Author Topic: Tech-related problems (Read 592284 times)

Kamui · « **Reply #1440 on:** February 18, 2008, 07:55:46 PM »

Quote from: frblckstr1 on February 18, 2008, 07:01:07 PM

- You have fully shutdown and the rebooted your system at least once lately?
- You have checked your system for virusses/spyware/etc.?

If it doesn't see a standard USB mouse as mouse, something is wrong with the driver database, or something is interfering with the whole system.

Yeah, I've done both but its not any better.

Asmodai · « **Reply #1441 on:** February 19, 2008, 07:32:31 AM »

Uh...

My iPod Nano just spontaneously deleted all of my videos and songs. What the hell?

I'm also unable to drag and drop new songs on to it using iTunes. It's going to be a boring walk to school tomorrow.

When I first bought it, the iPod locked up every 5 minutes when I tried to play anything on it. I did the reset and it's worked fine for a couple weeks - till now.

Grr. I hate Apple!

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #1442 on:** February 19, 2008, 12:38:31 PM »

^ You might like this then

The Dead iPod song:
[youtube=425,350]TYq0A8zsrCk[/youtube]

Asmodai · « **Reply #1443 on:** February 19, 2008, 03:36:20 PM »

Fun link.

I reset the iPod software and it works again. I think the mistake I made was setting to synchronize podcasts, probably...

Anyway, I had insomnia last night so I refilled it. I'm still missing a few PVs since I didn't keep the MP4 encodes. I'll give Super (C) some time to churn those out again this evening while I play Wii.

Shumatsu Samurai · « **Reply #1444 on:** February 22, 2008, 12:33:46 PM »

Please recommend me a software (free if possible) that will allow me to conveniently edit MP3 tags (v2) with Japanese characters. No big media library / management / online store / whatever kind of stuff, just a simple tool.
I used Winamp but v2 tags get screwed up. v1 tags work fine but in some cases, the character limit really sucks.
Thanks in advance.

StreakInTheSky · « **Reply #1445 on:** February 22, 2008, 01:23:59 PM »

get rid of winamp and use foobar2000

Shumatsu Samurai · « **Reply #1446 on:** February 23, 2008, 06:57:04 AM »

Thanks for the recommendation. I downloaded it, will install it later. Overview looks promising.
One (sort of) related question tho. Just now I put an mp3 file (and it really is just one file) onto my PSP and, to my surprise, it showed up with a thumbnail (single cover).
Looks interesting. Can I do that with foobar? If not, what would I need?

StreakInTheSky · « **Reply #1447 on:** February 23, 2008, 07:30:42 AM »

foobar pretty much lets you pretty much customize the player to your liking. Before you needed a bunch of add-ons (which I still use since I like it better than the built in stuff). But the newer version has built in layout options. There should be a way to add some kind of album art panel though. Just mess around with it.

If you want to go the older way, which I prefer, there's a foobar2000 thread in here(though not really active) with some links and it might answer some questions you have. You pretty much need the columbsUI and album art panel. The Hydrogenaudio.com forum and foobar wiki is a great resource to help you learn more about it.

SomethingWild · « **Reply #1448 on:** February 27, 2008, 07:50:52 PM »

Does anyone know where I can download the 'MEncoder MPEG-4 Video (FMP4) codec' ?

edit: nevermind, found it!

Speedstar` · « **Reply #1449 on:** February 28, 2008, 05:12:51 PM »

Well, The other day, my internet laptop harddrive failed to boot up. =_=! I was pretty scared that it had actually died because after I tried turning it back up, It kept giving me an error message saying that the the harddrive had an "internal HDD error".. @_@ I let the laptop rest for an hour and in hopes of trying to salvage what I could, It booted up just fine. But then that got me a bit paranoid, so I went and bought a new harddrive from newegg -.-; Thing is, I forgot to buy one of those external enclosures for the new one and now I'm sort of in a pickle..

So, onto my question; I'll be using Acronis True Image 11 to clone the drive. But since I don't have (and can't buy) the external enclosure for the new laptop hdd, Would it be possible to clone my current drive to my 300gb external drive and then insert the new laptop hdd and then "restore" it using acronis? @.@ Sorry if I'm not making any sense but, I need to do this quick because I just know with my luck - my current hdd will fail again soon. =_=

Happosai · « **Reply #1450 on:** February 29, 2008, 12:01:25 PM »

External drive is USB, right? Does Acronis allows you to create a boot CD/Disk that will see the USB drive?

cool_kickin_dude · « **Reply #1451 on:** March 01, 2008, 09:23:43 PM »

got a question:my uTorrent works great, but I have a yellow sign instead of a green sign that says no incoming conncetions. any way I can change that?

StreakInTheSky · « **Reply #1452 on:** March 02, 2008, 03:15:27 AM »

probably your ports aren't forwarded

in preferences under connections make sure "enable UPnP port mapping" is checked, it should forward your ports automatically.

cool_kickin_dude · « **Reply #1453 on:** March 02, 2008, 03:46:45 AM »

they're already checked..don't know what it could be..

StreakInTheSky · « **Reply #1454 on:** March 02, 2008, 08:09:57 AM »

hmmm...

there's this other thing if your ISP is capping your connection, under speed guide check "enable encryption".

cool_kickin_dude · « **Reply #1455 on:** March 02, 2008, 11:27:09 PM »

checked the box in..still no green light

Speedstar` · « **Reply #1456 on:** March 04, 2008, 07:43:13 AM »

Quote from: Happosai on February 29, 2008, 12:01:25 PM

External drive is USB, right? Does Acronis allows you to create a boot CD/Disk that will see the USB drive?

Yeah, Acronis has a boot cd which you can make. On a whim, I just completely cloned the drive on the external and then I swapped out the old with the new. Then ran the bootup cd and Acronis recognized the external HD and then I 'restored' the new one with the cloned data. Everything works like a charm. Only thing I'm a bit peeved about is that I have to partition the rest of the new hard disk to use the rest of the space I have available. :3 Oh well. x.o

So pretty much problem fixed. ^^ Thanks.

shadowstar · « **Reply #1457 on:** March 04, 2008, 02:31:09 PM »

Why do songs on my iTunes sometimes skip 'repeatedly' while it's playing? Not every like 10 seconds or something, but...every 1 second. It doesn't happen all the time, but it does on occasion.

chokkan 2 · « **Reply #1458 on:** March 07, 2008, 10:21:30 PM »

HELP !!!!!!!!!

my stupid computer froze up during boot up .... (see pic)

wtf happened ?? I can't even go into the bios setup no matter how hard I press "del" ..........

is it the memory ??

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #1459 on:** March 08, 2008, 07:44:08 AM »

^ Does it beep? There are some beep sequences that indicate what the problem might be.