Hi,
I just reformatted with WinXP Pro a couple days ago and now all these weird things are happening to my computer. First I noticed my videos folder was missing - I had it in a partition, and everything else was present, and I know I didn't delete it...but I did a search for it and all the files turn up in there. I can play them, and everything; they just don't show up when I go through my folders. Now today the same thing is happening with about half of my mp3s. I have them alphabetical in a list, and everything from halfway through S all the way down the rest of the list is missing - but again, it all shows up in search and I can play everything normally.
Additionally, The past two times I've turned the computer on, it would boot normally but as soon as it was done booting my monitor would go to sleep and say "off in 5 seconds." I'd have to move the mouse around to get it to wake up. My power settings are to never turn the monitor off; I never had any problems like this with either my monitor or computer before this reformat.
Last two things are resources problems. In the device manager under Sound/vid/game controllers, there's a yellow exclamation point over Creative Game Port, and it says that the problem is that it can't find enough free resources to use (code 12). Under system devices, one of the motherboard resources entries has a yellow exclamation point, and it says that "windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because there is a duplicate device already running in the system (code 42). Now, those are two things I did have problems with before this reformat, but nothing ever was wrong with how the computer acted so I just ignored it and it was fine - for two years, almost.
What the heck is going on with my computer?! Any help at all is really appreciated, thank you so much.
I just reformatted with WinXP Pro a couple days ago and now all these weird things are happening to my computer. First I noticed my videos folder was missing - I had it in a partition, and everything else was present, and I know I didn't delete it...but I did a search for it and all the files turn up in there. I can play them, and everything; they just don't show up when I go through my folders. Now today the same thing is happening with about half of my mp3s. I have them alphabetical in a list, and everything from halfway through S all the way down the rest of the list is missing - but again, it all shows up in search and I can play everything normally.
Additionally, The past two times I've turned the computer on, it would boot normally but as soon as it was done booting my monitor would go to sleep and say "off in 5 seconds." I'd have to move the mouse around to get it to wake up. My power settings are to never turn the monitor off; I never had any problems like this with either my monitor or computer before this reformat.
Last two things are resources problems. In the device manager under Sound/vid/game controllers, there's a yellow exclamation point over Creative Game Port, and it says that the problem is that it can't find enough free resources to use (code 12). Under system devices, one of the motherboard resources entries has a yellow exclamation point, and it says that "windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because there is a duplicate device already running in the system (code 42). Now, those are two things I did have problems with before this reformat, but nothing ever was wrong with how the computer acted so I just ignored it and it was fine - for two years, almost.
What the heck is going on with my computer?! Any help at all is really appreciated, thank you so much.
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