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    - Autoplay Problem I have a card reader on my Windows XP PC which, amongst others, takes the Smart Media cards from my camera. I used to be able to insert the card, select in the Autoplay window to see a slideshow of the pictures, click OK and the slideshow would commence. Now, although Autoplay still comes up, I select the slideshow option, click OK and, apart from the Autoplay window closing, nothing happens. How can I get the slideshow option to work again please? -- Keith Willcocks Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329752
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    - I have no sound or audio devices I need to find out why I cannot find a compatible device for my computer. My computer is a Sharp Actius AL 27.I have already went to their site and downloaded one that was supposed to be right.It did not let me install. Said it was not right for my computer or something to that effect.I have tried so many different ones Im confused and ready to buy a new computer.I've been told so many things to try and nothing worked.I don't really remember all the things I have tried.Please help!! OlChic Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329735
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    - underdesktop Next generation hardware and DDR2 1066 or DDR3 1600 www.underdesktop.we.bs Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329734
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    - Serial port sharing between 2 apps? I see that there are a few software solutions out there, and I trialed one and it seemed to work, but I don't have $100, and was thinking maybe what I need to do requires less than these software solutions (ie. Fabulatech's serial splitter). I have an electronic scale that we use to send weight to the shipping software (we use UPS and Endicia). It's plugged into the serial port (Com1). There is only one such port available. What we need is for these two different applications to be open at the same time, and each able to get info from the scale. One application works while the other is closed, but when both are opn only one continues to work, and the connection to the scale is lost by the other one. Fabulatech's Serial Splitter seemed to do the trick, but isn't there any easy way to fiddle with interrupt request settings, or make a virtual port and have one application use that virtual port, and direct the COm1 real port to the virtual port, or SOMETHING? Any help or ideas or sugestions would be appreciated. It seems like someone must have had to do this before. Thanks for taking the time. Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329717
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    - BSOD I get a blue screen of death shortly after inputting my password, it reboots my PC way too fast for me to read the text. How can I determine the cause of the BSOD and fix it? TIA...Les Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329707
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    - Point DVD-RAM Drive Letter To Hard Drive? I have a proprietary backup system that backs up it's data to a dvd- ram drive formatted as ntfs and the system sees it as a large floppy/ superdisk-type drive. This system is wasting a lot of disks, and, to make a long story short, I want to force the backup software to write to a hard drive instead of the dvd-ram disk. I've heard this is possible by editing the registry. Can anyone point me to some information on this? I know I'm on my own and unsupported by MS by doing registry-editing. Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329705
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    - Trouble with MS Ergonomic Keyboard I have been using MSD ergonomic keyboards for several years now. I bought a new one a few months ago and since then I seem to be loosing a little bit of function over a long time period. Can anyone suggest where I should looking to try and find a solution to my problem? TIA, Nev. ---- Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329693
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    - hai http://www.freewebs.com/satelte Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329686
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    - Hard drive problems Hi Everybody ! I have a strange problem that i can't seem to get a solution for An HP notebook had some virus problems wich were cleaned but now windows gives me the file association menu each time i try to access the c: drive. I have had this problem before with usb flash drives but could allways select explorer to see waht's on the drive This time it opens internet explorer & says " Application not found" when I right click in my computer to select explore drive it gives me the 'open with' menu again The system is running xp pro sp2 with norton antivirus 2008 Can anybody help me? Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329684
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    - Disk space differences as reported in windows explorer? OK. Maybe this post belongs in this group instead. When your right click on a drive in windows explorer, and get these different reported sizes, what is the story? Example, for a 20 GB partition - rounded to 3 significant digits below: (choose whichever I guess; the two listings below are seen next to each other in windows explorer): 12. 4GB 11.5 GB used spaee (tot capacity adds up to 19.9 GB) 7.56 GB 7.04 GB free space (tot capacity adds up to 18.6 GB) (tot = 19.9 GB) (tot = 18.5 GB) and as yet a third variation reported in BING: 11.9 GB used, 7.22 GB free (total = 19.1 GB) Anyone have a good explanation for the differences? I assume part of it might have to due with the defenition of the HD sizes, e.g.: 1 GB or 1.024 GB, for "1 GB size" - not sure? or for a 40 GB example: 20.36 GB 18.9 GB used space 19.64 GB 18.2 GB free space capacity: 40.00 GB 37.2 GB Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329681
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    - hardware books * Intel 80386 * http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/intel-80386.html * Plastic leaded chip carrier * http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/plastic-leaded-chip-carrier_09.html * Dual in-line package * http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/dual-in-line-package.html * CPU socket * http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/cpu-socket.html * Bootstrapping using the BIOS * http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/bootstrapping-using-bios.html * Motherboard * http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/motherboard.html * SIPP memory * http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/sipp-memory.html * Address translation * http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/address-translation.html * Cache misses * http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/cache-misses.html * Associativity * http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/associativity.html * Details of operation * http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/details-of-operation.html History of cache in x86 architecture http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/history-of-cache-in-x86-architecture.html CPU cache http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/cpu-cache.html iMac http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/imac.html Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329680
