Posts by caperjack

also the installing windows process is basically half way done so i cant just restart my computer cuz i dont actually know what would happen and also because it took a good long while.

there is a setting in the BIOS for usb legacy device, like keyboard and mouse to work before windows loads . ,it may be disabled .
as for restarting windows repair install , it will pickup where it left off

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306081

this number is from google ,but you will need to be at the winxp activation to enter the numbers they give you ,and if you were at that page the phone number to call will also be there , Windows Product Activation phone number (for the US anyhow) is 1-888-571-2048

alsocheck this open mycomputer go to help and you will see is this copy of window legal click it !

How do i re installl XP without a DVd drive... And i have soooo much on it... There s got to be a better way.
Thanks anyway,... Will check on microsoft website

i assume you mean you need a dvd to backup you important data ns pictures and stuff,easies thing for this is to get another harddrive internal or external usb type and copy shit to that ,then reinstall winxp

you could try installing it again,this time right click on the programs .exe file and choose ,properties/compatibility
and check off run this program in compatibility mode, and choose win95

I have Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition 7.6.
but it seems now that I have that virus MHTMLRedir.Exploit. Will try and remove it.

Just for the hell of it !! norton Corporate Eedition ,goes by the name Symantec corporate edition,not the resource hog the commercial Norton AV is .same company I know .!!!
and its up to Verson 10 now ,so the options of 7.6 to 10 are most likely different ,I use Symantec antivirus v10,and haven't had to fix my computer because of virus in the 3 years i owned it . I know most or all you all ready know this ,just waiting to go to work !!nothing else to do!?[]\]/';

its usually under the battery area of most laptops .,as it turns out i was almost right i think its between the hdd and the battery under the case ,a Google found this info ,in the center of this picture in the frame of the laptop you see a green item ,that the battery, wrapped in green plastic ,it pluggs into the board via a wired plug ,unlike a regular pc.

http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/ToshibaS1/disassembly/big/Toshiba_Tecra_S1_23.JPG

take it apart
http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/ToshibaS1/tecraS1_1.htm

Daughter's been off to college, and trying to use her old Thinkpad R31, but it asks for her user name and password, and she can't remember it.

Any way to work around this?

is that a windows password/username or the Bios password ,can you get to the windows login screen,if yes ,then boot computer while hitting the f8 key to go to safe mode ,choose administrator acct, and go to users in the control panel and remove password from you daughters user account .

loose connection somewhere ,if reacts like that to being jarred ,loose power plug to the board or hdd ect ect .,or add in cards,like ram and video ,modem/sound ,you really should not be hitting it to make it work only making things worse as you know!

your welcome,hope all goes well

2) Tried to repair through the windows cd....not possible

what happens when you try to run Repair ,can you get to the repair prompt and type in CHKDSK /F,,space between K and /

I did check the last known configuration, i have new message showing its called userbridg.exe encountered problem...whts this...

a google search shows it related to wireless/inferred device or something like that .
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.manuale.net/forum/showthread.php%3Fs%3D6e2a5b1fa89cc6024801f6d9e1a8f70e%26threadid%3D29610&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Duserbridg.exe%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DWY6 .

Were to start!! .
you say you wanted to get a good one ,? so why did you buy a HP!! and why did you but media center if you didn't plan on using it ,
the new harddrive may need to be formatted first before you put in the bay.

The cable guy is wrong telling you need a router because of the drive ,he may be telling you if you do have more than one computer in the home you would need a router to network them .

Please tell me if I'm right about this:
I would have to remove two at a time and run the test on each stick separately.
Thanks again

yes, that is what you need to do .

wow 32 programs running at startup!!
Anyway if you read the message at the top of the previous page it asks that you post hijackthis logs in the spyware /virus fourm .thats where the log readers hang out .click on links below .

