Wow! it's been a long time since I've posted. I am trying to get my laptop to view correctly on an HDTV so I can use the BlueRay player. The laptop has an HDMI port that I use to hook up to the TV. The picture looks good but does not go full screen. There is an option to "force" a resolution through the CCC. Is this safe to do or can it be done? I was hoping to use the laptop as a temporary player until I can get a standalone.

Laptop specs: HP Pavillion with an ATI Mobility HD 4650. Desktop resolution is at 1600x900 which is max.

TV: Sony Bravia 120 hz. Resolution is at 1080p.

Thanks for your time.

is it possible to extract the key from an oem-autoinstall-winxp-cd? i want to be sure i am using not the copy of a cd used on my first pc. thanks a lot

Hi Every one
Please can some one advise me, my computer has come up with a blue screen. I have tried to boot in safe mode but it will not let me, I have also tried to boot from the XP disc also repair the fault from the same XP disc but with no luck at all. Most times I back up, but there are some photo's on the drive that we want to keep, I just hope I have not lost them.

Thank you

Rover 45

I have windows vista premium on an acer 5536 laptop. I recently got a upgrade cd to windows 7 premium and 2 other cd's from acer with system drivers and a set up cd for the windows 7 cd. I have acers erecovery with pqservice on the pc. Should i use the cd's to upgrade with the acer errecovery or is there a way to use the cd's to do a clean install? Then if I ever had to restore the pc I could just use the cd's. Verry confused. I do not have an option to run erecovery unless I start it with the f10 key and alt held down.
Any help greatly appreciated, John...

Am Trying to Upgrade from Vista Ultimate 64 (All Updates incorporated) to Windows 7 64 bit.
Have no compatibility issues. Registry has been cleaned and optimised. Check Disk performed on c:\ (No errors)
Am performing the upgrade from the Administrator LogOn so User Control is not an issue.
System is backed up through Windows Home Server.
System Details:
OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
Version 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2 Build 6002
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name MAIN
Motherboard ASUS
Motherboard Model M3N78SE
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 940 Processor, 3000 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 0602, 13/01/2009
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6002.18005"
User Name Main\Administrator
Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 4.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.81 GB
Total Virtual Memory 9.91 GB
Available Virtual Memory 6.87 GB
Page File Space 6.00 GB
Page File I:\pagefile.sys

I run the setup programme, do online update (OK), Compatibilty Check (No Issues)
Programme then loads files (Creating three directories on C:\)
Immediately that files are downloded it goes to next action and immediatetely goes to:
The Upgrade Was Cancelled
Any changes that were made to your computer during the upgrade will not be saved.
Setup can't continue, Restart the computer and restart Setup. When prompted try getting the latest updates.

Have tried over ten times with the same result on each occasion.

PLease do not suggest a clean install this is a home\office system and I haven't enough time left in my life to reload everything from scratch including all of the updating that goes with it on my 1.5mb broadband.

The end of the Panther Log (Full version available if required) is:

2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x080073] MIG Migrate: Migration side is: source
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info Entering UpgCanMigrateToThisSystem method
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x08034c] MIG UpgCanMigrateToThisSystem: detected OS version: 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info Leaving UpgCanMigrateToThisSystem method
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info MIG Migrate: Upgrade is using replacement manifests in C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\ReplacementManifests
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x080075] MIG Migrate: Initializing migration engine in online mode
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info Entering UpgStartUp method
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x0803ac] MIG Initializing online WinNT platform (Read Only)
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info MIG Platform is using admin privileges
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x0803df] MIG Adding direct mapping from HKLM to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (R/O)
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x0803e1] MIG Successfully mapped HKLM
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x0803df] MIG Adding direct mapping from HKU to HKEY_USERS (R/O)
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x0803e1] MIG Successfully mapped HKU
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Warning [0x08040b] MIG State data store failed calling CoInitializeEx in apartment-threaded mode. (hr = 0x80010106)
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x08040e] MIG State data store is available.
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Warning [0x080262] MIG GAC data store failed calling CoInitializeEx in apartment-threaded mode. (hr = 0x80010106)
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x0803b4] MIG COnlineWinNTPlatform: ComputerName=MAIN
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x0803b5] MIG COnlineWinNTPlatform: Get Machine Sid S-1-5-21-2661779917-3657288831-154045754
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x0803b8] MIG Processing profile: C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x0803bf] MIG User profile HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-18 excluded because SID S-1-5-18 is excluded by default.
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x0803b8] MIG Processing profile: C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info MIG Could not retrieve SID from 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-19 [Sid]'. Assuming 'S-1-5-19' (from 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-19') to be a valid SID
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x0803bf] MIG User profile HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-19 excluded because SID S-1-5-19 is excluded by default.
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x0803b8] MIG Processing profile: C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info MIG Could not retrieve SID from 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-20 [Sid]'. Assuming 'S-1-5-20' (from 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-20') to be a valid SID
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x0803bf] MIG User profile HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-20 excluded because SID S-1-5-20 is excluded by default.
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x0803b8] MIG Processing profile: C:\Users\Colin A Roberts
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info MIG Querying for user data from the blackboard at Upgrade\UserData\S-1-5-21-2661779917-3657288831-154045754-1000
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Warning MIG Failed to retrieve cached user name from the blackboard.
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Warning MIG Failed to retrieve cached user domain name from the blackboard.
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info MIG Setting user data in the blackboard at Upgrade\UserData\S-1-5-21-2661779917-3657288831-154045754-1000
2009-11-20 09:41:24, Info [0x0803e2] MIG Adding indirect mapping from HKCU to <C:\Users\Colin A Roberts\NTUSER.DAT> loaded at HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2661779917-3657288831-154045754-1000 (R/O)
2009-11-20 09:41:25, Info [0x0803e4] MIG Successfully mapped HKCU
2009-11-20 09:41:25, Info [0x0803e2] MIG Adding indirect mapping from HKCU\Software\Classes to <C:\Programmes2\Users\Colin A Roberts\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.d at> loaded at HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2661779917-3657288831-154045754-1000_Classes (R/O)
2009-11-20 09:41:25, Error [0x0803dc] MIG IndirectKeyMapper: RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_USERS,S-1-5-21-2661779917-3657288831-154045754-1000_Classes,R/O) failed (5)[gle=0x000003f0]
2009-11-20 09:41:25, Error [0x08039d] MIG Cannot add mapping for user profile C:\Users\Colin A Roberts. Error: 5: Win32Exception: Access is denied. [0x00000005] __cdecl Mig::CIndirectKeyMapper::CIndirectKeyMapper(class UnBCL::String *,struct HKEY__ *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,int,const Mig::HiveLoadRetryOptions *)[gle=0x000003f0]
2009-11-20 09:41:25, Error [0x080801] MIG User profile loading error. Aborting due to external request.[gle=0x000003f0]
2009-11-20 09:41:26, FatalError [0x090001] PANTHR Exception (code 0xE06D7363: <unknown>) occurred at 0x0000000076D176FD in C:\Windows\system32\kernel32.dll (+00000000000176FD). Minidump attached (107341 bytes).
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Warning [0x0803de] MIG Failed to unload hive at HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2661779917-3657288831-154045754-1000 (error 1314)
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Warning [0x0809cd] MIG Failed to close keymapper 'HKCU': error 1314
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Warning [0x0803de] MIG Failed to unload hive at HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2661779917-3657288831-154045754-1000 (error 1314)
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Error [0x0802fa] MIG UpgStartUp caught exception: Win32Exception: User profile loading error. Aborting due to external request.: The specified user does not have a valid profile. [0x000004E5] void __cdecl Mig::COnlineWinNTPlatform::ProcessUser(class Mig::CRegistryDataStore *,class Mig::CRegistryDataUnit *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,int)
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Info Leaving UpgStartUp method
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Info MIG Migrate: migration operation failed (MigResult=4)
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Info [0x08008c] MIG Migrate: Shutting down with cleanup..., gle:0
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Info MIG UpgShutDown returning immediately, since the facade is not initialized
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Info [0x08008d] MIG Migrate : Finished (0)
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Warning [0x0800ad] MIG Callback_GatherOldSys: Migrating to (C:\$UPGRADE.~OS\OnlineMigStore) did not finish successfully
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Info MIG PublishCriticalError: Setup can't continue. Restart the computer and restart Setup. When prompted, try getting the latest updates.
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Info [0x0a013d] UI Accepting Cancel. Exiting Page Progress.
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Info UI Entering Page Cancel.
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Info UI Some issues soft appcomapt
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Info UI Shouldn't be here for drv issues
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Info [0x0a0035] UI Allowing Page 'App Compat' to be shown
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Info UI Some issues soft appcomapt
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Info UI Shouldn't be here for drv issues
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Info [0x0a0035] UI Allowing Page 'App Compat' to be shown
2009-11-20 09:41:26, Info [0x0a011c] UI WizardDialogPost::SetActive

Pease help: I have been using Windows RC7 on another machine and found it excellent and a great improvement on Vista - but it looks as though I will be a prisoner of Vista for the future.

i have lost my websites when geocities-free webspace was gone by end of oct.(26)09. of course all my data is safe.

searching three domains i used i can only extract data from one of them. all others are linked to empty geocities site.
does this mean all data/links to them are lost forever?
can you explain how archive.org is working? for future situations. thanks

My wifes PC (Pentium 4, 3.2 Intel 915mb) started running like a "three legged water buffalo" so I opened it up to see what I could see. I found that the video card fan had died (I understand it's common with the Nvidia 8600 card) and living in Colombia no replacement parts are available. I have several generic fans for chipsets etc. so found one off an dead Soyo motherboard that was the same diameter as the original. The original fan is a fairly flat afair that's installed internally in a "pod" attached to the video card. I retrofitted the Soyo fan on the "outside" of the module so it is pulling air into the module and exhausting to the ouside and the case fan then can pick up the discharged heat fron the card.
It seems to work better than the original, running cooler. The first pick shows the retro with the old fan alongside.

