computer pissin me off....again
 

problem#1: for some reason i cant play dvds on WMP ,it keeps telling me it needs a decoder and iv installed at least 4 dvd decoders with no result . dvds played fine on my other computer on WMP, why cant i get it to work???!

problem#2: my drive letters seem to be ****** up , for some reson my boot/system drive is "D" and my xtra storage partition on the same physical drive is "C". this is causing some programs to not install/work corectley and it alsow just bothers the hell out of me (kind of like a crooked picture on your wall or a squeeky floorbored).

problem# 3: it keeps crashing for no aperant reson(i think i might have fixed the problem with the firewall that might have been causing this but better safe than sorry) . it just crashes and re-starts and then sez "windows has recoverd from a serious error ...blah blah blah...please send error report to microsoft"ect.



help grateley aprecieated, computer is : p4 3.4 ghz, 1gb ram, xp pro sp1, 120gb drive partitioned into 70gb boot and a 50gb storage . and a second 300gb drive, 550w PSU

Sorry, but ultra-short time now as I gotta go to airport...

Someone will reply with more details... Video prob is probably CODECS... Have a look around here in Tips & Tricks Forum...


Hey !!!

Main reason I replied so fast was to simply say how sorry I am that your other big problem is that someone gave you the middle name of RAY !!!

:p


I mean, 'Tube' is enough of a cross to bear, huh ?

Dear CRT

It seems that your PC is so messed up they you are going to have to rebuild it from scratch. I guess that anything you try will just create another problem, so I think you are stuck.

Save what data you can onto floppies or CDs then FDISK your HDs, making sure that your "C" is your boot drive, reformat, reload drivers and software then, finally, reload your data.

Good Luck




UK Bob

as BBBBBBoBBBByBBBBBoy has mentioned....

Sounds like it could be a basic 'house-keeping' problem...

I mean, do you have any virtual drives... assuming that is the case ??????????????

Sounds like and 'expert-specialist-friend' has attacked your machine !!!

Save ALL important PERSONAL stuff...

Then, FORMAT your C:\ HDD with ONE and ONLY ONE partition... (unless you're really smart and you'll also try Linux !)

You haven't exactly blinded us with details re: your computer, so we have to do a lot of guess work which is basically a wank for you and us, huh ???

Hit us with details !!!

AND...... Keep your Program/Application stuff on your C: Drive.... put the files and folders that are personal, i.e. music, video, text.... geddit ?... on your 'auxiliary drives...

It's a performance thing more than anything else...

Come back for more help, right ?

ok the firewall thing i tride dident work...so i reformatted and re installed windows , and now my drive letters are fine. i did this befor i red your last reply . ok , i do have 1 vertual cd drive created by alcohol 120% , what dose that have to do with this agen?? . and no , no high egoed friends have ever touched this machine so all the problems are moast likeley my falt. ok , i saved all my crap to the auxilary 300gb drive , shut down the pc, un plugged it, disconected the drive with my crap on it from the rest of the system, reformatted the main boot drive and re installed windoze. i did create 2 partitions on the main disk , windows is installed to C:\ and D:\ is now emtey and intended for my videos ,was this a smart move??. what details do you need? i can give you all the specs and details you need but i dont know where to start so ....just tell me what details you need. i havent tride anything dvd wize yet so i dont know where i am there. i allways persue these threads until people stop replying so i wont stop talking till you do.:confused:

ok the damnthing just froze agen as soon as i finished typing my last reply.

Your first problem is that your O/S is XP. I think it sucks, but that's just my opinion. Second, is your computer a Gateway or a Dell?

the computer is a home built one. the motherboard is an asus p4c800-e deluxe and the processor is a p4 3.4 ghz. i think i figured it out , i forgot to install the chipset drivers....now that there installed it runs much smoother. the drive letters were fixed by a re-formatt and a re-installed OS. the dvd problem is fixed by the codecs i installed. yes xp dose have its pros and cons but it works satisfactory for me. if it gives me too much crap il install linux or win 2k .

ok it hasent ever FROZE agen sence the chipset driver install ,but it still keeps crashing from time to time , it seems to be doing it onley when im on the internet. also my internet connection seems to "degrade" or "die" over time ...like its still connected at 48kbps but in the task manager's networking chart its onley using no more than 12% of the BW after its been connected more than an hour or 2. whats going on?? are the 2 problems connected to eachother??? could it be bad modem drivers??

its one of the EL CHEEPO modems...i onley payed 8$ for it , could this be the problem?

