Windows Computer Help Desk

[MusicMan]

I thought I'd lend my hand in offering computer help to people having trouble. I know quite a bit about device connectivity and blah blah blah (just don't ask me Win 2000 or NT specific questions, those are the two OS's I haven't used much).

I'll try to get back to everyone's post as fast as I can.

[The Hunter]

:fire Good idea Music man, I just got into computers a year ago and this would have saved a lot of grief. As a old fart just getting into this it might as well be Greek at times. PS enjoy your posts, and mods are doing a good job.

[MusicMan]

Thanks, all I need now is a customer.

[The Hunter]

:black I have a good one for you. A friend has 2k pro and it worked fine, he was on cable and he changed to dsl. After the change he cant send files on MSN just rec. So he wiped the sys and reloaded but it had the same problem, and it seems to be getting worse, because tonight his yahoo wont send or rec files.
Whatever the problem is it seems to be degrading quickly. He shut down norton, and his security settings in win are the same as mine.

[MusicMan]

Although, I haven't used win 2000 before (read my first post) I might have some help for you, I just need some details.

First of all when you say "rec" you mean record right?

When he "wiped his sys" did he completly reboot his computer (star over fresh)?

[BuzzB2K]

Originally posted by MusicMan
First of all when you say "rec" you mean record right?

When he "wiped his sys" did he completly reboot his computer (star over fresh)?

rec = Receive

wiped sys = re-installed windows.


:mellow Buzz

[MusicMan]

Actaully, without being there, there's not much I could help you with. I was going to say that he might've unistalled .dll files required when he took out the cable (when stuff is uninstalling it usually asks if you want to delete a file that is has determined no other program is using, never hit yes), but you said you rebooted/reinstalled windows, so I;m not too sure exactly what happened. Maybe if you give me more specs of your comp I can figure it out, especailly internet config settings.

[Mar1ne]

ive not used dsl as its not big in my country but i know its slightly different to cable as its not shared bandwith (from what my mates say).

if your using a router then the ip which shows when you connect to websites etc is the router ip, which isnt your computer id therefore files wont send.

if you can give me some more details regarding what hardware your using and how you got your computer set up to the net i could help more.

[MusicMan]

I think we scared off the customer. :wings

[Mar1ne]

lol yea

Hey music man i see your admin maybe you could answer a fee of my queries.

This is like my second post so im a newbie :P

Can I upload my own custom avatar so it appears when I post on the forum instead of the little dragon thing?

Also out of curiousity what file sharing program do you personally use?

[BloodySabbath]

Well, I can answer your first question for you:
Can I upload my own custom avatar so it appears when I post on the forum instead of the little dragon thing?You need 10 posts before you can have a custom avatar. Then just go to your User CP, Edit Options, and scroll down to the bottom of the page to change your avatar.

[Mar1ne]

Why thank you Mr Sabbath.

I'll start making something nice in Maya 4 then :cross

[MusicMan]

Yes it's completely possible (seems Sabbath already answered you, errrrr...) I personally use KaZaA Lite or sometimes Gnucleus, they're both really great.

[Mar1ne]

Thanx for the insight Mr MusicMan

BTW is Gnucleus the server type like Gnutella or is that the name of the client?

If it isn't the name of the client could you reccommend a good one for me?

Thanx =D

[BloodySabbath]

I hate to be stepping on MusicMan's toes (send me a PM if you want this to be your personal Help Desk), but i cant let a question go unanswered.

Gnucleus (http://www.gnucleus.com/) is in fact the name of a client for the Gnutella network. It is open source, and the program upon which Morpheus and MyNapster are based.

[The Hunter]

:fire Thanks for all the help, what we had to do was uninstall msn, delete all cookies, and history, reinstall msn, and a new user name and it works. tomorrow he is going to try the same thing on yahoo. I still dont know how the files got removed, but then I wasnt there.

[Mar1ne]

Thank you Mr Sabbath.

I once tried installed Morphious with KaZaA at the same time but only one of them would load at once.

As Gnucleus and KaZaA connect to a Gnutella network then I assume I wont be able to load them both at the same time?

Also when using KaZaA when im searching for stuff, after a while it tends to be all the same stuff coming up in my search's so I then go on a rampage through websites to find another File Sharing program.

The only thing is ive had around 20(ish) now and not one of them have been anywhere near as good as KaZaA.

Am I being blind or is there atleast one other File Sharing Program (Which doesnt connect to a Gnutella network) which is worth downloading?

