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Adjusting the FSB. Check the clock speed of your DDR ram. You can refer to this page for it's name vs clock -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR_SDRAM To do that, you need put your old ram back and boot into bios. If you're in doubt, try set to the lowest possible clock speed.

Well, 1.5Gb/s is actually more than enough in the first place, which is equal to about 150MB/s. Only in sequential transfer can the hard drive hit that tip. Anyway, that mostly happen only during the transition period from SATA-1 to SATA-2. It's because of motherboard compatibility issue that they made it default to SATA-1 which is 1.5Gb/s. Later version of the hard drive are default to SATA-2. And most of the hard drive I've seen here has a jumper to set it. So, it doesn't need to be set using Hitachi HD Tool. My guess is that the one that you mentioned might have been specific model which they produce when SATA-2 was first implemented.

Well, It might be an indication that your hard drive is degrading. Check the SMART parameters as well. Try monitor the temperature too. I had a friend who killed his hard drive after operating above 50C for a prolonged period. I never liked to hibernate anyway. Only used in on my notebook. Never even border to enable it on my desktop. I run my desktop 24/7 too, but I let it download and share files on p2p when I'm not using it.

turbopowerdmaxsteel, there 2 possibility of your problem. I'm assuming you're at least running WinXP or Win2k. 1. DMA/PIO mode related. Windows will downgrade your device DMA mode when CRC error occur along the interface. After UDMA-1, it will downgrade to PIO mode. This might be why your transfer speed is slow. PIO mode is VERY slow. You can check at the Device Manager, under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Depending on which channel your harddisk is plugged into. Say "Primary IDE Channel". When you open up the property window, look under Advanced Settings. The "Current Transfer Mode" should be "Ultra DMA". If it's PIO Mode, then you might be having this problem. There's a few way to go around this. You can set the Transfer Mode to PIO, restart, the set back to DMA. Or you can refer to these 2 articles for more solutions. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/817472/ http://winhlp.com/node/10 2. Your hard disk had a bad sector in the critical section like the file record or MFT (Master File Table). Thus it takes longer to read or write to your disk. Try do a bad sector scan on your hard disk by running checkdisk, make sure you tick "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" Good Luck

Yes, you won't get into the bios with your "new" ram. You need to put your old ram back, then get into bios and make the adjustment.

Did you hear any beeps during POST? Might have been a faulty ram OR your "new" ram cannot tolerate your current FSB setting. Not all motherboard can detect the FSB of the ram properly or the ram might not have SPD to allow FSB detection in the first place. You can try to lower your FSB well, by looking for the jumper which set the FSB OR put back your old ram and set your FSB to the lowest, then try again with the "new" ram.

I'm not that good with photo editing here, but I do have some experience. My suggestion is that you separate the element in your picture. I'm assuming that you're using an editor with layering, blending support. This method is something to do with masking. Let 's look at h011.jpg (LED Lights) picture. You can first cut out the 4 lamps (object), paste that as layer2 in a new file. Only the object is opaque. Then use the whole picture as layer1 or background of the new file. Layer1 is underneath layer2. Adjust the brightness and contrast of layer1. Play with the blending as well, once your background is bright enough, it will appear "white". You can also play with color level to achieve you final result.Anyway, this only serve as a starting point. You might want to look into more way of masking by searching online. Or others from here who is more experience can give some more input on this topic.Good Luck

I think what toby meant was that the oldest stuffs in the pc is 12 years old. The board has to be newer than that. nForce2 is released in 2002, 6 years from now. Probably the ram and the cpu is as new as the board. He might have kept the hard disk, optical drive, casing, floppy, keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc.

You're most welcome. Enjoy your upgrade

Nah, you don't have to knock anything. I meant hassle in getting it, downloading the right driver and get it work properly without having to reinstall your window. for 40quid, it's quite worth it.

Wow !!! That would be a waste too, 1gb(total) is more than enough, and you want use them when you upgrade later. Anyway, it's your choice. The blue thing is AGP slot. But because your cpu is slow, upgrading to the latest card won't worth the hassle + money. Also, you can use it when you upgrade later too. Nowadays PCIe (PCI express) is a norm, and cheaper too. Well, unless you're looking for cheap 2nd hard AGP card. If you think you're confident enough, you can unplug those wire then use a soft brush to brush it while vacuuming. I'm not sure where you're from, if not tropical country, beware of static discharge. Yes, GeForce4 is NVidia. nForce2 is also NVidia's. You motherboard is using nForce2 chipset and having a built-in GeForce4 graphic chip.

