Joe Aston Posted October 5, 2010 Report Share Posted October 5, 2010 A bit off topic but im sure it will help anyone who every reinstalls there os. http://ninite.com/ Its a website that combines all the freeware you may need/want into one downloaded and then installs it all for you. I no that the one thing that puts me off reinstalling my os is having to reinstall all my software but i found this and its a god send. It covers everything from browsers to anti virus and everything inbetween. Would recomend it to anybody. Just thought it might help. Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted October 5, 2010 Report Share Posted October 5, 2010 A bit off topic but im sure it will help anyone who every reinstalls there os. http://ninite.com/ Its a website that combines all the freeware you may need/want into one downloaded and then installs it all for you. I no that the one thing that puts me off reinstalling my os is having to reinstall all my software but i found this and its a god send. It covers everything from browsers to anti virus and everything inbetween. Would recomend it to anybody. Just thought it might help. Joe Where were you 8 days ago. That's a fantastic idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Aston Posted October 5, 2010 Report Share Posted October 5, 2010 Where were you 8 days ago. That's a fantastic idea! Sorry iv known about it for a while but only just had to use it, so i thought id post about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted October 7, 2010 Report Share Posted October 7, 2010 Check it's running in 32bit colour and not 16bit, and make sure you've got the latest graphics card drivers installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trialsmax04 Posted October 11, 2010 Report Share Posted October 11, 2010 Hi guys, Dont know if any of you have experienced this before? If so maybe you could help? My msn messenger (8 or 9 i think) has been playing up. I can sign in and it will stay on screen for a few seconds and then disappear. It then shows it is active on the righthand tool bar, yet if i hover over it that disapears too. Really weird. No spyware of Malware ( I hope!) as computer was completly wiped clean 2 days ago (was doing this before though). Any help guys? max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamus Posted October 12, 2010 Report Share Posted October 12, 2010 uninstall. reinstall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trialsmax04 Posted October 13, 2010 Report Share Posted October 13, 2010 Done ad redone about a hundred times. No joy..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted October 15, 2010 Report Share Posted October 15, 2010 Don't suppose anyone has any idea how I can get my parents internet to work... The ethernet cable socket doesn't even flash when its plugged into the computer or the router. Like the socket is dead on one side (router or motherboard) Any ideas on a fix? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted October 15, 2010 Report Share Posted October 15, 2010 Only time I've had that is when the drivers weren't installed or the card was dead. First I'd try installing the latest driver, then try a different ethernet card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Aston Posted October 16, 2010 Report Share Posted October 16, 2010 first i would go into hardware manager and see if the network card is enabled, iv encountered a few machines that for some reason had disabled the network card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted October 16, 2010 Report Share Posted October 16, 2010 Thanks for the replies. Its enabled in device manager and the drivers are all up to date. Its weird how it worked last time I came round and all I did was unplug the cables and replug them. Then the next time the pc was off and on it didn't work again. Strange. I'm convincing them to buy that drone system you reccomended me muely baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Posted October 17, 2010 Report Share Posted October 17, 2010 Anyone help? I have an Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard and a ATI x1900xt graphics card, however I want to buy a Nvidia 9800gx2 as the ATI card is sloooow. I believe the 9800gx2 is PCI-e 2.0 whatever that means? (I've been out of the loop for a while) Does that mean it won't work in my motherboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted October 17, 2010 Report Share Posted October 17, 2010 Why do you want that card specifically? They're not bad, but slow by modern standards. You'd get more value for money out of a modern card like a 5770 or a GTX460, and I'm almost sure that that board is PCIE 2.0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Posted October 17, 2010 Report Share Posted October 17, 2010 Why do you want that card specifically? They're not bad, but slow by modern standards. You'd get more value for money out of a modern card like a 5770 or a GTX460, and I'm almost sure that that board is PCIE 2.0. I tend to like to upgrade to the top spec card from like 2 generations ago, usually buy off ebay and spend no more than £80. Where as I figure if I spent £80 on a new generation card it'd be a basic card that would still get trounced by the old 8800 Ultras or the 7800GX2's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted October 17, 2010 Report Share Posted October 17, 2010 Good plan. What power supply do you have? The 9800x2 was an extremely thirsty card, they recommend 600w minimum to run it. I'd go for a GTX260 in your position. A little slower than the 9800x2, but much lower power draw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Posted October 17, 2010 Report Share Posted October 17, 2010 Good plan. What power supply do you have? The 9800x2 was an extremely thirsty card, they recommend 600w minimum to run it. I'd go for a GTX260 in your position. A little slower than the 9800x2, but much lower power draw. Okay cheers mate, what sort of price would be a good deal on a GTX260 or maybe a GTX280? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted October 17, 2010 Report Share Posted October 17, 2010 Not sure now to be honest dude, I'd guess around £80-120. Forte would be the best guy on here to ask, he just bought a 260 recently I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Posted October 17, 2010 Report Share Posted October 17, 2010 Not sure now to be honest dude, I'd guess around £80-120. Forte would be the best guy on here to ask, he just bought a 260 recently I think. Cheers dude, just bought a GTX260 for £70 off eBay and it's £99.99 on Overclockers. Hopefully my X1900XT will fetch £100+ if they go in Macs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted October 17, 2010 Report Share Posted October 17, 2010 Good times. I doubt the X1900XT will fetch that to be honest, I've seen them for next to nothing before. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_P Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 Right, my girlfriends laptop was full of viruses so I've formatted it and installed windows XP SP3. Now it all works but there is nothing on it at all (obviously), but the main bugger is getting the little wireless icon in the bottom tray. Any ideas? Main thing to do first is get the net going so I can download stuff. Found this link which is exactly what I want: click but I didn't think that was an extra patch that needed installing? Wireless net is fully working in my house (and hers) but I can't get the laptop to scan to connect to it. Following the crappy wizards on the laptop are next to useless, god I hate PCs. Any help much appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 Dell by any chance? When I reformatted my Dell laptop, the drivers didn't get installed. So dig out the cd's that came with the laptop and find the one that says drivers on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_P Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 (edited) Nope some old gateway thing. Yeah thats what I'm missing I think, the drivers. Scanned and downloaded loads of the drivers off the gateway website but dosen't seem to do much. Don't have the original driver CD as it's about 5 years old. Everything I research talks about wireless USB dongles but this has a wireless card built in which comes up under network connections. However I just can't find anywhere about scanning for wireless networks to connect to mine Edited November 1, 2010 by Rob_P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigjames Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 If you can find out what wireless card it uses and then download and install it via another computer then you should be OK . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 Have you looked on the device manager list and see what's going on in there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_P Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 According to device manager the network card is all working and has the drivers installed. This is what network connections looks like (don't know if this is any help)..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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