Posts by caperjack

a google search i find info saying Cap "713x.sys" is releated to a tv card ,do you have one install ,did you deleted software files or drivers belonging to it !
I would suggest getting latest windows service pack!

this is what i do ,i find it best to create a folder[call it aadownloads so its first in the list, easier to find ] in the mydocuments folder ,create a shortcut on the desktop to it !
edit firefox to download to the aadownloads folder .simple as that .
to edit firefox just go tools/options/main/ in download area ,browse and direct it to the aadownloads folder in mydocs .

monitors have a refresh and resolution limit ,you may be able to find what your monitors is,with a google search of the make and model number ,
my opinion is the monitor is so old ,it cant handle the refresh rate and the high resolution you have set.edit found this if this is yours then see infoTechnical Details,http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Dynaflat-Syncmaster-955DF-Monitor/dp/tech-data/B00004Z9FF/ref=de_a_smtd/175-7614218-2856617

* 1,600 x 1,200 maximum resolution at 68 Hz
* 0.20-millimeter horizontal dot pitch
* DynaFlat "infinitely flat" tube
* Smart III antistatic and antiglare surface treatment
* PC and Mac compatible
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remember its 7 yrs old and getting tired

best little speed up program on the net .if this dont speed it up it virus or isp related
http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

but why did it happen in the first place?

It's Windows remember , prayer maybe ,did you by any chance at one point say i with to Jesus this would work .

go to run in start! and type in sfc /scannow. to fix and replace missing windows files ,you will need the winxp cd in the drive to replace files , if any are missing

you need to buy DDR-400 PC-3200.
yest you can take out he 512 you have now and put in 2 new ones

The built in Ethernet did not connect to the internet when I plugged in the cat 5 cable.

correct drivers are not installed for the device ,check device manager for errors in network section

As far as it only registering the 960 instead of a full gig is quite common. Sharing ram with a video card, etc. will show a smaller amount of "ready" ram. Don't worry about that, it is normal-but I am not quite sure why it will not allow you to use 2-1gig cards...Are they DDr? and if they are are they 1,2, or 3? Let us know how it goes!

that is true, for sure ,but the way i read it he had the 512 & the 1 gig in when it says 960 ,i think 552 is a bit much for shared video .
can see the bios being set to that giving that he only had 512 meg in to begin with .I have see where one chip would cancel out the other ,because they didn't match ,but usually the other way round to his problem

Welcome to Daniweb! You probably have some kind of infection. I suggest you download and run MalWareBytes from here:

http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

You can then go to our forum Virus, Spyware and other Nasties and read the sticky posts for help in getting rid of most bugs, if MalWareBytes does not fix the issue. There are some gurus over there that can help if you can't get it done...

should alwas include the use instruction when posting the link for malwarebytes .
* Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
* At the end, be sure to checkmark the Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, then click Finish.
* If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.
* Once the program has loaded, select Perform full scan, then click Scan.
* When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
* Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.
* When completed, a log will open in Notepad.
post the log back here

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2008/10/13/malicious-microsoft

and unless you have dynamic ip from comcast it won't change .
a quote from the site in the lower link .
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When someone manually configures a computer to use the same IP address each time it powers up, this is known as a Static IP address. In contrast, in situations when the computer's IP address is assigned automatically, it is known as a Dynamic IP address.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address

i read ,and read ,frustrating isn't it .
one thing that comes to mind is the front case connection ,usb, sound .firewire ,maybe one is shorting things out .when you get it don't hook up any of these front case items for a few days or longer before hooking them up .i have seen faulty usb do this ,actually almost fried my own with a faulty front case usb

. and in trying so hard to be politically correct i miss spelled couls!=could, LOL

Hello , I usually use a test computer for ram with no ident marks on them .and i use a working computer with windows installed and i use a great little program called ,CPU-z,it will show cpu/motherboard /ram http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
google will show pictures of the different ram .PC100/133 sdram look the same
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.upgradecomputermemory.com/images/products/large/64MB-168pin-Major-INF-B.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.upgradecomputermemory.com/ram.cfm//memorytypes/PC133-SDRAM-Memory/PC133-SDRAM-Desktop--Server-Memory/64MB-PC133-SDRAM-Memory.html&h=300&w=300&sz=22&hl=en&start=2&um=1&usg=__QrMuvzV-WyoJ7808QFK4iywYiwM=&tbnid=tyOPCyrZEzIAwM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpc133%2Bsdram%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN
ddr sdram comes in many different speed like ,older to newer. in order
pc1600/1700/2100/2700/3200/
and then somewhere around there it goes to ddr2,then ddr3 biggest difference in the ddr and ddr2 is the different space between the slots /more pins
The biggest difference in sdram and ddr sdram is the 2 slots in sdram and 1 slot ddr sdram

