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General Problems Thread: 2009 - 2015

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tiffpopo said:
Tell me good sir, why should I resist?

Always been a PC man but fed up with tinkering with its inner demons, I mean I've already got one girlfriend for christs sake.

People tell me to Mac it up to spare the worry.

Give me advice. I want care free computing. Or is it simply like having a girlfriend?
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More so a tongue-in-cheek comment but being a windows user my entire life, I cannot use a Mac to save my life. I feel they're very inverse and what seems logical on a windows isn't on the Mac and vis versa. I also believe Macs are far more expensive for the same components you'd find in a windows...

I guess it also depends on what you plan to use the computer for though, if it's just for browsing the Internet/watching videos on it then I guess it will be far more hassle free with a mac as you won't have to worry about things like viruses and random things going wrong for no apparent reason like you get with a windows computer:p. However, if you are downloading/installing cracked programs there are often far fewer for macs (just because of the popularity in the market at this stage) and I also think they require a little more "computing skill" to install them (in the couple I've tried at least).

Again, each is there own, I just hate macs with a passion! :D
 
dylan123 said:
More so a tongue-in-cheek comment but being a windows user my entire life, I cannot use a Mac to save my life. I feel they're very inverse and what seems logical on a windows isn't on the Mac and vis versa. I also believe Macs are far more expensive for the same components you'd find in a windows...

I guess it also depends on what you plan to use the computer for though, if it's just for browsing the Internet/watching videos on it then I guess it will be far more hassle free with a mac as you won't have to worry about things like viruses and random things going wrong for no apparent reason like you get with a windows computer:p. However, if you are downloading/installing cracked programs there are often far fewer for macs (just because of the popularity in the market at this stage) and I also think they require a little more "computing skill" to install them (in the couple I've tried at least).

Again, each is there own, I just hate macs with a passion! :D
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Sounds like macs are for me :)
 

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Please HELP!!!!!!......I just got my 2nd Ipod Classic (old one full).Got it registed on itunes,downloaded all songs on to it BUT when i click onto MUSIC underneath the ipods name,my songs come up but they're not in BOLD font and i cant change/delete/get info on them??!!! The font is pale..do i need to make this ipod the default one?..if so how.......Please help.......Will be friend for life....Cheers....:thumbsu:
 
tiffpopo said:
Tell me good sir, why should I resist?

Always been a PC man but fed up with tinkering with its inner demons, I mean I've already got one girlfriend for christs sake.

People tell me to Mac it up to spare the worry.

Give me advice. I want care free computing. Or is it simply like having a girlfriend?
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As someone who sees this stuff every day, Mac's aren't perfect either. We've seen Macs come in just out of warranty with either dead hard drives, or dead screens. PC monitor dies out of warranty (usually 3 years)? $150 for a new one. iMac monitor component dies out of warranty (1 year)? Take out a loan.
 
I just bought a 1TB WD external hard drive. When I plugged it into my blue ray player it said that it was incompatible and nothing could be played through it.

It was formatted as NTFS and I was told to format it to FAT. SO I formatted it to exFAT as that was all that was available. Unfortunately I've since found out that FAT32 is what I need.

Does anyone know how I can format to FAT32 even though it doesn't appear when I do - Right click, properties, format. Furthermore I've been told that when I can finally get it to FAT32 it will limit the HD capacity, so a way of avoiding that would be great too.

Thanks in advance!
 
Hard Ball Get said:
I just bought a 1TB WD external hard drive. When I plugged it into my blue ray player it said that it was incompatible and nothing could be played through it.

It was formatted as NTFS and I was told to format it to FAT. SO I formatted it to exFAT as that was all that was available. Unfortunately I've since found out that FAT32 is what I need.

Does anyone know how I can format to FAT32 even though it doesn't appear when I do - Right click, properties, format. Furthermore I've been told that when I can finally get it to FAT32 it will limit the HD capacity, so a way of avoiding that would be great too.

Thanks in advance!
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I don't know a great deal about all this but here's my advice on it all:

First off, maybe it's not possible to format the hard drive to FAT32? I'm not sure whether it's a stock thing or not, I know all my internal hard drives can so you think you should be able to....

