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| | I have tried putting the Windows ME disk in and booting the computer from it. After I followed the steps on the screen and my computer was done. It didn't reformat. All it did was reinstall windows me. Can anyone help. I don't want to keep anything thats on my … |
| | i own a compaq 5410us, 1.3 celeron 512mb running windows xp home, i use this mostly for gaming and lastnight i went to bed and left my game running, when i woke up the screen was froze, i couldnt get cntl-alt-del to open up to close the window so i … |
| | Ok im working on my friends Compaq 2200. I'v installed a new harddrive and proceeded to install xp. Xp seamed to install properly however once it restarts and gets past the windows load screen, screen goes blank but i can hear the startup sound and it seems to be working … |
| | Hey everyone - I have been trying to troubleshoot this machine for a year now. It started with random strange images, then failure to produce a screen.... then a burning smell then failure to do ANYTHING! Here's what I've done: RMA'd/replaced the Vid Card - still nothing. Replaced power supply … |
| | Hi Just built a pc with asus a7n8x-x motherboard, athlon xp 2500+, 512 ddr 333 ram. It works fine with Win 98 but wont install XP. About 5 mins into the installation it reports hardware problems tells me to try disabling a couple of cache's in the bios and try … |
| | Hi Gang, Newbie here... I've got a friend with a new startup rundll error that says windows can't find E:\windows\system32\opnmn.dll My forum searches have not netted any info on this, other than several places where people are told to delete it as part of some other virus fix. Here are … |
| | hi does anyone knw which window is tha latest(i mean after xp are there any other windows), if yes are they any good and are they available on net. thanx |
| | Not sure if this is the right forum for such a question, but hopefully someone has an answer or can direct me to the right place. I have several folders on my hard drive with thousands of files within them. I would like to copy the names of these files …  |
| | Hi ppl. When it comes to stripping down ya' hardware and getting it back together in 10 min or less, I'm your guy. Also counts for intentionally crushing OS and rebuilding it. But when it comes to networking I usually say:"Net..what?" I have 2 Q's: 1. I have 2 PC … |
| | Hi, I hope someone can help as I don't have a clue what is causing the following problem. I have just put together a new PC, which powers on beautifully, POSTs and is happy, goes into the BIOS, and even gets as far as looking for the system disk, which … |
| | [COLOR=Navy]hi there, i have a question. there is a staff here who's laptop has 2 ip addresses. no one can ping to that laptop. but the laptop can ping to other PCs/laptops and online. can receive email and surf internet etc. at first the ipconfig details are as below: [/COLOR]Ethernet …  |
| | I have Windows XP SP2 (32-bit) with all the latest updates installed. I have an AMD64 3200+ system. Since last few days, I've been facing a serious problem. Whenever I simply click on a video file (not open it) or open any other program, my Windows freezes. I am not … |
 | Hi .. I have a DELL Inspiron laptop, running Windows. The CPU has been stuck at 100% for a few days, leading to slow performance and very noisy running - sounds like a fan running at full. I have recently run EWIDO - CCLEANER - SPYBOT - ADAWARE and have … |
| | Greetings to all. I have Win XP, Internet Explorer 6 and regularily use (and update)AVC AntiVirus, Ewido Antispyware and Ad-Aware SE Personal. My pc is updated regularily from Windows Update, but not automatically so I can choose what I want to update. I have not downloaded any programs recently. When … |
| | My computer keeps crashing to the blue screen. This is the error message I get "kernel_stack_inpage_error" and then lower down "0x00000077" and then in parentheses (0xC000000E, 0xC000000E, 0x00000000, 0x014F2000). When it happens I hear a click coming from the computer and then it works for maybe 15 seconds. I then … |
| | I've been having some problems with my Outlook Express, it started with receiving mail, but now I can't send mail. Every time I try to send an email I get the following message: The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The … |
| | Stop: 0x0000009c (0x00000002, 0x8054D370, 0xF6002000, 0x0000017A) This is the error I've been getting at the blue screens every time my computer locks up. =\ I've been trying to install World of Warcraft (I know this forum isn't for such things) and it isn't going too well. I've had this lock … |
| | i want to try linux. I was wondering if anyone of you guys could give me a distro which give you a more Programmer interface. a distro which will give you more space to improve as a programmer. thanks in advance. btw im looking at the info about gentoo.. |
| | My system: Dell Desktop: Dimension 9150 Intel Pentium D 830, 3 GHz 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz Windows XP Home Edition GomPlayer, Media Player 10, Sonic Digital Media LE v7 CCleaner, CWShredder, SpyBot, SpySweeper, Ad-Aware ZoneLabs Firewall Problem Reading DVD’s A friend sent some dvd’s with .avi and mp3 … |
| | I am going to build a computer for my 12 year old son for christmas. He now has a newcastle 3000. agp card, 1meg ram. I was thinking of amd 3700, 1meg L2 cache. pci express video card. I cant afford a FX processor. I have heard that a dual … |
| | Hi, It would appear that one lapse in my usually good pc protection has led to me getting the hacktool.rootkit. Norton kept on spamming me messages about it continuously so I did a full scan and it found it but couldn't remove it. I have re-booted into safe mode and … |
| | My situation is this: I have a small business with 5 users. Each user can access our clients data from our internal file server. All users are running XP Professional, as is the server machine. All of us require daily internet access, which is broadband cable behind a router. Each …  |
 | I cant seem to figure out what is wrong with the connection of my front panel mic jack. My motherboard manual says to connect it to the correct pins, and has a note that says: If your front panel cable is separated, please connect it to pin1 and pin3 or … |
