Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

[Genocidicbunny]

Lately I have been getting issues in regards to imageshack and Images loading slowly. Are there any alternative imagehosting sites that can handle 2MBs of PNG files without automatically compressing them into JPEG files?

Others have suggested Imgur, but I found out that it just converts and compresses my PNG files into JPEG.

I havent had any problem with this. I uploaded some png screenshots earlier today and I got them out at full-size and they were still png's.

 

[Dachs]

Yeah, imgur didn't compress any of my PNGs either.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I accidentally saved about 200,000 screencaps from a video. Now my system locks up every time I try to delete them. How do I get rid of the darn things?

 

[civ_king]

I accidentally saved about 200,000 screencaps from a video. Now my system locks up every time I try to delete them. How do I get rid of the darn things?

What??? How???

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

What??? How???

Avidemux. You load it in and take a selection and Save > Selection as JPEGs. Its good for making animations. But I forgot to make a selection first and accidentally saved every frame of the video.

Its 29.95 fps (round it to 30 if you want). Do the math yourself

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I'd try deleting them from a cmd prompt.

 

[Turner]

Or in chunks.

Or do a Start -> CMD -> Format c:, that does wonders.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

I accidentally saved about 200,000 screencaps from a video. Now my system locks up every time I try to delete them. How do I get rid of the darn things?

Are you moving them to the recycle bin or actually straight deleting them?

The former may very well make your system seemingly lock up, but the latter should go through just fine. My pc's had no problems with a shift-delete of the temp folder, which in my case was slightly over 500,000 files.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Yeah, they all have similiar names so I should be able to get it from a command prompt.

It locked up whenever I tried to open the folder I think to do with thumbnail generation. Problem is, theres other images in the folder I dont want to delete, so deleting the whole folder wont work too much.

As for format C... they're actually on the data partition

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The networking teacher showed us this video. How the heck does a router save rainforests.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOcAlD8XsSY

 

[Cutlass]

Yeah, they all have similiar names so I should be able to get it from a command prompt.

It locked up whenever I tried to open the folder I think to do with thumbnail generation. Problem is, theres other images in the folder I dont want to delete, so deleting the whole folder wont work too much.

As for format C... they're actually on the data partition

Select a couple 100, delete, and again and again.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well explorer.exe hanged every time I tried to open the folder. I did manage to get rid of them with the command prompt though

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Step 1: get a good shell like FAR Manager
Step 2: navigate to folder
Step 3: select all
Step 4: delete

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I bought 2 gigs of RAM today.

Windows XP Pro (32-bit) is only reporting 1.00GB of RAM but also has "Physical Address Extension" written underneath.

PC Wizard 2008 reports that there is 2.00GB of RAM on the chip though.

Is this normal? Have I got 1.00GB or RAM or 2.00GB? Confused.

Do I have to do anything in the BIOS?

Is it possible to use my old 512MB of RAM as well in the 2nd slot? PC just beeped when I tried plugging it in with both RAM chips mounted.

It's DDR2 RAM if that makes any difference.

EDIT: Hmm, after much googling it seems the problem could be my motherboard... only supporting 1GB per slot? Dunno how to find out if this is true...

 

[Turner]

It's probably only reading the first gig. I've never tried to put more memory in that the slot supports, so I don't know how it works. But that's what it sounds like to me. How old is your motherboard? Check on Crucial.com for your motherboard, it should tell you how many slots it has and how high it will go.

 

[illram]

Hello all; question:

I have an ASUS P5-BE motherboard that I bought in 2008. It is a LGA775 mobo with an ICH8R southbridge. It's listed as supporting one PCI-e x16 and one PCI-e x1. (Plus 3 vanilla PCI)

I want to upgrade my video card and all the good ones are PCI-e 2.0 or 2.1. ASUS manual and tech specs are not helpful.

According to the Intel ICH8 documentation, which I read a while ago, (so this is from memory) PCIe x16 is basically PCI-e 1.0 or 1.1, and PCI-e 2.0 is compatible with 1.x (but 2.1 is not.) Therefore am I correct in thinking that a PCI-e 2.0 card will work with this mobo?

THANKS!

 

[Genocidicbunny]

It will work fine but it will only run at half-bandwidth per lane. So a high-end PCIe2 GPU will end up using all 16 PCIe1.1 lanes that you have, whereas on a PCIe2 motherboard it would only use 8 of the lanes. This isnt really an issue though unless you have a very high-end GPU.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I like my mouse but its wearing out and the buttons not clicking so well and sometimes I have to click several times. Is there anything I can do other than get a new one. I dont see any way to take it apart.

 

[Mathalamus]

you'd have to buy a new one. mice are supposed to be semi-expendable anyways.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Yeah. Its just that I like the one I have.

If they are semi-expendable why do you see special expensive "gaming mouses." Whats the difference.

Oh and I just took off a little sticker on the bottom that was falling off and I found a small screw there. The sticker must have been a warranty sticker but the mouse is past warranty anyways. All the text must have been rubbed off.