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| 125526 | 2003-03-04 10:31:00 | It's me again, My friend has a Win 95, 75 mhz computer. I thought she might like a game I have but when we went to install it off the CD it said that it couldn't find file msvbm60.DLL I have looked on my computer at home & it is a system file. Can I copy mine for her although I have Win ME? You think that you are trying to help people & end up in even more of a pickle! Pauline. |
Pauline (641) | ||
| 125527 | 2003-03-04 10:47:00 | Hi Pauline, Yes, I know what you mean. I've been trying to help a friend upgrade her PC memory to 256MB and it's going from bad to worse ... the first module we tried would not 'see' more than 128MB ... also the second module :-( ... next we are going to take the PC into the shop (may have a motherboard problem). OK, that file is a MS Visual Basic runtime file used by programs written in Visual Basic. You can copy your file for her no problem, as they are not Windows version specific. |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 125528 | 2003-03-04 10:50:00 | Hi Pauline What your looking for is a MS Visual Basic runtime file. It might be ok to copy yours but to be safe download a fresh one from the Microsoft site you can read up on installation, required OS, etc, while there. search.support.microsoft.com do a seach here. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 125529 | 2003-03-04 21:45:00 | Rod Have you still got that problem? Have you tried swapping the RAM for the alternate type i.e if it has chips on one side only, swap it for the type with chips on both sides (or vice versa). I had this problem and yes, it was a motherboard problem, it couldn't address the more modern chip. I bought my RAM from DSE and they swapped it no trouble. Single- sided RAM has four chips on one side only and double-sided has four on each side making eight in all. I think that single sided is the more recent type.) Cheers Billy 8-{) PS Sorry to hijack your thread Pauline :8} |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 125530 | 2003-03-05 04:27:00 | That's OK Billy, I might have got that problem solved too. Will check it out tomorrow. It was installing the Xtra CD to get connected & it upgraded IE & OE. Thanks for the ideas though. Pauline. |
Pauline (641) | ||
| 125531 | 2003-03-05 10:41:00 | Hi Billy T, Yes, the machine still refuses to 'see' the full 256Mb. The first ram stick we tried had chips on both sides and the second one only had the chips on one side, but it didn't make any difference :( I thought the chips on both sides was the more recent sort though. Anyway, the man I got the second stick (single sided chips) from was certain that would work ... but no. He offered to sort it out if we bring the machine in to the shop, he thinks it's a motherboard fault. I'm pretty sure it will go to 256Mb with two 128Mb sticks because it saw 192Mb when I had the original 64Mb in the second slot and the second stick of 256Mb in the first ram slot. Hope that makes sense ;) Cheers, Rod. |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 125532 | 2003-03-05 20:06:00 | Yes it does Rod. It is probably one of thse peculiarities of some MBs that they are fussy about what they want to see in each slot. Some of these boards date to the times when 32MB was enormous and and 64MB astronomical. The designers never contemplated ram size increasing so far, or if they did, that prices would drop low enough to allow the average Joe (or Josephine) in the street to buy 128 or 256MB. :p. It could be helpful to others if you post the final solution. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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