A friend has a Vaio and is debating whether or not to add another gig of RAM to it (it already has 1). He uses DVD Decrptyer and whatnot alot, but says that performance is good enough. He’s mainly concerned with itunes, which I thought was always a resource hog. He has a lot of music, and he was wondering whether adding another gig would that shit load up faster and increase performance. I’m not quite sure on this…anyone have an opinion?
EDIT: Also, trying to format my friend’s Dell Inspiron 1420 (which has Vista Home Basic installed) and install XP Pro. Problem is, when loading up the XP setup, it says it can’t detect the harddrive and setup stops. Can anyone help me on this?
Need help fixing my connection to the internet. Using another PC at the moment. Ive reset the cable modem as well as the router. Then unplugged them for a period of time as well. When the cable modem is plugged in only the “link” light flashes. If I try to open a page the router startup page appears and looks for my connection. It finds one then it trys to load the next page but wont display it.
Ive checked my firewall settings if something there is stopping it and ran some spyware programs as well which turned up nothing. Anyone have an idea on what the problem is?
If the lappy has a SATA drive, you might not have the SATA drivers to run XP Pro. This happen on a buddy’s Gateway laptop that he put Vista on and hated it and wanted XP. I had to re-compile my XP Pro cd using NLite and added the SATA drivers to the disc. That’s the rough gist of it, but if you need a tutorial:
The link light on the modem only means it’s connected. Try connecting to the internet without the router, at least then you’ll know if your connection is bad (which I think it is).
Sometimes cable companies just bum out at times so it might eventually come back, mine did that Friday for 3-4 hours. If not, call your provider up because it might be a line outside damage or something else.
You could do what mastermind said, but if the machine has a floppy drive then you don’t need to go through quite that much effort. Just put the SATA drivers on a floppy. Boot from your XP disk and at the first screen that asks for your input there is an option to load additional drivers. Select that and load the drivers from the floppy. Then the HDD can be recognized and you can proceed to install XP.
From what I can remember, the Inspiron 1420 doesn’t have any floppy drives built in. So you’d have to use a USB floppy drive. Only problem is, XP Pro is INCREDIBLY anal when it comes to what USB floppy drives are okay with Windows Setup.
It kinda sucks, but recompiling the XP Pro CD might actually be worth it in the long run. The only thing stopping setup from working right is the SATA drivers, which are pretty much universal. And floppy drives seem to be going by the wayside, making it much harder to locate one that’s actually compatible with Windows setup.
hi folks. for some reason the ‘programs’ tab on my start menu has disappeared. in other words i hit start and there’s no ‘programs’ button to click on and basically i can’t access any of my programs…wtf? any idea what’s wrong?
I keep getting a c++ runtime error Program c:\windows\system32\rlvknlg.exe This has been happening lately, And alot at that. If its not able to be fixed, Is there a way to format without the disc?
If the PC’s are on the same network you can transfer them that way. It’s slow as fuck though. My suggestion would be to get an external USB HD and use that. Takes like 10 minutes to transfer 24 gigs. A 300GB HD costs less than 100 bucks these days.