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pooh, is PC-Cillin free?

i do believe they stopped public downloads, im pretty sure its only available to MSDN subscribers, sadly. as for neowin, its torrents.get bittorrent, download the torrent file, and then use bit torrent to download it. someitmes is fast, mostly its not. i've had 5536 going on bittorrent for about 15 hours now, 26.7%. can't find a reliable web host with it. unless someone knows one, this is what im stuck with. if anyone does, id greatly appriciate it. having 100Mbps is only good when you can use it lol.

ok, if i take a new clean hard drive, and try to install windows vista, it will come to a screen requesting drivers and whatnot. there should be a whole list there, but its completely blank. to avoid that, i installed windows XP home edition on the hard drive, then installed windows vista on top of windows XP. is there a file i can add to vista so that it will have the drivers and be able to do a clean install?

certain sound cards have 4 pin inputs on the edges, for audio directly from a CD or DVD drive. if those cables have a problem, audio will not work.

that reminds me of my front USB port. i'd never opened my computer for much before i fixed that port, but the front USB 1.1 port on my computer didn't recognize a thing. after a while it got to me, i popped open the tower, and i found the USB cable wasn't even put onto the motherboard correctly, it was kind of dangling off one pin, instead of put on all 5. which did plenty to kill my logic. but, once it was put into place it hasn't failed me. always double check cable seatings on new computers!

i don't have it completely yet, but on vista 5384 i used Avast Antivirus, you might try that, its even free, and registering it is simple.

im only able to do an install over XP home edition. what files should i add or get to make it so that i can do a clean install nothing else? also, if i were to upgrade from 5384 to 5536, would i loose anything?

you may need to replace the battery on your bios chip. or maybe even the bios chip itself is dead.

i don't think he did a loop through the computer to test it he probably went directly into the speakers. if you run digital audio cables, they may no be seated properly. if you don't run DA cables, i don't know what to say. i do a lot of audio work for my school, i've run into lots of problems before...i think its internal wire damage somewhere on the card or on cables that go to your motherboard or sound card. go into Audio control properties in the control panel, make sure nothing is overmodulating, check any and all cables for any damage or loose seating at the tips. if none of that works, the card has a loose input socket somewhere, and thats far from easy to fix.

there could be a loose cable somewhere in your computers audio setup. on you're optical drives [CD/DVD or whatever] do you have a 3 or 4 pin cable come out and go into the sound card? if so, make sure those are seated proverly in both ends, check for little cuts, check the tips and make sure they aren't pulled out of place etc. there may also be a problem with the speakers wire, the 1/8th inch cable from the card to the speaker. that may be causing the problem.

the way i solved graphics acceleration problems was installing direct x 9, and downgrading. of course it makes some vista programs useless, but i can easily go back up too.

ok, in my sign it says i have two computers, and has the stats for both. the more powerful one runs a 1.4 GHz pentium4 processor. just a single one though. i have a pair of the processors that it uses, and i tried switching them back to make a difference to see if i could install windows XP. well, i got somewhere, just not where i want to be. instead of getting an error that the PC doesn't support windows XP i get a messege that it cant find a hard drive. what can i do to solve this. i put in a 60GB western digital hard drive. in having this problem, does it mean that the hard drive is dead? im going to try booting windows xp from a different hard drive, we'll see how that goes. any ideas or answers are more than welcome, and thanks in advanced. B)

nothing is lightspeed at first. give it a few days, let vista settle into the environment, it'll all work out. the first few times you do things with vista, it may not perform the greatest, but itll slowly get faster. once it gets used to the workload, it'll handle it better and better. its not the easiest concept to get used to, especially on a single processor board, but its not impossible.

well, just by looking at your specs, i can easily say that my computer has to be slower than yours. to my knowledge, i don't think theres a way to update the build without reinstalling completely. just keep using it more like you would with what you used to run, and aside from compatibility issues, after a week or two, it'll run fine. you've got the same build i have, more than twice the processor speed, and more RAM, so it wont take as long. give it time. but also, don't have windows open if you aren't using them, it'll kill virtual memory, and vista runs out of it easily.

