Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties  Mar 5th, 2006 |
| Replies: 40 Views: 32,026 Don't mention it, I'm just glad it worked. ;)
The net's useful, but full of s**t. This is one of the reasons to NOT to try those life-made-easy tools. There are quite a few that work and do... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Mar 4th, 2006 |
| Replies: 40 Views: 32,026 Haha! :D quite typical. I´ve done the same thing a couple of times. Had problems with a computer, struggled for a year or two with it. When it´s finally working well, I´ve given it away and gotten a... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Feb 24th, 2006 |
| Replies: 40 Views: 32,026 I've always trusted my driver updates to my own hands. Their promises on the front page sound pretty nice: "keep your computer updated, takes less than 5 minutes to find your computer's... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Feb 23rd, 2006 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 2,723 Check your BIOS that your hard drives have RAID disabled and the drivers you installed are not for RAID only setups. Since the computer freezes after Maxtor driver installation, It's pretty likely... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Feb 23rd, 2006 |
| Replies: 40 Views: 32,026 Yay! :D
This is just plain excellent. Let's just hope those problems are away for good. ;)
IT may happen that the computer does it again, so remember to burn the driver packages you used to fix... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Feb 22nd, 2006 |
| Replies: 40 Views: 32,026 Sorry to inform you, but this is wrong. First you should install Windows XP full, clean, no 3rd party driver disks until it's done. It will use Windows' own drivers to get the system up and running.... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jan 21st, 2006 |
| Replies: 40 Views: 32,026 It sort of does, but sometimes windows just isn't enough. My interrupts problem was due to incompatible nVidia IDE controller drivers. Had to switch to windows' drivers. Your problem might be fixed... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jan 18th, 2006 |
| Replies: 40 Views: 32,026 Yep, but no problem. Was hoping the problem was fixed but guess not. So, were back. :)
Yep, format only erases contents of a partition, not the whole Hard Drive. The stuff on D will be safe if... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jul 11th, 2005 |
| Replies: 40 Views: 32,026 You probably have 'nVidia drivers' in your Add/Remove Programs list. Uninstall the IDE driver, leave the rest. Which chipset does your motherboard have?
Personally, I've never trusted Norton... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jul 10th, 2005 |
| Replies: 40 Views: 32,026 Anyway, if the Windows Task Manager can't show what's causing all the usage, That Sysinternals' Process Explorer will. If there is a program causing all the slowness, it will be shown. My guess is... |
| Forum: Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties Jul 10th, 2005 |
| Replies: 40 Views: 32,026 I bumped into your old post just today because I had the same problem too. Well, surprisingly I managed to solve this. :mrgreen:
Windows process explorer said there are no active processes, but... |
