Posts by Catweazle

I suspect the default user name and password will be ADMIN

It should be mentioned in the user manual, which can be downloaded from the manufacturer website if you don't have it. I don't use Netgear equipment myself, and never saved a copy of the manual when I downloaded it to provide the information above, unfortunately.

I hope those old 'Ghost' images help you retrieve the programs you've lost.

The movie playing problems sound like your system is simply missing the codec files needed to decode and play back the video files. Some video files are encoded in ways which Windows can't natively decode. The most commonly found such problem is that the DivX codec is needed. See the following websites and perhaps they might help:

http://www.divx.com/divx/download/
http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divxcodec.html

Hi DanceswithElves, and welcome to Daniweb.

We're always happy to see more people here who will offer advice to others, but please be careful not to 'resurrect' older topics with information which has already been posted in the topic. If you read through, you'll notice that several people already mentioned the 'regsrvr32 urlmon.dll' trick. ;)

I really liked the clearly written way you presented it though! Please continue to hang around here :D

Hi, and sorry to take so long to get to this question.

Have you tried replacing the CMOS battery and then running the hard drive auto detection in BIOS setup?

Your problem sounds like a dead CMOS battery, and on many old systems once CMOS had no battery backup the hard drive detection needed to be run again before the drives could be identified by the system. It's worth a try!

I'm sorry, but by deleting that 'hidden' partition and then continuing to use the drive you have most likely destroyed any chance that even expensive commercial data recovery services could get it back for you.

I'd suggest you contact Sony's support people, explain your dilemma and see if they have any provision for replacing the bundled software etc that you've lost. (If memory serves me correct there is a procedure to be followed for some Sony Vaio laptops whereby you make 'Recovery' CDs which store the bundled software off the hard drive and onto optical media, but if the partition has been deleted before that has been done then it's too late.)

Sony may be able to provide you with CDs to use for the job of restoring your system, but if so you can expect there to be a fee for service to pay for them doing so.

The most unfortunate thing is that, if Sony have a policy which is like many other manufacturers, they'll have provision for helping you get back running with OS and device drivers, but not one to replace the bundled software you've lost :(

If the power supply unit had an isolation switch and that was turned off you are pretty safe from electrical damage. The isolation switch disconnects power from the motherboard.

Power down again, turn that switch off and check that ALL cards, RAM modules, cable connectors etc etc are firmly and securely pushed home in their slots and sockets. Something may have worked loose.

The point of the sticky is that to get the system working you stop trying to get it to boot until after you get it to work! No drives should be connected at all.

Strip it to 'barebones', reset CMOS and it should complete POST. Then add a drive, set Boot order to search for that drive first and it should complete POST and generate an 'Operating system not found' error message. Your bootable drive is the LAST thing you connect after you get everything else installed and successfully completing POST

Try following the advice in the "Read this first" pinned topic at top of page.

It certainly concerns me to hear of a heatsink/fan unit being replaced in this way.

Definitely, power cords should be disconnected.
Preferably the motherboard should be removed from the case and supported on a flat, cushioned surface. The pressure involved in clipping and unclipping a heatsink is enough to crack the motherboard of it is only supported by the spacers.

It could be quite fine. Check that no other cables or connectors were bumped llose during the job. Reset CMOS and try to reboot.

If no joy, then a technician is the best way to proceed.

Sure you've reset CMOS at each stage to ensure that it's not simply BIOS settings causing the failure to POST?

Sure your processor isn't dead?

Checked that the wall outlet is turned on and actually has power, and that the kid or the cat hasn't bumped a plug loose?

In IE, go to View -> Text size and change it. Same deal for Firefox. Make the font size what you want it to be ;)

The RAM is simply incompatible for working together. In theory your setup should work, but in practice when you mix and match different brands and types it often doesn't ;)

Best thing to do if you need 1Gb of RAM - sell both sticks as secondhand items and buy a pair of matched modules instead ;)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314477/EN-US/

You should find full instructions in that Knowledge Base article.

If you can't afford to pay, don't play!

Simple concept, isn't it? No piracy promotion please ;)

Then I'd consider your decision has been made for you and you'll need to activate.

If the copies of Windows are full retail ones, you'll be able to wipe the systems and change Home and Pro over later on. It's quite permissible to transfer the license from one system to another if you have a full retail copy.

If the XP license(s) are OEM, they will not be transferrable after activation.

Sorry, but there really is no way to do what you ask without contravening the license and copyright restrictions. About all you can do is lift the data files off the system, wipe the hard drive and install XP freshly again to get another activation period.

Or make a decision and activate.

