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I am trying to design a webpage for a company and I need, if you can send me, the code for finding the most visited pages(links) in my webpage. Thank you! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.31.127.100 ( talk • contribs) 08:00, 4 July 2007.
Last night I had problems with the detection of drives during post that I can not attribute to one specific part of the system. This morning everything started without a glitch, but now I'm afraid to shut down my computer (tonight) if I don't know what the cause was because I couldn't start an operating system last night, so any tips in the next 10 hours would be very welcome. I installed a new motherboard last week, so I suspect the problem to lie there.
The first problem was that post didn't 'see' the hard disk on which my two current operating systems (Suse 10.2 and WinXP Pro) reside. First I tried another IDE cable, but that didn't help. Then I disconnected the two sata drives, in case the 6 drives were drawing too much power, but that didn't help either. Then I tried swapping to the other IDE channel, but still no luck. So the problem is to do neither with the cable nor with the channel.
When I disconnected the other drive on the same same channel the 'main' drive (still master) was recognised, but when I tried to boot the system, what started was the grub of a previous installation (don't remember on which drive).
Luckily, this selection contained a reference to a previous Suse installation on the same partition as the current one, so I tried that, but that didn't work either. I doubt if this last problem is related to the first, first because it seems more os- or boot-related, while the former is to do with the hardware or bios and also because I've had a similar problem over a year ago, possibly with the same Suse-installation (or was it grub-related, I now wonder).
channel 0 master | dvd-drive | dvd | 160 | 250 | |
channel 0 slave | 120 | 120 | 250 | - | - |
channel 1 master | 160 | dvd | dvd | dvd | |
channel 1 slave | 250 | - | 120 | 120 | 120 |
- means no drive attached there |
The table to the right shows an overview of the various combinations I tried. I named the hd's after their capacity in GB.
Some additional notes:
When only one of the two drives (160 or 250) is connected to the cable, post is very slow, taking about a minute, while normally it takes only about 10 seconds.
I changed the jumpers where needed, so that's not it.
The detection problems were fairly consistent, but not entirely. At one point all 4 drives were detected, but behind the 250 drive appeared some 'garbled' info, that is, I couldn't make heads or tails of it and then it was gone. I only remember seeing several zeroes.
Oh, there was one glitch during boot this morning - floppy disk fail. That was new, but at least it didn't affect the rest of the boot.
Any thoughts?
DirkvdM 08:58, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Update: I 'accidentally' restarted the system and all drives were detected again and the system booted, albeit through the old grub, as I described above. Why doesn't the new grub start? I believe I saw during installation that it was installed on a different drive, which is weird. Also, I don't see how these problems could be related, but if they pop up at the same time that would be too big a coincidence, wouldn't it? DirkvdM 12:07, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
I think I've found the solution. Like I said, I had checked all the connections and cables, but I missed one. Power. The two drives that had problems alternatingly were both on the same cable. So I used another and the problem (which had resurfaced) was gone. What gave it away was that the drives were cold and I know that a drive with the IDE cable disconnected but the power cable still connected still gets hot. This one didn't. So I hope I've solved it now. 80.126.178.133 17:19, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
What is the name of the instant messanger which uses some of the structure of internet forums?
Does anybody know:
Does simply having a searchterm in my domain name automatically increase my google ranking?
Example: if my domain name is www.widgets2go.com and people search for "widgets" does my site automatically get a high ranking?
Rfwoolf 13:45, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
see also Talk:Xbox 360 # 7GB or 8.5GB DVD Capacity
The xbox360 article currently states that the capacity for games of the xbox360 dvd drive is only 7GB despite it being a dual layer (12x) dvd-rom drive - which should mean 8.5 GB.
Can this info be in error, as the 1.5gb difference seems difficult to explain. Or is there an explanation anyone could give ?(preferably no guesses)
There seems to be a website that claims 7gb but without explanation - can someone set me (us) strait on this thanks. 213.249.232.111 21:14, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
I want to play music from my sat receiver or tape player through my computer. I have plugged the L/R output leads into the inputs for my Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card. However, I can hear exactly zilch! I have set every volume control I can find to max and tried every imaginable setting for my audio card through control panel-sounds and audio devices to no avail. Any thoughts would be most welcome, please. TerriersFan 23:37, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
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I am trying to design a webpage for a company and I need, if you can send me, the code for finding the most visited pages(links) in my webpage. Thank you! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.31.127.100 ( talk • contribs) 08:00, 4 July 2007.