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    - PC won't go into standby or hibernate by its own.... My PC won't go into standby or hibernate on its own after a preset time. I still can manually bring the PC into standby/hibernate without any problem. Don't know where to start to fix this problem, hopefully someone can help me out. I am running XP pro. Have all the latest drivers and MS updates installed Thanks Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329678
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    - Windows unable to see onboard LAN The other day i was upating various drivers and accidently uninstalled my network driver, now (for some reason) windows cannot even see this hardware in device manger. I cant seem reinstall drivers for this divce. Is there anyway to force seeing certian types of hardware ? Im using VIA type hardware. Thanks Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329677
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    - device manager when I plug in my mp3 to usb port (any port) it is recognized, but flashes on and off (like it is connecting and reconnecting), so I cannot uninstall via device manager. the message on the player is telling me it is a "boot error" and to format unit. I have gone through trouble shoot steps for the player including reset several times. any help or suggestions would be great! thanks in advance for anyone who can help! Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329673
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    - CD/DVD Drive I have a TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SN-S082D. The drive will not read any sort of disk. When I first got the laptop, it worked perfectly but after a while it would read or write any sort of C.D. However, it has now stoped reading DVD's aswell. Please Help... I really need this sorted. Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329671
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    - Partitioning New Drive? Hello, I just replaced my boot drive with a larger Seagate ATA 320 Gig 16 MB cache on a five year old computer. I used Seagate Tools to copy my old boot drive to my new drive and all went well. I can now boot from the new drive. My Computer shows 388 Gigs of Free Space with WinXP Pro SP2 taking up 10 Gigs for a total of 298 Gigs. Disk Manager shows one large partition in healthy condition. I would like to partition the drive to have a second partition at the end. Essentially I want to divide the drive in half so I have a C and D drive. My old drive has a drive D that has all my programs on it and I want to copy that onto a new partition on the new drive. However, when I run the partitioning program from Seagate Tools, it says that there is no free space. Does anyone know what I should do to get a partition going on the new drive? Thanks, Bob Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329664
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    - old video card compatibility hey all, do you think an old video card i was using in a pc back when win98 was popular would work in my new pc now? i'd like to add a 2nd video card for dual monitors. thanks, rodchar Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329662
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    - Testing Memoty I think that my laptop has a memory problem. Is there any way to test that with the utilities or what ever is included in XP Pro SP2? -- Rick Fargo, ND N 46°53'251" W 096°48'279" Remember the USS Liberty http://www.ussliberty.org/ Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329644
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    - com port only works in xp using vmware with w98 i have an old pc with windows 98 running connected to a device via com port. everything works great. now, i replaced that with a new pc running XP and i cant get it working through com port. done all i can remember, slowing down baud rate on xp, tweaking in bios, etc etc. so i installed vmware on that machine, created a new virtual machine and installed w98. it connects great as before. but what i want is to comunicate natively in xp, not having to use xp->vmware->w95 has anyone has any idea? Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329642
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    - Trouble in the Dell How wise is a complete reinstallation of WinXP on a Dell Dimension (DIM 2400) via the Symantec Dell PC System Restore (which the manual says on p.43 is "only as a last resort . . ." ? Problem is ultra-slow operation (apparently not caused by firewall, AV software etc.) I suspect damage to the hard drive but am uncertain whether the cause is drivers (software) or hardware malfunction. Evidence: 1. ScanDisk of C:\ would not complete. I was surprised to see the GUI console reported: -- one small FAT32 drive (no drive letter) 30 Mb -- one normal drive C: NTFS about 38 Gb. 2. DOS CHKDSK /F reports Fixed 2 corrupt attribute records. Cannot continue in read-only mode. (This is not because I logged on as user, not as administrator, is it?) 3. I downloaded 25 March new Dell diagnostics DELLDIAG.EXE This runs in a DOS box but fails to execute, reporting "memory protection fault" I have so far failed to find in either the printed manual or Dell documents on line either "memory protection fault" or any reference to the hard drive being in "read-only mode" or any mention of FAT32 drives. The PC remains cripplingly slow. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329641
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    - CPU's Ok what's the difference between CPU's? Not AMD or Intel, but say a E8400 and Xeon E3110? Both are Wolfdale cores but the E3110 says "Server" on the box. Looking at the spec's they look the same except for the voltage requirements. So I guess my real question is what's the difference between a desk top CPU and a Server Cpu? Are they inter-changeable? Will games suffer because the CPU is designed for a server? Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329638
