repair prompt type in chkdsk /f

Hello,I'm a regular user of E-Bay and have been ripped off a couple of times ,was the video card, new or used ,if used, you just found out the reason the seller sold the video card .
Also i would go to the nvida site and get the latest drivers for it and install them next.new ones out this month here is link .just pick the fx series in product series box

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_163.75.html

First thing i would try is to unplug power cord ,hold power on button in for about 30 seconds.then plug it back into power outlet and try turning it on again .
if nothing happens,I would then try to reset the Bios to default settings .
those are the 2 things i would do first if it were my computer ,others may do different!

First thing to mine is ,maybe the cod4 is a DVD disk,and you desktop computer drive isn't dvd drive

Well, its recommended that you only have 1 virus program on your computer at a time

the correct statement is to only have one "ACTIVE" antivirus program at a time ,more than one is ok .and the link i posted is only for a free online scan no antivirs program is loaded onto you computer,and trendmicro is one of the best !As AOL and McAfee try hard to climb the list of good Software/virus scanners!!

I'm slow i know !!

splash screens usually hide the boot screen ,i disable them in the bios

usually by hitting the del key or f1 f2 f10[depends on you computer manufacturer] on bootup

Welcome to Dani web .Daniweb is good place to find answer but Google is your friend too, find answers to you questions there . thats where i find mine .
http://www.google.ca/search?q=port+80&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

CPU itself and motherboard

RAM, drives, fans, cards are fine

so i guess i should stop using my computer to test customers CPU's lol. Im using oem winxp and not Vista ,but that doesn't matter right .actually full winxp home disk using oem key ,last install on my new hdd.!

boy ,you sure this is english ,you guys must be spending to much time in chat rooms.talking short burn to hand and mumbo jumbo.post #1 still makes no sense to me .!!!!
burn to used dvds!!
anyway sounds like a illegal copy of Vista to me,or you would have it on a DVD disk all ready,and policy here is no help for pirated software ..

It's a long series of beeps. Where would I find the BIOS?

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Bios version is listed top of the screen when you first boot computer ,referred to as the boot screen

You're being difficult.

Now either oblige yourself as recommended so we can help you or scram.

Im starting to like you .LOL

yes the ? was addressed to you ,it been years since i use Opera,and if i remember correctly it came with an advertising banner[using valuable bandwidth] unless you buy it.and i don't use IE7[ created for Vista] i have IE6 on here ,but use firefox as my default .You really do need more ram,and your CPU is small in comparison to what winxp and the internet and all its new updates are meant to run on.
also did you run the online virus scan i posted .

get spybot search and destroy ,and scan your computer .
http://www.filehippo.com/download_spybot_search_destroy/

Hey can u tell me how to bypass XP?
Cuz my 1 of my computer's password is lost.
I got sum important files on it. SO, Please can u help?

what part of the post you are quoting don't you understand ,
anyway have you tried safe mode ,f8 on startup

?,what internet Browser are you using to get to Daniweb.

Thanks for that suggestion - I'd already looked into that. But keep the ideas coming. Things are running better but I still am not where I'd like to be. In typing this message, for example, the computer stopped printing for several seconds and I had to wait for (whatever) to finish before the printing caught up with my typing. It makes no sense for this sort of delay to be happening. Until I can get rid of all the "slows" I'm seeing I'm not where I want to be.

Until a Windows OS comes along (or a tool to use with existing Windows OSs) which allows you to get rid of the delays and slowness, an OS is simply not doing the job it should be capable of doing.

JAJansenJr
JAJansenJr@gmail.com

Bull! Im using winxp and my words are keeping up fine with my typing !
The problem you are having is not the OS ,but software,whether it malicious or not !

start here . http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

also, you could go Linux. Ubuntu is a good one .and its free.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

I searched for previous info on re-installing SiS_Lib.dll. The answers were less than encouraging. As I tried to do as was said to fix the drivers. Everyone wants money to do that.
Is there not some way I can do it without paying. In plain english please.
Thanks

The plainest English i can speak,it will cost you nothing to reinstall the video drivers on you computer,you need to know the manufacture of the video card[if you have onboard video then to the motherboard manufacture] in you computer and go to there web site for free download of the drivers ,simple.

How do you minimize a user login?

did some searching and i do believe what you want to do is impossible!

you also might want to try tweakui part of Microsoft's' power toys
http://www.filehippo.com/download_tweakui/

actually this program will do nothing to speed up your computer ,i just tried it again after many yeast of using it ,i will leave the link anyway .

The fact that so many links are returned by the aforementioned search suggests I'm
far from the only person having a "slowness" issue.

Any further suggestions anyone has are sincerely welcome.

JAJansenJr
JAJansenJr@gmail.com

I use a P4 2.8 with 1 gig of ram and keep things neat and tidy and I to consider my machine slow ,actually i think its really slow right now for some reason,i just loaded win98 on a p4 1.6 /512 ram,and its a quick as a bunny ,never loaded any other software on it yet,and that the main reason its still fast ,as soon as we start loading software to fix this or speed up this, we start the slow down process.Especially a Anti Virus program
you might want to check out the startup in msconfig and stop programs not needed at startup from running .just go to,Start/ type msconfig into the run ,go to startup/and unchek program not need to be running all the time .only 4 things in mine .

