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[FETCHER.]

^been done several times, I'm waiting on it running out of battery now. who knows how long that'll take.

[James]

Sigh just bought a webcam and it doesn't appear to work, I installed it but it still says that no webcam is detected. And when the hardware wizard comes up it says "The file usbccgp.sys on Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 is needed type the path type the path where the file is located and then click OK"
Any ideas?

[FETCHER.]

It comes up the first start up and allows me to go into f2&f12 then I could sit in them for as long as I wanted. The laptop isn't even a year old yet, it's about 9 months old.

[Freebase Dali]

Originally Posted by kayleigh.

It comes up the first start up and allows me to go into f2&f12 then I could sit in them for as long as I wanted. The laptop isn't even a year old yet, it's about 9 months old.

Go to your boot menu (f12 I'm assuming) and try to boot in safe mode.
If you can do that, re-start the computer, go back to the boot menu, choose "last known good configuration" and try to boot normally.
If it doesn't work, go back to the boot menu, boot back into safe mode and find out when your last system restore point was created.
If you don't know how, google it.
Once you find out... and hopefully there's a recent one, weigh the pros and cons of losing whatever you put on your computer between the time of the restore point and now, and make your decision.
If yes, go ahead and restore your computer to an earlier time (the last restore point, provided it's recent enough to not do much damage).
If no, come back here and ask me pretty please and I'll see about doing some research.

Originally Posted by james44754

Thanks but now it says "The file kstvtune.ax on Widows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 CD is needed.
Type the path where the file is located, and then click OK.

Ok, I'm starting to get the feeling that either your computer isn't updated or your webcam software isn't updated.
Go to the start menu and right click My Computer, go to Properties, and in the General tab... under System: tell me which service pack it says. 1, 2 or 3.

[FETCHER.]

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

Go to your boot menu (f12 I'm assuming) and try to boot in safe mode.
If you can do that, re-start the computer, go back to the boot menu, choose "last known good configuration" and try to boot normally.
If it doesn't work, go back to the boot menu, boot back into safe mode and find out when your last system restore point was created.
If you don't know how, google it.
Once you find out... and hopefully there's a recent one, weigh the pros and cons of losing whatever you put on your computer between the time of the restore point and now, and make your decision.
If yes, go ahead and restore your computer to an earlier time (the last restore point, provided it's recent enough to not do much damage).
If no, come back here and ask me pretty please and I'll see about doing some research.




Ok, I'm starting to get the feeling that either your computer isn't updated or your webcam software isn't updated.
Go to the start menu and right click My Computer, go to Properties, and in the General tab... under System: tell me which service pack it says. 1, 2 or 3.

In boot menu it says:

1. PCI BEV: P4-HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW CT10N
OR
5. SATA HDD: Hitachi HTS545050B9A

<enter setup>


What do i pick?

[Freebase Dali]

Originally Posted by kayleigh.

In boot menu it says:

1. PCI BEV: P4-HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW CT10N
OR
5. SATA HDD: Hitachi HTS545050B9A

<enter setup>


What do i pick?

hold on...
Ok you're not in the right place. You need to get to the boot options that lets you boot into safe mode. Most computers have a different key for this... it could be F6 though. Try hitting F6 repeatedly when you reboot. Just keep hitting it until you see a screen with SAFE MODE and some other options on it. If nothing happens, try F8, then F10. Or just try hitting them all at the same time.

[anticipation]

How do I extract mp3s from .rar files on a mac? I know it comes with an archiver tool, but I've only managed to unzip .zip files with it.

[noise]

Let me google that for you

[FETCHER.]

No DVD or cd in the drive anymore I thought that was the problem, and yeah so how do j reboot? You mean turn off and on yeah?

[Freebase Dali]

Or you could press ctrl+alt+del

btw, read above your post. I edited mine.