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    - Flash drive/memory stick freezes my computer I just bought a flash drive for my WinXP SP2 Home edition. As soon as I inserted it, my computer froze and locked up. I've tried it in all my additional USB ports and it remains the same. Even if I insert it prior to boot up, Windows stops and freezes. My webcam works fine and the memory stick light comes on, but the `New Hardware Detected' indicator doesn't even show. I don't have anything else taking up USB ports other than my webcam. I've tried it in other computers, other than my own, and it worked fine on them. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling all my USBs. I've tried almost everything. Can anybody please solve this mystery? This seems to be a mystery, which nobody seems to have an answer for????? Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329633
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    - Windows XP Media suddenly stopped recognizing hardware devices Windows XP Media suddenly stopped recognizing hardware devices. I have yellow question marks on my camera card readers, my dvd burner and my flatbed scanner. All worked a t one time. Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329629
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    - help with laptop to desktop hard drive adapter I just bought one of these and it connects to the laptop HD no problem but now I still can't connect it to my desktop because it isn't missing that one pin in the middle of them all so I can't hook it up to my current ata cable unless I wanted to do something stupid and pull out the one pin. I've never even seen a pata cable that doesn't have the middle pin filled in. Lets say for example that the row on the hard drive that is missing the pins is the top row. There are 21 pins on the top row and 22 pins on the bottom row. On the adapter there are 20 pins on each row, and if you are looking at the pins straight on, then there are 2 wires red and black on the right side (red wire is top row, black wire is bottom row). I don't want to pull the pin on the top row but is a PATA cable that has the all the pin holes? Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329624
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    - Corrupted drives I was wondering if anyone knew why my external western digital drives (500GB) always end up "corrupted". We use all XP stations at work and somehow XP corrupts the drives so we can no longer access them, delete the partition- reformat...it pretty much kills our drives. Does anyone know what causes these corruptions? Thanks Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329622
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    - Any way to get my data back? My Maxtor EHD Personal Storage 3200 is not given a drive letter and I can't access it, though it is shown as Disk 1 in Drive Management. (right clicking to allocate a drive letter not an option, it's not there). It worked finer a couple of weeks ago on an XP machine in England (I'm in France). Then I got a new Vistas PC and it wouldn't work with that, but would still work with the XP Pro machine. Now I'm here it doesn't work in either a desktop or laptop both running XP Home edition. I started to run Seagates File Recovery programme. After 24 hours it had only scanned 20%. It's unlikely to go for 5 days without needing booting as I need it for work. Disk Management is showing Disk 1 unknown 279.47 Gb Not initialised. Unallocated. How can I get to my data.? Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329615
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    - adding a KB with "hot keys" I recently added a Firefly Borealis illuminated keyboard (hardware) to my system. I loaded in the included driver (CD) and get a message that "mHotkey.exe has encountered a problem and must close (etc.)". the result is that, though the KB works, the hot key functions do not ... excepting the standby or shut down hot key. I've uninstalled & then re-installed the drivers to no avail. anyone know how I can get this KB to work properly with my system? thanks! Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329605
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    - 4 monitors Hi, I would like to have 4 monitors setup on my new PC with windows XP Pro. 2 above the other 2. What is the best Graphics card and computer setup for this. This is for checking the markets (not gaming) Thanks Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329597
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    - Clock Won't Stay set I have had to reinstall my OS lately. sicne them my clock will not stay set set in the BIOS or by the clock setting. It whats to jump ahead always two hours. the time zone is correct, a new BIOS has been installed. all dirvers are up todate and working. the clock will just not stay set. I hae used a Time sync and still have to manuall sync everytime i open up the computer and log on, any ideas for me NavyRet69 Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329593
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    - processors information 64-bit Microprocessors http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/64-bit-microprocessors.html How Microprocessors Work http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-microprocessors-work.html Multi-microprocessors http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/multi-microprocessors.html Pre-PC Microprocessor History http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/pre-pc-microprocessor-history.html Microprocessors http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/microprocessors.html transformar http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/transformar.html Computer power supply http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/computer-power-supply.html power supply http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/power-supply.html Electrical power supplies http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/electrical-power-supplies.html UTP Cable Tester http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/utp-cable-tester.html UTP Cable http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/utp-cable.html Data storage device http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/data-storage-device.html storage devices http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/storage-devices.html Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329592
