Re: Let's hear it for manliness?

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:29:28 -0800, El Castor
<anyonethere@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Rita <nitany_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:52:08 GMT, Rumpelstiltskin
<PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


My computer just shut itself off last night and wouldn't
complete the boot process.

Mine did the same thing a week or so ago. First time I had that
problem with Windows XP. When I decided to move to San Diego,
my daughter offered to trade me her laptop for some of my
furniture. I had been having some problems before the computer
just would not boot up...perhaps for about a week.

I was resigning myself to reinstalling XP when I realized I could
try System Restore. First date I chose would not restore but
I then found another and the restore process went through
and the computer has been fine ever since. I admit to being
quite amazed that System Restore worked.

I do not have a CD-R drive on this computer and am thinking
of buying one because I have no way to back up current data
in case I need to re-install the OS. I'd lose my documents and
Email and so forth. When I switched to this computer I did
have all that stuffed copied and burned to a CD and so was
able to quickly put it on this computer. But I have added
stuff I want to save since then.

Get a DVD writer instead. It will also write CD's, but a DVD has the
capacity of 6 - 12 CD's and is better for doing backups. Last weekend
the local stores advertised rebate deals on DVD writers as low as $30.
50 packs of blank single layer DVD media (4.7 Gigs) are as low as $12.
and I've seen 30 packs for $6, after rebate.



By all means, I agree. I'd also suggest getting the -R format
instead of the +R. The -R seems more versatile. If I make a
music CD, my stand-alone CD/DVD player won't play it, since
it only handles -R format. I nearly always have the sound on
my computer turned off, since I can't abide the
pathetically-faux-peppy-and-cute sounds that some applications
make. They make me jump three feet out of my comfy-chair
when they suddenly start.

I guess I should have written one of the above sentences
as "My computer is one thing I keep the sound turned off on."



Another problem with this laptop is that the sound card seems
faulty. If I play a CD, or indeed try to watch a video from a
website the sound is so faint I can hardly hear it. My hearing
is bad but with my former computer I could jack up the volume
and hear just fine. Now with the volume at full blast the sound
is still too faint.

Any suggestions? Is it the sound card or the computer? Or what?

As I guess you are aware, there are at a minimum two sources of volume
control. The Win XP Master Volume Control applet. that usually resides
in the systray on the right of the tool bar at the bottom of your
screen. Then, the speakers will often have a volume control knob built
in, and sometimes a central amp which is part of a sub-woofer, will
have a master volume control. In addition, if the speakers are
powered, they have to be plugged in -- usually with a transformer
block that pugs into the wall, and has a thin wire running to the
speakers, which may or may not need to be plugged in on the speaker
end. I would check all those things, and verify that you are getting
sound out of both speakers. Something may be unplugged (the speakers
will probably still work at low volume), or maybe a volume control
knob needs to be turned, or the volume control applet should be
cranked up. The sound card is probably fine, but as a last resort, you
would want to make sure everything is securely plugged into it -- and
that it doesn't have a volume control knob (unlikely). One last
thing. The sound card may have a headphone jack as well as a "line
out" jack. Your speakers should be plugged into the line out -- which
usually supplies a stronger signal, but they may have gotten plugged
into the headphone jack.


"The moonbats bark thrice at midnight."

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