Saturday, 12 August 2006
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| How to determine what caused a blue screen !Tg 04:57:30 |
| | The helpful Microsoft message says that the most likely cause of the
blue screen is a device driver.
Does anyone know how to determine if a driver is causing it, a piece of
hardware, or whatever?!
It's very frustrating because it happens about once or twice a week.
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| DDR questions Alon Brodski 03:55:43 |
| | Hello!
Couple of things are unclear to me about DDR technology.
1) Dual-channel DDR...the memory modules (actually the pairs of 2 identical
ones) that are used...Are they REGULAR DDR modules that CAN be used on a
single channel Mo-bo just fine in one by one configuration,or are they
specially designed for dual-channeling?
My guess-it's the 1st...
2)I heard that the best thing for the PC perfomance if FSB and memory runs
at the same speed.Say 800 MHz FSB and dual-channel DDR400 or 800 MHz FSB and
DDR2-800 etc.
So my quesion is...is it a REQUIREMENT or a preference? In other words,say
if I have 400 MHZ FSB and DDR333...Can I still use this kinda configuration?
Won't it damage anything? or it would work fine,just a little slower only?
Alon
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| insulation Guest 02:53:14 |
| | Just out of curiosity, is there a good reason why motherboard
manufacturers don't put a layer of insulation (i.e. plastic) over the
bottom of the motherboard?
Thank you.
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| spare jumpers Guest 02:44:24 |
| | Is there a walk-in place that sells spare jumpers for HDs?
Thanks.
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| No POST Guest 02:17:50 |
| | Hi
Just wanted to check I hadnt missed something before I bin this.
Machine powers up but doesnt POST. Monitor stays on standby, never
wakes.
K6-233 cpu, 64M RAM. Pci video, onboard sound, serial mouse.
CMOS battery was 1.8v so renewed it.
replaced ram, still no post
checked psu lines, ok
checked cables in connectors, all ok
removed the only card, video card, still no post
disconnected hdd, cdrw,
looked for cmos reset on mobo, but oddly I'm pretty sure there isnt
one.
checked cpu seated ok
The DIMM RAM socket is a horror, takes major force to get RAM to seat
in there, and looking at the design I'm surprised it ever worked. Tried
each of the 2 sockets just in case.
Its due for the bin, just wanted to check I hadnt missed something.
Thank you.
NT
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| max size of an external hard drive? Edward Letendre 01:00:48 |
| | I am looking to add an external hard drive to my computer (its a windows xp
home edtion computer, made by compaq (sr1811nx). I have read on a few sites
that an external hard drive cannot exceed 133 gigs of storage space. I know
that my local computer store sells external hard drive enclosures (usb 2.0)
and they list the maximum size of a drive for this enclosure is 400 gb. I
also have seen that you can purchase a maxtor III external hard drive with a
capacity of 500 gb. In either case, if I choose the purchase my own
enclosure and add a 400 gig (ide or eide, I get those two mixed up) hard
drive or go the route of purchasing the maxtor external drive (with backup
software) will I have any problems in using the drive.
I once had a 120 gig hard drive on a windows 2000 server setup in raid mode
(single hard drive but the raid controller was the only place I could set the
drive up on). Anyway to make a long story short, the hard drive would give
me a write error at a certain point and data would be lost when I tried to
write lots of data on the hard drive. By the same situation, when I looked
on the web, I saw that hard drives beyond 133 gb would give the same write
error with my 120 gig drive in windows 2000. As soon as I moved the 120 gig
harddrive somewhere else, no more write errors.
So I need advice on how to get around the large harddrive problem (if it is
still there) for my windows xp machine (using a usb 2.0 connection).
