[CTS] Re: Task bar help...
- From: "Tina" <chapman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 13:51:52 -0600
ROFLMAO! I was really tempted to do that at one point!!
I finally figured out the problem... sorta. In the device manager it was
showing the new video card and the old onboard graphics stuff. I disabled the
old one, rebooted, and the task bar was there. The old one now has a red X
next to it.. but I'm not gonna stress over that right now. Tyler is
reinstalling his game, we'll see what happens from there.
What a PITA it's been and this all started *before* I had my first cuppa coffee
in me this morning. Maybe that was the problem.. do nothing until first pot is
consumed!
Thanks for the link, couldn't find what I needed there, but I'm keeping the
link to the main site for future reference.
Tee :)
----- Original Message -----
From: Cuffy
To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:31 PM
Subject: [CTS] Re: Task bar help...
Might I suggest ........ "FDISK" ?
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From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tina
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:59 AM
To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [CTS] Task bar help...
Got a problem with a fairly new computer. Got it last Christmas for hubby, but
it's barely been used. Tyler wanted to install Flight Simulator 3 and the
install went well but said video card wasn't compatible. It was onboard video
and sound. So I put a new video card (NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420) and sound card
in it, and over-rode the onboard for those devices. All worked fine.
Everything picked up nicely and shows in the device manager as working
correctly.
Next, the game came up and the first error message was gone and replaced with,
"CFS3 Configuration Override file outdated", so I bounced over here to my
computer (only computer that has internet connection) went to Google and got to
this site
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;331562 followed that to
here, http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs3/downloads.asp downloaded the new
direct x.. etc., put it on disk, but before I put it on the other computer I
noticed that the task bar wasn't coming up (on other computer). Can't activate
it with the mouse or with the windows key. Rebooted. Nada. Uninstalled CS3.
Rebooted. Nada.. no task bar. I was able to get to the properties and it shows
that the taskbar *should* be showing. But.. it's not.
Any idea? I have uninstalled the game and I have not put the updated stuff
that I got from the above site (and put on disk) on to the computer yet.
Below is the specs on the computer I'm having problems with. (Please no slams
as to the brand, or the CPU unless it's pertinent to the problem. It's a
computer that is used by someone [or not used as the case may be] that doesn't
know much about computers, nor does he need a high end computer.)
TIA,
Tee
Windows XP Home
SP 1
Compaq Presario
Celeron CPU
2.53 GHz
248 MB Ram
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