Archived CalgaryPuck Computer Help Thread

[Bobblehead]

That is about right. Your memory is fine. You can let the test continually cycle for as long as you want, but the only times I've had bad memory it had shown up pretty quick.

[photon]

Originally Posted by Eddie Bronze

That is the same one I dl'd, photon. But after download, you double click it and it asks to unzip. The problem is, I'm not sure if I'm unzipping to the right place.

Usually after extracting you have to either run a setup program, or go through the steps to upgrade the driver.. but after looking at the extracted driver I don't think there's a Windows XP driver for the card beyond the one that's included in Windows XP itself, that download is from like 2000.

And doing some searching, it seems there are some known issues with that NC100 card and Bittorrent, they suggest updated drivers by the maker of the network chipset, but even that site is long gone. I found them here:

http://www.network-drivers.com/drivers/146/146141.htm

I'm not 100% positive though that those are the right drivers or would even help. It might be easier to just upgrade the network card with a new one, get it from somewhere you can return it if it doesn't fix the problem.

If you want to try the drivers, after extracting them you'll have to go through the process of updating the drivers manually through the device manager and pointing it at the directory where they were extracted. Let us know if you need assistance with that.

[Eddie Bronze]

I appreciate your guys responses and help. Photon, very kind of you to look all that up for me. I think I'm just going to go the route of getting a new card. Instead of helping me painstakingly place files in certain spots, maybe you can recommend a good card for me to get. I've been going to memory express for all the parts I've put in it so far, maybe there is someone there who can help me out as well.

Thanks again guys, really appreciate it.

[photon]

http://www.memoryexpress.com/index.p...ctID=7782&SID=

Something like that should be fine. It's a Gigabit card as well so down the road if you ever have a home storage server you can upgrade everything to gigabit for faster transfers. Worth the extra $10 for some futureproofing.

[Eddie Bronze]

Appreicate that, photon. I think I'll definitely go pick that up when I get a chance.

In the meantime, I've experienced another problem. Java was updating this morning (J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 11) and of course, the damn computer froze up while it was updating. I tried to remove the update, but it's not allowing to do so, telling me there was a critical error during updating. DUH! So I'm not sure how to fix this.


Also, not sure that this could be related to any problems I'm having, but I have an ipod and digital camera that I use on this computer and I don't have a high speed usb 2.0 port. There are two ports there, but apparently not high speed ones. How complicated is it going to be to get that upgraded?

My list of problems appears to be growing.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

I'm at a friend's place, and he can't change his desktop. When I right-click the desktop and then go to properties, and desktop everything is frozen, as in I can't click on any desktop background options.

Any idea why that is?

[SpitFire40]

There's no Granny Tranny porn on the desktop is there??

heheh

Anyway, I've never heard of this ever happening. Has he run a virus scan? Updated graphics card drivers?

That isn't normal.. Try any pic on the internet and rick click/set as desktop?

[fanforever1986]

www.apple.com might be able to help.

[Superflyer]

Do you have Active desktop enabled? If you do try turning it off.

[mykalberta]

If its windows XP/Home then it is a virus.

Check is IE cache and do separate google searches to see if the first page results on both are the same.

I have seen it before, it has to do with the Active Desktop. Normally in the cases I have seen it causes the desktop to go white with some error code or something, cant remember exactly. about 1/5 of the time a Sys Restore fixed it.

Its a more common occurance on W95 and W2K than in XP though in the cases I have dealth with.

Easy way to tell is that if he has XP, add test user account with gues privleges and see if the same thing occurs. If it doesnt then its a virus. If it does then there are other things to check.

MYK

[fanforever1986]

I have an iTunes Question...shouldn't matter whether you're running a PC or Mac.

Has anyone ever done the "consolidate Library" task? The description says it takes your music from all the various folders and organizes them into an itunes music folder. My question is, does it take ONLY the music added into the iTunes library, or does it snatch up everything on your computer? I have music on my computer I don't want/need in iTunes, but I would love to have it all organized. Anyone know what selection of music it takes?

