Posts by SillyBilly

I fixed it!!! wooooo hooooooo!!!!!! BCEDIT in command prompt,,, list disk: then select disk: then list volume: then select volume: then extend volume ? (? is whatever volume your extending!
It now shows the 300GB hard drive in "My Computer" as 300GB and only 260GB of 298GB free!!!! SOLVED!!!

ok,, I might have confused you,,,, D & G now are my new drives I have,,, The partitions on the C: is whats missing... Notice the one picture I attached is in my computer,,, it shows the hard drive at almost 60GB? Well if you look at the other picture, C: shows almost 300GB. The partitions are not showing up on the C: Just the OS/System Drive which is at almost 60GB. It will not let me extend it either to the rest of the 240GB of the 300GB the drives capacity is.

Hello everyone,
I have a 300gb Sata hard drive that I partitioned into 3 partitions: (C:(System, OS) 60gb) - (D:(Music and Videos) 100gb) - (E: (My Studio) 140gb) Something happened and D: & E: disappeared. I bought a program called "Mini-tool Power data recovery" and I was successful in recovering all of my lost files. Now I want to repartition the hard drive back and just use it as one Partition because I bought two more hard drives to do what I had done with the hard drive in question. When I click on "my computer" it shows my C: as "28.8GB used of 58.5GB". When I right click "My Computer" and Click "Manage" it shows C: as "289.09GB". I want to stretch the 58.5GB to utilize the whole 289.09GB of the drive which should be 300GB which in tell means that there is almost 11GB still unaccounted for. What do I do to make this happen without reformatting the the whole drive and just start all over? Please help.

if it plugs into motherboard with a cable, swap it with the other and see if it is the hub itself, or the motherboard. If it is on a card, there is no way to trouble shoot it except for uninstall the drivers and turn PC off. Before restarting pull the usb card out of the CPU socket. Restart CPU and let it boot to desk top. Turn CPU back off and reinstall card to different PCI slot if you can, if not, just put back where it was then reboot and reinstall drivers.

You will have to send the drive off to get it unlocked. That is the down fall of "Hard drive Lock" it doesn't matter even if you put the drive in another CPU, it will be locked until unlocked. There are techs out there on the web that offer hard drive unlock service. Sorry I had to be the one to tell you!

Did I post this in the wrong place or is it just one of those no one knows the answer to?:icon_sad:

I have 2X nvidia 7600gt video cards run in sli and there is an S-video out of the cards. I have magnavox 20mf500t that has a CPU VGA input but only does 640X480 and it is really bad graphics. My question is,,, The TV has S-video in and it has COMPONENT (YPBPR) in. When I bought my video cards, it had an adapter to go from the S-video out socket and that cable on the other end of the S-video was COMPONENT (YPBPR). Can I go from the card to the COMPONENT (YPBPR) of the TV or just straight out of the S-Video out of the card to the S-video in of the TV? The CPU (VGA) input of the TV is limited to only one resolution, but I thought I might could do the fore mentioned. Just wanted to ask before I screwed the tv up by just trying it.

here is a picture of the bios,,,, check out the characters of the last line, "hdd firmware"!

this picture of the bios shows diskette a and b disabled??? what the heck?

here is a picture of the bios,,,, check out the characters of the last line, "hdd firmware"!

I got me a new used computer from a neighbor in trade, I formatted and put win xp home on it. After getting all my basic setup done, I went in to bios and set all my security like I always do with any of my CPU's. After doing the normal Start up and Bios security, then into Win XP and set user, I went back in to set hard drive lock. Nothing un-common for me. after I rebooted that time, Neither my hard drive nor my CD Rom drive is being detected in the bios and it doesn't even ask for hard drive password. I have reset cmos and everything to no avail. Pleas help...
SillyBilly

I got me a new used computer from a neighbor in trade, I formatted and put win xp home on it. After getting all my basic setup done, I went in to bios and set all my security like I always do with any of my CPU's. After doing the normal Start up and Bios security, then into Win XP and set user, I went back in to set hard drive lock. Nothing un-common for me. after I rebooted that time, Neither my hard drive nor my CD Rom drive is being detected in the bios and it doesn't even ask for hard drive password. I have reset cmos and everything to no avail. Pleas help...
SillyBilly

My video keeps flashing to black screen and then comes back immediately, so I did what Nvidia suggested, installed an earlier driver. I get the blue screen of death every once in a while or just a plain restart for no reason. I have tried two or three different drivers but still same issue. the problem report below shows "nvoglv32.dll" being the fault but I can not find specifics on how to fix this.
fresh install Win Vista 32bit, Nvidia Gforce 7600gt X2 cards, ASUS M2N SLI deluxe board. Emu 202 sound, all updated with windows service pack 2 installed.