Dear CRT

As your PC is home made it is unlikely that anyone can offer any real help other than suggestions, and that is the problem with home built PCs if they go wrong you have no one to turn to for help.

I would suggest that you go back to the motherboard's makers and ask what peripherals they recommend should be used with their product. Failing that, talk to people you bought your motherboard from, I am sure that they also build PCs to order and, as they are likely to have the experience, may know which bits will work well with your particular motherboard.

Unfortunately, you are going to have to put in a lot of time, effort and probably money (buying new peripherals) to put your PC right, as I said in my first post, as soon as you solve one problem another will pop up.

I originally home-built my first pentium PC but two years later, when it started to go wrong, I got so frustrated with the time, effort and money I had to spend to keep it going that I vowed "never again". The "savings" I had originally made with home building just evaporated.

When it eventually died, I went down to PC World and bought a new computer. Therefore, if the new PC goes wrong then PC World will have the hassle of putting right.




UK Bob

i see we have a pessimist in the room...

Home Made PCs
 

Peerless & CRT

What can I say, other than I felt the same way when starting to build my own PC, I too felt that I knew my own needs and requirements better than anyone else and that no one would give me the facilities and features I wanted.

But guess what, a little thing called life (and family) got in the way and I had to make a choice, spend time putting a new PC together or spend time with the family.

And, when all said and done, my compromise of buying a new PC has not been that bad.

CRT, sorry if I came over as "too pessimistic" but I have seen PCs and servers that have had cascading failures, where they lost their power prematurely and internal items (memory, HD, network cards, etc.) started to fail, one after the other.

Finally, I guess it's just a point of seeing your glass as half empty or half full.




UK Bob

Re: computer pissin me off....again
 

It's very likely that you have a thermal problem. Check the fan and monitor the CPU temperature.

WTF? Hey, there's no Windows here as far as I can see, smell, think or throw a PC. However, even I know that it's completely retarted to use that kind of crap without SP2. No wonder it crashes all the time. Have you checked how much spam per second originates from your machine?

sp2 dosent do anything , as far as i know its an atemt by microf**** to trick you into istalling a bunch of drm and "paledeum" or whatever the **** its called stuff on your pc.
i installd sp2 on my other pc and it killed it so iv avoided sp2 ever since.


dear I HAVE NO ACCONT. YOU ARE A FAT BUTTHOLE . why ? because allmoast everything iv herd from you has been compleatley WRONG! especaley all of you little comments in our disscussion about D-VHS in the other thread(wich i will prove your wrongness in tomorrow) not to menshon many other subjects. so i dont think you have much credibility!


uk and anybody els who cairs: uk im sorry that your homade pc dident go over well . if you do it you need lots of time and patshents wich im asuming is hard to do with kids/famley, nagging wife/girlfrind/mother etc if that is indeed your case. you may have just had bad luck on your first try and may want to try again somtime. BTW i figured out what is wrong with mine...its the modem...the onley thing that i cheeped out on(go to pcvs mac vs linux perfomace issues for more details)

dear moderators, if you feel you must cencor the butthole remark please do ,but please dont remove why im mad at mr no account over there.

First of all, I'm not fat at all nor do I use the FAT filesystem anywhere. If you don't have a hole in your butt, I really pity you because that must be a rather painful experience.

Next, SP2 kills no hardware. If it caused any problems, you have to be a little more precise than "killed" or "****** **" because that's shallow kiddy speak without any useful semantics. I'm not Microsoft, if MS Windows has a bug, report it to them. You paid them for it, not me or anyone else. I've submitted bug reports and bug fixes for free software and most often the support was better than anything a commercial vendor like Microsoft will ever offer.

