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Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 10:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Skootz, I don't have any information to help you, but some others might. I thought hydro might mean electricity. It is not a common term in the U.S.



Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 10:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kristy, sometimes I have to put .jpg on the end of the file name. Don't know why. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Anyway, see if that works.

Or you can send it to me at my username at yahoo.com and I will look at it or try to post it for you in the bird thread.

Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 10:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Skootz: Sounds like something got fried in the computer. If you're lucky, it was just the power supply. Worst case scenario would be the mother board. CPU, memory or any combination of these.

Does the fan spin up on the power supply when the power is turned on?
If you open up the computer case, do you see any burn marks on the motherboard or on any of the chips?

It is difficult to diagnose the exact problem(s) if you don't have other computers or spare parts around.

Are there any places in Canada that will trouble shoot your problems for a small fee that would be credited toward any work you would need done?


Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 3:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have a guy I know that repairs computers in his home, I will call him and take my computer there in the next day or so.

Nothing turns on when push the power on....not a good sign lol. Hopefully then, I hope it is only the power supply.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 5:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I can not figure out why I have no trouble launching some pdf files and other times it will freeze up my puter!!!!

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 12:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
lol, JUJU in Canada, hydro is electricity ( as in hydro electric). If you said electricity here, people would look at you funny

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 5:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks JuJu, I will try that and see if it works.

Faerygdds
Member

08-29-2000

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 6:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tex... that's a common thing... if you can back your way out of it (ctrl+alt+del) and end the task, then you should be able to open it. It's something that goes haywire the first time you try to open something. Acrobat has a long list of files it primes and opens and if one doesn't execute right or is skipped... kerblewey kerplunk!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 6:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I do that, and then it either freezes more or closes the whole window. It's not consistant at all..sometimes I can open no prob, others, frozen tundra!

Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 7:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie: Are you trying to view the pdf files from your browser or locally on your computer?

When I have pdf's that do not come up in my browser, I right click and save them to my computer. I usually do not have trouble opening the files locally after having downloaded them. Typically it is the larger files that give me problems.


Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 7:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I will click on the link from the website and then it will either open or freeze.

Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 12:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie: OK, then try saving the pdf to your computer and opening it locally the next time a link freezes.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 12:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right click on it before I click on it to launch???

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 1:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes ... right click on the link and when the menu comes up select "Save target as ..."

That will let you save it to your hard drive and then you can try opening it there.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ok..will give that a try.
but why would it open some and not others??

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 7:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Do you have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat reader installed on your computer? Even if you do and this continues to happen you might want to re-download it and reinstall it.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 8:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have the latest free versions. done that.

Faerygdds
Member

08-29-2000

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 9:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tex. It'll open some and not others due to a variety of reasons... bandwidth, file size, data stream error, Adobe having a brain fart... you name it...

I don't know exactly WHY all the time.. I just know that if you click on a pdf it may or may not work... who knows.. maybe it's a limitation of the plug-in.... I don't know... but I DO know that Bob is right when he says to save it to your computer and THEN open it.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 9:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


thanks for trying!

Max
Member

08-12-2000

Friday, April 08, 2005 - 11:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's one for you techies out there:

For some reason, when I right-click on an image in my browser and choose to Save Picture As, the original format of the image isn't shown as an option for saving. Instead, I am only allowed to save the image as a BMP. Then I have to bring it into an image editing application to change it to JPG or GIF. It used to work correctly and on my laptop it's fine; this only happens on my desktop system.

I've been searching through various options trying to figure out where to make a change so that it saves the image in the original format (GIF or JPG), but I can't figure out where/what to change.

Any ideas? :-)

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, April 08, 2005 - 11:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Max: That's a well known problem in 'our' world! You need to delete your cache completely, reload Explorer and you should be fine. Microsoft even has a bulletin about this problem. You will find it HERE with more details on resolving it.

Hope this helps.

Max
Member

08-12-2000

Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 8:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Dra! It worked!!!! :-)

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 6:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yahoo Mail....Am I the only one unable to access her Yahoo mail? The last few days I can access my mailbox on Firefox as far as the sign in, then I end up with a blank page, with the indication the task is "done".

On IE I can actually get the mailbox page, reach the Inbox, but not the actual mail although it does say "opening page and the inbox url". All I end up with is another blank Yahoo Mail page.


Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My Yahoo mail worked today. I was on Netscape when I checked it.


eta: I just accessed it on Firefox, too.

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 6:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Mak. Wonder what's going on though; I haven't changed any settings or done anything differently than before.