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Bighunk

Hey all,

My sister is having a problem with their new HP Pavilion PC's CD/DVD burner drive, as it seems it will not detect any disks (blank, burned, or even original ones).

I'm here visiting them, and have checked here & there to see if anything out of place caught my eye, and and all the ...

Bighunk

Sounds like you have two device configured for primary slave... In other words the jumpers are wrong. Set both drives to cable select(if you can't figure out the proper jumper configuration) and place the 30gb drive on the end of the cable and the other drive in the middle.

Nope, that's actually ...

Bighunk

Hi,

My brother brought his PC (Win98, PIII 600MHz, 256MB RAM, Maxtor 30GB HD) over this morning to my house, he wanted help in doing a clean install of windows. Turned out I had a spare 3GB HD lying around, so I thought it would be a good idea to install both drives, to later use the small one as a ...

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Thanks for all the replies guys.
Check out what I found:
Looney Tunes Teach The Internet
(...you think my parents will be insulted if I show 'em that?) lol

Bighunk

Originally posted by YARDofSTUF
The dummies books are really good!

Not to insault you but the Pc for dummies i'm sure there is an office for dummies those seris of books are very very easy read.

What I had in mind was something a little more 'hands on/interactive'
Still, thanks - i'll check ...

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Hi,

I just got my parents a new PC (...they bought me my first computer so they very much deserved to have one of their own).

It came with Windows XP Home, and although there's several tutorials bundled with it for computer newbies, most of it is the typical trial software kind of crap (it's an HP ...

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Check these out:

http://www.laiverd.com/

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Actually I very much agree, the things I know about Flash so far, I learned through the tutorials included in the program; but since I saw the question posted I thought maybe there were other good tutorials that were also user-friendly (or "user friendli er ").

Originally posted by cyberskye
Is ...

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Thanks much for the link earthmofo, although I'm afraid the first place I looked for tutorials (as well as the first place I query practically everything else) is google; the problem is, that the more popular searches (such as "Macromedia Flash Tutorials") usually return a bunch of spam links and ...

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I've been looking for the same... Anyone?

Originally posted by Roody
Does anyone know of some good online tutorials that can help teach it?

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Originally posted by maro
That sounds convincingly.

Thanks for your replies.

My XP Pro SP1 was also bundled for HP (which my computer is not - thank God), yet i've been using (as well as reinstalling it) for a little over a year, activations included.

Bighunk

Thanks guys,

The model of the computer is a Presario 4860 , and I installed the second hd, then after booting into Windows (it has WinME currently) I opened Partition Magic (installed the program prior to installing the HD).

Long story short(er), Partition Quest gave me an error message which ...

Bighunk

Hi,

I've looked in several places on the web for information on a Quantum hard drive, you see, my sister has a Compaq (not sure what model it is right off the bat but I can get it if anyone needs me to), which is thin (sorta flat looking) and also larger (about as big as a cd-rom, just half as tall ...

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LOL ...eerie - I was having the same problem earlier today & ended up giving up on it (came to browse these forums looking for something completely different!).

But anyway, how does one use the tween command on FW dude??

Bighunk

Originally posted by C.M. Weaver
Are the files truly encrypted or are where you using Advanced File Sharing? Advanced File Sharing in XP will assign Owners to files and directories as well as allowing you to audit usage of the folders/files and set permissions on a per user basis.

If you right ...

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...anyone?

Bighunk

Hello to everyone,
Three days ago I performed a long overdue clean installation of XPpro on my PC, and to back-up my files what I did was try to fish out my important files & place them on my 2nd hard drive in order to leave my C drive ready for reformatting & slapping on the fresh OS once again ...

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Originally posted by mnosteele52
Glad to help and see that it solved your problem. MS hasn't offered me work but I do have my own computer business, check out my site in my signature - Dr Tweak.

Sent something to your mailbox... Thanks again for your help!

Bighunk

Mr. MNOSteele - YOU ROCK! Just like last year, your tweek settings have once again made my internet connection fast! Has Microsoft offered you any work? They should. Imagine - if there was a way to include your tweeks to the OS they're coming out with... Then again, it IS Microsoft... oh well ...

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Ok... so should I call my isp? If so, what should I tell them? Any suggestions?

Bighunk

Originally posted by mccoffee
your settings look good did you do any tracerts anywhere??

I hadn't done the tracert test - did now, here are the results...

1 63-217-30-94.sdsl.cais.net (63.217.30.94) 0.438 ms 0.279 ms 0.289 ms
2 ge6-2.cr02.ash01.pccwbtn.net (63.216.0.90) 0.217 ms 0.206 ms 0 ...