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/announcement10-1.html

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum64.html

one error in a stick of ram can cause the blue screen ,so i suggest you try another stick of ram ,to see if computer runs without bsod

did you try the hdd manufacture for a utility program that may be able to do a low level format ,

I find it hard to believe that your 10 year old computer would run that video card ,i know the p2 166 /i bought 10 years ago wouldn't have ran it .lol
http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=946

You can still find new agp motherboards ,might have to go to e-bay for one but they are still out there .
http://cgi.ebay.ca/AMD-X2-4000-DUAL-CORE-AM2-8X-AGP-MOTHERBOARD-CPU-COMBO_W0QQitemZ150170303917QQihZ005QQcategoryZ1244QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

My computer just keeps freezing and i cant even format my hardrive as that freezes to. can anyone please help?

usually cause by a heat problem open computer case and make sure all fans are clean and free of dust and are turning on when you boot computer .you can use a can of compressed air to clean them if they are dirty

yes you must dedicate a single disk for the program ,yes i would finalize it too.
also you cant just copy the unzipped ISO to the disk ,it has to be done right ,following the nero iso burning instructions in the link i posted above

Nothing to do with registry why would it?

if you were here in front of me talking like that i would tell you to you face to go F--- yourself.if you know so much then why do you go looking for help/suggestions

the bios default on this board is IDE,so if you aren't disabling the bios write protect jumpers you are not making any changes to the bios when you do get in

yes

do you have one or two stick of ram ,if 2 try leaving one in .
if just one stick of ram ,could be that the stick of ram is bad ,you will need to get another stick to troubleshoot this problem

Thanks for a prompt and thorough response.
I have Nero and used it to burn the downloaded iso file (from www.memtest86.com) to a disk. Now I have it--but as a zip file.
What am I supposed to do: Unzip and put that also on the disk? Or can it run from the disk as an iso zip file (that doesn't seem likely to me).
Can I run the iso file (unzipped) from the disk at any time I insert it or do I run the disk at boot-up?
Thanks!

no ,unzip the iso on a working computer ,then use nero to burn the iso image to disk ,put the new burnt disk into the troubled computer,and reboot computer ,it will then boot to and run the memtest at startup

if you start hitting [over and over ] the key needed to enter the bios as soon as you turn on the computer it should go to the bios

i would like to be more frank and say yes you are being lied to ,sort of anyway!!!
why would you need a new harddrive just because the board is bad! !! its possible to install the drive on a different board with same chipset ,i done it just a few weeks ago,having said that it was not a new board just a different one ,one was a p3 gigabyte board and the newer one was a p4 in a Dell tower,not sure of the boards brand name . both had via chipsets .and xp boot ,with out a reload ,and is still running fine .

First i would like to welcome you to Daniweb ,and then i will say you are looking for help in the wrong section of the forum this is the hardware section ,you should have asked your question in the software section ,mainly because software people don't always hang around or even check in the hardware section .
Software section == http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum92.html

not recommended to use a cheap cpu heatsinc and fan when overclocking

membtest86 one of the best free testers .download iso image and burn iso image to disk using nero or if you don't have nero try this program.
http://www.memtest86.com/

no nero then try this ,iso burning info
http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm

burn iso with nero info .
http://www.wizardskeep.org/mainhall/tutor/neroiso.html

not so!!!!!

Removing outlook is childs playe with or without the cd! this is not the problem as such. Merely uninstalling outlook does not solve the problem. I wanted to do a clean install of outlook which meant removing all traces of outlook.

It is very easy to remove and reinstall outlook. The problem was that when you do this it maintains the previous profile. I have created a new profile and imported the pst file i wanted to keep and everything is ok. Somewhere in the bowels of outlook the old profile remains and is not removed when outlook is deleted. So i just create a new profile.

The 20Gb limit is nothing to do with this.

well im certainly not going to uninstall mine right now to find out .lol
maybe a registry edit is need to remove information of outlook,and maybe a outlook folder is left behind after the uninstall

there is a safety jumper on the board that needs to be set to disable so you an edit the bios .you will see it in the manual that you can download fro asus .
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=CROSSHAIR

fist think i would do is test the power supply,,or try a new power supply .

Also, I've checked its not the new ram I bought, I tried it by itself, with the old ram and also the old ram by itself... no difference. In fact, I doubt at this point if there'd be any difference if I tried with no ram.

