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Wendo
Member

08-07-2000

Saturday, July 16, 2005 - 2:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bummer Colossus. Nothing worse than when a computer decides it's time to depart this earth.

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Saturday, July 16, 2005 - 6:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay, don't anybody throw things at me or smirk, but my Mac G5 has decided to breathe heavy then shut down to sleep mode every day between 5pm and 7pm approximately. It happens whether I've been online or not. Is this my computer or my server?

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 8:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Blue screen of death on dh's computer (Windows XP Home):

"A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

BAD_POOL_ CALLER

If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed.
If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer for any windows updates you might need.

If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as
caching or shadowing. If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then select Safe Mode.

Technical information:

*** STOP: 0X000000C2 (0x00000043, 0xC23E4000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete.
Contact your system administrator or technical support group for further assistance."

Windows makes all the right moves towards the login window, then suddenly above BSD message appears.

Anyone know what to do with this and how to get into the computer?




Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 9:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lumbele: Have you changed or added anything recently? Updated any drivers on your system??

You could try restarting and press [F8] repeatedly until a menu comes up that gives the option of "Last known good configuration" and see if that gets you back going with this computer.

Unfortunately several reports of this type of error also suggest it could be a hardware failure (or pending/intermittent failure) that is causing it. For that, you'll probably need to take it into a shop to have it fixed.

Let me know if you find any more details and I'll be happy to try to research it for you and let you know.

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, July 18, 2005 - 4:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lumbele honey you can come sit by me I took this tour last week. I have all kinds of empathy.

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Monday, July 18, 2005 - 7:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Drah. They ended up starting from scratch, using the backup disks and reinstalled from day 1. Of course, now everything downloaded and entered into the computer is gone. Ack!!!!!!
GAL, I appreciate the empathy and ditto, but I had the good sense of going to bed, leaving this window open for them to check if Drah & Co. were still up and would come up with any ideas.
Ds followed around 3 am and dh is still up reloading. Aaaaaaaaaack!!

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 6:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Couldn't find the Mac thread.

(Message edited by urgrace on July 21, 2005)

Cndeariso
Member

06-28-2004

Friday, July 22, 2005 - 4:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
hi, the blinking eye doesn't blink on my home computer but does on my work computer. what do i need to do to fix this? i have noticed other animated gifs don't work but then a select few do. this is a new sony vaio if that matters.
thanks

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, July 22, 2005 - 4:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cndeariso: You might try emptying your browser cache. One of the effects of the cache getting full is problems with graphics (mainly when you try to save, they will only save as .bmp files) which could cause this. The other possibility is you have only a portion of the image file that loaded in your cache and a force reload might help instead. Hold your shift key and click the 'Reload' button to test this while viewing a page with animated graphics.

Cndeariso
Member

06-28-2004

Friday, July 22, 2005 - 6:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
thanks, but neither helped. the eye on this website still does not blink. yet, the tail on the dog at www.dogpile.com wags. go figure. animated gifs i had on my previous computer do not work on this one. i am married to a computer geek that cannot fix this problem either. please see if there is another fix - maybe a setting somewhere i need to change?

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, July 22, 2005 - 7:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cndeariso: You could check your Internet Explorer settings - click on 'Tools - Internet Options' then click the 'Advanced' tab. Scroll down to the 'Multimedia' section and check if the option to 'Display animations in web pages' is checked. Although, when I change this on my computer, even the dog tail stops wagging.

Cndeariso
Member

06-28-2004

Friday, July 22, 2005 - 8:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
dogpile's dog doesn't wag his tail constantly = just when it first loads the page.

play animations in webpage is checked already.

i really appreciate you trying to help.

Cndeariso
Member

06-28-2004

Friday, July 22, 2005 - 8:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
draheid, here is what someone told me in another thread but i don't know what they are talking about.

Lurknomore
Member

07-07-2001

Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 8:16 pm
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Cnd make sure your java is enabled and if it is go download the full version at their website. Emtpy your caches and reboot and hopefully the animation will work. I had a problem with that. Oh geez there was one other setting I had to do once. If that doesn't work I'll try to remember what it was...usually java fixes though.


Cndeariso
Member

06-28-2004

Friday, July 22, 2005 - 8:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
going to bed now, will check back tomorrow.

thanks and good night.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 9:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I know to empty my temporary internet files, but do I need to empty my temp file???

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 5:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My sister in law has a disk with pictures on it burned for her and the extension is .dat how does she view the pictures on the disk on her computer. What program does she need or is there a program that she can download to view this pictures. Thanks


Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 10:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie: Clearing the temp files keeps your system 'clean' of unnecessary files. It is especially good to clear them just before running defrag on your system to give back the space used and make the defrag more effective.


Skootz: .dat is the abbreviation used for data files usually. There should be a program included on the disk to view the pictures with. If not, you could try copying one of them onto the hard drive and rename to .jpg to see if that works. If she still isn't able to get them you're welcome to have her send me one of the files and I will see if there is another way to view them.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, July 25, 2005 - 8:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Dra!!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, July 25, 2005 - 9:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GRRR...there were something like 600 files in there. Tried to do select all/delete got a message on several of them that 'access is denied'. then tried individually deleting them and i would get maybe 50 done and then they would all the sudden copy each other and multiply!!! i gave up with 410 left to go.........

Cndeariso
Member

06-28-2004

Monday, July 25, 2005 - 2:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
does anyone else have any suggestions as to what i need to do to get the animated gifs to work on my computer? they work on my old computer and the one i use at work. but, only certain ones work on my new computer. the blinking eye of this website does not work yet the tail wags on dogpile. help!!!

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Monday, July 25, 2005 - 8:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
SuperDra, I tried to listen to a show on the fishbowl and got this message: Quick Time is missing software required to perform this operation. Unfortunately, it is not available on the Quick Time server.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Monday, July 25, 2005 - 9:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Twinkie: what show?

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Monday, July 25, 2005 - 9:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cndeariso: One other thought crossed my mind earlier today. Some firewall programs also block animated advertisements from playing - you might look at your firewall and see if maybe that's the problem - that it's seeing some of the animated images as ads maybe.

Watching2
Member

07-07-2001

Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 1:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have a question as to how to "simply" connect two computers together not for a wired or wireless network, but just hooking right together so we can transfer data from one to the other. I looked online and it said you needed a cross-over cord but I remember a long time ago (and yes the computers were different then!) but...all we had to do was connect a certain type of cord to a serial port or something of that sort. Both computers have USB ports, if that makes any difference. Thanks!

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 5:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Watching2: You need a cable like THIS to connect two computers together using USB ports. The alternatives are serial (Null Modem cable) or parallel (printer) ports (also using a 'crossover' 25-pin cable). If you have working USB ports, they will be faster and should be easier to use too. (Serial is limited 115Kbps, parallel is about 500Kbps, USB starts at 12Mbps). The link is only provided as an example of what you need. You should check a local electronics or office supply store for something similar.

Hope this helps.