If Microsoft combines legit bugfixes along with dubious DRM and TCPA updates, that's their right and their business. Nobody forces you to use their products and almost nobody would recommend them anyway. However, it's not acceptable that thousands of misguided, pseudo-paranoid, uneducated, incapable users turn the Internet into a spam and worm arena. It's that simple: Don't use MS Windows or just stay offline otherwise.

Further, I don't have to be 100% correct or correct at all. I know very well that I exaggerate sometimes. I expect intelligent readers to get that. That doesn't mean at all that I spout lies or misleading false information. What I write is based on my opinions and my attitude, that's all. Basically, I don't give a farting crap about my credibility because I know very well what kind of retards many of the so-called "credible" people are which turns "credibility" into a shallow useless attribute.

Last but not least, if you think I made an error or told something wrong in whatever thread and context, just correct it. In the end, everybody has to decide for himself whom he trusts and what he believes. It's not like you cannot find information yourself about almost everything using Google, Wikipedia etc.

that was a reely lame comeback...how much brain capacity if any did you use to think that one up?

the reson iv avoided sp2 is because it messed up my other comp when i attempted to install it, by messed up i meen ,the verry MINUT i installed it it froze the computer, when i restarted it my cd rom drives wouldent work at all , and it was verry slow and it disabled my internet some how so i couldent get online. i couldent fix it so i reformatted and started over agen. and never touched sp2 again.

and i never reely saw any need for it...windows works fine without it, why bother??

tell me what it dose and what is so graet about it? i still have the cd , if i have a good reson il try installing it again.

and no its not microsofts right to lie to ,trick and force people into doing somthing ,installing somthing or agreeing to somthing that is going to make ms richer and screw a lot of people over.

"However, it's not acceptable that thousands of misguided, pseudo-paranoid, uneducated, incapable users turn the Internet into a spam and worm arena. It's that simple: Don't use MS Windows or just stay offline otherwise."<----i have no idia what your talking about there, please explain ?

and im sorry about being rude in the last reply, i was pissed because i tride to reply to the dvhs convorsation twice and my "magical modem" decides to crash the computer right after i get done typing probobley an entire page. TWICE IN A ****** ROW. the sp2 thing was what set me off because i still dont beleve its true . if you can prove to me why sp2 should be installed i will definantley consider it.

and it looks like your right about dvhs onley holding 44gB insted of 400...i think i had my bits and Bytes mixed up....it dose hold 400giga bits, wich is about 44 giga bytes. oops...

thats good to know . but im allmast certen its the modem and or modem drivers. i just looked at my manuel agen and it sez that the bored supports the prescott . i installed the heatsink,fan and thermal puddy that came with the processor so it should be fine temprature-wize. and i dont have it overclocked so it shouldent be makeing any xtra heat. the ram i have installed is made by corsair and corsair is on the QVL thing so it should work. but i dont see the model# of my ram on the QVL...is that bad??
this is the ram i bot for it :http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145504

im still shur its the modem...if it keeps the crap up after i quit using the modem when i get dsl in a few days, il know its somthing els (if that happens. i predict it will quit the crashing after i stop using the modem)

can i install sp2 without reformatting?? if i cant install it without reformatting it will be a last rezort.


allsow ...if you have this same mobo , do you know if the therd pata connector(the blue one on the lower right of the bored that points in a differant direction than the 2 other ones) can be used for 2 xtra HDDs without it being a RAID??? because i tride plugging in a single hdd to it and it wouldent show up in windows no matter how much i playd with the jumpers etc?

Serious Home Built PCs
 

CRT & Peerless

You guys are into some serious stuff, wish I had the time to get into PC building again.

CRT, from my own experience of adding numerous second HD drives to PCs (back when I used to work on Wi*** and NT4.0 PCs), there's a few things you must do before installation (sorry if you have done these already):

1) You have to set the switches or jumpers on the HD from master to slave, I recall that all HD leave their factory's set as "master".

2) You must set the bios to see a second HD disk, I don't think that mobos can automatically see second HDs yet without manual intervention (perhaps Peerless can clarify this point).

3) After installation, you must FDisk the 2nd drive as a slave (or ext partition). Again, maybe Peerless can clarify this point.

