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Dr Birbals: do you get
this problem only in the case of audio CDs only or is it an every time
phenomenon. If this problem is specific to audio CDs, then you must first check
your sound card drivers and the compatibility of the player you are using to
play audio CDs. Regarding configuration of Yahoo! Account in the outlook
express, the procedure is simple. If this is your first account in outlook
express, then on starting outlook express it will automatically start
configuring an e-mail account for you, which could be your Yahoo! account also.
However, if you are using outlook express already and would like to set another
account i.e. Yahoo! Then you should add identity and start configuring the
account as normally you would do by the following simple steps. However, when
you are asked to enter the POP address, then use pop.mail.yahoo.com. In case of
SMTP address, please use the address smtp.mail.yahoo.com. Enter the user name,
which would be the first part of your yahoo e-mail ID. Then complete the rest of
the step and this will finish the configuration.
I have assembled computer
with Celeron 333MHz, Yamaha sound card, 32MB RAM and 4.3GB hard disk. I am using
window’98 as OS. My problem is that whenever I make a call to the USA, the voice
from the other side comes but my voice doesn’t go. What is the reason and how to
solve the problem? My vendor advised me to add another sound card to solve the
problem. Is it right? Guide me which card suitable for the same. I used Yahoo!
Messenger for making a call.
Dr Birbals: in your case
there is a good possibility that you are using a half-duplex sound card in your
system. In the half-duplex sound card, the sound travels in only one channel,
which means that if you are speaking then the sound of other person could not be
transmitted, unless you stop speaking. However, in case of full-duplex sound
cards, the sound travels in both channels, thus facilitating proper two-way
communication. Therefore you must check, if your sound card is half-duplex, then
you may need another full-duplex sound card, otherwise you do not need new sound
card.
I have p3 (550 MHz) 810
motherboard, assembled computer. My PC speaker 480 w of dolphin makes a noise
when I play a song, movie or any other program requiring sound output whether I
play song in winamp, media player or anywhere.
Dr. Birbals: since you
have not mentioned what kind of noise you are getting, so it is difficult to
pinpoint your problem. However, generally the problem of noise is associated
with the some kind of short-circuit or loose connection. So get your PC checked
for any such problem. Also please check the earthing of your electricity
connection, as improper earthing could also result in some kind of noise with
other problem in your PC.
I am having p3 550MHz
Intel processor with 810 Vinton motherboard, 20GB HDD, 52xCDD, Motorola 56 KBPS
modems with WIN ME as operating system. Recently I installed win 2000
professional but can’t be able to install the driver of modem. I tried
installing the driver from the original Motorola CD but got the message “your
driver may get clash with win 2000 version because the driver is not having
digital signatures.” Please guide me what should I do to install the driver of
the modem.
Dr. Birbals: digital
signature an encryption and decryption process allowing both the positive
identification of the author of an electronic message (who wrote the message)
and verification of integrity of the message. Since this is a modem security
measure, thus it has become a standard in modern operating system like windows
2000. There for you require drivers, which are compatible with windows 2000.
There could be a possibility that the driver you are trying to install is not
for windows 2000. Therefore in order to solve this problem, you should install
the version specific to Windows NT or windows 2000. However as far as Motorola
internal modems are connected, windows 2000 automatically detects it and install
the correct version of driver from its database and thus it does not require you
to install the driver manually. Thus, in light of this fact, it is better to let
the windows 2000 detect the correct driver and install the same.
Q. No.1
I want to know that what
do satellites in a PC speaker system do.
Q. No.2
Do they act as tweeters
or just normal speakers so that the sound comes from all around the room?
Q. No.3
I have a creative sound
blaster live sound card, it has support for satellites so I want to buy jetway
artis speakers (with 4 satellite and sub-woofer included).will the satellite
create Dolby surround sound or will they just sound as four speakers placed at
the vertices of the room?
Q. No.4
Is a 33.6kbps external
modem slower than a 56kbps internal modem?
Q. No.5
Does having more RAM in
your graphic card, mean better performance?
