jaclaz

No matter how much our good friend Dencorso is trying to stretch it's meaning , "cumulative" still means "cumulative" and Microsoft is slightly misdefining it, possibly by only 6% : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/189826/en-us jaclaz

Why would you want to backup the pagefile? Traditionally, the pagefile should go, among others for the reason you mention, on another volume (better if on another disk). In any case, if you are doing an image of the disk, it would be more logical to disable pagefile (it is normally possible with enough RAM, in 2K 1 Gb would be enough) and then zero just the pagefile.sys or zero the whole unused/unindexed space. (but then it would make more sense to do a backup and not an image ). See also: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/156944-delete-not-clear-pagefile-at-shutdown/ jaclaz

Maybe it is, but you shouldn't count me as a developer/programmer , and I am not actually going to reverse engineer anything _ph34r:, I am simply aware that "normal" BIOSes have "blocks" and maybe - just maybe - the same happens with the Nvidia ones, and IF this is the case, and IF the missing feature of the "external" connector is a dedicated block, since the BIOS you found is 1532 (or 3*512) bytes shorter than the other ones, it is maybe possible that such a block can be "transplanted". (more IF's and maybe's then what I normally like to have in a sentence ). Well, I did a simple test, got the MSI BIOS, chnaged last byte (which is C2) to 00 opened it in Nibiitor and it told me: Calculated Checksum: C2 Actual Checksum: 00 so I am not "preoccupied" bu the checksum . jaclaz

My bad actually , I meant MSFN (this very board) as hinted in the previous post, the FN remained in the tips of my fingers , corrected the post to avoid future misundrstandings. jaclaz

The non-repairs also affected your google? http://www.scambook.com/company/view/59191/Omni-Tech-Support http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/OmniTech-support/internet/OmniTech-support-Passed-themselves-off-as-Microsoft-Support-and-ruined-my-computer-Inter-728719 http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-outlook/is-omnitech-support-connected-to-microsoft/f95196a2-2d31-4f32-9f07-e5df62c06adf http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?p=1369142 http://www.scamgroup.com/155/omni-tech-support BTW, sorry for your misadventure . Be very aware that the whole thing is sponsored by astroturfing on "companion sites". jaclaz

Good, I'll have a look if I can spot a pattern. Well, since it is one byte checksum, at the most one has to try 256 times . More seriously Nibitor can calculate the checksum accurately (checksum is last byte of the file). jaclaz

There are only a bunch of bytes different from the MSI to the XFX. Where did you get the .rom for the "slimline" HP card? Can you share it? (possibly a "whole section" of the .rom will be missing or however i will be possible to understand which are the different bytes related to the fan speed. Also, the Gainward.G210.512.090915.rom and the Galaxy.G210.512.090829.rom are VERY similar to both the XFX and MSI, have you tested them? jaclaz

I still do not understand. If a thread/post is indexed in Google or Bing (or whatever search engine) it can be found by anyone (both humans and robots/spiders/whatever), so what has "Funny Farm" different? In this case the OP is a spammer for a given software firm and the one that replied (with nick "jacobjackson408" and which post was deleted) was a known spammer for ANOTHER software firm (both are form India, just for the record). BOTH the OP and the other spammer anyway needed to register to post. And I have seen similar spamming post in each and every sub-forum, not just "Funny Farm". jaclaz

What do you mean? AFAIK the whole board is indexed by Google and friends. jaclaz

There are more than one 512 Mb BIOS/firmware (the page I linked earlier was for the 1024 sized): http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/index.php?architecture=NVIDIA&manufacturer=&model=G+210&interface=&memType=&memSize=512 Have you already tried all of them? Which EXACT BIOS/firmware is the one from MSI that you are currently using? This one? http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/63352/msi-g210-512-090909.html Have you made a backup of the (failed) firmware of the HP card BEFORE attempting upgrading it? jaclaz

Well, in this case increasing the vote count would be entirely pointless, i.e. someone that does NOT know the shell, never used it and obviously does not even know what a given shell looks like should provide a preference? Let's say that maybe it is better to have LESS votes but from people that actually KNOW such shell(s) and use them and thus can express a "proper" preference. jaclaz

Cannot find a Pegatron or a HP BIOS/firmware for that, here there are however some more: http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/index.php?architecture=NVIDIA&manufacturer=&model=G+210&interface=&memType=&memSize= jaclaz

