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mandm6

Are you able to boot from CD?
When loading XP from CD it will first load some drivers may take about 2+ minutes. Then should have a blue screen to load windows. It may say there is a version of windows on the drive but there should be a chioce to install a fresh copy. Then you should also be able ...

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reboot the laptop.. enter bios, set it to boot from CD, put your Disk in and let it format and reinstall using the XPhome key that is on the sticker on his laptop or his product key.. then update everything and your set

Just tried that Sava. Changed it to boot only from cd and when it came up,It ...

mandm6

Not sure how to do that cat..Sorry

mandm6

He did not have it enabled

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He has no product key...I have one thats with theXp home disk i have. Think i tried that but it still would not work..I'll try again. Do I need to shut it down with the disk in it after i change it in the bios and then restart it?

mandm6

Hi peeps, Have another problem that i'm sure you can help with. My nephew bought over his Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop. It has windows xp home installed on it. Everytime you turn on the computer, It boots in safe mode. He does not have any disks that came with it. It also will not let you change much ...

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YARDofSTUF wrote:The ati 1950PRO proves that a cpu like his ins't limited to a 6800GT

http://goodblimey.com/archives/2006/12/ ... -review/2/

Is that for a pci-e card. Looks like thats for an agp?

mandm6

The card you have would suffice for a non-player. If you have a medium to large monitor, you would probably be satisfied with a 8800GTS board (See Izzo's thread). It will work well with the latest Vista operating system (if an when you decide to use it), and give a strong performance for games. In ...

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well if you go with a 8800 series card be it the GTS or the GTX your going to be bottlenecked by the processor no matter which way you go. If I had to make a choice based on your system and from what it sounds like you watching cash flow I'd just stick with a 7900 series card as I don't think you ...

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Is that board even pci-e? If not ATI just came out with a new AGP card
X1950 pro $250-$300?

*EDIT I did my research it is indeed a pci-e http://www.shopping.hp.com/shopping/data_sheet/pj467aa.html

I would recommend a 7950 series card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item ...

mandm6

Hell_Yes wrote:Monitor resolution?
Budget?
Are you a serious 3D game player?

At the present the 8800GTS is a great card for the money (nvidia), so are the ATI X1950 series.

Not really a serious player. My wife has one game she plays with her daughter who lives 300 miles away. Its called WOW? I think

mandm6

I need some help with getting a new graphics card. Here is the system i have.

HP m1180n,Pentium 4 550 (P) HT 3.4 GHz,800 MHz FSB,250 GB SATA Hdd. 3GB RAM,ATI Radeon X300SE Graphics, 128MB DDR Memory, 8x DVD(+/-)R/RW DL drive, Altec Lansing ,7.1 surround sound support with Dolby Pro Logic IIx.

I ...

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Thanks but i have it fixed now. I just deleted it from my hardware manager and went to the HP website and downloaded an update for the keyboard and it seems to be working ok now. If you could find a solution to my other problem, That would be GREAT! Thanks again for trying to help..Kevin

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I use to download movies and burn them to a disk all the time. Now when i download a movie and go to burn it to a dvd, It tells me the files cannot be burned to a dvd because they are copywrited. Is there a way to get around this now? I only record them for my collection and can't understand why all ...

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All of a sudden when i start my computer now, I get a messege that says."KBD.EXE has encountered a problem and needs to close. All the multimedia functions on my keyboard stop working. Its a HP wireless kb and i have never had any problems with it before. Any ideas of what could be causing this ...

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file associations might have something to do w/ it... maybe that jukebox app needs to load first and that's why no sound at start up & shut down. The app might shut down before win does.

Try fixing your file associations.

I'm not familiar w/ that jukebox thing. I'm on my way to work, I'll see ...

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In the run box type in "services.msc" and scroll down, make sure Windows Audio service is running.

Yes the windows audio service is running. Like i said, I have all sounds but the windows shutdown and start-up. I have been messing with it since my last post and still have not been able to make ...

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:(

How about a link to that post you mentioned?

Did you try uninstall the sound card from device manager then reboot? Might wanna back up the sound card drivers first. Try updating the those drivers?

Sorry I'm not much help today

//waits for someone smart to come along

Thanks ghetto, I'll ...

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This is only a guess bro, but worth a try.

I saw a similar prob on a win98 machine after the underwater theme had been used. Although the theme had been changed back to default from the underwater one, all the icons on the desktop and the cursor were stuck on the underwater theme appearance ...

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I'm having a sound issue with my older computer my wife uses to play games on. Its a P3 with 768 Ram and 57Gb free space. Its running XP Home. It has sound for every program but for some reason it has stopped playing the windows sounds on start-up or shut down. The sounds scheme is set on Windows ...

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I agree with shaggy onupgrading the PSU, newer video cards suck down a lot more power.

EDIT: Your motherboard is mirco ATX, and I dont see a pcie slot on it from the pic, is the x300 a card or onboard. Also you may have a slimmer powersupply because of the micro atx and case size.

