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    USB Stick not working in 1 specific machine

    ok cheers, i'll have a go at work tomorrow and see what happens
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    USB Stick not working in 1 specific machine

    The title says it all really. someone at work has a USB memory stick which works in all machines except one. It is an XP machine, the stick works in all other XP machines (they all use the same build), apparently the stick used to work but randomly stopped, which kind of rules out it not being a...
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    boot.ini question

    i think it'd be better to reduce it the time like you said, i did have a look and there are 2 paths in there but i think i'll just leave them and reduce the time. thanks
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    boot.ini question

    so i've had this problem for a while now but it's never really bothered me to the point of trying to do something about it, and i'm planning on building a new one in the next few months anyway. whenever i turn the computer on i get the option of which OS i want to load, i've only got XP...
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    UK Vista Prices!!!

    thank god for OEM. simple question, should i go for the 64-bit version? currently using an old athlon 64 3200+, and i'm assuming that when i upgrade (hopefully middle of this year) all the processors will be 64-bit anyway.
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    Simple Firefox question

    well, how do i get it to stay the size i want it...whenever i open firefox for some reason it opens on the left side of the screen, not maximized at 994x998 (1280x1024 monitor res) and the horizontal bookmar bar reappears. i didnt have this problem until firefox 2 appeared but since then it just...
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    file sharing question

    i set a little network up for a friends company a few days ago and there seems to be a problem with some file sharing. there's 5 computers altogether. 4 running xp and 1 running 2000 (not sure why), and the one with 2000 on is the one not allowing a certain folder to be shared. i turned the file...
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    .wmv problems

    ok i've used drivercleaner (which i did before) but i've turned wmv acceleration off, i'll give it a try.
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    .wmv problems

    any wmv files, graphics card is x1600 pro, latest drivers installed.
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    .wmv problems

    i dont know why but suddenly i cant play .wmv files without my computer crashing. sometimes i can play one for a while but i get the weird green squares all over the video like it's the wrong codec and eventually the top half of my screen will freeze, along with the rest shortly after. random...
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    motherboard dead?

    when i first rebooted and sent the error report it sent me to a site, different to that one, which had 2 solutions which were: Solution 1: Install the most current driver for your video card (which i already have done) and Solution 2: Manually decrease Hardware Acceleration for your video...
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    motherboard dead?

    the video card before was a sapphire radeon 9800xt, and i used drivercleaner before installing the new drivers. this new card (HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon 9550 256MB) is still giving me the problems. i've got the 6.7 catalysts installed (also tried the omega drivers, but they're based on 6.5)...
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    motherboard dead?

    ok i bought a new card to keep me going for a few months, radeon 9550 256mb. it started up fine, installed the drivers then tried the net, videos and games, but while i was trying WoW i got this nice mess of black and green lines all over the screen and couldnt do a thing, so i reset and now...
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    motherboard dead?

    i think my motherboard may have finally died. it's probably due since it's almost 4 years old. it's an Abit KV8-MAX3, and today all of a sudden the screen just died. at first i thought the computer had completely restarted, so i turned it off and when i turned it back on the motherboard make a...
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    [PHP/MySQL] simple questions

    security isnt an issue, it's just being used today in my presentation until i can find a proper replacement. i just need a simple way of posting a note, and being able to view it. i've got everything i need for the project but i decided to try and add this at the last minute, and perhaps i...
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    [PHP/MySQL] simple questions

    yeah that's the kind of thing i'm wanting, i've got a page with "edit post" and "view post", "edit post" contains the form with the input that you gave me, and "view post" shows what is posted, after clicking the submit button it takes me straight to the "show schedule page", then if i go back...
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    [PHP/MySQL] simple questions

    hi, i'm back again, i've got all my file uploads and login working fine, there's just one simple thing i'd like it to do. i want a text box on a page and when someone enters text in and submits it it's displayed on a different page, kind of like a news post...but uber simple. the php version of...
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    [PHP/MySQL] simple questions

    yeah it's the 'Incorrect password, please try again.' so i've got to modify it to stop looking for an encrypted password...oh dear. thanks edit: figured it out, just removed the line with the "md5" bit, whatever that means.
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    [PHP/MySQL] simple questions

    well that didnt take long did it. i have a problem with the database now, i've been into phpmyadmin and entered a username and password into the table, but when i enter those same values into the login boxes and click login, it says that i'm using the wrong password...which i'm not. i'm not...
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    [PHP/MySQL] simple questions

    thank you again. no doubt i'll be back later when something else doesnt work.
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