"BLAHH"300!!
05-04-2003, 06:47 PM
hey ya'll.
..my computer is dying. i think it's already dead..
..."see, what had happend was"
i went to wal-mart ,you see my mistake already, and bought a digital camera so i could take pics of my bike. the cam was $30 i forgot the name of it, but it was a small "pen cam". didn't have any features, but i could get my pics on the web. it came with 2 disks.
1 video somethin' or other. (for making short movies
1 picture somethin' or other.(for uploading pics
i took a few pics, and tried loading them to my pc. i put in the picture c.d. and started loading files.
it wassn't an easy step 1,2,3 process, i had to think,
humm..i wonder what this does,
upload that file, still couldn't get my pics uploaded,
then i'd go look for another file on the c.d. that might get the pics uploaded (i hope you understand that)
the cam came with directions on how to use the camera, but it didn't say how to upload them to the p.c..
well, i got tired, and went to bed. i left my pc on as usual, and when i woke up the screen was froze.
CTRL-ALT-DEL = restart.
when it came back up, i had errors everywhere. i had a C: promt, but i couldn't access any other drives, (D: for my CD-rom).
i didn't know to restart while hitting ctrl-f8 (maybe f5) and have it start up in some basic format. if i had done that i would still have all my orriginal files.
i don't remember exactly what i did next, but i finally got my restoration disk working, and used it (thats where i messed up)
right now i'm useing AOL.3.0, DIRECTX.2.0 and other VERY basic versions of needed software.
I only hace 16 COLORS!! i can view pics, but they suk!!.
..i see EXriders as a grid. it's like i'm looking through a screen door. if i look at pics,
i see basic colors. red yellow, green,blue,ect..anything other than what you would see on a color wheel, shows up as white/grey, with black outline.
(this site's "smileys don't show up. i see 5 yellow one's the green one, and the 2 red one's..see what i mean.purple doesn't show
i think i need a VIDEO DRIVER. for WINDOWS.98.
....if you have a win'98 systems disk. please help me.
Gateway computer (EV500 on the moniter)
came with 1.C.D.-ROM and 1.FLOPPY drive.
i don't think the video driver is on the system restoration disk, i talked with gateway, and they think that win'98 might have come with 2 microsoft windows c.d.s
i only have one. i don't know if you can copy the file, and send it to me through e-mail or not. i'm also not sure if "Microsoft" will allow this. (pirate protection i'd think)
i could go buy WIN'2000, but i don't have enugh RAM and it would end up costing me over $200 bux.
i'm happy with win'98. i just need that one file.
if you think you can help me fix this by loading some other file, let me know....this is horrible man, when i move my mouse across the screen, it blinks, disapears, and pops up somewhere unexpected.
i can't make my pointer land between these 2 lines | | . unless i get lucky. very annoying when trying to click links.
that's another thing....i can't load more than one page at a time.
if i clink a link in a thread, a page will try to load, but it never will. and i can't click the X to close the page, so i have to close aol completely, and log back on.
so if you need me to go to a page to download something, tpye the link, so i can write it down, close exriders, then open that page.
i'm really sorry this is so long guys, and i know this isn't the right place to find this info, but...i gatta do somethin.
if you have what i need, E-MAIL it to me, or tell me how to get it.
(microsoft doesn't sell Win'98' system disks any more.)
you can also pm me and ask whatever you need to know.
W1DE5PREADPANIC@AOL.COM
now back to our feature presentation
..my computer is dying. i think it's already dead..
..."see, what had happend was"
i went to wal-mart ,you see my mistake already, and bought a digital camera so i could take pics of my bike. the cam was $30 i forgot the name of it, but it was a small "pen cam". didn't have any features, but i could get my pics on the web. it came with 2 disks.
1 video somethin' or other. (for making short movies
1 picture somethin' or other.(for uploading pics
i took a few pics, and tried loading them to my pc. i put in the picture c.d. and started loading files.
it wassn't an easy step 1,2,3 process, i had to think,
humm..i wonder what this does,
upload that file, still couldn't get my pics uploaded,
then i'd go look for another file on the c.d. that might get the pics uploaded (i hope you understand that)
the cam came with directions on how to use the camera, but it didn't say how to upload them to the p.c..
well, i got tired, and went to bed. i left my pc on as usual, and when i woke up the screen was froze.
CTRL-ALT-DEL = restart.
when it came back up, i had errors everywhere. i had a C: promt, but i couldn't access any other drives, (D: for my CD-rom).
i didn't know to restart while hitting ctrl-f8 (maybe f5) and have it start up in some basic format. if i had done that i would still have all my orriginal files.
i don't remember exactly what i did next, but i finally got my restoration disk working, and used it (thats where i messed up)
right now i'm useing AOL.3.0, DIRECTX.2.0 and other VERY basic versions of needed software.
I only hace 16 COLORS!! i can view pics, but they suk!!.
..i see EXriders as a grid. it's like i'm looking through a screen door. if i look at pics,
i see basic colors. red yellow, green,blue,ect..anything other than what you would see on a color wheel, shows up as white/grey, with black outline.
(this site's "smileys don't show up. i see 5 yellow one's the green one, and the 2 red one's..see what i mean.purple doesn't show
i think i need a VIDEO DRIVER. for WINDOWS.98.
....if you have a win'98 systems disk. please help me.
Gateway computer (EV500 on the moniter)
came with 1.C.D.-ROM and 1.FLOPPY drive.
i don't think the video driver is on the system restoration disk, i talked with gateway, and they think that win'98 might have come with 2 microsoft windows c.d.s
i only have one. i don't know if you can copy the file, and send it to me through e-mail or not. i'm also not sure if "Microsoft" will allow this. (pirate protection i'd think)
i could go buy WIN'2000, but i don't have enugh RAM and it would end up costing me over $200 bux.
i'm happy with win'98. i just need that one file.
if you think you can help me fix this by loading some other file, let me know....this is horrible man, when i move my mouse across the screen, it blinks, disapears, and pops up somewhere unexpected.
i can't make my pointer land between these 2 lines | | . unless i get lucky. very annoying when trying to click links.
that's another thing....i can't load more than one page at a time.
if i clink a link in a thread, a page will try to load, but it never will. and i can't click the X to close the page, so i have to close aol completely, and log back on.
so if you need me to go to a page to download something, tpye the link, so i can write it down, close exriders, then open that page.
i'm really sorry this is so long guys, and i know this isn't the right place to find this info, but...i gatta do somethin.
if you have what i need, E-MAIL it to me, or tell me how to get it.
(microsoft doesn't sell Win'98' system disks any more.)
you can also pm me and ask whatever you need to know.
W1DE5PREADPANIC@AOL.COM
now back to our feature presentation