Yahoo Messenger 7....problems

starkers

Join Date 05/2004

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Yahoo Messenger 7....problems

system goes into safe mode

My wife has friends with whom she keeps in touch on yahoo messenger, which is all well and good....if ever she can get me out of WC long enough

Seriously though, we downloaded the most recent version, as recommended, but when it's installed our system goes into safe mode, making it rather difficult to read anything on the screen. We have tried uninstalling and reinstalling without success, with no response from yahoo in days now, and wonder if anyone here has any ideas as to resolving this issue. We have tried links to previous versions but all take us to the most recent one, so that is not an option, and there are no prior system restore points available.

Any help will be greatly appreciated as my wife would like to contact or be contacted by a couple of friends who use the service......and thanks in advance

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I'm intrigued with your drive setup.....unless you tell me different, I'll assume all programs are loaded to the C:\ partition. The multimedia devices not showing correctly in Device Manager makes me think it's an onboard chip that's enabled in the bios (disable it if you're not going to use it). That leads me to the next question; when you changed the SATA to a secondary, did you change anything in the bios to reflect the new boot sequence? When you cleaned, you didn't happen to pull the memory out, did you?

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yrag....yep, all proggies are on C:\. The mutimedia controllers in Device Manager have been disabled....to do with a TV tuner card I've not gotten around to reinstalling properly yet

To save me the hassle, I took the box in and my techie put the IDE in and assigned it to primary boot, SATA to secondary....the SATA HD was reformatted prior to that and had no drivers installed.

When I cleaned, nothing internal was removed, just the side panels to gain access to blow out dust deposits with a can of compressed air.

You know, it'd really piss me off to go through this process of elimination and find nothing wrong, only then to receive a message from yahoo to say that they've re-engineered it for me cos I used the webcam to moon somebody who was rude to me

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I have the same problem with the new AIM so you know what I did? Downloaded Trillian which took care of all the little Messenger quirky probs.

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Well, then prepare yourself to be pissed off.....excluding Yahoo, your drive set-up as well as all your hardware and software is running and running correctly. The HP software for that 1200 series is known to be buggy as hell and has been revised several times without much success. If you un-install whatever HP software you presently have then try just updating the drivers through the Device Manager (you may have to try several times before it takes). Hell, Windows may install them for you when you plug it in. Once the drivers are installed all functions will work....just without the eye candy.

......and that leaves us with Yahoo (in this case 'without'). Having said the above, it is clear ypager is evil and should be avoided until the smoke clears and we get a better sense from other users what problems they're having.

......soooooooooo......hand your wife a phone.....

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starkers

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Oh well, yahoo messenger is out for the time being, then.....as for the phone, a second-hand pushbike would be cheaper in the long run...she can go visit instead

Wow, this could work out real well for me....more time on the puter to myself without the evil eye.....less reason for in-laws to visit

Picturing her on a bike cracks me up though....better put training wheels on to begin with

As for the HP situation, I'll see if they have anything on the website that may help....in any event, I'll reinstall later, hopefully with the eye candy for convenience. Now where's that praying to the heavens emoticon that would be so fitting here?

I sleep now...errands to do later....guts for garters if unproductive due to lack of snooze....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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