Posts by caperjack

This may sound like a dumb question but I was wondering if my mouse and keyboard functions (and other built in functions like wireless) will be functional after I upgrade the hard drive without any data transfer from the old hard drive and then installing a new OS. Or would I HAVE to use the recovery disks that came with the laptop in order for those internal functions to work?

What OS id it running now ,if its xp and you want to change to win7 you will need to check if there are drivers for win7,if you don't want to use the recover disk its ok ,you then go to the laptops makers web site search for drivers for your model .if you want/need you can post your exact model [usually on a sticker on the bottom of laptop ]here i can find correct downloads for you .what OS are you planning on install ,

if you are using winxp and want to go to win7 then check if it will have issues with win7 ,
http://windows.microsoft.com/upgradeadvisor

dxgmms1.sys
Caused By Address : dxgmms1.sys+7b7f
File Description : DirectX Graphics MMS

above is from the last dump file and it show a conflict with directx .
install latest directx and most up todate Video drivers could help fix it .

check for directx version .
http://www.webcamsoft.com/en/directx.html

directx download .
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17431

others are all the same and show ntkrnlpa.exe as the problem ,this file is most important in booting and running the system .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_kernel

also it could be a ram issue so if you can ,download and create a boot disk of memtest86 and boot the laptop to it and let it run for a few hrs to check your ram .it a free program .just click on the free download link to the left .
http://www.memtest86.com/

Caused By Driver: dxgkrnl.sys,that file is a Microsoft DirectX system driver file.
it could be you video drive having issue with directx or directx having issue with the video adapter
searching around i find suggestions of installing latest directx and uninstall video drivers and installing latest from video card manufacturers web site ,

check laptop to see if you have directx 11 already ,first,shows how in link below .
http://www.webcamsoft.com/en/directx.html

directx 11 download .
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17431

also it could be a ram issue so if you can ,download and create a boot disk of memtest86 and boot the laptop to it and let it run for a few hrs to check your ram .it a free program .just click on the free download link to the left .
http://www.memtest86.com/

also run speccy if you need to find out video device type .
run it let it do its scan ,then go to file and publish snapshot and copy to clipboard and past the link back here if you need help with it ,
http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download

snapshot will look like this .
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/5oS8gsKiIK1cGbL4lm5tEhW

can you get to safe mode ,hitting f8 on bootup

try blkuescreenviewer to show all bsod you had so far it should show file/files causing the problem .
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/bluescreenview.zip
unzip and run program copy past log results back here for a look, go to file and save results to post it here

that's the way the picture look to me anyway ,i cant find much of anything constructive on the web about the laptops ram .

thanks for the nice comments on his pictures ,it is a nice site and the pictures he sometimes waits in the cold for hrs just for the right moment

to me it looks like they make it for 4 but only put 2 in some models .i think for you to get to 8 gig you would have to use 2x4gig ram chips .

off topic i enjoyed the photos in the link in your signature ,my nephew is a photographer and quite good if i don't say so myself .lol
check his site in my signature ,just added it .

the manual sort of shows 4 slots .maybe the 2nd one needs to flip left to right ,so the slot is on the opposite side for the lower slot .
manual here
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xpsL702X/en/index.htm

hi, and welcome to daniweb .Its not only ok to use the power button to shut down you laptop with the power button after a blue screen error ,its the only way ,
download BLUESCREEVIEWER and run it and then copy/paste the log it creates back here it might/should point to a file causing the BSOD . download link .
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/bluescreenview.zip

how it works link .
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

does the recovery dvd have vista with sp1 or sp2,if not download sp2 and install it .check to see if you have vista 32bit or 64 bit .right click on mycomputer and go to properties to see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935791#DownloadSession

great news ,sometimes its just the little things we miss .

pleas mark thread as solved ,thanks and happy computing

pretty sure they know what harddrive needs replacing ,its a laptop

i check the board and card makers and it should work , the board is pci-e 2.0 and the card is pci-e 2.1 but it should be backward compatible and work with the board ,any chance there could be a problem with your monitor, you did plug the One 6-Pin PCI Express Power connector into the video card ,right

listen ,creative username .

what type of cable connection do you to the monitor ,DVI or VGA ,it it a new monitor ,did you make sure the video card was compatible with the motherboard

