Wednesday, 9 August 2006
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| COMPTER FREEZES/CRASHES in minutes IF TOO MUCH USE John 11:39:01 |
| | USING: ABIT BH6 motherboard with 1.3GHz Intel Tualatin processor using
an adaptor. WD 250GB & WD 200GB harddrives connected to motherboard
with Promise Ultra 100 IDE controller card that came with the WD 200GB
Hardrive. Video Card - Ati AIW 128 PCI 16MB.
BEFORE: Windows 98(not SE) was loaded onto WD 8GB hardrive, attached
directly to the motherboard, no Promise Controller card needed.
Everything worked great. The larger harddrives did have to be attached
thru the Promise controller to be recognized by the older motherboard,
and they were used for storage backup only. Was a perfect setup, worked
flawlessly
NEXT: Wanted to get rid of old WD8GB harddrive, so loaded new
Windows98SE onto larger 200GB harddrive, which has to be attached to
motherboard with Promise ATA controller to be recognized.
NOW -Problem: computer freezes/crashes, blue screens, or green screens
when using any application too long (within the hr), or worse if using
many applications at once -multitasking (within minutes). If have too
many IE windows open will crash immediately. Also if trying to download
something too large (10-50MB, depending) will freeze before completion.
If downloading attachment from Outlook Express will usually crash if
attachment is 3MB or more. Sometimes less. Also crashing is never the
same. Sometimes can squeek more usage out of computer, other times
crashes quickly. Also if trying to transfer/move any large file (100MB,
sometimes only 50MB, sometimes 200MB) from one location to another in
Windows Explorer, will freeze/crash computer. Then when restarting
computer after the crash, Scandisk (i use Norton Disk Doctor) always
says some files or structures are in error and I end up having major
problems, like apps not starting, or email completely deleted, then
have to use Go-Back to recover, then start over. What a pain in the
butt. NOTE: NONE of this EVER happened "before"(see top -"BEFORE").
WORK-AROUND: The only way I'm able to get anything done is to manually
restart the computer before I "feel" it's about to freeze/crash. This
"buys" me more computer use. If I do this every 10-20minutes or so,
depending on usage, I can use the computer all day or forever without
crashes. This is EXTREMELY annoying to have to do -close all apps, save
everything, then restart, open apps, continue working, REPEAT IN
10-20MIN. PLEASE HELP.
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| Flash drive problem - slow data transfer Guest 11:13:31 |
| | My flash drive (Imation, 1GB) has off late been behaving strangely.
Have been trying to transfer data from my PC (Win XP) onto it and it
takes 102 minutes to transfer 236 MB of data.
I remember connecting it to a Windows 98 PC sometime back and trying to
transfer data. It was not detected on the Win 98 PC. However, could it
have been corrupted the FAT due to this?
I tried formatting it and then copying, however it did not help
matters. After formatting, it shows the status as healthy. However,
data transfer still takes ages!
How do I get the flash drive back in good running condition. Any help
from this forum is helpfull.
Thanks in advance,
MA
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| Unable to format a hard disk, is it dead? Guest 10:38:12 |
| | Hi everyone,
I'm having a serious problem with my hard disk drive (20 Gb, brand
Maxtor). Recently I made several things on it, like installing Ubuntu
4.01 Warty (with Grub as bootloader), removing Ubuntu, partitioning it
using FreeFDISK from a boot diskette and so on. But right now, I can't
format it. The formatting correctly begins, but around 15% I get the
message ''Not ready'' (in fact, ''non pret'' in French) and the
formatting process aborts. I tried to make several partitions in order
to isolate this location, but it seems that there are other places with
the same problem.
Windows Millenium refuses to install, explaining that the formatting
doesn't work. My question is: What could be the origin of the problem ?
Can I save the hard disk, and if it's possible could you please explain
how?
Right now, the only solution I found to post this message is to boot
from the live CD of Ubuntu and to post from Google...
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| Dell XPS 600 nVidia nForce4 SLI mobo and proprietary power connector Guest 10:12:28 |
| | Hi
I have been feebly trying to determine whether or not the nVidia
nForce4 SLI X 16 motherboard on my Dell XPS 600 has some kind of
proprietary power supply connector on it. I want to bet a power supply
with more Watts but have been told that dell does funky things with
power supplies and motherboards. Can anyone help?
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| SATAII drive not assigned drive letter after MB change Guest 09:07:33 |
| | Ok... got some confusion and a some frustration brewing here....
I have two SATAII drives an 80 GIG and a 400 GIG.
80 is my OS and 400 GIG is my data.
