Posts by caperjack

right now when i turn on my laptop another message displays immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. a failure may be imminent.

sometime the error message about a dieing harddrive is a little late,as it seems to be your case ,you harddrive is dead or dying .it may be to late for you to backup important data/file.

Hey it's me the original poster I did some searching on these posts and found the answer. The FN key on my laptop keyboard was stuck, b/c I had in advertently hit "num lock" on the USB 2.0 attached keyboard. Once I hit num lock on attched keyboard it reverted to normal.

Thanks.

great ,glad to see you fixed it ,sorry for ranting in you post .

Well I live in Greenville, SC. I only do side stuff on the weekends and when it does not intefere with spending time with my wife and son. That was another reason I left the retail industry. Because I am a real tech with real experience and real certifications that cost me money both in time, training, and the expense of exams, I generally charge for what my time is worth to me. If it's an emergency situation and will intefere with my normal weekend routine I charge around 60 dollars an hour. If it's something you can drop off to me and I can work on at my liesure, I charge 35 dollars an hour. I do not charge for parts because I will tell you what you need to go buy, and generally where to get it for the best price. And it also depends on what the issue is. For instance if it's obviously a blown modem or network card, I only charge 30 bucks flat out if you bring the pc and a new modem/nic to me or have it handy so that I can "swing" by.

Real Techs are worth there weight in gold [I'm not one ,but i did take a computer maintenence and repair cource ] ,because they actuall fix the problem ,not mask it with a realod . the tech in my post above who wanted the 400+ to install a hdd ,wanted 75.00/hr [1 hr] ,to diagnose problem , then 3 …

Well, I actually forgot to comment on that but I will now. Having worked in the retail side, I've seen people charge for a reload when it was not neccessary. The placed I worked for would even charge for a reload and perform a reload just to get rid of spyware that could have easily been removed without a reload. They charge $100 for a reload of a system. This was one of the many "bad" practices in the retail industry I disapproved of and was a major reason for me leaving. You are going to have people that will either charge to do something unneccessary to fix an issue because they get more money that way, or people that really don't know what they are doing or cannot think outside of the box. In this case, it sounds like the original tech that reloaded the system really ripped them off. You would be surprised how many customers now call me to do little things on the weekends for them because they refuse to go to the retail establishment I used to work at for lack of service or poor service.

*name of retail establishment not revealed to protect the guilty*

Regards,

LOL ,You don't happen to live in my home town do you .local private business with an association to The source ,reloads for all problems ,because that the quickest fix for spyware and viruses ,but having said that they only charge 35.99+ tax for the reload ,the tech …

This is a laptop right? Last time I checked, laptop keyboards have the numeric pad associated with standard keyboard keys. For instance on my Thinkpad if I turn Num Lock on then P becomes *, U becomes 4, I becomes 5, etc. Look for how to toggle num lock off and on.

I actually thought that when i first read post ,but seeing someone had fixed it for over 200 dollars I thought ,they would have thought of that too. maybe not though

This is because some cd burners can only write to one or the other. There is no fix other than to buy a new cd burner, sorry.

I have to disagree ,maybe I missed it somewhere along the line the past 9 years of owning a cd burner,and now a dvd /cd burner combo. ,but i have never heard of a cd burner that only burnt cd-rw ,and not cd-r .,now there are/were dvd burners made that only burn dvd+r's and not dvd -r's ,btr they are becoming a thing of the past
Yes it could be a dirty lenses ,as burning to cd r a cd rw is done a different level/power /deeper how ever you want to refer t othe type of burn !!

Im trying to make a program and when i run it every 15 min or so get that error and i needed to know if tht message so the program just closes

Thanks

Hi,your message is unclear ,maybe because of the typo.[ i needed to know if tht message so the program just closes]make no sence to me anyway ,a litle more info is need so we know what it is you are doing ,like what program you are using to make you program ,what type of program you are making .ect.ect.

an old win98 version of easy cd creator isn't going to burn dvd's anyways ,the dvd drive should have come with dvd burning software ,if not ,you got ripped off !!goto store and demand software !

