Windows Linux or Mac?
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UPDATED: Saturday, April 8, 2006 06:42
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Quote:During start up I hit F12 to get to the boot options, then I choose the IDE CD option. Right after that I get the error (I believe it says) "Boot failed, press F1 to retry ESC to cancel", or something close to that.
Well, if it's a combo drive I'd use a CD-R if the .iso is CD-sized. There shouldn't be a problem either way though. Avoid re-writable disks though.
what kind of errors are you seeing, and where/when are you seeing them?
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Quote:During start up I hit F12 to get to the boot options, then I choose the IDE CD option. Right after that I get the error (I believe it says) "Boot failed, press F1 to retry ESC to cancel", or something close to that.
Originally posted by Tiger:
I sense you're speaking of the boot options offered by your BIOS and not the boot options from the CD?
If your drive is actually IDE and not SCSI or SATA, (do they even make sata optical drives? -i'm so damned oldskool) then it looks like you burned a coaster :-\ That's all I can think of atm.
Can you try setting that drive to be the default boot device within the BIOS (so you won't need to bring up the boot menu)? If that doesn't work, I'm thinking coaster.
BTW - up a few posts you mentioned how you're now addicted to 2 monitors? hehe -how about 6?
http://linuxgazette.net/124/smith.html
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do they even make sata optical drives? -i'm so damned oldskool
Yes, but they're not worth it. It's barely worth buying a SATA HDD for a desktop for most people.
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Tiger:
Sounds like your CD is non bootable. How did you burn it? At a guess I'd say you had an .iso image and burned that straight on to the cd with something like Nero?
That won't work, as it burns the Image as a file rather than the CD image. The easiest thing to do would be to get Deamon Tools:
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/announcements.php
which lets you run the .iso as a CD on a Virtual CD drive and then do a copy CD from the virtual drive to your burner.
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Because this interesting string is still active, I'd like to ask our computer gurus for help. I am running Windows XP (the best thing I've seen out of Microsoft since DOS, BTW), and just recently some *.mpgs and *.wmv files started playing verry slooowly. No error messages, and some files play fine. Any ideas where to look? Running WMV 9.0, which worked perfectly until a week or so ago, when this problem began.
Ran Ad-Aware to no avail. Went to MS website to troubleshoot, but all questions about WMV 9.0 were "unavailable."
Anyone else run into this?
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How big and long are the files?
The only time I've seen it is with uncompressed AVI's where the machine has to load each frame from the disk, but that wouldn't be it as wmvs and mpgs are always compressed (I think).
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I have one *.mpg that's 1.1 meg that doesn't play, next to another *.mpg that's 1.7 meg and plays fine.
Both are on the computer. Just upgraded everything I could find from Microsoft website to no avail.
I did install an older sound board that gives me bass & treble controls, but uses an older set of drivers. I suspect this is where the problem lies. The board is an Addonics Soundvision, with drivers for W95....
I put it in because I was going to dual-install Linux on a remaining portion of a new 80-Gig HD. Linux can't find the on-board sound card. But it turns out Linux can't install where I want it by itself, and I don't have time to mess with it, so
Linux won't go on here. I could remove the card, but I like the bass/treble controls....
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Soundcard sounds like a good bet.
Try Windows XP drivers. If you try looking for the drivers for your board on their site:
http://www.addonics.com/
Otherwise if you send me the model number I can try and find them.
Good luck.
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Thanks, Citizen. I went to the website and left a message, noting they don't support anything over 2 years old, and no sound cards.
I don't have time right now to dig any deeper, there being a crisis in my work that needs immediate attention, but will get back to you shortly, and may have the numbers for the card. But I suspect if I open the box I'll remove the card and go back to what worked before, zinging the bass/treble controls.
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You can find most of the details you need from the Hardware managment window. To get to that right click my computer and click manage.
This page seems to have Addonics drivers:
http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/drivers/FM801/index.html
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