Let me know is the problem resolved? If not, I think that it could be a malware or conflicting programs issue.check the fix here

i checked that link and my suggestion would be to stay away ,it just points you to a scanning program called Reimage ,and i didn't go all the way but it wants you to download ,scan/pay/then fix .so i suggest to all you see the link to stay away, wanted to add that when i went to the site and click on a link about my computer freezes it make it said hi im Mike from Sydney Canada ,I to am from the Sydney area ,so it making it look like someone in my area uses the program . Crap

Well, in my opinion Win Xp is much better than Win 7, because it faster and more reliable than Win 7.

i know you a signature spammer ,but why cant you at least say something use full ,xp is not and i repeat NOT faster than win7.....period

a quick answer is 64 bit is better tan 32bit ,the amount of ram it can use is the main reason in my opinion ,but there are plenty more reason just google "why 64bit is better " and find out more

Hi caperjack,

.but when i tried the long test it says that the S.M.A.R.T has been tripped!!!...so i abort the test....

that ok ,no need to abort the test .you need to run the test to tell you if it ok ,

definition of S.M.A.RT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

im using win7 ultimate on a duel core 1.8 \ghz Delloptiples 745 with 3 gig ram /320gig hdd ,and it use to have winxp pro on it ,and win7 is just as fast and reliable as xp ever was .

xp is used by those who like it ,and win7 is used by those who like it .

In most situations (internet servers, cloud computing, scientific computing, super-computing) Linux has a commanding market share lead over Microsoft. The ONLY area where MS is dominant is on the desktop.

that's what i said ,desktops = general users ,when cows fly = never

try this windows update fixit from Microsoft to repair the windows update error .http://support.microsoft.com/mats/windows_update/

My computer is doing the same thing.....I had a breaker in the house to trip...The computer made a popping noise when I flipped the breaker back on...Now the power button on the front of the tower part is flashing orange and wont do anything.... Please help

hi, the popping noise isn't good for sure ,it may have toasted the motherboard,but that only a guess from a distance ,start by testing the power supply ,unplug power cord ,open tower and remove all addin cards and try turning it on,a fried network adapter or other card could stop it from booting .
testing a power supply ,i suggest using a piece of covered wire and not a paper clip or at least put some electrical tape on the paper clip
http://www.overclock.net/t/96712/how-to-jump-start-a-power-supply-psu-test-a-power-supply-and-components

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Do you think that linux and other unix os will dominate over microsoft ?
Thanks

for the general public, "when cows fly "

I just reformat PC, but the PC won't shut down. All drivers installed properly.

that can be common with winxp ,did you do all the windows updates ,right up to sp3

By the way caperjack,my bad hard drive is samsung not seagate is seatool still works on my samsung hdd?

yes

after the reinstall did you install latest device drivers and run windows updates .was the reinstall from dvd or from a recovery partition .
maybe some info on what type of computer you are using will help ,brand name and model ,what version of windows ,desktop or laptop ,ect ect

you could downlkoad seatools for windows instead of the DOS one ,and install it on your desktop and run it and it will locate the 2 harddrive in the computer , tell it to scan the slaved laptop drive

@caperjack: I agree about the improt, but depending what we are talking about here the answer could either be a macro, or an ODBC pointing to a txt file and a datasource for that ODBC or a macro with OLEDB or whatever.

ok,sounds good ,so poster need to look at creating macro i assume ,[http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/mw/s10p2.html]maybe something more in-depth to created one to do what poster want to do , thats a part of Word i know nothing about .maybe i learn it in that link to.

main page .
http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/word2007_2010/Word-2007-2010.html

if i knew a way i would have told you in the first post ,to the best of my knowledge there is no quick way without affecting all other .htm files on the computer

if you change these pages .htm files into .txt files all you will get is the code used to create the page

the way the question is asked ,it means more that just opening the file in Word .I asks "How can I import data of a text file into a ms word file" to me this means ,im working on a word file and i want to add some text form another source to the word file ,i do use MS Word ,and have imported text from another source into a document, but i'am no expert ,and i don't think there is any quick way of doing this , how unorganized would the file actually end up being .
so having said that you likely mean you want to change the .txt files into .docx files .not going to be quick and easy either ,at best you would have to open each one in Word and ten save as word file.me thinks

