Search results

  1. L

    XP network printing problem

    I have a shared printer on my main computer that I am having trouble printing to from my laptop. When I print from the laptop it shows up in the print que on the main computer, but doesnt print, even after an hour of waiting. When I reboot the main computer though, it always starts printing...
  2. L

    Free 28 Volt Milwaukee tool with purchase of one.

    http://www.milwaukeetool.com/us/en/news...CF456FC46862570FA007EEA22?OpenDocument Right now if you buy a 28 volt sawzall, hammer-drill, band saw, circular saw, or impact wrench kit, Milwaukee tool will send you a free circular saw, hammer-drill, sawzall, or impact wrench. The price is a...
  3. L

    Wierd IE and messenger problem

    For some reason IE and messenger aren't able to see my internet connection in my default account. Firefox and any other internet app works fine, and IE and messenger work fine when I log in to my guest account. Anyone have any clue what is happening?
  4. L

    Celeron M 340 or 350?

    340 is 1.5ghz with 512kb cache (banias core) 350 is 1.3ghz with 1mb cache (whatever the new cores name is) Which one is going to be a better processor and why. With they have a difference in battery life? Does the increased cache offset the lower speed?
  5. L

    backup/syncing software

    Right now I have a media box. I have all my MP3s and movies on the HDD of my main computer, and a copy of it all on my media box. Whenever I add MP3s or movies it is done from my main computer, but then this requires me to manually add them to the media box. Is there a descent program...
  6. L

    Replacement for Abander Tagcontrol?

    I'm trying to tag my music collection (most of my stuff was ripped before I had internet). I've been using Abander Tagcontrol 2 because it let me get all the info and album covers right from amazon.com. Now my free trial ran out and I don't really want to spend $20 to finish the last half of...
  7. L

    Nforce2 micro-atx boards

    Is there any Nforce2 micro-ATX boards in existance with the MCP-D chipset? Or do they all have the useless software audio? I know some Asus Nforce board had it, but required a riser which I can't fit in my the case I am going to use, and I need USB2 anyways.
  8. L

    DHCP client service fails to load.

    I'm trying to get my sisters computer to work on broadband (it has always been on dialup) and have noticed it wont grab an IP address. I've been digging around and noticed the DHCP server client fails to load. Every other service starts, but it tells me a group or service that it depends on...
  9. L

    DCC transfers crash computer

    I've been having this problem that my computer has been freezing hard once in a while. It took me a bit to track it down, but it is only when I have a DCC transfer going, otherwise my computer is completely stable. Has anyone heard of this? Do I have a networking problem?
  10. L

    Grr, XP folders

    How do I get it so when I am in a folder and right-click, select arrange by, it shows me the nice default with arrange by name, size, and modified. My stupid music folder keeps giving me the huge list that shows crap like song title, album, etc, but no "modified"
  11. L

    Video Transcoder?

    Anyone know what I would need to get my nforce motherboard to spit out 480i over component cables? Im kinda lost on all the terminology and all the different things I have found on the net. I dont have an HDTV yet, but would like to do this with my current tv (toshiba PureFlat 20") The TV...
  12. L

    D-sub to component/interlacing?

    I have heard of D-sub to component video cables, these do exist right? Anyways, if so, can I hook my media computer up to my TV(which has component inputs, but is not HD, so no progressive scan)? Is there anything in the Nforce display drivers that would let me do this? Or am I stuck using the...
  13. L

    good 875 board for overclocking

    I need a reasonably priced 875 board that I can do a little overclocking on. I dont care about extra features, just stability. I need something other than an IC7 as I have been having tons of trouble with them and want an alternative.
  14. L

    Who knows about windbg

    Please dont lock this, I have yet to find anyone in other forums that know anything about windbg and hope that someone in here knows how to use it. Ok, I have been haveing bunches of driver errors and I finally decided to get windbg to look at the dump files. Here is part of the dump file...
  15. L

    Question using windows debugger.

    Ok, I have been haveing bunches of driver errors and I finally decided to get some tools to look at the dump files. Here is part of the dump file: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (7e) This is a very common bugcheck. Usually the exception address pinpoints the driver/function that caused...
  16. L

    Help with windows savedump files

    Hello, I have been having instability for months and have tried everything to sort it out. The errors I get when I reboot are always pretty much the same, upon submitting them to microsoft they tell me a device driver caused the error, but dont give me anymore info. I downloaded Windbg and...
  17. L

    Please help me, almost ready to burn my computer.

    I purchased an IC7, 2.4C, and 256 of ram as an upgrade recently, well i guess not recently anymore, it has to have been about a month, and I haven't gotten it to run stabily yet. I have returned the board, got rid of all overclocking, reinstalled windows about a trillion times, checked for...
  18. L

    wireless probem, maybe xp related?

    bout a month ago I bought an abit IC7 and a P4 2.4C. Put it all together, but had a little problem with my wireless nic, a d-link airplus 802.11b. When I first install the card as per directions, i get little freezes for about 3-5 seconds and then it will unfreeze for 3-5 seconds and keep...
  19. L

    wireless trouble

    bout a month ago I bought an abit IC7 and a P4 2.4C. Put it all together, but had a little problem with my wireless nic, a d-link airplus 802.11b. When I first install the card as per directions, i get little freezes for about 3-5 seconds and then it will unfreeze for 3-5 seconds and keep...
  20. L

    Wireless Nic causing system instability

    I have had this D-link wireless card for a while in my last system with no problems, but now that I got an IC7 it seems to make my system totally unstable. Whenever it isnt connected to a network, or trying to connect to one I get long freezes. This happens a lot when I first boot up and it is...
  21. L

    Wireless Nic causes board to crash?