(BTW I think this is my 10th post so i'm gonna go and make a avatar =D )

[BloodySabbath]

KaZaA connects to the FastTrack network (as does Grokster, IMesh, and the old Morpheus)
FastTrack is an entirely different network from Gnutalla (which has clients like Gnucleus, BearShare, LimeWire, and Xolox)

If you find that you arent gettign sufficient search results on KaZaA, it might sometimes be due to broad search terms. For example, if you search for "Beatles" you'll only get the first 100 results (which is the default maximum number of search results for FT clients) - and if you get multiple results for some files (that little plus next to the file name) then you could be looking at very few search results coming up. Try being more specific with your searches.

Lastly, FastTrack and Gnutella are two of the best p2p networks (IMO, at least) but if you're looking for alternatives try the ones from this thread (http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=191) - most of those are pretty popular as well.

[Mar1ne]

Thanx for that post, i've obviously got confused along my p2p journey.

I read that Morphious was connecting to the Gnutella network, as you pointed out the old morphious used fast track, i must not have read this only read about the new one therefore put 2 and 2 together and came up with a dodgy number.

I think i'll try a client which connects to the Guntella network (As i beleived i was using anyway!)

Thanx

[wilecyote]

i have a 4 port lynksys router and im on a cable isp: roadrunner
i have a problem that i lose connection as i go off to work or sleep the connection gets lost. oh im running xp i run ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew that works sometimes others i have to reset the router manually before it will let me connect. is there a way to reset it automatically and renew my connection insoftware and in my router anyclue as to what is going on? i think my isp sees me hogging up bandwith and bumps me...

[Mar1ne]

Well i don't know much about Roadrunner as im english, but ive heard rumours of certain british isp's cutting off users who:

a) keep connected when not doing anything

b) using up their full bandwith

This isn't really legal but there have been many instances so id suggest you contact Roadrunner and ask them if they have been cutting you off purposefully, also try downloading a "Anti-Idle" type program.

These Anti-idle progs do various things from refreshing a webpage every so often to submitting forms in some cases.

Is there any particular reason your using a router?

if your not on a network just a stand alone computer try connecting your computer directly to Roadrunner see if you get the same problem.

Failing that i've got a large hammer you can use to smash everything up >:)

[Wolfie]

I heard roadrunner intends to charge ppl extra for using too much bandwidth. The bumping might be the beginning of it. I start shopping around for another provider just in case.

[SDG999zzz]

HI,

I'm running Kazaa Lite on XP Pro with an PPPoE Earthlink DSL (1.5Mbs/128kbs) connection shared 4 ways through a SMC7004ABR (SMC Barricade 4 port Router : http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?action=products_show_description&productCode=SMC7004ABR ).

My problem is lately I've noticed Kazaa (Lite) behaving very "greedily", ie. if even just 1 of us has Kazaa running, other programs like email readers and browsers have a hard time getting a share of the bandwidth. This happens even if there is very little upload/download activity. I can tell Kazaa is to blame because as soon as it's turned off reaction times for my browser and email reader goes back to the lightning fast speeds we're all use too.

I'm unsure if this is a bug only found in Kazaa lite because I never had this problem with Morpheus, and don't recall having it with Kazaa (full).

My question is has anyone else noticed this? and can anyone suggest a fix?

Ideally there would be a program/ or method to get the router to forceibly distribute bandwith evenly when all of us are online at the same time.

Phew, what a mouthfull.
GS

P.S. I'd like to thank MusicMan in advance for starting this thread and also anyone else who can offer help. Thanks.

[wilecyote]

i belive it that its because i use the full bandwith. but i cant figgure out why i have to reset my router before i can reconnect is there a way to auto reset the router also i use the router as fire wall and i have 4 computers on it but it definatly shuts down when i have more than one puter p2p that makes me think they are bumping me for using too much bandwith and ive heard the rumours too about them limiting bandwith but not till the end of the year

[Jeramey]

Originally posted by The Hunter
:black I have a good one for you. A friend has 2k pro and it worked fine, he was on cable and he changed to dsl. After the change he cant send files on MSN just rec. So he wiped the sys and reloaded but it had the same problem, and it seems to be getting worse, because tonight his yahoo wont send or rec files.
Whatever the problem is it seems to be degrading quickly. He shut down norton, and his security settings in win are the same as mine.

If you are on a router you should access the router and set that computer as the DMZ that should eliminate most of your problems. The router is masking your computer and that is why you can't send and recieve files.

