Recent content by El Kabong

I dont know what the heck is going on with this anymore... ive tried downloading so many codecs its unbelievable... The simple .avi file is giving me more grief than more obscure formats like .ogm's and .mkv's... what's going on here? I used the regular WMP, MediaPlayer Classic, even VLC gets...

Hi... i got a laptop. Had vista on it. Chugged, didnt like it on there (inexpensive lappy) so i installed windows XP pro. Wierd thing is, i cant find the hibernation tab under power options or any other buttons related to hibernation... or even standing by for that matter. When it was under...

Huh... i just ran into this... I never knew you could have it so you could devote an entire disk partition just to RAM usage just by movin something over... Does this really increase efficiency of RAM usage as much as i think it does...? For something that seems like such a big boon to...

And for some reason i cant find any evidence of where i can create new space or format the drive or find the unallocated memory... the computer recognizes the device is there, and the BIOS recognizes it and even its size... so whats goin on, why cant i find some way to actually set it up for use?

Ive never even had a second thought about these kinds of arrays until i got my second hard drive. For the 7+ years ive been using computers ive never had an HDD bust out on me, be it retail or custom made... But now that i actually have the ability to CREATE such a thing, i cant help but feel...

Ghost: I looked into this integration thing (googling brings up the term "Slipstreaming") and i think i may have a problem. I bought Windows XP Media Center and it came with 3 disks, and they tell me to install one disc after the other when installing the "orthodox" way. It's not just one disk...

Norton Ghost and those other types of programs (like that one "Freeze-something") make it so you dont have to physically reformat..? Cuz that's another problem...i have an OEM of winXP and i heard people had a bitch of a time reinstalling windows for some reason?

It's been half a year since i reformatted, so i'm a bit rusty on this... XP has so many freakin updates and i know you need to install them in some certain order or else it doesnt work.. umm i think it's: .NET Framework The hotfix for .net framework Then after those i get SP2 Java...

:( Nuts.... i was hoping that since you technically bought the rights to use both vista and XP you could use it only on one computer for each OS, not one SPECIFIC computer...

Uhh.. okay lol. My current comp that i built last December runs on XP. I just ordered a cheap laptop from Newegg for college that, incidentally enough, carries vista. It should be coming in by Friday. Oddly enough, from the reviews i read it seemed that Vista really chugs on that lappy and that...

Say you wanna make your comp run more than 24 hours or even continually... aside from the obvious power usage what would be the effects? Not standby or anything like that but actually running for that long? Reason im asking is that im interested in this whole protein folding thing w/...

No, no need for a network. The reason im getting a second network card is because my comp and i are moving out of the house soon (college) and the apartment complex supplies cable internet access (included in the rent... almost too good, no?). Thing about the onboard NIC is that im not even...

>_O Funny... should it? It was 1394 connection. I contacted the cable company earlier about the connection when i first built the comp, they suggested i used the original ethernet card that i used before. I tried the connecton from the motherboard before calling, and it didnt work...

Yes, my motherboard has onboard networking. But it wasnt for internet access but just LANs i think... But i tried using a network interface card once before but i couldnt get it to work through my modem (Com21.. dunno the exact model or anything). I remember it trying to work with the IP but i...

Ugh... could someone educate a n00b for a second here? I'm not exactly sure what im looking for here. I need an ethernet card for my comp but i'm not exactly sure where to go. I see these things called Network Interface Cards, which is what Newegg keeps steering me to whenever i enter...