Obviously, I know nothing about the mobo you are working on but, if my memory serves, jumpers are best left alone unless there is some aspect of the board's performance you want to change or add to, e.g adding a PCI/SCSI card with an onboard bios.

Hope the above helps but please disregard if it is way out of date.



UK Bob

Your PC sound like it is going to be killer machine when finished.

Dear Mr. Tube,

Please copy ALL of your important personal stuff to a CD...

Then, depending on the manufacturer of your Hard Disk Drive, download/acquire the suitable-to-type 'initial format tool' program such as Disk Wizzard for SEAGATE drives...
All the HDD manufacturers offer these 'tools' for their drives.

When you have whatever program you need (on a bootable CD), run a format from said CD to completely eliminate Window$ XP...

Then....

Smart stuff here...

Install Windows 2000 Professional and, while partitioning the C:\ drive, allow about a 40GB partition for a Linux installation to follow the Win 2k install...

Install Win2k and FORGET YOUR PROBLEMS.

Fools use XP... MEGA-FOOLS use XP Home.

The 'corporate world', including government agencies, DO NOT use Windows anymore.

Think about it, heh ?


If you get any crap such what like as ntldr missing or any problems with your machine reading from CD on boot, ya' all get back to us, hear ? ;)

guys , this thread is farley old now...iv fixed all of the problems with the pc other than the crashing ,wich i know the cause of (faulty modem) , if it keeps it up after i quit using the modem when i get dsl il start a new thread.

im not going to uninstall xp pro because: i allredy payed for it , it runs fine and smooth other than the soon to be fixed moadem prob, it looks better than 2k linux mac etc, as peerless sed it suports HT and sata150 etc, it runs mor software than anything els and reformatting agen would be an asspain.

windows xp is fine and pefectley safe to use if you know what you are doing, moast of the "holes" in it can be "plugged up" one way or another. MOAST of windows(automatic update is a lame idia) is good and works verry niceley . MICROSOFT on the other hand is full of shi* for many obvious resons.

peerless, how do you get your dolphins in every poast you make ?? i have a pictur of a cheeseburger i want to do the same thing with and i cant get it to show up nomatter what i try. how do i get pictures into every poast i make???

Woah... So someone found a way to turn sh!t into gold?

i never sed windows was perfect...it dose have some problems

i still dont quite get what your remark is supposed to mean mr IHNA...if you think windoze is so shitty IHNA , than y dont u un install it and go mac.

if you go mac youl get a disese where you develope sores all over your entire body, these sores are actualy mineature ******s and if you use a mac long enough the sores will grow larger and larger until you become one giant ***** (this is the same disese that stan deveoped on tonights episode of south park from not eating any meat, but it happens if you use a mac for too long to)

I think you're a little bit heavy on the black&white scheme. You think Windos is the only option with a PC? You don't really have a ******* clue, do you?

Hell, I don't even care whether I have a PC or Mac or whatever. I can use the same operating system and the same applications on any platform I want. Sorry, but Windos users really have no business to complain about Microsoft. Either use their crap and shut the hell up (offline please) or complain and get one of the dozen alternatives. If you think you need Windows - especially as a home user - then I absolutely doubt that you're thinking at all.

Windos does not have some problems. It is nothing but a problem. Now what you and many others still don't get is that you as Windos users are a pain in the neck of millions people that want to use the internet too and are not interested in v|4gr4 or a r0l3X. That's because your wanna-be-operating-system is usually infected with more worms and viruses than the ugliest dirtiest animal on earth contributing to spamming, phishing, denial-of-service attacks and infecting further Windos machines.

It's not just Microsoft, it's their users too. Most of them are simply too lazy and dull to learn a single ******* lesson. They're such *******s that a worm requiring human intervention spreads faster than a fully automated variant. And because Microsoft is soooo horribly evil, they deactivate the automatic update in order to prevent Microsoft from spying or modifying their systems...Oooooh guys, three thumbs up, that's reeeaaaaally clever!

