Thanks for the input. That was pretty much my take on it as well.

The drivers are a standard AC97 set of drivers.
I can't find any mods or anything out of the ordinary.

It's system wide as it...

I still don't understand why you're trying to slam me for telling the truth?

As for uhh... scamming?? LOL How can I scam anyone if I don't tell them who I work for? LOL

I'm here to give GOOD...

I'm still looking for an answer as to why my work pc plays all media a bit too
quickly??
Is it actually possible to overclock a soundcard? I don't have any likely
explanation as to why everything...

In an earlier post I stated that I did not wish to recieve PM's regarding
questions of what company I work for.

Here is a snippet of what I recieved for sticking to my guns and NOT
giving out my...

Ok. I've been using computers for 23 years, even have a small
computer repair service that I run on the side but I have NEVER
run across this particular circumstance before.

All my media plays...

I'm sorry, I'm someone who's ethical, has integrity and tells the truth all the time, so
Again... please don't PM me to ask what company I work for and NO I personally
do NOT do any seo. I work...

Yes.. Hiring an seo expert is probably a bad idea. Hiring a firm would be a better
idea if your company depends on seo traffic.

The article definitely points out some of the shadier practices in...

Really? What were you doing that violated their TOS?

I know it's still possible because there ARE seo's that are using illegal methods...
heard about one the other day where half of the guy's...

They offer the links for free so that you'll stay and buy their tools.
You'll find that out after you read through the obligitory "seo companies
will get you blacklisted" crap.

This is a prime...

Backlinks with anchor text brings up a good point... the seo service you choose
should have a large number of clients for this very thing. The best backlink
you can have is to another site THAT...

Everyone goes through this and it's a natural reaction.
Once you use Firefox for a bit and get used to all the really nice features it has...
you'll start wondering why you ever put up with IE in...

Can anyone think of anything I might have left out?

I've been a computer tech for several years now and have become familiar with
a huge variety of user types. You're right on the money Catweazle, hate to say it but yeah... right on the money.
...

I work for a large SEO company.

There are a few things you should look for and a few things you should avoid
when you're looking to hire a company to do "seo" for you.

1) Never pay more than...

Did it run ok before?
Is it a new machine that's never been plugged in?
Were you overclocking it, perhaps?
Did it get knocked over?

Right off the bat I'd have to say it sounds like the CPU...

Try uninstalling Norton... I've had crappy results with their
system suites since M$ switched to Win95. Cruddy piece of
shite... only in the last few years have they made computers
that are...

ask him what heatsink/fan combo it uses hehehehehehehe

Anyone else use AVG from http://www.grisoft.com ?
It's what I've been using lately.. the free version seems
to work fairly well. (YMMV)

Sounds more like a spyware problem to me...

and you don't have access to another drive
Shrink the partition size with partition magic or
another partition program that handles NTFS volumes.

Shrink it small enough so that the empty space...

Go here --> http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/newstore/wkst_eval_login.jsp
To register for a 30 day evaluation number
Then go Here ---> http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/newstore/download_login.jsp...

The only NEW computers I have are the ones I build for other people. Heh

Excuse me!?

Unless you're pirating M$ software you ARE paying for it.

Or did M$ put their windoze up for free download when I wasn't looking?

If you had win95 running in VMware you could
probably add that drive to it's configuration
and share the files that way....

Awful long workaround, though, VMware does have
trial downloads I...

There's got to be something else missing, as that
didn't work when it arrived up there....
The main differences in the network is the machine sharing
the folder is win2k and it's connected to the...

Well... that laptop went up to get connected with it's
server again (several hundred miles away from me).

I had added the server to it's c:\i386\hosts file
and set the ip on the server to the...

Look for double entries of your hardware....

If you see two entries (such as the same cdrom listed twice)
remove them BOTH! (otherwise windows will just re-install
the second one)
Double check...

Exactly the information I want for when I get a chance
to fool around with that stuff!!

THanks :)

I don't think I would rate myself qualified to
do that and still have it reliable :)

I've run into 2 motherboards in the last month that had
bad capacitors on them (Bulging, Leaking or both) that
was causing wierd power problems, and startup problems.

I heard about this one on...

Operating System?
format? FAT32, NTFS, Ext2?

If the destination drive is almost anything but NTFS,
A knoppix cd http://knoppix.net will allow you to copy
them.

The new drive may have a...

The system has been degrading in performance over time
(as I've been told)
Lately it won't boot or takes a long time to boot, yet
I've watched it also do a perfect boot into Knoppix.

The odd...

Try the Live CD-based Distro called
KNOPPIX
http://www.knoppix.net
You'll have to download the ISO image
and burn it to a cd.
Leave it in the cd-rom drive and re-boot
your computer. Play around...

knoppix.net :)
If it boots up right, it'll install right.
Most modern hardware takes only 20 minutes and ALL the
configuration has been done for you.
I personally recommend the 6/3/03 iso (I...

I do 90% of my web-browsing (and 100% of my posting)
from one of my workstations running Knoppix.

www.knoppix.net is an english
language based website for knoppix documentation
and information....

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

I use it to pull data from my ext2fs filesystem
while in 98se
YMMV

One word. APACHE
Yes.. it runs on Windoze also.

I ran as root exclusively for about 6 years...

Nowdays I have the hardware to just
"startx -- :1" as root if I need a gui
90% of the time I just use the command line.

If you're running 95 or 98....
Make sure you boot up into safe mode
and remove all references to the old hardware
in the device manager.
Also uninstall any software programs that
are specific to...

Get a promise ultra 133 controller and a new Harddrive.
Also max out the ram on the motherboard. (probably somewhere
around 512-768MB is standard on those)

If you want to upgrade the...

It's bogging down some systems more than the slammer did.

Everyone else has only pointed me to
"You cannot disable simple file sharing under XP Home"
While that information is concise (though I'm still a firm
believer there's a fix for it short of...