Author Topic: Tech-related problems (Read 640783 times)

Asmodai · « **Reply #400 on:** October 16, 2006, 09:22:21 AM »

Defragging does give a noticeable boost - especially if you haven't done it in awhile.

Don't know about Firefox.

ziggurat · « **Reply #401 on:** October 16, 2006, 09:39:42 AM »

Quote from: bolivar

Yes, Firefox is occupying almost 50% of my total memory. But i dun trust I.E, so gotta bear with it. My notebook only support max 1gb DDR SD RAM memory. Guess i will go & shop for 1 this weekend.

maybe this will be handy for you.. i have try this and look great!

http://element14.wordpress.com/2006/07/11/firefox-does-not-have-a-memory-bug-but-heres-how-you-improve-mem-usage/

bolivar · « **Reply #402 on:** October 16, 2006, 10:16:02 AM »

Quote from: ziggurat

maybe this will be handy for you.. i have try this and look great!

http://element14.wordpress.com/2006/07/11/firefox-does-not-have-a-memory-bug-but-heres-how-you-improve-mem-usage/

Thank you so much for the link. I restarted firefox & it takes only 50k memory usage instead of 230k memory before.

I will defrag my HDD tonight. Its been months since the last time i had defragged cos i used up too much space storing videos.

Shinora · « **Reply #403 on:** October 16, 2006, 04:12:39 PM »

what happened? ><
i brought my laptop over to my friend's place yesterday, and i connected to his wireless for internet, etc... but when i brought my laptop back home, i can't seem to be able to connect to my home network. i wasn't even really that sure how my laptop connected to my home network in the first place.... could someone please help me?

Happosai · « **Reply #404 on:** October 16, 2006, 04:29:18 PM »

^^ Maybe your PC did get a different IP from the DHCP at your friend's place...

Try to release and renew your actual IP. The way to do that is different from one operating system to another.

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #405 on:** October 16, 2006, 06:46:16 PM »

In 85% of the cases it is the following two commands

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

But I would check if it can connect (see) your home network.
Also: do you have a secured network? if not XP doesn't like to connect to that by default, you have to answer an extra 'yes please'.

~Dan~ · « **Reply #406 on:** October 16, 2006, 10:16:11 PM »

Quote from: frblckstr1

In 85% of the cases it is the following two commands

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

When I was on win98 run->ipconfig used to bring up a little prog. With XP all that happens is a dos box appears for a nanosecond.

Another way to do it is control panel->network connections. Click the icon to open it, support tab - repair.

Asmodai · « **Reply #407 on:** October 16, 2006, 10:49:52 PM »

Quote from: ~Dan~

When I was on win98 run->ipconfig used to bring up a little prog. With XP all that happens is a dos box appears for a nanosecond.

Type "cmd"

And then ipconfig once you get to the prompt.

~Dan~ · « **Reply #408 on:** October 16, 2006, 11:24:45 PM »

Quote from: Asmodai

Type "cmd"

And then ipconfig once you get to the prompt.

Ah ok, I'd not have thought of doing that. That looks a bit primitive compared to the neat little prog you got with win98.

Mugen · « **Reply #409 on:** October 17, 2006, 01:30:09 AM »

err so i just bought Scarface. and when I tried to play teh game, so I tried and dled directx9c it says

unable to install because im missing framedyn.dll

how do i fix that

~Dan~ · « **Reply #410 on:** October 17, 2006, 02:00:42 AM »

I found this which might be a solution.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319114

bolivar · « **Reply #411 on:** October 18, 2006, 10:57:15 AM »

Anyone could recommend me a good software to rip DVD ISO to avi? preferably with a guide too. Thanks in advance!

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #412 on:** October 18, 2006, 12:53:56 PM »

ISO: mount with your favorite ISO mounting software, then use AutoGK or the guide posted here in the forum.

~Dan~ · « **Reply #413 on:** October 19, 2006, 10:17:11 PM »

Does anyone know if there's a program I can use to cut .wma files without re-encoding them?

Happosai · « **Reply #414 on:** October 19, 2006, 10:23:29 PM »

Quote from: ~Dan~

Does anyone know if there's a program I can use to cut .wma files without re-encoding them?

not sure if there are freeware ones, but how 'bout this ??

http://www.hifi-soft.com/mp3-wma-cutter.htm

Tuffty · « **Reply #415 on:** October 21, 2006, 06:08:13 PM »

As I've got my new laptop, I've been trying to download movies (yes you guessed what type

) but Windows Media Player can't detect the necessary codes and only plays the audio. I've tried downloading various codec packs but none of them are working. Does anyone know the location of a codec pack that can help me?

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #416 on:** October 21, 2006, 06:14:04 PM »

^ some thing k-lite codec pack maybe?

http://www.free-codecs.com/reviews/K_Lite_Mega_Codec_Pack.htm

chera · « **Reply #417 on:** October 21, 2006, 08:14:23 PM »

Or try using the CCCP pack, which is smaller and probably messes up your system less than K-lite. I've found nothing that CCCP can't read.

http://www.cccp-project.net/

p.s., make sure you uninstall your old codec packs

Tuffty · « **Reply #418 on:** October 21, 2006, 09:21:55 PM »

Thanks for the help guys! Really appreciate it. The CCCP pack works just as expected!

Shinora · « **Reply #419 on:** October 22, 2006, 07:04:27 AM »

hi, its me again w/ my tech problems ><
just recently the power went off around my neighbourhood and seemed to have messed up the router. before hand, my desktop had the DCHP ip address of 192.168.0.1 and my laptop would have some other address. but now after the power failure, the 192.168.0.100 address seems to have been assigned to my laptop. i was wondering how i can switch back to my desktop cuz i use my desktop for BT downloading and now it keeps telling me that my connection is blocked.

p.s: i've tried rebooting the router again in hopes of it fixing itself, but didn't work ><