Jeeves

Did renaming the player file work?

I've been having weird ICS troubles... I have it set up with my XP rig and my housemate's 98 box, and the 98 box is connected (because it can share files and see each other on the network,) but it looks like some sort of weird port problem is going down. I mean, her computer connects to AIM just fine (aim uses its own port... i forget what it is) but she can't look up anything on the web. It worked for a while... but then it slowed down... to the point where it would connect to a page but then freeze at like 4% and stuff, and now it cannot connect to the web at all. Anyone know a quick way to fix this port problem?

A friend of mine has a DELL that, much to my cargin, she will not get rid of. The thing has an Intel board on it, with intel's onboard video card. Now she does a lot of video watching, and whenever she full-screens anything with the onboard card it gets blocky, obviously due to the on-board's crappiness. Thus, I decided to get her a nice Radeon to replace the onboard, however I had to go with getting her a PCI card due to the Dell not having any AGP slot. Upon installing the Radeon, all of the bios boot messages show up just fine, as does the "Loading WinXP Pro" screen with the sliding bar... but then the screen goes black with two little white dots at the very top scan line of the screen. Anyone know what might be up with that? I'd really like to get this Radeon working as a replacement for her crap-*** onboard video... and I got this Radeon nice and cheap (retail too!) but it don't wanna boot up! (PS: the card WORKS... it shows all of the boot messages and the winXP loading screen, AND i have the onboard video disabled in the Bios... hmph!) -J

Same frikken crap happens to me. Anyone know how to fix it? -J