sorry for the late reply - been on holiday. thanks for the advice.. ive never taken the cover off of a drive before is it easy to do? it does sound like there may be something mechanically wrong with...

Hi ive been given a friends hard drive to recover some data from as his machine recently died! i said id have a look but it seems as though the drive is completely dead. Ive plugged it in as a slave...

well this is constructive... has anyone got anything to add which might actually help me? lol

The out of range message.. is pretty much exactly that.. it shows the PC input icon followed by the message "out of range" which is the same message displayed when there is no input so i gather from...

What you've said is correct.. when set to boot from the dvd drive the drive spins but the screen goes into standby... it could be a dirty disc so maybe ill try giving it a clean but i have used the...

Thanks for your advice.. any reason why a brand new drive though? as i have a spare drive which i know is fine and when i plug into this machine it is recognised as master ide. ill just need to...

Really? So there's not much else I can do then? I'd rather have a go myself than pay someone even it means having to rebuild the machine although surely it won't come to that! Or will it? I've never...

you could always solve all your ie problems by using firefox! by by a superior browser.. not sure if they have a 32 and a 64 but version though!..

hi yes i did set it to boot from the cd in the bios.. and when i restart after the bios splash screen the cd drive does start to spin and sound like its reading the disc but then the screen switches...

thanks for the advice.. ive plugged another known good drive in and it is recognised as a master IDE. This is an old spare drive i had so i thought id format and try a clean install of windows XP...

I have a 250gb Mybook which ive had for ages and havent had any problems.. you may have just been unlucky with it? Not really too sure what to suggest as a replacement.. it really depends on whether...

Hi friend has just given me his PC to look at as its broken and i mentioned that i had an interest in fixing dead machines.

The machine is a fairly new packard bell machine with a 3.06ghz P4...

I keep getting this annoying pop up box appear whenever am browsing the web.. its only been happening since i installed the software for my sony ericson phone.. it pops up and wont load any web pages...

recently noticed my pc running not quite as quickly as it should be and wondered if there is any nasties lurking which are impacting on system performance. below is a hijack this log .. would...

thanks for the advice, ive done as you said and downloaded and installed as suggested and the hijack this log is below, the machine is now running as it should do much more responsive, thanks again
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sorry, just realised that the last post is a bit of an information overload , Ive pasted the hijack this log below and attached the log from malware bytes in a word doc as its probably easier to...

ok, Ive followed your advice crunchie and that seems to have sorted out a lot of the problems.. i can now access task manager etc etc.. ive also been able to install ccleaner and AVG and run those to...

guys thanks for the advice i started following gerbils advice but not had much luck as the system appears to be locked down by whatever virus etc is on it. When i try to run combofix I get the error...

HI Guys thanks for the response, NO i havent tried spy bot search and destroy.. would you reccomend that then? I have run hijack this and the log file is shown below so hopefully there will be some...

ive recently been given a friends computer to "fix" because it is ridden with spyware and viruses to the point where windows wont even load. I have managaed to fix this (doing a repair install as...

say mind your head... after you've banged it on something GRR!

im in work right now so i cant remember what bios is i think it may be pheonix... but i dont think im looking in the wrong area... i look at list of ide devies and they are all shown as none, when i...

you'll probably find that the open source programmes are better than the ones used commercially anyway.. i work in IT Support and the system we use (peregrine) has so many problems we need a separate...

well im more of a console gamer but i do like:

unreal tournament 3
the orange box: portal/team fortress
Call of duty 4
Counter strike source
Battefield/battelfield 2

loving my old school...

well i was fine using them up until now... the problem i have is that i want to downgrade to windows XP... but i cant boot from the XP CD as i cant change the boot device priority in BIOS because the...

I recently bought a play and charge kit for my xbox 360 control pad and was led to believe that now i could use the USB connection to connect the pad and use it to play games on my PC?

however I...

thanks for the advice... not sure this will really solve my problem though as I can actually see and use the drives like normal in Windows.

The problem I have is that they are not shown in the...

any one have any ideas what this could be as its driving me crazy!

Hi

I recently upgraded to windows vista and decided that its not for me so i want to downgrade... When i tried to set the system to boot from the XP CD i noticed that the IDE optical drives arent...

ok now im not so sure this is gone as i ran anotehr jijack this log and it showed the following:-

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 09:29:32, on 29/10/2007
Platform: Windows...

hi ive done everything you said and it seems to have done the trick i ran another scan with norton which didnt pick up any nasties this time. Is there any way I can i be sure that it is gone though...

My pc is keeps playing random sound effects such as camera shutter sound or a drum beat etc etc. ive installed norton 2007 and it says im infected with w32.dss.trojan! i have no idea how to get rid...

ok well i gave up on this machine in the end as ive been wanting to build a new pc for a while now and decided this was the perfect excuse hehe. but i still wouldnt mind gettin that one up and...

i had exactly the same problem.. also with really slow internet! and it drove me crazy, but i changed the wireless channel on the router and for some reason it just started working.

i must admit vista is slower tan i thought it would be... just built a new machine with a core duo 3ghz 2Gb Ram and a Gerforce 8800 gfx card... it runs fine with aero but its still not as quick as i...

ok well ive tried a new psu but still havin the same problem it will kick in for a few seconds and then just switch off.. i have tried known working memory to no avail and dont have any documentation...

well ive had a similar problem see thread(http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread90225.html)- from what ive been advised.. swap testing all the components is the best way.. i.e taking something out...

indeed.. i take it your PC died as a result of this then? i must admit it is something I've done in the past without thinking but never caused any fireballs so far lol ill take your advice though in...

ok thanks for the advice guys I'll bare this all in mind when i start. I'll try and stear clear of dreamweaver i suppose you are right about it spoiling you and i guess its something i can learn once...

you actually dont need the Http:// - you can just put www.google.co.uk or even just google.co.uk and it should work. Also i'd reccomend using mozilla firefox.. its a much better browser! you can get...