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The game installs fine, I can load the game fine, but when the screen changes it turns black. Example: I click the NEW GAME button, it blacks out, I click the LOAD button, it blacks out, ect. ect. Anyone have any ideas?

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hey guys, ive been looking around for tips on this topic but haven't really found one. i dind't really know where to post this, so i decided to post it here. for me, i have a lot of games, and once those games are installed, they save a profile folder, …

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Hi, Was having problems removing an out of date version of McAfee. After using Killbox and unlocker I finally managed to remove all the files under the c:\Program Files\McAfee directory. I have then tried to re-install the latest version of McAfee and am getting display issues. Rather than being able …

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Hello guys, I have formated hard drive at my neighbour's computer. It's relatively new computer with Pentium 4 processor and intel motherboard. Installing windows Xp passed all right, but there was a problem when trying to install chipset drivers. Since sound card and network card are integrated, autorun option offers …

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My pc keeps restarting, it's been doing this for a while, i've recently (today) had a new power output put in (400w) as the last one blew, though its been restarting for a long while now. The specs are as follows ASrock motherboard 2.4ghz intel celeron proccessor 512mb Ram (2 …

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CAn anyone help???? I can't install Windows Live Messenger. I get error code 1604. As well as that prob, I can't get into my hotmail account. I log in and then get "Page cannot be displayed"....the login + pass ARE correct Are these problems related? Could this be an update …

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I need help. We have a home computer with Windows 2000 on it. We let one of the kids set up their own password protected profile so that at start up you have to chose their name and enter a password to get in to their "portion" of the computer. …

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I have two hard drive's on my pc. C:/ & F:/ c is my normal hardrive and is functioning fine. F is a small 10 gig hard drive that has been formatted and it is my intention to install xp only to this drive in the event of failure in …

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Hi all I have a strange sound issue. I will try to explain. The night before my PC was fine, I could watch video, play music and all was great, turned it off and went to bed. Next morning, I switched on, and now all my sound, including video, wav, …

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Hello when I first put a fresh windows xp into my computer, I couldn't seem to find the CD for Microsoft Word, so I decided to download OpenOffice, a freeware version of Microsoft Word. Finally, I found my CD and now I can't seem to uninstall OpenOffice because everytime I …

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Gidday guys! Been a while since I've been to DaniWeb, but again I need you blokes more than ever! I'm running XP Prof with SP2. I've been running it about 8 months now hassle free, as basic internet security measures from you guys' advice have lounged me well. Same old …

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Hi everyone, I have a problem with a a tv card and windows media centre. It has lost all ability to find any channels when scanning. Tried different aerials. Looked through all the settings i could find for it (not that many) and no avail. I tried an external tv …

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Hi everyone, My name is John and like everyone else I'm just posting on this website because I have problems with my Windows. Ok, here is the story. About a month ago, I came home and turned on the computer and thought I'd change my virus scanner to a different …

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Hi, As strange and pointless as this sounds does anybody know how to, or where to obtain a program that could "invert" the colors on the monitor, i know you can invert the colors using the magnifier but i'd like the whole screen to just be inverted, again strange as …

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So I got a virus and had to switch drives but now when I try to access my old drive, it tells me to format it. Help me. There was some important stuff on it.

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[URL]http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/7682/clipboard01si3.png[/URL] Every time i play a video online, I get this little fault in the video. Any ideas?

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I'm running Windows XP with to users configured. When windows boots up and my Logon screen appears for me to click my logon picture to logon, how do I change the sound that plays? Thanks,

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Hi, I'm new to this forum and hope someone can assist me. I purchased a new laptop last week (Toshiba Satellite M115-S3144), and twice now, I've had Internet Explorer 6.0 launch 50 new windows (opening up with default home page). This happened once yesterday when I was switching between three …

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I downloaded internet explore 7 big mistake lost part of my google browers including internet options. what to do ??? Myles

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When I start my computer I get an error message and it will no longer let me get online. The message says: AOL.EXE - Bad Image The application dll c:\WINNT\System32\ATL.DLL is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette. Not being able to get online, I …

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I just recently got a new computer from ibuypower. I also bought a windows XP installation with it. After turning on the computer, the installation auto ran and goes through the process, I clicked f8 enter enter and it brings me to the part where you choose where or which …

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I have the same problem when I upgraded to XP. I do not have volume controls on key board and another sound card on board... any possible fixes..thanx

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My PC running Windows XP has been telling me it's been recovering from srious errors on startup for a few weeks now. I couldn't repair anything because it didn't tell me what was wrong. Now my PC won't start. I get a black screen with white text telling me i …

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I cant log in at all I do not have an administrative account so i cant do that the message says I have been disabled as an user and wont let me on period how do i fix this problem i need to get on my computer some one help …

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i have xp home with ubuntu n kubuntu on dual boot. i also have 2 users, mine and my dads. even though he never ever uses his account. it wont logon. it logson and then loggs straight back off again. My user does not have that problem. So I tried …

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Currently trying to install the Rome total war Gold edition but it says there is an earlier version installed already and i must uninstall it. Problem arises is i deleted by mistake and didn't uninstall it. The program file is only 45 MB and wont go. I lost my original …

