TVCH FORUMS HOME . JOIN . FAN CLUBS . ABOUT US . CONTACT . CHAT  
Bomis   Quick Links   TOPICS . TREE-VIEW . SEARCH . HELP! . NEWS . PROFILE
Archive through January 26, 2004

The TVClubHouse: Archives: 2004 January - Arpil: Computer Problems? Ask here... (ARCHIVES): Archive through January 26, 2004 users admin

Author Message
Grannyg

Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 2:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
HELP!!!!! I am formatting some old computers and putting new OS on them and one of them has the graphics card thingie on the motherboard. I can't tell what kind it is and WIN ME is only picking up a standard VGA PCI moniter. I have installed all the stuff for the moniter so I'm figuring it's the graphics. How can I find out what kind of video card it is to load a driver for it? On the little device inside on the motherboard is the name M.tec but I cannot find anything about it. I googled it but didn't find anything about drivers. Any ideas?

ETA: The motherboard is Aopen.

Draheid

Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 3:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Grannyg: Do you have a specific motherboard model number from Aopen that I can reference in my search?

Grannyg

Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 3:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How about M K 33?

Draheid

Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 4:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Drivers for MK33

English Manual for MK33

According to a quick scan of the manual, this motherboard does not have integrated video. Instead there is an AGP graphics slot to add a video card to the board.

Is this what you have or should we look for a different board?

Grannyg

Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 4:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
on the card that is in there it says m.tec so i'm guessing that is the video card. yes, i know, it's where the moniter plugs in, right? but if i installed the moniter stuff wouldn't that cover the drivers for the video card. It's the only other thing inside the puter. everything else is on the motherboard, the joystick for games, sound, mic etc. am i confusing you? i'm confused!

Draheid

Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 4:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The motherboard manual says it uses an external video card installed in the AGP slot. It should be plugged into the motheboard which would then have the plugin sitting vertical in a slot on the back of the computer (as opposed to horizontal as with the printer port, etc.). If this is the case, you may need to remove that card to find the manufacturer of the card in order to find the drivers for it.

Reader234

Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 4:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here we go...

(an easy question!! One I should bother my dh about, but dont get me started!! *G)

WE have a new compaq, its black ok?!! and had to reinstall my outlook express, I finally convinced dh that I wasnt getting emails on this compaq, I highly suspect the old brain was hogging them (prolly upset we've moved to a newer model...)

So anyways, I now am receiving my email here, BUT how do I convince outlook, or compaq to let me open attachments? I had this problem with my old brain, and I called the comcast dsl people and they talked me thru some nonsense that I had to uncheck some thingy somwhere in some tools application, but I've clicked and opened and cant find anything...

I have gone thru the OUtlook Express under Tools, and "options" but I cant find anything to uncheck, or check that should apply to attatchments...

TIA

Draheid

Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 4:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Reader234: The only mention I can find in Outlook Express 6 is located under 'Tools - Options' on the 'Security' tab, there is an option that reads:Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus.

Perhaps this is what you need to uncheck?

Hope that helps.

Grannyg

Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 4:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
would i kill the card if i scanned it for you to look at?

Draheid

Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 5:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
While it probably wouldn't kill the card, I doubt seriously if the scan would be legible anyway. You're welcome to post any numbers or labels you can find though and I'll continue searching for you.

Grannyg

Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 5:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
this is everything that is written on the card
PA300/305 is written in the very top right hand corner and has a check mark underneath that

nee 2m 94v -0 is written on the right side about middle ways down

m.tec 1173 tbs64 16b4e-7g is written on the two little black things on the right side of the card

ce is in the middle of the card and fc is to the right of that

made in taiwan is on the bottom left

it also has an orange little box sitting in the middle on top of a little black box

on the back it has 55.05120.a04 jn a
p/n:90.05210.a04
s/n:12001622jn a

a
b

ACK!!!!!! i'm losing my mind.

Draheid

Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 5:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Description page for PA305 Video: click here

Download page for WinME driver w/o utility: Click here

Grannyg

Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 5:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
First, thank you, thank you, thank you, for finding that. You will be my hero forever!!