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    - processors information 64-bit Microprocessors http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/64-bit-microprocessors.html How Microprocessors Work http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-microprocessors-work.html Multi-microprocessors http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/multi-microprocessors.html Pre-PC Microprocessor History http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/pre-pc-microprocessor-history.html Microprocessors http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/microprocessors.html transformar http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/transformar.html Computer power supply http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/computer-power-supply.html power supply http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/power-supply.html Electrical power supplies http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/electrical-power-supplies.html UTP Cable Tester http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/utp-cable-tester.html UTP Cable http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/utp-cable.html Data storage device http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/data-storage-device.html storage devices http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/storage-devices.html Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329591
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    - Com Ports Unavailable I need to use 2 com ports in the com1 to com4 range, and only com1 is in use, by my serial port. Device manager shows that com2, com3, and com4 are all in use, but they're not, unless my internal modem is using one of them. Even so, I should still have 2 available ports. I can't figure out what is using the other 2 com ports. How can I free them up? -- Thanks. Sammie Windows XP Home Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329576
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    - Application Disk Access My performance monitor shows the Avg. Disk Queue at the top and pages/sec and %processor at normal. Are there any utilities, MS or 3rd party that can display how heavy of a load each application or service is putting on the hard disk? Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329562
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    - Damaged partition My daughters laptop HDD seems to have suffered impact shock and partition has become damaged. I connected it to my desktop and after a time it shows in My computer but I cannot access the drive. Partition magic refuses to open when drive is connected to the desktop.She has some project work on this drive that is not backed up eleswhere.I know there are a myriad of software tools for recovering files etc but can someone recommend one that really works. Thanks for any suggestions. Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329555
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    - Com Port I am trying ot use a data trasfer program that has always worked flawlessly, but all of a sudden, it quit working and now says that my computer has no com port. I have checked the devise manager and the device manager says that the com port is functioning OK. What could be the problem? Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329547
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    - windows xp service pack 2 I would like to know what is causing my laptop to shut down very slow or not at all. I have to press the power button to shut it down. OS is Win XP sp2. Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329543
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    - Windows update causes printer to stop working correctly Fresh install of windows on a newly formatted hard-drive, always results in this same thing: I install Windows XP Pro on a newly formatted hard-drive, and attach the computer the the network's printer using the [Printers and Faxes] dialogbox. Everything (including printing) works fine before I do any Windows updates. Then I do all the windows updates (including SP2) and test again, now, the print dialogbox, takes 45 seconds (instead of about 1 second) to come up when the [print] menu item is selected, and the print job takes 45 seconds (instead of about 1 second) to begin printing after the [print] button of the print dialogbox is pressed. I have tried this same sequence over-and-over many times for the last six weeks. I always start with a newly formatted hard-drive and a fresh install of Windows XP Pro. What could be causing this? Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329541
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    - no dump file!!! I'm going ape shit. XP pro SP2 all latest patches. My asus a8n-sli deluxe system with an opteron 185 isn't giving me dumps or minidumps, even though I have them configured in SYSTEM PROPERTIES/ADVANCED/SETTINGS. I've got it set for a complete dump and event view logging. Nothing. Nada. I've had the BSOD about 5 times since I rebuilt the system earlier this month, and the last three or four didn't give me anything except the blue screen information. All my paging is on the root, set for 4GB fixed with 2GB ram, so there's no reason the dump shouldn't happen, unless the hardware has gone so teats up that it can't even dump. This really sucks, as I've found the dump files to be really helpful with WinDbg to isolate offending drivers. My last crash was 0x000000F4 (0X00000003, 0x89B45240, 0x89B453B4, 0x805D11F8) I've looked up about everything I can find relating to that error. It points to hardware, that's about it. I'm about to try swapping out half my ram, or perhaps running MEM386, or whatever it's called these days. Suggestions? (Yeah, I'm already working on an UBUNTU system...) tx pc Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329535
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    - Floppy drive inoperative after disconnect OK, I had to borrow the floppy drive cable from my Win XP machine to temporarily use on a friends PC (he didn't have a cable and we wanted to do a clean install of Windows 98.) When I put the cable back into my machine (Yes, it's connected properly!), the floppy (A:) drive is not recognized. The light on the front panel doesn't blink or anything. When I go into the BIOS setup, the order has (Removable Media) as the first choice, then my C: drive second. The A: drive does not appear in Windows Explorer nor does it appear in my device manager. Power cable is connected firmly, too. This seems like such a simple problem to fix but I'm stumped. Yes, I know there is the possibility that my floppy is smoked but really, all I did was turn off my machine, unplug the data cable and after a few hours use on another machine, plugged it back into my machine. Yes, I did power up my machine while the cable was out. Could this have caused XP to turn off looking for the floppy? -- Jim H. Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329532
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    - Unknown device Reloading xp on fujitsu lifebook afer a disaster and have 1 conflict remaining in device manager "ACPI\FU02B1\4&32D5oC2&0". No system disks so any help greatly appreciated.Thanks. Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329525