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| Recommendation for 16+ Port KVM Switch Will 00:32:51 |
| | Once upon a time, we had all of our rackmounted server room computers hooked
into multiple Belkin eight-port KVM switches, and life was good (or at least
tolerable). The customizable menu with names on it would periodically
reset itself and lose all values, but at least we could switch from machine
to machine. We have "upgraded" to the latest Belkin 16 port model, and
it has been pure hell. The device is constantly having problem with
keyboard or mouse (sometimes both) on at least 20% of the connected
machines. We have tried new cables, and it doesn't seem to make any
difference. Belkin replaced the switch, and the problem gets worse. I'm
looking for recommendations for a new vendor, possibly a new architecture,
for a large scale KVM solution for a server room.
My basic requirements are as follows:
1) Up to 32 computers, each of these controllable from two to four stations.
2) Any station can control any computer.
3) We should be able to run long distance, at least 100 feet, from the
keyboard, mouse, and monitor to the actual server.
4) Should allow us to identify easily each machine using a name we can
assign to it and then read off the KVM switch on screen menu.
5) Should be incredibly *reliable*.
Perhaps a better solution would be one that puts the port selector right at
the keyboard and mouse and monitor, then runs a multiplexed KVM signal over
RJ-45 to a back end device that then attaches to each server. I'm open to
any and all ideas on how to best accomplish the mission here.
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Will
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| Intel 945 Arek 00:15:07 |
| | Witam, posiadam p?‚yte Asrock na chipsecie Intel 945 (z zintegrowana grafika -
tez intela - 256 MB), procesor Intel P4 3.06 GHz, 512 Rad DDR2, dysk sata2 160
seageta. No i problem mam jakakolwiek chce uruchomic gre (oczywiscie oryginalne)
np Tomb Raider po krotkiej chwili pojawia mis ie blue screen i tyle. Zaznaczam
ze wszystkie sterowniki (oczywiscie od mobo) sa zainstalowane (grafika tez)
directx 9.0c. System swiezo postawiony bez zadnych bajerow czy dodatkow i tez
nie moge pograc. W niektorych grach pisze mi: "Incompatible hardware" i cos o
albo grafika albo sterowniki... Sa to gry ktore nie maja kosmicznych wymagan
raczej stare. Zaznaczam ze wszystko jest oryginalne. Windows XP + SP1 + Nod32 +
Firewall wlaczony. Cala reszta oprogramiowania chodzi bez zarzutu. Prosze o
jakies sugestie. Pozdrawiam.
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Friday, 11 August 2006
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| USB drive not resetting letters Pete 23:55:35 |
| | Hello All,
I have a USB drive (removable Lexar flash drive) and on the desktop computer
it is initally assigned a letter. When I unplug the stick it will work fine
in the laptop or another computer.
When I plug it back into the desktop, it does ot assign the next aaliable
drive letter, it actually does not reset drive letters and adds one letter
to the last and then assigns it. Sometimes I have to go to the drive letter
z and reset the computer somethines for it to work again, then it starts to
assiigne letters unti I reach the end of the alphabet again.
Please help,
Pete
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| Arresting muslims carrying liquids. Bazzer Smith 22:22:43 |
| | Is a bullet to the head standard procedure, and should laymen
administer a kararti chop?
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| Pad? kabel od monitora Likom 17'' Juliusz Kwieci?ski 22:13:34 |
| | Witam
W biurze posiadam monitor kineskopowy likom 17'' niestety zapomnialem
zapisac nr: modelu (podam jutro jak wroce z pracy)
Sprawa wcale nie jest taka prosta jak sie wydaje. W tym monitorze kabel jest
podlaczony bezposrednio pod cos takiego jak plyta glowna tylko ze monitora.
A wiec to zakonczenie jest dosyc nietypowe.
Prosze o pomoc jak naprawic ten problem lub gdzie mozna kupic kabel do
takiego monitora, szukalem na allegro, google i innych serwisach, jednak bez
rezultatu.
Pozdrawiam
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| Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 V1.0 Alextubafest 20:49:02 |
| | I cannot get the +/- Volume controls to work on a new keyboard.
I have no problem with an older Natural Keyboard Pro unit.
I sent back my first Ergonomic keyboard thinking it was faulty.
Surely I cannot have received two boards with the same fault?
