Posted by Cycovision
Awwww come on Paul, you know more about bloody computers than I do and you know it
What kind of crashing? Freezing? Error messages? All applications or only some? Random or at certain times? It's important to know 'cos it often indicates whether the problem is hardware or software...
If you get rid of Vista, stick SUSE Linux instead of Ubuntu, much betterer
And there is a free legal version of it too, called openSUSE I think...
Posted by paul101
random freezing ie mouse, usb dont work
Posted by Cycovision
Ooooh, Yuk!
Overheating maybe? Restart, go into BIOS and check the temperatures?
Could be memory as well but that more frequently causes restarts rather than freezing.
Also possibly battery / power supply.
If you haven't got anything important or irreplaceable on there, you could always do a clean install of Vista just to make sure it's not a software problem.
But this sounds like it could be a nasty one to me, it might need to be sent off to be looked at
Posted by paul101
hmmm
overheating? is it likely to occur in more powerful laptops? (its a lenovo thinkpad which i thaught was a good make so....?
)
software? its vista so maybee sticking expee on it may help?
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ah yes, my old laptop (celeron, 256mb ram) i put xubuntu on it and works far better than xp! allot faster!
Posted by Cycovision
Well, yes in a word. More power = more heat. Especially with laptops, if the heatsinks / heatpipes become slightly detached from the CPU and / or other chips, or if the thermal grease dries out, or if the ventilation fans become clogged up with dust or stop working altogether then said chips will get very hot very quickly.
Freezing up is a very common symptom of overheating in any type of computer
Posted by paul101
so is core2duo a rather HOT processor?
gosh, i wish i could just open up my laptop and put more fans in if thats the case
i think i'll do a clean install of xp later on, if no fix, i'll reinstall vista and send it back
( liked that laptop )
anyways i still have my old laptop if i do send it back
Posted by Cycovision
All modern processors get very hot. Even the old 750Mhz CPU's suffered freezing due to heat
You're right though, do a clean install to make sure first if it's not going cause any harm.
Posted by paul101
if it still crashes, i can check the temp inside? what is a normal running temp?
Posted by arien617
Core 2 Duo.. I seem to have about 40 celcius on my iMac.
Posted by Cycovision
45 - 70°C for the processor.
Posted by paul101
installing exppe now
Posted by paul101
windows xp has not crashed (yet)
temp for processor 56oC
any idea when the next version of windows coming out? dont like vista too much
Posted by Trev1982
they have said that they have windows 7 in production, i not loosing xp for a while now i got it setup perfect. i will never upgrade to vista the only time i use vista is do virus and spyware checks on my mums laptop.
Posted by captover72
@cyco
hi mate i have this laptop http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co[....]s/notebooks/amilo_li_1705.html
can you recomend any parts i can buy to make it any better
thanks
PS i allready have upgraded the ram to 2gb
Posted by Cycovision
@paul
Yeah, as Taz says M$ reckon that it's under development but they haven't set a release date yet. However, they did say that they don't want a repeat of the Vista delays fiasco and so going on their previous release schedules, it should be out in 2009 - 2010. Yeah, right...
@capt
The trouble with laptops, of course, is that you're very limited when it comes to upgrading. Since you've already upped the memory, I guess the only thing you could really do is stick a bigger hard drive in it. The data sheet suggests that the largest capacity drive is 160Gb SATA but it doesn't say whether larger drives are supported or not. I would guess that they are, so you could probably put a 200Gb or 250Gb drive in it.
Only problem is how easily accessible the drive is. In some laptops, it's under a little cover on the bottom (like the memory) whilst on others, it's buried inside requiring some very careful dismantling.
Posted by captover72
just had a look its easy to get to thanks for the info mate
Posted by paul101
help¬! when i put something into the middle of a text, it will delete the next character :S
Posted by arien617
That's overtype Paul.
On Word hit Insert to turn it off.
Posted by paul101
ah yes, stupid me!
Posted by paul101
grrrr
reinstalled the Google toolbar, but they've changed it, it used to underline my spelling mistakes with a wee red squiggly line but now i have to press a button on the Google toolbar and it highlights the spelling mistakes and then i have to press it AGAIN to take the spell check off again before i can do anything!
