Hi, my contract with a company I have been working for has been terminated after 2.5 years so I am available if anyone requires any computer related services or parts. I also design and maintain...

It could possibly be the power cable, replace that one too because i've had that happen but it's very rare.

What kind of power supply are you using (250,300,350,400) ?

and list your specs here...

The windows xp boot disk has a built in format option right before it installs windows

You might have a bad power supply or it might not be giving enough juice to power everything. Do you have another power supply to test.

It depends which windows version you have.

I know in XP there is a diagnostic tool for modems. Maybe other windows have it to. You can click on that and it will run a variety of tests on your...

If you have a working windows xp cd, then it will have boot support on it.

The problem you're having is that your BIOS boot is probably set to 3.5" drive or Hard drive before the cd rom.

What...

NCase is Adware not a trojan (that's a good thing - sort of).

I know you said you ran you spyware removal programs but do the following. One of the biggest problems people make is running spyware...

It sounds like the reason your computer is freezing is because you installed a new motherboard and didn't do a clean install. With Windows, this is like asking for the blue screen of death (BSOD) and...

All I have to say is "HA". I love windows and how it has revolutionized computing but it's very buggy.

eXPerience a whole bunch of new holes, problems and other unstable windows features

That's weird. When I turned off or reset my computer it was fine. but then I come back 8 hours after shutting down the darn thing and the resolution is reset again to 640x480.

does your resolution for your monitor reset everytime you reboot?

We need more info:

--> what kind of video card do you have
--> driver version of the video card

Oh man. I think I got it.

I disabled the nvidia startup program (nwiz.exe) and it seems like now it is fine.

:mrgreen:

Have you tried resetting your security settings under INTERNET OPTIONS. Maybe they are on too high.

Try restoring the defaults.

Catweazle is right. It sounds like there is either something wrong with the memory or the settings of the memory in the BIOS - it could also be the video card memory causing this problem.

Get a...

Hi,

I just installed a new driver from Nvidia's site on my computer (Driver:6.1.7.6 - official driver). I have a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440.

Now everytime I restart my computer, the resolution is...