Recent content by Oaffy

It strated haping a week ago so i re installed windows Xp and the latest Nvidia Drivers. And i have alomost nothing runing on my windows drive and i am getting the pxile's. do you think i need a new HD? would a bad hard drive make the screen do that? BTW: it is a 40 BG maxtor 7200 hard drive...

I have a PNY Nvidia ti 4200 video card, good card, but i think it is going bad. I am starting to get pixilation on my monitors; ex: the backgound will get some of the pixels mixed up, the green will be blue and the will be green, but only in a few spots. When i take a window and move it over...

i have cranked up all the controls, but it still seam to half the total volume that window has. any ideas on how to make it louder?

I am runing Mandrake 10 and have a Sound Blaster Live Value, but it runs with half the valume of windows, i have to hear my speakers all the way up to hear anything. i have tryed a few difrent drivers and i got it to improve but still very low. Any body have any ideas or know why this this is...

i got the camera to work, still playing with the printer, have the i800 drivers working for the canon i960. for the most part the same printer. Thanks for the help!!

damm WD hard drive!! Mandrake 10 dosnt seam to like my 40 gb WD hard drive, i got everything to work on my 30gb Maxtor but it is only a 5400, slow to say the leats. I do have a 40gb Maxtor 7200 but it has my xp system on it, and i need that to work on. Need IE for a side job, wont work in...

Read you computer Warranty If you read through a warranty at CompUSA or Best Buy you will notice in section that details what is NOT covered by the extended warranty that it list insect and rodent infestation. You may wonder why a company would list this and who gets their computer infested...

Gmail on Ebay!! IF you WAN't a gMail acount right now you can get one on eBay for aobut a dollar but they go up to $200 for names like "Hacker" or "ComputerGuy." It would suck is some one would to buy that name and then get whiped when gMail goes public.

I just installed mandrake 10 comunity last night and it installed fine but when i went to boot it freezzes when it try's to mount the hard drive? i have installed mandrake 2 times now and i cant get it work? any ideas, I also have Debian's Searge, i am probly going to try the install tomoro...

I am about to buy an Olympus 5060 digital camera with a Canon i960 printer. Does any one have this set up or somthing like it runing under linux/debian? I realy just need a way to download and have the printer set up. I have a old copy of Corel Draw for linux (1999) i think it is verson 8 or...

I have an ATI TV Wonder PCI, the old one. I am also getting ready to install Mandrake 10 on my windows pc, just wondering if anyone has gotten this card working in Linux, partially Mandrake 10? If you have, what should I use and any tips on the install and configuration.

The DNS adresses where wrong, i was having issues with insight and they put me on a sticky ip and chaned my DNS, i dident know that they changed them, i checked the router and changed they DNS on the computer and now eveything works fine. THANKS

tryed both staic and DHCP, theu are curently on staic, i have also programed the gatway adress and the DNS ip's in to the system. and still nothing. but i will check the DNS entrys when i go home today. Got the do the whole 9-5

My friends moved in to my apartment and didnÂ’t have a PC so I gave them my old 400mh Celoron Linux Box, so they would stay off mine. The PC worked fine, they could get online for a while and then the internet stops working, they can still share files and print but not connect the internet. I...

testing... the thing is it is only 1 drive, so thier is no need to sync up. even then they system it always on cuz my roomates use it while i am at work, so when i get home it's been on for 8+ hours. i took the drive off of the raid controler and it is ruing alot faster, but it was working...