[gorphon]

if thats the problem I know the new linksys and I imagine most others have a clone host adapter function that automatically sets the router addresses to the same as your main computer in the network... at least I think its called clone host adapter, its saturday and my brain is foggy
gorphon

[MrFriendly]

Where is the best place to get some help. I have a friend who uses Direct Connect and Kazaa, but her use of English is poor. She has recently changed ISP and since then DC and Kazaa no longer works - DC just disconnects whenever she tries to reach public hub.

My feeling is that UDP's are being blocked by her IPS's firewall. If any resolutions involve changing router settings, then forget it. Her cable provider is not interested in fixing it.

I posted this problem on another board, but they said this was the BEST place to go to for help. Where do I go from here?

Many thanks.

p.s I don't use Direct Connect myself, I'm just helping someone out.

[lion7718]

I got an XP question..............
I just bought a new computer, it came with XP,
everytime I post a comment it says 'Windows NT 5.1'
Whats up with that?
My computer says I'm running Windows XP Build 2600
Home Edition 2002.
But I have noticed on some programs it also says NT.

[FreedomToShare]

WIndows XP, Windows 2000 are based on Windows NT...the way it is build like the file system are all the NTFS even thou it has changed over the years...but some programs see XP/2000 as Windows NT.

[edka]

I don't want to be flooding this thread with too many questions but I've been having a few problems with XP too recently. The first one is an update I keep getting. I posted a while ago claiming the Windows automatic update seemed to be kicking in almost every time I logged on, I was advised to change the settings so that I would be notified before anything was downloaded. Since doing that I've noticed that I am being asked to download the same thing each time - the Microsoft .NET Framework Service Pack 1 update. I must have installed this thing about 10 times by now and I'm still being asked to download it! I've heard something about this update being a step by Microsoft to deal with illegal XP copies but I can't understand why I am having problems with it because my copy of XP is legit (or so I thought anyway!)

...Other problems I've been getting include the 'play all' feature refusing to work and constant 'do you wish to debug?' messages on certain websites (even though I disable script debugging under Internet options - the option just seems to reselect itself every time I turn on my computer.)

I don't know whether these problems are connected in anyway but a response to any one of them would be greatly appreciated.

[lion7718]

Originally posted by edka

...Other problems I've been getting include the 'play all' feature refusing to work

Mine don't work either.....lol

[edka]

lion7718 - how long have you been having the problem for? Mine used to work, 'til recently (which is annoying because I had deleted all my playlists thinking I wouldn't need them again). I was wondering if anything I downloaded might be interfering with it

[lion7718]

I've had XP for about a month now, and that function has never worked.but I think it's because I play all my music through MusicMatch...but I'm not sure.
I doesn't work for music or movies, so I don't know.

[jen_strawberry]

Thanks for offering the help, god knows microsoft isn't any help at all. Here is my problem and I am hoping for a simple fix :-) I have a Compaq 3yrs old, Windows 98. It came with a compaq cd-rom (drove D) and I added a cd-rw (drive E) 2 yrs ago. They have worked fine and I had copied two cds tonight, popped in the third original and got the dreaded blue screen. I had to reboot and then my cd-rom (D) had vanished. It is just no longer there, not in the control panel, not in the hardware configuration, nada. I haven't had a single problem from the drives, no recent crashes, no new software installed except a mouse last week and no reason I can think of for this to happen. The pc came with a "restore" disc so I can't just reinstall the drive without wiping out the whole thing. I ran the add harware wizard and it didn't detect it nor have it listed to add. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Jen.

[mojo-ris-in]

:devil jen one possibility is you may have corrupted the driver for the cdrom in which case you would have to reload the driver. and then try to reinstall. But it's strange that windows doesn't see it at all even when you try the add hardware function which leads me to believe that may not be your only problem. You might have to backup your files and run the recovery CD in order to get it working right. I have a Compaq also so I know it's a pain but it may be the best course to take. Good luck

[mojo-ris-in]

Originally posted by edka
I don't want to be flooding this thread with too many questions but I've been having a few problems with XP too recently. The first one is an update I keep getting. I posted a while ago claiming the Windows automatic update seemed to be kicking in almost every time I logged on, I was advised to change the settings so that I would be notified before anything was downloaded. Since doing that I've noticed that I am being asked to download the same thing each time - the Microsoft .NET Framework Service Pack 1 update. I must have installed this thing about 10 times by now and I'm still being asked to download it! I've heard something about this update being a step by Microsoft to deal with illegal XP copies but I can't understand why I am having problems with it because my copy of XP is legit (or so I thought anyway!)


