lokoike

My feelings in a nutshell. Of course, I do also worry about MS's security as well as their business practices.

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness, Andavari, you crack me up! Thanks for the laugh! at your expense, hehe

I have a feeling one of two things might have happened: 1. The "click" sound ("C:\ WINDOWS\ Media\ start.wav", I believe) has been moved to a different directory or deleted or 2. You accidently removed this sound from the default Windows sound scheme. To find out if this is the case, click Start > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices, and click the Sounds tab. Scroll down the list and find the word 'Select'. If there is not a picture of a speaker on the left side of it, then you will have to re-add the aforementioned sound file and save the changes. Let me know if this works for you.

Oh, I see. I thought the 7800 was 90nm too! Thanks for the info, Rishi. Still, if I was gonna get SLI, I wouldn't ditch my already excellent 7800 for a 7900. Whenever I upgrade, I usually wait until several generations of a product has passed before I get one. I don't see much sense in upgrading graphics and other hardware every month. Too expensive and not enough performance boost to make it worthwhile.

I <3 EVEREST... or at least I did before they stopped making freeware versions of it! You could email me the report, but I doubt it would do too much good. That is just way too much info for my little brain! Hardware wears down like anything else. Especially components that have moving parts such as hard drives and fans. The parts eventually die due to things like electrical resistance, friction, vibration, etc. Also, if the parts had a small defect in them when you got them, the parts could potentially die within a very short period of time. Well, in a word, no. If your monitor was bad, your picture might be blurry, aliased, discolored, etc., but that wouldn't cause you to get disk errors and such. The monitor is basically just a TV. It doesn't really send your computer commands, it simply receives images and displays them.

O dear! Sorry about interjecting here, but I'm afraid you (hlpme) misunderstood my comment! I wasn't saying that YOU are too lazy to look! I was saying that I was too lazy to look! That is why I wrote "lokoike = too lazy to look for himself"! Hope this clears that up!

Suuuuuure you were! Go ahead, just try dissin' my wheels again, why don't you?!

I agree wholeheartedly! Sounds like a win-win to me!

Agreed! Hardware passwords are the best, and are practically uncrackable without expensive surgeries or lenses, etc. In my town, we actually have a grocery store that is accepting finger scanning as a way to pay for your purchases (I'm being totally serious)! They treat your fingerprint like a debit/credit card! Very strange, but I suppose it will become commonplace before too long.

Hmm... maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see all that much difference between the 7800 and the 7900. Slightly faster core and slightly faster RAM, no more pipelines, no more feature support (although once again, I may have missed something). If you really want SLI now, I would just get another 7800. I personally almost never resell comp parts, because they always depreciate, so it really isn't worth it. Just my opinion. But like rridgely said, Vista and newer games may end up requiring support for some new shader spec or something that both cards don't support, so I personally would wait and see what happens.

Well, most of us gave suggestions, but we really don't know if we helped him or not when he doesn't come back on to check and see if his question was answered! Nothing annoys me more than that. We'll probably never know if we helped him or not, cause he won't come on and tell us! The point of troubleshooting is to share/test out ideas until something works. Well, if we never know whether the initial ideas worked or not, how on Earth can we offer more? Personally, my mind reading is a little rusty, so I don't really know what his outcome was... And if a topic goes for a while with no responses from the original poster, what else are we to do but corrupt it? Just kidding, but seriously, good to see you again kk56!

WHOA! 2k+ posts! D00d, u liek totly pwn! Anyways, sorry for the randomnity, but when you saw only 3 people on, was that just members, or does that include viewers too? When I said 56 people, I was talking about the total number of people, cause there was actually only like 7 true members, and the other 49 were just viewers. Also, you're using dial-up. LOL. lokoike braces himself for the severe verbal thrashings which he knows the 'Super Zero' will soon unleash upon him

Man, that really sucks! I guess the best thing to find out then is if using Windows' format utility is okay to use, since Windows still sees the drive.

Ouch. That was harsh. Course, I suppose I sorta asked for it, now didn't I?

You are telling her not to reply, and your entire post is about "hijacked" and "trivial" posts/conversations, so one would logically deduce... And if the intent is not malicious, what is it? How do you nicely call someone "St. Joan of the Internet"? Here is what I think: I think you a posting this solely to mock others (such as K) who are perhaps more informed than you, and that you simply came on here to piss and moan. And my feelings are stated with all due respect, and by no means malicious. Please note the sarcasm.

