Originally posted by Demis You might want to update the drivers of your video cards. You can get the latest drivers for your card here .
I tried to that but all it told me was that I already had the best drives for it already installed which can't be right because I just got the card.....rrrrrrrrggggghhhhh
Originally posted by Nullen I tried to that but all it told me was that I already had the best drives for it already installed which can't be right because I just got the card.....rrrrrrrrggggghhhhh
Does tt say something like "You have a driver newer than this already installed"?
I'd have to get drunk every night and talk about virility...And those Pink elephants I'd see.
Otherwise I would hazard, that since you have installed PoR - you may have been victim to a similar corruption of windows that I was - and you will probably need to reinstall your OS...have you checked your drive in DOS? Do you have some strangely named and very large files lurking? These were the corrupt file system on my drive...
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Originally posted by Yshania Otherwise I would hazard, that since you have installed PoR - you may have been victim to a similar corruption of windows that I was - and you will probably need to reinstall your OS...have you checked your drive in DOS? Do you have some strangely named and very large files lurking? These were the corrupt file system on my drive...
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Originally posted by Yshania Sorry Windows is your OS...
s'okay.....I am a bit illieterate when it comes to the systems of a computer.....how would I go about reinstalling by os.....where do I go and do I have to have a cd to do it with.....
You should have received a copy of Windows when you bought your pc. Just put the CD in the drive and install If that overwrite installation does not help, post back...you may need to uninstall Windows and do a fresh re-installation...be sure to locate your Windows manual too - IIRC this is where the security code is for installation
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Originally posted by Yshania You should have received a copy of Windows when you bought your pc. Just put the CD in the drive and install If that overwrite installation does not help, post back...you may need to uninstall Windows and do a fresh re-installation...be sure to locate your Windows manual too - IIRC this is where the security code is for installation
I bought my pc from someone in the paper....he installed it with his version of the cd....does this mean that I will have to borrow his cd to uninstall it?????
I bought my pc from someone in the paper....he installed it with his version of the cd....does this mean that I will have to borrow his cd to uninstall it?????
No, you can uninstall without the CD...your problem will be any kind of installation - whether clean or overwritten. You will need a security code which comes with a licensed version of windows. If he didn't give you the disk - you will have to buy yourself a copy
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No, you can uninstall without the CD...your problem will be any kind of installation - whether clean or overwritten. You will need a security code which comes with a licensed version of windows. If he didn't give you the disk - you will have to buy yourself a copy
ok....do I go to my windows folder and find an uninstall folder or what....???
Since I've been through 2 reformats of my hard drive in the last 3 months, I have this piece of advice:
Buy Windows 2000 or Windows XP--the Full Version--not the upgrade version. If you spend the extra money for the full version, you will have free microsoft phone support--and they have been very helpful with me, believe it or not. Also, Windows 2000 or XP run on a different type of file system and are far more stable than Win 98. If you can't afford Win 2k or Win XP, then I would buy a full version of Win98se or WinME.
You can only run in Safe Mode now? It sounds like the problem I had after restarting my PC during a download of Wizardry 8 demo during which my PC froze. It corrupted tons of files. I had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows. To check if your files are corrupted, start your PC with your floppy boot disk. When the "a" prompt comes up, type scandisk. This scan disk will take a long time, but will find any corrupted files.
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” - Edgar Allen Poe
Originally posted by VoodooDali Since I've been through 2 reformats of my hard drive in the last 3 months, I have this piece of advice:
Buy Windows 2000 or Windows XP--the Full Version--not the upgrade version. If you spend the extra money for the full version, you will have free microsoft phone support--and they have been very helpful with me, believe it or not. Also, Windows 2000 or XP run on a different type of file system and are far more stable than Win 98. If you can't afford Win 2k or Win XP, then I would buy a full version of Win98se or WinME.
You can only run in Safe Mode now? It sounds like the problem I had after restarting my PC during a download of Wizardry 8 demo during which my PC froze. It corrupted tons of files. I had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows. To check if your files are corrupted, start your PC with your floppy boot disk. When the "a" prompt comes up, type scandisk. This scan disk will take a long time, but will find any corrupted files.
I have run scan disk numerous times and it tells me everything is functioning normally....have also run defrag drive but it tells me the same thing....I know there is something wrong but my computer won't tell me what it is....
I have run scan disk numerous times and it tells me everything is functioning normally....have also run defrag drive but it tells me the same thing....I know there is something wrong but my computer won't tell me what it is....
This happened to me too. When I ran Scandisk from the hard drive, it told me the hard drive was fine. When I ran Scandisk from the boot disk, it found a thousand or so corrupt files. See--if the hard drive has damaged sectors, then running scandisk from the hard drive does not help, because it will be damaged as well. The scandisk program on your boot disk is the best way to be sure.
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” - Edgar Allen Poe
This happened to me too. When I ran Scandisk from the hard drive, it told me the hard drive was fine. When I ran Scandisk from the boot disk, it found a thousand or so corrupt files. See--if the hard drive has damaged sectors, then running scandisk from the hard drive does not help, because it will be damaged as well. The scandisk program on your boot disk is the best way to be sure.
I agree. When Windows failed after an attempt to install PoR, I ran a scandisk from the hard drive. It said the drive was fine. Then I 'lost' windows completely and ran a scandisk from the floppy drive...it found 8 GIGS!! of corruption (no comments Sleepy! ) I had to reformat....
Parachute for sale, like new! Never opened!
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I got my computer to get off of safe mode and back to normal some what...what I did was to go into my system directory and disable all of my runnig programs and then restart then go back in there and enable them but the problem is that two of my hard drives are what is keeping my computer from functioning correctly.....so I didn't enable them...but now my computer tell me that I don't have a cd-rom attached to my computer....any ideas out there.....I have finally isolated the problem but I don't know what to do with it now....your turn now the drive with the problem on it is the primary IDE controller or something like that.