Yes, the answer is to activate the Windows installation. Any other answer than that would be illegal cirumvention of the anti-piracy copyright protection, and would not be permissible content on this forum.

Is there a legitimate reason for wanting to extend the useful period without activating? I can't think of one!

Disable RAID altogether. With only a single SATA drive it's useless to you.

Ensure that boot order is set to default to the primary IDE drive and install to the IDE drive as Zachary suggested.

Skip the F6 driver installation - you don't need it because you're not using RAID.

Your motherboard may require a BIOS update in order for it to properly identify the processor.

That's correct, cargenius. Deleting the partitions and then creating new ones in their place is probably the simplest and surest way to wipe a system and the procedure I'd recommend every time! If the 120Gb drive is an IDE one on the primary IDE channel, Windows will try to install there by default anyway.

But remember to back up the data first!
(You sound like you know what you're doing. That bit was for anyone else reading :))

Follow the instructions in this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314060

The error occurs as a result of registry corruption caused by quite a range of software.

The average wieight of rice grains can be increased by the use of ridge farming and rice-fish cultivation, where 'crops' complement each other side by side.

Experiments carried out in 1986 by the Aquatic Products Station of Chishui County revealed that ridge-rice cultivation could improve rice tillering and increase average grain weight. In these experiments, the average number of grains per ear in the ridge fields was 140–155 compared with only 105–110 in flat fields. The average weight of 1000 grains in the ridge fields was 27.5–28.4 g, compared with 26.5–27.0 g for flat fields. The empty grain rate was 26.5–28% in the ridge fields and 39–41% in the flat fields.

Additional evidence of the benefits come from farmer experiments. A farmer, Jiang Chengxu in Suiyang County, conducted a comparison trial in an area of 0.05 ha (0.025 ha for each of the two methods). In each area, he stocked 200 7-cm fingerlings. The flat field yielded 170 kg rice and 12.6 kg fish. The ridge field yielded 200 kg rice and 34 kg fish, or an increase of 18% for rice and 172% for fish. In the Southeast Guizhou Prefecture, ridge-field cultivation required 6-8 more farmer-days of labour, but the value of production increased by 50%

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-27637-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

:D

What motherboard?

Checked the monitor cable and connections?

Checked for screws that may have accidentally been lodged under the motherboard or other possible causes of shorting?

Did you try the 'Workaround' in that link?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;884573

:D

If you have Windows XP, won't the Programs-Accessories-Scheduled Tasks feature be sufficient?

I suspect a refresh install of Windows (Run 'setup' from the Windows CD whilst in Windows itself) might be needed to correct the syatem corruption you obviously have.

Thanks for letting us know. Sometimes problems are simply beyond what a help forum can assist with. :(

Download the chipset driver from here.

Install it on that Dell. Then download and install Everest Home Edition on it and generate a report to identify which of the other device drivers on that download page you need!

Let us know if you have any trouble identifying specific devices from Everest's report.

Isn't there a model name and number on the computer case?

Then you need to identify precisely what model Dell it is and download device drivers from Dell's website.

ok, I have a problem, when I right click My computer, the hardware tab is not there, so I right clicked in the hard drive and I found the hardware tab and the drivers but there were only the drivers for the hard drive, cd, dvd and USB things.
And 1 more thing how do u go into BIOS?
In the video card owner's manual says that u shuold install the hardware first, is that true??

Be better to follow the instructions given earlier. Right click My Computer and choose Properties.

In Windows XP 'Device Manager' will be accessed via a button on the 'Hardware' tab. In Windows 98 'Device Manager' will be a tab of its own.

The 'System Properties' dialogue (which is what we're talking about here) can also be accessed via Control Panel, or by pressing the 'Windows key' and the 'Pause/Break' key at the same time.

When you are in Device Manager there should be a section called 'Display Adapters'.

When you get the new card do this:

* Right-click My computer and choose properties. On the Hardware tab choose Device Manager. Locate the entry for the display card, right click it and choose 'Uninstall' or 'Remove' or whatever it is. OK out of there and DO NOT REBOOT if asked.

* In Control Panel choose Add/Remove programs. Locate any entries there for display drivers and choose Remove for any that appear.

* Shut down and remove the power cord.

* Open the case and fit the new card.

* Ensure that the monitor is connected to the new card, and that the monitor is turned on and warmed up. Close up, reconnect the power cord and press the 'On' switch.

* Immediately go into BIOS setup. Change the setting for video memory allocated to disabled or the minimum amount possible, whatever the settings available may be for your motherboard. (Settings vary from board to board so carefully read the motherboard manual.) If there is a setting to disable onboard video use it. If the manual indicates a motherboard jumper setting to disable onboard video make the appropriate change.

