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well, I was running low on disk space and I think that's when the initial problem occured. However since then I have freed up a good two gig of space on both of my hard drives so it shouldn't be so bad should it?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

have you rebooted? the virtual memory is actually disk space and if the disk space was full it may have impinged on your swap space (although theat depends on the sytem you're running). so reboot and / or kill off some processes and see if it improves (there should be a tool - top on linux f'rinstance, task manager on windows - that'll tell you what's using what space)

(ah, windows update probably means you're running windows.
My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Performance -> Virtual Memory is where you change it on win2k systems. typically this should be about twice your RAM. we have a 3G partition here at work that we use for nothing but the page file)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

yes i rebooted. I'm totally unsure how much RAM I have but when I went to that screen the initial was "2" and the max was "2". This sounds wrong non?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

yup that sounds wrong, should be three times your RAM at least.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

without wanting to sound like a total spaz, but how do i know for sure what my RAM is. When my computer boots up, it says a really low number but I have been assured that it is a lot more than this and that there is a reason why it gives out this low number on the login readout.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

right click on my computer click properties. It will tell you there.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Everytime I startup my computer, my wireless connection (which I admit I leach off of a neighbor) doesn't work until I go into Properties>Support>Repair. Meanwhile, I can connect to other wireless networks around (at a coffee shop or from the school across the street) without issue. Any thoughts?

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

uh, is 128mb of ram normal?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

it is less than average, but ram size isn't everything.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Can I ask:
I have a 5 year old iMac running OS9.2.1. Flashing ? indicates problem finding startup disk. Do the double startup, no success. Zap the Pram, no success.
Startup iMac from system install CD-Rom. (and even try system - restore, which is hopeless). It appears to boot, BUT, then when the CD icon comes up, the cursor icon disappears, so that I can't click on the intall disk to start.
All the USB cables etc are fine. Any ideas?

I think my hardware is fucked somehow. I've got another computer (that I'm writing this on) but would love to get back into it to retrieve info etc. (300 rare Wu-tang songs!)

Thanks to anyone kind and clever.

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Sounds like a dodgy disk or disk controller. Open it up check the connections inside. See if you can borrow a copy of disk warrior from somewhere. Boot up with the disk warrior disk with all periferals unplugged bar keyboard and mouse. Try repairing the disk with diskwarrior. It may be completelyfucked though.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 June 2004 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

paulh if it is the hardware and not the disc, you could theoretically save your data by removing the hard drive and placing it in an OK machine. Some tech stores should be able to do this for you as well.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

This may sound a little bit odd, but without my doing anything that I know of, the font size in IE just keeps getting bigger and bigger (and bigger) every few days, to the point of becoming a considerable irritation. Anyone any suggestions?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh dearie me, forget I ever said that...

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

this is driving me nuts. I have a dell machine with a firewire card installed. I just bought a lacie 160GB firewire drive. It works fine, except when I plug in my ipod to the other firewire port, at which time, the drive ummounts. Sometimes it unmounts completely and disappears, sometimes it appears to remain there, and I can click through the directories, but not see any files; sometimes it comes back if I turn it on and off, but most of the time I have to reboot, and windows does a disk check, and all is well. Lacie support have been no help. I suspect this has something to do with windows' driver and assigning drive numbers to the ipod and the drive. Has anyone else experience this? (I'm using WindowsXP. All drivers appear to be up to date). Everytime I want to add anything to my ipod now requires at least one reboot which kind of kills the convenience.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

One thought; does the LaCie drive have another firewire port on the back, and if so, what happens when you chain the iPod through it instead of plugging it into the Dell?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried that thinking that would solve the problem, but it kept happening. well, it reassigned different drive letters to things at that point (the drive had been I, the Ipod J; then when I chained them, the iPod became I, the drive J, and the drive dismounted itself).

The drive works fine on my Mac at work, so I don't think it's a problem with the drive itself. It must be a windows problem. It's just odd that I can't seem to find anyone else who has had this issue.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you tried doing a hard assign on the drive so that it's like N: or P: drive or something like that? Just to get it away from all of the other drives. Windows can be a real pain with assignment of drive letters, especially if a device keeps trying to reclaim the same letter every time you plug it in. Moving the hard drive up the alphabet will at least keep it safe if the iPod's being pushy. (or vice versa)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

If you don't know how to do that, it's in Disk Management; I think with both Win2K and WinXP you go to the control panel, select Administrative Tools, double-click "computer management" icon, then look for the "disk management" option on the left-hand-side. When you click on it, all of the attached disks should pop up. If you have your external drive attached, it should appear there, and you can right-click the drive and reassign the drive letter using the "change drive letter and paths" option.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

cool, I will try that out when I get home. thanks!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Help! I have been getting error messages saying either a common control component is not correctly registered, or one of its dependencies is missing or invalid. It's happening when i try to complete installing a new prog.
I have an awful suspicion that some essential regsistry thing might have been taken away by my anti-virus programme when it 'repaired' a worm it found.
Any ideas on how I might be able to correct this ?

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

My eMac, running OS 10.2.8, occasionally (twice, I think - both in the last month or so) suddenly flips to a blue screen and the login screen. I log in again and all seems fine. I supposed I would lose unsaved work if I ever did any work.

