Kruiz 136 Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 For 2 or 3 weeks now I have been having problems with my PC and have had to revert to my old PC (which I am using now) but i has been in storage for about 5 years an is o slow even to play online Ukdirt. I'm getting annoyed about missing out on my racing now and have tried every I know to fix my problem with my PC and I really want to get my decent PC running again. I as hoping now tht mybe some of the more techical minded people on here could help me bcause at the moment I have had to leave it to my Dad to fix and we are getting nowhere lol. The problem is this, my Dad took AOL off the PC, then put it back (not sure why) but it seems that the PC didn't like it. It looks like the AOL program installed properly until you click 'sign in' and the welcome page says 'page cannot be displayed'. This is the ame for any website that you attempt to type in the web browser. It seems that there is no connection a all but the e-mail system still works, strangely. Thats the first problem. The second one is, and I think they might e linked, is that I now have no sound at all, either from media player, or in game music or even that annoying 'welcome to AOL' and 'you have email' voice. When I investigated that b going to Start > System > 'Hardware' tab > Device Manager > then scroll down to 'Sound, video and ame controllers' one of the Devices entitled 'Mulimedia Audio Controller Properties' has a mall exclamation mark in a yellow box next to it. When I clicked on this it says 'The driver for this device are not installed, to reinstall this device, click Reinstall driver'. So thats what i did. Then it says that file 'a3d.dll' is needed. But when doing a search it appears that there are already a3d.dll fils on my PC, but lots of them. Are these problems linked? More importantly can anyone help me please because I just don't know what to do without completely reformatng the PC. Thanks Kruiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikard Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 Once everything is backed up, you could try doing a Search for anything AOL or AOL related, and delete every last trace of it off your system. AOL is notorious for being hard to deleat and got ride of. Once you've done that, restart and try again. But only start messing with the program files once you've backed everything up, then if that doesn't work, re-formatting is a sure fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Tried doing a system restore to a before it happened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruiz 136 Posted March 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 (edited) Tried doing a system restore to a before it happened Tried that mate, didn't work. I will try what you said Rikard, thanks. After talking with my dad, he recons theres about 30 files in a folder called i386 that are corrupted Edited March 27, 2007 by Kruiz 136 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin379 Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 For the sound problem maybe try clicking on the logo I have circled in the picture and change the settings around a bit, hope this helps.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruiz 136 Posted March 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 For the sound problem maybe try clicking on the logo I have circled in the picture and change the settings around a bit, hope this helps.... I don't have that icon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martwisely Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 For the sound problem maybe try clicking on the logo I have circled in the picture and change the settings around a bit, hope this helps.... I don't have that icon. U should Every Computer has :S click on the little arrow and it should show if not then make sure u have not ended it throught the processes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikard Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 I don't have that speaker icon Go into Control panel, sound options. Yours may look slightly different, but play around with the options and make sure nothing has been muted or turned down. [attachmentid=14654] If you still can't hear anything try a hearing aid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martwisely Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 (edited) I don't have that speaker icon Go into Control panel, sound options. Yours may look slightly different, but play around with the options and make sure nothing has been muted or turned down. [attachmentid=14654] If you still can't hear anything try a hearing aid! to get it showin in the taskbar click on place volume icon in the taskbar Edited March 27, 2007 by martwisely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruiz 136 Posted March 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 (edited) If you still can't hear anything try a hearing aid! Sorted now Seriously though, everything is turned up to full volume and have messed about with numerous things and all seems to be fine, but no sound. Edited March 28, 2007 by Kruiz 136 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F2-Fan Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 It might be a stupid suggestion but you have checked that your speakers are still plugged in haven't you??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruiz 136 Posted April 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 It might be a stupid suggestion but you have checked that your speakers are still plugged in haven't you??? lol, yeah they were plugged in Sorted the problem with the sound now, it was a corrupt file a3d.dll that i managed to replace. Howver, I still haven't really got any further with my connection problem, anyone got any idea's about that? Thanks Kruiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 Heres a program that you can use to adjust and test uor internet connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 Heres a program that you can use to adjust and test your internet connection. I have uploaded it to Filefront just download the file and save it to ur desktop den extract it to desktop and run it. http://files.filefront.com/TCPOptimizerrar...;/fileinfo.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruiz 136 Posted April 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 I cant m8, I havn't got a connection to download it on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F2-Fan Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 If you haven't got a connection to download it on then how come you have just posted. Can't you download it wherever you have posted from put it on a disc then onto the duff machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruiz 136 Posted April 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 I'm using my old PC, but its so rubbish I cant even play Nascar Heat on it. I have just found my usb transfer cable so I could now transfer the file, but when I click 'Download Now', It come up with an error message 'Internet Explorer could not doenload this file. The page that contains the info may be currently down' or something like that anyway lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F2-Fan Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Seems to be working ok through firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 this may be a bad idea but y not try to re-format it... it will delete apbsoloutely everything olff the computer then u can upload the bits that u want/need to play and do work etc etc. i did that with my old dell and it runs faster now cos it got rid of all the junk i had... try it but it may take a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 this may be a bad idea but y not try to re-format it... it will delete apbsoloutely everything olff the computer then u can upload the bits that u want/need to play and do work etc etc. i did that with my old dell and it runs faster now cos it got rid of all the junk i had... try it but it may take a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruiz 136 Posted April 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 (edited) this may be a bad idea but y not try to re-format it... it will delete apbsoloutely everything olff the computer then u can upload the bits that u want/need to play and do work etc etc. i did that with my old dell and it runs faster now cos it got rid of all the junk i had... try it but it may take a while Thats what i'm going to do but I have so much stuff that I need to keep it will cost me fortune in disks etc. so just wondering if there was another easier (and cheaper ) way. Edit: Still can't seem to download it off filefront, any chance someone could post it up here or in a pm? Thanks Kruiz Edited April 6, 2007 by Kruiz 136 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sim_902 Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Ive just sort of flicked through this thread, are you still having the problems with AOL connecting? Not sure if this will work, but its worth a shot go to your control panel, then add remove programmes, look in the list that appears for the AOL Installer thingy, click on Remove/Change, then there should be an option to 'Repair the Connoctivity Service' its a while from ive done this, so the exact locations may not be correct, it also depends on the version of AOL you run, but its worth a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruiz 136 Posted April 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Ive just sort of flicked through this thread, are you still having the problems with AOL connecting? Not sure if this will work, but its worth a shot go to your control panel, then add remove programmes, look in the list that appears for the AOL Installer thingy, click on Remove/Change, then there should be an option to 'Repair the Connoctivity Service' its a while from ive done this, so the exact locations may not be correct, it also depends on the version of AOL you run, but its worth a shot. Hi Sim,Yes I am still having problems with AOL connecting, but I've not though of that, I will give it a go a bit later when I swap the connection leads back over to the broke computer. Thanks, Kruiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 I tried uploading to here it says file extension not allowed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruiz 136 Posted April 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 I tried uploading to here it says file extension not allowed It needs to be in a zip file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 I did i zipped it up using winrar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruiz 136 Posted April 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 I did i zipped it up using winrar It needs to be zipped using winzip I think for future reference. It doesn't really matter now, but thanks anyway. I have fixed problem by formatting the Computer, as I had to race tonight in the team meetings and couldn't wait any longer. Thanks to everyone who tried help. Cheers Kruiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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