All your PC problems, Volume 2

Justin · 7th April 2008, 08:52

Check Show processes from all users. Firefox may be running as a different user.

botond · 7th April 2008, 08:57

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Originally Posted by Justin

Check Show processes from all users. Firefox may be running as a different user.

nothing changes , i have only one user

botond · 7th April 2008, 08:58

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Originally Posted by Drifter

This as happened to me a few times.And that's the way i have solved it.Maybe try logging off and on again or Reinstalling Firefox backing up any settings and plugins.

i have only one user , logged off , reinstalled still...

Justin · 7th April 2008, 09:05

When you do you reinstalls, did you do a clean reinstall? I.e. delete your profiles. Also, which version of FF are you using?

botond · 7th April 2008, 09:09

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Originally Posted by Justin

When you do you reinstalls, did you do a clean reinstall? I.e. delete your profiles. Also, which version of FF are you using?

i unistalled ff from the add remove programs , cleaned whit ccleaner, repaired registry , restarted , dowloaded version 20013 from support , istalled ,and same error message

"I.e. delete your profiles" ... ??

Justin · 7th April 2008, 09:13

There should be a directory in:
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Mozilla

I don't think that gets deleted automatically.

botond · 7th April 2008, 09:21

yes , cant delete it " corrupted or unreadable"

Justin · 7th April 2008, 09:25

Can you create a new profile by opening run and entering
firefox.exe -ProfileManager

Drifter · 7th April 2008, 09:26

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Originally Posted by botond

yes , cant delete it " corrupted or unreadable"

Then that's your problem.Restart your computer using chkdsk.

botond · 7th April 2008, 09:36

restarted in safe mode , deleted the folder , restarted normally , reinstalled , and baaaaammmm

Thank you

brophs · 7th April 2008, 11:27

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Originally Posted by MrBurns

There is a common fault with Compaq's.

Something to do with the 'switch technology' used for lighting.

If you tap the the laptop a couple of inches beneath the ctrl key on the far left of the unit, then the lights go off.

Is that serious advice, or are you taking the mick, by repeating what I've said?

Tabasco Sauce · 7th April 2008, 13:05

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Originally Posted by brophs

I have a Compaq NX6325 laptop. When I shutdown, it shuts down as normal, but the power switch, mute button and power light indicator all stay lit up, but everything else seems to have shut down. I have to hold the power button to turn it off manually. Anybody have any idea what's causing this shutdown problem?

How often does that happen? Does it happen every time? If not, it could just be a software problem...

But if it happens every time, couple of issues are possible...

1. The board/LED cable could be burned out. It is a small board with flatcable attatched on. Not too hard to replace. If you have already opened the machine, inspect the white flatcable physically, you will see it is burned a bit. (looks black).

2. Might just need a BIOS upgrade, so upgrade to the latest BIOS...

brophs · 7th April 2008, 13:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tabasco Sauce

How often does that happen? Does it happen every time? If not, it could just be a software problem...

But if it happens every time, couple of issues are possible...

1. The board/LED cable could be burned out. It is a small board with flatcable attatched on. Not too hard to replace. If you have already opened the machine, inspect the white flatcable physically, you will see it is burned a bit. (looks black).

2. Might just need a BIOS upgrade, so upgrade to the latest BIOS...

Thanks for the reply. Happens every time, but as I said above, i can get the lights to shut off by pressing the laptop on the left beside the touch pad. Any idea what that could be, seems like there is something loose or something like that.

Mihajlovic · 9th April 2008, 09:58

Just downloaded the "FEAR Combat" game (MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIRED 64MB GeForce(TM) 4 Ti or Radeon(R) 9000 video card)

and when I try to run it it says "The video card in this computer is not supported"

I have an ancient AMD Athlon XP2000. 1.66 GHz, how do I find out what video card I have got? I heard the game is awesome but it runs only on XP and not on Vista.

edit: I got it now, I have a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440.

Wit Tanker · 9th April 2008, 13:05

I am having trouble using limewire. It just doesn't connect to internet. I tried disabling the firewall, but it still doesn't work. I tried the basic version and the pro version but the same result. I was working perfectly fine till a few weeks back. Anyone else facing same problem?

101 · 9th April 2008, 13:16

Piece of advice: Limewire is shite, littered with fake files. Go for torrents or http downloads

Wit Tanker · 9th April 2008, 13:45

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Originally Posted by 101

Piece of advice: Limewire is shite, littered with fake files. Go for torrents or http downloads

I use torrents for films and other big files, but for music i prefer limewire. I have also found out the way the avoid fake files, so that is not a problem.
Can you tell me any websites for http music downloads if you are aware of any?

