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Hello I'm new here

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:46:01 +0300

Hello I'm new here and just wanted to say hi.

Firefox Question

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:27:44 +0300

I've just downloaded Firefox, and (so far) the only problem I can't find a solution for is this:

When I am browsing a website, I open a link or chart within it.

When I close down this link or chart, the whole website closes and I am reverted back to the desktop.

Does anyone know how can I minimise these links and stay on the website without being booted off the whole thing?

XP hangs on boot

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:53:30 +0300

My computer was having issues related to my D: drive. I'm on XP SP2. I have two WD5000AAKS hard drives. I was getting a few different problems, one being the computer would take very long times to boot up completely, sometimes hanging, but usually booting eventually. Also I was getting a BSOD crash referencing a file used in the SATA drivers from Nvidia. I'm using an nForce 7 board. I guess this is a known issue with the nForce drivers and SATA drives having problems. In addition, the D: drive kept running chkdsk upon startup, and occasionally having write errors.

I had thought it might be the disk going bad, but I ran Western Digital's disk utility and it checked out fine.

In trying to fix this, I began by downloading from nVidia the latest drivers and installing them. The first part of the installation program from nVidia deleted my old drivers, and then rebooted the system. I then had a crash on restart, and tried restarting again.

So now it is still running chkdsk on D:. However the chkdsk program completes, but then freezes and never exits. I've tried removing the D: drive (since it boots on C:) as well all other non-essential hardware, and this removed the chkdsk but it still causes the system to freeze. In regular boot mode, I get a black screen. In safe mode it hangs right after loading mup.sys.

I went into the windows recovery console and ran a chkdsk /r D: and waited a few hours. The disk checked fine, and the 'dirty' flag is gone and it is no longer running chkdsk on D:.

However, now even with the D: drive connected XP continues to freeze during the bootup. In regular mode, the Windows splash screen just goes black.

In safe mode, it pauses a bit on mup.sys, then continues and loads fully to the login screen!.... but my keyboard and mouse are disabled and I can't log in. PS2 keyboard and mouse and also tried a USB mouse. Tried disconnecting and reconnecting the devices.

Any help appreciated. I am pretty sure it has something to do with the hard disk drivers. Anybody know how I can get this thing to finish booting with keyboard and mouse so I can try to change the drivers?

Windows 7 On Netbooks

Sat, 01 May 2010 11:58:33 +0300

I just bought my 10 year old an HP MINI with windows 7 on it. I have to say I am a die-hard XP man myself, but thought I would give it a go just on a netbook.

I'm telling you. I hate the fact that it only has windows 7 Starter on it. It's virtually useless if you have a home network. It wont allow sharing of files etc...

If your in the market for a netbook, make sure you don't have 7 starter on it!

Just my humble opinion.

My Rant is done now.

Event Viewer Errors and more

Sat, 01 May 2010 02:45:25 +0300

I have a computer on my network that is giving me problems. Every morning when the user first logs in these same errors pop into the event view Event error 1053, Event Viewer error 15, event viewer error could not execute GP script

Steps I've taken so far is, I've scanned for spyware/Viruses and it came back clean(using Malwarebytes, Hijackthis, and Symantec anti-virus corp ed.)
The problems these are causing is group policy isn't being applied, and network drives aren't being mapped. I know the last resort if this isn't a easy fix will be just pulling it from the network and re-imaging it, but I figured if there was a easy fix to this that I don't know about I would try that route first.

So any suggestions will be appreciated and thanks in advanced!

X-R-U-M-E-R 7 Elite is coming soon ;)

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:30:45 +0300

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Probable Printer Cartridge Problem

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:31:39 +0300

Hey guys! I don't specialise too much in fixing printers and I've been having this problem for a while now (~3 months) with my LaserJet Color printer right after moving it from the upstairs office to my computer room downstairs so that all wireless laptops around the house can print wirelessly through the network, going through my desktop computer now connected to it downstairs.

So, I thought it'd be easier for everyone wanting to print something to print through the network rather than having to go upstairs, connect the USB wire to their laptops and print, so I moved the chunky ol' printer downstairs. I don't know what I did, I didn't bump it or anything.. Ever since we moved it downstairs, its red cartridge doesn't stop playing up and shows a red streak vertically down the page. I tried wiping the plastic drum (?) but I guess the line would have appeared on the back of the page if the drum was dirty.

At times all the other colors (black too) play up as well and show four thick horizontal lines of each color. Unfortunately, I don't have screenshots of that because I keep throwing pages away if that happens and it hasn't happened in around a month now so I cannot reproduce the symptom and I don't know what made that happen and what made it stop. But I do have a picture of the thin, vertical red line.

I have not tried replacing the red cartridge yet; toner is expensive. The fact that the other colors played up too before doesn't encourage me either.

Has anyone had this problem before and have any sort of advice or fact about the situation? Will it serve better if I just invest in a new printer altogether maybe? Or is the printer not at fault but the cartridge is? How about refilling cartridges in the UK? Any good, or is that what is causing my problem?

PS. For those British people out there, I used "color" instead of "colour" to keep it consistent with the name of the printer!

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Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:59:16 +0300

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PROBLEM ON STARTUP

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:17:34 +0300

I went away for two days, leaving my PC powered on (not the screen, just the power at the plug socket). Since then, it won't fully load on startup. I get a message at the bottom of a lot of other info which states

Press F1 to run SETUP
Press F2 to load default values and continue

I'm on Windows XP. Is there anything I can do to prevent this happening?

CSS Splitting the Difference

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:48:39 +0300

A similar layout that is typically solved with tables is essentially the opposite of the above. Instead of meeting in the middle, you might want to place two elements at opposite sides of the browser window. This might be a case where you have a small logo that you want at the top right corner of your page, and some navigational elements at the top left:
Home > Products[logo]

Here we will use the same DIV.ROW, but different SPANs than we did for aligning the FORM elements with their labels. The SPAN on the left will float left, and contain left-aligned text. The SPAN on the right will float right and contain right-aligned text.

CSS:

div.row span.left {
float: left;
text-align: left;
font-weight: bold;
color: #fff;
width: 49%;
}

div.row span.right {
float: right;
text-align: right;
font-weight: bold;
color: #fff;
width: 49%;
}

HTML:

Home > Products

[logo]