:devil edka I have been having the same problem also. I think there's probably a bug preventing the pc from updating. I do know that this is NOT the SP1 update that you were referring to. This is just a plug for a hole in the .net protocol. The SP1 that features all the major security fixes, including the disabled warezed product codes, is a much bigger download, upwards to 70 MB and takes about an hour to download on cable. (i just took it yesterday :-[ ) My advice is to just leave it alone for a few days and see if microsoft fixes it in a couple of day or issues a fix for the fix...LOL

[mojo-ris-in]

Originally posted by Wolfie
I heard roadrunner intends to charge ppl extra for using too much bandwidth. The bumping might be the beginning of it. I start shopping around for another provider just in case.
:devil God I hope not....they already charge more for a better speed but it wouldn't surprise me if they did that. Unfortunately for me I have no other BB option except for satellite which is almost double

[jen_strawberry]

Thanks Mojo_ris-in for replying. I am afraid I wil have to use the restore disk to ever have it work properly. I have tried downloading drivers, there was a system.ini file I updated and neither worked. I don't think the drive is bad because when I go to c:/ prompt, it lists the directory. It plays peek-a-boo showing up in the hardware configuration, but even when it is recogninzed it will not read from the drive. It sits there and spins and lights up for 5-6 minutes then freezes up the pc. It is not the end of the world because I do have the cd-rw to use, but it is not connected to my sound :-( So if anyone has any other suggestions, I am open to them before wiping out the hard drive anyway! See my post above for specs. Jen.

[jen_strawberry]

ty krell for the reply. Between reboots, the drive alternates between showing/not showing up in hardware config. When it was present, I deleted it, rebooted and ran new hardware wizard. It didn't recognize it therefore didn't add it back. I gave up on it and 3 days later it magically appeared like it had never been gone. MS suggested this hotfix:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;ED-US;q195564&

becasue of the manner in which the drive initially failed. I did as suggested and backed up pci.vxd and pcimp.pci and copy/pasted the new ones into that folder. I did't see any change resulting from that at all.

I booted from floppy to c:\ promt and ran a dir on it and all the files were there. This makes me believe there isn't a problem with the physical drive. I have searched for driver information on google and MS but to no avail.

As stated earlier, I have a Compaq 3yrs old, Windows 98. It came with a compaq cd-rom. Any links for driver information is welcomed as is any other brainstorming thoughts :-)) Jen.

[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by jen_strawberry
ty krell for the reply. Between reboots, the drive alternates between showing/not showing up in hardware config. When it was present, I deleted it, rebooted and ran new hardware wizard. It didn't recognize it therefore didn't add it back. I gave up on it and 3 days later it magically appeared like it had never been gone. MS suggested this hotfix:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;ED-US;q195564&

becasue of the manner in which the drive initially failed. I did as suggested and backed up pci.vxd and pcimp.pci and copy/pasted the new ones into that folder. I did't see any change resulting from that at all.

I booted from floppy to c:\ promt and ran a dir on it and all the files were there. This makes me believe there isn't a problem with the physical drive. I have searched for driver information on google and MS but to no avail.

As stated earlier, I have a Compaq 3yrs old, Windows 98. It came with a compaq cd-rom. Any links for driver information is welcomed as is any other brainstorming thoughts :-)) Jen.




What's the PC's model number? From what I've worked on I've learned that Compaq is famous for installing this god damn hidden non dos partition with the basic "config" shit so they can skimp on hardware chips on there mobo's so you may have screwed up that partition when you crashed. I'll check out compaq's site an see if I can find the hidden system disks for your model. Also does anyon else use the system? It is possible that someone else hid the drive from windows since you say you can see it in dos.

BTW if yall are brave enough - open your PC up. It's fairly easy to swap the CD to soundcard cable - it's thin an on the opposite side of the IDE cable (thin wide ass white/coffee colored cable) Just unhook it from the dead CDROM Drive an hook it up to the back of the CDRW drive.




Peace all, Later

[gathofbaal]

For those of you needing help I would be glad to assist you . I work in an I.T. department giving tech support help all day in regards to any version of Windows or NT and also all microsoft, adobe, and macromedia applications. I can also help with hardware problems.

[mnhoops]

This problem is killing me, I have no idea what is going on, though I do have a decent knowledge of computers.

Since the beginning of this year, my system has been rebooting itself. By that i mean, its like I hit the reset button on the computer. It does it completely randomly as far as I know. It just started this year, and even though I formatted my hard drive, the problem has not ceased.

