Where's the "Any" key? New Tech Support Thread

[elpollodiablo]

Seconded! I was having exactly that problem this week.

[diesel_powered]

Yeah, turns out I'm a little too careful about saving duplicates from projects.

[diesel_powered]

So I installed Snow Leopard on my laptop. Thus far everything is smooth and snappy, but I haven't tried opening legacy software yet.

[diesel_powered]

And it looks like CS2 and Ableton both work perfectly so far. I haven't really taxed either, but they all open and they open other files, so all is well.

[ellaguru]

Hey, so my desktop has lost the internet, but it is still accessible in my local network (from my laptop, wired via cable and modem). The laptop can still get out fine. Anybody know what I oughtta be checking?

[diesel_powered]

Sounds like your DNS settings may have gone to poo. In OSX, you go to the little "advanced" button on whichever network adapter you're using, click the "DNS" tab and delete whichever servers are there. Hit "apply" and your computer will go to the router and be all "Hey dude, where's the DNS server?" and the router will be like "Dude, it's totally __________ " and then you'll be able to find websites again.

I have no idea how to do it in Windows.

[ellaguru]

Tragically, I have to do it in Windows.

Thanks, though.

[YojimboMonkey]

well to renew your DHCP settings in Windows you'd open a command prompt and type IPCONFIG /RENEW (or to be more thorough, IPCONFIG /RELEASE and then IPCONFIG /RENEW).  But a simple reboot would also solve that problem and chances are you've already tried it.

Sometimes TCP/IP gets fucked and its settings need to be reset.  To do that from a command prompt, the command would be something like NETSH INTERFACE IP RESET and then depending on the operating system version you might need to add a path for the reset process to generate a log file, like C:\RESETLOG.TXT.  This command would be followed by a reboot.

There are a number of other things that could be wrong too, and I don't even know if you are working with Windows.  Physical factors, sounds like you're using a wired network?  You might try swapping cables out, or sometimes even reseating the cables will work.  

dunno, try d_p's thing if you're on a mac, or try my stuff if you're on Windows, and if that doesn't work give some more detail & we'll see what we can do

[diesel_powered]

One more Snow Leopard burp while I'm thinking about it: I have a pair of USB drives set up as a mirrored RAID for Time Machine and now Snow Leopard kernel panics whenever I plug them in. According to the various support boards, I need to boot in to safe mode, retrieve my data, and then redo the RAID under Snow Leopard. But thus far, that's been the only major incompatibility. Otherwise, it's been a great success. Go Apple.

[ellaguru]

well to renew your DHCP settings in Windows you'd open a command prompt and type IPCONFIG /RENEW (or to be more thorough, IPCONFIG /RELEASE and then IPCONFIG /RENEW).  But a simple reboot would also solve that problem and chances are you've already tried it.

Sometimes TCP/IP gets fucked and its settings need to be reset.  To do that from a command prompt, the command would be something like NETSH INTERFACE IP RESET and then depending on the operating system version you might need to add a path for the reset process to generate a log file, like C:\RESETLOG.TXT.  This command would be followed by a reboot.

There are a number of other things that could be wrong too, and I don't even know if you are working with Windows.  Physical factors, sounds like you're using a wired network?  You might try swapping cables out, or sometimes even reseating the cables will work.  

dunno, try d_p's thing if you're on a mac, or try my stuff if you're on Windows, and if that doesn't work give some more detail & we'll see what we can do

This by itself NETSH INTERFACE IP RESET gave me a response about poor syntax. This NETSH INTERFACE IP RESET C:\RESETLOG.TXT all on one line like that didn't help.

The computer is dual boot XP and Vista, and will connect on neither. It's a wired connection, and I have switched the wire for the non-connecting desktop and the connecting laptop, and the laptop still connects and the desktop still doesn't. So it's not the modem and it's not the cables. And as I say, the local connection between the laptop and the desktop, which goes through the same modem and same cables, works just fine. What else should I be telling you?

[elpollodiablo]

There is something going on with my Macbook and it's driving me insane: casual browsing is killing my browsers over and over again, with no apparent cause. Chrome, Safari, and Firefox have been freezing routinely all morning when visiting sites like Kotaku, NY Times, Talking Points Memo, Gamespot, etc.
Any suggestions? I've rebooted, and it didn't seem to help. I've never experienced this on a Mac.

[coldforge]

It's usually flash. If you install click to flash, or flashblock, that'll probably stop.

[elpollodiablo]

Will give it a shot, thanks.

[YojimboMonkey]

well to renew your DHCP settings in Windows you'd open a command prompt and type IPCONFIG /RENEW (or to be more thorough, IPCONFIG /RELEASE and then IPCONFIG /RENEW).  But a simple reboot would also solve that problem and chances are you've already tried it.

