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[dascoot]

Originally posted by Scythe@Dec 12 2005, 04:36 PM
this will probably sound silly (and perhaps, god forbid, insulting)
but....speakers usually have their own adaptor....is it plugged in?

Yeah that's what I'm saying, everything's plugged in. They were working, I got up to wrap some presents, I sat back down and they weren't working. Didn't touch a thing. And my resident techy is gone for the week.

 

[Donutos]

blow a fuse?

 

[dascoot]

Maybe. *lookin at em* I don't think they have fuses though. Ahh well, Santy can bring me new ones.

 

[Donutos]

a fuse in your house/apartment i meant. i only ask cuz at my parents' house there are fuses that only effect a wall or two.

 

[dascoot]

Ohh.. no they don't plug into the wall.

 

[Scythe]

hmm....so if you press the power button of your speakers, you dont even get the little light?

lets see

- adapter plugged in
- other end of adapter plugged into your speakers....

thats it... try plugging something else (something not valuable) in instead of the speakers, see if it works

if not, you dont have power....

if it is, your speakers are dead

 

[dascoot]

There's no adapter, it's just a wire that runs from the speaker into the CPU. There's no power button, it's a knob that I have turned all the way up so I can adjust the volume on my keyboard. There is a little green power light that is always on, even when the comp is off. The light is off. I'm assuming I've cooked the speakers but I was just hoping there was some last resort thing I could do to either jump start its heart or at least figure out what happened to kill em. I usually reserve my stupid questions for my husband but he's not here so there ya have it.

 

[Scythe]

:lol: youre so adorable

 

[dascoot]

:leela: :wub:

 

[Scythe]

Originally posted by Scythe@Dec 12 2005, 11:36 PM
anyway, ravi, nother question:
i have a gamepad , plugged into my gameport....but setting it up with winxp is kinda hard...i can only choose a 4-button one, and mine has 12 :huh: (abc, xyz, r1 r2 l1 l2 select and start)

i know the pc recognises these cuz if i set it to 4-button i can use like, both r1 and r2 and A to use button 1, so my pc knows the buttons are there... its a creative cobra, so no, there are no xp drivers in existence. <_<

anyway, is there a way to enable game controls to allow more than 4 buttons in a custom game controller? just wondering

im not bumping....


....

.....

......

..... yea i am

 

[Bloodlessr]

Couldn't you just map the controls to the right buttons in the game you are trying to play? My friend has a Xbox big controller we modified with a usb end and it works fine and there aren't any drivers for it.

 

[Scythe]

if windows thinks its a 4-button gamepad im pretty sure any games i play will think that very same thing

what id need here is a way to set more than 4 buttons in 'custom game controller'

 

[Bloodlessr]

I don't know windows didn't even recognize the xbox one and it worked so...

 

[Scythe]

OK OK RAVI READ THIS

ok so i did a wipe, and i now have windows with updates

so i bought me a dvd writer, and its great! ....except for the trifle matter that it doesnt work. windows doesnt even see it. no new hardware balloon, no listing in device manager, nothing.
the funny part is, it DOES work in safe mode (dont you just love windows?)

anyway, im stomped
i know the slave/master settings are ok, and its connected correctly, so my guess is... i have no idea

 

[cultclassic]

Have you looked into the Disk Manager? (Under Admin Tools/Computer Management)
Try running the DevCon uutility.

 

[Scythe]

Originally posted by cultclassic@Jan 3 2006, 12:20 AM
Have you looked into the Disk Manager? (Under Admin Tools/Computer Management)
Try running the DevCon uutility.

nothing

disk management doesnt show the writer, and that devcon doesnt really do anything does it? i get a flash of what looks like command prompt, but thatsz it

 

[cultclassic]

Originally posted by Scythe@Jan 2 2006, 05:42 PM
disk management doesnt show the writer, and that devcon doesnt really do anything does it? i get a flash of what looks like command prompt, but thatsz it

DevCon is a command line utility.

if you run devcon without any options it will print out all the options. That's what you are seeing when you run it from windows.

Open up a command prompt and run it from there. For example,
to find new devices, try:

devcon rescan

 

[cultclassic]

devcon help will print aout all options and commands.


BTW, did you manually force search for new devices?

 

[Scythe]

Originally posted by cultclassic+Jan 3 2006, 12:51 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (cultclassic @ Jan 3 2006, 12:51 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Scythe@Jan 2 2006, 05:42 PM
disk management doesnt show the writer, and that devcon doesnt really do anything does it? i get a flash of what looks like command prompt, but thatsz it

DevCon is a command line utility.

if you run devcon without any options it will print out all the options. That's what you are seeing when you run it from windows.

Open up a command prompt and run it from there. For example,
to find new devices, try:

devcon rescan [/b][/quote]
still nothing

force search...how do i do that? doesnt say in help

oh i should mention thought: even thought windows doesnt see it, i can still open/close the device by pressing the button, but after i scan for new hardware through windows, or if i do devcon rescan, the button stops responding too

 

[cultclassic]

Originally posted by Scythe@Jan 2 2006, 06:03 PM
force search...how do i do that? doesnt say in help

after i scan for new hardware through windows,

That's what I meant...
Did devcon return any error code?

Okay Try these:

If you have the driver disks from the manufacturer look for the .inf file which has the driver, try

devcon install <filename>.inf

Also go to the manufacutrers website and look for new firmeware. Try installing that from safe mode...