Hi there!
I just recently had to replace my motherboard and now I have no sound. I don't even know what to look for in the device manager. There are things listed under sounds( audio codecs, legacy audio drivers, legacy video capture devices, media control devices, video codecs), but I don't know what they are or if I even still have a sound card or onboard sound. My motherboard is supposed to be an ASUS M2V but in device manager it says something about viatech. I do have places on the back of the computer to plug in a microphone and speakers. As you can tell, I don't know much about fixing computers. I know enough to be dangerous but I really don't want to mess this up since I finally have everything sort of "fixed". I kept my hard drive but the guys who installed my motherboard said I should re-install windows, which I did, but I'm having trouble with some of my software so I'm sure I did something wrong when I installed it. Thanks for any help you can give me. Sorry to be so tech challenged!

Barb

if you have built in sound card/un-board sound ,the drivers should have come with the new board .,if not
Download the 2.0 version of everest here and install it and check the
multimedia section to find out what sound device you have ,let me know .

hello ,download the driver for you camera and install it then remove it again.
http://www.intel.com/support/createshare/camerapack/idversion.htm?3jAa7knS

.and the multimedia center .
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/9-14_mmc_enu.exe

Certain keys on laptop keyboard are weird, asterisk when I hit "P" key, 5 when I hit "O" key, etc. External keyboard hooked up via USB 2.0 works fine. This happened last summer (before I had external keyboard) and repair guy that I called out to come fix it said that something bad had entered via toolbars I had unwittingly installed.

So its been broke since last summer.,actually the reinstall should have fixed it if it were a viruse or some other nasty .

He took laptop away, had to remove all my docs/data and then reinstall. He charged me $228 and told me to run Adaware, SpyBot, Norton, plus defrag, once a week. Which I have done faithfully since then.

he ripped you off ,i do the same thing for 40 dollars or less .

Norton didn't catch it then, catches nothing now. I saw earlier posts on this forum and went and installed HiJack this, and unzipped it and ran it. There were some error messages that came up, of course I couldn't capture them coud only click OK and proceed. Here is logfile from Hijack this:

i did a quick look at the scan ,i don't see anything that could cause the keyboard problem ,may just be a bad keyboard.

ECS Elitegroup, is a buget board! gets a good -- from me.

You can start your computer in safe mode and get passed the sign in then delete the account who lost there password... but it depends who has administrative permission.

restart your computer push F8 until it askes you how you want to start windows

start up in safe mode

should give you the option to use administration account or parents account... click admin

once the desktop loads

Start/settings/control panel/user accounts

then you can delete the old account and start a new one
or you could just open a new account so you can use the computer

which ever way you choose make sure you give your self administrative options..

( i know you can get to the user accounts using the above options but depending on administation options you may not be able to delete the old account)

good luck

not sure about win2000 ,but in winxp you can just delete the password and not the whole user account .

Beautiful! That pretty much did the trick! Thanks for taking the time to help. You all are great! I'll be around, this place is wonderful.

-Joe

your welcome ,be seeing you around

don't know for sure but this might help.
http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs

Hard Drives are built by the millions ,not rare to have 2 bad ones .

Is it possible for a cockroach to get inside a hard drive?

No, unless he's A+ certified

Hello everyone, I am hoping you can help me with this problem, as I am running out of ideas. I installed Linux on a hard drive in my computer, and then afterwards, I switched back to Windows XP because my girlfriend couldn't get along with Linux very well. The problem I am having is this, my slave drive is no longer accessible through Windows, where it was before the Linux install. It is in BIOS and it is in Device Manager and Disk Management, but not in My Computer. I believe the problem to be that Linux changed the format to Ext2, and now I do not know how to access my data. It is still there, just not useable. I have used Get Data Back which did nothing for me, and I have used Partition Magic, which woud also not allow me any help. If there are any suggestions, I am open to trying anything. Thanks for the help.

-Joe

P.S. - I am hoping there is an easier way than switching back to Linux and then adding to a network with Windows and transferring that way, as there is a lot of information and I only have one computer at the time.

