My friend presented with this PC problem (really it's not me). His machine (Win XP Pro) is popping up with error messages prompting him to shut down about every 3-4 hours, saying something about...

Chip on seated properly?

I assume one of them is a laptop?

I'm thinking crossover cable....

All Done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Got the nvidia and SB drivers!

Still having trouble getting the 3Com 3C920 driver. Seems that it's for Win2K not Win98. Hmmmmm......

That Everest software is amazing!!

My 3 major problems:
1. Network card: 3Com 3C920 Integrated Fast Ethernet COntroller
2. Audio: Creative SB PCI128
3. Video: nVidia RIVA TNT2 M64

On with...

Yes, it's Dimension 8100.

That's another dumb thing about the Dell site I don't understand. The box comes with a Service Tag number, and theoretically I punch it in on the site and they should know exactly what I have in the...

Thanks for your help. I've already searched through their big box of CDs for drivers, since they don't know what they have, and there is no motherboard driver CD. It's a secondhand Dell box, so they...

I'm in a lot of trouble now. My neighbor's PC was acting really really slow, couldn't open this and that and AV had conflict, etc. So I volunteered myself to be Mr. Fix-it and took the PC home, wiped...

Can someone recommend a good, free registry cleaner software for me? I've used one in the past but can't remember the name, but it was too aggressive and messed up my PC a bit. I think that's how I...

I run on a D-Link wireless router with a built-in basic firewall as well as a software Norton firewall. It works well for me.

Nope. Created new user account and still doesn't work. :(

WTH????? :evil:

I'm totally leaning towards reformating, not looking forward to it though. :(

Yeah, I can get the Properties of everything else. Just the Display properties seems to be locked out. No error message or anything, just inaccessible.

I run Ad-Aware every week, so that's not it.

I will try creating a new account though. It makes sense since I've been using this account since the last format, maybe a year ago....

Oops. Just tried it (on home PC where the problem is) and clicked all the way down to ...CurrentVersion\Policies.....no System folder. Nothing related to display anywhere....

I'm sure you have multiple programs running in the background that kicks in periodically during the defrag. When that happens defrag waits for it, then starts over. That's why it never ends.

Close...

I agree. I also upgraded from ME to XP (a long time ago) and no doubt I wiped the drive and did a clean install. Plus, you want to use this opportunity to back up your files anyway (and junk the ones...

OMG....I didn't think anyone would even respond let alone know anything about it......thank you sooooo much http://www.finheaven.com/boardvb2/images/smilies5/hail.gif

I've had good luck with Paint Shop Pro 7 for photos and Fireworks for graphics. Have also used Photoshop but for simple, quick and dirty graphics, PSP is a lot smaller of a program, quicker to load...

Windows XP Pro. Right-click on desktop and hit Properties won't bring up display properties (to adjust resolution for example). Tried that in control panel to bring up display stil doesn't do it. I...

Another suggestion: I would add links to larger images on each dog picture. I intuitively wanted to click on each pic to see a larger pic of the cuties. :D

Have you tried reinstalling PSP?

The :D could be your problem. I don't think a smilie is HTML lol.

Check out this video (clean) :mrgreen:

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/theinternet.wmv