Posts by caperjack

query: how much could i speed up my system if i partitioned the 500gb hard drive into two or three segments? worth it?

not sure but i dough it would speed it up at all ,no more that a regular disk defrag wouldn't do

hi,doing a quick not intense look, i cant find on the asus or a few reviews sites site where it says you board it ddr3 compatible

I am using an older version of MS Office not 2010.

hi,then its not oulook 10
i don't have xp installed right not but i think if you go to add and remove programs and lick on office it will give the option to do a repair try that first

3-4 min is not a long wait for safe mode to come up ,wait a little longer ,
also a good free 3rd party defrag is defraggler ,by the makers of ccleaner another great free program ..you could try it and then check win defrag for same message after !

I'm leaving Daniweb.

no,no please don't go ,youve been her so long lol,
no really so tell us why

we been had again, just another thread of signature spam thread

This is a first post, and I hope that it is in the right place.
My Toshiba XP Laptop no longer lights up.
Info is there and is working, but almost impossible to see.
Got it working a few times by quickly opening and shutting the lid, but no longer works.
Anyone know what the problem is or what it should cost.
I am in Dublin.
Thanks.

sounds like the lcd monitor is gone ,or back lite if it has one ,reall you need to take or send it for repair ,hard to tell from here what it really is ,have you tried hooking it to a PC monitor

BIOS battery died had to re install windows xp home.

all you had to do was install new battery and set bios defaults and fix the time /date ! never heard of having to reinstall windows for that reason.
cmedia sound drivers if you know correct model #
http://www.cmedia.com.tw/drivers.html

a friends or any legit Windows XP Professional disk ,will take the HP key from the tower , i do this all the time when reinstalling window on peoples computer that have no disk of there own ,, legit winxp pro cd only not cracked one ,

wow , none of mine haver gone this far !lol

i say both of you stat putt ,and stop fighting ,and just giving good answers .
good luck

Thanks, Caperjack.....problem solved!

your welcome

Hello hope you can help!,

Well i have a SD card (sandisk SDHC card 4GBs ) and i use it to take phots with my digital camera.

The SD card worked fine on both pc and camera in the past
But yesterday when i took it out of the camera to load the photos onto my pc, windows gave me the following error : "Please insert a card into drive I"

The card cannot be opened from the pc but in the camera it works fine
Can you please help me find a way to save my photos because i have some really important photos in it.

Thanks in advance

hi ,sounds like you need to troubleshoot the card reader on the computer ,i would uninstall the reader and reinstall it first ,do this via the device manager .

can anyone help, can i copy pictures off my pc to a sd card, and if so how?:(

hi, if you don't have one or the computer dosn't have one built in you need a USB cardreader to plug the sd card into ,and you simply copy /past or drag and drop the picture to the sd card ,you can do all this in windows explorer [or mycomputer ]

I have a 4 GB Transcend pen drive.
I want to install the OS windows XP in the hard disk.
In BIOS settings i set to first boot from usb.
I want to use my pendrive to install XP.
How can i make my pendrive botable? So that i can install XP from my pendrive.

info for you found here .
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+to+make+a+pendrive+bootable

i never did check on the attachemnt you posted till now ,also im just using www.google.com to find answers for you !my limited experience i cant say for sure what to do ,but i would try and disable bot for awhile ,see if you need them
the second one you have in the green box is reference to this service .
http://www.instantvista.com/application-experience.html
the first one is is talked about here.
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-performance-maintenance/56681-windows-audio-endpoint-builder-high-cpu-usage.html
taken from this google search .
http://www.google.com/search?q=audioendpointbuilder+&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-ca:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=

hi ,you should use tab browsing ,click on the new tab ,and open the page you want to open ,then mouse over the IE icon in the lower tool bar ,and you will see thumbnails of all pages .this is actually one of the features i like best in win7 and IE
check my snipping tool attachement of the new tab button , another feature ,tool i like

Got my free copy of win7 the other day ,got it for hosting a win7 launch party http://www.houseparty.com/windows7usa.
Problem is im istalling just for now on my old P4 2.8 1 gig ram
runs really nice, it took only 28 min to install from start to finish .on a new 80 gig harddrive ,not formated .like tha t little snipit tool ,will be great for here ,when people want to snip a part of the error mess and post it in a thread for a helper to see
missing some drivers .lke video controller and a motherboard chipset drive .
anyway likning some of the features i can use .
got my old audgity 2 sound card to work ,using the cd that came with it .
will not spend to much time trying other drivers ,hope to buy a new computer soon anyway ! thanks for listining ,enjoy win7 i will

edit ,installed ati 9200 drivers for winxp ,in xp compatability mode ,but the graphics were choppy and grainy .standard vga was better,but then changed refresh rate and it looks better now

No mate, after reading the links u provided with some links i found I wrote that simple article to make things easier for people who will search for it in the future.