By the way, you shouldn't watch South Park too often. It's not good for such small brains as yours. You also seem to be homophobic and afraid of females. You should seriously consider a therapy. You might feel better afterwards. However, if they lock you away forever - it'll be the best for everyone. Trust me.

Windoze has it uses moron

I know...in nature it's called "natural selection".

ever look at how many serious appz there are for windoze as compared to Mac or linux?

When did I say that I use Mac OS or Linux? Yes, I know about
the "seriouz appz". First of all, you can't afford those. Second, you have no use for them. Trust me, you don't need Cinema4D, Acrobat, Photoshop, Word, Excel etc. There a free or cheap alternatives for those - that is if you need such tools at all. Most of you just use them to brag like brats.
There are bazillions of shareware and non-shareware "appz", probably more than for any other system. Unfortunately, the vast majority of those is pure crap. If you count only those of acceptable quality I bet there aren't any more tools than
for any other system.
I could still laugh and barf when I remember the time I was looking for an alternate low profile web browser other than IE, Netscape and Opera - Mozilla didn't exist at that time. 99% of the "alternate" browsers (and I think there were more than 100) were nothing but mods for IE...and horrible ones. And don't even get me started on this Visual Basic scrap.

No, the other OS are not safer because hackers don't care. You should really consume less Microsoft FUD. There's no OS which is completely flawless - nobody sane in his brain would claim that. Anyway, most other operating systems are safer because they have better concepts and it shows. Microsoft is just veeeeeeeery slowly approaching the same (security) concepts used everywhere else especially in Unix-like systems. Hell, it took Microsoft over 20 years to get where everybody has been for 10 years when they started.

I know that only retards are able to enjoy the faecal humour of South Park. Do you know what a "script kiddie" is or did you just put it there because it sounds funny? Maybe you should change your nick to Clueless.

CONGRADULATIONS!!!!!! mr IHNA ....i beleve you have insulted just about EVERYBODY in this room, all the people who use windows , the creators of southpark ,woman, gays, and just about everybody els on earth in ONE message!

you are full of SHITon so many levels im not going to waist my time attacking them one by one.

"Windos does not have some problems. It is nothing but a problem. Now what you and many others still don't get is that you as Windos users are a pain in the neck of millions people that want to use the internet too and are not interested in v|4gr4 or a r0l3X. That's because your wanna-be-operating-system is usually infected with more worms and viruses than the ugliest dirtiest animal on earth contributing to spamming, phishing, denial-of-service attacks and infecting further Windos machines."<---you have been saying this for weeks several times, WTF?? i have 2 antivirus programs running and i clean out all the spyware dayley , there is no way my comp could be "carying viruses" etc. allsow macs are the worst in this area , a windows virus wont affect a mac at all but a mack can still cary it and spread it . and there are no virus removal programs for macs so these things stay on the mac and accumulate till a mac becomes a giant sever spraeding viruses (i learned this from the store owner of a mac store , so dont argue)

believe it or not it is possibul to like windows and hate M$.

and my brain is not small, my IQ is 140, and its not the physical size of your brain that determans how smart you are, its the amount of wrinkels your brain has.

That was fully intentional as you should have noticed.

Prove it. You're confused because you offended those not me.
Though I really doubt that anyone would take offense from you.

That speaks for itself. An operating system that requires virus scanner is nothing but scrap. I'd revoke my payment if I were you - wait did you pay for it? You really think running those shitty scanners makes your system secure? I give you a hint: An anti-baby pill doesn't help against AIDS neither does a virus scanner help against malware or yet unidentified viruses. You have a very narrow sense of security - maybe you just use two scanners because it's cool or whatever. And you still have to clean out the spyware daily? Get yourself a typewriter and a gameboy, you might save a couple of hours each day.

There are no viruses in the Windos-sense for Mac OS because it uses quite a different concept which makes it far less vulnerable than Windos. I don't promote Mac OS or care about it all, it's the "better Windos" though in any case. A proper Unix beats it any time, though.

believe it or not it is possibul to like windows and hate M$.

Possible - that's the definition of a ***** though.

