The ASUS website should have an updated manual with the required info. I wounld't assume all is well with the single beep since every manufacturer has different standards. Does the system boot...

try chkdsk /r

Are you sure you're using the right drivers from the Acer website? Most of the time OEM's have 5+ network drivers for each PC, and in my experience you have to try each one until you find the right...

The easiest way is to rename the profile folder, recreate the original user account, login with the new account, reboot the pc, login with a different admin account, and rename the old profile to the...

Do you have the latest drivers from HP?

Do you have the latest updates for Vista and firmware for the NAS?

do you get name resolution when pinging google.com?

Try running memtest +86 to see if the memory works. If so it is probably a hd issue.

You can use the uninstaller that came with the program, use Revo uninstaller, or a removal tool if the program manufacturer makes one. In my experience I've only found removal tools for AV products...

User accounts go into group accounts. Best practice is to use group permissions, and then add users to the specific group.

Sounds like a bad keyboard, but a BIOS update might fix the issue.

Are you running two antivirus apps at the same time? If so, remove one of them and see if that helps. Also, you might want to remove the maintenance tools as well.

Do you have the latest Nero updates?

Have you run a scan in safe mode? Ususally I run CCleaner to get rid of all the temp files, run Malwarebytes Antimalware, and if that doesn't work, I run a full scan of Antimalware in safe mode.

Router firewalls don't filter traffic on the internal network, just traffic comeing from the outside in. Make sure the Windows Firewall isn't enabled and try again.

Download Malwarebytes Antimalware and run it on your pc. It does a pretty good job of getting rid of the nasties.

Angry IP Scanner will do that for you.

I believe the manufacturer's os cd's pull the cd key from an eprom in the system. I've never tested this theory, but you could download a product key finder and compare the info it retrives to the...

I've had malware infect beep.sys in the past causing a bsod. I just copied beep.sys from a working system to the bad one and everything was cool.

Go for it. The only thing you might need that software for is creating recovery cd's.

Use msconfig in safe mode to prevent the Adobe Air app from running. Click on Start>run, type msconfig and click OK. On the startup tab you should be able to find the Air app and prevent it from...

Good to hear. Mark this thread as solved so I can get some juice:).

Pull the battery out and leave it unplugged for a few minutes. After that, plug it back into the AC adapter and try to power it up.

Try reinstalling Windows over the current copy. Once that comes up you should be able to back up your data, format the drive, and install a clean Windows environment.

are all the cartridges secure? Have you left it unplugged for a day or so and then tried it again?

Could you give us more detail? How do you find owner and permission info for a registry key?

Uninstall the current drivers and software from the programs and applications applet in the control panel. Reboot the system and install the latest drivers from Gateway at
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Try this website: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

Have you tried this?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555512

Do you mean you reloaded your laptop?

DO you have a firewall running on the XP pc with the printer?

When you see the shares on the xp pc, just double-click the shared printer. That will setup everything on the Vista pc.

Sounds like you've troubleshot it pretty thoroughly. It's got to be a bad MB.

Vista Home Basic cannot join a domain, so if you have a domain at the office you won't be able to access things as easily as you could if you ran Vista Business or Ultimate.

Have you checked out the Microsoft forum?

http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en-US/genuinevista/thread/493f068f-e103-44ab-9ee0-ee2fe8827b6f/

Try to connect your laptop to your desktop on your side of the firewall first. Once you have that capability, then you can try to make it through the firewall. Make sure you have enabled Remote...

Sounds like Windows is trying to load up an app or service that is hanging. With that slow of a CPU and that much RAM you might have to give it a while to give up trying to start the faulty process....

Disconnect the power cord and pull the battery out. Let it sit for a few minutes and then reconnect the power. If that doesn't do it, strip it down as far as you can go. remove the hard drive, cdrom...

This could be either a hard drive problem or a power supply problem. I suggest you try another hard drive in the system to better isolate the problem. Just connect the power though, if you boot...

Try adding *.microsoft.com to your trusted sites.