Mihajlovic · 9th April 2008, 14:45

Limewire works quite good actually, the only thing is sometimes it need up to 10 minutes to establish the connection. Eventually it connects. The bottom, left corner is the green instead of red. I also thought it doesnt work but it's just that you have to wait for a while. Dont know why.

Wit Tanker · 9th April 2008, 14:49

why usually for me it connects in couple of minutes, but for a weeks i have been trying, and even waited for over an hour, but it still couldn't establish connection.

VidaRed · 9th April 2008, 22:25

www.warez-bb.org or torrents or usenext

Wit Tanker · 9th April 2008, 22:58

nice one Vida!!

Wit Tanker · 9th April 2008, 22:59

I was thinking of installing Vista (currently XP).
Does it mean i have to reinstall all softwares again?

Justin · 10th April 2008, 08:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wit Tanker

I was thinking of installing Vista (currently XP).
Does it mean i have to reinstall all softwares again?

It's not a very good idea to simply install Vista on top of XP. Can be a disaster ranging from your existing software not working to reducing you computer to a piece of junk.

Then again, you might get lucky and everything will work perfectly after the install.

101 · 10th April 2008, 10:42

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Originally Posted by Wit Tanker

I use torrents for films and other big files, but for music i prefer limewire. I have also found out the way the avoid fake files, so that is not a problem.
Can you tell me any websites for http music downloads if you are aware of any?

Search around for rapidshare, megaupload, sharezilla, etc. etc. links on forums like www.warez-bb.org. There's www.mp3fusion.net, www.airmp3.net. I've used these in the past, but stick to torrents.

101 · 10th April 2008, 10:45

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Originally Posted by Wit Tanker

I was thinking of installing Vista (currently XP).
Does it mean i have to reinstall all softwares again?

Depends if you do a clean install, in which case you have to reinstall everything back again, or an upgrade, in which case you don't. I did an upgrade install, so all my software stayed on the computer. You may find there is some compatibility issues with a couple of the softwares, but they are releasing updates by the day to make them Vista compatible. Alternatively, you can just get the newest version of the software and they should be 99.9% compatible with Vista.

Wit Tanker · 10th April 2008, 14:42

So it looks like i have to go for upgrade. The reason being i have some very big softwares installed at the moment which will just take forever to reinstall them again.
Btw there are some softwares installed but i have not got a backup copy of it. Is it possible to create a back up from the currently installed software then?

VidaRed · 10th April 2008, 15:33

format your hard drive then install vista then install all the softwares again.

narnar · 12th April 2008, 19:57

Geeks.

KingEric7 · 15th April 2008, 18:32

For some reason, i haven't been able to stream youtube videos or anything of the sort for quite some time with any real success and it's getting incredibly frustrating. Videos simply do not stream for me anymore.

Any ideas?

Wit Tanker · 15th April 2008, 18:38

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Originally Posted by KingEric7

For some reason, i haven't been able to stream youtube videos or anything of the sort for quite some time with any real success and it's getting incredibly frustrating. Videos simply do not stream for me anymore.

Any ideas?

Make sure you have flash player installed.
If it still happens then i reckon your internet speed is too slow.
Just try another internet browser as well, i might make a difference.

ZIDANE · 15th April 2008, 18:40

What do you use? Firefox?

Try re-installing the latest flash player?

I have some problems recently where some of the images don't load up until I click refresh a few times. Cleared out all the temp stuff and all that as well. Think it might have been that last update in Firefox I did. Anyone else have the same problems?

KingEric7 · 15th April 2008, 19:25

No luck unfortunately but cheers anyways.
I'm actually using Speedbit Video accelerator now which helps in some cases.

I'm now pretty sure the reason why this is happening is due to my computer realising that the version of windows installed is fake. Fuck knows how i got a fake version of windows........

7th April 2008, 08:52	#681 (permalink)
Justin First Team Regular Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 16,125	Check Show processes from all users. Firefox may be running as a different user.

7th April 2008, 09:05	#684 (permalink)
Justin First Team Regular Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 16,125	When you do you reinstalls, did you do a clean reinstall? I.e. delete your profiles. Also, which version of FF are you using?

