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Computer Problem, please help me
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Does defragmenting help it?
UGH! Low virtual memory has nothing to do with hard drive space. Virtual memory is the allocated HD area that is used..AFTER your main RAM has been expended. (filled) It basically means you're running too much at the same time..(for G_d's sake dont run anything unnecessary. Turn off all your quickstart options like RealOne tray, quicktime tray, etc etc etc! If you dont know what youre doing..get the neighbor's 12 year old to do it.) OR the programs running have memory leaks.. e.g. Firefox with various plugins plus the ever-growing page cache after each site you visit.
Since you said you made a lot of pages.. consider this: what you see on your screen is at least 2x nicer than what most overhead projectors can send.. and even so, the image is stretched. So if you want to save yourself some RAM then dont use lots of pictures, skimp on the videos.. and whatever high-res pictures you use.. You Might wanna downsize or tone-down the quality thru something like adobe photoshop.
Crash course: your hard drive, where things are stored.. is the ROM. When you need it, it moves to the RAM.. which you dont have enough of, obviously. Do a control + alt + delete, go over to processes and click on Mem Usage. See whats going on? Bottom left of the window.. how many processes are running? Shouldnt have more than 20. Also.. it might be unrelated, but if you're running out of memory, which you actually need in a superficial way to browse the net.. You Might want to consider a new comp or dial-up.
Ya cant drag-race in a volvo, bud. Had a guy call in with 104 processes running on a windows 98 comp. Yeah..thats your problem, bro. Call Dell and tell them about the fifty frickin' toolbars you installed because you thought it made your comp faster. :sigh: Dickheads.. "Turn on the monitor, sir" "You mean the TV?" "Yeah.. the.. computer television.. yeah.. *hits my mute button* FUCK! NO WAY! He did NOT..just say that.. *kills self*
ANYWAY.. it means itll just use up more virtual memory later. Itll self-allocate more when "VIRTUAL MEMORY IS LOW". Its slower than actual RAM, and if your HD is old or failing.. then you stand to crash the app or possibly windows, itself. :shrug: As if windows doesnt crash, anyhow.. but..
Anyhow, your CABLE signal. Just means the attenuation.. noise on the line, blah blah.. its being sapped, obviously. But if you get it back when you unplug the TV.. one of two guesses. You have neighbors getting free cable... or a lotta damned neighbors. Broadband internet cables are pretty much 'Fix it when it becomes a problem' guys. Theyll F up an entire neighborhood while shunting some of your speed off to a new housing division.. new street.. etc, etc. Or you have some kind of on/off polarity type thing. Which.. actually, I've heard about but never seen. Regardless, all you can do is complain and request someone be sent out. And.. no matter how many times you go thru tech support.. they usually dont send someone out without the whole hour and change of going-down-the-list type crap, first. (Odds are tech support's computer is as bad or worse than yours, go figure! lol At least Verizon and Comcast's were, round here.) Also, if you suspect they're going to go down the list, give you the runaround and say itll be fixed tomorrow.. despite having said that yesterday.. and the day before.. keep in mind its not illegal or anything to 'pretend' youre not getting any connectivity. Of course, theyll be able to *see* your modem, so unplug that sucker, first. Then when they set your technician's scheduled date... write it down, hang up the phone, and plug it back in. On the day the techie arrives, plug your TV in.. tell him the story and there you go.
(As a prior tech supp. myself, believe me they have a dozen tools that tell you the exact same thing, or when said thing should be turned on. lol)
PS: Right click on the 'My Computer' icon on your desktop, hit properties, goto the advanced tab, hit settings under 'performance', over to THAT advanced tab. Hit Change. If you have multiple hard drives, they'll show up here. If windows is on drive C:, make sure that the swap-file is only on THAT drive. Drive-to-drive transfers over the same IDE cable is a chore you dont need. (laptop, ready-made PC's, etc) Whatever the swap file size is.. which is probably automatically set.. you can change it yourself.. or you can notice how many megs it used up.. oh, say.. 768.. 1024, blah blah.. write down that number and buy THAT many more megs of RAM if you're going to be using this thing for anything important. RAM is cheap. Try ebay and various sites..then again.. you probably dont know what kind of RAM you have. Take it to a mom and pop computer store and have them upgrade it. Or listen to good advice: Buy a new comp.