Bighunk

Howdy,
After doing a clean install of my OS this morning, with the old installation went my old settings - I haven't seen my connection this slow in a long time; and since time & again I've tried to grasp the concept of MTU's & TCP's unsuccesfully; I come to you guys desperate, frustrated and ...

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Originally posted by ghettoside
check the RAM first!

ghettoside, you may have been on to something...

I take back everything I thought about you...

Bighunk

Originally posted by The Dude
Maybe the kids were trying to make it bigger better faster? Maybe they tried to overclock it so they could play their game? I may be way of base here but it's gust a thought.

well I don't know them very well, but one of them is about 12-14 yrs. old, and the other a ...

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newbie1, thank you!! :2cool:

...almost drowned in confusion over here - first thing tomorrow I'm gettin' me sum o'that dee-dee ram :)

Mobo and RAM first...get a board that supports at least PC2700 (333 MHz) DDR, and pick up a stick of Crucial PC2700, which is dirt cheap today

about how much ...

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HSF i'm guessing stands for Heat Sink Fan?

<~ new

What would happen if I flashed the bios? (what is that done for)?

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Originally posted by BaLa
if that's the case there's a possibilty the mobo is or got fried..

but you did say the fans and stuffs turn on..so hard to tell...

okay... therefore that would

mean that ??

'cmon guys I really need good advice here :(

Bighunk

Wondering what the difference ratio would be between a stick of SDRAM & a stick of DDRAM, meaning, if I were to start out by putting 256MB of DDRAM, & taking the 1 GB SDRAM outta there; would my system feel(more, way more, same, bit less way less) sluggish than right now that I have 1GB of SDRAM?

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Originally posted by SLK
GTA 3 runs choppy on my Ti4200 also... I don't think anyone got it to run smooth...

Yeah that's what I was reading on one of the fan sites just earlier... I hate it! :( Hope the new one is less demanding of resources like they say it will.

Also found interesting that a ...

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Hey everyone,

Back with some questions, this time about my own computer... I'd like to see if I can get some tips on whether or not it can perform better for games like GTA3( & GTAvc soon :cool: )

K7S5A w/AthlonXP 1700+ 1.46GHz
ST340823A 37.27GB hard drive
LITE-ON LTR-40125S CD-RW
LITE-ON ...

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Originally posted by Mehmet
hrm.. if thats the case, there might be a short under the mobo, a cable stuck under it or something, that happened with my mobo a little while ago.

Hey Mehmet, thanks for the tip, turns out there was in fact a screw caught between the motherboard & the floor of the ...

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Originally posted by Mehmet
I was going to suggest reseating the vid card, only to find out there isnt one thats on an AGP slot..

Does the harddrive spin? when you turn it on, can you hear the harddisk spinning up? it should go.. *quiet*rrrrrrrRRRRRRR*louder*

Ya know what, I doubt the hard ...

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Originally posted by The Dude
Like YARDofSTUF said the kids gould have done anything. I'm no expert but I would double check all the cables and plugs coming from the power supply. My first suspect would be the video card, since the video bios loads first. If you can find another card to try I ...

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Originally posted by The Dude
First thing I would try is to clear the CMOS, to reset the BIOS to factory defaults There is usually a jumper to do this "with the power off". Removing the battery for 5 or more minutes will do the same thing. If you are lucky you will be able to get into the BIOS ...

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As I mentioned earlier, there are SO many things I am still clueless about, like usb flash (whut'z dat fo?), [/B]

ugh... did it again... lol I meant to say BIOS flash... *blush*

Anyway, i'll try what ghettoside suggests & cross my fingers.

And, I spent half of yesterday looking for the manual ...

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Originally posted by the snake
my older HP machine needs to press f-1 i think to get to the bios, not sure if that is what you where asking for.

Thanks, and - I tried that, but nothing.. also tried pressing the Insert key when starting it up - nada. About all it does is start up, but nothing ...

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PC in question has 256MB of DDRAM and not 64MB as I wrote in the original post, the 64MB DDRAM is the shared video memory.
Also forgot to mention it has the WinXPHome OS, and is a 2.2GHz Pentium 4... Was in a hurry to go run an errand, my apologies...

Bighunk

Good morning all,

Yesterday morning my sister dropped off their home pc, which they acquired not long ago, it's a HP Pavilion 524g 2.2GHz 40GB hard drive w/ 64MB of RAM, generally used for internet browsing & the girls' schoolwork.
It seems during a recent visit from my sister's family-in-law, her ...

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Originally posted by Burke
Are there any files/programs in the folder? If so, look and see if any of the files/programs are listed in msconfig. That could be why it says it's "in use."

Start > Run > msconfig > Startup tab

If you don't recognize any files/programs there, try CTRL-ALT-DEL and ...

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Anybody??

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