This is what i would do ,disconnect the windows xp drive ,use a win98 boot disk ,boot to dos prompt run FDISK ,and delete non-dos partitions ,create new dos partition and format the drive ,then reconnect the winxp hdd . that is if you have a …

My toshiba tecra S1 has 2 short beeps then 1 long beep then 3 short beeps, can anyone tell me about this, I have no idea about computers just so you know, I need lamen terms lol.
Thnaks

you will need to know what bios is in the laptop ,but here ar some beep codes .your 2-1-3 shows as bad ram in one of the x-samples

http://www.amptron.com/html/bios.beepcodes.html

I have this same problem, computer seams to freeze on games, not just sertain games, it use to but now it dose for all games... even old and new. iv check Temp of pc all seams to be good, iv reinstalled drivers for sound cuz sometimes sound screw up before freeze, and i reinstall video drivers, i also reinstalled DirectX. i couldnt figure it out thats why im here :(.

it seams u guys have a Low Power supply like me, could it posabley be a Power problem like not enough power. i only have a 300watt, with alot of stuff in computer, a DVD driver, amd 2800, 1gb ram, tv card, 8x video card, 2 Hds.

sure wouldn't hurt to get a bigger psu,also make sure the fan on the video card is working if it has one as it should ,

I tried this and I still get the same result. I do not want to have to pay to get this fixed because it is pretty expensive. Is there any other advice I can get?

When installing ram we are suppose to unplug the computer from the wall plug and hold the power button in to drain all power from capacitors,before installing a stick of ram ,did you do this ,if not you could have shorted out you ram sticks or motherboard .

Howdy all,

I would be extremely grateful if you could help me out. I have had a new desktop for christmas. I am currently trying to install Windows pro. I have 2 versions, one on dvd due to extra programs to install on it and one on cd. However when trying to boot from either disk I just keep getting the same message:

"Searching for Boot Record from SCSI..OK"

"Error Loading OS" :sad:

I have gone into the BIOS and adjusted boot priority. nothing.
I have gone inside and switched master and slave. nothing.
I have tried both version of windows. Nothing.

It reminds me of the christmas I was given a bike with no wheels.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I wanna play with my new toy!:sad:

Thanks
c0llins05
[img]http://www.midnight-torrents.com/imagebucket/akumasig22[/img]

sounds like you maybe have a SATA or scsi harddrive in you computer that you need to load drivers for before winxp will see the drive ,you do this when booting to winxp cd by hitting f6 to load drivers for sata/scsi drive .when prompted to do so ,usually the motherboard disk that came with the computer will have the drivers on it for the sata device controller,if you do have a sata drive .

your welcome!!

Everything from software to cd's will not start.

is that even after following the auto play setup in my post above

clean computer with AVG antispyware tool
http://free.grisoft.com/softw/70free/setup/avg75free_432a861.exe

I hope someone can help me. I've spent several hours scouring forums on the net and have found no help what so ever. I bought Prison Tycoon for my b/f and we've tried loading it on his laptop and on my desktop. On both machines we get the following application error:
"Direct3D renderer creation error". Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks and Merry Christmas!
April

make sure you have the latest drivers for you video card installed and the latest directx9.0 installed.
Directx.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a9b6820-bfbb-4799-9908-d418cdeac197&displaylang=en

For the past few months any disk I put in has to be opened manually for it to start. Is their a way to fix this?

go to mycomputer,right click on the drive icon and go properties/autoplay and set what program you want to use to open each cd type ,like wmp to play music disk and so on,

maybe the drive has stopped functioning ,they do give up the ghost and die you know .!! time for a new one maybe .

I know it's Christmas Eve, Merry Christmas Everyone.

I have done this before, but it's been a while and I do not remember how. Will someone help me? My pc keeps crashing on me saying, memory, modem etc. I'm not always at the pc, but you can leave me a message.

Thanks,
Mkinch

Merry Christmas ,go to start/all programs /accessories /system tools /system restore .