7th April 2008, 09:13	#686 (permalink)
Justin First Team Regular Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 16,125	There should be a directory in: C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Mozilla I don't think that gets deleted automatically.

7th April 2008, 09:21	#687 (permalink)
botond Reserve Team Player Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 3,210	yes , cant delete it " corrupted or unreadable"

7th April 2008, 09:25	#688 (permalink)
Justin First Team Regular Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 16,125	Can you create a new profile by opening run and entering firefox.exe -ProfileManager

7th April 2008, 09:36	#690 (permalink)
botond Reserve Team Player Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 3,210	restarted in safe mode , deleted the folder , restarted normally , reinstalled , and baaaaammmm Thank you

9th April 2008, 09:58	#694 (permalink)
Mihajlovic Its Baltic! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Републикa Српскa Posts: 5,920	Just downloaded the "FEAR Combat" game (MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIRED 64MB GeForce(TM) 4 Ti or Radeon(R) 9000 video card) and when I try to run it it says "The video card in this computer is not supported" I have an ancient AMD Athlon XP2000. 1.66 GHz, how do I find out what video card I have got? I heard the game is awesome but it runs only on XP and not on Vista. edit: I got it now, I have a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440.

9th April 2008, 13:05	#695 (permalink)
Wit Tanker Reserve Team Player Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,351	I am having trouble using limewire. It just doesn't connect to internet. I tried disabling the firewall, but it still doesn't work. I tried the basic version and the pro version but the same result. I was working perfectly fine till a few weeks back. Anyone else facing same problem?

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101 Reserve Team Player Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Somewhere between a rock and a hard place. Posts: 2,891	Piece of advice: Limewire is shite, littered with fake files. Go for torrents or http downloads

9th April 2008, 14:45	#698 (permalink)
Mihajlovic Its Baltic! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Републикa Српскa Posts: 5,920	Limewire works quite good actually, the only thing is sometimes it need up to 10 minutes to establish the connection. Eventually it connects. The bottom, left corner is the green instead of red. I also thought it doesnt work but it's just that you have to wait for a while. Dont know why.

9th April 2008, 14:49	#699 (permalink)
Wit Tanker Reserve Team Player Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,351	why usually for me it connects in couple of minutes, but for a weeks i have been trying, and even waited for over an hour, but it still couldn't establish connection.

9th April 2008, 22:25	#700 (permalink)
VidaRed First Team Sub Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 7,252	www.warez-bb.org or torrents or usenext

9th April 2008, 22:58	#701 (permalink)
Wit Tanker Reserve Team Player Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,351	nice one Vida!!

9th April 2008, 22:59	#702 (permalink)
Wit Tanker Reserve Team Player Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,351	I was thinking of installing Vista (currently XP). Does it mean i have to reinstall all softwares again?

10th April 2008, 14:42	#706 (permalink)
Wit Tanker Reserve Team Player Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,351	So it looks like i have to go for upgrade. The reason being i have some very big softwares installed at the moment which will just take forever to reinstall them again. Btw there are some softwares installed but i have not got a backup copy of it. Is it possible to create a back up from the currently installed software then?

10th April 2008, 15:33	#707 (permalink)
VidaRed First Team Sub Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 7,252	format your hard drive then install vista then install all the softwares again.

12th April 2008, 19:57	#708 (permalink)
narnar Needs Help Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: northern ireland Posts: 5,352	Geeks.

15th April 2008, 18:32	#709 (permalink)
KingEric7 Winner of the Tabata bet Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Patrice Evra is that which no greater can be conceived. Posts: 12,815	For some reason, i haven't been able to stream youtube videos or anything of the sort for quite some time with any real success and it's getting incredibly frustrating. Videos simply do not stream for me anymore. Any ideas?

15th April 2008, 18:40	#711 (permalink)
ZIDANE Reserve Team Player Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: "..undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation." Zizou on Scholes Posts: 4,452	What do you use? Firefox? Try re-installing the latest flash player? I have some problems recently where some of the images don't load up until I click refresh a few times. Cleared out all the temp stuff and all that as well. Think it might have been that last update in Firefox I did. Anyone else have the same problems?

15th April 2008, 19:25	#712 (permalink)
KingEric7 Winner of the Tabata bet Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Patrice Evra is that which no greater can be conceived. Posts: 12,815	No luck unfortunately but cheers anyways. I'm actually using Speedbit Video accelerator now which helps in some cases. I'm now pretty sure the reason why this is happening is due to my computer realising that the version of windows installed is fake. Fuck knows how i got a fake version of windows........