Since you said you made a lot of pages.. consider this: what you see on your screen is at least 2x nicer than what most overhead projectors can send.. and even so, the image is stretched. So if you want to save yourself some RAM then dont use lots of pictures, skimp on the videos.. and whatever high-res pictures you use.. You Might wanna downsize or tone-down the quality thru something like adobe photoshop.
Crash course: your hard drive, where things are stored.. is the ROM. When you need it, it moves to the RAM.. which you dont have enough of, obviously. Do a control + alt + delete, go over to processes and click on Mem Usage. See whats going on? Bottom left of the window.. how many processes are running? Shouldnt have more than 20. Also.. it might be unrelated, but if you're running out of memory, which you actually need in a superficial way to browse the net.. You Might want to consider a new comp or dial-up.
Ya cant drag-race in a volvo, bud. Had a guy call in with 104 processes running on a windows 98 comp. Yeah..thats your problem, bro. Call Dell and tell them about the fifty frickin' toolbars you installed because you thought it made your comp faster. :sigh: Dickheads.. "Turn on the monitor, sir" "You mean the TV?" "Yeah.. the.. computer television.. yeah.. *hits my mute button* FUCK! NO WAY! He did NOT..just say that.. *kills self*ANYWAY.. it means itll just use up more virtual memory later. Itll self-allocate more when "VIRTUAL MEMORY IS LOW". Its slower than actual RAM, and if your HD is old or failing.. then you stand to crash the app or possibly windows, itself. :shrug: As if windows doesnt crash, anyhow.. but..
Anyhow, your CABLE signal. Just means the attenuation.. noise on the line, blah blah.. its being sapped, obviously. But if you get it back when you unplug the TV.. one of two guesses. You have neighbors getting free cable... or a lotta damned neighbors. Broadband internet cables are pretty much 'Fix it when it becomes a problem' guys. Theyll F up an entire neighborhood while shunting some of your speed off to a new housing division.. new street.. etc, etc. Or you have some kind of on/off polarity type thing. Which.. actually, I've heard about but never seen. Regardless, all you can do is complain and request someone be sent out. And.. no matter how many times you go thru tech support.. they usually dont send someone out without the whole hour and change of going-down-the-list type crap, first. (Odds are tech support's computer is as bad or worse than yours, go figure! lol At least Verizon and Comcast's were, round here.) Also, if you suspect they're going to go down the list, give you the runaround and say itll be fixed tomorrow.. despite having said that yesterday.. and the day before.. keep in mind its not illegal or anything to 'pretend' youre not getting any connectivity. Of course, theyll be able to *see* your modem, so unplug that sucker, first. Then when they set your technician's scheduled date... write it down, hang up the phone, and plug it back in. On the day the techie arrives, plug your TV in.. tell him the story and there you go.
(As a prior tech supp. myself, believe me they have a dozen tools that tell you the exact same thing, or when said thing should be turned on. lol)
PS: Right click on the 'My Computer' icon on your desktop, hit properties, goto the advanced tab, hit settings under 'performance', over to THAT advanced tab. Hit Change. If you have multiple hard drives, they'll show up here. If windows is on drive C:, make sure that the swap-file is only on THAT drive. Drive-to-drive transfers over the same IDE cable is a chore you dont need. (laptop, ready-made PC's, etc) Whatever the swap file size is.. which is probably automatically set.. you can change it yourself.. or you can notice how many megs it used up.. oh, say.. 768.. 1024, blah blah.. write down that number and buy THAT many more megs of RAM if you're going to be using this thing for anything important. RAM is cheap. Try ebay and various sites..then again.. you probably dont know what kind of RAM you have. Take it to a mom and pop computer store and have them upgrade it. Or listen to good advice: Buy a new comp.
UGH! Low virtual memory has nothing to do with hard drive space. Virtual memory is the allocated HD area that is used..AFTER your main RAM has been expended. (filled) It basically means you're running too much at the same time..(for G_d's sake dont run anything unnecessary. Turn off all your quickstart options like RealOne tray, quicktime tray, etc etc etc! If you dont know what youre doing..get the neighbor's 12 year old to do it.) OR the programs running have memory leaks.. e.g. Firefox with various plugins plus the ever-growing page cache after each site you visit.