As for turbo mode ,that never worked even when there use to be a turbo button on the front of the tower !lol

Time for a new site i guess,not much to look at with firefox .either on my winxp or win98 for me ,but look great on my g3 mac with IE 5.1

edit= i just tried it with IE 6 on my winxp machine and it looks ok

my search ,shows people with this error ,either had a bad windows cd,or a bad cd-rom drive !

I actually like older computers ,not near as much trouble as the new ones .

Thanks caperjack.. thanku very much for directing me.
Now i have posted it in the viruses forums.
how to delete this thread, which i have wrongly posted.

no need to delete ,just check mark solved just below this post somewhere ,

I also received an error 3633
Did you solve the Problem? If "Yes" please send me your solution
Thanks..........:-|

same question for you ,as i asked previous poster .
Did you download the fix in post #2

why windows 98?

LOL ,why not ,just a step back in time ,for something to do,also going to install a 18gig 10,000 rpm scsi drive to dual boot win98 and winxp and 2000 and a linux ,just for something to do !

I missed the Rambus ram sorry.im actually loading win98 on a p4 1.6 as wee speak that has 4 sticks of 128,meg of rambus ram.i just bough the tower for $68.00 CDN,

Info: It is a completely blank hard drive that i put in im guessing. im tryin to format windows but it wont let me get that far because "primary hard disk drive 0 not found"

To the best of my knowledge todays bios 's will auto detect with out changing any settings ,check the ribbon caple and the setting of the master /slave jumpers on the drive
also if the drive is new and empty then it may not be formatted .most hdd manufactors have software utility to setup a new hdd,just search there web site ,you would download the program and copy it to a floppy or cdrom and boot computer to the disk to run the utility .
excample Maxtor ,has MaxBlast '

Computer is a Pentium IV 1.3GHz 384 Meg RDRAM. Hard drive is 60 Gig. Has anyone tried all solid state flash drives as their main hard drive? The old slow hard drive has to be part of the problem. Processes show more than 2 pages - best way to share details would be to do a screen capture and post the image but can I post an image here? This has been going on since XP came out and I loaded it on my system. Would really like to avoid reloading the OS (and XP SP2) as this would take a bunch of time - and - I have no reason to think but that the problem would still be with me.

JAJansenJr
JAJansenJr@gmail.com

at first glance ,i would say get a ram upgrade ,to at least 1 gig ,When do you notice the slowness the most ,If its the internet ,you have to remember that maybe you didn't update any of your software ,But todays internet software is a major upgrade for your computer Re: IE 7,Java and all the Flash type programs and flash s--it on the internet to-day,and you may have to consider upgrading you old P4, 1.3 to get the speed you are looking for.

Anyway with what you have i would use CCleaner to clean any unneeded temp file and other crap ,and regestry cleaning ,safe program i use all the time .
also a scan with Spybot 'search and destroy .

looks like you tried all i would have suggested ,I think you should look as Skype as the cause of you problem ,but what to look for i have no idea,I have never used skype

I tried this but the problem is when you Windows+L it pauses all application process even though they are still open. I guess there is no way to do this without software?

- d2legitgod

hello as i write this the other user on this computer is burning a dvd with clone dvd with out any interruption, because i used the windows key a L to change to my user ,I guess what you are trying to do is different and i have no answer for you sorry .

It does indeed. But the Crucial System Scanner detects my installed SDRAM and still suggests me DDRs to upgrade, and states nothing about not mixing types... So I'm still confused! Who should I listen to??

Kingston+caperjack VS. Crucial (?)

Sorry. I need consensus!

ok,lets put it this was sdram is old school ,and ddr pc2700 is old school now too,,but is newer than sdram ,so remove you sdram and install some ddr ram for better and faster ram!don't know how else to put it to you!!

time to bu a new harddrive!! 4 Gig

using the windows key and L to switch between users with out logging off, might work ,i do it when burning dvd and downloading from p2p,

Hello and Welcome to Daniweb ,save us all a lot of suggestions ,tell us what you did to try and fix it so far!!

I'm having a problem with my IBM 240x. When I power on the laptop with the battery inside and the AC connected, everything is fine at the beginning, with LED showing that the battery is charging.

But, soon after the Windows is up, the power switches to the battery. I have to disconnect the adapter, wait a bit, re-connect again, and then the AC is recognised and the battery starts charging. After a little while the story repeats. Is this a problem with Windows, or what? Any ideas? Thanks much,

my first thought would be a bad power plug connection to the motherboard ,inside the laptop .maybe

Thanks for your input, caperjack!

So, in spite of Kingston's warning about not mixing the two types of memory on my mobo, you see no problem in doing so, then? Or am I missing something…?

I know DDR is faster, and I considered getting two 512 DDRs, but for the use I'm giving this box... I'd rather get just one - as long as it can work no-problem with that 256 SDRAM, that is.

no you can't mix them,one type or the other . as it clearly states in the link in you first post .

Hello i would suggest you get 2 -512 sticks of ddr pc2700 ram .If all you can afford is one than by allmeans just get one ,but get ddr as it is faster than the older sdram.
http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator_new/partsinfo.asp?root=&LinkBack=&ktcpartno=KVR266X64C25/512

of interest maybe .
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2014685,00.asp