Last night I had problems with the detection of drives during post that I can not attribute to one specific part of the system. This morning everything started without a glitch, but now I'm afraid to shut down my computer (tonight) if I don't know what the cause was because I couldn't start an operating system last night, so any tips in the next 10 hours would be very welcome. I installed a new motherboard last week, so I suspect the problem to lie there.
The first problem was that post didn't 'see' the hard disk on which my two current operating systems (Suse 10.2 and WinXP Pro) reside. First I tried another IDE cable, but that didn't help. Then I disconnected the two sata drives, in case the 6 drives were drawing too much power, but that didn't help either. Then I tried swapping to the other IDE channel, but still no luck. So the problem is to do neither with the cable nor with the channel.
When I disconnected the other drive on the same same channel the 'main' drive (still master) was recognised, but when I tried to boot the system, what started was the grub of a previous installation (don't remember on which drive).
Luckily, this selection contained a reference to a previous Suse installation on the same partition as the current one, so I tried that, but that didn't work either. I doubt if this last problem is related to the first, first because it seems more os- or boot-related, while the former is to do with the hardware or bios and also because I've had a similar problem over a year ago, possibly with the same Suse-installation (or was it grub-related, I now wonder).
channel 0 master | dvd-drive | dvd | 160 | 250 | |
channel 0 slave | 120 | 120 | 250 | - | - |
channel 1 master | 160 | dvd | dvd | dvd | |
channel 1 slave | 250 | - | 120 | 120 | 120 |
- means no drive attached there |
The table to the right shows an overview of the various combinations I tried. I named the hd's after their capacity in GB.
Some additional notes:
When only one of the two drives (160 or 250) is connected to the cable, post is very slow, taking about a minute, while normally it takes only about 10 seconds.
I changed the jumpers where needed, so that's not it.
The detection problems were fairly consistent, but not entirely. At one point all 4 drives were detected, but behind the 250 drive appeared some 'garbled' info, that is, I couldn't make heads or tails of it and then it was gone. I only remember seeing several zeroes.
Oh, there was one glitch during boot this morning - floppy disk fail. That was new, but at least it didn't affect the rest of the boot.
Any thoughts?
DirkvdM 08:58, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Update: I 'accidentally' restarted the system and all drives were detected again and the system booted, albeit through the old grub, as I described above. Why doesn't the new grub start? I believe I saw during installation that it was installed on a different drive, which is weird. Also, I don't see how these problems could be related, but if they pop up at the same time that would be too big a coincidence, wouldn't it? DirkvdM 12:07, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
I think I've found the solution. Like I said, I had checked all the connections and cables, but I missed one. Power. The two drives that had problems alternatingly were both on the same cable. So I used another and the problem (which had resurfaced) was gone. What gave it away was that the drives were cold and I know that a drive with the IDE cable disconnected but the power cable still connected still gets hot. This one didn't. So I hope I've solved it now. 80.126.178.133 17:19, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
What is the name of the instant messanger which uses some of the structure of internet forums?
Does anybody know:
Does simply having a searchterm in my domain name automatically increase my google ranking?
Example: if my domain name is www.widgets2go.com and people search for "widgets" does my site automatically get a high ranking?
Rfwoolf 13:45, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
see also Talk:Xbox 360 # 7GB or 8.5GB DVD Capacity
The xbox360 article currently states that the capacity for games of the xbox360 dvd drive is only 7GB despite it being a dual layer (12x) dvd-rom drive - which should mean 8.5 GB.
Can this info be in error, as the 1.5gb difference seems difficult to explain. Or is there an explanation anyone could give ?(preferably no guesses)
There seems to be a website that claims 7gb but without explanation - can someone set me (us) strait on this thanks. 213.249.232.111 21:14, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
I want to play music from my sat receiver or tape player through my computer. I have plugged the L/R output leads into the inputs for my Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card. However, I can hear exactly zilch! I have set every volume control I can find to max and tried every imaginable setting for my audio card through control panel-sounds and audio devices to no avail. Any thoughts would be most welcome, please. TerriersFan 23:37, 4 July 2007 (UTC)