I changed to a dual proc motherboard and one that supported SATAII,
reformated the 80 GIG and thought life would be good.
Why do I not see the 400 GIG... Its there, see it on post and see it
under XP in disk manager, but it will not assign a drive letter to it.
Of course lots of sublte changes - northbridge chipset, 4 sata slots
instead of 2 (tried them all).
Originally it was a basic disk - my only option is to change it to a
dynamic disk.
I have a box of IDE drives here, can drop anyone of them in and they
will get assigned a drive letter.
Oh, whats the big deal here? The 400 GIG is filled with data, thats
the deal.
1) Why do I not see my 400 GIG and any way I can see it without having
to convert it to a dynamic disk?
2) I think the answer is no, but will I lose any data by converting it
to a dynamic disk ? ( i know going back to a basic disk will lose
data).
Fine, I am an id10t and obviously did something wrong.
Thanks
Scott
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| DVD-speler leest geen enkele DVD Bas 08:14:10 |
| | Help!!!!
Ik heb een Acer Aspire 1501LMi laptop met daarin een DVD-brander (Pioneer
DVR-K12D). Sinds korte tijd leest de DVD-brander geen enkele CD of DVD meer.
Ik heb al geprobeerd via de helpdesk van Acer. Deze adviseren mij om de
computer op te sturen. Helaas is dit niet de bedoeling. Ik ben de computer
dan 2 weken kwijt en waarschijnlijk is het probleem dan niet opgelost,
immers volgens de helpdesk is de desbetreffende DVD-brander niet meer
leverbaar. Het enige wat de Servicedesk van Acer in dit geval kan doen is de
DVD-brander reinigen.
Is dit aan te raden om dat zelf te doen met een reinigings CD?
Heeft iemand daar ervaringen mee?
Alvast bedankt,
Bas.
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| General question about firmware Dudley Henriques 07:21:00 |
| | I think I understand that firmware updates for an optical drive are stored
in the device's ROM.
If you have to reinstall XP at any time, will the firmware update be lost?
In other words, is there any connection between the Windows OS and the ROM
inside the device?
I need to know if things like firmware and BIOS updates on a reinstall of XP
will be kept or will the reinstall wipe out the BIOS and firmware updates?
Many thanks
Dudley Henriques
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| Network Card problem after using Microsoft Update Pud 05:14:20 |
| | I have a problem with a laptop I am trying to get Internet Security software
on to for a client. The software wouldn't work so uninstalled it ok.
Did Microsoft Update before trying the install again. There was an updated
driver available for the onboard 'VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter'. I
included this in the updates. MS Update installed the other downloads but
failed on the network driver. Tried downloading and installing the driver
from manufacturer (Acer) site. Install failed!
Attempted to use aEdimax USB2/Ethernet adaptor to get online with the laptop
to update the driver but that fails to install also. I get the following
message from the Hardware Update Wizard (on both the VIA and Edimax driver
installs):
"There was a problem installing this hardware:
...xxx...
An error occurred during the installation of the device.
The system cannot find the file specified"
This happens when installing drivers for both the onboard and the USB
network adaptors. The USB drivers I have used many times before.
Please help.
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| Gamepad Not Working Alias 03:45:02 |
| | Hello all,
My PC ProPAD 4 gamepad is connected to the game port of my SoundBlaster
Live! audio card but it's not working. Windows reports the gamepad as not
being connected but it is connected. This is weird because I have used this
gamepad many times before but now WinXP won't recognize it.
All the drivers for SoundBlaster Live! are installed under Hardware Device
Manager so can't figure out what's up. Nothing has changed in my system
hardware wise.
Anyone have any ideas about this one?
-A
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| Issue with a video driver Roadstergal 03:41:16 |
| | I feel like there's something very basic that I completely missed. My hard
drive recently conked, so I have reformatted and reinstalled Windows on a
brand-new drive. No problems - except for the monitor. Windows has the
monitor as a 'default monitor,' at the moment. I downloaded and extracted
new drivers for the monitor (Sony SDM S51) from the Sony site. However, when
I try to update the drivers from the Display control panel, the Properties
box in the Monitor tab is greyed out (as is the Hide Modes This Monitor
Cannot Display, for that matter). I have tried Add New Hardware, and it does
not pull out a monitor. There is no monitor listed in Device Manager. I
searched, and the only topic vaguely similar suggested restarting in safe
mode, but the situation is unchanged in safe mode.
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| SISAGP.SYS error message after Windows XP recovery Sharon Leonard 03:22:02 |
| | How do I get rid of this? It keeps telling me that it can't find the
SISAGP.SYS file every time I log on. Can I find this file somewhere?
