All your PC problems, Volume 2

The Real Deal · 29th December 2007, 01:52

I downloaded service pack 2 and then uninstalled it again because i couldn't get on the Internet again. So i uninstalled it and went into the add/remove programs, so i kept on removing them from my computer until i did a restart. From there on in anything went doom it just keep on restarting at the windows xp and i still haven't fix it...i tired to go into safe mode but that kept on restarting. so what should i do?

ZIDANE · 29th December 2007, 01:59

I don't know but I think you're well and truly fucked.

You say you kept on removing it - removing what though? you may have moved one too many things. Try installing it again?

Someone may know a lengthy procedure but it might just be easier to install it all again depending if you know how, have backups and the relevant software.

The Real Deal · 29th December 2007, 02:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZIDANE

I don't know but I think you're well and truly fucked.

You say you kept on removing it - removing what though? you may have moved one too many things. Try installing it again?

Someone may know a lengthy procedure but it might just be easier to install it all again depending if you know how, have backups and the relevant software.

Updates in the add/remove programs.

ZIDANE · 29th December 2007, 02:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Real Deal

Updates in the add/remove programs.

Were those updates along with Service pack 2 or were they separate? You probably did one to many things.

If choosing last known configuration or safe mode from the boot menu doesn't work at all then you may have messed up your windows install.

Try running the original Windows XP CD and when it loads up try choosing the REPAIR MODE.

Try that it may just fix it.

The Real Deal · 29th December 2007, 02:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZIDANE

Were those updates along with Service pack 2 or were they separate? You probably did one to many things.

Yes they were belonging to service pack 2.

If choosing last known configuration or safe mode from the boot menu doesn't work at all then you may have messed up your windows install.
I tired that but still keeps on restarting.

Try running the original Windows XP CD and when it loads up try choosing the REPAIR MODE.

Try that it may just fix it.

I will have to get the windows xp tomorrow thanks for your help.

VidaRed · 29th December 2007, 12:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Real Deal

Updates in the add/remove programs.

not a good idea

try installing them again (download them through another computer then burn them onto the cd and install them again)

p.s my advice install xp with sp2 again

Ronaldo07 · 31st December 2007, 09:28

Alright spazzers, I want to replace one of my hard disks with a giant one and what I need to know is can I replace either an ATA-5 or an ATA-6 drive with a SATA drive? Wikipedia and the rest of the internet are no help on this since I'm shit with computers and don't understand the technicalities

Mihajlovic · 2nd January 2008, 12:57

U-Torrent problem!

After downloading 90.3 % of a file, all over sudden there is an error message

Error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

The same thing appears on all my downloading files. What the hell is that???

Doogie · 2nd January 2008, 14:57

Do you have Google Desktop? If you do, close/uninstall it.

Here is a link to that problem
http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#I_ge...ts_the_torrent

James Parkin · 2nd January 2008, 15:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by VidaRed

which one did you buy kav or kis

because kis will give you all round protection from viruses,spyware etc

I shall check upon my return home this evening

Mihajlovic · 2nd January 2008, 17:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by doogie_style

Do you have Google Desktop? If you do, close/uninstall it.

Here is a link to that problem
http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#I_ge...ts_the_torrent

Thanks mate, Ill try out a few options. I read it can also be cause by the AVG so I switched that one of, just to see it it's gonna be ok.

Mihajlovic · 6th January 2008, 18:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by doogie_style

Do you have Google Desktop? If you do, close/uninstall it.

Here is a link to that problem
http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#I_ge...ts_the_torrent

looks like it was the Google desktop... working fine now..

UBERScholes · 7th January 2008, 00:31

My PC went tits up. I was writing to DVD and got an error message like 'Disk Failed!', before a blue screen saying Windows will restart to prevent a serious error. Anyway now it won't boot past the opening screen, I can't even get into BIOS. Anyone know if I can sort this out? I'm running XP

RedNome · 7th January 2008, 00:33

Will it boot into safe mode?

UBERScholes · 7th January 2008, 01:09

Actually I've sorted it, I had to reset the CMOS by fiddling around with the jumpers. Lucky I remembered I could do that, was shitting myself thinking all my unbacked up porn was lost forever

Ronaldo07 · 7th January 2008, 20:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ronaldo07

Alright spazzers, I want to replace one of my hard disks with a giant one and what I need to know is can I replace either an ATA-5 or an ATA-6 drive with a SATA drive? Wikipedia and the rest of the internet are no help on this since I'm shit with computers and don't understand the technicalities

Come on then computer people...

RedNome · 7th January 2008, 20:16

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Originally Posted by Ronaldo07

Come on then computer people...

Does your motherboard support SATA?

Mihajlovic · 8th January 2008, 01:09

I fucking hate Vista. It is the slowest OS since the Amiga I had 15 years ago. Everything is deadslow, no matter what I want to do, delete, copy or move a single file, it takes ages! Shutting down almost a minute! Every single move I have to admin-confirm or allow, again and again! Damn you microshits!!!

