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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
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 Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:39 am Post subject: Help! Many heartaches with WinXP |
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You all the situation: there's a minor thing on your computer, that doesn't nesaritly need to be fixed but drives you nuts anyway. In my case that was disk defragmenter not working. After some deliberation I decided a fresh install (and upgrade to pro) of winxp was not a bad idea. Well, something happened. After attempting to install, the program looked for files all the I: drive- which is a part of my partitioned 2nd hard drive- not a cd rom (in my case the G . That caused an error and it stopped. I attempted again to see the same error. I tried a few various things, none of which worked (selecting copy files before install, selecting default, etc). Now however, my refresh rate is god awful. When on ie or firefox it looks like I'm back in 1996 when the computer had to redraw the screen to scroll. Gah!
So, now I'm stuck. I want to reinstall windows cleanly, I want my scroll to work, I want my computer to be fresh and sparkely etc. If anyone can help me with this, it'd be much obliged. I'm intermediate with this kind of thing, so tech advice is cool. I'm also willing to pay for someone to roll out here and fix this thing for me. |
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BigBlackEquus
Joined: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Lotte controls Asia with bad chocolate!
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:42 am Post subject: |
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There comes a time when you might just want to either:
A. Reformat and start fresh
B. Attempt another reinstall of windows while saving the old files
C. Buy a new hard drive and an external box for your old hard drive, and install windows on the new one. That's what I did, because I wanted more space, anyway. Then you can delete all of the windows crap you don't need off of the old drive, and still have all of the other stuff. |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:19 pm Post subject: Re: Help! Many heartaches with WinXP |
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Now however, my refresh rate is god awful. When on ie or firefox it looks like I'm back in 1996 when the computer had to redraw the screen to scroll. Gah!
So, now I'm stuck. I want to reinstall windows cleanly, I want my scroll to work, I want my computer to be fresh and sparkely etc. If anyone can help me with this, it'd be much obliged. |
Windows installs a generic graphics driver that will work with any graphics card. You need to install the drivers from the company to get full speed. Generally, you'll have either an nVideo or ATI card, and installing drivers means downloading a single program and then running it. Not complicated to do.
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| I'm intermediate with this kind of thing, so tech advice is cool. I'm also willing to pay for someone to roll out here and fix this thing for me. |
How much is the offer? |
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, I went to Nvidia and got the newest driver set (out 10/20/05), but still no dice. Bear in mind that display properties are still top nothch, its just scrolling is not working.
I'm willing to offer 50 for someone to come fix this thing. Bearing in mind that it will require a windows (or linux) disc as I am pretty sure that this install is FUBAR. |
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Pangit
Joined: 02 Sep 2004
Location: Puet mo.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Did you get rid of the other partitions? |
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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other partitions?
The set up: I have 6 partitiosn even spaced over 2 discs. Drive C: is what holds windows on disc 1. I have not removed any partitions as I was not aware that I had to. I assumed that the installation prog would format the C: and install from there. |
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Pangit
Joined: 02 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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| I just figured you would remove the partitions because you said the installation program was reading off the wrong drive during part of the process. |
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| well, the thing is drive I is on my second disc so it was confusing as all hell. Meh, the problem is solved anyway- I did what I've been meaning to do and gone linux. Helllo, Ubuntu! |
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Pangit
Joined: 02 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Are you using it right now? |
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, now I'm at work. But at home, my OS is officially Ubuntu. |
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Pangit
Joined: 02 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Neat. I guess we'll see you in this forum less often. |
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| well, on this board perhaps. The thing is, I'm at just the wrong point in my comp fu where I get myself into incredibly complicated troubles by attempting odd things. |
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Pangit
Joined: 02 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Mistakes are good. They help you learn. I'd say you're at the right point. Being adventurous is good, too. |
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, thank you good sir. hopefully, one say I'll reach the level of l33ts like you and busaljo...or even the capital G... |
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