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Bob2112
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06-12-2002

Saturday, August 12, 2006 - 12:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bob2112 a private message Print Post    
Have you tried removing the new memory and second hard drive?

What slot is your video card using (AGP,PCI, other)?

Do you have an older video card that uses a PCI slot?

Does your video card require additional power?
Maybe you knocked off a supplementary power connection when installing the hard drive or memory.


Remove all the new hardware and go back to the original video card. See if that changes anything.

If your video card is in the AGP slot, you may have have somehow fried that slot. If you have a PCI video card, try it in different slots.

Maybe you are close to the limit of your power supply and the second hard drive is messing things up.


Ktbb
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08-10-2003

Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 2:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ktbb a private message Print Post    
Help, please. I couldn't even get my comp to boot up this morning. Said it wouldn't let windows start or it would hurt comp(paraphrasing). Did system restore 4 times with no luck, until I did a restore with my restore disk. Now my comp is working, but have lost all my data. Comp looks like it did when I first bought it. Found the folder where restore put everything, but have no idea how to put everything back on my comp. Some help would be greatly appreciated.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 11:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Do I want to upgrade my Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 7 Beta?

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 11:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Betas are always a little risky. That is why they are betas.

So I would only upgrade if you are prepared to face the risk and if it has features that you need immediately.

Jimmer
Moderator

08-30-2000

Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 11:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Ktbb, Sorry I don't mean to ignore your post. It's just that your problem is hard to diagnose and help with online here. Do you know anyone who is a bit of a computer guru who could look at it in person with you?

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 11:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Thanks Jimmer. That's the only 'new' upgrade of IE isn't it?

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Yep. I think that is it. It looks pretty nice but it's a beta.

Ktbb
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08-10-2003

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 1:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ktbb a private message Print Post    
Sorry but don't know anyone. I'm getting everything I can by installing everything I have. It's a pain, but at least it is working.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 4:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
Texannie, I use the IE7 at work sometimes and it's pretty good. I usually use firefox, but it looks surprisingly similar. I love the tab feature.

Sherbabe
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07-28-2002

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 7:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sherbabe a private message Print Post    
Not a problem per se, but, computer question. I just got an email from paypay.com It said my account has had excessive user attempts recently and overseas attempts. There are links to click, as well. Something tells me NOT to click the links. I have not used paypal in many years.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 8:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
don't click the links, go to the paypal site, find an email addy and forward that email to them asking if it's legit. They also have a record on that site of any emails sent to you from them. And they do answer emails

Jimmer
Moderator

08-30-2000

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 8:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
It is extremely likely that the letter is a fraud. If you are using Internet Explorer you can hover your mouse over the link and it will show you the real link in the bottom bar. I bet it doesn't have anything to do with paypal.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 1:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
I downloaded firefox and i guess i am too old for change! LOL Is it really all that much better than IE?

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 8:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Ok -- my DH, the computer geek, and myself are stumped. We have 3 networked computers in our house- -2 laptops (upstairs) and 1 desktop (downstairs). The DS is only allowed on the Internet if he's on the upstairs computers where we can monitor constantly. He plays games on the downstairs computer. ALL computers have user log-in passwords, so that he can't even get on a computer without us putting in the password.

Here's the question -- does anyone know how to set up an EXTRA password for Mozilla or Explorer? He's getting to the age where I wouldn't put it past him to go on the Internet downstairs. I'd just like it if when he clicks on the program, it brings up a password.

We've looked under tools/options for both programs, and although you can set the "privacy" setting at ridiculously high levels, that doesn't solve the problem; it just means DH and I get frustrated when WE go on the net! LOL

Thanks! :-)

Vixeninvegas
Member

10-07-2002

Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 1:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vixeninvegas a private message Print Post    
Hi all :-) I don't know if this is the right place to ask or not but I thought I would try.

I just joined a singles site and want to post some pictures I have but since there is more than 1 person in the pictures they will only be accepted if I can put like "me" with an arrow in it but I don't have photo shop or anyway to do it (I don't think I do anyway LOL :-) )

Is there something I can download that is safe and easy to run so I can do that? Thanks so much - I'm so computer dumb. Have a wonderful Sunday!!!

