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    Adding a Vista computer to a network

    As stated in my post my wifes XP computer works fine off the Trendnet switch. It was DSL Modem->Zonet switch -> 2 XP computer. Now DSL -> Zonet Router-> my XP Computer and to Trendnet switch branched to 1 XP (wifes desktop works) and to DenVista laptop(doesn't work) Vista laptop works when...
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    Adding a Vista computer to a network

    I have 2 XP Pro SP2 computers networked. Both link to a DSL modem via a Zonet broadband router/print server. This arrangement has worked fine for several years. My wife wanted to connect her laptop to the internet with a port in the den. So I put in a Trendnet switch in the basement by cutting...
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    Building an Audio Media Server

    Thanks for the suggestions. I downloaded Meedio and it looks nice on this PC is use for working at home etc. I've heard about some others I'm going to take for a test drive as well. I was also thinking of using a Linux OS. I'm looking at Dynebolic and Ubuntu for example. This would free up...
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    Building an Audio Media Server

    I am seriously considering building an Audio Media Server not a HTPC. I got my wife a Tivo a few years ago and she loves it and it works just fine. What I want is to make a server so I can copy all my CD's and maybe stream some audio and/or download. As work we just upgraded a bunch of...
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    Test for ieee 1394 firewire

    Looks good, says it is enabled. Still doesn't work.
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    Test for ieee 1394 firewire

    I have a homebuilt PC with a Aopen MOBO, 3gig Intel, XP Pro Sp2 that I biuld about 2 years ago. I have been using Adobe Premiere Element 1.0 sometimes on this computer but I hadn't edited or downloaded and video to it for about 6 months or used the firewire for anything else for that matter. A...
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    musical input to fractals?

    I've been looking at several different fractal programs. All are freeware or shareware. I would like to find something or some way to input audio signals to change the pattern. Thet is have the artwork "dance" to the music. I think I've seen this done before but I have no idea what I'm to call...
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    Letter 'T' not printing

    Here's one to ponder. I teach in a H.S. The yearbook class uses my computer lab room where we have installed Adobe Pagemaker. This class also published the monthly newspaper. The ran a proof copy of the newspaper to my room's printer and everything was fine. They then sent it,via the network...
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    Best card for CAD,Video,animation and photoshop?

    I Have a P4 3Gig on an Aopen MB with 200 gig HD, 1gig mem and AGP. Monitor is a 17" Princeton CRT. I do a lot with the normal Office products as well as Photoshop. I also do a lot of AutoCad and Solidworks. I am starting to get into some animation software and looking at Moho and Toon Boom. I...
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    Ghosts in the AC

    Yes the grinder does have a more complicated switch. I could be a torgue switch, You set the number of "cups" and it grinds different amounts but isnt all that accurate or consistent. The voltage surge from a ballast makes sense but doesn't explain the few times it went off without turning on...
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    Ghosts in the AC

    I've had some very strange things happening in my house. We have a coffee grinder in our kitchen. Lately, whenever anyone goes down into the basement where the pantry is, directly under the place where the coffee grinder is and turns on the overhead light, the grinder comes on. Its happened...
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    wireless to wired

    2 years ago we got a D-Link DL514 router (802.11 B) and the DWL reciever is in my wifes computer down stairs. We get very slow and poor reception at times. We've played with the location and antenna angle etc. and it still isn't all that fast and closes down too often. The equiment seams to be...
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    Windows installer missing

    I teach at a HS. Two of my computer's, with XP Pro now come up with "windows installer not found" when I try to delete or add new software. All computers in the lab are suppose to be the same. One had this condition for the last 2 months and now another one has it. All have Clean Slate...
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    Internet blocking

    Thanks to ssbpgsr. Your simple solution works. Our IT guy is a one man show with 5 building to service and well over a hundred computers to deal with and maintain the Website etc. No, I do not have authority to do too much. Our IT guy talked about setting something up but I know he'll never...
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    Internet blocking

    OK go to network settings, properties, TCP/IP propertiies (you need to right click) your get a drop down and a button that sayes "obtain DNS server address automatically" I thought if I just called it auto seek I could filter out the know nothings. Anyone who actually knows about networking...
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    for all you Bush converts

    Yes, I would gladly accept more pay. But the point is we can't push our students harder if we spend so much time worrying about the tests. My school is in the top bracket of test scores every year but we still have too many students who just can't THINK. The idea was that successful districts...
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    for all you Bush converts

    I never like junior and dislike him more each day. Because he is a WEAK leader. Yes weak. Notice most fo his admin speaches have the word 'strong' in them repeatedly. If you say it often enough people will think you are a strong leader or whatever. Just look at when no WMD were found in Iraq...
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    Internet blocking

    I am a high school Tech teacher with a room full of computers. I need the school network for much of our work but the internet is a total distraction and a source of all kinds of problems including viruses, adware and spyware. Yes we have virus protection but it must be constantly updated etc...
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    small(cheap)network