Count Duckula · 8th January 2008, 01:28

Graphics card help:

I'm looking at buying a new pc from a specialist dealer, since I'm no good at building them myself but I don't want an "off-the-shelf" from pc world or whatever. The dealer I'm looking at that comes recommended from a friend (CyberPower I believe) and has two identical systems at an identical price.

Well, that's not entirely true. One of the systems is about £300 more, but it comes with a monitor and a five-hundred gig harddrive, whereas the other system does not come with a monitor and has only a four-hundred gig harddrive. For £300 I could get an equivalently sized monitor and still have some change left over to make up for the smaller harddrive.

The dilemma comes in the form of the graphics card. Both systems have a Quadcore 2.66Ghz processor, the same soundcard, the same motherboard, the same DVD reader/writer and all manner of other flashing lights and whistles, all of which are the same. The difference is in the graphics. One (the more expensive) comes with a single GeForce 8800GTX 768mb graphics card, whilst the other comes with two GeForce 8800GT 512mb (running SLI Mode -- whatever that means).

So, in essence:
One 8800GTX 768mb --or--
Two 8800GT 512mb.

The first is a GTX and not a GT, but the second has two which means effectively its 1024mbs, no? And 1024 > 768.

Thanks in advance for the help

RedNome · 8th January 2008, 01:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mihajlovic

I fucking hate Vista. It is the slowest OS since the Amiga I had 15 years ago. Everything is deadslow, no matter what I want to do, delete, copy or move a single file, it takes ages! Shutting down almost a minute! Every single move I have to admin-confirm or allow, again and again! Damn you microshits!!!

How much RAM have you got?

You need 2 Gb MINIMUM to run Vista I'd recommend at least 3Gb.

Infact fuck that I'd recommend you uninstall Vista and use XP instead, it's a much better OS.

RedNome · 8th January 2008, 01:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Count Duckula

Graphics card help:

I'm looking at buying a new pc from a specialist dealer, since I'm no good at building them myself but I don't want an "off-the-shelf" from pc world or whatever. The dealer I'm looking at that comes recommended from a friend (CyberPower I believe) and has two identical systems at an identical price.

Well, that's not entirely true. One of the systems is about £300 more, but it comes with a monitor and a five-hundred gig harddrive, whereas the other system does not come with a monitor and has only a four-hundred gig harddrive. For £300 I could get an equivalently sized monitor and still have some change left over to make up for the smaller harddrive.

The dilemma comes in the form of the graphics card. Both systems have a Quadcore 2.66Ghz processor, the same soundcard, the same motherboard, the same DVD reader/writer and all manner of other flashing lights and whistles, all of which are the same. The difference is in the graphics. One (the more expensive) comes with a single GeForce 8800GTX 768mb graphics card, whilst the other comes with two GeForce 8800GT 512mb (running SLI Mode -- whatever that means).

So, in essence:
One 8800GTX 768mb --or--
Two 8800GT 512mb.

The first is a GTX and not a GT, but the second has two which means effectively its 1024mbs, no? And 1024 > 768.

Thanks in advance for the help

I don't think it quite works like that, but I believe you would be better off with the 2 x 8800GT running in SLi mode. I'm currently running a BFG OC 8800GT and it's fecking great, I've built my system to be SLi compatible when I can afford another 8800GT.

Mihajlovic · 8th January 2008, 01:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by RedNome

How much RAM have you got?

You need 2 Gb MINIMUM to run Vista I'd recommend at least 3Gb.

Infact fuck that I'd recommend you uninstall Vista and use XP instead, it's a much better OS.

RAM 1014 MB

I checked on the Vista forums, all the people are totally pissed off, I mean even with 512 MB RAM it shouldnt take 20 seconds to delete a single file. Im seriously gonna go back to XP! Cant believe this!

Justin · 8th January 2008, 05:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mihajlovic

RAM 1014 MB

I checked on the Vista forums, all the people are totally pissed off, I mean even with 512 MB RAM it shouldnt take 20 seconds to delete a single file. Im seriously gonna go back to XP! Cant believe this!

That is very slow. But Vista is 'runnable' with 512MB RAM. I run Vista Virtual Machines for testing at work, and while it's kind of slow, you can do most operations without a fuss and certainly nothing like the performance you're getting.

botond · 8th January 2008, 17:44

i need some help , but i want to deal in private whit this
so who can i pm whit my issue regarding cracks

VidaRed · 8th January 2008, 17:56

which cracks do you need?

botond · 8th January 2008, 18:08

pm sent

Tabasco Sauce · 10th January 2008, 06:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ronaldo07

Alright spazzers, I want to replace one of my hard disks with a giant one and what I need to know is can I replace either an ATA-5 or an ATA-6 drive with a SATA drive? Wikipedia and the rest of the internet are no help on this since I'm shit with computers and don't understand the technicalities

If your motherboard has a SATA port, yes you can. If not, no you cannot unless you want to hunt around for a ATA to SATA converter.

REd FUn DevIl · 14th January 2008, 16:09

Avast found a trojan called Win32:BHO-KD

The damn virus doesnt want to go away, it cant be deleted or moved to chest. Cant be killed with Killbox and not even with Hijackthis.

