Hello, all of a sudden my right speaker won't play. I have a Yamaha 2.1 setup. I checked the control panel volume page, my WMP page for balance and the connections. I unplugged the speaker input...

Hello all, I just got a funny message: "DDE server not responding" upon shutdown. I ended the task. Should i be worried about this or not? Never happened before.... Thanks in advance.

Thanks I'll try that... Anyone know why if I've got a thread selected on this board as instant email notification I don't receive any emails???

No, my mouse didn't come with a CD. It came with the computer.

Hi, If I move my mouse fast left or right (but not that fast) the cursor starts moving up or down or some other direction it shouldn't be. It's real frustrating for some games. Is this normal??? It's...

Hi, I can't delete a file I downloaded. It's a demo program. I tried deleting it from the C: prompt but that didn't work. I keep getting the message: This file is being used by another process. ...

Hi, not sure if this is the cause but I recently installed Game Commander 3 (voice regognition software) oin my machine. I still get windows sounds and game sounds but I've noticed I don't get any...

ok i nuked nero right off my hard disk. One more question: how do i update my firmware for my LG dvd-rom?

Hey, I got this message from UBISOFT tech support:


Brad,

You are running beta sound drivers. Please goto to the SiS web site
(www.sis.com) and update to the latest retail sound drivers....

Thx, actually I did change my AGP aperture size from 256M (which I did notice improvement on my 8500 LE) to 128M. The game seems to work now! Although I do still get some crashes. As for the 8X...

Ok, thx! But 2 questions:

1: Is vidram the same as AGP setting in the bios? i.e. 64M, 128M, etc?? if not, I'm not sure I've ever seen a setting to change that in my BIOS. Pls elaborate.

2:...

Thanks for the help! One question though... Were your lockups/crashes the whole system crashing or just crashing to desktop? My problems are predominantly in games where I usually CTD or more...

Where's your thread? I'm sure I'll find it eventually.... And no, I don't play copied games. The games I'm having problems with are all games I bought. And gotten the lastest patches for. I did...

Sorry I have one more related question: I just dowloaded registry mechanic that was advertised on this site. The trial version found 512 errors in my registry!!! Is this program worth buying? ...

Hi, my specs: WinXP sp1.
P4 2GHZ
1GB DDR ram
Cicero computer (don't know the model #)
ATI RADEON 9800 pro 128mb

hope that's enough. Here's the problem:

I recently upgraded from an 8500...

Ya I looked at those logs but they don't seem to tell me anything about the crashes. All I can seem to find is mostly (but not all) internet related.

Hi, I hope I'm posting in the right place. My computer randomly crashes to desktop while playing games. I used to have a RADEON 8500 LE 128mb but I just upgraded to a 9800 128MB and I'm still...

Hello, I recently installed Norton internet security and now I get a lot of messages that Windows Messenger is trying to access the internet. But I never use Windows Messenger, but I do use MSN...

Hi I just installed Norton net security and in the instructons it mentions that it blocks file/printer sharing by default. When I am trying to connect to someone over MSN messenger to have a...

Hello, recently my computer has been hanging more often than ever. Also I seem to be having trouble loading certain net pages. When I checked the events log I noticed that my fax service has been...

THANK YOU thank you I just did that and now hopefully it'll all be good... I suppose I can delete the isearch file from my windows/downloaded programs folder? And how did this get on my computer in...

Hi, i ran spybot and it said that it fixed my problems but i don't think that it did because hijackthis reports ISEARCh lines and the installer file is still in my windows/downloaded files/...

Thx all!

OK I checked that rsvp link out it says the virus is called "msrsvp.exe" and it creates a certain entry in the registry. I checked and I only have a rsvp.exe and no modifications were made to my...

o ya....

OK! We found some viruses on her computer: msblast.exe. dllhost.exe were deleted and there are w32/lovsn worm and w32 nachi worm virus. But we forgot to turn off the system restore first and so I...

OK some weird things happened while on MSN messenger today I posted them on the IE forum but here it is:

"start the application sharing feature so I could see her desktop. The app share thing...

Ok, she hasn't been able to fix her computer yet, but my computer is all up to date so the last time we were using messenger I got her to start the application sharing feature so I could see her...

i just did that and yes there are unidentified stuff in there... I guess always turn those off?

hmmm, thx for the heads-up! I got a question, well I got 2 questions:
I did a search for blaster on this board but I didn't know which post to look in so I'll just ask it here: Can my computer get...

I only have the one virus scanner that I got through my ISP, not sure how good it is it's called "Freedom" anti-virus" I ran my spyware programs but I don't have any trojan programs to run. One other...

How can I run a netstat? and no I don't have a router and if there was a logfile where can I find it?

Ok, I was on a page I probably shouldn't have been on and I clicked on a link to download. The download started and I realized it wasn't what I thought it was and cancelled the download almost...

Hmm I'll have to check on that... but even if she did she hasn't changed anything since we were able to connect. First she would disabled the PCGATE thing and then we would connect, and then after...

Hi, not sure if anyone can help but I've encountered 2 problems using messenger. No problems on my side of things but 2 out of the 3 people I've tried connecting to with my webcam only get a black...