P.S. unless your AGP card is also NVIDIA of course!

I recently got a new pc and loaded xp, I have a problem with the home page default, it seems that a home page (youfindall) has made itself my default over msn. When I go to options and change it to my preference it is ok until I turn off my pc, when I turn it on again there is the offending home page again! very anoying. I have tried search to find where it is located but it finds nothing any ideas please

2Abbey
Have used Aopen o.k. with SP1
Latest audio drivers here
http://download.aopen.com.tw/downloads/default.asp?firtime=1&keyword=Driver&searchoption=keyword&sel=category&optionfun=typefun
The sound drivers are on that page and not the Nvidia ones!
Also you must leave the old ones on there first
If not roll back windows with a system restore to pre sp1 install
Update with the latest drivers
check it works
then have another go with SP1

If not exchange it for the new Trident Gigabyte Motherboard we use in the TraderPC, Very reliable with all the XP updates.
http://www.giga-byte.com/

davspeed
Run Regedit
Then change in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Software
Microsoft
Internet Explorer
Main ->Start page

Do a security copy first!

Thanks croc will try in the morning when I get home from work

As an aside here at work we have just got back online after being off due to change over of owners taking a long time and we now are on broard band and I now know what every body has been shouting about it is brilliant. Where I live the trigger point is 250 and we only have 83 registered so far and the exchange is at the bottom of my garden now I have used it I want it all the more

Thanks for your input Croc. I have been to the site on the page suggested and installed the audio drivers for Xp. I note that they were only released today! Unfortunately my Device manager shows that the Audio Codec Interface and the Audio Processing Unit now have problems, and of course I still have no sound.

I will try rolling back at the weekend when I have more time to troubleshoot problems, and at least this seems a reasonable place to start.

A friend's Windows 98 PC is having regular disappearing fonts problems.
The fonts files in windows\fonts directory disappears on every bootup and had to be re-installed. A bit tedious.

Any ideas appreciated.

2Abbey, before doing all that, go to Device Manager and uninstall all the devices under sound that it will let you uninstall. When you reboot it should find them again and load the correct drivers.

right you techie folk--i need help!!
i have recently purchased a new machine along with a Matrox Quad card (a G220).
i have installed the card and i am getting my four screens working.

i installed an Nvidia driver for my graphics card but when i drag something onto another screen it lags it and just fades into the backround...

do i have to download a new driver?

also i am having trouble dragging esignal charts onto any other screen apart from my default one--it just merges with the backround on the other screens???

T

Treble - not being funny but don't you need a matrox driver to give you the full benefit of the matrox card? Didn't it come with a disc, or you can download the appropriate drivers from the matrox website. What is a G220, can't find it on their site.

Regards
Rob

PS Pleased to see the beast didn't rip your 'nads off last night :-)

Robb---yep installed everything from the disk--there is a mjor problem though--i had a severe crash last night--had to pull the power cable from the pc to close it...now XP will not even boot up......

getting sick of it!
T

Treble, what Robb meant was, why did you install an Nvidia driver if you have a Matrox card?

i was using it for a fewe days before i installed the Matrox card and the graphics driver was poor so i was told my a techie to install the nvidia driver which i did--this solved the problem however when the card has gone in it has gone mental!

T

Do you still have the nvidia display card in the machine? If so, there is probably a conflict between the two, remove the nvidia card. If there is only the Matrox card in the machine, uninstall the nvidia driver and install the matrox driver.

kayak---cheers--at the moment this is impossiblke as XP will now not bott up. I need to try and XP rescue manouvere first!
T

Treble, boot in safe mode, use Control Panel/Display to change the display to Standard Monitor, reboot in normal mode, and proceed as above...

Treble - you're in much safer hands now Kayak has arrived :-) I couldn't get my g200 to work without it hanging the machine etc. Faffed about with drivers/conflicts etc but couldn't sort it so got a P750 this week to fit at the weekend. Hope you get sorted but stay cool and be methodical would be my tip.

Good luck
Rob

Robb--the staying cool bit is my problem---was wrestling with monitors and the pc running in my home office last night on the hottest day of the year--just when i thought i had it sorted at 12 o'clock last night the whole thing crashed---i nearly threw the lot out the window!

round three awaits once i get home tonight---yee ha!
T

A friend of mine has a problem with his PC (Windows 98SE).

When trying to save a file to his floppy disk (drive A) keep getting error message: "Cannot Copy - The disk is write protected - remove write protection or use another disk"

The disk isn't write protected and have tried several disks with the same error.

Also have tried formatting the disk and a similar error message saying the disk is write protected.

Any clues as to why this is happening??