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    - OT: Test / fix MFT corrupted hard drive Last year, I "suffered" a MFT corrupted boot drive (c:) failure. Now, I am working on recovering may data and checking the drive this past month. I have connected the old IDE drive into a USB 2.0 drive enclosure and succesffully recover several files. Now I am trying to check the drive's "health" statsu (without any success yet.) The drive is a Maxtor (now Seagate) 120GB EIDE drive but most of the Maxtor tools can not seem to be chek it out. Where could find how to check it out or how can I check it out? Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329522
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    - EHD not given Drive letter but shows in Disk Management My Maxtor EHD Personal Storage 3200 is not given a drive letter and I can't access it, though it is shown as Disk 1 in Drive Management. (right clicking to allocate a drive letter not an option, it's not there). It worked finer a couple of weeks ago on an XP machine in England (I'm in France). Then I got a new Vistas PC and it wouldn't work with that, but would still work with the XP Pro machine. Now I'm here it doesn't work in either a desktop or laptop both running XP Home edition. I started to run Seagates File Recovery programme. After 24 hours it had only scanned 20%. It's unlikely to go for 5 days without needing booting as I need it for work. Disk Management is showing Disk 1 unknown 279.47 Gb Not initialised. Unallocated. How can I get to my data.? Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329519
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    - Retrieving Documents and Settings data when XP/NTFS denies access. A Western Digital SATA (system)drive suddenly failed SMART and I replaced it and re-installed everything. Chkdsk attempts to fix it but always gets stuck at a certain point. When attached as another internal drive or hooked up via USB I can see and managed to retrieve everything else I needed on the drive. However, my (admin) account, within Documents and Settings, is reported as not accessible - access denied. I have a lot of pictures etc on there and was hoping there was some way I can bypass this and retrieve them. I've tried everything I can think of and believe it's a Windows XP / NTFS thing. Can I convert it to FAT and then get these files? Any help greatly appreciated, Tony Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329517
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    - HP Pavilion 524w's hang ups/lock ups. =A0 Will be much indebted if a good techie/soul could give me useful insights as to these endless hang ups/lock ups from my HP Pavilion 524w ... because I just can't function; PC is my CentCom.=A0 Believe or not, have been putting up with this crap for nearly three (3) months now.=A0 Argh!=A0 =A0 =A0 SYMPTOMS=A0 =BB The first sign of future hang ups --though these may still be hours ahead-- is that after each boot up, the mouse pointer is jerky the very first time one moves it.=A0 It jumps anywhere from 1/4" to 2" or so from its initial position (from wherever it landed after boot up) to whatever direction I'm pointing it to.=A0 Note it only does this one time initially at the beginning of the session until the next boot up.=A0 From then onwards during any given session, the mouse is as smooth as expected at all times.=A0 This behavior occurs regardless of the mouse used, either a Microsoft PS3 or a Microsoft wireless USB.=A0 =BB Freezings occur when using any software that needs to scan.=A0 The worst are antivirus online scanning but lock ups also ocurr when copying large files say, above, 50 MBs.=A0 =BB Just as successful in freezing the machine is any software that gets in the registry, such as various either online or installed cleaning utilities.=A0 Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool sure does it, for example.=A0 =BB Anything that uses ActiveX and/or web-rize bloated sites with Flash this, Schockwave that, etc., like Huffington Post or eBay, for example, can easily cause lock ups.=A0 =BB When lock ups get bad enough, sometimes there are checksum errors on boot up in which case the default BIOS configuration is reloaded.=A0 =BB After repeated and increasing crashes, the behavior of disk scanning when rebooting changes even in this semi-DOS environment.=A0 This is when running disk scanning from Start -> Run -> chkdsk c: /f -- the bootup drive on the primary master, and chkdsk e: /f --a logical drive on the same HD.=A0 First one gets the standard full 10 seconds to escape if one wants, then suddenly it starts giving me only 5 sec., then ... no option to escape no matter how much the [Esc] key is tapped on.=A0 The text allowing the user to escape is dropped altogether, gone, and repeatedly pressing the [Esc] key doesn't abort it.=A0 =BB After repeated and increasing crashes, another example of changes of behaviors is the sequencing of these check disks pass the BIOS screen and about the time Windows itself begins to load.=A0 =BB The only way out from these hang ups is to turn the machine off, patiently wait for a minute, then restart it.=A0 After repeated and increasing crashes, another example of changing processes is that the machine restarting by itself, anywhere from a couple to 10 secs, to 30 to 40 secs later than powering it off.=A0 When it happens repeatedly, the only way to stop it from restarting all alone is power it off after the lock up, then quickly unplug the power cord from the surge protector.=A0 My new power supply doesn't have an on/off button.=A0 =BB For short periods of time, PROBLEMS SEEM NON-EXISTENT (i.e., machine seemingly works regularly, even flies) after re-installing XP Pro, which I have done twice already.=A0 Soon enough, anywhere from 5 hrs to as much as 30 hrs later, freezings begin to ocurr and, from that point onwards, things get worse at an increasing rate.=A0 It is not only the frequency of lock ups, but also how bad the machine crashes.=A0 =BB ONE THING MAYBE POINTING TO THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM IS FOOLING AROUND WITH THE MEMORY MODULES though, by now, don't think it's got anything to do w/ the modules themselves.=A0 About 3 1/2 yrs ago replaced the original 256 MB single module with 2 x 1 GB modules, also PC2100 ... and this puppy took off, literally, right there and then.=A0 Modules worked fine ever since.=A0 =BB THE LAST OTHER THING MAYBE ... is fresh Win XP reinstalls.=A0 See also possible solutions below.=A0 =BB But the one telling bitty, every time around, is that jerky mouse only at the beginning of each session until, in time, hang ups begin all over again.=A0 =A0 =A0 BIT OF HARDWARE BACKGROUND=A0 =BB For reference, about a couple of months problems started, successfully changed the power supply from the original paltry 200 watts to some 350 W, may a tad more, and the heatsink/fan cooler assembly.=A0 =BB Moreover, when the lock ups first began, the original 57 GB Samsung SV0602H hard disk drive was only reading and writing at half its specs but, even then, appreciated HP putting in there.