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I have an hp XE783. There is a wire labeled P8 on the power supply of the computer that is disconnected. The computer will no longer shut off. Can anyone tell me the location to where this wire belongs.

I cannot find out who makes the motherboard or replacement for an Acer AM5640-B5406A, S/N PTSAM0X072814040FC2701 Desktop computer. The markings on the mobo say N1996 which indicates a MSI mobo I think but I cannot find a replacement anywhere. Can anyone help with this???:confused::confused:

Begin: Troubleshoot why PC won't come out of hybrid sleep/sleep mode.

Read somewhere to 'remove battery from mobo', which means to set BIOS to failsafe defaults.

Don't do this if you have a RAID and are forgetful. If you do the following steps at least remember to set your SATA drives back up as RAID otherwise it defaults back to IDE instead of the required RAID settings and borks it all up.

MSI X58-Pro
Core i7 920
6GB DDR3
Radeon 3870
RAID 1 with (2) x 320GB Seagate Barracuda hard drives (enabled RAID in BIOS before imaging disks)
(1)TB WD green SATA drive from failed My(Crappy) Book World Edition

1. reset BIOS to fail"safe" defaults to troubleshoot separate issue (PC not coming out of hybrid sleep mode)
2. forget that RAID needs to be set in BIOS for RAID to work properly and reboot

And the rest of the story...
3. Windows loaded but acted very slow.
4. Noticed Intel Matrix Storage utility wasn't loading. Remembered that RAID *needs* to be set in the BIOS for it to work properly.
5. <reboot>
6. re-enabled RAID in BIOS
7. <reboot>
8. Can't load Windows due to some missing or corrupt file. Advised to insert Vista CD and use the auto-fix utility
9. <reboot>
10. boot from Vista disk
11. Vista couldn't find my Windows installation
12. <reboot>
13. disabled 1TB drive from boot priority
14. powered off
15. pulled power from 1TB drive (only RAID drives and DVD remain)
16. boot from Vista disk
17. finally located Windows volume
18. clicked the auto-repair-thingie
19. <reboot>
20. Missing or corrupt PCIIDEX.SYS
21. *(#@@#$#$%!*&^!*(#*@#*(&! Microsoft and the goat they rode in on...
22. <reboot>
23. boot from Vista disk
24. auto-repair again
25. <reboot>
26. Missing or corrupt PCIIDEX.SYS
27. *i'm going to h311 for sure*
28. boot from Vista disk
29. auto-repair again
30. "Searching for problems...." for very long time. Time passes.
31. "Attempting repairs..." for very long time. More time passes.

It's sleepy-time now but will repost the grand finale for posterity.

at the end of compression is says some third-party software was installed cannot load(or similar) kernel. q327101.
check boot.ini. nothing found what was mentioned.
at start before login i see the asus-screen a7v8x(the same screen i had problems to pass- i know now how to solve it but it is still existing), then i see world warcraft-game-image.
i already deinstalled asus-display-drivers.

background is my second pc(old one must be replaced by an identical one) from an unknown person. due to some reasons i had to use his 80gb hdd and winxp. thanks

Changes with computers at work - need to take existing domain profiles and convert/copy them to workgroup profiles because we don't need a server for just two computers that only need to talk to each other and the internet. Want to copy/convert profiles so that we don't have to re-build the desktops from scratch. Any easy way to do this?

Could anyone please tell me which section of the forum do i post for advise on a virus, thanks in advance for any replies.

Ok guys. Since my freezing issue i posted earlier has been solved...i got another one for ya. In win 7 my download soeeds max out at 220 kb/s where my line is 620kb/s I have updated my ethernet drivers, disables win firewall. and now i am stumped.... any thoughts?

I have 64 bit win 7 ultimate

I have a Gateway MT3423 laptop that my grandpa had purchased for me (used) a few months ago. About a week ago the graphics chipset completely burned out on it, so I had to replace the motherboard for the laptop. I purchased/replaced it today, and the laptop is running great; no problems there.

What I'd like to know is whether or not 83"C is a normal temp for the gpu in your average laptop? This is where it tends to idle on this laptop, and this is also where it idled on the previous mobo. The gpu has pretty lousy cooling (it's got a pad that holds it against an aluminum pan..that is ultimately the underbelly of the cpu fan), and if that isn't typical temperature for a laptop gpu, is there anything I can do about it?

Thanks

And also, the laptop is clean. Having replaced the motherboard entirely I figured it'd be a good time to clean out dust in the process. I was thinking about replacing the pad the gpu sits against with a bit of thermal compound but idk if that'd really make a difference.