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  3. Posted

    I have comcast on-Demand cable and I want to be able to copy in and burn the 4th season of Curb your Enthusiasm. I bought all the other DVD's but the 4th season is not yet on disc.

     

    What hardware would I need to capture the live video into my computer as it is playing on the tv?

     

    I want to keep this setup real cheap if possible. Any ideas?

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    I built one of those silly shuttle computers for my cousin. There is no floppy drive and I am connecting the hardrive via SATA. The mouse and keyboard are bluetooth.

     

    First problem upon boot is that the mouse and keyboard are bluetooth so I have to get replacements for installing everything. Kind of a pain in the ass.

     

    Second problem is that windows xp w/ sp2 doesnt reconize the SATA drivers so I have to take the case off, get a haggard old floppy drive from some where on campus and find a floppy that keeps failing. Huge pain in the ass. The last several computers I've built dont even need me to install drivers for the SATA to use it.

     

    Anyways, I installed windows, which by the way kept stalling out on me. I got the mouse and keyboard all installed. Then I went to do the motherboard drivers but they would not install. Turns out, windows installed itsself on drive F!

     

    I cant change it to C since its the boot drive, so that means I have to reformat again?!! and how the hell am I going to make it drive C? Do I just have to install and HOPE it installs as drive c?

     

     

    This is such a serious pain in the ass.

    Is there any way to change it to drive letter C w/o reformatting?

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    Today I needed to put a floppy drive into my computer to copy some files on it for another computer. (sata drivers needed during winxp install on a shuttle mini computer) I plugged in one I got from my campus IT department, unplugged one of my hard drives for power to the floppy (I am running ide 3 drives with powered sata converters) and booted up into the BIOS. In there I enabled the floppy disk drive in the main bios menu and restarted. (come to think of it, I didn’t enable the on drive FDD controller, maybe that has something to do with it). When the computer restarted it went though the boot process, got to checking the cd drives for bootable discs, then said the error lading operating system. I figured I must have unplugged the hard drive with the operating system installed on it, so I changed it and rebooted. Got the same error. So I took out the floppy, changed the bios back to what it was and rebooted. I got the same error message and screamed.

     

    So what the hell is going on? I put in my xp cd, booted off of it and tried to get to the recovery console so I could at least copy off EVERYTHING to another spare drive before I reformat, but, it got right before that part and said it was examining the drive. Sat there for a while, then loaded up the screen where I can select which drive I want to install the operating system, partition, and/or format. Oddly the drive show up as two partitions, with 0 free space and the drive letters are :-

     

    I’m crapping my pants here.

     

    My hard drives were 3 different drives, all as dynamic discs, ide with sata converters connected to sata ports on the hard drive. They all have about 2 partitions on each.

     

    I searched google and microsofts site and this is what they said about the error:

     

    SYMPTOMS

    When you restart your computer after the file-copy portion of Windows XP Setup, you may receive the following error message:

    Error loading operating system

    CAUSE

    This issue may occur if your computer BIOS does not correctly manage or support the capacity of the hard disk on which you are installing Windows XP.

    RESOLUTION

    Warning This article contains steps that may involve changing your BIOS or complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) settings or that may require you to make physical changes to your computer hardware. Incorrect changes to the BIOS of your computer may create serious problems. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems that result from changes to your BIOS can be resolved. Change your BIOS settings at your own risk. If you need help with any of these steps, contact your hardware manufacturer and note that making either hardware or BIOS changes to your computer may invalidate your warranty. If you do not want to make hardware changes to your computer, you can take your computer to a repair center

     

     

     

    So yeah, WTF. I may go home tomorrow and see if I can plug the drives into my mothers computer and retrieve any of the data.

     

     

    :-(

     

     

    Oh yeah, Gigabit amd nforce 3 mobo, 3 ide hardrives with sata converters, windows xp pro sp2, 2 ide dvd drives... I think thats the only info anyone would need really.

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    My cousins computer had a major error. when it started up it said it could not find the c:\windows\system32\config\system file, or it was corrupt. To solve this put in the windows cd, reboot and hit R at the first screen.

     

     

    I did this, got into the recovery console, went to that path and the file was there, but apparently it was corrupt. I renamed the system. to system.bak and coppied the system.sav as system. . Restarted, and it tried to reinstall windows. I did.

     

    My cousin had been loggin in as administrator. when the computer started up, there was his administrator folder with all his settings. I cant log in as administrator. I'm instead loggin in as administrator which is linked to the administrator.computer_name folder. Wonderful.

     

    So I figured, oh well... atleast I can get all his files out of my documents from the original administrator folder.

     

    WRONG.

     

    he had a password on it and it doesnt even prompt you for it.

    How the hell can you get the documents back!

    F U my documents. frown

     

     

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    I would like to schedule my computer to do an automatic defrag on my hardrives around 4am every day. I have 5 huge drives and if I could keep them defragged each day (or every few days) it would be nice. I'm unsure how to schedule these tasks. Does anyone know how?

     

    Windows XP, SP2.

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    No. This problem originally happened about 4 months back.

     

    Furthermore, soemtimes when I try to install soem programs, I get bsod. Looks like I should just reformat.

     

    Its either a messed up install of windows or this crappy gigabyte 939 mobo is not giving enough voltage to the corsair xms ram. frown

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    I installed some dvd burning software a while back and it tried to install a scsi/raid host controller. When it did, I got a BSOD and the computer restarted. Upon restarting it asked to install the device... Doing so gives me a BSOD.

     

    In the device manager I have:

     

    Adaptec ACI-7850 PCI SCSI Controller

    X Scsi/raid host controller

    Silicon image siI 3512 SATALink Controller

    Universal SCSI Controller.

     

    The X is the one with an X in it that does not function.

     

    Now, I cannot uninstall the device or install the device. both give me BSOD. Now when I try to install my blue tooth device I just got, it tells me that the scsi/raid deal has been suspended and needs to be uninstalled. If I do that, I get a bsod.

     

    I cant get this thing to go away.

    How can I?

  24. Posted

    I installed some dvd burning software a while back and it tried to install a scsi/raid host controller. When it did, I got a BSOD and the computer restarted. Upon restarting it asked to install the device... Doing so gives me a BSOD.

     

    In the device manager I have:

     

    Adaptec ACI-7850 PCI SCSI Controller

    X Scsi/raid host controller

    Silicon image siI 3512 SATALink Controller

    Universal SCSI Controller.

     

    The X is the one with an X in it that does not function.

     

    Now, I cannot uninstall the device or install the device. both give me BSOD. Now when I try to install my blue tooth device I just got, it tells me that the scsi/raid deal has been suspended and needs to be uninstalled. If I do that, I get a bsod.

     

    I cant get this thing to go away.

    How can I?

     

     

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