[Wolfwood]

The consolidate option only takes music that is in your iTunes library and puts it in the iTunes folder. I believe it leaves the original copy in the original location as well but I can't remember since it has been a while since I have used that option.

[Bobblehead]

Now this is a long shot, but maybe....

I'm running a FC6 system and it appears gdm isn't working.

I can log in at a terminal and then run "startx" and everything works fine, but on boot ot never gets to the login screen. Hours of debugging has found that gdmsetup says it cannot find the configuration file, and removing gdm then installing it again does not fix the issue.

(I'm trying to avoid a full install since this is my MythTV system and I have 200GB of shows on it; although I have backed it all up "just in case")

Any linux jedi out there have any ideas?

[MoneyGuy]

Suddenly, there is a small Google bar that has appeared on my desktop. It's about four inches long and half an inch tall and it has nothing in it except for the Word google on the right hand side. It obviously doesn't belong, but I can't get rid of it., I gtried right clicking on it butall the choices are greyed out. How do Iget rid of this silly bar?

[cSpooge]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

Suddenly, there is a small Google bar that has appeared on my desktop. It's about four inches long and half an inch tall and it has nothing in it except for the Word google on the right hand side. It obviously doesn't belong, but I can't get rid of it., I gtried right clicking on it butall the choices are greyed out. How do Iget rid of this silly bar?

its most likely google desktop... there should be an entry for it in your add/remove programs in control panel.

[FireFly]

Okay, now I've done it. I think I've managed to delete my audio driver, so now I hear nothing. How do I get it back? I'm on Windows XP.

[arsenal]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

Now this is a long shot, but maybe....

I'm running a FC6 system and it appears gdm isn't working.

I can log in at a terminal and then run "startx" and everything works fine, but on boot ot never gets to the login screen. Hours of debugging has found that gdmsetup says it cannot find the configuration file, and removing gdm then installing it again does not fix the issue.

(I'm trying to avoid a full install since this is my MythTV system and I have 200GB of shows on it; although I have backed it all up "just in case")

Any linux jedi out there have any ideas?

Have you tried running the xorg config setup program again? Sounds like your xserver config file got overwritten somehow.
hmm, but if you are run startx from the console, the file should be there.
Do you have the gdm config file?

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by arsenal

Have you tried running the xorg config setup program again? Sounds like your xserver config file got overwritten somehow.
hmm, but if you are run startx from the console, the file should be there.
Do you have the gdm config file?

Many times.

I removed and reinstalled KDE, Gnome , X Window System, and GDM multiple times, each time thinking a config file or something required would auto magically appear.

Funny thing is, last night I boot up again....and it worked!

It seemed like the final solution was remove and install gdm for a second time in a row, reboot, get frustrated, whine on the Fedore forums, shutdown, wait 20 hours, startup and voila!

I've been told that removing and re-installing things isn't the linux way, but there is a big disconnect between the peopel with the knowledge on how to fix things the "correct" way, and the rest of us. (and the people on the Fedora forum told me to give up and re-install FC6, so I question the resources available to the average Linux "noob")

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by FireFly

Okay, now I've done it. I think I've managed to delete my audio driver, so now I hear nothing. How do I get it back? I'm on Windows XP.

Are you sure it is an audio drive and not just the codec?

Check your Device Manager (Control Panel > System > Hardware) and if it is the driver you will see a warning symbol next to the audio device. If there audio card shows up and says there are no issues, then it is (probably) a codec problem (unless you muted something accidentally - I've NEVER done that )

[peter12]

Okay, I'm using the UofC email server (@ucalgary.ca) through Thunderbird. As of yesterday, I am unable to send emails with attachments to non-UofC addresses (ie. Hotmail or Yahoo). Is this most likely a problem with the server or is it something with my computer?