Sometimes TCP/IP gets fucked and its settings need to be reset.  To do that from a command prompt, the command would be something like NETSH INTERFACE IP RESET and then depending on the operating system version you might need to add a path for the reset process to generate a log file, like C:\RESETLOG.TXT.  This command would be followed by a reboot.

There are a number of other things that could be wrong too, and I don't even know if you are working with Windows.  Physical factors, sounds like you're using a wired network?  You might try swapping cables out, or sometimes even reseating the cables will work.  

dunno, try d_p's thing if you're on a mac, or try my stuff if you're on Windows, and if that doesn't work give some more detail & we'll see what we can do

This by itself NETSH INTERFACE IP RESET gave me a response about poor syntax. This NETSH INTERFACE IP RESET C:\RESETLOG.TXT all on one line like that didn't help.

The computer is dual boot XP and Vista, and will connect on neither. It's a wired connection, and I have switched the wire for the non-connecting desktop and the connecting laptop, and the laptop still connects and the desktop still doesn't. So it's not the modem and it's not the cables. And as I say, the local connection between the laptop and the desktop, which goes through the same modem and same cables, works just fine. What else should I be telling you?

if it's dual-boot and it happens in both OSes that means we should look at things that are common to both OSes, the adapter itself, the wire, the switch, the computer's BIOS.  If you type IPCONFIG from a command prompt, do you get a response that includes Local Area Connection?  The port on the switch that it connects to (sounds like it's a switch built into a cable or DSL modem), does it show a light on the port that this computer connects to? Is the network interface built into the motherboard or is it on a PCI card?  If you look in the Device Manager (You can find it under Computer Management, which is in the Administrative Tools that you can access either from your Start menu or under the Control Panel) under Network Adapters, does the icon representing your wired network adapter indicate an issue?

[ellaguru]

<< If you type IPCONFIG from a command prompt, do you get a response that includes Local Area Connection?>>

Yes, under Local Area Connection I get values for Connection-specific DNS Suffix, IP Affess, Subnet Mask and Default Gateway.

<<The port on the switch that it connects to (sounds like it's a switch built into a cable or DSL modem), does it show a light on the port that this computer connects to?>>

It's a D-Link router and a modem. I have tried that computer with three different cables going into three different connections in the router, with no luck on any, and have successfully connected the laptop using each of the same three cables.

Is the network interface built into the motherboard or is it on a PCI card? >>

Built in.

<<If you look in the Device Manager (You can find it under Computer Management, which is in the Administrative Tools that you can access either from your Start menu or under the Control Panel) under Network Adapters, does the icon representing your wired network adapter indicate an issue?>>

No, no indicators.

EDIT: if I bypass the router, though, the connection works, so it is a router issue of some sort.

[diesel_powered]

Although I don't really have much advice on this particular situation, I've had plenty of troublesome experiences with D-link.

[jess]

It's usually flash. If you install click to flash, or flashblock, that'll probably stop.

Yep, I had that problem for a while, installed click to flash, and am now browsing very quickly, with no crashing, and am enabling flash only when I actually care to use it. As a result, I'm also becoming increasingly aware of the ridiculous amount of unnecessary flash use out there. I get it for some things/purposes, but sometimes it's a really clunky way to do something that could be just as easily done with html/CSS.

I also ran a Disk Repair before I did that, which found and fixed a ridiculous amount of permissions within Safari and Flash, so you may want to do that as well once you've installed Click to Flash. Just repairing the permissions wasn't enough for me though, although it did seem to help a bit.

[coldforge]

It is a little perverse to be using an entire non-flash page, scroll down to the bottom and see the little flash icon, and realize they are loading an entire flash runtime just to render two roundrecs on the bottom of a text box.

[diesel_powered]

Am I weird for never having problems with Flash?

[elpollodiablo]

Why is it taking my Macbook ~2 hours to transfer a 7GB file from a flash drive? That seems incorrect.

[Good Intentions]

God fucking damn Windows Vista has slowed down to a crawl for no bloody reason. I think the last auto-patch broke it. I feel my brief flirtation with a legitimate copy of this dysfunctional hegemonic dynasty of OSes coming to an end.

[Good Intentions]

Fucking hell, I've got 4GB of RAM and now this goddamned machine can't play a FLAC file and browse the internet at the same time. I feel an itch in my 'internet piracy' finger.

[jm]

some of us got a whole hand for that

[Good Intentions]

I've been trying to cut down, and gave this 'running a legit version of an MS OS' thing a go in the first time ever (our old family PC ran MS DOS 3.1 off of a box of copied floppies). The machine I bought came with a legit copy of Vista loaded. Fat lot of good that did me.

[coldforge]

GI, you of all people? I thought you were a Linuxnik.