* Save and exit from BIOS setup, and when Windows starts Cancel out of any Hardware installation dialogue you might be presented with.

* Install the card in Windows either by running the card's installation CD, or for preference by installing the latest driver revision downloaded fromm www.nvidia.com or

If you mean the one I just posted I just checked it in both Firefox and Internet Explorer and it works fine for me. Perhaps a problem at your end?

You'll also find a detailed procedure for adding Windows 98 to a Windows XP system here:

http://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2.nsf/web/E6D96526AF2C872BCA256DD700280269

Wrong, Bhstickman. The extra graphics memory does not make the card twice as good, and in fact could actually make it SLOWER. Often, when extra RAM is included on a low end display card the RAM chips used have higher latency than normal, leading to reduced performance. The 9200 graphics chip is too underpowered to adequately run anything which requires more than 128Mb of display RAM, and the availability of 256Mb cards for such low powered product lines is simply a sales gimmick!

If you take notice of the 'specifications' mentioned on PC games boxes you'd be led to believe that Video memory is the most important thing to consider, but it's not. The graphics chip on the card is the most important contributor to performance. Cheap cards aren't as good, and adding more memory doesn't make them good!

George Orwell, where are you? 1984 is finally here!

Edit: This was posted before I saw your comment above. doesn't change my mind though. I consider any technology of this type to be simply far too big a risk to have implemented.

Maybe it's the good old Aussie contempt for authority in me, but I don't and will never place that much faith in the people who oversee such schemes and in the Governments they answer to.

RFID tags can make for a safer society.

Balderdash!

The misuse of technology in this way cannot lead to a 'safer' society because human nature will lead it to be misused, and implemented for purposes of control rather than to assist you.

If that system accomodates an Athlon64 3200+ processor, it is most definitely NOT limited to AGP 4X. It will run AGP 8X cards at full bandwidth also, and should be adjustable for that in BIOS setup.

There are no motherboards suitable for AMD64 processors which are only AGP 4X

With the release of the 7800GTX it seems that proces are already dropping a tad for earlier cards. Might be time I upgraded myself :)

That sounds like a good deal belama.

Maniaco, if you can't get a 6600GT or perhaps even an X700 Pro for under $200 I'd suggest you wait longer and save more. The cards you listed are really inadequate for the latest games.

You sure it doesn'y say 384Mb of RAM?

Sounds like that SiS graphics is onboard video, and that 128Mb of system memory is being allocated for use of the display circuitry.

It's a very substandard setup for 3D gaming, and you REALLY need to get a dedicated display card and change BIOS setup to re-allocate all RAM to system memory.

Moved to viruses and nasties forum section

I would recommend a 6600GT or better, and you should be able to get one quite easily for $US200

I'm a bit stumped I have to admit. It seems strange that the system is correctly identifying monitor and display card, yet still exhibiting such behaviour. Are you sure that the monitor is actuall an IBM 6331 as reported?

Perhaps you could try locating and reinstalling a device driver for the Cirrus Logic display card?

Did you click 'Apply'?

The default location for your particular router should be:
http://192.168.0.1

Type that into the address bar in your browser to connect to the router's configuration interface. You will be asked for a user name and password, and if you haven't changed the defaults the username will be admin and the password will be

Bit too simple, jwshepard, because not all firewall routers have a setting specifically called "Filtering" which can be turned on and off. On my own unit, for example, the relevent settings are called "Control Web Access" and "Control Type". People infamiliar with changing settings on such equipment can easily get confused about the terms used.

According to page 5-1 of the manual for this particular unit, which I've just downloaded and checked, the relevent entry is on the 'Block Sites' page of the web interface, and it is disabled by setting "Keyword blocking" to 'Never'.

If you are using a router, the router itself should BE the 'admin computer', because it is the component running the network!

Best you check the settings in the router/firewall interface. Perhaps you have certain features blocked, such as Java applets or active-x controls, and the website you are trying to visit relies on them for it to work.

Perhaps you have somehow got certain sites or groups of sites blocked in the router/firewall settings. I'm not familiar with the interface for your Netgear unit. you'll need to check the device's manual of course. My own NetComm unit provides a firewall settings page where java, activeX, cookies etc can be blocked altogether, and also a 'URL filter' which can block individual sites either by URL or IP, or by keyword checks. It also allows exceptions to be set for the blocked sites.

See what the interface for your own device provides in the way of controls.

Program name and version please? Sounds like it might be a copy protection measure which is getting hung up on the fact that you have CD emulation software installed. Many games, for example do just that, and refuse to run when such software is installed.