I really want to kill that fecker. any help plz.

Ronaldo07 · 14th January 2008, 19:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tabasco Sauce

If your motherboard has a SATA port, yes you can. If not, no you cannot unless you want to hunt around for a ATA to SATA converter.

Thanks, I can pick up one of those converters cheap off ebay and get a SATA hard disk which seem to be easier to find

29th December 2007, 01:52	#401 (permalink)
The Real Deal Reserve Team Player Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Hell.. Posts: 861	I downloaded service pack 2 and then uninstalled it again because i couldn't get on the Internet again. So i uninstalled it and went into the add/remove programs, so i kept on removing them from my computer until i did a restart. From there on in anything went doom it just keep on restarting at the windows xp and i still haven't fix it...i tired to go into safe mode but that kept on restarting. so what should i do?

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ZIDANE Reserve Team Player Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: "..undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation." Zizou on Scholes Posts: 4,904	I don't know but I think you're well and truly fucked. You say you kept on removing it - removing what though? you may have moved one too many things. Try installing it again? Someone may know a lengthy procedure but it might just be easier to install it all again depending if you know how, have backups and the relevant software.

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Ronaldo07 Beanpole studying Irish history Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Fighting over the internet is like being David Bellion, even if you win, you'e still a gay french shitbag who's first touch is worse than a landmine victims-Credit to Big Andy Posts: 5,330	Alright spazzers, I want to replace one of my hard disks with a giant one and what I need to know is can I replace either an ATA-5 or an ATA-6 drive with a SATA drive? Wikipedia and the rest of the internet are no help on this since I'm shit with computers and don't understand the technicalities

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Mihajlovic Its Baltic! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Berlin-West Posts: 6,319	U-Torrent problem! After downloading 90.3 % of a file, all over sudden there is an error message Error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process The same thing appears on all my downloading files. What the hell is that???

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Doogie Reserve Team Player Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,133	Do you have Google Desktop? If you do, close/uninstall it. Here is a link to that problem http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#I_ge...ts_the_torrent

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UBERScholes I'd find it flattering if someone hard rubbed against me. Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 10,522	My PC went tits up. I was writing to DVD and got an error message like 'Disk Failed!', before a blue screen saying Windows will restart to prevent a serious error. Anyway now it won't boot past the opening screen, I can't even get into BIOS. Anyone know if I can sort this out? I'm running XP

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RedNome Cnut Rating: 9(conservative) Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Well, here we are in a room with two manky hookers and a racist dwarf. Posts: 11,675	Will it boot into safe mode?

7th January 2008, 01:09	#415 (permalink)
UBERScholes I'd find it flattering if someone hard rubbed against me. Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 10,522	Actually I've sorted it, I had to reset the CMOS by fiddling around with the jumpers. Lucky I remembered I could do that, was shitting myself thinking all my unbacked up porn was lost forever

8th January 2008, 01:09	#418 (permalink)
Mihajlovic Its Baltic! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Berlin-West Posts: 6,319	I fucking hate Vista. It is the slowest OS since the Amiga I had 15 years ago. Everything is deadslow, no matter what I want to do, delete, copy or move a single file, it takes ages! Shutting down almost a minute! Every single move I have to admin-confirm or allow, again and again! Damn you microshits!!!

8th January 2008, 01:28	#419 (permalink)
Count Duckula First Team Sub Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: In the corner, losing my religion. Posts: 5,828	Graphics card help: I'm looking at buying a new pc from a specialist dealer, since I'm no good at building them myself but I don't want an "off-the-shelf" from pc world or whatever. The dealer I'm looking at that comes recommended from a friend (CyberPower I believe) and has two identical systems at an identical price. Well, that's not entirely true. One of the systems is about £300 more, but it comes with a monitor and a five-hundred gig harddrive, whereas the other system does not come with a monitor and has only a four-hundred gig harddrive. For £300 I could get an equivalently sized monitor and still have some change left over to make up for the smaller harddrive. The dilemma comes in the form of the graphics card. Both systems have a Quadcore 2.66Ghz processor, the same soundcard, the same motherboard, the same DVD reader/writer and all manner of other flashing lights and whistles, all of which are the same. The difference is in the graphics. One (the more expensive) comes with a single GeForce 8800GTX 768mb graphics card, whilst the other comes with two GeForce 8800GT 512mb (running SLI Mode -- whatever that means). So, in essence: One 8800GTX 768mb --or-- Two 8800GT 512mb. The first is a GTX and not a GT, but the second has two which means effectively its 1024mbs, no? And 1024 > 768. Thanks in advance for the help

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botond Reserve Team Player Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 3,223	i need some help , but i want to deal in private whit this so who can i pm whit my issue regarding cracks

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REd FUn DevIl First Team Regular Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: I Love Sugarcult Posts: 12,132	Avast found a trojan called Win32:BHO-KD The damn virus doesnt want to go away, it cant be deleted or moved to chest. Cant be killed with Killbox and not even with Hijackthis. I really want to kill that fecker. any help plz.

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