I run XP so when the computer restarts it says it is from a "serious error" but has no idea what may have caused it. Sometimes it hints and the problem being a device driver, but that would be funny because I haven't really installed anything new on the system other than a hard drive--and it never did this before about 3 months ago. (the comp is a year old)

Please help me, I'm more frustrated than you'll ever know!
Thanks

[lion7718]

You have probably already done this, but in case you haven't:
Click on Start, right click on My Computer, click on Properties click on Advanced, at the bottom you will see Startup And Recovery, click on Settings.Under System Failure, un-tick the box that says Automatically Restart. Click OK.Apply and reboot.
Hope this helps.

[gathofbaal]

Originally posted by mnhoops
Since the beginning of this year, my system has been rebooting itself. By that i mean, its like I hit the reset button on the computer. It does it completely randomly as far as I know. It just started this year, and even though I formatted my hard drive, the problem has not ceased.

I run XP so when the computer restarts it says it is from a "serious error" but has no idea what may have caused it. Sometimes it hints and the problem being a device driver, but that would be funny because I haven't really installed anything new on the system other than a hard drive--and it never did this before about 3 months ago. (the comp is a year old)

Please help me, I'm more frustrated than you'll ever know!
Thanks
Just out of curiosity are you running any software by Roxio?

[mnhoops]

Thanks for the help already, everything is very appreciated! I have no software by Roxio, thank God. That stuff is buggy as hell, and I don't see a need for more bugs in XP:) As for the auto reboot, it is clicked off. Thanks again.

[Krell]

If you dont mind my butting in,

go to RUN, type " regedit "

When Regedit opens, hit CTRL + F

in the find box, type RUN, and below are 3 check boxes, put a check in the top one only, and hit find, then hit F3 to keep searching.

What you are lookin for, are folder called RUN, RUN-, RUN ONCE, etc, they are usually all together, but in two sections of the registry, and you will see the same things in them, as you do in your MSCONFIG startup tab. Delete the individual entries in the right pane.

When you clear the item from the run folders, MSCONFIG will no longer show them.

This is probably the simplest and safest thing I can advise you to do in the registry, and I have talked many people thru it in the past.

.

[Krell]

hahaha just kidding

janet, ANY reference to loading it with windows will prevent you from removing it.

Edit your Config Sys file, save the changes. Try this before the more exhaustive approach.

cheers

[BobMarley]

hey man i installed k++ 2.0 and it now says my resisty is bad or somethin' i was wondering if you could give me n e advice
(i am Win98)

[Krell]

I want you to clarify your Error Msg. If its a Windows error Msg, let us know. If it is a Kazaa error msg, move your question to the kazaa thread.

I cant answer or somethin' questions today, sorry.

Were you by chance meaning Registry? If so, no big deal, I will help you out.

[BobMarley]

Originally posted by Krell
I want you to clarify your Error Msg. If its a Windows error Msg, let us know. If it is a Kazaa error msg, move your question to the kazaa thread.

I cant answer or somethin' questions today, sorry.

Were you by chance meaning Registry? If so, no big deal, I will help you out.

ya man the resistry, i think kazaa has messed it all up

[Krell]

LOL

Well when you want to get a fresh resistry, and everything else, let me know.
.

[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by grid_u2
I have Medal of Honor and it worked fine when I had 98SE, but now tht I upgradeed to XP it doesn't want to start up. I have a TNT2 video card and directX 8.1 and openGL drivers which worked fine in 98 with MOH. The load messages that I keep getting is this:

--- Common Initialization ---
Medal of Honor Allied Assault 1.10 win-x86 Jan 22 2002
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\user-dmxfire2v2.pk3 (14 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\user-crazystyleie-outskirts.pk3 (4 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\strongholdFR.pk3 (4 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\pak6.pk3 (61 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\nestate.pk3 (18 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\Winter_Base.pk3 (13 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\User-v2.pk3 (5 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\User-TakeTheHill_V1.1.pk3 (3 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\User-SniperValleyMP.pk3 (12 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\User-Rdm1.pk3 (6 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\User-MonteCassino.pk3 (14 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\User-Mohcastle1.pk3 (15 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\User-G3mInI_Riverside.pk3 (19 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\User-Dove1.pk3 (3 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\User-DE_TheFacilityDM.pk3 (16 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\User-BOgermanwinter.pk3 (15 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\User - RealSoundMod_v0.451.pk3 (36 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\User - Oil Rig by BBK.pk3 (1 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\StorageFacility11.pk3 (20 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\Silo_DM_1.2.pk3 (21 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\Pak5.pk3 (259 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\Pak4.pk3 (593 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\Pak3.pk3 (669 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\Pak2.pk3 (4722 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\Pak1.pk3 (772 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\Pak0.pk3 (11175 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\KAZAK_~1.PK3 (4 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\Hide-and-Seek.pk3 (15 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\Gatehouse_Assault_DM_1.pk3 (15 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\Fortress_Bridge.pk3 (39 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\BOenergie.pk3 (12 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA\main\BLZK_CloseCall.pk3 (5 files)
E:\EA Games\MOHAA/main

