Morning all,

HELP REQUIRED......

I need to install a usb pci plug and play card so that i can use a digital camera that i bought my wife for christmas,i now how to install the card but is the usb software going to be a pain to setup.
Using window 98se so should be ok but any info would help.

TIA

Rick...M B

MB, shouldn't be any problem to set up. As far as I know there isn't any setup as such for USB, it's totally plug and play.

Kayak

Many thanks for your quick reply,hope you are keeping well.

Rick...M B

I've been trying to install a USB 2.0 card on my ageing 450 PII runnig Windows ME.

All went well to start with, the PnP found the card and got the drivers from the installation CD.

I moved my scanner from the USB 1 port to one of the new USB 2 ports and it all worked fine.

Drunk with success, I then moved the scanner over to the 4th port on the new board and moved my external CD R/W from the USB 1 port to the 3rd port on the USB 2.

Got up off the floor after fiddling with the cables and saw the blue screen of death.

I couldn't do anything other than reboot by powering down and up, and then couldn't get the machine to start windows at all, although occasionally I could get it to start in safe mode.

If I remove the USB 2 card the machine boots up ok.

Looking in the device drivers there appear to be two installed

Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
USB Root Hub

I think I ought to remove the new driver and try again, but I'm not sure which of the two to remove.

Any ideas or helpful advice appreciated.

I'm not sure that you can have two USBs in the same machine. If you look in the BIOS (type Del on boot) you will probably find an option to disable the motherboard USB ports (might refer to allocating an IRQ address for USB). Try disabling to leave just the new card.

The devices you see are the normal ones for just the motherboard USB.

Gents, reading of all these attacks and hidden spys has made me a tad concerned for my data. I keep my Norton updated but should I look at installing a firewall? If so where can I get one and are there any drawbacks?

Thanks.

Mr Euro,

Just been down the firewall route after getting attacked the other week.

Zonealarm PRO is the bees-knees at $39, painless installation and very easy to set up. They do have a less functional free version. Zonealarm gets consistently good write-ups both on the other side and in the computer press.

http://www.zonelabs.com

Thanks a lot Biffer, I'll order it now.

Do you know if there are any drawbacks on having a firewall?

None that I'm aware of, they do have a FAQ page that's worth looking at I think. I've only had it for just over a week, but it just sits there in the background now and checks incoming and outgoing traffic.

I even use a remote VPN that the firewall copes with quite happily, as well as mytrack and downloads from TC2000.

The first time you try to access a remote feed, eg Mytrack, a pop-up appears and you can then allow permanent (or temporary access). Really is very good and intuitive.

Also with the pro version, you can stop those bloody pop-ups you get from some sites and also stop banner ads.

BTW, you can install it on a no cost basis and try it out for free for two weeks if you go for the pro version.

Rizz - 29 Jan'03 - 15:14 - 752 of 754 edit



if any techie out there, perhaps they could tell me how to get rid of this security warning every time I refresh this page


Rizz - 29 Jan'03 - 15:15 - 753 of 754 edit



saying this page contains both secure and none secure items

Rizz, check that the link you are using to enter the BB begins http: and not https: .

Thanks, Kayak.. looks you're right it happens when its https

I sometimes get messenger pop ups advertising crude, rude sites. Can anyone say how I can stop them please?

Snip - stop visiting the sites :-)

http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html

Does the job and it`s free.
Iain

thank you Iain
tut tut Robb

Croc. I had a shock today doing a Norton Ghost back up. Although I have the 2002 boot disk, I recently purchased v.2003 (on-line download) which is easier for a DOS numbskull like me. I also wanted to be sure I could give Symantec a hard time if a fault occurred (not my doing)!

Anyway, I did the image creation steps in Windows (as instructed) and waited for the program to restart into DOS (also as instructed). I then had the message "Boot Disk Failure"! I switched off and on for a number of times but Windows wouldn't appear, just that message.

My mood was black! I went away for an hour and started up again just to see if there was a change (couldn't see why there would be) but the Ghost DOS operation actually functioned on booting up and the image transferred to the other hard drive (this is the TraderPC with 2 hard disks I bought from you last Summer). I then got Windows back as expected. I don't know why that problem happened and it makes me nervous of doing another back-up. Any thoughts?

Bones

PS I haven't read through the thread in full so apologies if anything has already been said on such a matter.

Biffer, installed the firewall and as you say it's fairly painless. However first of all I couldn't connect to the net (solved this) and now because I have the settings set to block all cookies, animation, advertisments etc... I find I have to log-in everytime I want to view a page on this site. For now I have had to allow cookies again. Did you manage to find away round this?

The thing seems to be blocking everything!!

Thanks.

Youi have to enable cookies to view most sites i think.
I use Norton Internet Security.With that you can set up Exclusions for each site you visit.

Thanks. If I understand you correctly Iain you 'block cookies' but produce a list of sites where cookies are allowed, i.e. Moneyam?

Whats blood annoying is it's only this site I seem to have problems with, ADVFN is fine.