You don't have much choice to work with here. You definately need DDR ram to start with. But it's twice as expensive as DDR2 which is much much more common nowadays. You motherboard chipset is nForce2, most likely you have an built-in Geforce4 MX graphic chip that's taking up 128MB of your ram. Which is why you're left with only 384MB for your windows. You also only have 1 slot left for your ram. Btw, you ram is running at dual channel at the moment. But plugging in another piece will make it single channel, cause you slot is not balanced. To maintain dual-channeled, you need to throw away your 2 pieces of 256MB and replace with at least 2 pieces of 512MB. Not a very smart move though. If you're planning to play some games, my advice is save enough to get a new rig. If your intention was to improve your daily computing performance, then you can throw in another piece of 512MB, forget about the dual-channel, reduce your graphic chip's share of ram and don't even think about getting an AGP graphic card, cause your cpu is not up to the job. NOTE: you might want to "de-dust" your pc. I think it deserve some cleaning as it has served you for more than 5 years

Did the built in speaker make any sound? It's quite likely that the connection of your ram or your video card is loose. Try dismount and resit them. Then try to boot again. This kind of problem happen all the time. Take note of the beeps too when boot up, it will help you troubleshoot the problem. If all the beeps are long beeps, that means it's related to ram. Else, if it's one long beeps then 3 short beeps, it's related to graphic card. You can also refer to your manual. If this still doesn't help. Try disconnection all your harddisk, cdrom and floppy. Leave the motherboard alone, connected to the power supply only. Then try to see if it boots. If it does, then connection each of the device back one by one. Test in between, so you know which is causing the problem.

Stuck or dead, those are considered dead pixel. Dead pixel are normally due to physical damage (manufacturing defect of cause). Your method of flipping them around might help, but not all the time, or not even 10% of the time.Pixel are consisted of Red, Green and Blue. So, to check, you normally only to test only those 3 color plus black and white. Only my 22", I had a dead pixel as well. Stuck at blue when screen is red/green. When screen is black/blue, it's ok. This seems like the blue color of that pixel is shorted out, so it's either off or lit all the time.As for your case, it's the green color that's shorted out. Well, you can't do much about it actually. If your LCD monitor is still under warranty, pray that it gets a few more dead pixel so that you can send in for warranty, if that's what you're looking forward to. Normally it needs 5 or more dead pixel to be consider "defective" and eligible for a warranty claim. Check your manual on that.

It's the same. As long as both the files are in the same folder, it would works. So when you share the folder, with both in it, it should works. I've not tested with a split database before, but I did run with a single database file shared using file sharing, and it works for quite a while now. If you face problem with the link, try map the folder as a drive, say W, so that plugging in thumbdrive won't effect it later on. Then open up the access file with the form, rebuilt the link (tables) from the mapped drive. Do the same mapping for all machine. I believe that should solve your problem, if the earlier solution doesn't work. Btw, if it works in your lan enviroment before, running under vpn won't be much diff.

I've seen once on a motorola, that was 3 years ago. PDA phone alike. But the interface sucks big time, and no much apps available to it compare to other java or symbian based phones. It didn't really take off well. I believe the problem was that it's too customized such that you can't simply run any software on it. No documentation on that matter either. Probably you need to compile in your mobile, much like most of the linux software. Then you'll have to face the issue of hardware, such as touch screen, handwriting input, odd screen size, non standard "video card" and "sound card" or is there such a thing in mobile?. As for those major distro, you can get your hand on a binary version. That's for popular distro only. So to have that privilege, the mobile you're getting must be popular enough. I've yet to see any.

What's the UI/Form you're using to do the entry of your data? Another or the built in form in access. My guess is the latter. In that case, there's not much option left. You need to built a VPN network so that the remote client at your new office will appear as if it's running in LAN. I would recommend Hamachi, since it has the a free version for small scale deployment. Once your VPN is up, you simply shared the access file across the network. This might not sounds like a very scalable idea, but since you can't afford software developers, that should be the only way out. Btw, this option also limit you to a few connection per session. Don't expect to connect/run more than 5 client from the remote location, unless you have very reliable and fast internet connection.If you already have another app to access your "access database", then simply modifying the connection parameter of that app will allow you to connect remotely. You'll need to setup some form of domain name for your main office's internet connection. Try No-Ip or DynDNS.Webserver won't help, unless you're running a app and you can modify it to connect to database server instead of ms access.Actually depending on where you're from. Software developer ain't that expensive here in malaysia.

Haha, glad it helps.