Thanks!
Sharon Leonard
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| fans start and then stop Marenpete 02:44:01 |
| | I have a IBM Netvista model 8310 and today when it was booted up the
cpu and the frame fans started and then stopped. The power supply fan
is running fine.This caused the machine to shutdown (hibernate) until
the heat dissipates.
Th funny part about this is I can get the fans running using speedfan
software so it doesn't appear to be the fans.
Is it the mother board, power supply?
Any help would be appreciated.
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| HDD appears twice malcDT 01:37:02 |
| | I wished to install a larger hard drive and keep oild drive for data.
Initial drive had two partitions
Used paragon to copy drive and installed this as Primary drive.
I boot from this drive.
My computer shows Drive letters as C, D, (original drive) and G and H being
the new drive.
I modified the drive letters as per
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
Old C was named R, old D was named S
G was renamed C
H was renamed D.
After reboot, My computer shows local disks C D G H R S
I tried deleting G and H in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices but
they return on reboot
How Do i correct Drive Letters so only C D R S remainnames.
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| Chipset Intel Mobile 915GM Kafar 01:03:10 |
| | Czy ten chipset wspiera ju?? obs?‚uge Smart Dual Channel??
Napewno zwyk?‚e Dual Channel obs?‚uguje- ale chodzi mi o ten przypadek gdy w
jednym slocie obsadze fabryczne 256MB a w drugim dodatkowe 512MB.
No lae w notebooku do pracy biurowej to i tak bez znaczenia.
Pozdrawiam.
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| Audio mixer device Johnny 00:56:16 |
| | I have the same soundcard mixer problem as the previous poster
with audio problem.
Something was wrong and I did the Repair procedure from install CD (SP2).
After that I sound card stopped working
(throught wave out dont work, direct sound works)
Beacouse "Mixer device is not there" type of request,
when I try to start sndvol32.
It is SB PCI 128 and it IS in Harware support database
and it worked before repair of XP (pro).
I downloaded newest drivers for sound card and installed them.
After I do Uninstall/Refresh on Card on Device manager,
sound card works and sndvol 32 starts fine and do its job.
But after Restart of themachine , "Mixer not there" problem again
and I need to do do uninstall/Refresh as Administrator,
every time when I star my machine.
Could anyone help me resolve this problem
without reinstalling machine
(I have a lot of software I don`t want/cant install all system again.)
Please help,
thank you.
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| Serial port of MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard. Guest 00:24:01 |
| | Has anyone here tried to use the serial port of the MSI
RS480M2-IL motherboard ? I assembled several computers
based on this mobo last year, but neither I nor,
apparently, any of my customers/clients have had reason
to use the serial port until now.
I tried to install an external dial-up modem for a friend
today, but Windows could not detect it. To make a long
story short, it turned out that the culprit was a mismatch
between the mobo serial port header and the supplied
internal cable.
The cable is wired according to the usual pin ordering
convention, but the header pins on the mobo are *not*
numbered in the usual order. AFAIK, such double-row header
pins are usually numbered like this -
2 4 6 8 ....
1 3 5 7 ....
but the serial port headers on this mobo are numbered
like this -
6 7 8 9 x
1 2 3 4 5
The numbering by itself wouldn't matter except that each
pin number serves the same function as it would in a more
conventional layout. That is -
1 - DCD
2 - S-IN
3 - S-OUT
etc etc
I can't change the pin layout on the mobo of course. I
solved the problem by desoldering the wires at the back
of the D-sub connector and resoldered them in the
required order.
If there's anyone out there who's been having problems
trying to get the serial port of this mobo working, I
hope this helps. However, it's possible that not all
production batches are shipped with this mismatched
cable.
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Tuesday, 8 August 2006
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| DVI monitor: no video until Windows Starts Dante 23:12:20 |
| | I have a LCD monitor with DVI input. The monitor does not display anything
until the Starting Windows splash screen comes up. So the BIOS splash, boot
options etc are all missing. I guess this is ok until a problem arises. Is
this the nature of DVI or is it my DVI graphics card? It is a ATI Radeon
VE -- One of the early dual-head graphics cards, AGP 4X.
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| potrzebna elektronika do dysku samsung sp2004c Guest 22:55:27 |
| | Witam wszystkich,
Pad?‚a mi elektronika do dysku Samsung SP2004C (200GB/7200rpm/8M SATA).
