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Originally posted by teroknorevents:
I'm buying a new gaming PC and plan on converting my current machine to use with a TV as a media center and console emulator. I have most of the software already purchased/downloaded, but am having trouble locating a decent AGP or old-style PCI video card with composite TV out connections. Anyone have any recommendations or a source for me?

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Couple of good sites to look at:

www.newegg.com
http://www.pricewatch.com

I have a Chaintech Geforce FX 5500 or 5550, it has VGA, DVI, TV in/out, and S-Video out, it came with a converter that has composite out. Does the job for me.

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Anyone can help me with this?
ONE of my computers cant access to a specific website (it says the site is down) while my others can. What can possibly cause this?

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Originally posted by Omega:
Hello

Anyone can help me with this?
ONE of my computers cant access to a specific website (it says the site is down) while my others can. What can possibly cause this?

Robert

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It is possible either a firewall is preventing you from entering the site or it has been blocked by accident. Try checking your firewall settings first.

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Database Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query
File: /home/content/D/e/n/DenominatorX/html/wvf/forum/Sources/Security.php
Line: 279

I've tried using Firefox, IE and Chrome and each comes up with that error. However, I can get onto it at my parents house.

I can get to the main site: http://earlstees.com/wvf/
But, when I click to the forums, I get that error. Noone can figure it out. Matt (robin's hubby) and I had a conversation that went as such:

jazaray@gmail.com says:
hey Matt, do I have a firewall?

Matt says:
yes, router = firewall

jazaray@gmail.com says:
might that be the reason I can't seem to get to a particular site?

jazaray@gmail.com says:
everytime I try and go to it, I get an error message

Matt says:
maybe, what is the site?

jazaray@gmail.com says:
it's just a forum for one of my alliances

Matt says:
send me the link

jazaray@gmail.com says:
http://wvf.earlstees.com/forum/

jazaray@gmail.com says:
I can get on to it at my parents house

jazaray@gmail.com says:
just not here

Matt says:
nope, I bet you if you tried it at your parents house now, it wouldn't work

jazaray@gmail.com says:
why?

Matt says:
it has massive SQL errors, and this page is very tempremental based on it's source. They need to fix the page. If you do get it to work, don' expect it to work for very long before it craps out again.

jazaray@gmail.com says:
that's just weird, cause they've used this site for a while and I'm the only one that seems to have a problem with it.

Matt says:
it has some zoning errors, in the SQL code, so there is no surprise that it may work for someone else

Matt says:
I bet it is based on some time sync with other time zones

jazaray@gmail.com says:
so, I'm never gonna be able to get on it, huh?

Matt says:
they need to fix the page

jazaray@gmail.com says:
ok

jazaray@gmail.com says:
I'll let the guy in charge of the forums know.

Matt says:
tell him to check the region settings

jazaray@gmail.com says:
check the region settings, got it.

Matt says:
that may not be it, but it returns a lot of MYSQL errors on my totally unrestricted connection

Matt says:
the errors all indicate that I was dropped after a timeout

Matt says:
timeouts occur usually when the server and client systems can't agree on something

Matt says:
and on the web, it's usually the timezone you should be in.

I, in turn, IM'd that to the person who takes care of that site. This, is what HE had to say:

I don't know what to tell ya bud - im sorry. I have looked at it and don't see any issues. I have used about 10 different computers and phones to access the forum and have had no complains. I have over 200 members between this forum and another forum running on the same server w/ the same software. You are the one and only person advising me of any issues. i am not sure how your friend was finding the instability of my SQL database along w/ any temperamental problems. I have yet to see any errors.

I use FireFox and IE and Chrome - all no issues.

So.. WTH?! Someone, PLEASE help me!

Thanks,
Jazaray

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How many Giga bites do I need? Any suggestions what to buy?

Thanks in advance,

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Originally posted by drut02:
Im pretty dumb when it comes to working on PC's.. with that being said, You know how a computer caught in a video camera will show the lines flowing uopward through the moniter. My moniter seems to be doing this on its own without the camera. It tends to get better as the PC runs a bit but is still noticable. I recently had the power supply and motherboard replaced. Is this my moniter going out or possibly a video card issue?

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Could be either, I would test the monitor on another computer, if I had to guess the monitor is probably the issue.

Would this laptop be worth picking up if I want something simple my wife can use to surf, yet still be able to handle all my games like MTGO 3, Diablo 2 and Starcraft?