----------------------
18580 files in pk3 files
execing default.cfg
execing menu.cfg
execing newconfig.cfg
Config: unnamedsoldier.cfg
execing configs/unnamedsoldier.cfg
couldn't exec localized.cfg
execing autoexec.cfg
Unknown command "fov"
couldn't exec custom.cfg
...detecting CPU, found Intel Pentium III

------- Input Initialization -------
Initializing DirectInput...
Couldn't set DI coop level
Falling back to Win32 mouse support...
------- Input Initialization Complete ------- 121
You are now setup for easy mode.
----- Client Initialization -----
Called FadeSound with: 0.000000
----- Initializing Renderer ----
----- R_Init -----
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\opengl32.dll' ): succeeded
...setting mode 3: 640 480 FS
...using colorsbits of 16
...calling CDS: ok
...registered window class
...created window@0,0 (640x480)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 16, 16, 0 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 16, 16, 0 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...failed to find an appropriate PIXELFORMAT
...restoring display settings
...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3)
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL
...assuming '3dfxvgl' is a standalone driver
...initializing QGL
...WARNING: missing Glide installation, assuming no 3Dfx available
...shutting down QGL
GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

Does you know how to fix the problem? Thanx


Try changing the driver settings? Looks to me like the game is trying to force a Voodoo card rather then whatever your using. Could be broken video drivers as well....try hitting up the site for your card an downloading up to date drivers that work with XP.

Ciao

[Krell]

He already HAS a post for this in another thread

[el_omega]

Need help with Office xp? as soon as possible from a good expert on this. Please p/m me

[Krell]

Damn your impatient !

I was going to kidd about being as impatient as a crack whore, then I realized, you ARE a crack whore. (software)

I will get you going . . . got to give me time to collect info padre, i'm workin it.

.

[el_omega]

Hey Krell bud, don't get mad. I am not impatient but just want to collect as much info as I could.
Thanks for your time so much appreciated.

[Krell]

OH I forgot to put that "LOL" in there, Im not mad, wasnt even intended to be a tone, just try to keep this to a minimum, not push the envelope ok?

[el_omega]

Ok padre I will keep it minimal, by the way I have sent you some appreciaton.

[freedrinx]

I got this in a newsletter....hope this helps


Drivers On-Line

http://drivers.on-line.net.nz/

{Download drivers} No, you can't get your driver's license at this site. You still have to go take the written test and the road test in your local area to get that. Statistics: 23,245 devices, 3106 vendors, 52,489 files. With numbers like that, it's easy to believe the site's slogan, "Welcome to the only device driver site you'll ever need." Drivers On-Line finds the software to match your hardware. You can use the Driver Wizard to quickly find the right drivers instead of going to a product's vendor (and getting lost on their unusable Web site in search of the needed drivers). All the drivers and software available from this site are stored as ZIP files, so you will need to have software to extract the individual files from them. If you're using Win9x/NT, there is the option of downloading any driver as an executable file, thus avoiding the need to install any additional software. The Web site has a free Driver Wizard available for downloading and running to identify the components you have on the PC. After it completes the evaluation, click on the link to go to the Web site and get a list of the latest drivers available. This site had a driver for all of my components except for one. Note: The first time I ran the wizard, my system froze. I rebooted and ran it again, and had no problem. [Meryl]

[Krell]

I suggest you save your info to a file, the site is extremely slow, and you may have to go back to actually load the page. The info it saves is pretty generic, so I dont see why it wouldnt be safe. I have yet to be able to get the wizard to find me drivers yet, it freezes, or says the info would not upload to them.

Save the results to the desktop, then launch the Results.htm. THEN click on the link in your results, and browse back to it online. and wait.

