intocomputing2

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    268

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by intocomputing2

  1. Need recomendations

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted · Edited by intocomputing2

    It´s good, the quote for the walmart link says it will connect to both, I was just wondering if they were the same or not, that´s all.

    I´m purchasing the one from wallmart as it will help me extract files from a laptop hard drive or a desktop hard drive and I think that´s a tool that comes in handy when you least expect it. :)

  3. I'd Like To Learn More About Programming

    in Programming

    Posted

    Hello everyone, it´s been a while since I made this thread. I started with Jcreator (Java) in order to get my feet wet and bought myself a copy of java for dummies in order to guide me as a first timer on this. Though a bit slow due to other obligations I´ve managed to do some simple things and I´m looking forward to keep learning this as a hobby. I would welcome any other suggestions that you may have for this coding noob. :)

    Thank you all for your advice

  4. Need recomendations

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    One hard drive is an ATA/IDE from an old Thinkpad P4 laptop, the other is from an HP Pavilion dv4-1435dx it was really sad to see this last one fail :( it had a problem with the screen after a year which was past its warranty, and although the computer seems to power on just fine, it´s impossible to see or distinguish anything at all within those random color waves.

  9. Computer Crashed

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted · Edited by intocomputing2

    I think you guys may have been right on the power supply thing, it doesn't even turn on now. I tried it turn it on one more time to see if I could check the brand of hard drive on the bios, and it started to take a while to even show the intel logo, so I pressed the power button again to turn it off, and when I pressed it back to turn it back on, it went dead it doesn't even turn on now :(

    I'm going to bed, I'll check back tomorrow.

  11. Computer Crashed

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted · Edited by intocomputing2

    This morning when I turned on the machine I got an error that says:

    "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

    I got the recovery disk and proceed it to insert it and while it seemed to start loading it suddenly stopped and gave me this message instead:

    "Cannot find hard drive"

    "Confirm if hard drive is correctly connected"

    I proceeded to open the case and check the cables and connections from and to the hard disks and everything seemed to be fine, after this I decided to try a tool such as winternals and see if it would load at all, which it did, however in the "my computer" options of the program none of the 2 hard disks showed up, as if the computer wouldn't have any installed. After that I tried the program Gparted, but in this case the program didn't finish loading and instead it gave the message:

    "isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards..."

    and it just froze there

    At this point I'm not sure if it's the hard disk or not, I thought from the beginning and from the use of the winternals tool that the hard disk may be the issue, but Gparted didn't even complete its loading at all, let alone display info as if no drives were installed on my computer like the first program did, and that last detail also bothers me, if the problem was only the C drive, why didn't winternals show my second drive? could it be something else like the mobo?

    Anyone knows by any chance what could be the problem?

  12. I'm Trying To Setup...

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted · Edited by intocomputing2

    Thx a lot for replying shanenin, my mistake for not explaining myself better, but I have actually gone through the steps of going to network connections >> local area connection >> an so on until reaching the option "Obtain an IP address automatically" then restarting my computer.

    My provider is not verizon but earthlink instead. I thought about trying it on my own, and change this router from PPPOE to DHCP as well, since after doing that as you suggested the last time the router I had problems with started to work, and it's still up until now. This router than I'm trying to setup is also an linksys, but it's not the same router that I asked help for when I started this thread. It's a WRT54G a couple of years older I think, as a matter of fact the page for this router is 192.168.1.1 while the one that I'm using is 192.168.2.1 not sure if that makes any difference as to how to set it up though, but I will try the commands you suggested.

  13. I'm Trying To Setup...

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted · Edited by intocomputing2

    Bump

    I'm trying the guidelines provided here on another WRTG4 router that I found, I manage to enter to the router page and change the settings to DCHP but although it says it was successful it doesn't connect to the web.

    Anyone has an idea what else could be the problem?

    nointernet1.png

  14. Bookmarks Dilemma

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Like so many people I use delicious for my bookmarks, but because of this I've been forced to stay in an older version of Firefox since the delicious add-on has bugs for the 3.0 version. Over time I have accumulated so many bookmarks that I don't want to lose them, which prompts me to make a few questions:

    Does anyone currently using the latest version of Firefox know by any chance if the bugs for that add-on were already fixed?

    Do you think there's actually a better service similar to delicious on the web? Does anyone have experience with one? and if so, is it possible to migrate all your delicious bookmarks to it?

    Is there anyway to actually backup all your delicious bookmarks without the use of scripts or locating it somewhere else on the web, but instead saving it to your hard drive?

    Thanks in advance to anyone who replies.

  18. I'm Looking...

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted · Edited by intocomputing2

    I think that tuner is to bring TV signal to your computer not send computer to TV.

    Is the TV and computer close to each other? You could get a VGA to TV converter. Or if you have a new tv, most come with either a VGA or DVI input.

    I don't think you need a really powerful computer my Apple TV is fairly slow spec-wise but does a great job with HD from hard drive, internet or streaming from itunes. I use to use my old ipod connect to my tv for video and that was more then acceptable quality.

    well I wasn't aware it was to bring in the tv signal instead of sending it out, it's the first time I ever bothered to buy one of these so I'm still a bit confused on what to look for, the TV and computer must be separated about 25 feet, but I would like the TV to display that video that is being played on the PC at that moment. The rig which I'm planning to use for this does not have TV-out capability so I'm not sure to what extent would the VGA to TV converter work.

  21. I'm Looking...

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted · Edited by intocomputing2

    ... for a good TV tuner in order to be able to stream video from my PC to the TV, but I"m not sure what exactly I should be looking for. The computer from where I plan to stream the video is a bit outdated, motherboard has PCI slots instead of PCI express, and maximum RAM for the machine is 1 GB, with this in mind what option would be better? a PCI card with AV output to install on the rig or a portable USB-to-AV output device similar to a flash drive? does anyone know which option is better?

  24. Need Help Removing A Virus[RESOLVED]

    in Malware Removal

    Posted

    Hey,

    Sorry for the delay, I am getting outside opinions on this so it might take me a day or two extra to respond.

    np monsterenergy22 and thanks once again for your help

    Go to Start
    • Run
    • Type cmd
    • Press Ok
    • Copy and paste the following command into the cmd box

    notepad d:\autorun.inf

    Please post the log that opens in notepad after running the command.

    the log is empty I get this message instead:

    logemptybt.png

  25. Need Help Removing A Virus[RESOLVED]

    in Malware Removal

    Posted · Edited by intocomputing2

    Notepad should open and please post the log that it gives you.

    Let me know if you can access your D: drive now.

    here's the new log of notepad:

    Delitor by wng_z3r0

    Files to delete:

    **************************

    "d:\autorun.inf"

    END Files to delete:

    **************************

    Files remaining after deletion:

    **************************

    END of file:

    **************************

    I still can't access the drive D:

    latestssofD.png