    I am the preschool's IT tech. (I work cheap). The school's total budget for EVERYTHING is less than $25K per year. Do you mean to suggest I should network the two computer (or three)? The new Dells are using XP Home and the Gateway has ME. I thought there was suppose to be a problem networking...
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    small(cheap)network

    My wife's preschool had a little $ left over and she bought two new Dells to replace some ancient ones she bought a few years ago for $20.00 each. She now has an 5 year old gateway and the 2 Dells. The kids will use two of them and she will use one for record keeping, newsletters etc. The other...
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    internet timeout

    signal strenghth is OK and about the same as the laptop, depending on where the laptop is at the time
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    internet timeout

    I have a home wireless network. The main computer works fine and my daughters laptop works fine but my wife's computer when on the internet times out as she is reading her mail or advancing to the next webpage or going to a link. This after only a few seconds. It doesn't only happen. she can be...
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    firewire CD-RW to USB

    I am a technology teacher in a HS that has been taken over by the state due to fiscal emergency(votes haven't approved a tax levy for 10years). At some point before I came 3 years ago someone bought or donated a Que firewire CD burner. Nice unit but useless since there is no firewire adapters on...
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    status 4096

    After all of the testiing, cable swapping etc. I finally went and got a different copy of XP pro.(we have a corp/educational lisence) and it worked like a charm. XP loaded with no difficulty, then MS Office had a problem. So I dug out an old CD-Rom I had and finished loading the software. The...
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    status 4096

    CD is fine. On another website I posted this problem and got a link to a similar problem and they suggested that the WD setup disk was make problems so I tried to re-format the HD. Thats when I discovered that the jumper settings on the HD itself are different that that on the WD CD setting...
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    sp 2 causing crash?

    My daughter 's laptop wasn't working for her at school. I brought it home and got it to work without much of a problem. I told her how to upgrade for XP pro and install SP 2 but she never did it. I did an adware scan and found a ton of junk and got rid of that. I then went to the MS website to...
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    Bad HD?

    Just on a hunch I took out the suspect computer, blew out the dust and then disconnected all the cables and reconnected them. I also took out the RAM and reseated them. Now it works fine.
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    Bad HD?

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    Bad HD?

    I am a HS teacher and one of my 12 classroom computers went out today. A student was just working away when the screen suddenly went blank and would not restart even though it had power. After school I got it to start to boot up wtith the beginning XP start up screen, then it would go dark for...
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    status 4096

    I am canabalizing a couple of different computers to make my wife a new one. I have an ECS P4S5MG/651+ Mobo with 512 Mb of ram and a 2 gig P4. I installed a new 400 watt PS and stripped out a NEC CD-rom from her old Dell and took a FD from an old HP. We got a new WD 80gig HD on sale so I've...
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    Change all to XP?

    My wifes computer , a Dell 333Mz with a 3 gig HD and 64 Meg and W98 is getting a little old. But she bought it for only $25 with the monitor so it hasn't been a bad investment. She teaches pre-school and uses thing s like Photoshop Elements and Printmaster a lot so the small 3 gig Hd gets full...
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    Track it down and kill it.

    I have clean slate available to me but I found it to be such a pain to use and took it out. Its fine if you never change anytihing in you computers because it resets everything to an original, stored config. However, these games are beng kept somewhere on the network server and not in my...
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    Track it down and kill it.

    I am a H.S. teacher( Tech Ed) and I have a problem with students playing games instead of working. Someone loaded "Mario" on the network somewhere. they say its in one of the Jur Hi teacher's folder, one of those that doesn't know how to turn a computer on, and bring it up from there. I know it...
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    video resolution reset

    Problem is, the resolution resets to 600 x400 or something like that and it is annoying to constantly go back and change it back and to 'unbunch' the desktop icons.
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    video resolution reset

    In Ded 04 I built a new computer with a Aopen i865PEa-7if Mobo, P4-3 gig 200 gig seagate HD, 512 mg Kingston and a used Chaintech Geforce 4 MX 440 I traded for. Everything works great. I have a used Princeton Ultra 72 monitor that I am very pleased with. I have the resolution set to 1152 x...
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    Win98 client

    The driver is in the cleint W98 machine and was working fine for about the last month. I do not have any other computers on he network. My daughter's laptop was connected b4 but she took it to college with her. That was b4 when the server was a W98 machine which I replaced with the XP Pro...
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    Win98 client

    I have a P4 3gig home wireless network server using XP Pro with a Dell optima W98 client. We set up everything to share various files and the printer etc. The printer worked fine but now the client sends thing to the printer, seems to be going to the printer but doesn't print. sometimes the...
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    new computer NTLDR

    I just got the components to build my 4th computer in the last 14 years. I have built others and repaired more than I can count. I have: MOBO - Aopen i865PEa-7if with a P4 3 gig 775 socket 512 mg kingston memory and Seagate 200 gig SATA HD and a used Chaintech fx440 video a used lite-on...