You are correct. It is your video drivers. First, try restarting Windows. Oftentimes after a clean install of WinXP, the video drivers still aren't finalized. If you still have the effect after restarting, go to the manufacturer's website and get drivers that way. Does your video card have an ATI or Nvidia chip? You can get drivers packages/control panels here: ATI Nvidia Also, make sure you have your color set to 32-bit, and that you have a screen resolution of 800 x 600 or higher (preferrably higher).

Never mind, I spoke too soon! Now it is going veeeerrrrryyyyy ssssslllllllooooowwwwww.... Course, I just checked and there was 56 people on here, which is quite a few!

Location-based problems maybe? I haven't had any troubles for quite a while now. I just got my cable Internet hooked up a couple weeks ago, and no problem since then (other than a few router problems at first). Course, I'm a second-shifter, so I'm on at strange times... who knows?

Yeah, I suggested that with a screenshot a while ago, but I think the post was removed since it was made a little while ago. I like your suggestion for separate Language packs and a tiny screenshot as well. That would add some size, but if it was a jpg or gif, it would only be a few k (not 740k!), which wouldn't be that big of a deal. Also, this way MrG doesn't have to make multiple builds, so theoretically, it would make things easier for him too! I also have no reservations about MrG adding a Paypal button. In fact, I don't know why he hasn't yet! To me, there is nothing shameful about that, and I see no reason why anyone would have any reason to complain if it was integrated. Good suggestions!

And this malicious post is intended to encourage... what? Last time I checked, I haven't seen you giving too many "real answers" to questions. Here you are making fun of someone who you think posts too much, and by doing so, you yourself are making an irrelavent, obnoxious, and unnecessary post. If you've got a problem with K, and the fact that she helps people, PM HER FOR GOD'S SAKE! There is no need for this thread.

Whoa! Sweet! Those are pretty much all changes that I was hoping for! You r0xx0rs, MrG!

Holy crap! Sounds like we have plenty of issues to address! Before when? When it was still on the old computer, or when you first got the new computer? Ouch! However, that shouldn't actually be alarming, because you have your computer set to do a complete memory dump, instead of just a small or kernel memory dump. So theoretically, every time your computer crashes, Windows will write a half-gig of info as a .dmp file. If you have frequent crashes (which apparently you do) you may want to set your dump to small for the time being, so that your HD doesn't fill up with those. To do that, right-click My Computer, select Properties, click the Advanced tab, click Settings (under Startup and Recovery), and under Write debugging information, change Complete Memory Dump to Small Memory Dump. That will speed up your recovery from crashes, and not consume a bunch of HD. And here is where things get nasty. I would highly doubt this is due to software problems, even though it would seem that way. It honestly sounds like a major hardware failure, either in you mobo or hard drive(s). What company are the HDs and mobo? Also, what company is the entire computer? And please don't say Dell... I am assuming that your HDs are lettered C: and F:, correct? Which one contains your OS? Is either of the drives partitioned? And if so, are the potentially failing drives both actually just a single partitioned drive? I wouldn't if I were you. You can try, but don't expect anything good to happen. I doubt it will hurt anything, but any registry cleaner you use thereafter will probably just refind them and remove them again. Make sure to let us know what you find out!

He is using WinXP w/ SP1. (although not sure whether it is Home or Pro). His screenshot shows that at the top left-hand corner. And no Hotfixes are listed under the analysis, and it only shows a little over 10 MB of stuff being removed (Hotfixes would be a lot more), so that doesn't seem to be his problem, unless perhaps he ran that prior to running the analysis. Yeah, those are strange entries. I will await the product of your research, K! lokoike = too lazy to look for himself There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with them. @ hlpme: you can deselect the 'Cookies' checkbox if you don't want your cookies removed. CCleaner is designed by default to get rid of them, so those showing up is not a problem, and doesn't indicate any trouble with your computer.

Yeah, no kidding. Maybe the next CCleaner could come bundled with a Sasser Worm or something, so then we have something new and fresh to debate about!

Running out of ideas... Is all of the audio/video on your iPod backed up somewhere, such as your computer's HD? If so, my only suggestion is to format your iPod and then try connecting it and seeing if iTunes picks up on it then. I would imagine that it came with its own formatting software, but if not, don't try this with Windows' format utility until you know that it won't adversly affect the iPod. I don't know if it does or not, since I don't own an iPod, but I have heard that defragging an iPod with Windows' defrag utility is bad, so it would be best to make sure. If you aren't sure whether or not you can safely format it, try PMing DJ, since apparently he owns one. I'm sure he would know.