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Dr. Birbals: basically,
satellite nothing to do with PC speakers; it’s only the satellite speakers,
which are related to PC’s. The satellite speakers are magnetically shielded
speakers, which are meant for use with video monitors. It delivers powerful
audio playback from multiple piece system, normally three pieces. The use of
this technology brings about dramatic improvement normal speakers that come
bundled with your PC. They do not act as tweeters, however, but has its own
technology to improve the sound quality. It is not just limited to Dolby
surround sound, because it features are much advanced. Regarding your query for
modems. It is a matter of fact that the 56kbps modems are faster than the
33.6kbps modems. It is irrespective of the fact whether it is an external modems
or internal modem. However at places, where the downloading speed is very slow,
the difference between 56kbps modem and 33.6 modem will not be much. Regarding
your query related to higher video memory, it is indeed true that the higher
video memory means better performance.
I am using internet
connection from the VSNL. My problem is that while I am online, the telephone
automatically gets disconnected and I have to redial. Again after few minutes of
being online, I am disconnected. I have got two phone lines. This problem is
with one phone line while no such problem occurs with other phone line. Win’98
is my OS and my computer is p2 with 333MHz.
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Dr. Birbals: it is
clearly evident from your mail that the problem in your case lies in your
telephone line rather than your computer hardware. You must get your telephone
line checked for any kind of phone joints, cuts, and improper extensions.
Normally, it is happens because of these factors only. However, if you are
satisfied of these factors, then you may opt to change the line of your
telephone right from the nearest DOT point to your PC. I am sure these things
will help you in getting this problem corrected. However, in order to avoid too
frequent disconnection, you may also add the string S10=50 in the advanced
option in your modem configuration. But, this in itself will not be able to
solve your problem, if there is a defect in your telephone line.
I have Celeron 533with
1-0GB hard disk and 64 MB RAM. I have windows ME operating system. I have a
problem that when I want to connect to the net, my system hangs. Please tell me
how I can solve this problem.
Dr. Birbals: the problem
of system hanging could be due to several reasons; please write back at what
stage of connection dose your system hangs. Whether it hanging on dialing, or it
hangs while hard shaking with the ISP server or at the time of logging on to the
windows. This information would be essential to answer your question correctly.
I want to know how to get
m Yahoo! Mail in my outlook express. I entered pop.mail, yahoo.com as many
incoming server and smtp.mail.Yahoo.com as my outgoing server. When I press send
and receive I get “outgoing mail failed.” For incoming it asks me my password. I
entered it correctly 3 times yet could not get the mail.
Dr. Birbals: while
entering the pop and SMTP server please take care that it is enter correctly and
there are no space in it. In the setting of outlook express, you can save your
password, which will save you from the botheration of entering your password
again and will also not return this error. However, in case of sending mail
through outlook express using Yahoo! Services; it sometime gives this problem,
which is specific to Yahoo services only.
I have p3 computer. I
have a problem while working on net. Whenever I try to open any site, mantra
online opens as a default. Please tell me why does it open as a default and how
can I get of rid on it
Dr. Birbals: this is
actually not a problem and can be corrected easily by some simple changes in
your browser settings. If you are using internet explorer, then simply open the
internet explorer and check on the tool menu. Now click on the internet options
and in the home page address box, either choose site of your choice or choose
about blank. This will help you get rid of this problem. Similarly in case you
are using Netscape communicator, then to change the default page, click on edit
menu and then click preferences. In homepage location box, either enter the site
address of your choice or leave it blank. This simple measure will help you get
red of your problem.
I use my computer mostly
for audio-CAD work, which is precise; precious I store the whole data on my hard
disk. Other members of the family also use the same computer. From the safety
point of view, I want to have some reliable backup arrangement that can be
updated for additional work from time to time. At present there are about 2500
files that I want to store in the back-up also. Floppy disk are of low capacity,
CD drive requires CD-writer and is expensive. So kindly advise suitable mode for
backup.
Dr. Birbals: these days
the hard disks normally have a large capacity so the easiest solution is to
dedicate a specific partition of your hard disk for backing up your files. You
can protect them with password and can even hide it so that it is not accessible
to anybody. The second solution could be Zip drive, where you can keep your data
in large capacity floppies and can even carry them with you. This option is a
bit expensive, as you will have to additionally buy external Zip drive. However,
the option of CD-writer is the best as you can store a large amount of data on
your CD. Besides that the data on a CD is safest.
