Official "Computer Troubles" Thread

[charly]

Hey guys. I have an outlook problem. my mom has 3 accounts in Outlook 2012 and for some reason if she gets an email it puts it in all 3 inboxes. This is annoying because she has to sort out the mail in all 3 inboxes and she gets a huge amount of emails a day. Anyone knows what the problem is? She just wants a central place to view all emails.

[Gammaray]

You probably mean Outlook 2010 or 2013.
All the accounts must use the same existing PST file, then it will keep the emails in a combined Inbox. And it must be POP accounts, not IMAP.
I can't recall if you can do it after the accounts are created, or only upon account creation.

[charly]

Whoops. My bad. I meant 2013. Hmm , gonna try tinker a bit

[Wesley]

he is running win vista 32bit sercice pack 2.ive disabled the unesasary stuff from startup and he hasnt installed any new software.
he doesnt have an antivirus.
also this only started happening yesterday,hes been using the pc for 4 years

Four years, huh? We'll need to know more about the hardware, but for the moment run Memtest86. Download the installer for the flash drive and run the test on a reboot, booting from the flash drive. I've also seen some power supplies interfere with the shutdown process, but we'll get to figuring that out later.

[Ebrahim Ali]

hi wesley
im confident its not the psu as I tried 3 different ones.im going to try a malware scan and see what happens.
regarding this memtest86,what is that gonna do exactly?

[Ebrahim Ali]

ok wesley ill give it a shot when I get home from work.
his hardware specs are
230w psu
foxconn mobo lga 775
intel dual core 2140 cpu 1.70 ghz
1.5gb ram
nvidia 8300gs
and a ntwork card

[Wesley]

hi wesley
im confident its not the psu as I tried 3 different ones.im going to try a malware scan and see what happens.
regarding this memtest86,what is that gonna do exactly?

Memtest stresses and tests your RAm to make sure none of the modules or chips are faulty. Faulty RAM can actually take quite a while to start really acting up. Whenever I was building up a computer when I worked in retail I ran Memtest and booted Linux off a flash disk to make sure everything was working properly before I put it into a chassis with a hard drive and installed Windows.

ok wesley ill give it a shot when I get home from work.
his hardware specs are
230w psu
foxconn mobo lga 775
intel dual core 2140 cpu 1.70 ghz
1.5gb ram
nvidia 8300gs
and a ntwork card

Well, knowing Foxconn boards, its possible that the board might be defective. Also try working without the GPU if you have onboard graphics on the board. If not, just swap the 8400GS out with another card and give it a run. Why do you have a network card in there as well? Try strip out as much hardware as possible to find the culprit.

[Ashton :P]

Whoops. My bad. I meant 2013. Hmm , gonna try tinker a bit

Hey guys. Hmmmmm, I seem to be having similar problems. Gonna try call my PC guy

[Almost A Hero]

Hi, all

I recently bought a Sapphire 7850, and have been loving it, but over the past week I've been experiencing some worrying signs.

When I turn on the computer, the screen doesn't come on for the first couple of times. Then, it will come on, but there's a high likelihood that there'll be odd lines through the display; almost like static graphical glitches. Finally, the computer will boot with zero problems and - as long as I leave the thing on - it'll all remain hunky dory.

I'm going to try some hardware configurations (on-board graphics and my old graphics card), but I thought I'd ask if anyone has experience with this so I can identify the problem ASAP. My power supply is 550W, and I thought perhaps that might be what's giving out, but I can't be sure.

I've always got great advice from this thread and it's normally spot-on, so you have my thanks and appreciation in advance.

[Apelgrandure]

I would look into whatever cable you are using to connect your screen to the graphics card as a starting point to fixing the problem. It could be faulty. I had a HDMI cable that would randomly turn my screen off, I got it replaced and everything's been running smooth ever since. If its not that then it could be quite a list of things including : Your screen, graphics card, Power supply or Motherboard (PCI express slot could be damaged). Don't fret though, its likely something simple and not devastating. Good luck!

[Toxxyc]

What happens when the PC is on and completely booted, you turn of the screen and turn it on again after a while?

[charly]

Hey guys. I'm having a lan at my house and I want to play music on iTunes to my speakers. I only want that going to the speakers, the rest of the sounds (Game, notifications etc.) I want to go to my headset. Is there a way to do this? I have my headphones in the front jack and my speaker in the back jack.

[Gammaray]

To all HTML fundies, lend me your brains. I'm playing around with some basic HTML signatures for email, and the text part is driving me nuts. I'm trying to minimise the line spacing between text. I've sent a test email to my Gmail account and it looks exactly like I want to, but after sending it to my Hotmail account, or Exchange account, the line spacing is totally ignored.

Double you tee eff gaiz? *Please note I hate programming

I get that HTML is displayed differently from various clients, but surely there must be something I can do?

[Squirly]

You can try using Shift + Enter in order to designate a new line instead of just Enter. Unless I'm horribly misunderstanding what you want.