Yeah,like all computer s-hit is so confusing ,i know, all i know is on some motherboard a BIOS update would fix hdd size limits ,as there has always been a limit ,like 32 ,then 64 then 128 and so on and so on ,this is a little old but interesting as to why the limits .
http://www.spcug.org/reviews/bl0107.htm

The 137GB limit is imposed by the BIOS, but for some reason with W2k the sp3 or sp4 will enable you to see hdds larger than the limit, the same is true with XP and sp2. I'm trying to find this out even as I write this.

As to my original question, it looks like the largest partition size offered while installing W2k is 131GB.

ok,i work on a lot of computer ,have to admit that most have smaller drives than 100 gig ,some have large ones but are new computers and don't have the 137 limit ,sorry i can't answer you ? ,but as i said before if you create 2 partitions of 100gig each you will not have that problem

I am strating to think it is a hardware problem.. It use to work when I reinsearted it .. now it does not.. the drive.. spins and everything and if the computer reads the drive.. it works..

So..

I did find out that I have an extended warntee.. so I just may have it looked at..

I called support.. and they said I may need to run the recovery disk..
"here is the funny in that" the CD Drive is the only external/internal Drive I have other than the HD"

thought you all might get a laugh out of that..

Thanks for the suggestions..

Ken

lol,typical tech support .

The purpose of slipstreaming is so that is does have an effect on what W2k shows for the hdd size, the sp4 will allow it to recognize hdds over 137GB. The slipstream combines the W2k and sp4 onto a CD for the purpose of one installation of the two.

The hdd in question is a 200GB Maxtor, and the Maxblaster CD does have a section for partitioning. Are you suggesting that I partition the drive prior to installing the operating system?

yes i understand, and use slipstreaming ,but i don't understand you gig limit ,my understanding of size limit harddrives is its with your computers the Bios,and not with windows ,therefor having sp4 in with win2000 shouldn't make any difference with the size limit ,
and yes if your bios has a size limit of 137 gig ,then use maxblast to make 2 or more partitions less than 137 gigs each and format them , before you install win2000 ,this way you computers bios will see 2 different drives ,both less than the 137 gig limit

same or similar error here ,although a littl old ,
http://forums.amd.com/lofiversion/index.php/t43257.html

stop error help here ,
http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

same or similar error here ,although a littl old ,
http://forums.amd.com/lofiversion/index.php/t43257.html

Ok Caperjack, I tried another original CD and it works. So it's the cds that I copied files onto. Is there sometime I can do to have the PC recognize the copied ones?

is the cdrom an old drive as some old drives will not read burnt cd,
make sure you finalize the cd when burning them,in your burning software look for a check box to finilize cd it comes just before you click ok to burn [so nothing else can be written to them ] it closes the cd so drives can read the files ,i use nero ,i use multi-session [when i use multi i can read file without closing the disk] to add files to cd and when i see it getting full i check to finalize to close cd.

What burning software did you use ,and did you burn them on the computer you are trying to view them on .??

Hi all, I'm going to install a 200GB hdd that I've wiped and is ready to go. I have made a disk using Autostreamer slipstreaming W2k pro and sp4. My question is in regards to the partitioning section of the installation of the OS, I know from previous experience that the section will open with a screen with the words "Unpartitioned Space" with the amount shown on the right. With the 137GB limit, will my 200GB of unpartitioned space show or only the 137GB? If it doesn't and I proceed with the amount shown will the slipstream enable me to see the whole 200GB when it's finished?

Slipstream shouldn't have any affect on the what win2000 shows as the size of the drive ,if you have a bios limit of 137gig then I think that all you will see .try the hdd manufactor for a utility to setup the drive first ,if it a maxtor for instance look for maxblast software on there site

Hello all,

I am new to this site and I am a complete novice and know little when it comes to the workings of the inside of a computer.

I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 (I know I heard about all the problems)

When I bought it through the College I was attending everything worked fine.. this was 3 years ago..

