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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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