I'm sure this is just a longer way of getting what you've been trying to do but you can try: right click my computer > manage > disk management > format... > change file system to FAT32.

As for FAT32 limiting the HD capacity. It shouldn't do that but what it will do is stop you from transferring an individual file over 4gig. So lets say you've downloaded a HD quality movie in which it's size is 8 gig. What you can do is download winzip > add to zip files... > under the split zip file change it to say 100MB files and create (put it in a new folder on your desktop or something). You now paste that onto your FAT32 hard drive then once it's on your hard drive: right click the winzip file > extract here which will bring your file back.

Kind of a long process but it's the only way that comes to mind to get a single movie file over 4gig onto a FAT32 hard drive.
 
Don't think that will work Dylan. Either the drive will not allow the files to be rejoined, or it will stop once it hits 4gb.

The only way would be to get a Video editor of some sort, and physically split the video into 2/3 pieces each under 4gb
 
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Don't think that will work Dylan. Either the drive will not allow the files to be rejoined, or it will stop once it hits 4gb.

The only way would be to get a Video editor of some sort, and physically split the video into 2/3 pieces each under 4gb
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Oh really? Thought I've done it before on my ipod, will give it a test tomorrow when I can be bothered getting it out of my car to see if it works or not.
 

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dav3 said:
The problem isn't the drive size, it's the max file size the drive format is capable of
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Strange, because I could have sworn I had files larger than 4gb when I formatted my 1tb wiiHD. Maybe not.
 

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Can anyone who actually knows, is Project 64 legal? I've been told by my IT teacher that its legal to have the emulator but illegal to download roms, on other sites it says of you have the game irl you can use the rom.....all I can add is I'm pretty sure the emulator doesn't break any copyright laws.....the roms however?
 
tb_fanboy said:
Can anyone who actually knows, is Project 64 legal? I've been told by my IT teacher that its legal to have the emulator but illegal to download roms, on other sites it says of you have the game irl you can use the rom.....all I can add is I'm pretty sure the emulator doesn't break any copyright laws.....the roms however?
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Yeah emulators are generally legal, it's the games and BIOS files that are copyrighted. I'm also fairly sure the "I own it" excuse doesn't fly, there would be something in the T&C's saying you can't change the format.
 
International Cricket Captain 2011 slows to a crawl.

Hey guys,

This has been happening for a few weeks now, and I'm not sure why. I start the game, it runs fine for about 10 minutes then slows up to a crawl, taking an eternity to progress even one over in the game.

I've ran a full virus scan, defragged, disc clean-up, system tune-up. Nothing helped. I have over 200GB free on this HD, running Windows 7 Home Premium, with 4GB of Ram on a 64-bit system.

It only runs slow during this game. FM12 runs without a hitch as do any movies or any other game.
 
I need someone's opinion on whether or not I'm going to be wasting my money by doing this. I'm looking at purchasing a desktop. Ideally I want to play Star Wars TOR, Rift and WoW and be able to do my study on it (Business and Arts separate degrees).

Through my girlfriend's work they have computer systems available for $200-

An Intel processor (Core 2 Duo)
3GB RAM
A fresh install of Windows XP with latest patches
A licensed copy of Office XP
A free microsoft antivirus solution (lifetime updates)
LCD monitor
keyboard and mouse
Power cables

I realize I'm going to have to upgrade it to get it to where I'm wanting to go. Is it worth spending the $200 on the above or saving my cash and putting it to on a system from scratch? (I'm currently using a laptop without any desktop components).

Thanks
 
Would depend on what CPU it actually is, as well as what sort of graphic options it provides.

Seeing as its not mentioned, I am guessing it is an onboard GPU, which isn't really ideal.

Can get a decent machine for ~500 for you purposes, or a little more if you want a larger screen etc
 
See if you can get a make/model on the system, you MIGHT be able to upgrade it to the point where it's serviceable for some light gaming. There isn't a hard drive mentioned on those specs either, so you'll need to budget for one of them too.
 

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