Recent content by snakeyeis

No, I didn't mess up with time out values. Only system apps like regedit, task manager (ctrl-alt-del) ,command prompt etc automatically close after starting.

This may be something 'new'. After I installed DirectX 9.0, most of the system applications like Taskmanager, command prompt etc just start and in 1 or 2 secs automatically exit. In fact, I am not sure if the culprit is DirectX 9, but I must say that this problem started only after installing...

No, the * is not the part of the filename. And I haev already modified the permissions of the file before trying to execute. Just for your information, I have mandrake 9. And I one more observation to make. Out of curiosity, I browsed into the /usr dir and then to the games dir. In tha games...

Here is the problem. I have downloaded a particular binary from sourceforge, a cyberoam client and after I extract it and try to run it, it says command not found. Then when I do a ls, I get the executable displayed as follows : 24onlineClient* Upon consulting help, I find out that the * next...

This could be because of a particular service that may be running in the background of windows XP. Goto control panel, administrative option and then to services. Disable the IMAPI CD Burning feature. Mebbe this could be the problem. Let me know

Hello I would like to know if there is any company out there which produces addon Tv-Out video cards. The addon video-out should be compatuble with most video cards and should also support atleast 800x600. Are any of you guys aware of any such card?

Hello?? It anybody out there?????

I tried a 1000 watt step down. Still, it doesn't work. Let me give you a brief description of what happened. When I tried to switch on the Woofer after connecting the supply to the step down, it started humming. I wasn't sure what this humming was, so I switched it off. Then this funny thing...

I just bought a Logitech Z 560 system from the US through a friend. Since I live in India and I purchased the system from US, the power chord that came along with it was 110V. Now, the power here in India is 220V. So, I need some kind of a step down device. I tried a standard 220 to 110V step...

First of all, even I used to get the same "Page_FALUT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA " error. I am using both Win 2K and Win XP. My video card was a GeForce 2 Pro. But the solution wasn't even closely reated to hardware. I had installed AVG Antivirus and it was which caused the problem. Now, in the case of...

Well, it would be better if I could get a benchmark of P4 + RDRAM vs P4 + DDRAM. I live in India, and AMD's service sucks here!

Hi, I'm a bit confused about which RAM is the fastest out there. I have searched this site with no success for a head to head benchmark on the various types of memory. any one of u got links to a comparison between RDRAM, DDRAM and SDRAM ? More importantly DDRAM vs RDRAM?

Do the following 1. Delete the driver and reboot. See it XP detects it again and it works, else 2. Select Update driver, manually update and install any Win2k compatible driver (after selecting ignore in the device driver signing options) else 3. Select Update driver, manually update, don't...

OK, do this : Goto ctrlpanel, system, startup and recovery Click on "Edit" startup options manually Add this line under [operating systems] at the end like this : multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect Me think, this should get your...

All beta versions of windows expire. It was true even for Windows 95 and it is true for WinXP beta2 also. But I don't know when. Ususally its 6 months since the release of the beta. Regarding the differences, yes there are compatibily differences. Like Need For Speed 5, redline Racer, 4x4 evo...