Driver Wizard information file
Go to http://drivers.on-line.net.nz/ to upload this file and get a list of drivers for your hardware

remove the following line if you wish to remain anonymous
identity: ######Black Ops
details about your hardware
operating system: NT|5.1.2600|P
locale: ENU
device: MON|MN|PGS008D|||Princeton Ultra 72~Princeton Graphic Systems~YR 1999'SER 92105652'SZ 15.7in':720x400 70Hz':640x480 60Hz 75Hz':800x600 75Hz':1024x768 75Hz'|
device: PNP|MS|PNP0F13|||INT 12'|
device: PNP|SY|PNP0C0C||||
device: PNP|SY|PNP0C04|||I/O 00F0 - 00FF'INT 13'|
device: PNP|SY|PNP0C02|||I/O E400 - E47F'I/O EC00 - EC3F'I/O EC80 - EC8F'I/O 002E - 002F'|
device: PNP|SY|PNP0C02|||I/O 0010 - 001F'I/O 0022 - 002D'I/O 0030 - 003F'I/O 0044 - 005F'I/O 0062 - 0063'I/O 0065 - 006F'I/O 0074 - 007F'I/O 0091 - 0093'I/O 00A2 - 00BF'I/O 00E0 - 00EF'I/O 0290 - 0297'I/O 03F0 - 03F1'I/O 04D0 - 04D1'|
device: PNP|SY|PNP0C01|||MEM 00000000 - 0009FFFF'MEM 000F0000 - 000FFFFF'MEM 00100000 - 1FFFFFFF'MEM FFB80000 - FFBFFFFF'MEM FFF80000 - FFFFFFFF'|
device: PNP|SY|PNP0B00|||I/O 0070 - 0073'INT 8'|
device: PNP|SY|PNP0A03|||I/O 0000 - 0CF7'I/O 0D00 - FFFF'MEM 000A0000 - 000BFFFF'MEM 000C8000 - 000DFFFF'MEM 20000000 - FFAFFFFF'|
device: PNP|SY|PNP0800|||I/O 0061 - 0061'|
device: PNP|FD|PNP0700|||I/O 03F2 - 03F5'I/O 03F7 - 03F7'INT 6'DMA 2'|
device: PNP|PT|PNP0501|||I/O 02F8 - 02FF'INT 3'|
device: PNP|PT|PNP0501|||I/O 03F8 - 03FF'INT 4'|
device: PNP|KB|PNP0303|||I/O 0060 - 0060'I/O 0064 - 0064'INT 1'|
device: PNP|SY|PNP0200|||DMA 4'I/O 0000 - 000F'I/O 0080 - 0090'I/O 0094 - 009F'I/O 00C0 - 00DF'|
device: PNP|SY|PNP0100|||I/O 0040 - 0043'INT 0'|
device: PNP|SY|PNP0000|||I/O 0020 - 0021'I/O 00A0 - 00A1'|
device: BIO|BI||||~mem 512MiB'XP YES'|
device: CPU|BI||||Intel Pentium 4~15.0.10~SPD 1675MHz'L2 0KB'MMX YES'DIV NO'3DN NO'XP YES'|
device: BIO|BI||||Award Modular~unknown vendor~03/01/2002-i850-<>~DATE 20020301'|
device: PNP|DR|ST380021A|||DiskST380021A__________________ _____________3.19____|
device: PNP|DR|ST380020A|||DiskST380020A__________________ _____________3.39____|
device: PNP|DR|SAMSUNG_SV2042H|||DiskSAMSUNG_SV2042H______ ___________________PK100-21|
device: PNP|DR|Maxtor_52049U4|||DiskMaxtor_52049U4________ __________________DA6207V0|
device: PNP|DR|FUJITSU_MPD3064AT|||DiskFUJITSU_MPD3064AT__ _____________________DD-03-44|
device: PNP|DR|MSI_CD-RW_MS-8340S|||CdRomMSI_CD-RW_MS-8340S______________________120D____|
details about Driver Wizard software
version: 1.0.2.33
language dll: en

[Winphuk]

Originally posted by The Hunter
:black I have a good one for you. A friend has 2k pro and it worked fine, he was on cable and he changed to dsl. After the change he cant send files on MSN just rec. So he wiped the sys and reloaded but it had the same problem, and it seems to be getting worse, because tonight his yahoo wont send or rec files.
Whatever the problem is it seems to be degrading quickly. He shut down norton, and his security settings in win are the same as mine.

Think he needs to test his DSL upload stream.



Winphuk - A happy Win2k user

[The Hunter]

Good lord, that post brings back some memories. His problem was solved, but it was so long ago that I cant remember what the heck was done to correct it.

[Infomouse]

I am unfamiliar with Win 2k.

