GKPE: General Ramblings thread

Right. Thats It.

I admit defeat.

I cannot figure out whats wrong with my PC.

I'm now willing to PAY someone to fix the damn thing.

It needs XP installed. It has 4 Drives and one DVDRW, TV tuner, dualhead gfx card.

Who wants to give it a shot?

Depends... Can take 12 hours for DNS to update.

But once DNS is updated, you can upload changes that will take place pretty much straight away.

MattL wrote in post #2236040
Right. Thats It.

I admit defeat.

I cannot figure out whats wrong with my PC.

I'm now willing to PAY someone to fix the damn thing.

It needs XP installed. It has 4 Drives and one DVDRW, TV tuner, dualhead gfx card.

Who wants to give it a shot?

What's wrong with it?

Rang them up (love phone support) seems the files I uploaded not there go figure....???

I got way to much going on at the moment. Stock photos, Website, Model photos, buying and selling house and work. I need to give up something
WORK

DiscoLizard wrote in post #2236046
What's wrong with it?

Well you tell me.

for as long as I can remember its had this issue where, when you boot up,
It wont boot of the drives you set in the bios boot order - the only way to get it to boot of a drive was to push F11 to get the boot menu during POST and select the drive there.

XP installation hangs in different parts, and lots of general weirdness.

I've tried two diffrent installation media, three different IDE channels. The 160gb drive im trying to install on is but a couple months old.

I've been out with my PC for far too long - i have photos to process!

Ok, first things first...

MattL wrote in post #2236116
Well you tell me.

for as long as I can remember its had this issue where, when you boot up,
It wont boot of the drives you set in the bios boot order - the only way to get it to boot of a drive was to push F11 to get the boot menu during POST and select the drive there.

Sounds an obvious question, but when you set the order in bios, you are hitting "save and exit" instead of just "exit" right?

Is the order actually remaining in the correct order once you set it?

Not that the above should make much difference, as the bios should still just move to the next drive in the order after discovering that your disk drive is empty...

DiscoLizard wrote in post #2236173
Ok, first things first...

Sounds an obvious question, but when you set the order in bios, you are hitting "save and exit" instead of just "exit" right?

Is the order actually remaining in the correct order once you set it?

Not that the above should make much difference, as the bios should still just move to the next drive in the order after discovering that your disk drive is empty...

lol yes its saving just fine.

Next idea?

MattL wrote in post #2236116
Well you tell me.

for as long as I can remember its had this issue where, when you boot up,
It wont boot of the drives you set in the bios boot order - the only way to get it to boot of a drive was to push F11 to get the boot menu during POST and select the drive there.

XP installation hangs in different parts, and lots of general weirdness.

I've tried two diffrent installation media, three different IDE channels. The 160gb drive im trying to install on is but a couple months old.

I've been out with my PC for far too long - i have photos to process!

try removing all hte drives that are not needed for the install . and if possible the graphics card. complete a standard install. then re attach graphics after installing drivers, then reattach each of the other drives until complete. Check for jumpers in the drives. don't forget to wipe the HDD for the reinstall it makes a much cleaner load. PM for any help.

not sure how to remove the gfx card and still install it, but I've pulled all the drives and other cards other than whats needed.. still no luck.

HDD has just been formatted, so yeah.

Any other ideas?

MattL wrote in post #2236188
lol yes its saving just fine.

Next idea?

Ok, so are you able to update/flash/whatever the mobo?

Tbh, it sounds like all your problems stem back to the motherboard. If you were just having problems with the drives, or just the graphics cards, or just the install, then I could understand... But all at the same time?

Do you have another machine that you can swap parts with to check?

nzl-g3user wrote in post #2235652
it should be straight away, did you name it right like index.htm, or index.html ?

Sometimes the order for home pages is set to something like index.html, index.htm, default.html, default.htm. So if you uploaded an index.htm page the site will still go for the index.html page first. I would delete any index pages and then upload.

Nzshrimper wrote in post #2236220
try removing all hte drives that are not needed for the install . and if possible the graphics card. complete a standard install. then re attach graphics after installing drivers, then reattach each of the other drives until complete. Check for jumpers in the drives. don't forget to wipe the HDD for the reinstall it makes a much cleaner load. PM for any help.

I used nlite for an unattended install. Set and forget. I think XP only takes up about 300MB. I would do what shrimper says. Only have attached the drive you want XP loaded and reattach other drives when it's all good to go. But then again don't listen to me as I'm definately not in IT.

tag141 wrote in post #2236274
Sometimes the order for home pages is set to something like index.html, index.htm, default.html, default.htm. So if you uploaded an index.htm page the site will still go for the index.html page first. I would delete any index pages and then upload.

index.html, index.htm, default.html, default.htm are all valid names. The webserver will look for any of them, and display them first. If there are any pages named with any of those names, then something will be displayed.

The DNS servers just haven't been updated to say that tonysearle.co.nz should point to his host's server yet.

DiscoLizard wrote in post #2236300
index.html, index.htm, default.html, default.htm are all valid names. The webserver will look for any of them, and display them first. If there are any pages named with any of those names, then something will be displayed.

The DNS servers just haven't been updated to say that tonysearle.co.nz should point to his host's server yet.

that's what it would be, I remember it had taken a couple days to get my web page up and running.

now every change happens straight away.

DiscoLizard wrote in post #2236300
index.html, index.htm, default.html, default.htm are all valid names. The webserver will look for any of them, and display them first. If there are any pages named with any of those names, then something will be displayed.

I know they're all valid but one of my sites let me choose which page I wanted as the 'home' page. It had default.html at the top of the list. When I uploaded an index file it went straight to the default page. It wasn't until I deleted the default page that it saw my own index page. If you see what I mean in a rather convoluted roundabout way of explaining it. Like I said, I'm not an IT person in whatever shape or form. I even need "How Turn on Your PC for Dummies"

tag141 wrote in post #2236345
I know they're all valid but one of my sites let me choose which page I wanted as the 'home' page. It had default.html at the top of the list. When I uploaded an index file it went straight to the default page. It wasn't until I deleted the default page that it saw my own index page. If you see what I mean in a rather convoluted roundabout way of explaining it. Like I said, I'm not an IT person in whatever shape or form. I even need "How Turn on Your PC for Dummies"

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