Computer Questions

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 11/29/2004, 2:22 pm

Johnny, you're on dial-up. Thats why its slow. (sorry, I had to say it)

Dr. Hobo · Post by **Dr. Hobo** » 11/29/2004, 2:24 pm

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 11/29/2004, 6:28 pm

Everything is slowed right the fuck down.

nelison · Post by **nelison** » 11/29/2004, 6:29 pm

it's time to move into the millenium.

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 11/29/2004, 6:34 pm

It takes money to buy a new pc dude.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 11/29/2004, 10:55 pm

Dr. Hobo wrote:basically
windows uses a portion of your hard drive as virtual memory
it allows it to basically increase the "power" your computer has by increasing the amount of information it can handle
the amount of space allocated to this isnt that large but when you're c: drive (the drive where windows is installed) starts running low or out of space, that can decrease the efficency of how windows operates because the amount of virtual memory is lowered significantly

the part about partitions basically means you take an existing hard drive and "break it up" into sections which "reduces" the amount of space one has overall but if there is a problem with a specific section you wont lose information on ALL the sections when that one section is formatted

Sand.... you wrote THAT for JOHNATHAN??!? His attention span isn't nearly that long, dude.

Dr. Hobo · Post by **Dr. Hobo** » 11/29/2004, 10:58 pm

i dont like my explanation

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 11/29/2004, 11:17 pm

Does anyone know how to tell if your school is blocking a file sharing program and how to get around it? I can't get www.suprnova.org to come up winmx.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 11/29/2004, 11:24 pm

So... this isn't a question... but just so you people have an idea of the lovely problem my computer's now handed to me... this is the error I get when trying to access/move certain folders/files:

Devil Machine wrote:The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

Now, I've run Google searches and checked the Microsoft Knowledge Base... most of what I've found is useless and not even about harddrives, but about DVDs and such.

I just love computers. Don't you guys?

Dr. Hobo · Post by **Dr. Hobo** » 11/29/2004, 11:28 pm

oh god
I/O errors?!

you wont like my suggestion
but in theory
this could/should be a (possibly) temporary solution
but
open the devil machine up
and unhook all the devices from the motherboard and then re-attach everything and see if that helps
i had a prob along those lines once (i/o prob i mean) and that helped

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 11/29/2004, 11:30 pm

Yeah, I found that solution on a few messageboards... but ignored it because I really don't wanna. :lol:

I think I'm gonna have to, though.

Dr. Hobo · Post by **Dr. Hobo** » 11/29/2004, 11:34 pm

yeah you will

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 11/29/2004, 11:34 pm

The only thing though... why would some folders work (seemingly most of them), but others not? I only get the error on some. :freak:

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 11/30/2004, 12:01 am

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:cuss:

That is all.

Dr. Hobo · Post by **Dr. Hobo** » 11/30/2004, 12:03 am

thats gonna break my head
anyways
i dont fully understand I/O issues enough to answer your q
i asked my dad something similiar to that once
and he gave me a long winded engineering answer
i got bored and stuff
so i stopped listening
(hes an electrical engineer so he based his answer on that)

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 11/30/2004, 12:15 am

I wish my computer would have normal problems for once. Ones that actually match other people on the internet's problems. Not crazy wacky ones that are ALMOST like other people's, but not really and therefore the help they got is no good to me.

:wall:

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 11/30/2004, 12:39 am

nikki4982 wrote:
Dr. Hobo wrote:basically
windows uses a portion of your hard drive as virtual memory
it allows it to basically increase the "power" your computer has by increasing the amount of information it can handle
the amount of space allocated to this isnt that large but when you're c: drive (the drive where windows is installed) starts running low or out of space, that can decrease the efficency of how windows operates because the amount of virtual memory is lowered significantly

the part about partitions basically means you take an existing hard drive and "break it up" into sections which "reduces" the amount of space one has overall but if there is a problem with a specific section you wont lose information on ALL the sections when that one section is formatted

Sand.... you wrote THAT for JOHNATHAN??!? His attention span isn't nearly that long, dude.

Are you dissin me?

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 11/30/2004, 2:50 am

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 11/30/2004, 11:50 am

Dr. Hobo · Post by **Dr. Hobo** » 11/30/2004, 12:23 pm