I have a p3, 667 MHz
(based 100 MHz SD RAM) with 64 RAM on HP pavilion. My operating system is
windowa’98 SE on 10.2 GB ultra DMA ATA 66 hard drive (about 7GB free space). I
have an internet connection from the BSNL. I face a problem--- the system
sometime freezes and then neither keyboard nor mouse work. I have to turn the
power off. Please guide me whether increasing RAM to 128 will solve my problem?
Dr. Birbals: you must run
scandisk first in thorough mode in order to check any problems in your hard
disk. if the scan disk does not work properly in windows, then you must run it
in DOS mode. If there is any problem, then scan disk will report about it.
Moreover, you must also check the result for any bad sector in your hard disk as
this could be one of the reasons for your problem. However, if everything is
reported fine by scan disk, then the needle of suspicion would go to motherboard
of your computer. This you will have to get checked from your hardware vendor.
Your problem has nothing to do with increasing the RAM and thus increasing it to
128 MB will not actually solve your problem.
I have p3 500MHz
processor, 64 MB RAM, win’98 SE internal modem (Motorola SM56PCI speakerphone).
Usually when I try to connect to the internet, I get an error 678 showing the
message “dialup network was unable to complete the connection. Double click the
connect icon to connect again” and after sometime I am able to connect. Somebody
told me that this problem is due to internal modem and if I use an external
modem, I may be able to connect the very first time. You have mentioned some
techniques to improve the modem. I tried to check my phone line using
HyperTerminal, but when I selected direct to com x in “connect to windows”, I
did not get the com x properties. I got a blank window instead. When I enter the
said terms (ATZ, AT&FDT ISP’s number) it dials using tone dialing that I don’t
have. So please tell me what to do with my internal modem to avoid that error
and also how I can check my telephone line using HyperTerminal.
Dr. Birbals: this is very
common confusion in the minds of many persons that the internal modems are not
efficient and gives error. However this is not correct. Though undoubtedly
external modems are better in terms of overall performance and ease of use yet
the internal modems give identical result as far as the net speed is concerned.
Whether it is internal modem or external modem, what is more important is chip
set of the modem. If the internal modem good chipset like Rockwell, then there
is no problem in it. The problem mentioned by you is not linked to the internet
modem and there could be many reasons for such kind of error. Now the technique
you are talking about is to check the line conditions and not the modem. So it
will really not help you in analysng your modem. However for a precise solution
to your problem, please write in detail including the message you get.
Whenever I start my
computer I get message: “NO ISDN devices were found. Please install an ISDN
device and run the configuration wizard”. I neither had ever installed nor wish
to install ISDN device. Kindly advise how to get rid on this message to avoid
clicking “OK” ach time.
Dr. Birbals: although for
solving your problem information about your operating system and system
configuration is necessary. However, it appears that while configuration your
internet connection, you had opted for ISDN connection. I think of because of
this reason you get the warning for ISDN device. As a solution of this problem
either remove the ISDN connection wizard or reconfigure your dial-up networking.
I have windows ME
installed on my computer. I want to configure my outlook express to get my mail
from my account on rediff.com but I don’t know how to configure. Please tell me
what to write in the incoming mail server and the outgoing mail server fields.
Dr. Birbals: rediff mail
is a web-based e-mail services, so its pop and SMTP server names are not
available. However, for configuring an e-mail account in your e-mail client, the
information about these two servers is quite essential. So, practically it is
difficult to configure rediff mail account in outlook express.
I have problem with
playing the VCDs. It hangs the system, then it play for 4 to 5 seconds and hang
again. The HDD and CD ROM drive’s LED glows continuously with full light when it
hangs. All other CDs (program and audio) run well. I tried everything I know. I
have installed right drivers for the device. My system is p200 MMX, 32 MB RAM,
cirrus 5446 VGA with 2MB RAM, creative CD ROM drive and OS is win’95.
Dr. Birbals: this problem
is normally occurs in case of low memory. So in order to get rid of this problem
you need to increase your memory if possible a better VGA card with higher VRAM.
Moreover, you also need to increase the size of the panging file size. Also you
should keep a good space on your hard disk free. So the first thing you should
try to do is free up some hard disk space. As a rule of thumb you should always
keep at least 10 percent of your hard disk capacity always free, though higher
is better. If this solves your problem, its well and good, else you would be
required to increase the memory.
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