Alright, this is going to be a long one. <?phpecho date_function($_GET['num_sec']);function date_function($num_sec){ $sec = 0; $min = 0; $hour = 0; $day = 0; $month = 0; $year = 0; //Keep a few const to make the calculation easier to read //You can use Const on the follow var, but yout need to put them outside this function. $year_sec = 365 * 24 * 60 * 60; $day_sec = 24 * 60 * 60; $hour_sec = 60 * 60; $min_sec = 60; //Using modulus is a quick way out $sec = $num_sec % 60; //use floor to extract only the integer portion $year = floor($num_sec / $year_sec); $day = floor(($num_sec % $year_sec) / $day_sec); $hour = floor(($num_sec % $day_sec) / $hour_sec); $min = floor(($num_sec % $hour_sec) / $min_sec); //Assuming 1 month = 30 days. You can't use 31 as it differ too much. //30 * 12 = 360 (diff = 5) //31 * 12 = 372 (diff = 7) if ($day > 30) { $month = floor($day / 30); $day = $day % 30; } //Return everything return ($year > 0? $year . " year" . ($year > 1? "s": "") . " " : "" ) . ($month + $year > 0? $month . " month" . ($month > 1? "s": "") . " " : "" ) . ($day + $month + $year > 0? $day . " day" . ($day > 1? "s": "") . " " : "" ) . ($hour + $day + $month + $year > 0? $hour . " hour" . ($hour > 1? "s": "") . " " : "" ) . ($min + $hour + $day + $month + $year > 0? $min . " min" . ($min > 1? "s": "") . " " : "" ) . ($sec + $min + $hour + $day + $month + $year > 0? $sec . " sec" . ($sec > 1? "s": "") : "" );}?> I've included the way to call it. Let me explain a little how it works. Initially, I declare the holding var for each of the unit. Then I declare a few var to be used as constant to hold the number of seconds for each unit. $year_sec would be the number of seconds per year. It helps if you need to read the code later. it also help to improve on the performance as php doesn't need to calculate it over and over again. Try compare this $day = floor(($num_sec % $year_sec) / $day_sec);with this $day = floor(($num_sec % (365 * 24 * 60 * 60)) / (24 * 60 * 60));or this $day = floor(($num_sec % (31536000)) / (86400)); I don't calculate months yet, as it will be too complicate. I would rather calculate days first, then if it's more than 30, then calculate months. The next step is the calculation. As you can see, i use modulus heavily, since it's easier. That's also how we would calculate using paper and pen, which is getting the remainder when we divide. Without using modulus, it would look like the following, which is what I used to do before i learnt the magic of modulus $day = floor((($num_sec - ($year * $year_sec)) / $day_sec);It's harder to read and fix if there's a bug. Next we calculate the months from the number of days we get. The return might looks very complicated, basically I nested 2 tertiary operator. First is to decide if the value is zero, then don't append to the string. Second is to decide if the value is more than one, which we need to append an "s" behind. For the subsequent ones, I added up those var before it, so that it will still show if it's 0 when there's something before it. Like 2 hours 0min 3 secs. 2 hours 3 secs would look too weird. If you prefer the latter way, then remove the addition, just check for individual value. Btw, in case you haven't know of, tertiary operator works like this ([test case]? [do this if true] : [do this if false]) It's simpler to read too instead of using if/else. Further more, you can't do everything inline if you're using if/else.

I doubt system restore will help, as it only restore exe and system related stuffs. You'll need file recovering software. Like GetDataBack or Ontrack Easy Recovery. I've been using both with success. You need to make sure that you don't write into the partition where you store your pictures, as in don't copy files into it or modify files on it. If it's your C drive, then try to use the OS as little as possible. If the original location of the picture files are overwritten, then you can't recover your picture anymore. If you need the above software, PM me, I'll upload and pass you some link to download it. You need to let me know if you're using NTFS or FAT32 partition, and your OS too.

You need to be a bit more specific here. It'll be helpful if you can answer a few of the question below before anyone can lend a hand.1. What programming language do you intent to use for your "function"? I suppose you're going to implement this into your existing program2. You only need 1 type of unit? If it's in the hours, then no need to display minutes?3. If (2) is yes, then do you need to round up the figure? a. 1.52 Hours OR b. 2 Hours4. If (2) is no, then what is your least significant unit? a. 1 Hours 30 Mins 50 Secs OR b. 1 Hours 31 Mins OR c. 2 Hours ..... etc

xboxrulz, that looks like a good choice.dipesh, if you're getting this, make sure you'll be keeping your current pc for a least another year. Else it's really a waste.

What card were you using at the moment? As I've mentioned before, with AGP, you can't go very far. We'll need your pc spec as well in order to recommend one.

Could have been a spyware. I believe you must have also tried to run explorer.exe from task manager. Have you try running automated recovery from window's setup disc. It might help. Since this failure might involve quite a lot of system files and registry setting, merely replacing explorer.exe would not help.If you need to backup your file, you can start window with "Safe Mode with Command Prompt". It will start window with a command prompt and nothing else. From there you can copy/backup your files to another drive or thumb drive so you can proceed with a full recovery.

frameworker, you're welcome. What miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said is to apply attribute to the navbar in the template. Normally the user's template is loaded lastly after all the blogger's own content like the navbar. And since CSS is cascaded, which means that anything you set later will override whose set before hand, so by setting "display : none" for navbar in your own template, it would be able to hide it even while loading. I just tested some code. This will works but might not pass XHTML validation. <style type='text/css'>#navbar-iframe { display: none; }</style> You have to put it after the div for outter-wrapper, which is right after start of body tag. Blogger will put the navbar content in between. For the new style sheet to apply, it has to be after the navbar in order to override it. <body onLoad='remove_nbar();'> <div id='outer-wrapper'><div id='wrap2'> <-- PUT HERE --> It works on my site, at least now it won't show the navbar while loading. Can anyone help with the proper style sheet coding for XHTML?