=A0 It would simply not quit, allowing more than enough time to research and get a replacement. Equally importantly, it also allowed me to save all my data intact on a logical drive on my current HD, a 115 GB Maxtor 6L120P0.=A0 Is it possible that not replacing it right away could have caused these lock ups (or spoiled something at a very low level or upstream, if you will)?=A0 Because the state of the old hard disk was so bad, at the time I blamed it all to the drive.=A0 It never occurred to me that, simultaneously, the lock ups were due to something else.=A0 =A0 =A0 POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS?/Other already tried ...=A0 The following 2 bullet points should narrow down whereabouts the problem is but I'm unable to pin it down myself since I'm no techie;=A0 =BB First, whenever re-installing Win XP anew, things go very smoothly for a a while.=A0 =BB Second, fooling around with the memory modules is another that seems to take good care of things.=A0 For a while, PC can't run any better.=A0 From about 2 1/2 months ago trying to narrow down these hang ups, lately I pulled out the modules and then put them back in place.=A0 Also tried swapping them around, or taking of one or another and leaving the other memory bank empty.=A0 Just to make sure these two (2) 1 GB PC2100 were not the problem, replaced them both with the one original HP 256 MB module.=A0 Every time I fooled around with the memory, the machine behaved as if there no problems at all, again even flies, but only holds anywhere from 5 hrs to as much as 30 hrs.=A0 All three (3) modules passed Microsoft's Windows Memory Diagnostic test tool with flying colors.=A0 In the off the wall case problesh have anything to do with memory timming specs differences, this week changed to a new pair of 1 GB PC 3200 Samsung modules.=A0 OTHER SOFTWARE;=A0 =BB Already tried Microsoft's Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset.=A0 Problem is it relies on dump files it needs for analysis ... but my system hasn't got any!=A0 This is, when the machine hang ups, it just hangs up, right there and then.=A0 Have yet to see a single blue screen of death.=A0 Wish that was on the way down so, maybe, there'd be dump archives around.=A0 =BB Independently, Dr. Watson informs me all is swimmingly well whenever I run it.=A0 =A0 Machine was working fine indeed with old software when the lock ups began.=A0 Still, in the search for solutions updated some HP and VIA software as follows (not being all inclusive here; there's a lot more I have done);=A0 =BB The old BIOS was Phoenix Technologies version AM37307 but was replaced with the package from HP and now is the AM37320 (08-01-23) Phoenix Technologies.=A0 When booting up it reads BIOS core revision V6.0, BIOS revision 3.20 08/01/2003, system BIOS supplier: Award.=A0 The update no difference at all, not an iota, as to the freezings and was sorry to run it because functionality to end users is even more constrained than the old one.=A0 For example, cannot turn off the video shadowing.=A0 =BB Installed and run a couple of times the IDE Tool VIA_IDE_MPD_V320b.zip found at;=A0 http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=3D420&OSID=3D1&CatID=3D1180&SubC= atID=3D115=A0 and apparently the same package posted at;=A0 http://www.whitebunny.net/hardware/chipset_via.html=A0 leading to actual download page at;=A0 http://www.whitebunny.net/download?file=3Dmbd_via_ide_3.20b.zip=A0 Not sure why they call it the VIA IDE Miniport Driver but in any event this IDE Tool allowed me to run the primary and secondary drives on the max PIO modes my hardware allows.=A0 When doing so, the drives would be listed as SCSI in the Device Manager.=A0 Other than running perceptibly slower, it made no difference again so, presently, I'm back on the max DMA modes my drives are capable of.=A0 By the way, the front side bus jumper on the motherboard is properly placed at FSB 133.=A0 =BB Installed the Retro Chipset VIA 4in1 drivers VIA_4in1_443v.zip package found at;=A0 http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=3D420&OSID=3D1&CatID=3D1070=A0 Turns out that "retro" bit on the title is no mis-name.=A0 Drivers were older than a good many already in my system!=A0 I guess it served to prove that none of the newer drives I happen to have in my system -- via Microsoft updates beginning with XP SP2, I suppose-- were causing the hang ups because ... they continued unabated.=A0 Aargh!=A0 Same package can also be downloaded at;=A0 http://www.whitebunny.net/hardware/chipset_via.html=A0 leading to actual download page at;=A0 http://www.whitebunny.net/download?file=3Dmbd_via_4in1_4.43v.zip=A0 the version recommended for my PC.=A0 There is also a newer version named mbd_via_4in1_4.55vp1.zip=A0 =BB Though my old Iomega ZIP 250 drive (still there for legacy compatibility) has been disconnected for a good many months given all these problems, I installed the VIA Latency Patch mbd_via_ide_3.20b.zip listed at;=A0 http://www.whitebunny.net/hardware/chipset_via.html=A0 leading to actual download page at;=A0 http://www.whitebunny.net/download?file=3Dmbd_via_ide_3.20b.zip=A0 You know the drill by now.=A0 Made no difference ...=A0 =BB The last update package to be installed was the VIA Hyperion Pro Driver Package via_hyperionpro_v515a.zip downloaded from;=A0 http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=3D420&OSID=3D1&CatID=3D1070=A0 Somehow, even intuitively, it seemed to have the machine running smoothly but, all previous, ...=A0 Grrr!, short of voodoo, don't know what else to resort to, honest.=A0 =A0 =A0 MACHINE SPECS=A0 =46rom the back sticker;=A0 HP Pavillion 500=A0 HW BOM 05+1211=A0 SW BOM NA92=A0 System number: DB280A=A0 Serial # MX25026882=A0 windows XP Home Ed. (currently XP Pro SP2, build 2600)=A0 Product Key: HCTVC-2HFXF-PBQGP-FPJV3-G2G6M=A0 System Info=A0 Model: HP/Compaq Pavilion 524w=A0 Chassis Type: Desktop=A0 Processor=A0 Number Of Processors: 1=A0 Type: AMD Athlon XP 2100+=A0 Processors Bus Speed: 267 MHz=A0 Package: Socket A (AMD A/462 the same as Athlon 64?)=A0 Manufacturer Codename: Palomino=A0 Clock Speed: 1732 MHz=A0 Clock Multiplier: 13.0=A0 Front Side Bus (FSB) Speed: 267 MHz=A0 L2 Cache Size: 256 KBytes Stepping : A5=A0 Trace Width: 0.18=A0 Microcode: Not Available=A0 Instruction Sets: MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE=A0 Motherboard=A0 Motherboard reads VIA AM37=A0 HP/Compaq name: Salsa=A0 Motherboard Supplier: FIC (me: VIA Arena ... Albatron?)