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Gosh: exactly. This is a compilation of things to help with some basic problems that get asked over and over. If it gets pinned, or linked to from sigs or whatever, then people will probably see it, and maybe not ask a question that has been asked a million times before.

here Also, I have an e1505, if you can't find everything there, PM me and I may be able to send you some specific drivers. Lemme know., And welcome to MSFN, by the way!

Well, I haven't had time to think about it too much, but it seems to me the force of the magnets would just cause the wheel to stop in one place. Also, a perpetual motion machine is theoretically impossible unless you can completely and entirely eliminate all friction, otherwise some of the energy will eventually be lost to the friction and the machine will stop, as energy cannot be created nor destroyed, thus there would be no way for the energy sapped by friction to be replaced.

Wow, um, that's sure a good argument... I agree with geek, power management on vista isn't ready for laptops. Also, aero means your GPU will be chompin' away all the time, instead of just when you play games, etc. In other words, you're going to be using the power it would take to power a game all day in XP... or not all day, since that battery doesn't last all day with XP even.

I'd like to see that LED screen.... You WILL get better battery life with XP than with vista. Do note that there's no need to buy ultimate when premium works just fine and you don't need another expensive license. In my opinion, XP is much better than Vista at this point.

Wow! That's nice! When will you make it available for download?

-where to begin, where to begin - JavaScript and PHP are very, very different things. JavaScript is a client-side language, it is interpreted by the browser, and also depends on the browser being able to use javascript and having it turned on. It can be used to manipulate HTML directly, which is called dynamic HTML. PHP is a serverside language. It runs on the server, and the browser only sees the HTML that PHP serves it; it never sees the PHP itself. PHP can be used for very basic things, or can be immensely complex. It cannot interact directly with the page, e.g. you cannot call a PHP function from clicking a button. Learn your HTML, CSS and JavaScript first, once you understand them well, move on to PHP. You will need webhosting that supports it, or else have to set up your own webserver.

Can you log on to any account at all? It sounds like you can. Try following tarun's instructions; if the account you can access is an administrator account, it'll work. If it's not, you can try rebooting into safe mode, by pressing f8 after the BIOS screen and before the Windows logo appears, then choosing safe mode. This will allow you to log on to the Administrator account, and you should be able to reset passwords. If it is windows xp professional or media center, you don't even need safe mode, you can just hit Ctrl+Alt+Del at the logon screen twice, then type administrator in the username box and leave the password blank; this ought to work on most systems.

Yeah, that happens to me sometimes, too. Seemingly randomly. I have no idea why...

Yes, lucky lucky you. sigh. However, here everything passes through squid, and it's all blocked for everyone, even the teachers and administrators. One irony is the "Acceptable use policy" thing says you MUST take all necessary steps to prevent someone from accessing your account, yet we can't* lock the workstations!! I on the other hand have a normal student account, though with power user rights. We use novell, which is really messed up. I do however have access to the local administrator account on all the machines, and that password happens to also be the BIOS password. I wasn't supposed to know it, but the physics teacher knew it and i was trying to fix a computer, asked him if he could put in the BIOS config password if he knew it, and instead of entering it himself, he just said 'The admin password for all of them is ******' Well. OK then... I still don't know the novell password. I really need to talk to the it guys, but the problem when you're in a school district with many thousands of kids and only one central IT office is that you never really get a chance to talk to them. It does mean that there aren't enough techs to go around, thus I am sometimes given extra credit for fixing computer for people. *Well, we can in windows 2000 with a shortcut to rundll32.exe User32.dll, LockWorkStation, and in XP to tsdiscon. But they don't know that.

OK, this is going out on a limb... Is it possible that there's a startup entry for shutdown -l, or logoff.exe? Try pressing and holding shift while you log on to over-ride startup items.

I bought a normal, regular old standard Cat-5 Ethernet cable. Hooked it up between my laptop and a desktop. Both are dells with onboard broadcom NIC's. It's possible that they are this special auto-crossover kind, i don't know. But it's always worked fine for me...

Have you looked in the video card config software AND on the physical monitor itself? And... why is this in unattended?

Ahem. Maybe you shouldn't exactly be telling us that... just leave it at "I have to use frames".... And... don't. Just don't. You'll get in very big trouble when they find out.

Um? I've done that before and it worked fine...

Not the modem cable. It requires a network cable. Network cables look a lot like phone/modem cables, but trust me from experience, they aren't. You just need a short ethernet cable. You can probably find one for not too much money at a local computer store. They look like this: Now, both computers will need to have a network adapter, which is where you'll plug this in. Just plug one end into the laptop and the other into the other computer. Now, windows will probably pop up with a notice saying that there is limited connectivity. Double-click on that icon, click properties. Then find "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)". Select it and click properties. Then choose the "assign manual IP address" radio button. Enter any private IP address - you can just use 192.168.0.3 for one and 192.168.0.4 for the other if you like. Now you need to create a network share. Go to some folder on your HDD you want to share, and right-click, then choose "Sharing and security". By default, if simple file sharing () is on, then you'll have to click "Allow me to share documents over the network" or something like that. Don't choose to use network setup wizard when it asks you if you want to. Now, give the folder a share name. go to the other computer, open the run dialog and type \\computername\sharename, where computername is the name of the other computer, and sharename is the name of the file share. This should work. If it doesn't let us know, as sometimes firewalls and such can mess stuff up. EDIT: Yes, a USB flash drive would be better. They're dirt cheep, too.

I second the notion. Frames are baadddd... Very bad. Avoid if at all possible.

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Could be a problem with the specific computer, I don't know. I don't really feel like reinstalling the OS though, and I don't game very frequently so it's not a huge problem. It does work fine on our desktop which is even older and has a GMA945 too.

Ha. I've got a 945GM on this machine, and it can't take anything graphics heavy. Portal bluescreens it. It always identifies the graphics driver, and I've got the latest update, as well as latest BIOS, etc.

yah their integrated solutions suck pretty much entirely. I'm hoping their dedicated card will be pretty good. Intel makes good hardware in the processing department, so hopefully they can improve their graphics. Although I think Nvidia will always win in the graphics department. As for AMD vs. Intel... just the other day, my economics teacher was talking about how he won't invest in AMD because they're not doing very well, and how he bought some Intel stock and he's making a lot of money on it. This from they guy who asks me for help because he can't figure out how to print an 8.5x14 in word. Go figure.

I've heard that Intel is releasing a dedicated GPU some time in the future, though I'm not sure when. Supposedly it'll compete with Nvidia and ATI... which none of their graphics options do yet. I love intel, so I'm interested to see how that turns out. It's not available yet though, and who knows how much it'll cost.

Um? Windows CDs are going to be read-only, so there's no way it could've gotten changed. It's fine. Now, you will have a problem if it's a different type of media than your license is for. Remember, retail oem and upgrade are not compatible.

That is the same image, however unless you replace the GINA completely by overwriting msgina.dll instead of using the registry method, then it won't work for the shut down box since it doesn't read that reg key. Also, the About Windows dialog will have the same image, it is stored in shell32.dll if you want to replace that, too.

OK, we're going with the x3100. Sounds like it has comparable performance to the 8400 for less money. And b.t.w, 9-cell battery was what we were getting in the first place... on my laptop though I can get my regular 6-cell to last ~4 hours if I don't use DVDs, play graphics-intensive games, etc. and dim the screen.