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??

right folks---i am on the verge of throwing this thing out of the windiw---i cannot get XP to load--it hangs and just goes blank----i want top take everything off of it and start again.

how do i do that---the onkly thing i can do is when i press del before it hangs --i get a list of commands---how can i clear it and reboot it form my XP disk?

T

Press f8.(I think)As you restart.Its one of the F`s that much i do know.Ive formatted my drive 3 times in a month..Youd think id remember!.
Then "boot from cd" with xp disk.Follow instructions.Format partition etc.Reinstall.

That is the final solution, but before that it might be worth (a) selecting safe mode after pressing F8 and doing what I suggested above, and if that doesn't work, (b) taking out the Matrox card, replacing the original graphics card, and trying to boot like that...

Nah!Chuck it out of the window.Its empowering;-)

... and then chuck it out of the window :-)