=A0 Motherboard Name: AM37=A0 Form Factor: uATX Processor Brand: AMD Processor Socket Type: socket-A (PGA462) ---------=A0 Chipset Name: VIA KM266, or VIA P4M266/KM266 (North Bridge: VT8375), rev. 00=A0 Chipset North Bridge: VT8375, Revision/stepping A1=A0 Chipset South Bridge: VT8235 Super I/O: ITE-IT8705F=A0 OLD BIOS manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies, LTD=A0 Bios Version : AM37307=A0 Flash BIOS Device: Xbus 2 Mbit=A0 ---------=A0 NEW, UPDATED version: AM37320 (08-01-23) Phoenix Technologies, LTD=A0 or another way to state it, apparently, when booting up;=A0 BIOS core rev. V6.0=A0 BIOS revision: 3.20 08/01/2003=A0 System BIOS Supplier: Award =A0 Memory=A0 Total RAM Installed : 2048 MB=A0 Type : DDR DIMM PC2100=A0 Used RAM Slots: 2 of 2=A0 Memory Bus Frequency: 133 MHz=A0 Memory Timings: 2.5-2-2-6=A0 Memory Speed: PC2100/PC1600=A0 Memory Sockets: 2 DIMM Maximum Memory: 2 GB Ethernet 10/100 LAN, supplier: Realtek RTL8100L Ethernet Configuration: PCI, Down IDE UDMA Modes: ATA-100/66/33=A0 Expansion Slots (AGP/PCI/Exten): AGP, 3 PCI USB Ports: 6 USB 2.0=A0 USB Front/Back Options: 2F+4B=A0 =A0 Peripherals=A0 USB Version : 2.0=A0 =A0 Graphics=A0 Model: S3 AGP S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR=A0 AGP Speed: Not Available=A0 Brand: 1509=A0 Slot: AGP=A0 GPU Core: Not Available=A0 GPU Speed: Not Available=A0 Video Ram Size: 29 MB=A0 Video Ram Type: Not Available=A0 Video Ram Speed: Not Available=A0 Driver Version: 6.14.10.25=A0 DirectX Installed: Version 9.0c=A0 Available Slot: AGP 2.0=A0 ---------=A0 Graphics Supplier: VIA=A0 Graphics Configuration: Down, In Chipset Onboard Graphics Memory: UMA 64 MB=A0 Graphics Connector (AGP): AGP 4X (1.5V only)=A0 TV-Out Device: No=A0 TV-Out Configuration: N/A=A0 Audio: AC'97 Down=A0 AC'97 CODEC Device: Realtek ALC201=A0 Audio Jacks (Mic,Line-In,Line-Out,Spkr,MIDI/Game): M,LI,LO,SO=A0 M: Microphone LI: Line In LO: Line out=A0 SO: Speaker=A0 M/G: Midi/Game=A0 ---------=A0 See more specs from HP at;=A0 http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=3Dbph07941&lc=3Den&cc=3D= us&lang=3Den&product=3D296667&dlc=3Den=A0 including picture and map from the motherboard, and more.=A0 =A0 If you kept reading this far down, bless your patience.=A0 =A0 =A0 H.=A0 =A0 Amsterdam=A0 Netherlands=A0 =A0 Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329515
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    - Movie DVD not seen. Hi, I have the following problem, when i want to play an orignal/bought movie on my Laptop nothing happends. The DVD is not seen by explorer and not by any of my DVD programs, not even by Nero or AnyDvd. The DVD plays ok in a standard DVD player... and the Laptop player/burner can read other DVD's. What's going on? protection? regio code? TIA S. Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329510
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    - CD intermitent on new XP Pro install I posted a similar question several weeks ago but at that time it appeared that the issue was a faulty system disk. I have replaced the drive and reinstalled XP again for the umpteenth time and the issue is back. Details follow: I have a LiteOn CD writter (IDE 1, master) and a Memorex DVD writter (IDE 1, slave) on the computer. Both drives worked properly before I started having system disk issues. Both drives also show up as working properly in the device manager and I've "uninstalled" the LiteOn and let windows reinstall it using the MS drivers. Prior to the uninstall/reinstall it worked one or two times reading a CD for use in installing a program. I've run CDCHECK on both drives and gotten back an error 21 (not ready) for both. I suspected NIS 2008 might be an issue but I get the same results in safe mode. Any thoughts on how to get either drive working would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Zoltan Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329505
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    - Monotor won't display 16:9 (only 4:3) I have the following Video card ATI Technologies Inc. 3D RAGE IIC AGP and a BlueH H19W (16:9) monitor. The monitor only displays as a 4:3. There are black vertical lines to the left and right of the screen. The driver I have installed is a Microsoft 5.1.2535.0 for the video card, and the driver that came with the monitor. I cannot locate a driver for the video card on any web site to see if that rectifies the problem. I don't know if it would. Note I can only manage to set the screen resolution to a maximum of 1024 by 768. Anything higher and I get a message saying input signal out of range Don't know if this is relevant. Can you provide me with assistance. Thanks in advance. Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329488
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    - FLASH DRIVE FREEZES MY PC I just bought a flash drive for my WinXP SP2 Home edition. As soon as I inserted it, my computer froze and locked up. I've tried it in all my additional USB ports and it remains the same. Even if I insert it prior to boot up, Windows stops and freezes. My webcam works fine and the memory stick light comes on, but the `New Hardware Detected' indicator doesn't even show. I don't have anything else taking up USB ports other than my webcam. I've tried it in other computers, not my own, and it worked fine. This seems to be a mystery, which nobody seems to have an answer for????? NO SILLY ANSWERS PLEASE Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329487
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    - PLEASE Help. HARDDRIVE GONE. Hey everyone -- trying not to panic here. I have windows XP. I have 2 harddrives -- the C drive, which is the original drive that came with my computer, and the F drive, a 250 gig internal drive I installed a while back. I turned on my computer today and the F drive is gone. It's not showing up in explorer, in disk manager, and any files I try to find on it are gone. This drive had everything on it...I have no clue why it's not showing up. I restarted my computer 3 times. I don't know what else to do. Thank you so much. -Jordan Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329454
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    - "USB Device Not Recognized" in USB2 ports but is recognized on USB1 I bought a new USB2 PCI card and am having some problems using it. I've plugged it in alright and I'm able to successfully plug in a USB optical mouse into each external USB port on the PCI card and it works in each and every one of them. Same thing with a 128MB USB stick. Both of these also work in the USB1 ports I have on the front of the computer. The problem I'm experiencing occurs when I try to plug a USB HDD enclosure into the USB2 ports. It works just fine in the USB1 ones (the computer reacts much as it would when a USB stick is inserted into it). When I plug it into the USB2 ports, I get the following error: ---------------------------- USB Device Not Recognized One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, click this message. I click on it and get a useless "Try reconnecting the device. If Windows still does not recognize it, replace the device." ---------------------------- My question is... why? Why would something be recognized by USB1 ports but not by USB2 ports added by a PCI card? I'm running Windows XP SP2. Tag: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors Tag: 329452