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0304256

Thanks in advance!

--Evil

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Originally posted by evilempire22:
To all you computer hardware nerds:

Would this laptop be worth picking up if I want something simple my wife can use to surf, yet still be able to handle all my games like MTGO 3, Diablo 2 and Starcraft?

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0304256

Thanks in advance!

--Evil

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The processor seems a little slow compare to top of the line laptops out now, but it's good for the price. It should be fine for the games you mentioned, until MTGO 4 comes out with a minimum requirement of 2 teraflops processor speed.

I am running Vista/Office Home Student 2007.

Symptoms:

• Cannot open Office files directly (not from menus, but from the file itself): I'm told that the file path is wrong.
• Can open Word/Excel/etc., but it takes about 15 minutes to load, and I just found that I can open files from within the program itself--so long as I wait about 20 minutes.
• My files can be opened from other computers without trouble.
  

I've tried "repairing", and then wiping/reinstalling, but have had no luck. I hunted around the MSOffice website (and Google) for a time, but without a concise way of describing the problems, I haven't had any luck.

I realize that "fixing" the problem remotely (i.e. on a forum) is probably not going to happen, but if anyone could point me in the direction I should be proceeding in, that help would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, I guess my fancy new land line will have to bother the nice people at the Microsoft call centre overseas.

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Originally posted by Goaswerfraiejen:
Problem: I am running Vista.

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Solution: Install another OS. Problem solved.

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Originally posted by nderdog:
Hmmm...do other programs run relatively quick or are they slow? Could be a resource issue if Office loads but takes forever. How much RAM do you have?

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Everything else is speedy as can be. I've currently got 1.526 gigs of RAM.

EDIT: I should add that this is a recent development. My hard-drive recently had a physical failure, so it was replaced. Everything got re-installed, and Office worked perfectly until a few days ago. Since my router died shortly before then, I've made no significant new installations/updates/etc.

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Originally posted by Goaswerfraiejen:
Everything else is speedy as can be. I've currently got 1.526 gigs of RAM.

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You might check out http://forums.techarena.in/ms-office-support/754206.htm or http://forums.techarena.in/ms-office-support/824006.htm

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Originally posted by nderdog:
You might check out http://forums.techarena.in/ms-office-support/754206.htm or http://forums.techarena.in/ms-office-support/824006.htm

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Thanks. One of the "related topics" links led to someone who was having trouble due to Norton Internet Security. After a little bit of reading, it seems that after a recent Norton update, some users have reported problems with Norton itself, as well as with trouble opening files and things due to super-long load times (because of virus-scanning) for Office-type files.

Not long before my router died, I started noticing that after startup I get a recurring "Symantec Service Framework stopped working and was closed" message, which I've been keeping open to avoid getting it again and again. I just figured Norton would fix it eventually/I would un-install it anyway (my boot discs reinstalled it).

I haven't a clue if that's what's screwing with things, but there are enough coincidences to motivate me not to put off uninstalling Norton any more. So I'll do that and then report back.

Thanks for your help!

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Originally posted by nderdog:
Huh, figures. I'm surprised that Norton hasn't started detecting itself as a virus, as many problems as it can cause.

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Just wanted to confirm that the problem has been solved completely. Thanks!

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Originally posted by nderdog:
Huh, figures. I'm surprised that Norton hasn't started detecting itself as a virus, as many problems as it can cause.

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I'm waiting for Mcafee and Norton to start detecting each other now, as they both stink almost equally, would be legitimate detections I think

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code:

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to get the IP:
<%
Dim sIPAddress
sIPAddress = Request.ServerVariables("remote_addr"))
%>
enter it into a hidden field in your form:
<input type="hidden" id="IPAddress" value="<% sIPAddress %>" />
grab it on the back end:
Request.Form("IPAddress")

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Originally posted by speechjew:
is there a way to see who's emailing me based on their IP #? I got a pretty vicious email through my website and I'd love to know who it is and throw it back in their face, and I do have an IP address.

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You can at least go here:

http://cqcounter.com/whois/

and lookup the company or person that owns the IP address the message was sent from. From that you could e-mail and ask if they can tell you who sent the message. It's possible that you'll get a useful response, but your odds aren't great if it's a large company. If you haven't figured it out yet you'd have to get a court order to make the company provide the information, and you'd have to act quickly as many places will get rid of that information after a couple weeks, though there are some regulations for certain types of companies such that they might have to keep their records for a couple years.