Computer help

[mjb]

Hmmm this is the entire contents of that file as a hex dump (128 bytes).

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00000000  55 83 09 65 56 c1 09 65  59 00 09 65 59 c5 09 65  |U..eV..eY..eY..e|
00000010  45 62 09 65 50 80 09 65  52 e1 09 65 54 22 09 65  |Eb.eP..eR..eT".e|
00000020  55 a7 09 65 55 05 09 65  21 c7 08 40 02 01 08 52  |[email protected]|
00000030  24 c2 08 88 30 23 08 88  09 84 07 41 09 e4 07 91  |$...0#.....A....|
00000040  18 25 08 19 31 a1 08 34  1a 02 08 40 21 80 08 40  |.%..1..4...@!..@|
00000050  20 a7 4f 47 1c 2d 21 de  33 c5 33 f7 35 1b a5 92  | .OG.-!.3.3.5...|
00000060  1c c7 20 83 23 41 7b c2  d4 64 58 a4 00 56 04 19  |.. .#A{..dX..V..|
00000070  fc 3c 20 13 21 00 00 00  00 01 00 00 ff ff 00 00  |.< .!...........|

I don't know what to make of it, it doesn't make much sense. It's certainly not executable by any CPU architecture I can think of - definitely not a PC program! If anything I'd guess it'd be data for some sort of patching algorithm (although I can't see any sensible pattern to suggest that)- or perhaps it's just plain old corrupt or for a strange program/specialist device.

Sorry I can't offer any more help on it - I really didn't expect it to be so small...


As for Vista, I've been playing with it for about a year and a half now and it stinks. It's impossible to get it to do 'plain and simple' like you can with XP, it's dog slow to do anything and its configuration stuff is hidden behind several layers of confusing crap. At least the UAC crap is easy enough to disable... I do like its task manager, resource manager and i/o scheduler though. Those are nice, but the rest of it stinks. I really really really wish they'd backport DirectX10 to XP

[Pyros6546]

well i can help sorry have been away for a bit
ok lets start although .bin files are commonly
assosiated with .cue files that is not always
the case .bin files are also used when you
want to upgrade a bios whether its the
mainboard, cd/dvd drives, video cards
but to upgrade you need to have the software.
without the software you can't upgrade the
bios, i take it this file didn't come with
any software. in which case i would
get in touch with the person you bought
it off and find out if he has a program
that will allow you to run the bin file.

[jameslxdt]

bugger, well thanks anyway mjb, ill just have to find some other software