Sure it makes sense and thanks to you ^^

now it does .good luck

"saying something about memory dump I believe"

the most important part of troubleshooting you problem was all the numbers and error message on the bsod ,not the memory dump.
you harddrive may have died if the bios no longer sees it ,

I will reformat my computer and my problem is I do not know how to install the drivers necessary for my hardware. How will I know what driver will I install?Please guide me. Thank you.

hi, start with the motherboard cd that you should have gottin when you bought your computer ,you reall should have checked device manger before you reloaded for names and model of the devices you were using ,that's assuming your computer was working before you formated , also if you have no cd ,get this program [ http://www.filehippo.com/download_sandra_lite/download/cf21dd500c085e40c7dfd94275a6e6eb/ ]and run it it will tell you what devices[and there model numbers ] you have and then you can go to manufacturers web sites for necessary drivers

I've seen so many warnings about registry fix programs that I'm scared to use one.

I use ccleaner every time I sign off the Internet. Do I need a registry fixer? And can anyone guarantee one that works without causing harm? I know there are some advertised by Google but I've heard they only point out the errors and you have to pay to get them deleted. Something there sounds fishy to me.

i don't use registry fix program because of what you say ,the ones mention in this thread are just registry cleaner a little different me thinks
i use ccleaner registry cleaner for a few yrs now on my computer and one i work on belong to others with no ill effect,not sure if its actually helping

Hey there I have a Toshiba M305 s49052 and I want to change the OS to XP due to a virus. This virus is blocking my net access. The problem that I am having is that when I run the Windows xp OS disc, I get a stop error after the disc loads all the funny stuff and is heading to the section where I would format the hard drive. Any suggestions?

so you are posting in the Vista forum ,so i will assume you have vista and are changing back to xp, the laptop is fairly new so i will also assume your problem is SATA harddrive problem ,xp does not have sata drivers in it by default so you would need to create a new xp install disk slipstreaming the SATA drivers into [good program to use is nlite] you need to acquire the driver from Toshiba .also there might be a setting in the laptops BIOS to change a setting from sata mode to ata mode not sure where in there but give a look for it ,,it might be easier to either just to reinstall Vista or go to our spyware ,virues and other nasties section to get help removing the virus

Hello

I have been given 3 rar files of win 7 beta, I have a license number to register it. However I am unable to open it into a bootable form. Does anyone have any ideas how to open this please?

hi, a rar file is a compressed file format so you first have to unzip the files ,then burn the unziped files to dvd , look on the net for a program called winrar to unzip them

I used to store software on!!!

No,if you mean you installed the programs on to this drive ,yes if you mean you just used it for storage of the software

the big chain store would be my only source. Not sure that's a good idea.

if the model is a good one the price is right big box store are ok, I guess

when inside the computer case make sure to un-plug it from the wall power source [should have mention this before ]
i suggest you remove hard drive and taking it with you when you go to buy one ,only 4 screws + the cables to do so ,usually 2 screws on either side ,you will need to remove other side of the case to get at the other 2 , or just take the tower to comp repair shop and have one installed .
it sounds like it a ATA 160 gig, i think the info is on that big sticker on the front of the tower

I kept getting a message that said my virtual memory was low after about 2 hours after I attached the usb.?

virtual memory is setup by windows on the hardrive for the cpu to use when all the ram memory is being used ,virtuall memory is slower than Ram so for best results you really don't want to get into useing virtuall memory ,so increasing the amount of ram is best fix for this error ,
,the error message can be stopped by increasing the size of the virtual memory windows uses ,windows usually set this itself,but the size can be increased manually ,it may also indicate the hardrive is getting full

Now's where it's going to get tricky. I can make them work, but I don't know what makes them work.

I've never opened a computer in my life. But I'm a willing learner. Is there a diagram here somewhere or is it pretty simple? I've seen it done and know it is, I'm just a bit timid.

I did unplug everything from the computer tonight and try to reboot and I also unplugged it from the wall and rebooted.

I knew I shouldn't have bought that usb when I did it. Dumb move. I've already trashed it.

opening is easy should be 2 screws on the right hand side when looking from the back and side cover should just slide off with a bull towards the back ,all are different of course !

did you have any problem with the usb device when you first installed it .
open side case
http://www.helpwithpcs.com/upgrading/remove-case-covers.htm

I took everything extra off of it first thing. Just left keyboard and mouse. I've always kept it pretty dust free but I'll do as you suggest, too.

The fans sound as though they are turning really well, and I haven't noticed any difference in noise or pitch.

Could the usb have caused any problems? It's a new acquisition and I (unwisely, I'm sure) didn't spend much on it and it's from overseas. It's only been on a week.

I just have a horrible feeling the hard drive is gone and I don't understand how. It was running so well after the restore.

Thank you for your advice.

ok, open box and unplug hard drive ,see if it goes past the bios screen to another message like missing OS, also remove keyboard and mouse ,they can cause it to lock up,
not sure if usb device caused it ,shouldn't ,
notice you buy cheap ,[ overseas usb, E-machine ]cheap always leads to problems in my opinion ,

Hi, first thing i would do is open the box ,and make sure all fans and
heat sync's are clear of dust ! also remove the external harddrive and the new usb hub and try booting

hi,try hitting f8 on boot up and login to safe mode ,see if it will let you into admin acct there ,then go to users in control panel and create a new user acct with admin rites

Knoppix is free!
no disk will be of use to us if we don't know how to use them!

on this site is doesn't look to hard to use the one you have ,you would concern yourself with the "Partition, Format and Clean up Your Hard Drive" section
http://www.spotmau.com/products/package/full.htm

agree with above post .!
also where ever you found this out [apparently you can get it to 3.6 without breaking a sweat] should be able to help you overclock yours .one would think.
also check out www.overclockers.com

or you could get the appropriate file from www.bootdisk.com and use Nero to create a bootable disk copying the files to it in the process

Advanced memory controller supports PC2100 DDR266 technology up to 2gig ,so that would mean you could add 2x1024

from this site !
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/product_detail.asp?model=KM2M_Combo-L

good download site i use ,www.filehippo.com

just double click on the area above the ,image name --pid --user name--- it will open the tool bar

this might help "system file checker" , go to start /run/ type in SFC /scannow ,note there is a space between the C and the /, you will likely need the windows cd in to replace the missing or corrupt system files

What was the point in replying to my question?

If you have worked in the business world for a legitimate length of time, you would know the reality is that rules are broken all the time. Such is the case with my laptop, complete with software.

I do not want your 'suggestion' thank you, it offers me no help to my problem

Let me offer you a suggestion and you will understand why I am replying to you in this way. Here is my suggestion: If you are not going to offer help in your replies, then don't reply.

Jupiter 2 is correct ,and we here at Daniweb can't offer you any help because its against the rules of this forum as we do not know they gave it to you, you could have stole it for all we know ,so we will error on the side of caution ,and your prissy attitude !lol
my suggestion to you would be ask you work IT department for the info you need or get one of them to do it for you

go to mycomputer ,right click on desired drive and chose properties ,then tools , error checking ,click on fix now check the empty boxes ,it should not prompt to restart computer ,if does just check off one option at a time

Thanks again to Caperjack for saying with me on this problem to the end. He was great!
Murray

your welcome ! good luck

hello,

Hi

my pc has been fine since i got it, no problems what so ever,

Irrelevant, new computers have problems !

but now for some reason every 15 minutes or so i get the BSOD,

does this mean it restart and runs for another fifteen minutes ,is yes ,right click on mycomputer ,go properties/ go advanced ,go startup and recovery section,click on settings,go to system failure and unckeck automatically restart.
next time you get bsod right down the full error message and post the results here !

it installed these on my computer as detected by Symantecs,i even get a warning when i clicked the download link on the web page !and i have had AVG delete the keyfinder.exe from jellybean before .but symantec doesn't bother with it .

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2001-081707-2550-99

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2005-032616-0025-99

this is is a safe program and will list all your software keys .
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Use RockXP !
It's free and it will recover your Windows XP CD Key :) ...

according to my AVProgram its loaded[4 nastie files deleted maybe faulse but keyfinder didn't work ] with trojans !

Is there anyone here know how to crack a license key of WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2? Guys teach me. I want a license operaring system so that I can install a windows defender and I can update it regularly. Thanks for those who can help.

sorry that info cant be given here as it against the law ,thank

your welcome ,

this is good one !
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_decrypter.cfm

and dvd shrink.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/CD-DVD-Rip-Other-Tools/DVD-Shrink.shtml

Hi i recently got a new case and it has blue lights on it . My mum wants to know if thats going to cost her money in power and electricity . i think they are led lights and they dont cost much right. Anyone know???

you are correct ,tell mum not to worry,she uses more electricity using here electric eyebrow hair plucker, lol

hi,not sure of the cause ,but has nothing to do with the ntfs format you chose ,as that was the correct one to use!
you could add some more ram for sure ,but it should still be booting fast with the one gig .
are there any add in pci card that you could remove and try a boot with out them ,like and modem or network, or sound card ,or is everything built into the mother board

Are you using a USB or PS/2 keyboard
its a corrupt windows install i think ,most likely cause is virus/trojan .
no a new harddrive is not the answer ,why you upped the resolution on a computer already having problems baffles me!

,unplug tower , open the tower and remove all addin cards like modems and nic card ,sound if any ,if you have unboard video and a addin video card ,remove the card and use the unboard video ,