Product
R1Q2 - Enhanced Quake II Client/Server

Problem
Stopped working

Date
8/2/2010 12:28 AM

Status
Not Reported

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: r1q2.exe
Application Version: 7.9.0.4
Application Timestamp: 490395a3
Fault Module Name: nvoglv32.dll
Fault Module Version: 8.17.11.9745
Fault Module Timestamp: 4bb7dcfb
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0055e77a
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: f0b6
Additional Information 2: f0316018b0927265aba452f338f863c7
Additional Information 3: 2904
Additional Information 4: d1bc0b0b4666f9fc40d576290d7d77a8

if you are using external video card, your new one, then in the bios set the video for pci slot, if you are using onboard vga then set it to that. You still have not told me what do you see when you turn the cpu on, what comes up on screen, and what happens or what do you see?

are you using the onboard video? I dont understand why it sees bios screen and not boot up screen. what do you see after it starts to boot?

It just resets your bios settings, it sounds like to me that either your bios settings are set to read on external video or the on board video is bad. Do you see anything at all when you boot up as of now?

OK, you need to pull the cover off the side, unplug the unit first, lay it on its side, and look for the battery inside on the mother board. By the battery, there should be thre little prongs and should be labeled either "cmos" or "Reset". there is going to be a jumper connecting two of the three prongs together, what you do is pull the jumper up and put it two the other one and then put it right back where it was. All you are doing is grounding out the memory that saves the Cmos settings. If you cant find it, post the type of cpu and motherboard and I will find a layout on it for you.

boot from cd, go through the repair part and when you get to command prompt window, do a "chkdsk", and a "sfc /scannow"

Country Boy,
If you have an old pci slot video card, try that, other wise, your bios might be set to pci instead of on board vga, check these out, it should work other wise.

Make sure that the auto connect on disconnect is checked in the setup options on the router.

You shouldn't have to reset cmos to install new ram, the bios will recognize it at start up.

Hello Daniel, Welcome!!

When you say "cant do any of that!" with safe mode last known config, what do you mean?

The black screen you see is your boot screen, in case of computer error you will have that screen to log into safe mode or bios set up ect. you can turn it off, But I would leave it just in case.

I hope this helps, It deals with what you are asking.
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread135260.html

Nvidia Gforce 7600gt video cards, I have two running SLI. one of them quit after a year or so and I bought another to replace the one.
The bios info on one card is "5.73.22.39.03" And the other is "5.73.22.51.45", notice the last two groups are different? Should they be the same, and if so, How do you update bios on a video card?
The other part is, my card says it will run at
Core Clock 560MHz
Effective Memory Clock 1400MHz
I actually run core at 570, but never tried taking the memory to 1400, 800 is as for as I have went. Is it possible for it to run at 1400?
Thanks for the help.
SillyBilly

Heres one for ya! I made the mistake of letting someone sit at my pc while they where spending the weekend here with our family, and after almost 3 years of good pc health, yep, I got one. Pretty smart one to, undetected by all the major spyware, and virus detectors, even got by the online scanners. After a couple of weeks of just getting tired of trying to rid it, I went a head and did aback up restore, which by the way was my first, and was succesful, just the thing was, there was still the little traces of what ever it was, virus, trojan, I still do not know the difference but however, it was changing my security policies, and rendering me helpless to rid it. I got so pissed, I could have done a whole install by now. I slaved my main hard drive because I had three partitions on it, so I could get my videos and music off the drive, and once that happened, I held only one Sata 300 gig hard drive in the tower. I took and formated it first, then did a disk wipe with Acronis, then took the old Win 98 SE disk, booted from it and did an FDisk. Rebooted using the Win XP Recovery/ Repair, and did a Diskpart, Finally Fdisked and made one larg partition instead of three mediums and I had a clean install of Windows, So I thought. Now I did a memory test, Ran …

Gerbil,
Does not seem that hard, but as you say, no guarantee!! Basically, If this does not work I will just do a total install, I still have my win98SE disk, one way or another, it will fix. there is also a registry key that tells where to boot from, I guess disk part will change that or will I change it like in the last step before reboot? I thank you so much for the info, I am printing it now so I am sure to follow it. My drives are C: (where Boot files are) D: (Reformatted and clean for storage) E:(Where OS is) and I have E: Partitioned with E:>> F: (19.5 gig Clean)>> and>> G: (my main storage) The reason for so many Storage drives was C: is my recording studio. D: was for my media(pictures, music, Videos,, I have a lot of each) and F: was for my paging File all to its own. E: drive is a new drive sata 320 gig, but it did not want to put everything all on one disk. Maybe I should just copy c: to the E: and unplug it and store it as I would a cdrom. That way This would not be so confusing, of course, I got them down pat seeing how I have used it like this for over a year now. Thanks again for every thing here, I owe ya one, just hope someday I would be able to pay ya back!!

