The please Help me, I am an idiot and know nothing about tech! Thread — Page 3

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Hey this may seem like a stupid question coming from someone who builds his own computers and it may be a little off topic but this is the first time it has come up for me and I figured that someone here may be able to help.

Does anyone here know of a floppy drive that will work with Windows 7?  I don't care if it's internal or external, I found a box a while ago filled with old floppy disk that have some old stories I worked on back in the day and I have program to convert them so Open office will be able to read them but so far all of the USB floppy drives I have tried just will not be read by Windows 7 and that is the only computer I have at the moment.

If you know of a floppy drive that will work with W7 and could point me in it's direction I would be grateful.

Thank you for your time.

 Windows 7 does not have floppy support, instal a virtual machine with Windows XP or below, a 4GB HDD and 512 MB of RAM should do it for the VM.

DrCrowTStarwars said:

I have an audible account and I buy one book a month from them and it is a great value, there is just one problem I can't listen to them when I am away from my computer in my bedroom because I can't stream and my iPod died.  I can download them just fine but that is it.

I have tried googleing ways to remove the compy protection so I can move them onto my generic MP3 player but nothing that came up on the search seems to work.  I know this is a long shot but I was wondering if anyone here had ever had to remove the copy protection from a audible file and if so how you did it.

Thank you for your time.

 I worked on audible a few years ago and you can't remove the protection (or maybe you can but is a pain) but there is a list of ''supported playback devices'', some of them are cheap MP3 players so that is your best bet.

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Okay, thanks a bunch.

Both of those were hugely helpful.

Audible was fine until my iPod died and now I don't have the money to replace it.

Thanks again.

Here is the list of compatible devices, there is a drop down list on top that will let you select the brand of the mp3 player
http://www.audible.com/dc

You can buy a cheap used one and keep it as audible only device/Backup MP3. I had the GoGear spark but the 4gb version and it worked very well.

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Wow, that's great!

Thanks.

Hugely helpful.

I love audible because for what I used to pay for Netflix I can get anything from a Great Courses lecture series, to one of the Hornblower books each month.  it is a great value I just hate being tied to my computer to use it.

Thanks a bunch.

 Yes it has the biggest audio library collection I've ever seen, enjoy :)

Sonic.exe *rimshot*

Maybe Sleipnir 4 and Media Monkey can't run together? Maybe the combination (or something else) causes the computer to use a nonsense resolution? Just giving suggestions

Not to sound too dramatic here, but that looks to me like a graphics card failure. Is that a laptop? Mine looked similar to that (worse, actually) when the gpu fried. It got so hot it desoldered itself from the motherboard.

RicOlie_2 said:

Does anyone know what sort of error would cause my computer screen to look like this?:

I'm on Windows 7; only Sleipnir 4 and Media Monkey were open (both times it happened, anyway). The computer didn't shut down afterwards, but was completely unresponsive, so I had to use the power button. This is the first and second time it's happened.

Most likely is the driver you installed (almost sure actually), I suggest doing a system restore and there shroud be one created just before the driver installation. Is not the screen but it could be the GPU bot for what you described it sounds like a driver issue.

Which graphic card do you have?

-Remove any AMD/Catalyst driver installed in your machine and reboot.
-Download this file*, install it and reboot.
-Profit

* www2.ati.com/drivers/amd-catalyst-omega-14.12-with-dotnet45-win7-64bit.exe

I'm assuming you have a 64 bit edition of Windows.

RicOlie_2 said:

I did something else (can't remember exactly what) and my computer hasn't crashed in a couple days. If it crashes again, I'll try what you suggest, but hopefully I won't have to....

 Great! At least now you have an option if it happens again, let's hope you don't need to try it out

Possessed said:

I can't get anything google related to load properly on any of the computers connected to my network, and even on my PS3.  I recently switched routers and network names, but anything else besides google is working fine, better than before in fact.  But youtube won't play the videos, gmail gets stuck on the loading screen (Sometimes if I refresh it like... 15 times it will eventually load), google search will come up with an error and not load at all, and I'm sure the others aren't working as well.  It's only google sites that are doing this, everything else is working fine.

 Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and/or 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers and try again, those are google public DNS servers so it may solve the issue.