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Quote: Actually, now that I look at it, there is something odd about these drivers: The USB controllers aren't specifically identified as being USB 2.0, is this normal? When I installed the drivers that came with the a7n8x deluxe it said that you need SP1 on xp to enable usb 2.0. The usb controler is not identified in the device manager...it does work though.

Quote: I;'ve got the ultima collection and I cant get ultima 8 to run. it comes with a bootdisk maker that supposedly makes dos boot with enough ram for the game, but it hasnt worked for me. I have tried using win98 dos, but gave that up and installed actual dos 6.22 in a virtual PC whichis the native environment for the game. i downloaded a dos mouse driver that they say is the smallest ram usage of all mouse drivers, a few K short of the microsoft ouse driver, setup the config.sys just like the manual says to, and I still ont have enough memory. it will start when i dont load a mouse driver, which shows that I am almost there. Unfortunately, a mouse is REQUIRED fo r the game. If someone who has played this game cam post the eact configuration that works it would be greatly appreciated. I checked out dosbox but it did not suppport it(somehting about protected mode not supported yet) when I went there. Which one is 8? Is that Pagan or whatever? If so, I never got that to run on xp, 98 or 95.

Quote: Neither have I, which is why I asked him if it is ONLY fields from results calculations he has to export out... to me, that makes ALOT more sense then doing the ENTIRE report (design & all). Quote: Like Alec said, do you have to export the design of the report? Because if not, it would be easier to export the query that sits behind the report. The only difficulty would be if you have any sublevels and subtotals in your report... Sorry, I miss stuff in long posts. Actually, i need the whole thing, format and all. The calculations are the fields that are causing program crashes. Quote: He can manually massage that in Excel cells calculations I imagine, don't you agree? Just like doing them in Access almost & same formula set iirc pretty much is offered in the way of prebuilt functions too... Sorry, I have no clue what you are talking about here. Quote: I tell you, I would check it out myself though, never leave any stone unturned & it alone may cure what ails him TOTALLY, since apparently Access 2k only exports out to Excel 97 format... What bugs me? How come Excel 2k does not import in Excel 97 properly?? That's an option to check out as well... has he tried this? I believe that 97 is the same format as 2000. I am using access 2002. It exports fine (manually) to the 97-2002 format but does not to the 95 format. This is why I believe it is exporting to the 95 format. Quote: * He ought to do a File Open As #1 for Output VB code module & drive it outta Access via a Macro! Export it into a format he can export the fields he needs in a format HE designs for import later in Excel... not hard to do either, just a bit more manual & old-school. Then, there'd be NO doubts here on what gets put out etc. & since he designs the output file, he has TOTAL control & understanding of it as well. You know, & I know... this helps ALOT & is sometimes worth the doing of yourself: Design from the "ground-up"... Sorry, once again I have not Idea what you are talking about. Somehow I missed the VBA help files on the install and have very primitave knowledge of the language so most of my info is comming off the internet. Any idea how many bad results come by doing a query with the words "access" and "database"? I am just going to export the query then run excell macros to manually create the sub levels and totals. I really appreciate all the help you all provided. It just occured to me that Im using excel97 and access2002. Maybe the problem lies there. I don't know and I am beyond caring. Again, thanks for your help. That bit of code to run excel code from within access will work wonders for me in hte future.

Quote: New and highly anticipated nForce 2.14 drivers are out. They come in 9x,2k, and XP flavours. www.nvidia.com You using it now? How's it going with your board? I have the same.

On further inspection, it will not let me save as a CSV file. My current thoughts are opening the report and trying to save it from there. I doubt that I will have much luck on that. Time to scour the net again for VB info...

Quote: Quote: Quote: Jerry A now joined... & got me his results, going to compare them now in fact! (Neat, we're getting results back, & I sent you Mr. G's & mine too to compare with Jerry A/Lex Luthor... love that email handle by the by!) Duhmez!!! Get IN HERE man with that Dual Athlon setup... that's probably the route I'll take next round in fact paired with that Buffalo Technology DDR 466 & GeForce FX 900 "Ultra"... imagine that! * I do want to see how your Duallie Athlon does in this test... APK I am interested to see that as well You can man... the results are up in those charts above, & they're pretty interesting... everyone's system got a piece of the pie in the "Winner's Circle" pretty much! * & this is a GOOD "guide/indicator" of what parts to buy & how to tune them etc. if you intend to architect & construct another system in the future, part of WHY I run these tests on forums periodically over time since 1998 with each said forums fastest systems in the running! APK LOL.. I completely missed that page. I am used to forums going to the last page when you click on the topic. I responded to the last post on the first page.... I need an undo button.

Quote: 1. AMD's do not over clock nealy as well as intels do. I can't believe that thats always the case. I have seen XP 1700 running over 3 Ghz. Thats a 1700 MHz OC!

Quote: OK, just had a quickie read up (at work now, I have Access apps wot I wrote that use OLE automation all over the place)...anyway, the important line is: Code: Set xlObj = CreateObject("Excel.Application") Once this is done, you use standard Excel VBA commands and prefix them with xlObj - for example: Code: xlObj.Workbooks.Open FileName:="Filename.csv"xlObj.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs FileName:="Filename.xls", FileFormat:=xlNormal, Password:="", WriteResPassword:="", ReadOnlyRecommended:=False, CreateBackup:=False Hope this helps. Rgds Andy That looks to be exactly what I need. I'll let you know how it works. Thanks!