THAT'S BLOO*Y USELESS!
I want it back the way it was
ahh yes putting clean install of expee seems to have worked
Posted by Cycovision
^^^
I thought it always did that? It's firefox that continuously checks spelling, isn't it?
Posted by paul101
got it!
... disabled the Goggle tool bar spell checker and installed a language pack for Firefox spell checker
sorted
Posted by BobaFett
how to reset com ports? i cannot set back the system for a former satus, so i need another way. any help is welcome, thx
the half of the 256 are still free, but i need to get all of them to reset
Posted by paul101
grrrr
more stuff i cant remove from the startup registry
i like to be able to start up the pc and get Firefox open INSTANTLY
i cant find an option in the program to remove it from the start up reg... is there a way to remove it??
Posted by Danny_BFC
i cant help boba sorry, but paul type "msconfig" into run and then go to startup and select / deselect what you want to start on bootup!
Posted by Krubach
On 2008-01-14 22:18:40, BobaFett wrote:
how to reset com ports? i cannot set back the system for a former satus, so i need another way. any help is welcome, thx
the half of the 256 are still free, but i need to get all of them to reset
I also had that problem several times...
The only way to remove those reserved COM ports is to plug the device which uses those virtual COM ports, and when they appear in the Hardware Devices view, then you can remove them.
Posted by paul101
cheers Danny!
Posted by J-J
Ok, heres one to test you Cyco,
On my pc at work, if i copy and paste between to access programmes more than 4 times in a row without clearing my clipboard then i lose the aility to copy and paste in any programme and the only way to get it back is to restart my machine
Posted by paul101
more probs with computers
when i leave my pc for a while (goes onto screensaver), when i shake the mouse to bring it back to life i just get a screen with my desktop background, and no icons or task bar
i'm on expee and its with my pc witch i havent had much problems with
Posted by Danny_BFC
Cyco,
I got a virus on my PC, so i reinstalled XP and also bought a new 320gb Hard drive for it.
Everythings going smootly but if i have my PC on for 5-6 hours (downloading etc) it freezes up
Also i was just configuring limewire to save straight to the 320gb slave drive and everytime im on Limewire for 5 minutes and the PC freezes.
I booted straight into BIOS and my CPU temp was 50 c. Its a AMD x2 3800+. Cant see that being too hot?
Never had a problem before i got the Harddrive.
Thanks in advance
Posted by paul101
try remove limewire, and reinstall it??
Posted by rrojas260
Help! something is killing my hard drives!
A few months ago i had to buy a new hard drive because i had all kinds of problems, windows and some apps froze every 10 minutes or so and even S.M.A.R.T. showed a Bad Hard Disk, Backup and Replace msg.
I bought i new one (the same brand as the old one, not really smart i know) and worked pretty well for the last 2 o 3 months, now apps are frozing again and i get bluescreen errors related to the hard disk. I think that the mainboard could be the one messing my drives. What should I do?
Im working with vista btw
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Posted by Burgaz
Hello,
I'm looking for a new PC. I only have £300 (could possibly stretch to £350) but all i need is the tower as i'm happy with my monitor keyboard and mouse.
The only real requirements i have are that it comes with vista (pre-installed or not) and has a HDMI output...
I hope you can point me in the right direction.
Burgaz
Posted by leeboy13
mate i just got a sony vaio for that price, from pc-world
and just ordered me a battery and 2 gig ram
mate, why dont you make a base? i'll make one for you
Posted by Burgaz
I have done that before but i really can't be arsed this time
And looking around there's not that much difference in price...
Got a link to that Viao? EDIT: ok so the Viao was a one off...
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Posted by leeboy13
i speced a base unit for my sisters boyrfriend yesterday....