I reset my computer 2 days ago

what does "reset" actually mean

this link shows some causes and fixes including the one you did ,http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/fix-for-com-surrogate-has-stopped-working-error-in-vista/

hi, its my experience that once a hard drive does what your is doing its not fixable ,you should run seatools to test the drive ,download and burn to cdrom the seatools for DOS in this like ,boot the computer to the CD and run the full test to see if the drive is bad .if its bad seatools will tell you for sure .check on how to use it on this site also
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=SeaTools&vgnextoid=720bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

direct link to download .
http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/seatools/SeaToolsDOS223ALL.ISO

That's the reason why I am discourage of HP Laptops, because based from the experience of my classmate, she also had the same problem. That's she really regrets buying it. It also made her eye problem worst.

most if not all laptop makers who sell cheap laptop to the general public have inferior models

sorry , squat, just means they "don't know nothing "

Seagate is a good drive ,and it will not hurt to use a 5400rpm drive its just a bit slower ,its use in laptops because of heat ,it will run cooler than the 7200rpm drive..

tell the computer shop to look for this model Seagate . ST9320423AS

Seagate ST9320423AS Momentus 7200.4 Mobile Hard Drive - 320GB, 2.5", 7200 RPM, 16MB, SATA

Thanks.

your welcome

your computer store don't know squat ,sure most laptops use 5400 rpm but you can get 7200 rpm drives
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=2682&name=7200%20RPM

these things are mass produced and bound to fail ,you just got a bad one in my opinion ,i have 5 or 6 of them and every now and then one of them fuggs up and i have to format it ,i usually just use disk manager within windows ,the ones that wouldn't format for i just throw them away

try plugging it into a usb slot on the back of the computer

not sure why you posted this in a windows forum,wouldn't it be best asked somewhere like this site , http://www.hackintosh.com/ ,but i could be wrong

I have the same problem, but not with 1 machine. I have had 4 machines with the same problem. Two are still on the bench and the other two are still in customers homes. I have tried everything I could think of. All of the computers are different with different boards, CPU, RAM etc.
I have changed RAM, Hard Drives, Power supplys. I show no errors anywhere and they wiill all reboot in a random pattern.
The only thing left is MB and CPU.
I totally rebuilt 1 with new MB, RAM, CPU, HDD and PS and it has been working fine ever since. Almost 1 year now
If I had to make an educated guess, I would say change the MB and failing that change the CPU as well
That should solve the problem. Basicall you are just building a new machine.

interesting post ,but why post to a thread that's almost 5 yrs old .Really

wish a lot of old threads would get marked solved as fast as this one did ,to bad someone couldn't close it before it get a chance to last 10 yrs or so .
the word stupid was used in the first post ,and it has always been said in help forums that no question is stupid ,but i have to say that doesn't apply here . lol, really though what did you think the fan was on the cpu for ,if you could run the cpu without it , to boil tea ~
.happy new year

some pendrives have/had a little switch on them to lock them, is the case with yours maybe,likely not ,but worth a look ,also did you try it into another computer to be sure its the pendrive and not something weird in you computer causing it

Running multiple AVs on your computer will significantly decrease performance (and some won't even allow it) but you can use online tools to scan with multiple antivirus engines:
1. You can do a quick scan of your running processes and memory with 5 antivirus engines using the MD4SA demo (http://www.opswat.com/products/metadefender-for-secure-access)
2. You can upload files to scan with many antivirus engines using Metascan Online (http://www.metascan-online.com)

any multi scan tool is only as good as the virus scanning tools it uses ,and from what i just goggled and read it used 5 different tools and only one of them [the 5 used ] is a know proven tool

The problem's fixed now. Not really sure how, but suddenly, the loading was really fast.

its a new year,new life! ,maybe it was just running out of energy coming on the end of the year .lol
good luck

It can even start,

hi, i will assume you meant It can't even start ,the most likely cause is the power supply is dead ,next if its not the power supply then its a dead motherboard maybe ,to test motherboard after you rule out the power supply ,remove all add in cards and ram from board ,have only power going to board and try turning it on .

all things are possible when it comes to computers ,but any upgrade i have every done all programs on the computer always worked ,after ,make sure you buy the win7 upgrade and not the full version ,good luck

I'm using Toshiba satallite laptop. It is working fine. But when I turn on it a black screen with blinking cursor appears instead of chipset logo. And then boots normally.
In this situation, how can I change the first boot device for a new OS installation?

hi,you need to enter the bios/setup, when first turned on it should tell you what key to hit to enter bios/setup uually f2 or maybe f12,or even DEL , in there look for bootup ,and change first boot option there .