DId you disable the onboard sound in your BIOS before installing the sound card? (Looks like you have an SB Live! or an Audigy, judging by the em10k driver)

You must disable the onboard sound in...

Sounds like you've got the refresh rate set too high. Do you get something onscreen reliably in safe mode? I think you're saying you do, so I'd bet you somehow set the refresh rate too high.

It...

I love my Logitech lol...

And I'm with ya on the Mouse Drivers, I don't use the provided drivers, and never have. I suffer everytime I try using those junk Intellipoint drivers, and Logitech's...

There are a number of malware and virii programs that will cause the 'IE6 will not open anything in a new window, even if right-clicked.' problem you describe.

Among them a program called...

Well, not to plug a product, but you really should have bought a Sound Blaster soundcard, cheap no-name cards can be a nightmare waiting to happen.

On BIOS setup, when you first boot your machine,...

Your used copy of Windows ME bought you 1 slightly used SEARS poncho, (NOT a REAL MEXICAN poncho, mind you), with a big mustard stain on the chest.

One slightly used can of Chopped Prunes

Hitler > springtime

(Sorry, I'm a Mel Brooks fan hehehe)

How many posts to earn that neat title YOU have, ccsgal? (just kidding hehehe)

It'd be nice if that helped, heheh. :)

I'm sure Dell has them, but if you can't find them, find out what chipset your motherboard is based on, (Last I knew, Dell usually used Intel chipsets), and...

I've sold other Fujitsu items with no problems in the past, I would think it'd serve you well enough.

It's a reputable company, a maker of memory chips, hard disks, and lots of other things, that...

What kind of mice? PS2? USB? Have you tried switching from one type to another?

Are your mice fairly high resolution mice? (Cheap low res mice will, especially at high res screens like what you...

What kind of mouse? If it is cordless, it has only been fairly recently that cordless mice have come into their own for FPS style gaming.

If it's not that, there are a lot of things to consider,...

It'll all be well and good if any Pentium over Pentium 500 runs faster than the previous. If Intel does stupid things like come out with a Pentium 510a that is actually slower than the 500, it'll...

Is your modem connected to a network card in your computer? Or a USB port?

If it's connected to a network card, I'd consider removing the drivers for the network card by removing it in Device...

Sounds like it's set to a refresh rate or video mode that the thing can't display to me.

Boot it all the way up, when it's done, hit Alt-F4, and hit the U key after. Do this a few times. If your...

Fantastic Voyage

Star Trek (Insert number here)

This Land (http://www.jibjab.com)

Alien

Run Silent, Run Deep

circuit city > overpriced

I agree with Mike here, you need to wipe your hard disk, and reinstall fresh.

There are good instructions for this proceedure available here, courtesy of a resident expert, Catweazle:
...

I'll take a stab in the dark here, I sort of doubt it came with Windows XP. It is probably a S-video connector to hook to a TV-Out port on your video card so you can hook your PC to a TV screen, but...

Could you explain/describe this 'crash' you're having? Is the machine actually locking up? Do you get an error message? Or do you just become unable to use the internet? Will the machine run fine in...

There is a fix that was listed in the DiVX website that involved disabling DEP, which cleared up lockups and crashes and other strange behavior when right clicking after installing SP2. It sounds...

Heheh, school, my last day of high school was...hmm...over 25 years ago...wow, where DOES the time go? :o

Uzo > Sake
(Hey Mike, it's a distilled spirit, alcohol, from overseas, but you can buy it here, it is a real thing, just like Sake, which is Rice Wine or whiskey).

I'm pasting this from the Shoot the Messenger you used posted, you should read it more closely:

"Windows Messenger Service

The first thing to understand is that the Windows Messenger Service is...

It's possible there were problems at Microsoft's end, as I've seen that happen. If it keeps happening after the next few days, I'd suspect it's on your end. Until then, I wouldn't worry too much....

I'd be worried about both ram and motherboard if that's the case.

Sounds like your PS fried or got spiked, and that it let power surge into your mobo, but that's just a guess.

Someone else mentioned this one: Bag the drive up in a Ziplock bag, to protect from moisture, then put the drive into the freezer for around 20 minutes. Take the drive back out, (beware of...

I would think something would pop up in a Hijackthis log, I can't swear to it, but if you post up a hijackthis log, I'm sure we'd all take a good hard look at it for you to see if we spot anything...

Good info.

For the record though, Shoot the Messenger has nothing to do with Microsoft (Windows) Messenger IM client, (msmsgs.exe), but rather has to do with the Windows Messenger Alerter...

You most likely have DiVX installed. The old version of DiVX doesn't like SP2. There is an updated version of DiVX available here:

http://www.divx.com/

Most excellent, this one goes into my vault. Nice work, Antioed. :)

Don't remove this:
C:\WINNT\System32\SK9910DM.EXE

It's IBM's keyboard driver, to set up the extra keys on their Media pro keyboards, (which come with many branded machines as well, i.e. Gateway)....

As well as being a darned sight cheaper, which is another plus for the AMD.

(Truth be told, I'm actually an Intel man, can you not tell?). :D

Yup, that's the gist of it. ;)

From that website:
"“FANGFUWANG� can highly effectively absorb the harmful electromagnetic wave in your side, and return you a healthy and comfortable space back!"

Well now, I have a harmful...

Sounds like you have a sticky key, (tab key maybe?). Either that, or you have built in 'funtions' in that keyboard and its driver that are doing things you'd rather it didn't.

Look in your control...

wav format > format c:

Heheh, so you're all set now?

Wonderful, that should solve this one, Catweazle. :)

Any chance this disk got sys'd with a bootdisk from a different version of Windows? You might get some pretty strange errors doing that. Same could be said for the himem.sys file, if perhaps Windows...