is there a way to have the start bar on both monitors when extend your
monitor is used?

Re: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors by M

M
Fri Mar 28 05:44:15 PDT 2008

"PAR" <PAR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AEEAA5B2-557B-40F2-BEB8-5FF19792DB90@microsoft.com...
> is there a way to have the start bar on both monitors when extend your
> monitor is used?

Not the start button, but the task bar can be extended across both monitors.
In fact it is the Windows default configuration, but manufactrurer's drivers
aften change this. As to how to do it? You will have to refer to your
graphic card manual for this, though many configuration screens make it
obvious when you open them.

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Re: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors by DL

DL
Fri Mar 28 07:21:54 PDT 2008

IMO you will find that config. a royal pain in the butt

"PAR" <PAR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AEEAA5B2-557B-40F2-BEB8-5FF19792DB90@microsoft.com...
> is there a way to have the start bar on both monitors when extend your
> monitor is used?

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Re: Start Bar and Multiple Monitors by Ed

Ed
Fri Mar 28 10:49:33 PDT 2008

> Not the start button, but the task bar can be extended across both
> monitors. In fact it is the Windows default configuration, but
> manufactrurer's drivers aften change this. As to how to do it? You will
> have to refer to your graphic card manual for this, though many
> configuration screens make it obvious when you open them.

My nVidia card can configure two monitors as one very
large one - vertical or horizontal. If horizontal, the task
bar stretches acroos the two monitors. In this mode,
a maximized app occupies both monitors.

Or it can configure the two monitors independantly as
two desktops: #1, #2. The windows default desktop,
(which includes the taskbar) is displayed on monitor #1.
(Although the #1 & #2 monitors can be easily swapped).
In this mode, a maximized window occupies only one
monitor.

Ed

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