Gada?‚em ze znajomym elektronikiem i mo??e mi to zrobi?‡ tylko potrzeba
p?‚ytki (elektroniki) od takiego samego modelu dysku. Czy kto?› mia?‚by
j?… na sprzeda?? albo taki sam dysk np. uszkodzony mechanicznie, a z
dzia?‚aj?…c?… elektronik?…? Bardzo chcia?‚bym naprawi?‡ ten dysk, bo
przez elektronike g?‚upio by?‚oby straci?‡ dane
B?™d?™ bardzo wdzieczny za odpowiedz.
pozdrawiam
d4rqu
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| SATA drive on a PATA motherboard Crouchinho 22:22:48 |
| | I'm getting an adaptor so that my Serial ATA hdd will plug into my Parallel
ATA motherboard but was wondering about the jumper settings. The hdd
manufacturer website says that jumper settings don't need to be set with
SATA drives but do they need to be if put through an adaptor?
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| Network Card settings disappear when cable unplugged dreamsoul620 via HWKB.com 22:12:28 |
| | Hi all! I've been messing around with this problem about a week now and I'm
completely confused. I have two laptops, a Dell Inspiron 600M and the other
a Dell Latitude D610. The network cards are the same in both (Broadcom 440X
10/100 Integrated Controller). I used the Latitude to connect to cameras on
a machine. These cameras require me to change my automatic IP setting to a
static IP. This works great if I use the Inspiron. However, sometimes when
I unhook the ethernet cable from my laptop, the card completely disappears in
Network Settings. I cannot even try to change the settings. When I plug the
required crossover cable in, sometimes the card reappears, sometimes it takes
several restarts. I have uninstalled and re-installed the drivers. The card
also disappears when unhooking the crossover and going back to the straight
network cable. Basically, when I unhook a cable, it's a toss up of whether
my card will still be recognize in the Network Settings. Dell does not have
a solution and since the card works, they do not see this as a reason to
replace the card. Changing the IP on the Inspiron results in a lot of
downtime for my other applications while it's recording the images from the
cameras. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how I might fix this
problem? Any help is greatly appreciated.
--
To be the best, you have to first give up everything.
Message posted via http://www.hwkb.com
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| AMD or Intel? Tochiro 22:10:06 |
| | Hello,
I do not want to start a processor war here. THe truth is that I do not
know the first thing about processors. There has always been Intel
processors in my PCs up to now. I am now thinking of buying an AMD
system because somebody suggested the processor remains cooler than
Intel's and I am looking for a PC as much silent as possible.
My question is: are AMD processors fully supported by software? Is
there any risk of malfunction with AMD?
Thank you for your help
Tochiro
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| What's really on this motherboard? Guest 21:38:47 |
| | I'm assembling a new computer for the
first time in five years, and I've
discovered I can no longer understand
motherboard specs. I need these capabilites:
-Graphics for large, static RGB images
-Network connection for Web access
-USB for digital camera uploading & control
Here's what I bought (haven't unwrapped
it yet):
http://tinyurl.com/e6cn6
It's a question of what "support" means.
I can see the sockets on the board for
video, LAN and USB. Does this mean that
the full capabilities for these things
are already on-board?
--
Charles Packer
mailboxATcpacker.org
http://cpacker.org/whatnews
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| Microsoft Elite Keybooard for Blue Tooth and Intellimouse Explorer for Blue Tooth died Broye 21:23:58 |
| | I purchased a Microsoft Keyboard Elite for Blue Tooth and Intellimouse
Explorer. It worked perfectly for me for about a month. Then the mouse
started to lose function - the scroll wheel did not work. Then the
mouse died completely. I looked at the Blue Tooth device in the Device
manager and it showed that is was not working with a Code 10. But the
keyboard worked fine. I followed the direction on the Microsoft web
site and keyboard die also. I have not a clue as to why this happening
and how to fix it. I have tried to reinstall and nothing works. I am
using Windows Xp Professional SP2. Thanks in advance to anyone who can
give me hand.
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| CD/DVD rom Wallyhc 20:34:40 |
| | cd/dvd does not show up on "my Computer" ... system installs driver but
cannot find hardware error ( error 41). Same thing when I try a usb cd
drive ????
usb works on other devices... and usb cd romm works on other machines
How can i make windows find the hardware ????
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| printer gone nuts Rb 20:33:10 |
| | My printer has gone nuts. It prints a two liner garbage thing endlessly.
I've pushed all the buttons repeatedly, unplugged it overnite, etc.
How can I clear the spool memory? Just keeps printing the garbage two
liner. I've tried sending it several different print items from the pc.
I'm afraid I may be compounding the problem, if I can't clear the memory.
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