He's going to try removing one of the sticks and seeing if that helps, but I don't see the problem being that winxp is having problems with his 4gigs of ram if it wasn't doing the same thing before. ...

Hey guys I've got a buddy having a problem with windows xp home.

Here are his specs
intel pentium d 830 3ghz dual core
250gig harddrive - ide wd
4gb ram crucial ballistix 4*1gb sticks
nvidia...

I've found this. Don't know if it applies to this particular issue it may.

SHUTDOWN HANGS ON “SAVING YOUR SETTINGS”

During shutdown or reboot, Win XP may hang (stop responding) at the...

First things first, what I would try doing is installing a working os on this motherboard, and then updating the bios. There should be no reason why a motherboard wouldn't accept an operating...

Why not post this in the programmers forum? I know you know this as you've been around the site for awhile.

Well from what I read about dde, is it's an older process and will only run one process at a time, causing it to take quite a bit, which is why I initially unchecked dde thinking that it might help...

Well it turns out use dde is checked for almost everything under file types, and there's way too many file types to uncheck use dde for them all. Now I'm wondering how it got checked, anyone have...

Alrighty boys, looks like I'm a few steps away from marking this as solved.

You got me on the right track though suspicio it turns out that under the tools -> folder options -> file types ->...

Well I tried the fix, what was in there originally was, well prior to me changing it to “C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” -nohome was C:\PROGRA~1\MOZILL~1\FIREFOX.EXE -requestPending...

Thanks for the reply from both of you. As for the fresh install, I was working off a completely formatted harddrive reinstalled windows. So completely fresh install. When the hyperlink problem...

Could use some additional information, which game in particular are you playing, I am assuming that you mean the game is showing up blocky? Have you updated your video card drivers to the latest out...

Have you tried restarting the computer, it sounds like those particular photo files maybe locked in a process running in the background on your computer. If that's the case they likely wont be able...

Well first I could use a real description of the problems that you're having instead of using the words stuff and crap please describe the exact problems. You say you can't compose emails and you...

Wanted to also add that I periodically experience an issue with links within folders now as well. Also this is a bump to ensure that this problem gets looked at.

Someone please mark this as solved, I come in thinking I might be able to help but it's solved already :(.

Oh also if you've resolved the problem could you please mark this as solved. Thank you. Sorry my advice didn't suit you better. Remember we're trying to help you. We don't have to.

Normally if something hardware wise is damaged at least from my experience the computer wouldn't work right. It sounds like something could have gone wrong with windows therefore causing it not to...

Thought I'd mention it again, take the files that you need to keep and copy them to the hard drive that is working in the other computer, then do a reformat on the bad drive, copy the files back once...

This is an indepth problem that I have found multiple solutions for. I am now going to list all the solutions, but the very first thing that you should try doing is power cycling, that means...

I thought I would add my 2 cents to this post.

It sounds like you're trying to boot into safe mode and then trying to format the computer, this will not work. What you need to do is go into the...

Hi there here are my system specifications.

Pentium D dual core cpu 3.20 ghz
2.0 Ghz of ram.
512 mb video card, nvidia. Geforce 7950 GX2
Western Digital 250 gigs sata
Creative soundblaster...