ginginca

Not to be funny ... but I'll begin my opinion with "I think" ;)I think that the differences between how a computer thinks and how a person thinks are at this point a bonus. Computers follow a series of instructions and for the most part, us humans aren't very good at that.Our processes are influenced by our environment, our mood, creativity, our personal experiences and many other things. Even when we do the identical process twice we might end up with different results. For example, it might take longer to do something one time than another, or we may do a better job one time than the other.I like the fact that computers are influenced by these factors.How much science fiction has been written on this subect ... never with good results. We would be taking something that has perfect logical thinking process and taking away what it is best at.Would we be heading towards borg technology?

Have you isolated whether this happens on only one PC or more than one?

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I have been able to do that with WIN RAR too.

What is it they borrow and bought 2nd hand?

I have been an internet marketer full time since the mid 90's.I'm ALWAYS online.

So you're saying that the sites that sell music don't sell much? And that most people can already write and record music themselves? Does your average person have thousands invested in pro music gear? Yeah ... right!

I have been working on a royalty-free music background site at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and have started uploading my inventory of music. If you have a few minutes ... can you see if there are any previews missing? Also, there are some freebies in there but not many yet. Help yourself of course to the free stuff. I'm not concerned about the small size of the inventory. I have hundreds to add. It will just take me a while to get them all uploaded. Next ... if I can take a quick survey to help with my research ... if you purchase music for backgrounds (videos, web sites, podcasts etc.) what style or catagory of music do you look for? I have tons here and want to know where to focus my efforts. Thanks. Gin

If you think this was dangerous I've mis-quoted myself. (a) I didn't open it myself. My brother in law IS a computer technician and he did it. He was looking to see if there were salvagable parts. It was blowed up real good. ( nothing was plugged in.

I learned from this experience that if the CPU is too hot (actualy overheated) I can't trouble-shoot at all. With everything I removed or replaced it made no difference. For example, I popped out the RAM, I replaced the power supply etc. I was getting nowhere because the CPU wouldn't run. *grin* and here I thought I was actually doing a good job trouble-shooting my problem *grin* I also learned from this experience just how dependant I am on my PC. Likely having no PC is worse than having no car. I'm lucky in my case that my daughter and husband both have PCs so I could at least get online and check my new email and post at forums such as this one. But for about 8 to 10 hours I couldn't access the incoming mail that had arrived prior to 3:00am when the system went down. I couldn't see if there were any questions from clients (or prospects) and I had just launched a promotion 36 hours earlier. It could have been a nightmare if I was much longer without being able to see those emails. (It was just about killing me.) A big hug and a thank you for your suggestions when you were helping me sort this out. You guys are great. Gin

It's fixed.AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! What a relief!It was the power supply afterall. We opened it up and it had 3 blown caps, and a ceased fan.The reason the 2nd PS didn't work at my place was because the CPU was still hot from all my efforts to get it going.When I ventured out in the cold to get some help with it, it properly cooled down.While we had it apart we also removed the CPU fan and cleaned it along with the cooling fins. They were quite dirty even though it was new in the fall of '05.Thank you for your suggestions.

I tried another PSU too and the same thing with that one. (I always keep a spare since I've blown these before and they're such an easy thing to test.)I also disconnected all drives (DVD, HDD, FD etc.) and removed the RAM.The PSU fan tries to spin. The CPU fan tries to spin. And my 3rd cooling fan also tries to spin. And there's no visual evidence of blown caps anywhere.I just got off the phone with my brother in law who is going to lend me a 2.6 machine to put my stuff into to get back up. Then we can trouble shoot further. He's thinking it's the motherboard. Yikes it's only 15 months old but out of warranty!Yes there's a voltmeter here in the house.

I woke up this morning to find no humming fan noise from my PC, but the lights were still on. Now this has happened once before about a week ago. A hard boot fixed the issue THEN, and I was back in business.This morning it made no difference so I decided I would take apart the PC and investigate. Since it's Sunday, my computer retailer won't be open. I'll have to fix this myself.I didn't suspect the power supply, as first of all it was new last year (a big bad *bottom* one), and started looking in the direction of the main switch on the front.When I push this in, the fans start for about a half a second and shut back off again. When I HOLD it on, it repeats this process of trying to start, at about half-second intervals.So at this point ... the switch seemed to be the problem.I ripped apart the case (and with all those stupid plastic things holding the front in place it took about an hour).Finally I got to the switch itself, and removed the decorative piece that you actually touch from the outside.Still the problem was the same.I tried disconnecting the leads that go to the motherboard, but with those "not in place" it doesn't get any power at all.My next brilliant thought was that the little plastic (sold state) switch itself was dirty or broken and needed replaced.Good news ... My old PC would have one! So I ripped that one apart and pulled out JUST the switch with the attached wires and plugged that into the motherboard of my PC.I was surprised to see that I'm still having the same problem. I also tried reversing the leads on the motherboard in hopes it would give a "backwards" connection. (No luck with that either.)So here's the current situation ... I have replaced the switch. But when I "power up" and hold the switch in the ON position, the fans start & stop, at about half-second intervals.Is there a way to bypass the switch completely? Really I don't need it.But I'm dead with no computer and can't work!Can you help?

So putting it in at 640 X 480 sound okay then? I think they compress it down to 320 X 240 ... just a wee little box on my monitor ;)Are you doing any viral videos? Or just personal stuff?

BTW, I was very surprised to see how low the ORGANIC traffic converted. I had always thought that organic was supposed to convert well. In this case ... apparantly not!

We are running online campaigns for an ecommerce client at the moment and have been turning out some interesting statistics.Industry category - baby gear and childrens products (strollers, car seats etc).Location - Canada(1) Organic listings >> conversion rates around .2%(2) Overture >> no traffic(3) Google Adwords >> conversion rates around 2% (which is profitable)(4) shopping site A >> conversion rates around 10% (amazing!)(5) shopping site B >> conversion rates around 20% (I nearly spat my coffee all over my keyboard)The quality of the traffic at those shoping sites is outstanding. And by the way the cost per click is actually less than google adwords!

Anyone made any videos for Youtube or google videos?What resolution are you making them at?

Do you mean the ones right below the listing (with additional subdomains)?

I am particularly fond of Keyword Discovery. Their monthly subscription is expensive but for the data you get, it is will worth the price.They have a free trial which gets you partial access to their data.http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/ (not an affiliate link)

Well done on all three. I like the 2nd one the best. It has a lot of depth to it. Good job!

I do all my audio editing with Adobe Audition.(1) It allows me to make whatever file format I want.(2) I can edit audio for video and keep them in sync.Another helpful utility the compresses but doesn't do any editing is called "Audio Archive Compressor". But I don't remember where I got it from. I have had it for a while.Have you tried Razor Lame?

If you have any little ones please put and I'll add something to my site.Maybe something like "powered by"

Just thought I would post again ... was anyone able to help with this?Gin

Have you tried calling Microsoft?

Thanks!