Since you said you made a lot of pages.. consider this: what you see on your screen is at least 2x nicer than what most overhead projectors can send.. and even so, the image is stretched. So if you want to save yourself some RAM then dont use lots of pictures, skimp on the videos.. and whatever high-res pictures you use.. You Might wanna downsize or tone-down the quality thru something like adobe photoshop.
Crash course: your hard drive, where things are stored.. is the ROM. When you need it, it moves to the RAM.. which you dont have enough of, obviously. Do a control + alt + delete, go over to processes and click on Mem Usage. See whats going on? Bottom left of the window.. how many processes are running? Shouldnt have more than 20. Also.. it might be unrelated, but if you're running out of memory, which you actually need in a superficial way to browse the net.. You Might want to consider a new comp or dial-up.
ANYWAY.. it means itll just use up more virtual memory later. Itll self-allocate more when "VIRTUAL MEMORY IS LOW". Its slower than actual RAM, and if your HD is old or failing.. then you stand to crash the app or possibly windows, itself. :shrug: As if windows doesnt crash, anyhow.. but..
Anyhow, your CABLE signal. Just means the attenuation.. noise on the line, blah blah.. its being sapped, obviously. But if you get it back when you unplug the TV.. one of two guesses. You have neighbors getting free cable... or a lotta damned neighbors. Broadband internet cables are pretty much 'Fix it when it becomes a problem' guys. Theyll F up an entire neighborhood while shunting some of your speed off to a new housing division.. new street.. etc, etc. Or you have some kind of on/off polarity type thing. Which.. actually, I've heard about but never seen. Regardless, all you can do is complain and request someone be sent out. And.. no matter how many times you go thru tech support.. they usually dont send someone out without the whole hour and change of going-down-the-list type crap, first. (Odds are tech support's computer is as bad or worse than yours, go figure! lol At least Verizon and Comcast's were, round here.) Also, if you suspect they're going to go down the list, give you the runaround and say itll be fixed tomorrow.. despite having said that yesterday.. and the day before.. keep in mind its not illegal or anything to 'pretend' youre not getting any connectivity. Of course, theyll be able to *see* your modem, so unplug that sucker, first. Then when they set your technician's scheduled date... write it down, hang up the phone, and plug it back in. On the day the techie arrives, plug your TV in.. tell him the story and there you go.
(As a prior tech supp. myself, believe me they have a dozen tools that tell you the exact same thing, or when said thing should be turned on. lol)
PS: Right click on the 'My Computer' icon on your desktop, hit properties, goto the advanced tab, hit settings under 'performance', over to THAT advanced tab. Hit Change. If you have multiple hard drives, they'll show up here. If windows is on drive C:, make sure that the swap-file is only on THAT drive. Drive-to-drive transfers over the same IDE cable is a chore you dont need. (laptop, ready-made PC's, etc) Whatever the swap file size is.. which is probably automatically set.. you can change it yourself.. or you can notice how many megs it used up.. oh, say.. 768.. 1024, blah blah.. write down that number and buy THAT many more megs of RAM if you're going to be using this thing for anything important. RAM is cheap. Try ebay and various sites..then again.. you probably dont know what kind of RAM you have. Take it to a mom and pop computer store and have them upgrade it. Or listen to good advice: Buy a new comp.
You gave very good advice and are right about most things. However,
low disk space can cause low virtual memory since it's stored on the HD. With today's very large HD it's unlikely, but it could be not enough room for the virtual memory to operate.
Can, yes. But if a powerpoint presentation is using up all his vmem then that is half a moot point. Half because he didnt post any stats and it could be a true lack of memory on a decent comp. And your half which is very valid, yes..what if its an old beast with 128 megs ram? If still in its OEM condition that might be coupled with a low-double-digit HD. Maybe 10, 20 gigs. Add in a few games.. save all that XviD porn your buds sent you.. sure. Maybe he's using up the last bit..
Some questions for the afflicted: You keep it running all the time?
Stats? Operating system, CPU model/speed, year you bought it, or save yourself a bit of trouble and just say something like Compaq E700 so somebody can google it and get an educated guess.
I honestly love troubleshooting, its just the method that everyone chooses that is frustrating. You dont call up a mechanic or post at the Chevrolet board asking how to fix your car, do you?
Some questions for the afflicted: You keep it running all the time?