Please advise
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Chapman
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| Switching off wireless signal? Guest 20:42:29 |
| | I'm interested in buying a DLink wireless router and want to know if its
possible in general with wireless products, to switch off the wireless
signal when I'm not using it (but not unplug the power) and still connect to
the unit using wired ports?
I understand you can switch off external access through security, but I'm
interested in switching off the "physical" radio signal being emitted from
the unit. Is this possible with the following
http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=274 or indeed any brand of wireless
router?
TIA for any genuine help.
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| Rear Microphone in-jack disabled. Manyanel 20:27:46 |
| | By default, the rear microphone in-jack was disabled and the front mic
in-jack is enabled. Now I wish to enable the rear mic in-jack for use. Who
could help?
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| Changing keyboard symbols Wayne Mason 19:51:03 |
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I lived in Arizona and bought my laptop there. I am now back in England
and have more use for the symbol '?' but it is not on the keyboard and
I have to cut and paste it from the character map. How do I deselect a
symbol I don't use and select the '?' symbol to take its place on the
keyboard?
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Wayne Mason
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| SL-75FRN2-L Gakor 19:46:14 |
| | Hello everyone. I'm new to this forum, so sorry if I make any mistakes (for
example: Posting this question in the wrong section).
Anyways, I'm interested in buying a SL-75FRN2-L Mainboard, but I cannot find
any place to buy one. Can anyone help me out? Help would be GREATLY
appreciated.
Thanks.
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| microphone outgoing sound Abi 18:50:42 |
| | Hello
I'm writing again
I have problem with my micro phone outgiong sound.
I have tested my sound hardware thorough Guiden but my computer cant
complete the voice testing. It's telling me that my voice coldnt be detected
It's olso telling me that the person at the other end cannot hear me. But I
can hear their voice. What's the problem??
Can anybody help me.
Operative system: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Sound properties: C-media Wave system
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| MicroATX Motherboard Guest 16:50:47 |
| | I was just wondering - does a MicroATX Motherboard work in a standard
ATX case?
Is MicroATX just smaller?
Thanks.
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| error code Philndolo 16:16:18 |
| | what des this error code mean as in what causes the error
0x00c379db.
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| Tasks requiring FDD... ? Martin D . Pay 16:10:20 |
| | Gentles...
If you have a system with a decidedly dodgy FDD (or indeed a
system with no FDD at all) is there any way of carrying out
certain tasks that traditionally have always needed doing from
FDD?
I'm thinking specifically here of:-
a) flashing the motherboard BIOS
b) loading RAID drivers on a new build system
I'm shortly to start building a new system (something I haven't
done for a few years now) and I know the only FDD I have (I mean,
who uses floppies these days?) is flaky. This is not an ideal
thing when flashing a BIOS!
The RAID question isn't quite so important as I won't be going
over to a RAID configuration just yet (I need to buy a pair of
matching SATA II HDDs first) but I would be interested in any
answers to the question nonetheless!
Thanks in advance to those folks out there who know more about
this stuff than I do!
Martin D. Pay
Looking forward to replacing his 4 year old system with something
that can play the new Doom!
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| USR 5699-02 modem stuck on one baud rate Steve McPheters 15:46:40 |
| | Hey all,
I have a head scratcher.
I have a dell computer with XP SP2. I am using a USR 5699-02 internal
win modem.
When ever I try to dial out the modem always connects at 33600. Doesn't
matter what programs I use, it still connects at 33600. I can change all the
settings I can find, but it still connects at 33600. The only way I can stop
it is to go directly to the modem and enter the at commands to make it
connect at another baud.
I have looked at the modem settings in Dev Manager & Phone and Modem.
Tried changing these with no luck. I tried changing the baud in the programs
I use and it doesn't effect it. I can change emulation, stop and data, etc
and it will change, but not the baud.
Another suprising way to change it is to logout and then login as the
administrator. Then it will only connect at 14400 and nothing else.
I went into the AT setup on the modem and see that it is using the
command for viariable baud, but doesn't seem to matter. Checked the
computer's ini files and registry, but couldn't find any strings that might
be hidden.