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Hello all. I have Read around the interent looking up this problem i have with my Computer Randomly Rebooting. Most Topics or articles have given me little to no help, so i hope someone can figure this out. This Random Restarting has been going on for about the last couple …

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can any1 plz help me, i have tried 2 install mcafee security suite 2007 but it didn't install properly n now it won't uninstall. I don't have the folder named mcafee.com n it not in the add remove programs. I have tried 2 do system restore but that won't load …

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Hi, I am a new user of Daniweb, and a novice whne it comes to PC's so please go easy on me. I have an Athlon AMB 2200+ which is going into a power recycle after running for about 3-4 minutes in normal boot mode. It works fine in SAFE …

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:( here is a problem alot of us cannot figure out ,,after upgrading to xp pro the sound level bar goes down even if you move it all the way up , it still goes slowly back to low, i have a compaq presario 5020 and the driver is ess1869, …

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ok... i'm not so familiar with the technical aspects of computers... :confused: my computer restarts on it's own. it seems like it does it when i run multiple applications, or one app with a lot of info to load (sims, for example). it's quite frustrating. all i can tell you …

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I apologize if this isn't the correct forum for this issue. I found your site while Googling for similar issues and ended up here. The advice looks very promising so I'm hoping you can help me! I received the following error on a BSOD after burning a data DVD last …

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Hi all, I hope you can help... I've made a big mistake and let my brother try and fix my laptop becasue I didnt have the time to do it myself... Now its even worse... The original problem was whenever I opened a website that played a video using WMP, …

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Hey everyone I have installed a firewall at work to keep people from using the computer at night for bad thing's but they are going into msconfig and disabeling it and restarting the computer so it doesn't start up right away , so i was wondering if there is a …

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I hope I'm in the right forum 1st of all and thanks to all of you. Since this morning when I have turned on my PC it boots as normal and then gets stuck on the 1st page (before windows would open) Mercury with the website address,(which I'm guessing is …

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just reinstalled windows xp; all working well; all CD based installations work well attempted to install downloaded version of Norton Utilities (from old download; it worked well in XP before); keep getting error message; "go to control panel to install and configure" Again; this program did install previously without any …

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okay... so yesterday randomly my laptop [toshiba a55 series] shut down on me. it just turned off. i let the computer sit for a few minutes because it was quite warm on the bottom when i did restart, my desktop was gone [the icons were missing and i couldnt right …

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When I start up the Word Standard...the installer automatically starts and sometimes won't let me access all of my files in the program that I have saved.....now...m y Corel WordPerfect 10 has lost all of my address books and requires a security login and password. What the heck???? And how …

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I'm on a laptop and for about a month now, everytime i push my L key in internet explorer it goes to full screen and back again when i push L again. However, only pushing L does it. If i hold shift and push L it does nothing. But pushing …

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i had a person teaching me how to make a screenshot, but it didn't work. i think it was because my zone alarm firewall was incompatible. unfortunately i lost all the instructions i was given. i know that i need paint, which i have. i also have irfanview and flock. …

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Greetings, I have problem recently whenever I go online. If I try to play music (such as Winamp) or any other applications that create sounds, my PC will immediately go to blue screen! The blue screen error message usually say something like "TRAP_UNKNOWN". I connect to the internet using dial-up …

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Hi everyone, I have just found this site and was wondering if you guys could help me out. I come to turn on my laptop today and it refuses to work. I have XP home edition on it. It tries to boot windows , flashes a message( too quick to …

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Okay, so, a strange problem with my desktop, it doesn't show up, the icons do, but the picture I picked as my desktop doesn't. [IMG]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/[URL="http://www.imagehosting.us/index.php?action=show&ident=1697405"][IMG]http://show.imagehosting.us/show/1697405/0/nouser_1697/T0_-1_1697405.JPG[/IMG][/URL][/IMG] Now, when I enlarge the Start Taskbar, the picture shows up for some reason. And then when I put the taskbar back, it goes back …

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Hi All, My XP Pro with SP2 is an upgrade from 98. I can not Right Click on the Desktop. The system just crashes. DrWatsn32.exe will generate a PostMortem and submitting to MS doesn't help. I run up TaskManager and Kill off DrWatsn32 to get Explorer to reload....... I've scanned …

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About two weeks ago, we had an electrician come to our house to fix some unsafe outlets and rework the wiring a bit. I think he some how changed the wiring so that upstairs is getting more power now (my computer is downstairs). But on that same day, my mom …

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Morning Folks, When RAM is removed / Added to/from a system, does it create a log in the event viewer? And if so what ID is it given? Thanks, gn0m3

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Ok well i few days ago my computer was lagging a bit so i desided to turn it off for a min to let it cool down well when i went to start it back up it made alot of fast beeping noises and then 4 little beeps then one …

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Hi all. I need to know how to setup windows servers (all) to execute a logon script regardless of it being a user, local or domain, terminal server login or a service that executes the logon. Sort of default but it must not prevent the regular group policy or user …

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I had a Toshiba laptop that crashed more than a year ago—it wouldn't start up, and it wouldn't even let me reformat the hard drive. I ended up just getting a new computer. A Mac. :) However, yesterday I decided to try to reformat the old PC. Amazingly, it booted …

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