Tomorrow I have to transfer some files from a Win 2k machine, they do not have CD writer and I don't want to install any software if at all possible.

Can anyone tell me if there is still an FTP client included with Win 2k? There was one with 9x and NT in the windows/system folder.

If it is still there in 2k where will I find it?

OK it's text based but it will get the job done!

Many thanks.

[Winphuk]

THere is an FTP program that can be run from the command prompt, but I prefer to use WS FTP.

Free download from here http://www.ftpplanet.com/download.htm

I use WSFTP pro, it will cost you a few bucks unless you know my friend fosi.

[el_omega]

I think I know your friend FOSI,
Please, don't mention any warez sites on these forums.

Thanks a lot.

[Winphuk]

Originally posted by el_omega
I think I know your friend FOSI,
Please, don't mention any warez sites on these forums.

Thanks a lot.

I have no idea what your talking about. I didn't mention anything about warez.

[jolton]

Okay, I have a question.

I just decided to turn off my paging file (virtual memory). I have 768 mb of RD Ram, and heard that doing this improves system performance. Also heard that it could be bad. Any takes on this or expirience?

Also, i'm looking for something to monitor my cpu and ram (in real time), like one of those toolbars that go on top of the screen, or whatever. Only i don't need a bunch of junk. Also it has to be low on resources...a duh.

Jolton

[Winphuk]

I know that decreasing your page file increases your system performance, but shutting it off may not supply the memory that you need to run some programs.Then again, you do have alot of RAM so I could be wrong. If your looking to monitor the system
in real time, I need to know what OS your using because there are diffent ways of accessing the System Monitor.
In Win2K/XP you can open up the Microsoft Management Console Start>Run>MMC, and add the System monitor as a snap in and either leave it in adminstrative tools or put in on your desktop.
You can also control+alt+delete and use the task manager to monitor your system.
If you are using windows 98 you may need to install it from your CD rom, and use it from you Start>Accessories>system tools.
I hope my limited knowledge has helped.

[Krell]

If you have to ask, turn it back on and leave it alone.

Im not trying to knock you, but this is typical of people trying to tweak their settings to hell and back because they read about it on some 1/2 baked site, and actually have NO idea what they are doing themselves.

You want the candy, but youre not willing to pay the price. Almost all of you have no real understanding of hardware or the way todays archatecture works, and hope that you can just click once or import a registry setting and *poofycheeseballs* your system will be much better.

I'm backing Winphuk on the Task manager part, it will do what you need to easily. And, if you are using W98, and want to use the System Monitor, go to Edit > Add Item > Memory, and add Unused Physical Memory. The CPU usage is already there by default. Also set the VIEW to "Always on top" and use the 123, not the graph! Set the refresh time to as low as it will go, slide far left.

With 768 Mb RAM, its not whether you have free memory, but WHAT is using the memory, so stick with Task Manager.

[jolton]

while i don't think i am anywhere near the ranks of those technically proficient here. *cough*krell*cough*, i do know some things.
I know what the paging file does. Just wanted to see what others thought and if they've done it, just opinions is all. and yes i do expect to just change a setting and "poof" cheese balls. (LOL your the man Krelly.) That's why they call it tweaking, no?
I have windows xp, and i don't like having to use the task manager because it either has to stay on top of the windows, or if i minimize it, it goes to the system try, and to the toolbar, and even then i can only see the cpu. (not to mention i don't want it in that toolbar. I wanted to know either of a way to get it in a toolbar on top of the screen or something to that effect....
Hey guys look at it this way: U culd bi reeding dis post n brkn eglish.

[Winphuk]

OK then, start - run -mmc . Then console - add/remove snap-in, then chose active X control. Scroll down the menu and you will find the system monitor control, then add that to the console.
Be sure to save it before you close or you will have to do it over again.
After that you can access it in programs > administrative tools.

This is how it works on Win2k, maybe it slightly varies on Windows XP, but basically similar

[pagal]

Hi I just install windows server 2003 standard edition.
there is a built in administrator account.
i want to creat another account.
i cant fint any thing in control panel for settingup a user account on same machine.
Any Help??

[Winphuk]

Originally posted by pagal
Hi I just install windows server 2003 standard edition.
there is a built in administrator account.
i want to creat another account.
i cant fint any thing in control panel for settingup a user account on same machine.
Any Help??

Start - > administrative tools -> active directory users and computers, if you have a domain controller. If running a member server create a local users and groups snapin in the MMC then expand the users and groups snap-in, right click the users folder - new -user.

[pagal]

Thanx:shy