Quote: Jerry A now joined... & got me his results, going to compare them now in fact! (Neat, we're getting results back, & I sent you Mr. G's & mine too to compare with Jerry A/Lex Luthor... love that email handle by the by!) Duhmez!!! Get IN HERE man with that Dual Athlon setup... that's probably the route I'll take next round in fact paired with that Buffalo Technology DDR 466 & GeForce FX 900 "Ultra"... imagine that! * I do want to see how your Duallie Athlon does in this test... APK I am interested to see that as well

Quote: Quote: Actually, I need it in the .xls format. Excel can import that .csv type... easily, Comma Separated Value type file... most files are just this anyhow, but not text file but instead binary data... still, just streams of characters with separators... even MS OLE "compound documents", they just have more types of separators for organization etc. I need the actual .xls filetype though. Clients are picky. Quote: Quote: How about this... Is it possible to export it as a csv, open the file in excel and run excell-specific code from inside the access sub? You should have .csv import in Excel as is... (only hassle? I don't know how well reports export out fields-wise, & also if they will import properly into an excel sheet outta Access... still, just fields though, & you can manually 'massage' the Excel sheet as needed in Cells after the import, compound documents or not!) APK I wasn't very clear. What I am asking is if it is possible to do all the above from inside an access sub. The whole process of opening of opening the file in excell and running code there and then closing the file all inside of the access sub.

Quote: Since Access doesn't really format its Excel export files, have you thought of exporting text (CSV) instead? Just a thought? AndyF Actually, I need it in the .xls format. How about this... Is it possible to export it as a csv, open the file in excel and run excell-specific code from inside the access sub?

Quote: Hi Alec and Gang, Thanks for letting me know more about Phoenix I've often wondered what the heck it was all about. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it has a more Opera-like tab behavior? Currently I find the tabbed behavior in Mozilla only partially apealing. Isn't Phoenix less stable than Mozilla? I thought it was slower too, but based on your description it sounds faster than Mozilla? Is that so? Also what features have you noticed are missing from Phoenix that were in Mozilla? What was the last version of Mozilla you used? Also can an IE 6 user comment on some of the differences between Mozilla and IE 6? Thanks, Christian As far as the tabs go, I have never used mozilla and only briefly used opera. I am very happy with the tabbed browsing features of firebird though. As for stablilty, the latest (.06) should be very stable. I have only used it for a couple of hours but it has givin me no problems. Even the nightly versions tha I have been using before have givin me no problems. From what I understand, phoenix uses the same core code as mozilla so I don't think rendering should be any faster. However, memory usage is WAY down so that speeds up the app. The developers of mozilla want to get away from the all-in-one current mozilla. Fireird is meant to be a light browser and just that. Any feature that is not found in the basic browser can be found in an extension. Eventually, it will be THE Mozilla browser. Being as it's just over a 6MB download, it is very worth a look.

In case you all missed it. 0.6 was realesed today.

I can't seem to get my monitor above 1024x786 resloution. I have a Radeon 9000 Pro along with a Viewsonic monitor thats about a year and a half old. I could get higher resolutions using my old GeForce but can't do any better with this one. I have tried the default drivers for my monitor and the latest. I also have the latest from ATI. Any suggestions?

Quote: uncheck the "hide unsupported" modes in display / advance area - see if that works.... Well I can select them now...they just don't work. Guess i'm just sol.

Quote: P.S.=> Have you look into patches to Office XP itself? I am assumign you are using that model since it is Access 2002... they do fix stuff in those Service Packs... apk Well, it's on my machine at work and it's not worth going though all the channels to get it patched.

Quote: I am a old games freak. :x And love Win98se. Can i run Win98se ? I have: K7SEM Micro ATX mainboard with 1.66 Athlon processor. And PCI 3D sound system (AC 97). And 1 GB PC 133 SDRAM. And 20 GB + 80 GB HD's. And a GeForce 4 TI4800-SE8X. 128-bit DDR. Is my HD too big ? Or my ram. It should all work.

Quote: i need to pry myself away from Generals long enough to play I got tired of generals too.

Quote: I don't quite get what you mean. Are you referring to a data backup CD, or an mp3 CD that will play in a conventional CD player that can read mp3? If you mean a data backup CD, just drag any files you want from the Nero Explorer into the CD list. If you want to make an mp3 CD for CD players, please consult your CD player manual. Then build the CD as required in Nero. I think he wants to take the songs straight from teh playlist to the cd without having to select each song individually.

Yeah, I'm dropping you an email as well.

Quote: I suppose I am in the minority; I like WMP9 for MP3/WMA playback. Just about any player will play both of those formats.

If anyone is interested newegg has a 2x/1x pansonic dvd burner for $175. While it's not the fastest available it has gotten great reviews. Its in the mail. Question though. Is the recording speed comparable to cd? I mean will burning a 2 hour dvd at 2x take 1 hour?

Quote: DVD @ 2X is about 30 minutes, 1X is 1 hour. Each X represents 1380 KB/sec. Thanks...

Quote: That works well if im just going to burn a regular music cd, with like 20 songs on it, but I want to know if you can do this some how to make an mp3 cd, with alot more songs. I dont think it is possible...........mgh Masterfinn Just open the playlist in a text editor and do a series of finds and replaces to make a bat file to copy all the mp3s to a temporary location. Burn from there. That is assuming that you hav the space of course.

Can someone give me a rundown on how to use the HOSTS file to block ads? I thought I knew but it doesn't seem to be working. What I have been doing is www.adsite.com 0.0.0.0 Whats wrong here?