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Cursorcowboy, you're a genius! Just two more things...

Apr 15, 2004 11:43AM PDT

Thank you so much. In my message "help, help, help with everything", you gave me a link to download the Intel graphics driver I needed. It's working great, but if I put the settings on small fonts, they're too little, and if I put it on large fonts, I have to scroll back and forth to read the web pages. Any ideas about that? Oh, and my sound, do you know how I can get my Soundmax Integrated Digital Audio back? I thought I downloaded that the other day, but it didn't take. I can't find it anywhere. After I downloaded it, I kept getting message boxes before windows opened that it couldn't find the Creative Interface Manager, or something like that, and it was going to install the driver, but it never could find one. I appreciate any help, but if not, thank you so much for what you've already done.

Elaine

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Re:Cursorcowboy, you're a genius! Just two more things...
Apr 15, 2004 10:02PM PDT

Thanks.

1. It's working great, but if I put the settings on small fonts, they're too little, and if I put it on large fonts, I have to scroll back and forth to read the web pages. Any ideas about that?

Question is, "I don't know where or why you're setting fonts." Wouldn't you actually go into the display properties and select a suitable resolution, say 1024x768 or 800x600?

2. Oh, and my sound, do you know how I can get my Soundmax Integrated Digital Audio back?

Find and install the appropriate drivers from "SoundMAX" would be the source in my opinion.

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Re:Re:Cursorcowboy, you're a genius! Just two more things...
Apr 16, 2004 6:33AM PDT

Thank you, the screen settings are perfect now. I downloaded SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio, but I can't install it because I keep getting a message box that says it can't locate setup.exe. Why would that be and how can I locate it?

Thanks,
Elaine

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Good question?
Apr 16, 2004 8:52AM PDT
I downloaded SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio, but I can't install it because I keep getting a message box that says it can't locate setup.exe.

One I don't know, but I'd assume the question would go to your supporter for the device you own. Ask those who issue the drivers at the site.

Sorry.
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Re:Good question?
Apr 16, 2004 9:46AM PDT

It may have been a compressed or zip file that extracts the installation files (including setup.exe) and puts them into a directory from which you might have to tell the installer where it is. Use the find utility and with advanced look for files called setup.exe on your hard drive that were created on the date you did the download.

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Re:Re:Good question?
Apr 16, 2004 2:32PM PDT

Thanks,jconner, I did what you suggested and I found the setup.exe file, but I got a message box that said there was a registry error and I should reboot. I did that, but it didn't change anything. Is there any way to fix that problem?

Thanks,
Elaine

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''Errors''!
Apr 16, 2004 10:06PM PDT

1. It is aways preferable that error messages be reported just as they were displayed on a user's monitor.

2. The article [Q323786] provides general troubleshooting steps to isolate problems that are related to video adapter drivers or video subsystems concerning symptoms of display problems as follows:

Computer fails (general protection faults or invalid page faults)
Computer stops responding (hangs)
Printing problems
Unexpected mouse behavior
Unexpected colors
Screen redraw problems

3. Check for conflicts in "Device Manager". In some cases, a hardware conflict may manifest itself as a video problem.

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Re:''Errors''!
Apr 18, 2004 12:39PM PDT

The message was just what I said, "Registry error! Please reboot computer". I did not go to the article you suggested because my graphics problem has been corrected with the driver you pointed me to. The driver I downloaded is SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio, but cannot get it installed because there is apparently a registry problem. Please remember this is the "newbies" forum. I do not know how to recognize a hardware conflict when I see one.

Thanks,
Elaine

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Re:Re:Re:Cursorcowboy, you're a genius! Just two more things...
Apr 18, 2004 9:46PM PDT
I do not know how to recognize a hardware conflict when I see one.

Please read the reference #3 I gave you last -- the reason is that it explains what and how conflicts are identified in "Device Manager".