Any one know if there is something I might be missing?
Steve McPheters
Precision Access
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| Help! USB Device is mounted but unaccessable Robert Powell 14:32:19 |
| | This is a weird one, at least for me - I've searched the archives of this
and windowsxp.general and can't get any answers so hopefully those with
almost infinitely superior knowledge of external storage devices and WinXP
vagaries - that'll be you then *smiles hopefully*- will have an answer.
I've ebayed a 4GB USB MP3/Mp4 player, which is extremely nice - it comes
with quite a few files which aren't so nice (seriously who listens to Barbie
Girl and Say you Say me?) and a host of problems.
I'm running a Dell Dimension 4700, (Pentium 4) with 1 GB of ram and am using
WinXP service pack2 with McAfee Firewall.
When I plug the player into a USB slot (I've got both usb 2 and 1.1 slots on
my system, and get the same result from all of them) WinXP recognise the
player as an external USB storage device, loads a host of generic drivers
and gives the drive a letter "Removable Drive G:" which is all well and
good.
However when I try to open or explore the drive, WinXP tells me the drive
isn't formatted and asks if I'd like to format it. Happy to lose
barbiegirl.mp3, I click yes and there my problems begin.
Instead of 4GB it shows 4MB
It only allows FAT formatting
It only allows Default allocation size
Figuring if I can at least format the drive, I might be able get it to
recognise the full 4GB, I click Start and it tells me: "Windows was unable
to complete the format." Followed by the legend "The disk in drive G cannot
be formatted"
Okay - thinks I - I'll checkout disk management, where I can see the
following values:
Volume G:
Layout = Partition
Type = Blank
File System = (nothing, there is no entry)
Status = Healthy
Capacity = 4MB
Free Space = 4MB
% Free = 100%
Fault Tolerance and Overhead = 0%.
Which is just duff info! There is certainly less than 100% free space on the
drive - the example files on the drive are close to 30MB.
There should be 4GB on the thing not 4MB - again storing 30mb of files on a
4mb drive is a good trick if you can do it!
And why is there no File system of any kind?
There is a CD of drivers - Win98 drivers that is - but in a futile attempt
to get Window's to recognise and access the player/drive I've tried
installing them and it comes with a Player Disk Tool and a Player Update
tool.
The disk tool, like WinXP, only recognises 4MB and when formatting says
there is a Total disk space of, 4169728 bytes, 0 system files, 0 bad
sectors, available disk space of 4169728 bytes, each allocation unit is 2048
bytes total allocation units 2036.
All of which is utter nonsense because as soon as I try the player . . .
blasted barbiegirl.mp3 is still there, and indeed the entire drive is
untouched!
If I run the update it tells me that; "Removable disk is busy, please run
the program after waiting a moment."
The player was sourced from Hong Kong so the documentation is translated
from Chinese - funny and diverting as all heck with phrases such as "The
modification that makes the oneself to correspond clicks the next move
behind:" but is as helpful as a gearbox on a pogo-stick!
The player itself works great and is a serious bit of kit - cheaper, smaller
and with more features than an IPOD nano - Voice Recording, FM Radio, MP3
playback, Video Playback, Games, all look, sound and work wonderfully but
unfortunately they're the ones that came with the player and I can't access
the drive to change anything.
Any ideas of how to get to the contents of the drive/player without using a
large hammer, or why I'm getting such erroneous partial info from WinXP
would be gratefully received.
Regards
Bobble
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| Adding new D Drive to my system GenWhite 12:36:02 |
| | Hi, I am trying to add a new drive to my system and all seems well until I
switch the system off, when I reboot the drive is gone.
I am using the initialize and convert wizard in XP, I follow this through
with no problems and at the end I have my D Drive and I can use it, if I
reboot the drive is still there, If I switch off and restart, the drive has
gone ???
Anyone have any ideas I could try please ?
My system is XP Media Ed / Dell XPS 600 / RAID
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