Depending on the computer's manufacturer, the computer may have a "hidden" partition that may be necessary for a system restore to occur.

If fdisk doesn't tell you what the partition is, you...

Though one of XP's major selling points was that it does provide a whole whack of device drivers, it may not have had one for your sound. You can check to see if there is installed support for it by...

Did you come across any new information when you contacted your ISP?

Something else that may be useful to anyone else who reads this looking for answers is that, believe it or not, fdisk -l will tell you what physical drive the partition is on. Just thought I'd throw...

I see now. It's not that Internet Explorer isn't working or that you're being kicked offline but that you're having DNS issues. The WWW isn't the Internet in itself but is only a small part of it...

If you're not getting an error message when you try to run Internet Explorer, you might just need to give your computer a quick reboot.

You're on the Internet if you can send and receive email. What exactly is it you're trying to do? Do you mean you can't get Web pages to load?

Hi Philsth1,

You might want to contact your Internet service provider and convey this issue to them. It almost sounds like a DNS issue that they should be able to help with.

Bill

I'm glad you were able to get that figured out. :-) Really good job.

You could download and use a program called Windows Directory Statistics. http://windirstat.info/ This takes a while to fully run on larger drives but it'll show you in graphical format what...

Also try to ensure that your CPU is getting proper cooling.

Another potential problem may be that the RAM you are now using could be defective. Have you tried to replace the ram with entirely new sticks to see if that is the cause~?

If you don't have any...

Start unplugging stuff (while the power's off, of course), one item at a time, and trying to boot up with one less thing plugged in and powered each time until get your display back.

See if you can get Windows Update to install an updated version of IE. I don't know that doing so will correct the issue but it may.