Archived CalgaryPuck Computer Help Thread

[Burninator]

I just caved and phoned dell tech support. He told me to delete all the partitions, then we did a debugging and then installed windows. I would give more details but I had really no idea what I was doing. It's something that I would have never figured out on my own.

[lifer]

So when I got to work this morning and turned on my computer, it told me I had to restart it to install updates for windows. I did, and when it restarted my picture quality, and desktop set up was screwed up. Let me explain:
Everything on my desktop is stretched vertically, and the text on any windows that I open is slightly blurry.
The picture quality and size seem similar to when I have the S-Video plugged in and the dispay is set to show on a TV screen as well as my LCD screen. I have checked that setting, and it is not turned on.

My computer is an ACER ASPIRE 9300 notebook. It is running Windows Vista.
Does anybody know what this problem might be, and how I can fix it?

[photon]

Probably the resolution is set different to the native resolution of your LCD. Change the resolution to whatever your LCD's resolution is.

[lifer]

Thanks. I was looking in the setting that came pre loaded on the computer and it only gave me display options for projectors. I've found the other dispay settins options now and I've fixed it.
Thanks Photon.

[Eddie Bronze]

Hey guys, I'd like to get an external hard drive since my internal is almost at full capacity. I was checking out Memory Express' website and they have a 500GB for $165.
http://www.memoryexpress.com/index.p...tID=10154&SID=

Should I just get it or is there a better option? I really don't know much about 'quality' when it comes to a product like this.

[Bobblehead]

Yes, that is a good drive (Seagate are very good), but...

There is a LaCie 500GB external drive on for $120 right now at Future shop. Some stores are sold out, but according to the web there are still at least a couple locations in town with stock.

[Eddie Bronze]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

Yes, that is a good drive (Seagate are very good), but...

There is a LaCie 500GB external drive on for $120 right now at Future shop. Some stores are sold out, but according to the web there are still at least a couple locations in town with stock.

Thanks for the tip! As much as I hate shopping at that store, that is a good deal. I picked up one up just a few minutes ago. Makes me wonder what kind of mark up they put on stuff when you see them on sale for $200 off the original price.

[LockedOut]

Originally Posted by Eddie Bronze

Hey guys, I'd like to get an external hard drive since my internal is almost at full capacity. I was checking out Memory Express' website and they have a 500GB for $165.
http://www.memoryexpress.com/index.p...tID=10154&SID=

Should I just get it or is there a better option? I really don't know much about 'quality' when it comes to a product like this.

That same drive is on sale at WalMart for $140 if you don't like the Lacie.
http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/s...d.php?t=479276

[Eddie Bronze]

Since installing the new hard drive, I've been getting that blue screen, 3 or 4 times now. The one that does a dump of physical memory.

It says to check for adequate disk space but my internal hard drive has almost 70% free space now that I moved all my music/photos/videos to the external. It says to change video adapters and check for BIOS updates. Also says to disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shawdowing. Although I wouldn't know how to do that.

Technical info
***STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0xBFA7DC54, 0XB848F6D0, 0X00000000)

***nv4_disp.dll - Address BFA7DC54 base at BF9D5000, DateStamp453bdc7a

[cSpooge]

Originally Posted by Eddie Bronze

Since installing the new hard drive, I've been getting that blue screen, 3 or 4 times now. The one that does a dump of physical memory.

It says to check for adequate disk space but my internal hard drive has almost 70% free space now that I moved all my music/photos/videos to the external. It says to change video adapters and check for BIOS updates. Also says to disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shawdowing. Although I wouldn't know how to do that.

Technical info
***STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0xBFA7DC54, 0XB848F6D0, 0X00000000)

***nv4_disp.dll - Address BFA7DC54 base at BF9D5000, DateStamp453bdc7a

the nv4_disp.dll is your nvidia video card drivers file. If you've recently updated your drivers check to see how many copies you have of the file. nVidia cards used to have a problem where if you didn't uninstall the old drivers before the new ones that error would pop up.

[Eddie Bronze]

Thank you. I checked the NVIDIA folder and inside it there are two folders: Win2KXP and WinXP64. Inside Win2KXP is folders 84.21 and 93.71. Inside WinXP64 is folders 81.98 and 93.71. There is a nv4_disp.dl_ file in each of those four subfolders. I'm thinking I don't need all these folders containing all this information?

[cSpooge]

Originally Posted by Eddie Bronze

Thank you. I checked the NVIDIA folder and inside it there are two folders: Win2KXP and WinXP64. Inside Win2KXP is folders 84.21 and 93.71. Inside WinXP64 is folders 81.98 and 93.71. There is a nv4_disp.dl_ file in each of those four subfolders. I'm thinking I don't need all these folders containing all this information?

download the newest drivers off the nvidia website and unistall your current drivers (you'll get ty display when you reboot but live with it :P). Delete all those folders then install the latest drivers.

[Eddie Bronze]

Originally Posted by cSpooge

download the newest drivers off the nvidia website and unistall your current drivers (you'll get ty display when you reboot but live with it :P). Delete all those folders then install the latest drivers.

Thank you very much. As soon as I posted I checked for new updates and they just released one last month so I did everything you said. Hopefully no more problems, we'll see. Thanks for steering me in the right direction, cSpooge, much appreciated!

[Vulcan]

I'm having trouble watching TSN video on Firefox on my new Vista computer. TSN says I have to download this plug-in, npmozax.dll ,. It says failed , error code - 202 and another popup says Firefox cancelled-227. Oh, yeah the popup calls it Mozill Firefox 1.5 ActiveX Plug-in.

I tried using Internet Explorer, but that's a real POS in Vista. As an example, it won't even let me download Flash running as the administrator and won't load TSN without errors.

Any help is appreciated.

[RougeUnderoos]

Telus high-speed is sucking for me tonight. CP works like a charm but some the "big" sites (BBC, Google, Nerdbook) are slower than hell and keep timing out.

Anyone else having this problem.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Telus high-speed is sucking for me tonight. CP works like a charm but some the "big" sites (BBC, Google, Nerdbook) are slower than hell and keep timing out.

Anyone else having this problem.

Yeah, some sites are lightning fast, others won't work at all.

[LouCypher]

Good to see it isn't just me as I am having the same trouble with some sites and checking my machine the problem did not appear to be on my end.

[gottabekd]

Blast! This is the first Telus "outage" I have experienced in the last 4 years. I can reach half the net...not so much the other half. Wait, maybe I can set up my VPS as a web proxy...

On another note...what search engine is good when one cannot access google? I tried the Microsoft Live search...and it absolutely sucked.

[skins]

next best thing to Google is probably Yahoo

I'm having some trouble accessing secure websites. "http" sites work just fine, but everytime I go to an "https" site the page cannot be displayed. Anyone know what I can do to fix this? Some kind of security setting? I've tried fooling around with my firewall.

[SeeGeeWhy]

I am trying to install adobe pdf reader and java, but the downloader is saying that I do not have enough disk space on my machine, even though I have 70.95 GB of free space on my E drive.

WTF!@?!?!?!?!?!