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.miamics.com/assets/images/ddr-ram.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.miamics.com/DDR-PC-3200-400MHz_p_0-78.html&h=300&w=300&sz=14&hl=en&start=2&um=1&usg=__6z6Un53uUllroX8VmGg8FtO-dTI=&tbnid=zj1q1RdIgoAwIM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dddr%2Bram%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

have a look around www.bootdisk.com and you should fine file and info for creating a boot disk[cd] for when you have no floppy drive ,and just do a search for fdisk and how to use its command to create a new bootable partition on the drive

I really like my latest purchase ,works great ,easy hookup ,only downside is it only takes SATA drives and not IDE ,oh well to the future i guess.! but great addition to my workshop tools !
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?S=1268&ID=1642#Tab4

try ,opening case and removing ram and hdd cables ect act and then replace them just to re-seat them and try that .,also remove the video card if it has one and re-seat it

to the best of my knowledge the fat system one will not see the ntfs one.

this might help,might not .
http://blogs.chron.com/helpline/archives/2005/10/help_and_suppor.html

just turn off SSID broadcast after you connect to it with the wifi ,and they wont see it anyway

Yeah sorry after I posted I thought I should have told you the fix. Was deep in game.

Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete, Process Tab, end all explorer.exe and iexplore.exe processes.

Type regedit in File - Run

Delete these three keys.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StreamsMRU

Back in Task Manager choose Shutdown menu - Reboot.

thank you for that !now people will know

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS

ok i have the most recent BIOS update 29 December 2007, drivers... I shall look into that

usually booting the winxp cd and going to repair option and type in "chkdsk /r" with out the " will fix the driver conflict .

also is the harddrive new, and maybe not formatted yet .and if possible changed jumpers on both the hdd and dvd rom to cable select and the drive should be able to go in the middle plug on the ide cable .if not just master one and slave the other ,a haddrive can be slave to a dvd drive !,also make sure that the ide cable is 80 wire and not 40 wire .
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCable80-c.html

I'm using a 3G wireless broadband connection to the internet.

lol ,that explains why you were not really panicky.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm

the image shows you are using intel high def sound/audio ,you need to go to the maker of the computers website for drivers ,search you model number

dsl isn't really expensive. The average dial up cost is $15.99/month while dsl is around $17.99/month (only 24.00 extra per year)

yup ,you are right ,but like i said in some areas its not available ,only dialup in a lot of places around here ,i have at least 5 close family members who only have axecss to dialup ,and 2 of them live within 800 ft,of me ,one of them i have hooked to me wireless

maybe a update of this download program is needed .C:\Program Files\GameSpot\GameSpotDownloadManager_Win32.exe
as suggested when i search for info one it as other's are having error problems with it,

i didn't play games on internet, just playing games installed on my computer. i m just playing winning eleven 9 and this game did not needed a high requirment.

thank you for that answer .
below is quote from you first post

when i played the game my computer get hang for a few times but this problem never happen before

It maybe dust in the tower,on the video card fan if there is one on it [dirty fans and heatsinc] causing overheating when playing the game.also make sure you have tthe latest drivers for the video card installed .

web site .
http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/getFile.asp?id=20195&dscr=Marvell%20Yukon%2088E8050%20PCI-E%20ASF%20Gigabit%20Ethernet%20Controller%20DriverVersion:%208.27.4.3&uid=182752922 click on the download now button ,also check the how to install link next to it .

I am attempting to put the finishing touches on a powerful multimedia and gaming desktop I've put together from bits and pieces I've collected from a variety of sources. Everything seems to have come together nicely, with few exceptions. However, when I am running particularly demanding programs (games, specifically), I often encounter a crash in which the computer, without having an error message of any type, stops sending data to the monitor. The tower is still fully powered, and would appear to be working as expected.

good job!

Having asked a few friends about the situation, some have suggested that the problem may be the power supply. In their opinion, the power supply cannot handle the workload I've placed upon it.

what size psu do you have in it .