Jimmer
Moderator

08-30-2000

Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 3:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
You might want to try IrfanView. I think the best thing for you to do is crop the picture so that it is only showing you in it.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 9:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Vixen, if you don't want to download a program, although I also highly recommend irfanview, and it is a small download and easy to use, you can edit a photo online here: http://pxn8.com/

Or Google for an online photo editor you like better. I have not tried the one above.

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 9:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
Local Networking problem:

I have my laptop and PC both accessing the internet via a Linksys router. I've had them networked to share files and the printer, for about 18 months with no problems. I had "My Network Places" all set up, and could access each computer from the other one, and move files back and forth.

Sometime in the past 2 weeks, I've lost the ability to communicate between them. I haven't adjusted anything to precipitate the change, and the only thing I can think of was the Windows Updates, which is the only thing that would have changed anything on my computer.

Since then, I've adjusted, and tried to renew my access to my workgroup, created a NEW workgroup, etc. to no avail. Somehow, they both have the same network setup settings, but won't talk to each other. On both, if I click to access the workgroup, or a computer on the workgroup, I get a message like "\Desktop is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator to find out you have access permissions. The network path was not found."

What am I doing wrong? I feel like I am pretty adept with computers, and had them successfully networked in the past, and now I am just so frustrated.

Any ideas?

PS - I thought about using system restore, but I've fiddled with so many network settings on both computers, that I think I'm at a point of no return.

Draheid
Board Administrator

09-09-2001

Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 5:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Draheid a private message Print Post    
Eeyoreslament: I'm just getting ready for work so I can't give you a lot of ideas at the moment. One site you might want to poke around for answers on is http://www.practicallynetworked.com/ where they have all sorts of tutorials and helpful articles on networking.

I'll check tonight and see if you have had any luck. If not, I'll be happy to try to help if I can.

Jimmer
Moderator

08-30-2000

Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 5:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
In the meantime, you might also want to try contacting free Linksys support. I have found their support to be astonishingly good (compared to most of the support you get these days).

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 8:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
I'm just finishing up a paper for school, but I'll try BOTH of those things out (either later this evening, or in the middle of the night after I've watched all the Thursday shows - LOL). No rush, it's been wonked for the past 2 weeks.

Thanks guys!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 10:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Eeyores, I agree about the Linksys help folks being particularly competent and helpful. I have only had cable for about six months. I went with a Linksys wireless router and didn't really understand that you first had to set it up via hardwire, and the help person walked me through that.

I have been having weird happenings with the wireless connection on and off for a couple months and getting a strange error message on shutdown that appears to be related to the wireless. At the same time, I have lately started having problems with Yahoo Messenger. I suspect there is some sort of conflict with the wireless connection and Yahoo Messenger. This morning I uninstalled Yahoo Messenger and will see if that cures the wireless problems.

Luvmom
Member

10-17-2000

Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 12:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Luvmom a private message Print Post    
I just renewed and downloaded the new trend micro but it isn't working.I get this error=7413-247,hr=0x80080005
When it finally comes up,i can't click on anything .It says to register it but when i click on register nothing happens.Anyone know what to do?
Thanks

Karen
Member

09-07-2004

Sunday, October 15, 2006 - 3:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Sorry, Luvmom... I haven't the foggiest idea.

My question is about Nero. I just bought Donners a DVD+/-/RW But the software doesnt' support .mov files (?? !! ??), which is what my digital camera spits out it's movie files as. I went to the Nero site and it says that the software CAN support .mov files, if I want to purchase their plug in.

I have Sony Vegas on my machine, but using Vegas just to convert the files to dump them into Nero seems a bit redundant and kind of defeats the point of Nero being the one-stop shop it claims to be. Does anyone know of free conversion software? Anything that'll convert .mov files to .avi or .wmv is OK. Free, fast and simple is all I'm looking for. I found a whole bunch of free trials, but there's gotta be some free full version shareware somewhere?

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, October 15, 2006 - 6:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Karen, I am pretty sure Draheid will know this one, but he doesn't get to this thread as often as he used to. If somebody else doesn't answer here before Draheid arrives, you might drop a note in his folder.