Stats? Operating system, CPU model/speed, year you bought it, or save yourself a bit of trouble and just say something like Compaq E700 so somebody can google it and get an educated guess.
I honestly love troubleshooting, its just the method that everyone chooses that is frustrating. You dont call up a mechanic or post at the Chevrolet board asking how to fix your car, do you?
bigbadbrody
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Someone way back in the posts, mentioned about a signal booster. Well I did some research into that and yes that would work, the only problem is that they are meant for wireless connections.
My father said that it might have something to do with the internal wiring that the contractors did. I don't know about that one?
I phoned the tech support line, and they were not of much help. At least I did not get the same old spiel (?) that I usually get when I phone. The fellow on the other line said that my connection was jumping and skipping allover the place. So I have scheduled a techie to come to my bulding and look at the problem, I was at the last resort when I called. I had been with out connection for about 8 hours roughly.
The funny ing was when I got up at 630am today, I unplugged the chords and then reversed them, and surprisingly I have had connection all day. Pretty hard for me to believe. I am so glad,because I was able to do my project for school
My father said that it might have something to do with the internal wiring that the contractors did. I don't know about that one?
I phoned the tech support line, and they were not of much help. At least I did not get the same old spiel (?) that I usually get when I phone. The fellow on the other line said that my connection was jumping and skipping allover the place. So I have scheduled a techie to come to my bulding and look at the problem, I was at the last resort when I called. I had been with out connection for about 8 hours roughly.
The funny ing was when I got up at 630am today, I unplugged the chords and then reversed them, and surprisingly I have had connection all day. Pretty hard for me to believe. I am so glad,because I was able to do my project for school
bigbadbrody
Banned
Thanx for all the help
my comp seems to be running fine now
knock on wood
my comp seems to be running fine now
knock on wood
bigbadbrody
Banned
I am back again with another computer problem, and I need everyones help who can help me
I have a number of full movies on my computer, I downloaded them all from a file sharing program that I use. All was going well, until I started editing them. I was using Windows Movie Maker. After I had made a few edits to this one movie, things started to go downhill. I am now not able to play any videos that I download through the sharing folder or any of the ones I had previously downloaded. I get the same error message every time.
this is what is says:
A number of queued files cannot be played. To find information about the problem, click the Now Playing tab, and then click the icon next to each file in the List pane.
there is another option for web help and when I click on that I get this message
Windows Media Player Error Message Help
You've encountered error message C00D11DF while using Windows Media Player. The following information might help you troubleshoot the issue.
Cannot play the files
Windows Media Player cannot play several files in the playlist. This might be caused by one or more problems.
To find information about the specific problems, click the Now Playing tab, and then click the blue or red icon next to each file in the List pane.
In some cases, you might encounter this error message if there is a problem with your sound device, such as a sound card or sound controller. For example:
Your sound device requires an updated driver. To determine if an updated driver is available, see Windows Update or see the sound device manufacturer's Web site.
Your sound device is not functioning properly. To troubleshoot the problem, see Windows Help and Support or refer to your sound device's documentation.
You do not have a sound device installed on your computer. Install a sound device, and then try to play the file again.
I am starting to get really mad and angry at my computer:crash: :crash: :crash: because I am stumped and don't know what to do.
I did all of the obvious guesses such as: restarting the programs, and restarting my computer and after a few curse words, I xame here to see if I could get some help
:helpme: please, I appreciated all the help from before and I would appreciate the same kinda help again
I have a number of full movies on my computer, I downloaded them all from a file sharing program that I use. All was going well, until I started editing them. I was using Windows Movie Maker. After I had made a few edits to this one movie, things started to go downhill. I am now not able to play any videos that I download through the sharing folder or any of the ones I had previously downloaded. I get the same error message every time.
this is what is says:
A number of queued files cannot be played. To find information about the problem, click the Now Playing tab, and then click the icon next to each file in the List pane.
there is another option for web help and when I click on that I get this message
Windows Media Player Error Message Help
You've encountered error message C00D11DF while using Windows Media Player. The following information might help you troubleshoot the issue.
Cannot play the files
Windows Media Player cannot play several files in the playlist. This might be caused by one or more problems.
To find information about the specific problems, click the Now Playing tab, and then click the blue or red icon next to each file in the List pane.
In some cases, you might encounter this error message if there is a problem with your sound device, such as a sound card or sound controller. For example:
Your sound device requires an updated driver. To determine if an updated driver is available, see Windows Update or see the sound device manufacturer's Web site.