Another friend suggested that it may be the video card. I'm currently operating with an NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT. He made this suggestion based on past experience with other video cards. In his experience, video cards commonly have a seperate input for a power supply, whereas this one pulls directly through the motherboard. I disagreed, because I feel it is unlikely for NVIDIA to produce a card with the capabilities of this one without providing a powerful-enough supply of energy to utilize it.

so did you have to plug a connector from the psu to the card when install it .

if this is same card as yours you can see extra plug at the back of the …

No - its much too early for that. Beeps come immediately after switch on from cold before it has even loaded the display driver. I believe i have been through every possible trick that 20 years of working with P.C.'s has taught me. This is weird and does not behave like any older machine i have come across.

check these links ,
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d915gag/
this link come from within the above link.
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-023360.htm#cdrom
as does this one
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-010254.htm
and so on !http://downloadmirror.intel.com/10140/ENG/BIOS%20Update%20Readme.pdf

When I strike the ctrl alt delete keys my task panel window won't fully open? I can only see the bottom portion where it says end task, switch to and new task ?

Help please

just double click on the outer area and it will open fully

a 8 dollar can of compressed air ,to blow out the heat sinc and fan through the side is recommended to.

it still doesnt work i think it must be the memery cause i get one beep when i atemt booting on it i fould the one beep meens mem problem so i dunno what is going on with it

5 mnts between post ,
took awhile for the beep to come did it .!!LOL

Try replacing the ram with new ram .

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

ME is like 98se just the SFC is needed

that the key that blows it up!!lol
gig it a try ,it called system restore .

Proline?

The reason it wont work is because Dell cd's only work on Dell machines.

just for the record ,i have a dell recovery cd ,for a dell 3400 or something like that [made a backup copy from a customers of mine ],i have used it to load winxp home on a clone computer I built ,the winxp key i used was from a old IBM laptop i had kicking around ,the person i sold the clone to is still using the computer ,no reported problems yet .

because this is spyware related i will move you to the spyware section ,

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 …

your welcome!!

Okay, let me preface this by saying I'm not blonde and my blonde hi-lights are fake, BUT I have no idea how to reinstall it. I didn't install it in the first place it sort of came with Windows/my laptop. I get the corruption part, but I have no idea how to perform this simple reinstall. Would you mind telling me?

If you ever need any information about the esoteric realm of sentence structure or punctuation, I'm your girl, but on this stuff . . . I need all the help I can get.

I think they just mean to click to use none ,then reboot and then choose to use a screen saver again ,reactivate not reinstall.

yes I agree with this guy, please use the correct words/proofread your posts and/or know what you are talking about.

also I dont think there is a fan in my harddrive, ive worked with them enough to know that mine doesnt have one, and ive never heard of a hardrive having one in the first place. anyways, do you think im just getting an incorrect reading from the sensor? cuz 72 degrees Celsius seems impossible, considering I should just about have a fire going on at that point

yes that is high for sure ,if you have 5 sensors on the motherboard then i would think you should be checking it with the software that may have came with the board,may be on motherboard disk , or in the BIOS, boot computer check it with speedfan ,if its showing high, reboot computer and go into setup/bios and check in the pc health section or hardware monitor section,for temps of all the sensors/ .

I installed the software on 2 computer and it does show hdd temps one is 31c anf the other is 32c,

edit: i just check my bios, hardware monitor section and the 31 c was motherboard temp.there was no temp section that was for hdd.in mine anyway .this maybe the reason you get lower temp when pointing the fan at the cpu or other end of computer because its cooling the motherboard .so the 72 may not be the hdd,anyway what ever it …

http://www.myfixes.com/articles/system

if you have xp follow the thread at the top of this page .or go to it with this link .
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread55459.html

many thanks but spare bits are not readily available to me....but i will investigate.....any other info will be appreciated

some time after a lot of use the connection between the power plug and the motherboard can brake away from the board of the laptop and need to resoldered,try to wiggle the cord at the laptop connection when turning it on,
as said above the board or even the cpu could be dead.i had simular Dell one with a dead battery and it would not start without the battery connected ,bought new battery and it worked great

If this doesn't fix the problem then I'm just gonna buy a new PC, which is the last thing I want to do.

LOL,worse case would be all you would need to do is buy a new hard drive !! and install windows on it .not a new computer