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  1. SuperGeek

    NEC ND-1100A (DVD writer)

    I purchased this dvd burner (Pacific Digital DVD +R only writer) and tried it out and worked fine at my friends. when I installed it. It would write for a couple seconds then crash my system. I have upgraded firmware to v1.90. my system is : 950 mhz, 512 ram, windows xp. bios dated upto 2000
  2. SuperGeek

    CPU

    I have an old AMD k6 2 500 cpu which I had installed on an old motherboard. I had set frequency at 95 x5 = 475MHZ. Since the CPU is a 500 it should handle this speed. When I did a cpu check it says its running at 428 MHZ and says its maxium is 300 MHZ? Question is how can I do test on the CPU...
  3. SuperGeek

    Installing External CDRW

    I made a mistake in the cdrw ,it is a Hp 8200
  4. SuperGeek

    Installing External CDRW

    I am installing an HP 3200 extrenal CDRW for a friend. (shouldnt be a problem) Its all hooked up and I turn on computer. It shows the normal stuff, found new hardware and installing new hardware,etc. This is where the problem starts. Its found the hardware but then the computer crashes. I did...
  5. SuperGeek

    Live365

    Hi All: Since I updated from IE5.5 to IE6. My Live365 player will not work. I get a cookie timeout error and my player looks a lot different now. but it wont logon to the station. Is there a script update to fix this problem.
  6. SuperGeek

    Changing colors from 16 to 256!!

    Whats your monitor size. If your monitor is to small your video card will not allow you to change higher res or to milions of colors. If you do have a larger monitor,You might try updating drivers for it and / or your video card.
  7. SuperGeek

    Faster XP shutdown

    I found this while searching. Works great. WARNING: Editing the windows registry manually can cause serious operating system damage if done incorrectly! Use at your own risk! -Ecniv [Start] [Run] [Regedit] Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control Modify/Create the...
  8. SuperGeek

    Strange Shutdown

    Drive One does have two seperate partitions. one partition for each OS
  9. SuperGeek

    Strange Shutdown

    Nothin Major, just curious. I have dual boot. While shutdown Win98. XP came up after for shutdown also. Both OS systems are on drive one and both are Fat32. Why would XP come up ?, I wasnt using XP at the time. Since Im on the subject. Which is better Fat32 or NTSF. I tried both and see no...
  10. SuperGeek

    MediaPlayerComponent

    I am using MediaPlayer in a fixed picture box. When Cmd button is pressed the 1st time the Mediaplayer stays within the box. When pressed the 2nd time the control buttons of media box appear (I do not need the control buttons) I have set all to false statements but no luck. How can I reset the...
  11. SuperGeek

    HowToMakeA "SearchEngine"

    thanks cclint. helped a bit.lots more to thinnk about
  12. SuperGeek

    HowToMakeA "SearchEngine"

    I am making a sequencal file system. In which has 500 movie titles and info files (simular to database but reads the CD). I then could type the movie title or scroll down to see the movie titles and click on the title to bring up the info and picture of the movie on the screen. I have the...
  13. SuperGeek

    HowToMakeA "SearchEngine"

    I like to make a simple search engine for 500 articles and place it alphabetically. This may be simple but I sure dont know how
  14. SuperGeek

    1 gig ram but says low on memory

    Thank all. It worked
  15. SuperGeek

    1 gig ram but says low on memory

    XP has 25 gigs 98 has 10 gigs
  16. SuperGeek

    1 gig ram but says low on memory

    Hello : I have dual boot system. I just upgraded my memory to 1 gig. Great for XP. On 98 says its dangerously low on memory??? I have adjusted my Virual memory with no difference. Also my norton says it my not operate and my midi sound is now disabled.. I had 512 ram before and worked perfectly...
  17. SuperGeek

    Onboard Ethernet Card

    Thanks to The Old Man. My system has back to life again.
  18. SuperGeek

    Onboard Ethernet Card

    Hi: I own a Pavilion 520c witch has a on board (built in) ethernet connection. I like to remove this function for now because I'm using a modem and like to speed up my startup time when I load up my computer.It always loads my ethernet before anything else. I have disabled it but it still starts...
  19. SuperGeek

    disable new hardware option

    Thanks Linney: That Info helped a lot
  20. SuperGeek

    disable new hardware option

    I have a dual boot system. Works great. I have a capture card which I use in 98 but XP always looks for this hardware at startup (which I dont want). How can I disable "Installing new hardware" option when XP loads up. I can load in new hardware myself without XP telling me to. Thanks

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