Haystack

many thanks

the card i have is a matrox G550 dual head. when i go into properties it has location PCI bus 1, device, 0, function 0

does this mean i need a PCI (not AGP or PCI express card) ?

Ok, the motherboard is an ABIT AS8. In the detail i can find it says it has 1 x AGP 8x slot and 4 x PCI expansion slots

Does this mean i have to use an AGP rather than a PCI Express graphics card???

F yes.

cheers spacey

Having a bad night tonite!!!

When trying to enter a poker sites downloaded application im getting the following Fatal error:

An internal error has occurred:

IDirectDrawSurface_Blt (DDBLT_KEYSRC) -2147467263


My unitiated brain thought this was a problem with directx and or the graphics, but have tried everything i know to resolve - anyone any clues would be gratefully appreciated

TIA

Have you tried redownloading the application and reinstalling it? You may have had a duff copy.

If I don't get joy from Trend PC-Cillin I shall come to the conclusion that the company has had its day.

A while back, and sorry this thread is hard to search, I think the consensus was in favour of AVG http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1/lng/us/tpl/v5

Is my memory correct?

I don't mind paying for a more complete version of AVG - but what has, as I said earlier, put me off Trend is the way it hogs resources.

Enjoy your weekend folks - but where is the sun?

TP

yes haystack :(

TP, I've used the free AVG for about 3 years, no problems with hogging resources.
All runs very smootly in fact.

Op,

Thanks.

I think I'll give a go.

TP

TP,i too run AVG pro with firewall 7.5,no problems,just set the scans for when your not working,but dont set if missed start at start up in settings,
there is a new all in one INTERNET SECURITY $69 for 2 years,i think i wll be upgrading to that soon as i have a year left on my PC's.

AVG LINK

have a good look around the site

I have recently switched to usings Prevx2 which is currently in beta form, this is a different type of program but has soime interesting and significant adavantages.

I think it should do very well, I used prevx1 for a while about a year ago and that also worked well but I had some stability problems with it on my PC's.

http://www.prevx.com/

Sp,

" interesting and significant adavantages."

You tempter, you !!

Such as ?

TP

TP, it works in a different way and does not depend on constant client updates of 'fingerprints' to detect virus or other malware like activity. This means it should be capable of detecting problems even if they are not recognised by many other products.

Prevx does use fingerprints and updates but also other monitoring methods including building its own central database of current threats.

There is a slight con with many of the virus detectors in that if there is a new infection, they will not detect it or protect against it, most of them will then quickly put out a new update and soon after they will provide clean up instructions.

The Prevx people have also written a special removal tool for the gromozon infection which, I believe no-one else has been able to do. To me this shows that they have an excellent understanding of the whole malware world.

I am nothing to do with prevx and as I mentioned earlier I had problems with prevx1, however I am very impressed with prevx2. I will be buying it when my trial runs out, its 14.50 per for a year for a single PC or 37 per year for a family pack covering up to 4 PCs.

Thanks Sp,

Sounds a good recommendation.

TP

Haystack,

Just another thank-you (your reply 24th May) re the problem I was having with Internet Explorer (Vista) and a McAfee add-on (site adviser).
I E-mailed McaFee customer services after having no luck with their on line tech adviser system (I was not going to pay them when it was clearly a problem with a McAfee product). I followed their link and downloaded the add-on again (site adviser) at a the moment all is ok.

Cheers Greek.

Quick update - many thanks to Haystacks for your help last week. I have broadband running again, had to reload external modem software on 1 computer, ISP said it was a line fault, expect 2-3 days for repair but it was all fine again in a hour after speaking to them - all very weird but at least its fixed :>)

scussy or opt,

I decided to go for AVG 7.5

Installed, but now says I don't have enough resources for my printer.

Off to an appt now so run out of fiddling time.

Any suggestions as to what to do - other than buy more memory for my PC!!.

I'll have a bash at any quick ideas tomorrow - or re-install the 2006 PC-Cillin til our techies come in.

TP

ok an easy one for you...

How do I get into the startup directory to get rid of unwanted things that seem
to be enabling themsleves when the PC first boots up?

There are a number of places. Look in Start, programs, startup. Delete the shortcuts to anything that you don't want to start at startup.

Start, run

enter 'msconfig'

look under the sartup tab and you will see lots of routines that you can disable by unticking them. Be careful though and if in any doubt then ask on here or look up the routine on google to identify it. Then click apply and 'OK'. On the next reboot it will ask more or less if you want to be told about these missing bits again.

There are other places to stop various srvices, but it gets a bit more complicated.