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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 11:34 am
Good bye for a while. Short while? Bob, I will if I need to. Hopefully I won't.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 12:12 pm
I'm baaaack. WOW! That was a fast / virtually immediate start-up. Guess the monitor was the problem. Bob, I just reset monitor resolution to 1280 X1024. Oooooooooh. Hmmmmmmm.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 12:33 pm
Thanks for the info, I will try all things suggested and see what happens, I think I have a lot of memory, though because when I bought the laptop I paid attention to that, and I haven't really added much software. I will check it out. thanks again! Oh and I have XP
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 12:43 pm
My boss just called. He dropped his printer that he uses at home and he says he needs a new tray. Anyone have any idea where to order one? It's a Brother MFC 5840CN. TIA.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 2:22 pm
Grooch, go to the Brother web site. There should be a way to order accessories and replacement parts there or, if not, a phone number you can call to find out.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 2:39 pm
Here Grooch: Link Fixed link <24>
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 6:10 pm
Colordeagua: Last we heard was "Oooooooooh. Hmmmmmmm." That wasn't followed by a big BOOM, was it? Can you read this now? Maybe the higher resolution made things too small? Can you read this now? Hmmmmmmm. I wonder.... Can you read this now!?!
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 7:09 pm
No BOOM! Had my eyes checked last year. An oddity at my age the doc said -- my sight is reversing and getting better again!! I thought resolution was only clarity. Effects size too, I guess? I definitely like having more of the page on the screen at one time, so I'll try lowering resolution just a little. I can work with this as it is. Is it basically same size letters / characters as before? Are there settings some place else? One thing . . . It didn't take me that long to hook up the monitor, so computer wasn't off all that long. I'll believe it's really working when I turn it on tomorrow and . . . .
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 7:29 pm
I just tried the next lower setting. Definitely not as clear / sharp. I went back to highest. I can read it. What do you do with a monitor that doesn't work -- at least not well?
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 8:06 pm
Ok, so I di the task manager thing while I had two browsers and real player running, which is my normal stuff. and the Task manager shows that I have 460-489MB; and the cpu usage was high at 94-97, but after about 5 minutes it settled down to 19-29. So does this mean I have enough memory?
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 8:34 pm
Dipo: Look at the part circled in blue:
What do you have listed for Total Physical Memory?
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 8:46 pm
Colordeagua: What is the highest resolution that you can read? Your screen is physically a fixed size. When you increase the resolution from 1024x768 to 1280x1024 you are actually viewing more pixels (dots) in the same physical space, so the pixels appear smaller. If you have an icon that is 64x64, it will appear larger in 1024x768. When the resolution you select does not match the native resolution of your monitor (in your case 1280x1024) then the monitor has to "fit it in" and that's where the fuzziness comes in.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 9:23 pm
Highest I can read before it's too fuzzy? I'm a little confused. (Nothing new.) I'm back to the highest setting. When I lowered it to the next setting, things were fuzzy already. Did not like that . . . though it's not that I couldn't read it.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 6:29 am
As you make the resolution higher, it becomes more detailed, more fits on the screen but the size of the things that you are looking at gets smaller (e.g. print for example).
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 7:06 am
Thanks, Jimmer. That's what I was trying to say. BTW . . . extremely fast to desk top this morning. Monitor was the problem. Thank you to Bob and everyone for your help. I learned stuff. That is always good. Help get me over my fear of "la machine". That's so stupid. I get frustrated very easily. Something goes wrong with this thing or asks me a question (in a box kinda thing) that I don't know . . . now what? I'll always have questions. I can ask here!
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 7:55 am
Now what? Computers on. Playing music via iTunes. I was in another room. I hear kinda loud buzzzzzzzz. "La machine" reboots. What? Why? Something wrong?
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 9:11 am
Thanks, Julie, I'm passing it on to my boss. Costa, I tried going to the Brother web site and I got now where. Plus when I tried going to their page for local certified repair places, I kept getting "page cannot be displayed". I have a feeling it will be easier to just buy him a new printer, but he just doesn't want to do that.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 9:26 am
At the price of printers these days, unless the Brother printer is a heavy duty laser printer that runs $400 and up, it's probably easier/cheaper and faster to buy a new one. I also don't think personal printers are built to last years and years any more (guaranteed obsolescence).
