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Re: Reinstalling Windows

Steogede — Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:57 pm

Author: Steogede

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:57 pm

TheWizardofOdds wrote:

I've got some Wordpad documents on flash drive that have text and graphics. I can see the text no problem but the graphics won't load? I also have downloaded Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer and can see the graphics on the ppt files I have ok. When I double click on the Wordpad files it states ' Unable to load graphics conversion filter '.

Does this mean anything to anyone?

The error message means that some program cannot load some conversion filter. But that isn't much use if we don't know what application is giving the message (many include this precise error message) or even what OS you are doing this in (I'll assume windows). Are you using Wordpad to open the file? MS-Word, if so do you have the conversion pack installed? Are you using Libre/OpenOffice? If you right click on the file, do you have any other options under 'Open with..', do any work?

Re: Reinstalling Windows

TheWizardofOdds — Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:42 am

Author: TheWizardofOdds

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:42 am

I've got some Wordpad documents on flash drive that have text and graphics. I can see the text no problem but the graphics won't load? I also have downloaded Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer and can see the graphics on the ppt files I have ok. When I double click on the Wordpad files it states ' Unable to load graphics conversion filter '.

Does this mean anything to anyone?

Re: Reinstalling Windows

TheWizardofOdds — Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:36 pm

Author: TheWizardofOdds

Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:36 pm

Thanks for all the help I've received here. Job done!

It was far more trouble than it was worth of course. Now I can mysteriously play videos with 11.10. Which was part of the reason for installing Windows. In time I hope to be able to install iTunes and get my printer set up in Linux and I won't need Windows.

Cheers.

Re: Reinstalling Windows

Ram — Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:10 am

Author: Ram

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:10 am

What's the page you are trying to download from?

Re: Reinstalling Windows

TheWizardofOdds — Wed Nov 02, 2011 11:06 am

Author: TheWizardofOdds

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 11:06 am

Ram wrote:

To save it, right click and save as.

Save it to new / empty folder on an external drive or a flash drive.

Once saved you should be able to extract it from within Linux by right clicking it and selecting Extract Here, once done boot into XP and run the setup.exe file.

I've managed to source all the different drivers I need, I think.

When I go to the page for the Chipset drivers it has a Download button. If I right click that, there is a drop down menu, the type that has Bookmark this link, Save image as etc. It has Save Link As...is that the one I select? When I do, A window appears that has 'enter name of file to save to', it says confirmation.php and to the left has menu with Desktop, File system, 4GB Filesystem (flash drive), etc. It also has a Create Folder button to the right of the screen.

Am I getting warmer?

Re: Reinstalling Windows

TheWizardofOdds — Mon Oct 31, 2011 6:28 pm

Author: TheWizardofOdds

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 6:28 pm

Ram wrote:

Thanks Ram I'll have a go...

Re: Reinstalling Windows

Ram — Sun Oct 30, 2011 9:38 am

Author: Ram

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 9:38 am

To save it, right click and save as.

Save it to new / empty folder on an external drive or a flash drive.

Once saved you should be able to extract it from within Linux by right clicking it and selecting Extract Here, once done boot into XP and run the setup.exe file.

Re: Reinstalling Windows

TheWizardofOdds — Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:36 am

Author: TheWizardofOdds

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:36 am

Ram wrote:

What's the error you get ?

This is what I get when I open the file:

Archive: /home/david/Desktop/15.45_nforce_winxp32_international_whql.exe
[/home/david/Desktop/15.45_nforce_winxp32_international_whql.exe]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/david/Desktop/15.45_nforce_winxp32_international_whql.exe or
/home/david/Desktop/15.45_nforce_winxp32_international_whql.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/david/Desktop/15.45_nforce_winxp32_international_whql.exe.ZIP, period.

When it comes to downloading the drivers it just says save file. On the website it mentions unzip the file to an empty folder and then select setup.exe or something to install it. When I right click the downloaded file there aren't any options other than to open the file really and that is the message I get?

Re: Reinstalling Windows

wyliecoyoteuk — Sat Oct 29, 2011 8:49 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 8:49 pm

Ram wrote:

What's the error you get ?

The error is Windows of course.

Re: Reinstalling Windows

Ram — Sat Oct 29, 2011 10:53 am

Author: Ram

Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 10:53 am

What's the error you get ?

Re: Reinstalling Windows

TheWizardofOdds — Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:23 am

Author: TheWizardofOdds

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:23 am

According to the HP website my PC the Pavilion Slimline s3422 has an Irvine Motherboard. I've found some sites that have drivers, does this seem right?

WHQL-certified windows 7, vista, xp drivers for hp/foxconn irvine motherboard irvine-gl6e. Several game and application compatibility fixes. features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.
HELP: After downloading the file, unzip the drivers to an empty folder.
NOTE: Don't forget to install chipset driver first, before intalling any other driver.
To install the driver double-clicking the "setup.exe" file.

I've downloaded the files but it comes up with error when I try to open them, I don't know how to go about downloading them on to a flash drive and then on to XP? Any advice, please?

Re: Reinstalling Windows

TheWizardofOdds — Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:48 am

Author: TheWizardofOdds

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:48 am

Ram wrote:

You are duel booting this machine.

Run this from a a linux terminal

Code:

dmesg | grep 'Ethernet driver'

This should identify the model

I don't seem to be getting anywhere with that command, Ram?

Re: Reinstalling Windows

Ram — Thu Oct 27, 2011 7:42 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 7:42 pm

You are duel booting this machine.

Run this from a a linux terminal

Code:

dmesg | grep 'Ethernet driver'

This should identify the model

Re: Reinstalling Windows

TheWizardofOdds — Thu Oct 27, 2011 6:09 pm

Author: TheWizardofOdds

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 6:09 pm

How about this?

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Or is it Horseschitt?

I got the Motherboard info from the HP website I think it's a Realtek number. Would this do the trick?

Re: Reinstalling Windows

TheWizardofOdds — Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:47 pm

Author: TheWizardofOdds

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:47 pm

Ram wrote:

TheWizardofOdds wrote:

I clicked on the Windows activation bubble and went through the process and this time I have activated Windows successfully. I still cannot access the Internet. This is the message I receive:

Windows could not detect any wired or wireless network cards installed on your machine, please make sure the network card drivers are installed properly.

Also if I have a dial-up connection to contact my ISP provider.

Is it a problem with Drivers?

Yes, by default XP does not have any drivers for network cards.
If you have a driver disk for the card use that to install the drivers or while in linux download them from the cards makers site, save then to a location that XP can access.

I don't have any disks that came with the PC when I bought it (Lesson learned).

According to the seller it is a LAN card that I need. I went to Maplin's and
spoke to a helpful employee who said that I should download drivers for the motherboard for my PC and save to a pen drive then upload to XP. I use an HP PC which came with Vista can you get drivers for a retro distro like XP?( Not on the HP website, only Vista n 7).

Goddamn this is stretching my tiny mind.

How do I find out what motherboard is in my PC?

Thanks.