Gerbil,
Does not seem that hard, but as you say, no guarantee!! Basically, If this does not work I will just do a total install, I still have my win98SE disk, one way or another, it will fix. there is also a registry key that tells where to boot from, I guess disk part will change that or will I change it like in the last step before reboot? I thank you so much for the info, I am printing it now so I am sure to follow it. My drives are Cwhere Boot files are) DReformatted and clean for storage) EWhere OS is) and I have E: Partitioned with E:>> F19.5 gig Clean)>> and>> G my main storage) The reason for so many Storage drives was C: is my recording studio D: was for my media(pictures, music, Videos,, I have a lot of each) and F: was for my paging File all to its own. E: drive is a new drive sata 320 gig, but it did not want to put everything all on one disk. Maybe I should just copy c: to the E: and unplug it and store it as I would a cdrom. That way This would not be so confusing, of course, I got them down pat seeing how I have used it like this for over a year now. Thanks again for every thing here, I owe ya one, just hope someday I would be able to pay ya back!!

there should be a little jumper on the hard drive, make sure your spare hard drive is set to slave and the main hard drive set to Master, it should say how the jumper should be positioned on the hard drive, most hard drives are not the same jumper settings. Hope this helped!

Make sure you have the settings with the little tab on the hard drive set to slave and not set to master, I hope this helps.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841720
Hope this helps!!!

Sorry it has taken so long to get back, family medical emergency, but thanks for all the tips. Dumb question I think here, but could I not copy all the boot files such as the NTLDR, Boot.ini, Config.sys, MSDOS.SYS, IO.sys, NTDETECT.COM, AUTOEXEC.BAT, and paste them on The system drive with the OS and change boot.ini file to read them there or is this not the proper thing to do?

I have a question, couple of years ago, I had a system failure and windows tech support help me fix it but had me do a lot of registry entries in windows recovery console. What ended up for the fix was he had me actually put the boot files on another hard drive, why???? I do not know. I had to do a reinstall of windows just was time for it, and I noticed that it still has the OS on my E: but my boot files such as the NTLDR, Boot.ini, Config.sys, MSDOS.SYS, IO.sys, NTDETECT.COM, AUTOEXEC.BAT, are all on C:.. I had gotten a virus I believe the mywebsearch, and I believe something else and I could not get rid of it so I reinstalled Windows XP. Problem is, I feel like there is still something fishy, for instance, I can not change some registry keys, when I do change them to owner creator with me as admin and owner creator, the registry will go through the process of changing, but will revert back, or, will make another user> me/administrator/me (example) with only read attributes. I try to set full control but it will revert right back. I installed my Mcafee security, and to remove all Mcafee products I used Mcafees removal tool, and it reports,"was unable to remove registry key, access denied". I Have researched a bit on Registry and the virus forums, I show no malicious software, no root kits, nothing viral with any scan tool period, …

Robert,
Really glad I could help, I am trying to be more active with my helping here on the site, seeing how I am always receiving help. Have a great one!!!

I have uploaded into a public file on my skydrive the tools you will need. before you use any of them, do the on line scan, just copy the url and paste it in your browser, that is the first step to recovery, then be sure after that is done, to be in safe mode with networking and run the mb, "malewarebytes" but read instructions first!!! Here is the link,,,
http://cid-e2ce70f050c9f68a.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Virus%20Help%20Tools

no spaces in the link,, or goto
http://ethanmiles.spaces.live.com/
look for folders on skydrive and then go into the "Virus Help" folder,,, Hope this helps!!:)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313222/

http://www.aade.com/XPhint/XPrecovery.htm

Also I attached a Zip file, just read the instructions, I got it in an email from Microsoft or I would have giving you the link. The zip file worked for me, I had pretty much same problem,,,, Good Luck, hope I helped out!:)

Well, I am going to say just a guess, since you installed everything new again, we can rule out virus attack. Next, it sounds to me like a voltage problem, the ports work when at idle, but as soon as you plug a drain source on them, they quit. I would try to see if there is voltage settings in bios, if you have the usb expansion card, try unplugging it, and use the front usb or in the back by the mouse and keyboard ports. I don't know much about the voltage end because I do not know your board, but hey, its worth a look. Be sure to have updated drivers for your usb, if your using XP, then it will do it automatically. Hope I helped out some.:)

I have Win7 and using FF with Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse. The problem is that the mouse wheel stopped working (it won't scroll the window any more, or just scrolls intermittently for very short periods of time) but everything else works as expected. Changed the battery but that did not help.

Any other ideas now to fix the problem?