[b]and my brain is not small, my IQ is 140[/b}

The size of your brains is hardly related to your intelligence. It all depends on how well connected the synapses are. If it depended on the wrinkles, my gramma's skin would be about 10 times smarter than you.

I give you a hint: only a real klutz would brag about his alleged IQ. How did you measure it anyway? Was there a test in the playboy mag or mickey mouse perhaps?

i know it was intetional , thats why im pissed at you about it , i happen to like windows and southpark.

i beleve you did indeed insult everybody.

i did pay for my copy of windows ....20$... but i still payed for it none the less.

my AVs are not shitty , they are both compeatley automatic and update themselvs dayley , they allsow use huristic(think thats what its called) scaning so thay do in fact combat unidentifide viruses . the one AV program is allsow a combined firewall,spyware remover, anti dialer and an email spam filter.
i think my system is verry secure, and if any thing should happen ,i have all my inportant files on the second HDD and backed up on CD/zip disk .

anti baby pills do what they were designed to do and nothing more, and i beleve there is an AIDS vaccine due by 2010. allsow AIDS ,babys and sex have nothing to do with computers so i dont know why you brought it up in the first place.

ad aware personal onley takes bout 30seconds to do a compleat scan and everything els is automatic. if YOUR anti-malware scanner takes an hour id sujest you get a new one.

yes a windows virus can be carried on a mac an then relesed without the mac being harmed at all by the virus that is deadley for windows.

"Possible - that's the definition of a ***** though." <----------what is that supposed to mean???

i beleve you were the first one who sed: " It's not good for such small brains as yours." . so you allredy sed it was. better connected synapses and more of them do infact cause more wrinkels to form in the brain. scientists have known this for years ,and i highley doubt that you are a scientist.

my IQ was tested in school in 8th grade by a doctor (as was everybody els in school , it was a routine thing done by the school) ,not on the back of playboy or a cerial box.

you are becoming verry anoying IHNA, and you never say anything useful or evan correct and onley try to pick fights. you are verry good at being a smartass, wich is not nessisaraley a bad thing but being an ******* is . i know im a smartass and im proud to be one, but i do it in a funny nice way all while trying to give correct information and help people. you just do it in a mean insulting way and give moastley false info. so i hope the moderators do ban you.

Fine and how many people compose music (on a PC)? When I look at the majority of topics here, I really wonder how they found the power switch and this place. For a few people that have to work with Windos at their job, Windos may be a necessity for the job. It's a tiny minority that needs Windos at home (because they work from home).

This doesn't sound as if you ever seriously tried to look for an alternative. You're just repeating something you've read or heard and use that as a cheap excuse. You're hardly an artist if you need a specific composer anyway. Have you ever asked the vendors about a version for a different operating system? I guess it's too much effort or maybe just too difficult to ask them per email.

So what does that have to do with me?

I suggest you tell that to your local police officer. People with such little respect for life are really the worst subjects that exist in this planet. I really wonder where low lives such as you get their brain dead attitude from.

Nope. If you were me, you'd be writing this.

I'm shocked. I really expected this to become the new bible so that generations of people would read my posts. Really.

Um the person you are refering to is a musician & has been quite some time. It's nothing abnormal in music circles to use aides for writing music. It's been done for well over 1/4 century. That comment tends to suggest you're stepping into unknown waters. And gotton lost! lol

I don't see anything contructive you've added to this thread except insult & intimidate everybody involved, be unhelpful, use profanity, & generally be a pain. It's not the 1st time I've seen you do this mr I_Have_No_Account. The thread starter made the comment that problem was solved & thread no longer needed input. So for that reason it is being closed.

For further reading mr I_Have_No_Account see Forum Rules (click here)

Is dat 'poast' as in 'tost' ? Leaping pairs of criminal sh!te burgers ?

Just what this joint needs, heh, PP ???

More accomplished than you think
 

I_Have_No_Account, another point is that the person you were refering to is a specific composer of his own music & doesn't copy others music. Recorded professionally & including video clips I've seen despite I don't even live in the same country. Bigger than you think.

Plus with his computer set up, he can basically record more than 70 tracks & mix down to stereo. Yet his computer did not cost what an equivalent recording studio with that ability would be worth.