Now on start up I get this

IDE ERROR #1

and my DVD/CD/RW is not detected
at first .. all I had to do was pull it out and push it back in.
(there is a little switch that releases it from the computer no screws necessary)

now That does not even work.. I get lucky every now and again and my computer reads the drive.. but most of the time I can not.

As stated this was the DVD/CD/RW that came with the computer and is not new..

I believe it is a Toshiba drive :?:
Part # ZA2431P03 Serial # 2LCHA054354 TB7-A :eek:
model # UJDA720

DVD-ROM & CD-R/RW Drive

(this information taken from drive it'self)

Is there a fix for my problem?
I heard in another forum something about the 45 and 47 pin???

All I have on this is the female part that goes into the computer..

any information would be very helpful..
and I hope that someday I can be useful on the site too..

Thanks in advance..

Ken Xander
xanderkm@hotmail.com

it is possible that the …

When you say that you pull it out and push it back in do you turn on the computer after it's out, turn off the computer and push it back in and then restart your computer? If not, try doing that and see if the drive is recognized as new hardware.

Your IDE cable should be a 40 pin connector. The UJDA720 is a Panasonic which is a DVD-ROM/CD-RW.

the computer with the problem is a laptop

I put a CD in the d-drive and the window pops up that tells you that there is no CD in the drive. This happens to all the CD's I have placed in there. When I place the windows XP installion CD in the slot it recognize's it. What could be the problem? It used to work.

thats to weird ,are they original cd or burnt cd

i suggest you both download this older version of everest ,it will tell you everything on you box, multimedia device included .choose ver2.20
http://oldversion.com/program.php?n=everesthome

ALT-CTRl-DEL has no effect on my computer when I'm at the logon window. Tried once, then twice. Tried replacing my own logon name with "administrator", but got an error message. Am able to read this disk when reading from a 2nd computer as a "J" drive via USB port. Would like to delete all logon accounts on this disk from the 2nd computer, but don't know what to change. Ideas?

the alt+ctrl+del twice need to be done quick ,like a mouse double click

you can try recovery expert, it worked very good for me when i accidentally lost one of my partitions.

i do believe the d; drive here is a cd burner ,quote the first post ,save stuff to disk and play disks from!

can't wait to hear the reason for the change ,

My CPU is a 733mhz Pentium III. To what extent can I overclock it without damaging the CPU?

Thanks for the help.

depends on a lot of things ,mostly the bios and the motherboard ,and of course the cpu ,
if you go to high it will not boot the computer ,,we would need the name and version of the board to offer any help

My pc only has 2 dimm sockets. One has 256mb of ram. Can i put 512 in the other one or do they have to be the same?

not the same size ,but they do have to be compatible type/speed ,and the motherboard has to have a size limit of 512 or over

My pc only has 2 dimm sockets. One has 256mb of ram. Can i put 512 in the other one or do they have to be the same?

not the same size ,but they do have to be compatible type/speed

right click on the desktop ,arrange icon ,make sure auto arrange or align to grid is unchecked

hey thanks for the advice, im going over to my computer right now, i hope your right =D

wait ummm...i can't find out my mobo company and number... where is it located at?

name is usually typed in large letters right on the board ,usually between the PCI or ISA card slots sometime along the edge of the board.
maybe something like ASUS 123 -v2 or gig-byte 7xv2-v1 or MSI-123.00 something like that

having recently been given a laptop with a destroyed harddrive and being under the completely false impression that after building several desktops I could tackle a laptop I come to you all on bended knee. :sad:

I am trying to bring a systemax laptop with an intel 852/855 chipset back from the ashes. Unfortunately the onboard audio is proving to be a complete nightmare.

everest tells me that what I need is a driver for an 82801DBM AC'97 Audio Controller (ICH4-M B1 Step)

unfortunately I haven't been able to find an AC'97 driver that has any effect. I have found a few install fine, but when I goto the device manager and check the driver it says "unable to start".

Any and all help would be extremely appreciated.

hello,you might find some driver here ,click on support at the top ,you need seral # and stuff to search support,.
http://www.systemaxpc.com/support.php