Logitech is the worst on the wheel going out. What will happen is a piece of fuzz or lint will get down in there and if its like mine, the wheel is inferred or laser too. It takes just a little piece of lint to make it act like that. Try another mouse if possible, but I will bet that's the problem. If you decide to take apart, be patient, and hold up right, pieces will fall every where. Hope this helps1:)

My brother cracked his display in his laptop and ordered a new one for it, it was the same model except something about the finish was satin, how ever, it was the only difference.
He pulled the front monitor cover off and changed the LCD was very simple task on this monitor, and only had one plug to deal with. Before he changed it, the cpu would boot and worked fine just had spider web crack in the view of the display. After changing the LCD screen, He assembled back and installed battery, and he noticed the LCD screen lit up bright white before powering on the cpu. He then hit power on the cpu and nothing happened. He give to me, and I take his old one and plug back in because he said it was working with the old LCD, but when I press the power button, nothing happens. With the old LCD screen, it does not light up bright white like with the new LCD screen either. With the old one, it is like a dead machine, with the new LCD, it is a dead machine with the LCD lit up bright white. Any tips?

I have a flat screen HP vf15 that I fixed, I have been using My gateway VX720. Question is, which is better. I would be loosing some size going with the flat screen, but any thing for speed and quality if thats what it took. I play online games and I can not make since of what I have read,,, It seems all Chinese,,, (No Disrespect tended). Could some help me choose what would be best?

Right click on my computer and read there, it will tell you 64 bit, or if it says nothing about it, then it is 32 bit.

I have two adapters in my machine on a ASUS mother board, and I have had the two adapters bridged. I have the latest drivers and all the easy stuff, but one of my adapters will say, "A network cable is unplugged". It might stay working for five minutes or five seconds. I changed cables and every thing I could think of, but it still does it.
Win xp SP3

The program is not in the add or remove programs list and none of the uninstaller programs are detecting it.

OMG,,,, This needs to post some where so it can be used educationally, if such a word,,,,

Dual Core Not Showing Up in task manager or third party programs

Option #1 - Hal / NToskrnl replacement (Note: "C:\" or the Letter of your main drive, Mine was "E:\"

a. Make a directory called DUO on C:\
b. Copy halmacpi.dll (search your C:\ drive for this) to C:\DUO then rename it to hal.dll
c. Copy ntkrnlmp.exe (search your C:\ drive for this) to C:\DUO then rename it to ntoskrnl.exe
d. Make a batch file called go2core.cmd and put this in the file.

C:
CD\windows\system32
REN hal.dll hal.old
copy C:\Duo\hal.dll C:\windows\system32
REN ntoskrnl.exe ntoskrnl.old
copy C:\Duo\ntoskrnl.exe c:\windows\system32

e. Run Go2Core.cmd from C:\duo directory.
f. Reboot and you should now see two processors in Task manager

Re-booted into Safe Mode.
Re-booted Back into into XP

Changed boot.ini file and added this line without quotes to end "/usepmtimer

This fixed my machine Using Win XP SP3 ASUS Mother Board with AMD64 Dual Core +6000 Processor
Shazam!!!!

Although this worked on mine, I am not saying that it will work on yours, I take no responsibility for the actions you take on your own PC, I followed step by step, and read a lot before changing anything on my machine!!!!

Resources:

http://grandstreamdreams.blogspot.com/2008/08/enabling-dual-core-support.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/246286-28-dual-core-showing-task-manager

I am so Frustrated,,, and my thoughts exactly!!! Thanks Bro!!!!!
Just be without it for a few is all!!!! Much thanks!

Ok,,, oops forgot pic!! sorry.
It says " an active X control on this page is unsafe, your current security settings prohibits running unsafe controls on this page"???
The settings are still at default. hmmmmm!

Crunchie,
I was making sure that I have checked all possabilities before doing the extreme, and when I started the trouble shooter from device manager, processor, then properties, I got the warning below in the pick. maybe nothing but it will not do anything in the windows help when I click on sys info, tools or anything. Just clicks and thats it. maybe nothing but I was thinking maybe infected?

LOL,,,, OK, Until I return with News of some kind,,,, Thanks a lot!!!!!

Crunchie,
Last thing before I do this,,,, Do I need to uninstall all of my mother board drivers and processor drivers before repairing, or just go ahead and do the repair and let windows sort it out?
Again thank you so much for the time you have given me, even though I know you wanted to strangle me a couple of times!!:D

Yes it is being recognized, every where but third party programs and in the task manager. They all report single.

Will I loose all my stuff doing a repair?

Ok,,,, Here is a pic of core temp Crunchie.
I had went back into device manager and clicked the processor key and my two processors are listed separately. If I go to properties of each, it says, "The device is working Properly". I made sure I had the latest bios, and the latest drivers and all are up to date. I am at end. AMD and ASUS Tech suggest I do a fresh install of windows xp, but I do not see how that would be the problem, nor do I want to loose everything I have done on my CPU and have to start all over again. Your opinion?