Second, this is what I got when I typed in those letters.
We didn't find any Web pages containing PA300/305

So I guess the thing I learned is just to type in one or the other!! NOT BOTH!!

Does your knowledge ever run out? You are the sharpest knife in the drawer!!

Grannyg

Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 5:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That took you 13 minutes and I've spend all day looking. ACK!!!!!!!!!!

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 7:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Draheid is good!!!

Jan

Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 12:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
draheid is a god!!!!

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 1:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
good god

Herckleperckle

Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 2:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
heeheehee

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 4:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay, here is a problem I have been putting up with for some time, that I am now ready to tackle. I had initially been blaming my poor phone service, but now I don't think that is the case.

I frequently, very frequently, get the page not found message when I am using the internet with Internet Explorer 6.0 on my home desktop computer. It is quite maddening. I figured it was just my phone line cutting in and out. However, since I have returned from my latest trip, I used the same phone line with my laptop for a couple hours, and had not problems. And just now, I switched to using Netscape 7.2 as a browser and also have had no problems.

I don't mind using Netscape, EXCEPT my billion bookmarks are all in IE, and I have none as yet in Netscape.

As a possible fix, I downloaded a new version of IE 6.0 yesterday and installed it over my old IE 6.0. Same problem of continual Page Not Found (this is especially maddening when I have done a long TVCH post, and I post and get Page Not Found, and the back button doesn't take me back to my post but to a blank page, ACK!!). I did not do a clean install because I don't currently have my Favorites backed up, which last time I did it was a long process, since you have to export each individual folder, and I have a lot of folders.

Before I do the lengthy Favorites backup process and uninstall then reinstall IE 6.0, does anybody have any other ideas of what might cure the problem? I have Windows ME as the operating system on both laptop and desktop.

Draheid

Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 7:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Juju: To start with, you can go into Netscape's 'Bookmarks - Manage Bookmarks' (or press Ctrl-B) then click on 'Tools - Import' to locate your IE bookmarks directory to import directly into Netscape. You shouldn't need to do any exporting on IE at all this way. I personally prefer Netscape, however some will dispute it's viability in the long term.

On a positive note though, if you import your IE bookmarks into Netscape before you wipe IE out, when you do the fresh install, I believe it will also automatically import your bookmarks from Netscape anyway.

Hope that helps for now. I'll try to look into the main cause of the problem when I have a few minutes this week.

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 11:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dra, WOW! That sounds like the thing to do, then. I did not know you could import/export favorites from one browser to another.

I have used Netscape for several hours today, and have had three instances where Netscape has said, Unable to connect with [website], which might be the equivalent of what IE has been doing, but IE would have done it fifty time over several hours, not just three. So, maybe it is the phone line ... But if it were the phone line, I would be getting disconnected, don't you think? And I hardly ever get disconnected, except when I am chatting and Juno thinks I am idle.

Dra, thanks for whatever and whenever attention you can give me. I knew when I saw the monumental task you had undertaken in posting everybody's first date on the board, that you have been quite busy.

Juju2bigdog

Monday, January 26, 2004 - 12:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, dang, Dra, I just went to manage Bookmarks, and they are ALREADY imported. They are all in a folder marked Imported IE Favorites. Yay!!!

Incidentally, is all of the Netscape browser monochromatic gray and white, or have I suddenly gone color blind?

Juju2bigdog

Monday, January 26, 2004 - 12:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just got one of those Netscape style messages that I am assuming are the equivalent of the IE Page Not Found. It read: "The connection was refused when attempting to contact Bomis.com" Got this when I tried to post the above message. However, when I hit OK to clear the message and try to post again, it goes right through.

Tabbyking

Monday, January 26, 2004 - 2:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
my email won't send. i get an smtp connection error or something. it worked fine this morning. of course, that only happens when i write a 10 paragraph letter to the grandparents. i so do not want to type the whole thing over again! i have shrunk it down and will wait for dh to get home in 3 or 4 hours! LOL

Tabbyking

Monday, January 26, 2004 - 2:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
message says that maybe my pop mail server is down. whatever that means. i think i should have gotten a 'grandpop' mail server is down message, since that is what the kids call him! LOL