    I have had this D-link wireless card for a while in my last system with no problems, but now that I got an IC7 it seems to make my system totally unstable. Whenever it isnt connected to a network, or trying to connect to one I get long freezes. This happens a lot when I first boot up and it is...
  22. L

    IC7 and wireless network card crashes.

    I have had this D-link wireless card for a while in my last system with no problems, but now that I got an IC7 it seems to make my system totally unstable. Whenever it isnt connected to a network, or trying to connect to one I get long freezes. This happens a lot when I first boot up and it is...
  23. L

    Safe P4 temps?

    What kinda temps should I be getting under load in an overclocked 2.4C? right now with two instances of cpu burn-in running and maxing out my usage at 100% I am hitting 49. Is much higher safe? I dont know much about Intel stuff, always been an amd guy.
  24. L

    Burning in CPU

    What is a good program to test out my P4 overclock. Every program I have tried only maxes out one "processor" of my hyperthreaded chip. Is there any that will run multithreaded and max both out?
  25. L

    USB 2.0 question

    My case has front usb, but they are from before USB 2.0 came out. I looked and they have the same pinout as the header on my new motherboard(which has usb 2.0). Will these work on this header, and if so will they run at usb 2.0 speeds?
  26. L

    Help Compiling Linux Kernel

    I am running Redhat 9 with the stock 2.4.20-8 kernel. I want to stick on the 2.4.21 kernel, but keep the same settings as the old kernel when i compile. Is there a way I can keep the same settings from my 2.4.20-8 kernel without going through and setting each option? I know when Redhat does...
  27. L

    Netgear MR814

    Anyone know anything about this router? I just bought one and dont know anything about it. What would be a good card to use with it? Can it do any of those tricks I have heard to get the rate up to 22 or 44mb/s?
  28. L

    802.11b support?

    are there any canterwood or springdale boards out there right now that come with 802.11b?
  29. L

    Help me decide.

    Ok, I need a new system. I use my system mainly for gaming, plus a little photoshop and other general stuff. I was kinda into overclocking back in the early Duron days, but since I got an XP1800 that couldnt overclock worth crap (when they first came out), I havent been into the overclocking...
  30. L

    Some easy questions for Linux guys.

    Ok, I have some questions which should show my extreme lack of linux knowledge. I have redhat 9.0, and to get the Nvidia graphics drivers to install, I need to have xserver closed. How do I close xserver? I do the Ctrl Alt Backspace thing, but it only stays closed for like a second, then pops...
  31. L

    Heatsink for P4

    Hi there, I am new to this whole P4 overclocking thing. I have always used AMD systems, but Intels superiour performance in the main game I play is prompting me to switch. I need some advice on a heatsink. I am getting a 2.6c P4 and an Abit IS7, my goal is to get it up to 250fsb which would...
  32. L

    Mozilla help Please!

    Hi I have just switched over to mozilla and I love it. One problem though is the email client and the irc client. I want to still use MIRC and Outlook, but now it changed my default to mozillas. How can I switch these back so that it uses mirc and outlook by default?
  33. L

    High performance Hard drive

    Does anyone remember the article that was posted, I think in the Anandtech news, about the ideal Ide harddrive setup? It was sometime earlier this summer, but I cant seem to find a link. I remember that it called for using 3 drives, but I dont remember the exact setup. I would really like to...
  34. L

    outlook xp on shared connection

    I have a shared dsl connection. My router is an old box running linux mandrake. How do I set up Microsoft Outlook to work over a shared connection? I recieve mail fine, but when I try to send mail I get "Undeliverable", what do I need to change. I could send mail fine from school where I was...
  35. L

    DVD crappy sound

    for some reason when I try to play a DVD the sound is super crackaly. The video is fine, but the audio is bad. I dont have this problem with VCDs. I have tried Windvd and Powerdvd, its the same on both. I have even tried different sound drivers. For some reason windows says it will only do...
  36. L

    nero permissions

    Anyone out there know how to let powerusers on XP burn with nero? There is this selection from the nero help: "Under Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 there must be a way to handle the security aspects of CD recording. CD premastering software like Nero must be able to send SCSI/IDE commands to...
  37. L

    xp, worst network os?

    How do I give a power user in windows XP permission to burn a cd? I dont want my little sister having full controll of her computer, but she needs to be able to burn cds.
  38. L

    outlook addressbook

    Where are the contacts saved in outlook xp? I need to stick them on another computer.
  39. L

    xp reinstall

    My windows xp install got screwed up and I need to reinstall it. I can still get into xp, I dont want to reformat cause I have a ton of stuff I want to save. I am going to try to install by copying the i386 directory to my hdd and running winnt32 right from windows. I i do new install, will...
  40. L

    dos boot disk cdrom

    How can I make a dos bootdisk on a cd with nero? I dont have a floppy and I need a pure dos bootdisk to fix some stuff and back up files.