Your sound device is not functioning properly. To troubleshoot the problem, see Windows Help and Support or refer to your sound device's documentation.
You do not have a sound device installed on your computer. Install a sound device, and then try to play the file again.
I am starting to get really mad and angry at my computer:crash: :crash: :crash: because I am stumped and don't know what to do.
I did all of the obvious guesses such as: restarting the programs, and restarting my computer and after a few curse words, I xame here to see if I could get some help
:helpme: please, I appreciated all the help from before and I would appreciate the same kinda help again
It's a good change it's the local loop between your outside box and your modem. Sometimes the only way to figure that out is to get the techs out there. I've had to have my cable re-run from the outside to the house twice in 10 years.
Yes, we had cable Internet in the late '90s here.
Aces&Jacks
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bigbadbrody
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thanks for the help, but I am ran into some more troubles. I was able to download GSpot, but when I try to open it through winzip, I get an error message:
error trying to find a data file, please ensure that you are not trying to access GSpot through a zip file system cannot find specified file
AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH, I ma so frustrated right now
Aces&Jacks
Retired Mod
I just downloaded and unzipped it with no problems. Do you have the latest version of WinZip?
bigbadbrody
Banned
I have version 10.0, I jsut don't know what the problem is
SeraphiM
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How old is your system?
It sounds like you may have to bite the bullet and upgrade of better yet buy new.
It's a sad fact that most computer users end up buying systems every couple of years if they expect to keep up with the ever changing tech world.
With the holidays coming there are tons of sales :2 cents:
It sounds like you may have to bite the bullet and upgrade of better yet buy new.
It's a sad fact that most computer users end up buying systems every couple of years if they expect to keep up with the ever changing tech world.
With the holidays coming there are tons of sales :2 cents:
It's called the "superstore profit model." Most consumers accept the fact that they have to upgrade every 2-3 years -- and are often forced into it if they buy some software or some peripheral that (purposely) doesn't work with their older PC or OS.
bigbadbrody
Banned
Here is my next computer problem, I dislike asking question after question. I know a fair bit about computers, but I want to challenge myself to learn new and better things about them.
anyways...
I downloaded a video today, using the file sharing program that I have. The video is 18 minutes long, but when I play it on my computer it plays only 1 minute of the video and then ends. Going from one end of the status bar to the other like it is only 1 minute.
If I am to click on the status bar near the end, I can hear the sound of the video at that part but i only see the part that it thinks it is at.
also, the video tends to freeze and the status bar keeps moving while the video is frozen. then it will jump to where the status bar is. It keeps doing this.
Does anybody know what the problem is? or even know what I am talking about?
anyways...
I downloaded a video today, using the file sharing program that I have. The video is 18 minutes long, but when I play it on my computer it plays only 1 minute of the video and then ends. Going from one end of the status bar to the other like it is only 1 minute.
If I am to click on the status bar near the end, I can hear the sound of the video at that part but i only see the part that it thinks it is at.
also, the video tends to freeze and the status bar keeps moving while the video is frozen. then it will jump to where the status bar is. It keeps doing this.
Does anybody know what the problem is? or even know what I am talking about?
bigbadbrody
Banned
Anyone able to answer my previous question?
what is a recommended program for video editing? one that is pretty straight forward and is not to complicated?
what is a recommended program for video editing? one that is pretty straight forward and is not to complicated?
Okay, we've gone from penis envy ...
... to geek envy!
Now I have seen everything!
Seriously now, chill everyone.
People think I'm a technical idiot.
If we can all agree on that, I'd say we're in good shape.
... to geek envy!
Now I have seen everything!
Seriously now, chill everyone.
People think I'm a technical idiot.
If we can all agree on that, I'd say we're in good shape.
Iamforever
Banned
BBB- are you sure its not a corrupt file?
Can he open songs? Other movies outside of the folder? Do different file players have different results? Can he open things before, but then after trying the downloaded flick.. nothing AFTERwards?
::flashbacks of my tech support days and I shiver::
People tell you the problem but leave out all the important symptoms, I tell ya!
bigbadbrody
Banned
It is to hard of a problem for me to explain, I will just have to Wait until Christmas break when I go back home, my computer geek friends will know how to fix it
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