GAMER's questions about everything that crosses her mind ...

Post by **dosraider** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:05 am

Interesting times to come .... interesting times.

[Edit]
Oh yeah, unplug your external drive whilst installing your OS.

GAMER · Post by **GAMER** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:26 am

Haha. I'll keep you posted...

HOPEFULLY you'll hear from me tomorrow evening.

Yeah, i know to unplug external. There are some things i DO know, surprisingly.

GAMER

Post by **dosraider** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:35 am

Bets are open ......
Will she accomplish her quest?
Won't she be able to?

Hmmmmm, I have my doubts.

My bet: she won't.

GAMER · Post by **GAMER** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:39 am

HARSH!

I'm quite sure that if i go down the "put my hard drive in someone else's pc" path that i can do it. The other ways, i admit, i would completely mess up.

I was just looking for an easier way that didn't require me to use a mate's pc.

Ye of so little faith!! I will show you.

GAMER

my bet: i will succeed.

Post by **dosraider** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:10 am

GAMER wrote:Ye of so little faith!! I will show you.

Sure pumpkin, show us.

Anyway: good luck.

Post by **dosraider** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:21 am

BTW, should you ever get your PC back on track:

GAMER wrote:Hmm.
I have another query.
Didn't think i needed to make a new thread though...
Is there a way to catalogue the names of files you have?
For example...
I have no desire to back up ALL of my music collection.
I have the most important stuff already on an external device...
But i would be upset if i lost everything without having a list of what i had, incase i forgot some of it...
Yes.
So, i was wondering if there was a way to record the names of files...perhaps all in one small file?
(And obviously i am lazy and i don't want to go through and write everything down...so yes.)
Thanks.

GAMER

I've lately began to use this one:
http://www.insidecat.biz/disk_catalogue ... loguer.htm
The free version can handle up to 100 disks/maps/drives/whatever catalogs.
Completely adaptable@ your wishes, play around with it, you'll see (or screw up), you always can reset to 'default'.
Printable (I use the 'windows print format without multimedia' or whatever it's called in English, you'll find out I think).
I used it to catalog some double sided DVDs with stuff that had over 10,000 files on them, works fine.

GAMER · Post by **GAMER** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:57 am

Well...
I'm almost there.
I took my hard drive to my friend's place.
Got my mum's stuff off it...
Took it back home...
Booted the windows vista cd thingy...
Formatted the drive...
Clicked install...
It's been "installing" for like 2 hours though?
Myeah.

GAMER

Post by **dosraider** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:18 am

Nice work t'll now.

BTW, "installing" for like 2 hours? ZOMFG ...... what are your hardware specs?
I may hope you have more then 1Gb RAM ...... and a recent proc (fast single core or dual core) , otherwise you gonna have a crawling PC my dear.

Or is it upgrading to sp1? That can take some time, big download and makes a complete 'sysbackup' so you can eventually rollback.
But the install itself (without the upgrades) should not take more then some 30 minutes on a good PC.

GAMER · Post by **GAMER** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:35 pm

K.
I'm back.
Home-PC is all good.
Had to buy a copy of Vista though.

I don't like it.

So there Dossy.
I did it. *pokes tongue out*

GAMER

Post by **dosraider** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:46 pm

You needed 4 days to install it?
WAAAAAAAAAAW.

Congrats.

GAMER · Post by **GAMER** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:34 am

Lol.
No.
I needed 4 days to get to the shop and buy the damn thing.
Shut up you.

GAMER

Post by **Dogbreath** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 2:12 am

GAMER wrote:Lol.
No.
I needed 4 days to get to the shop and buy the damn thing.
Shut up you.

GAMER

Probably not take so long if you hadn't decided to walk.

Post by **Larry Laffer** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 2:15 am

*Where*, exactly, is the nearest shop?

Post by **dosraider** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:09 am

Hey, don't forget she lives in Wally land.

GAMER · Post by **GAMER** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:33 pm

It's actually only about fifteen minutes down the road.
I'm just a busy lass.

GAMER

GAMER · Post by **GAMER** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:41 am

New question.

Why aren't my speakers working?

They worked b.v. (before vista), but now alas, do not.
The output is outputting.
They ARE plugged in.
Yes.

GAMER

Post by **dosraider** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:13 am

Before screwing up your whole system give headphones a try, maybe you forgot something ....... how is the volume setting? Not muted? Directed towards the correct output socket?
BTW, what sounddevice you have? Correctly installed?

Hint Hint VolumeControlPanel.

GAMER · Post by **GAMER** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:00 am

Already tried headphones...
And tried the front jack on the computer...
Volume is up.
Speakers are ON.
It's a "High definition audio device" (SPDIF)
Other than that i have no idea.
It says it's installed, and it also says the drivers are up to date.
It's also "enabled".
And the test shows that the output is outputting.

GAMER

Post by **dosraider** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:25 am

GAMER wrote: It's a "High definition audio device" (SPDIF)

Not enough.
Take a look in config panel system devices or sound.

GAMER · Post by **GAMER** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:30 pm

That's all it says...

GAMER