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 6:43 pm
Bob, tonight it says 522416, I don't have a clue what it said last night. Avaliable is 169040 and changing.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 6:57 pm
Dipo: That means you have 512MB of RAM (memory) in your laptop. Yesterday, with your "normal" stuff running, you were using 460-489MB. That means you typically are running close to your physical memory amount. If you run any more applications, you would likely start using virtual memory. That allows you to run more stuff than you actually have RAM for, but it will run things more slowly (especially if you switch between applications frequently). There is a configurable limit to virtual memory, but the more you use, the more you will notice things getting slow. Eventually you will get warnings about low virtual memory. What is the make and model number of your laptop? I think XP runs better with a minimum of 1GB of RAM. If you follow the steps in my old post, it will tell you exactly what RAM you have in your system and how much RAM your laptop will support.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 6:58 pm
Colordeagua: I don't know what that was. Keep an eye on it and see if it does it again. Could have just been a 1 time glitch. Maybe a squirrel got inside the computer?
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 7:13 pm
Bob! Bob! Bob! I got the memory about a week ago, and finally found the courage and time to do this myself tonight. I did have to call Dell cuz (after turning everything off in advance of installing the memory) I realized too late that I had no clue how to open up the hard drive! Heh. It was easy, and the Dell techie did talk me through it. He was fussed I didn't buy Dell memory (which, btw, was about $30 more expensive), though. First three times of putting it into place, it buzzed at me. (Techie explained that meant it didn't recognize the memory. Told me to just buy the 'right' stuff from Dell. I just replied that I'd work on it a bit and call them back if necessary. But I had faith in you, Bob. I knew you didn't give me bad info!) So I tried inserting it in the grooves two more times, and when I felt it click into place (finally), I knew everything was okay. While the hard drive was open, I used canned air to clean out the dust (Whew! There was a ton of it!). Anyway, I panicked for just a moment--because when I plugged everything back in and turned the power strips back on, the computer didn't start up. It took me a couple minutes to remember I had to hit the button on the hard drive to restart. Everything is really good now! So flowers at your feet, Bob. Thank you, thank you, thank you! And thanks, too, to landi, for giving me confidence I could do this myself. I feel so proud of myself!!! 
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 8:15 pm
A squirrel? Yes, a squirrel!! Hp, you have far more courage than I do. Congratulations! And a laurel wreath for your head, Bob. The buzz I heard might have been the fridge. (It's on the opposite side of the wall from "la machine".) It's three years old and "talks" compared to the old (harvest gold) fridge I got rid of which hardly said a word.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 9:26 pm
Colordeagua: Is your computer (or power strip) plugged into the same outlet as the fridge? Do you use a "cheap" power strip or does it have surge protection? When motors start up, they can "spike" the power on the circuit. If you are plugged into the same circuit and don't have a good surge protector, that could cause your computer to crash. Stop reading now if you hate long and potentially boring stories. About 15 years ago I was out at Xerox in El Segundo, CA doing a software install. We were beta testing our software on one of their PC board assembly lines and did most of the testing overnight. It was a large factory and the production floor was far away from the servers. Everything is going fine the first night until just before midnight the servers crashed. We checked out things on the floor before heading back to the server room. By the time we got there the servers had rebooted and everything was fine for the rest of the night. The next night the same thing happened around the same time. By the time we got back to the server room everything was good. On the third night we got smart and decided to stake out the server room starting at 10:00 PM. Everything was running fine until we saw one of the cleaning people walk up to the outside wall of the server room and plug in a giant industrial strength vacuum cleaner. She flipped the switch and the server crashed. Turns out the server was new (installed the week before we got out there) and was "temporarily" plugged directly into an outlet on the other side of the wall. We checked the old logs and found that the server had been rebooting every night since it was installed at approximately the same time. I guess that says something for the consistency of the cleaning crew. The next day the IT staff correctly plugged the server into a UPS and it passed the vacuum cleaner test on the forth night. The End
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 9:32 pm
Herckleperckle: Yay! Those Dell people hate when people find out that cheaper memory usually works just fine in their Dell computers. $30 more isn't too bad for Dell. It's not unusual for it to be close to double the price. Glad the memory didn't fry when it wasn't seated all the way. Guess it's a little late to tell you to make sure both sides click in solidly. Have you and Ed switched users while running everything you normally run? Was it faster?
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