well, im trying out Avast for a while, so far i can't complain about it. boot time scans make it easy to delete viruses before they become a major problem. although the rest of my family [except the rents] use NAV 2001 or 2002. not sure which. haven't gotten newer version yet. although i would actually like using NAV..it has that registry scan, that goes for registry issues, shortcuts and whatnot. works well for them. avast works well for me, i can't complain.

that is a strange situation. its running up on 12:17AM, and im gonna head off to bed, but tomorrow i'll look into how the power supplies work, and i might be able to give a more solid answer. im a dump diver myself, so i hate working too fast and finding out i shouldn't have done something, so i'd say just hang tight with the laptop right now, look into it a little bit, maybe a computer store would be able to take a look at it at least, its a terrible thing to scrap, and theres no harm in at least getting it looked at, maybe it can be fixed, maybe it can't.

to my knowledge, laptops do have a built in adapter plug. i wouldn't say its dead and butcher it yet, try using the AC power supply only and see if that works, and then try just the battery and see if that works. if the battery works, it just means that the AC adapter piece may be loose, the contact may not be good, or something could be touching it causing the bad short circuit.

well, on my main hard drive, i reinstall windows about once every year and a half. so far i just had to reinstall vista for a little f-up i made, but its all good now. runs fine, minimal software, everything i need is on there. just not the printer

are you installing a new program, or is the .msi package for windows to support new software?

thanks, im going to compUSA tomorrow to see if they have it, if not i'll get it off ebay. right now my graphics are going fast. they've been on and off constantly lately. i know i need a new card, but i can get XP on the 1.4Ghz computer, i'll use that instead of this. the bottom 1/3 of my computer screen is colored purple/black/green/yellow in bars. its quite a sight. although moving my mouse over it clears it up a little. lol. this is discusting, im so sick of this Genoa Phantom. wheres my Radeon....

ok, its got nothing to do with the computer. this may sound strange at first, but its more than likely an internal wire thats broken or crimped beyond usage. chances are you had something on top of the wire [known or unknown] at it held the wire in one position for a long time, then when you moved it [because low gauge wire snaps easier than a twig] the wire may have broken. the bussing is the electric current bouncing on to the other half, but not consistantly. just today i was working with a pair of speakers, and i had the same problem. one more thing, make sure that the wire for the speakers isn't touching an AC power cable. the AC current will mess with the signal, even through the rubber/plastic insulation. also if the wires are not grounded that would be a problem. digital audio cables are slowly appearing, they are not grounded. not being grounded causes a problem because the electric current will slowly build up until boom, a speaker blows.

i didn't go out and buy a new computer, in fact, the one i run vista is on is slower than $h!t compared to the others on this forum. just look at my sig, then realize i run Windows Vista. works just as well as XP. Vista isn't a complete OS, at least not the one i have, so it worked perfectly. it installs over XP. being as i have this computer, and it can run 3 different OS's, its all good. its not exactly buying new, but ugrading. having a new OS just takes some experimenting. disable defualt features until you find a setup that you like. i disabled automatic updating, so i update/install only what i want to. sure i get popups saying windows defender is outdated, but i dont use Windows Defender. if you mix and match the right programs/settings, you can have a new system in an old computer that runs just as well as anything else.

i use avast, its compatible with vista, and i like the boot time scan, its something that i find useful.

i've seen PCI cards with SCSI inputs/outputs, but is there any other way? like a simple SCSI>USB cable? does anyone know? im gonna go to compusa later this week and find out for sure, but if theres a 'wise guru' on the subject that would be wonderful

ok, so i went to the dump monday afternoon, and on the way home, i found something that caught my eye, and i was wondering if anyone could give me any insight into it. Its a Yamaha external CD burner Model #: CRW2100SE year: 2001 interface: SCSI it has a pair of 50 pin SCSI inputs on the back, and RCA output. it uses the same power cable that a PSU uses. is there a type of interface cable that goes into USB or anything else that i can use? whats my best bet if i were to keep this and try to use it? i want input before i do anything. at the moment i know it turns on, and the CD tray opens. i don't want to really say i wasted anything in taking it. although i may have. its a 16x10x40x burner and if i manage to get a way to use it, i'll be using it at school, not home. it doesn't have to be fast. i'll also post another topic in a few days about something else, but what i have now is what comes first.