Ok,so you have new ddr2 ram ,and old ddr2 ram and you tried all together ,just checking here ,you do know that the green ram slots are for ddr3 ram ,and that you cant run ddr2 and ddr3 rame together .
when you install 2 ddr2 ram chips do you put 1 in each of the yellow slots ,as this is,i think so anyway , the proper way to install 2 sticks of ddr2 ram ,of course if you have 4 sticks of ddr2 ram you would install them in both the red and yellow slots .

!!!My2 Cents as that may be all its worth !!!

How can i do a clean install of outlook so that i can just reload the backup pst?

outlook is installed with microsoft office ,so you need use the office cd to remove and reinstall outlook

check this thread fo solution
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread41509-3.html

the second R is only there in full version of winxp ,not in recovery cd's or recovery images

I'm sorry you were a little sharp with me.

The restriction to which I'm referring is the size of the PST file in question (and that is what my post said). This is limited by Microsoft to 2GB (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830336) and when you hot that limit, strange things start to happen of the type you've described.

So just check your PST file size and I hope that you don't have a more serious problem than that.

a quick read of the link you provided says 2gig limit in outlook 2002 and earlier ,20 gig for 2003 and 07!!!

yea iv done that 3 times now and it keeps crashing after a day or two and we are back to the same problem

did you do a checkdisk when in the repair ,
check disk command when in winxp repair CHKDSK /F

0x40000080 indicates a hardware problem from my research,hard to trace what hardware is the problem . could be bad stick of ram or mismatched stick of ram,to check the hard drive stability boot to your winxp cd and do a R for repair , do a check disk , type this in the prompt ,note there is a space between the K and the /
CHKDSK /F

troubleshooting stop errors .
http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

if you have no absolute control over your computer, then the only option i can think of is to reinstall windows. Just pop in ur windows dist and turn off ur comp. turn ur comp back on and press delete or f8 or sumthing like that to get into your boot setting (make sure its not your bios). Then select boot from disk or somthing to that extent. And then just follow the on screen help :)

good idea ,but don't forget to tell novice users to backup the music and pictures as all will be wiped from the hard drive when they do as you suggest .

id buy this but i dont live in LA area

<--- DC metro

try this one they ship all over the world ,and i have bought thousands of dollars worth the stuff from them they are great to deal with .
http://www.vfxweb.com/index.php?productid=7855

you obviously dont know much about this kind of stuff

you maybe right !!lol after reading a bit it seems you are right ,i don't know jack !!!

i could have either 1 video card with dual VGA ports (i cant find any, anywhere), or 2 single VGA cards (like i do now)

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/sys/444034536.html

Or you could download a program like SpinRite, boot from a floppy, and run an extensive check on your drive. Like chkdsk, it will repair many a problem on the disk.

yes ,spinrite is a good program ,but isn't free unless that changed in the past few years,and will take about 2 days to run on a big hdd,

booting to your winxp cd ,go to the recovery console and do R for repair ,at the prompt type in CHKDSK /F,note there is a space between the K and the /

dude i just spent 1 hour on the phone with HP these guys are unbelievable stupid. they 1st told me it wasnt possible to load up 2 monitors

i got the same exact video card you installed and it keeps fucking disabling the on board video card and loading up the new one. i need to get both to work.

anyway tell me more details what you did in bios? i went into bios & setup, i couldn't find any video card options?!?!?!

help get back, im desperate! im gonna return this beautiful HP tomorrow if i dont figure this out

I think HP techsupport is right ,the way you are trying to do it ,i have never see unboard video and addin video card running together ,your new addin card needs to have dual vga connections to have two monitors

thanks guys! :)

your welcome ,good luck getting it to work

Ok i sent the computer to the local repair shop and they said it was my PSU, so i bought a new Corsair 620watt PSU and when i plugged it in sparks started flying from unter a heatsink on my MOBO...

so did they install it for you or did you install it your self.!!!

i update 250 machines every week.

wow !! You one busy person.

this utility might help get downloads to slipstream .
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Windows_Updates_Downloader/1155744306/1

Apologies people - didn't mean to muck up the protocol.

rog snee

thanks ,just gets confusing for this old guy !!lol