Recent content by varcoris

Thanks guys, I think I will download the screensaver until I find something they can't change. Also, doesn't an admin or the originally logged in user have to log in to get out of darraagl's method? Or can anyone logg in (this is a necessity ...)Thanks Again.

I am setting up a Windows 2000 computer to be used by 5 roommates. To help protect everyones privacy I would like to automatically log each person off after a set amount of inactivity (perhaps a screensaver setup?). Can anyone tell me the best way to go about this? I know I can't use the default...

Hmmm... I had thought all of the codes were sets of 3 or 4 beeps, after looking at BIOS central it seems that perhaps it is a memory error. I'll try this tonight when I get home, thanks.

Sometimes (say 30%) when I power up my computer (cold or warm boot) everything spins up but before I can get a video card signal I get a continuous stream of long beeps. The system halts there and just continues to emit the long beeps. All the beeps are the same length and they do not stop till...

haha, well, that last word was actually "help"! Sorry.

Enabling NetBIOS over TCP/IP worked, thanks everyone for the hekp!

OK, thanks for the suggestions, I am at work but will try that latter tonight.

I can ping the ME machine from a command prompt however I am unable to locate it in "My Network Places" or by START, RUN, \\[hostname].

NWLink is for the IPX support (network gaming of Starcraft don't ya know ). Anyway, both computers use FAT32 for the drives. As for WinME, it wasn't my choice but my brothers. I sometimes bring in other computers and the WinME machine works fine with other Win98, ME and XP machines. I just can't...

Well guys, I hate to start a new thread but after searching the forums I still haven't found my answer. If anyone knows of a thread that answers this, please just point me to it. So here it is, I have 2 computers, one running Win2k pro and one running Win ME. They are connected over a hub...

yep, tried it myself. I have been checking for additional updates at least every 3 days since installing XP some months ago. I also made sure I hade the latest drivers for all of my hardware (which I also check on a regular basis ...). To be honest I wouldn't even come here looking for an answer...

No, in most cases this is not a motherboard problem, DDR RAM problem or Driver problem. It is a problem in Windows XP. Let me explain. I am running an ASUS A7V133 MB with 512MB SDRAM and an older Hercules Prophet GeForce 2MX card (pre- MX 200/400). This setup runs perfectly in Windows 2000 (and...

Direct X would only be an issue if there were seperate versions of it for different versioins of windows, however DirectX 8.1 is the same for Win2000 and WinXP. Stands to reason if it works in Win2000 it is fine. I my self dual boot into Win2k Pro and WinXP Pro. In WinXp I get BSOD's all the...

Well, I tried rjkrash's idea and it seemed to work for a while, till 30 minutes ago my computer rebooted again. It does seem to have reduced the frequency though. Well, guess I will keep searching, maybe when NVidia releases its new drivers for the Geforce 4 it will include a solution...

hmm... I'm looking at MikeCSr's specs and wondering if this is a northbriddge problem. with MikeCSr running an AMD 761 northbridge he has no errors, whereas I suspect most of us are running VIA northbridges ... As for me I get these errors a lot to, BSOD, NV4_disp.dll, etc,etc. AMD Thunderbird...