What the heck are you talking about? Who talked of IE or Opera (or any other browser)? A web site is a "server" that is intended to serve pages to a browser. (this mechanism is FULLY OS and browser independent, it is not on "your" side it is on the website side). Your browser (any browser, under any OS) asks the website server to serve it a given page. There are two possibilities: the server understands the request and serves the right page the server does not understand the request and serves an error page (or the home page of the site or anyway *something* else).Imagine that you (or someone else) enters a MacDonald's (just as an example of a chain that is all over the word and is well known) and asks: 99.99% of cases you will get a BIG MAC. BIG MAC is the internationally recognized name of a product that you can get @MacDonald's, you will be able to get one in all the world, without knowing a word of the local language. Now imagine that you only speak - say - English and your religious beliefs prevent you from saying "BIG MAC" and to make gestures pointing at the menu. Until you are in the UK or in the US, you can have it nonetheless, by asking something like: Now, go try doing the same thing in - say - Moscow or Bangkok. If you are lucky, the nice guy/gal behind the counter will know enough English to understand your request, and you will get your BIG MAC alright, but if he/she doesn't you will get none (or something else). jaclaz

You are half-wrong. Notepad does NOT support them, Wordpad does. @-X- The "TYPE" trick may have issues, depending on source, it would be much more logical to use a program to replace the CR with CR+LF writing to the same file. You can use a "dedicated" tool like CRLF by Horst Schaeffer: http://www.horstmuc.de/horst.htm or a generic tool, like SED or gsar. As hinted before it would make even more sense to use an editor that understands the *nix line termination and displays them properly. jaclaz

I already posted a valid link: http://www.rt7lite.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=65&func=view&catid=2&id=1518 The one that does not work: hxxp://www.rt7lite.com/rt-se7en-lite-forum/2-error-reports/1518-error-0x00000154-when-trying-to-share-files.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us The root of the forum is Itemid=65: http://www.rt7lite.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=65 "Error reports" is catid=2: http://www.rt7lite.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=65&func=showcat&catid=2 The thread is id=1518 http://www.rt7lite.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=65&func=view&catid=2&id=1518 jaclaz

The one I already posted. jaclaz

Interesting match. Systools vs. Kernel. jaclaz

Excellent! jaclaz

NOT what you asked, but maybe you can use Nibitor (or a similar editor for nvidia BIOS/firmware): http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Video-Tweak/NVIDIA-BIOS-Editor.shtml to set the "default" fan speed to lower values. It is also possible that with the actual card data (the picture is low-res and the link you posted is not valid) something can be found. From the picture, it is marked "PEGATRON". Is it this one?: http://partsurfer.hp.com/ShowPhoto.aspx?partnumber=586382-001 jaclaz

Try copying the address of this very thread as you see it in your browser address bar and paste it in the little converter linked to in my signature as "Broken link on MSFN? You may try this." and press the BAD Address -> GOOD one button. hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170508-error-message-when-trying-to-enable-sharing-of-drives/ will become: hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=170508 The MSFN board is currently using "friendly names" which are a senseless feature needing an additional module (and an extension to the License of the software). If this module fails (or is missing, or is misconfigured, or is buggy, as it happened here on MSFN at EACH and EVERY board software update in the last few years) the board software won't be able to resolve that address and - depending on other settings - you will land to a 404 page or to the homepage, etc. The board software "native" addressing mode is like this: hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=170508 since topics are inside a database, the database is interrogated and item #170508 is displayed. jaclaz EDIT: corrected MS to MSFN

Check again the adapter and the connections (and the speed settings) Then see if you can get to the terminal with ctrl+Z. Seei f you can issue a: F3 2>U Check with this: http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=11332 If you get a DiagError 00006008 likely heads are "gone". jaclaz

What do you mean "problems"? Read the guide: http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/Grub4dos.htm Particularly this page: http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/install_windows.htm#windows1 and add grub4dos as an option in boot.ini. Then follow the instructions on: http://www.sherlock.reboot.pro/passpass-bypass-the-password/ jaclaz

Which OS/PE? I mean you could use forfiles: http://ss64.com/nt/forfiles.html In more traditional batch, it would be more something like: (I changed it in such a way that only *.reg files will be listed) But there is something "wrong". Regsvr32 is to register .dll's in the registry, NOT to merge .reg fies! http://ss64.com/nt/regsvr32.html maybe you meant either of : http://ss64.com/nt/reg.html http://ss64.com/nt/regedit.html jaclaz

Please define "off-chance", after having googled for "amboriserenaud08", please. Now, we may need to agree before that "amboriserenaud08" is a slightly less common nick that John1234 or similar, and of course coincidences can happen. jaclaz

A couple blasts from the past (2012): http://www.extremetech.com/computing/138701-windows-8-the-disastrous-result-of-microsofts-gutless-equivocation http://www.extremetech.com/computing/121015-windows-8-may-drive-me-to-linux jaclaz