Its a card and ...

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Do you know what power supply you have now, make or model?

Assuming that you need a power supply and a video card, whats ur budget?

It says my power supply is 300 watts. Not sure what you mean by make or model? Are you talking about my power supply? Here is a link to my computer specs. Maybe you ...

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Right now i have a Radeon x300SE video card,Pci express. I thought it was an x600 but that makes no difference. My computer has windows xp home MCE 2005. It also says that i have a, Hauppauge Win Tv PVR PCI II (26xxx). I have my computer hooked up to my tv and record shows and watch them later but i ...

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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Get Tweak UI

In the logon section it should say "show administrator(or the random keys you entered) on welecome screen"

It will not let me install it. It says i must be a member of the administrators group to install it ...

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I was trying to change my account from adm. to limited. I had a brain F---. When i created the adm. account, I just typed in a bunch of keys thinking when i restarted the computer it would show 2 accounts. The adm. account where i just typed in different keys and the limited account.Neither account ...

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I guess nobody had any idea how to fix my problem since nobody replied to my post.Maybe i have posted to many problems lately for anyone to care! Anyway, :) I found the problem and i'm not sure how this fixed it. Maybe someone could explain it to me. After going over all the services on my wife's ...

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I'm running MCE 2005 and all of a sudden it will not download my cable guide.It gives me a code 3 error. Also about the same time, My disk defrag stopped working. It just sits there for a min and saus "Not Responding". I have over 200Gb of free space left and I also have 3 megs of ram installed. I ...

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:mad:

I FOUND OUT THE PROBLEM,AT LEAST THE CHARTER TECH THAT CAME BY DID.
OUR CITY IS LISTED AS HAVING THE 10 MEG SERVICE WITH CHARTER. ACCORDING TO THE TECH,WE DO NOT HAVE THE 10 MEG SERVICE AVAILABLE YET! HE SAID THEY SOLD ME SOMETHING THEY DO NOT HAVE. HE ALSO SAID THAT WE WERE LUCKY TO BE ABLE ...

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Thanks YoS. If Charter does not know, I guess i'll drop back to the 5meg package. No need in paying for something that i'm only getting half of...

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YARDofSTUF wrote:Is it plugged in by ethernet, or USB? USB should have no trouble handling it really though.

Its plugged in by ethernet. How would that affect the download and not the upload? Just trying to learn something here..

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Hi, I just upgraded from the 5 meg package to the 10 meg. The upload is fine. I'm getting around 940kbs up but my download is staying the same, Around 4700kbs. I have a Ambit modem and Charter told me it was good for the 10 meg DL. I checked the modem logs and its provisioned for the 10 meg. Anyone ...

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Interesting program, not overly useful for hardware stats, very useful for software stats and runtime usage.

Yes it's a nice little program to look at different SS and RU. I had a friend get me to dl it and take a look. I'm a sucker for dl little programs like that. Maybe to much of one because i ...

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http://www.streamload.com

Apparently, with it you get 25gb (free) worth of online storage space.

Anyone use it?

I just want to make sure it's 'legit' before I start uploading my music and movies there...

I had a friend who used it for all his media files, music ect. It did fine for him for a ...

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YARDofSTUF wrote:http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

dl is at the top left. use that to see the cache.

Thanks Yos ! Thats a nice little tool. It shows my L2 as 1024KB and thats right. Your help is very appreciated..

mandm6

http://WWW.LOOKINMYPC.COM It may just be junk YoS but a lot of the info seems correct and interesting for someone like myself thats computer dumb..

Kevin

mandm6

Adding ram doesnt affect CPU cache.

It shows 2 most likely because its an HT(HyperThreading) P4 and absically recycles its wasted cpu time into a virtual 2nd processor.

Thanks YoS, That makes a little sense to me because thats close to what they said would happen if 4 gigs were put in even ...

mandm6

Sorry for all the questions folks but i guess i'm just computer dumb. My question.
If you add more memory to your computer, Does that stop your L2 Cache? I added another Gig of ram to my computer and it shows on a test that my L2 Cache was O KB. I'm running a P4 3.4 Ghz with 550 HT and 800 FSB. I ...

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w/o me going any further tonite...

I believe you can disable that HP_Admin account... but I'm confused... you can't see it in users from control panel, correct?

I have a job interview in the morn, I have to get some sleep.

Please... do not turn off or on any friggin services... I have what I ...

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Kevin,

you need to have these Services.msc running:

'Remote Registry, Server Service, Workstation service" ... Try it again then

Rgds
Sherri

p.s... MBSA.exe should ONLY need remote TCP port 80 open... Nothing else AND you can disable the "Remote Registry and Server Services" after your done ...

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[quote="ghettoside"]Bro, download this from MS and run it.

Post any questionable results. Or if it's all good say so too ]

Here is what i came up with after running it... Under Administrators, It has check marks in the score column for both the HPADMIN. and just ADMIN

Computer name: WORKGROUP ...

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