2.3 ghz intel core duo (4meg cache), 4 gig ddr2 800mhz, nvidia 8600GT pci express, and giabite motherboard able to take a quad core if needed in future
all for £310.... (no hardrive, but you could get 2x 500 gb for under £100....
so for £400 a monster of a machine! well, pretty neat anyway
Posted by Trev1982
yer its so cheap to build you own rig nowadays, its getting to the point you buy a component and couple of days later its cheaper where as it used to be weeks or months
Posted by leeboy13
@cyco,
hay mate, now that i have a latop and wireless at home, i was lookign at sharing files on my desktop (eg all my music etc) so that its accessable over the network... is this straight forward and easy? i also have a 500 gig external drive that would be ace to share on the network, any easy way of doing this? (bare in mind i have vista now) so im as lost as a polar bear on a desert island
Posted by Nanu
On 2008-02-05 12:11:18, leeboy13 wrote:
@cyco,
hay mate, now that i have a latop and wireless at home, i was lookign at sharing files on my desktop (eg all my music etc) so that its accessable over the network... is this straight forward and easy? i also have a 500 gig external drive that would be ace to share on the network, any easy way of doing this? (bare in mind i have vista now) so im as lost as a polar bear on a desert island
I'd be interested to know how to do that too as I have been trying since I got my Desktop in Feb 2006 and it has never worked properly! even less so since I installed Vista on the Desktop!
Posted by tranced
hi! first post here
so treat me as a newbie
i formatted my cousin's dell inspiron 9400 and when i tried to install the drivers again not all of them worked, even though i was using the driver's cd that came bundled with it.
well, i managed to download the missing drivers from the dell's support website. i think im missing the bluetooth drivers. i cant seem to get the bluetooth working on it. i remember i saw the blue light indicator on.
my question is: isnt the bluetooth enabled in this laptop or not?
i even downloaded the Wireless 350 Bluetooth Internal Module and Wireless 355 Bluetooth Module (Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR) but not luck
Posted by paul101
On 2008-02-05 14:50:22, Nanu wrote:
On 2008-02-05 12:11:18, leeboy13 wrote:
@cyco,
hay mate, now that i have a latop and wireless at home, i was lookign at sharing files on my desktop (eg all my music etc) so that its accessable over the network... is this straight forward and easy? i also have a 500 gig external drive that would be ace to share on the network, any easy way of doing this? (bare in mind i have vista now) so im as lost as a polar bear on a desert island
I'd be interested to know how to do that too as I have been trying since I got my Desktop in Feb 2006 and it has never worked properly! even less so since I installed Vista on the Desktop!
just put a network cable between the two computers' and a bit of common sense and you're done!!
AFAIK
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Posted by fatevdestiny
common sense
What part of the computer is that on??
Posted by leeboy13
On 2008-02-05 15:07:12, paul101 wrote:
On 2008-02-05 14:50:22, Nanu wrote:
On 2008-02-05 12:11:18, leeboy13 wrote:
@cyco,
hay mate, now that i have a latop and wireless at home, i was lookign at sharing files on my desktop (eg all my music etc) so that its accessable over the network... is this straight forward and easy? i also have a 500 gig external drive that would be ace to share on the network, any easy way of doing this? (bare in mind i have vista now) so im as lost as a polar bear on a desert island
I'd be interested to know how to do that too as I have been trying since I got my Desktop in Feb 2006 and it has never worked properly! even less so since I installed Vista on the Desktop!
just put a network cable between the two computers' and a bit of common sense and you're done!!
AFAIK
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WIRELESSLY.....
any plum with a hole can setup a lan with cables
but you can share external harddrives on wireless networks - enabling you to access the data anywhere (within range)......
Posted by paul101
remind me to read posts next time
Posted by leeboy13
lol, no worries
i know you can do this, its just how?!?!?
heehe!
Posted by arien617
Lee,
go into windows media player and it should find all the devices on yer network, wired and wireless.
I can't tell you exactly how right now.. or ever in that case because the lappy's at the repairers and there are no other windows machines other than that.
Someone else?
Posted by paul101
errr, its a 250 gig hard drive
Posted by Trev1982
Paul do you have the jumper in the wrong position on the hard drive ??
Posted by tranced
well, i think the hd is partitionated. but the other partition was not created hence you dont see it there.
what can you do? get a xp cd and make it boot while restarting, then, as if you were gonna install xp, you will see that there is a partition left(where windows is not installed), you need to create a partition and then restart.
go to my computer and format the new partition.
hope it helps
Posted by paul101
On 2008-02-06 12:17:34, taz666 wrote:
Paul do you have the jumper in the wrong position on the hard drive ??
it was ok, till my dad decided to dual boot it with ubuntu
(they've split up now)
edit: i only have a vista CD (
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