Should I be worried? Is this a bad sign of something? I repair permissions and run MacJanitor regularly.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, my firewire drive doesn't show up in disk management for some reason. Only my internal drives, my cd-rom, and internal zip drive show up. it does show up under disk drives in the device manager though, but I can't seem to assign drive letters there.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

That's very strange...if its not showing up in your disk management, it shouldn't be showing up on your My Computer. But: when it's not showing up in the disk management section, IS it showing up under My Computer? (and don't forget to scroll down on the disk management window wither, if there's a scroll bar there...it may be hidden at the bottom.)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

yep! could this have something to do with the removable storage part of Computer Management? The libraries directory under Removable Storage has entries for my zip and my CD/DVD drive, but nothing for this drive. Maybe I need to add a library for this drive? If so, shouldn't the driver do this or something? One thing that is odd is that if I check the properties of the drive, it says Device Type: disk drives, Manufacturer: (standard disk drives), location: LUN 0 . The (standard disk drives) thing makes me think that XP is not recognizing the correct driver or something.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're using an external hard drive, it should be a pretty standard controller; Windows XP understands pretty much all of them and just says "yep, that's an external hard drive" and makes it work. I can't imagine LaCie's controller would require any special drivers to make it behave, though I have been surprised by such things before.

Just to be clear, you DON'T have the iPod plugged in at the same time while you're doing this, right? If you do, unplug dat shit, reboot and then try this all again.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

no, it isn't plugged in. I'm am somewhat at a loss.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps this is France's revenge against the English-speaking world!

Seriously, though, I don't have any clue why it would be doing that either. You could try updating the driver (both using the windows driver update using the properties of the drive, and by going to LaCie).

Also, another clarification on the Disk Management: use the bottom window, not the top window. The top window, if I remember correctly, only lists drives that are okay. If that LaCie is having difficulties, you'll have to locate it on the bottom half of the window, and it may be grey'd out.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it's not listed under there (in the bottom pane). I'm going to have to call lacie, I think; their online email support returned a mail a week later saying that my request had been received, then I never heard another word.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, i rebooted and then it showed up in there. motherfucker. plugging the ipod in doesn't seem to unmount it now that I reassigned it drive letter Z. Hope this keeps working! thanks sean.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Rebooting solves everything.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

(oh i wish it was really that easy anyhow)

Glad it's working now!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Just a thought, postfacto. What's the drive formatted as and on which machine did you format it?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, riddle me this - Hotmail wasn't working properly for ages. I'd get as far as the Inbox but then clicking on a message it would give me the "Page Cannot Be Found" bullshit. Now I have GMail and it's telling me I don't have cookies enabled.
In IE6, I go to Tools, Internet Options, Privacy, and set to Accept All Cookies.

Same story. This is very very very frustrating and I'm about to hurl my PC out the window. If someone has any ideas, they could save me hundreds of pounds worth of damage and a cold night in my bedroom. Thanks!

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.mozilla.org/

FIREFOX

― Jon Williams!!!!! (ROFFLE!@!@!@) (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I WANT INSTANT RESULTS GOD DAMN IT!

This has been going on since I reloaded Windows XP. I really need to check my emails, please help! Pretty please?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

have you tried from another user account on the machine?

― Jon Williams!!!!! (ROFFLE!@!@!@) (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

well, it won't let me see hotmail or gmail. the accounts work dandy on other pcs.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

no no no no! i mean another log into another local user account on the same machine and then try

― Jon Williams!!!!! (ROFFLE!@!@!@) (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think I do... what's a foolproof way to check? my friend reinstalled Windows for me.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

nope. that didn't do anything.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

my guess is crapware probably fucked IE over

― Jon Williams!!!!! (ROFFLE!@!@!@) (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

crapware? I am running Adaware and Zonealarm but i disabled them both along with Google toolbar. When my friend reinstalled Windows, he left the old faulty version on the computer too because he was worried that deleting it might arse up the computer. I bet this is why. I am using XP Professional. The original is Home edition. It asks me which i want to use when i first switch on.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I deleted my cookies and it worked. Don't panic! Nobody panic!

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's one for Linux fans,

http://www.dynebolic.org/

I've downloaded this image and it boots fine on my laptop/other PCs

If I create a mount point /mnt/net and run

mount -t smbfs -o username=,password= //192.168.0.5/sharename /mnt/net

I get an error wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.0.5/sharename, or too many mounted file systems

The same commmand to the same share works fine on my Fedora box.

I can ping the ip address fine and web appears to work.

If I run modprobe smbfs it exits with no error, so I'm assumng the smbfs module is loaded okay.

I'm a linux newbie, any ideas?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

mount -t smbfs -o username=,password= //192.168.0.5/sharename /mnt/net

I get an error wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.0.5/sharename, or too many mounted file systems

Just remind me why Linux is better than Windows again?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

do you have smbfs loaded in the kernel? does the command "dmesg" say anything related to this

― Shake Your Halo Down! (ex machina), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It's all about the geek.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

> do you have smbfs loaded in the kernel?

use 'lsmod' to see loaded modules. (/sbin/lsmod)

> Just remind me why Linux is better than Windows again?

do you know the history of the samba project mark? it's a) interesting and b) a good example of why linux is 'better' than windows.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported

This does not sound good.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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