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CD PLAYER PROBLEM
by Guest Nightsky- 3 replies
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The CD drive in my Inspiron 7000 reads and opens things like pdf files, but will not play commercial or burned CDs. WinMediaPlayer message says it cannot handle this type file (.cda) Sometimes another message says, "Unable to find file". I re-installed WMPlayer, check all the file associations, refreshed drivers, all to no avail. Any help appreciated
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Great Indian Developer Awards 2008
by Guest rejijacobt- 1 reply
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Great Indian Developer Awards 2008
by Guest rejijacobt- 0 replies
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Vote for your favorite trailblazing individuals & products in the IT Developer ecosystem and win exciting prizes! Prizes include: Apple Mac Air Book, 26" PLASMA TV, NOKIA95 8 GB, APPLE iPOD 80Gb, ZEST HOLIDAYS, GIDS GOODIES. The Great Indian Developer Awards is a first-of-its-kind initiative that honors individual & organisational excellence in the IT Developer ecosystem. Just click and cast your vote. With over 15 categories & a distinguished independent jury, who knows... it could be your colleague, company or product that will emerge triumphant. And you get to go home with cool goodies as well! Hurry! Click here to vote for the Great Indian …
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OT: installing a game on HDD
by Guest rod- 0 replies
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Our young 'un has Warcraft, Genuine and purchased game. Is it possible to load on C Drive (disk 1 and 2) so he can run from HDD and not have to swap disks time to time? Thanks -- Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
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CD PLAYER PROBLEM
by Guest Nightsky- 0 replies
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The CD drive in my Inspiron 7000 reads and opens things like pdf files, but will not play commercial or burned CDs. WinMediaPlayer message says it cannot handle this type file (.cda) Sometimes another message says, "Unable to find file". I re-installed WMPlayer, check all the file associations, refreshed drivers, all to no avail. Any help appreciated -- Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
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Dead Laptop comes back to "Life" Mystery
by Guest Brad- 2 replies
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Hi, I have a Compaq Presario 1200XL110 laptop (bought 2nd hand) with bad display (display "wires" disconnected). I used an external Monitor. I kept the laptop plugged into AC all the time and the battery installed. I had no problems the first few days. Note: the laptop was on from 7:30AM until around 5PM every day. Then one morning, I tried to turn it on, but absolutely nothing happened. The only indicator that was lit, which is always lit, is the plugged into AC indicator. Note: I am a TV, etc. (not computer) serviceman. I won't go into details of the tests I performed, which included testing the power switch. .. I removed a dead (!!) RTC/…
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Dead Laptop comes back to "Life" Mystery
by Guest Brad- 0 replies
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Hi, I have a Compaq Presario 1200XL110 laptop (bought 2nd hand) with bad display (display "wires" disconnected). I used an external Monitor. I kept the laptop plugged into AC all the time and the battery installed. I had no problems the first few days. Note: the laptop was on from 7:30AM until around 5PM every day. Then one morning, I tried to turn it on, but absolutely nothing happened. The only indicator that was lit, which is always lit, is the plugged into AC indicator. Note: I am a TV, etc. (not computer) serviceman. I won't go into details of the tests I performed, which included testing the power switch. .. I removed a dead (!!) RTC/CMO…
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DeskJet 932C won't install
by Guest PSRumbagh- 8 replies
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I am trying to install a HP DeskJet 932C printer on a PC that is running Windows 98 Second Edition. The driver installation software (autorun.exe), from a third party download, won't run at all on the PC. There is no apparent opening of the program and no error messages are produced. Why is there no response to the program? What can I do to get this printer installed? The Win98 SE CD does not contain drivers for the 932C as it was first marketed in year 2000. The downloaded installation software runs OK on another PC running Windows 98 First Edition. I do not have the original HP installation CD. Note: HP is no longer providing product support a…
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ScanDisk, lost cluster
by Guest SANTANDER- 17 replies
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Some applications hung up, so I restarted computer. After restart, system start ScanDisk to check hard drive for errors. In log file, there was some info: File system: There was one lost cluster. ScanDisk reclaimed the lost cluster as free space. Does this mean logical error, not physical damage of disk surface? Is it safe for hard drive? Does it possible find the damaged file and remove it? How to make Thorough test without fixing anything? Thanks,
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Successful AWE64 ISA PnP installation!
by Guest rpgs rock dvds- 9 replies
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Recently, I posted a message to this newsgroup, the subject was - ISA Plug and Play not working (clean install) I am very pleased to say that I have fixed the problem: I am now able to insert an AWE64 ISA PnP sound card inside the Win98SE PC, and the PC correctly identifies it, and everything appears to be working great. Summary of fixed problem: I think that the Value AWE64 card that I was using (before a 2nd AWE64 *gold* card arrived this morning for me to test) may have been faulty. Carefully examining one the only configurable jumper, which allows the user to disable midi functionality (I think), it looked damaged. Also, perhaps the "ISA slot pins" …
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Acronis Disk Director has caused a serious problem on my PC
by Guest rpgs rock dvds- 10 replies
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I thought I'd install Acronis Disk Director (version 10) on to my new Windows 98SE PC. I wanted to make a backup of my HDD by copying the whole C:\ partition. When Disk Director rebooted to perform this operation, I get a Windows Protection Fault, and the only way I can now use my computer is if I boot into safe mode. Please can someone tell me how to remove Disk Director so that I can boot-up my PC normally, without needing to go into safe mode? The problem is that when I try to boot-up in normal mode, Disk Director tries to perform its operation and it seriously fails every time. Thanks a lot, best regards, Robert.
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ISA Plug and Play not working (clean install) 1 2
by Guest rpgs rock dvds- 26 replies
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Are there are any noteworthy BIOS or Windows 98 settings I need to be aware of to get Win98 successfully installed on a QDI Advance 9 or 10 mobo? (VIA chipset). The reason I ask is that I am having a problem with Win98's ISA Plug and Play mechanism. Win98 is unable to detect any PnP ISA cards. Please note this occurs with the CMOS settings cleared and a clean Win98 install, plus I'm just using a basic VGA graphics card only, or occasionally this graphics card with a Soundblaster AWE64 (PnP ISA). For either hardware configuration mentioned above, inside Device Manager there appears to be some kind of resource problem with this System resource: "IO read d…
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Internet Explorer Downloads
by Guest TChuckster- 5 replies
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When connecting to Int. Explorer, I receive an offer to upgrade to 7.0. I can't use this version with Win 98. However, I can't get rid of this screen offering the upgrade. It appeared last week and there is no delete option. The screen recognizes that my operating system won't support 7.0 but it doesn't go away. Any thoughts? Thank you for the help!
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As one might expect here, I have windows 98SE. My email program used to grab the focus of the system sometimes when new email came in. Lately, it grabs it every time, I think. And Eudora is on top, when I'm trying to look at something else. My browser, FireFox2, also grabs the focus when a page is loading. It can do it 3 times for just one screen, at different stages. It's driving me crazy. CAn I turn off the switching of focus to the program that has retrieved new files, or whatever the rule is here? Can I just turn it off altogether so that I am the sole decisor of what program is on top? Thanks. If you are inclined to email me for some rea…
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Dead Computer - Power Supply or Motherboard?
by Guest Bill in Co.- 0 replies
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Is there any simple test to eliminate one of those possibilities (for a completely dead computer - no lights, no fans, no hard disk activity, nothing)? I have read that it is possible to check the power supply by temporarily shorting two pins together, but I don't know which two pins, and I don't know if that will work without any load on the power supply. I do have a voltmeter, however. -- Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway