naraku9333

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  1. Ok so single sided dimms they are..Didnt know they made those.

    Ok so my next question is will this double sided dimm work in this computer then?

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    Shouldn't be a problem, check the man. and pop it in the correct slot and you should be good to go. It is possible the modules dont work together(bad module), but cross that bridge IF you come to it.

  2. If I put my xp cd in a get rid of the partition it wont screw my other partition im not sure if there is system files on the 2GB partition here are this files on the disk AUTOEXEC,boot,config,NTDETECT,pagefile,IO,MSDOS,ntldr?

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    Did the install finish? If not it would be easier to delete the parts, re-partition and re-install.

  3. Are you sure those are SIMM's in there? What I can find on that model says it comes with 512MB DDR. AFAIK no SIMM's are DDR compatible, plus I havent seen a SIMM in a new computer in SEVERAL years. How many ram slots does the board have and how many pins do the 256MB modules have?

  4. Are you sure you deleted the partitions after the first time? It sounds like you just formatted (formating and partitioning are to different things). If you want to merge the 2G part to the rest then use partition magic or the like (windows diskmanagement MAY be able to handle merging but I dont remember off hand).

  5. I don't have an opinion on key loggers, I have never used one. But you got me curious, who did your sister swear at, I can't imagine an isp really caring, so long as you are not doing something criminal

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    I f I where to guess, it would be an IM conversation gone awry and someone was reported. Wouldn't happen to be an AOL user would you? Aside from that and maybe cursing in a kids only chat room I cant see any reason for any curse to be against an ISP's TOS. Not to be overly nosey what provider do you use?

    I deffinately do not agree with the ide of puting a keylogger on anyones computer without consent (not that anyone would give consent), particularly smeone who's old enough to vote, serve in the military, and be sentenced as an adult.

  6. you might try upgrading to sp2...no real good reason not to anymore.... :unsure:

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    I rather not, i like how this computer runs and i dont personally believe in firewalls....although i know you have the option to disable it. I just rather stick with SP1 and fix this problem instead.

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    Can we take this to mean your not running any firewall (hard or software)? This is a pretty bad idea especially if you have a broadband connection. I strongly encourage you to install SP2 it took care of many vulnerabilities and not wanting to lose performance or an app or two isn't worth the risk(IMO).

  7. According to the DSE site the driver doesn't work with kernel 2.6.9 or higher. You can install Ubuntu and downgrade your kernel (comes with 2.6.10 by default). Ubuntu does have pretty good hardware detection, but it cant include every driver there is. You will probably have to compile it yourself no matter what distro you choose, which is pretty simple. You can download the driver from intel (#8) that I believe is for the chipset your modem uses. Try building the driver using the default kernel on which ever distro you choose, if it wont build or load then try a different kernel. You just have to be patient, there's a good chance it wont work right away but with alittle time i;m sure you will get it.

  8. Are you sure all hardware is the samne, if it is this should be fairly simple. Install the Ubuntu drive as slave (or secondary master), leave Windows as primary. All you really need to do is install grub on mbr of windows drive and edit menu.lst and fstab. When both drives are in boot a live cd like knoppix and mount the linux drive

    mkdir /mnt/hdb        
    mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb  

    (if your drives are SATA it may be sdb instead of hdb)

    then chroot into the linux drive

    chroot /mnt/hdb /bin/bash

    then run grub and run these commands in grub shell

    grub> root (hd1,0)          
    grub> setup (hd0)          
    grub> quit  

    Then you need to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and scroll down to the end of the default section and change the lines

    root(hd0,0)

    to

    root(hd1,0)

    and change

    kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro

    to

    kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root=/dev/hdb1 ro

    if you have a seperate boot partition then this would be hdb3. Add at the end of the file

    title  Other operating systems:
    root


    # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
    # on /dev/hda1
    title  Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
    root  (hd0,0)
    savedefault
    makeactive
    chainloader +1

    so you can have windows as a boot choice.

    Now your /etc/fstab, just change hda* to hdb keeping everythin else the same. Unless I missed something you should be ready to reboot. Hope this works for you.

  9. The distro you choose isn't really a concern, the desktop environment is. With only 64MiB of ram GNOME and KDE will run pretty slow, I would suggest using xfce4 which would run better or fluxbox which would probably run best but lacks much of the eye candy of the others. My advice is install Ubuntu (one of the more user friendly distros and install fluxbox to run on it.

  10. I played with 2.6.14 alittle last week. The kernel compiled and booted fine,but none of my external modules compiled except the nvidia driver which wouldnt load anyway. Portage (Gentoo package system) has a new release candidate (vanilla-sources) so maybe i'll give it a try.

  11. I take it the computer boots directly into windows? If that is the case then you probably installed grub in the MBR of /dev/hdb. You can reinstall grub by chrooting into the drive. Im not familir with the Fedora install, if you can get a shell prompt you should be able to do it from there, else you will need a live cd.

    to chroot:

    mkdir /mnt/hdb         
    mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb     #some live cd's automatically mount drives
    chroot /mnt/hdb /bin/bash

    you can then run grub and in the grub shell:

    grub> root (hd1,0)          
    grub> setup (hd0)          
    grub> quit  

    You may need to edit your menu.lst file, post it if you can.

  12. Another update.  I was playing around on my wired router forwarding tab and figured out how to forward my outside ip address to my wired router.

    When I typed in the outside ip address I was prompted for a user name and password (to my wired router)

    Am I on the right track?  Isn't that not right to through access to my wired router out there for the WWW.  I mean all they have to do is crack the password and they are in.

    Is this not wise?

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    If you mean you can access your router config from outside then no, you shouldnt need to access remotely and its a security risk. In the wired router config foreward the ports to the wireless router, then in wireless router config foreward to the VNC server.

  13. The OEM cd may work, I have a XP disk that came with my girlfriends laptop that installs fine on any computer. I believe some are specific to the manufacturer, try installing it on another system (if you have one).

    Tell the client before hand that without recovery cd's or partition you cant reinstall all there software. If you can make a list of phone numbers to various manufacturers for clients to call and get the disks may be a good idea (I dont think they will send you the disk not being the owner). How many people acctually use all the crap that come on PC's anyway?

  14. if i go to the run box and try and run it i get nothing i even removed wine and nothing happened, but when i open up the terminal and try to run it i at least get to see my ip address. tell why ain't this file running corrextly when either gnome or KDE.

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    Its a terminal application, needs to be run in a terminal (if you want to see the output). Are you able to ping any address (URL or IP)?

  15. Wine shouldn't be a problem, you need to run it as root or specify the full path. I just want to know if your network card is recognized and if it is if you have an IP. When you run it see if you see eth0 on the left.

    This could be as simple as just a DNS problem, you may need to input them manually. Test your network card, ping 127.0.0.1 if thats shows replies your card should be fine. Then ping 216.239.57.99 which is google, if that works but ping www.google.com doesn't its deffinately DNS.