| | On my taskbar i have an icon that oscilates between a red no entry sign and a blue question mark sign. Every few minites or so a red dialogue box pops up in the lower right hand corner and tells me my computer is infected and there is virus activity … |
 | [COLOR=darkgreen]:sad: XP will not recognise the new or old DVD-RW drives i have fitted....[/COLOR] [COLOR=darkgreen]BEFORE ,i had an A-Open dvd rw drive and a Sony CD-RW drive that were instantly recognised.......I now have an A-Open DVD-RW drive AND a Panasonic DVD-RW drive that if i unplug 1 of them the …  |
| | Ok, so here is the whole story. At first my PSU died on my old computer, but since i didn't realize that, i thought it was the motherboard, so i bought a new one. Then obviously with the new mb comes a new proc and new video card and the …  |
| | Hi, Ive been having this problem for a few months now. When I reboot, or power up the PC, I get error beeps and then nothing. The beeps happen before [U]anything[/U] is displayed on the screen. The beeps are 2 extremely short beeps, back to back, then 6 independant short … |
| | I am really confused. I was working on my computer and it hung up trying to recognize a USB drive. I restarted the computer and everything appeared fine. The Bios Post was fine and when I expected to see the Windows screen I didn't get anything except for a black … |
| | hi, im not that computer savvy, but im having this problem and i was hoping someone could help me out. my internet connection is fine, my mazilla firefox, msn messenger, etc works fine, but for some reason internet explorer wont load any webpages, just starts to load something, then comes … |
| | Hello, I'm brand new to DaniWeb. I was doing some xp research in how to speed up my system and came ascroos a few things in a book i was reading that may be suspicious. I am NOT a techy person LOL. I can however follow directions. Basically I have … |
 | Hi I'm wondering if there is a site out there that gives people FREE linux cd's. Something like Ubuntu's Shipit, it's for personal reasons. I've tried the free linux cd project, but it seems they've given up. If any one knows of any site, please let me know. Thanks:mrgreen: |
| | There once was a little guy who networked offices. He had this job with 30 computers. Everything went fine (what a relif!). He went back a week later to add one thing, and all of a sudden one machine wasn't connecting to the Novell server. Hmmmmmmm this was weird. He … |
| | I am thinking of buying a laptop, but I do not wish to have to connect to cable or telephone line for the internet. So, what are all the gizmos I will need in and as well as my laptop to go connecting anywhere, anytime? All assistance with thanks, Andi |
 | Anyone here have any idea how many problems can cause a "Little or no connectivity" situation in trying to access the Internet through the browser. It would be great if we could line it out and make a list of the most common problems, thus making it easier to trouble … |
| | The MB manual, and I'm crazy about the way they write these, says this board is good for Front Side Bus of 200/266/333. How do you determine which one it is? I suspect mine is probably the 200 and I would like to upgrade to the 333, but I don't … |
| | Please help. I am not much of a computer person so am looking for assistance. Thanks. Have been trying to install a Linksys WRTG54G with nothing but problems. Keep getting following error at setup: "Router is not able to connect to internet. Try turning cable/dsl modem off." I am using … |
| | I'm trying to reformat my friends laptop (massive amounts of spyware, viruses, and missing files.. it's a wreck), but I first need to carry the files over to my computer so I can transfer them back to her after the format. Her laptop is hooked up to my wired, non-passworded … |
| | I recently removed some spyware off of my pc, since then I have had a problem with the background. in the properties the display is greyed out. i have read on here the the spysherif spyware does this to pc's. I tried the smitfraud download suggested but with no luck … |
| | Hello to all the geniuses and tech wizzes out there. I just reformatted my computer (knowing only a little about after visiting some sites with instructions on reformatting). I had XP pro installed on my main partition when I did RF and I had installed XP pro on the same …  |
| | I keep on getting a critical system error. On my toolbar is a yellow flashing question mark and an X. I have tried to run spyware and antivirus but it won't go away. My problem seemed similar to some of the messages already posted so I used the hijadk tool. … |
| | hey please help me out, im at school and i want to get on myspace, but they have filters, how do i bypass them |
| | Ive just installed a SATA II drive on my system, after the PATA gave me problems.. now whenever i run demanding programs such as Photoshop, Audio processing programs, DC++ server or demanding games( BF 2142, UT 2004) the sytem just freezes .. and i have to reset the system this … |
| | Hey, My problem is that my system freezes when playing games, I played war rock for around 5 minutes then it froze and I had to restart, it's been doing it ever since. My CPU runs at 34c idle or when just a few programs running and around 39c when … |
| | Pentium D 945 (3.4Ghz) ECS P4M800 PRO-M Corsair 512 MB DDR2 128MB ATI Radeon 9200 PCI WIndows XP Professional SP2 First thank you for reading my post. My problem is simple and very complex :rolleyes: I have recently built the above mentioned system, this is a PC for my wife … |
 | I clicked on "close all tabs" in IE7 as that is all it would do. Now my IE7 Desktop Icon is gone. How do i get it back? I can do a search and click on the shortcut file but still no Desktop Icon. I reinstalled IE7 but still no … |
| | Well, I've searched Google to little avail so I've decided to ask here. I've currently set up a Media Centre PC in my room. Everything - even wireless LAN - works perfectly after several kernel recompilations, that is, excepting my TV card. As you may imagine, this is somewhat of … |
| | Hello. :rolleyes: I am having a real problem with the unwanted programs running in my Ctrl+Alt-Del - End Task Window. I am not able to upgrade to an XP Version of Windows yet and am still using the ME version of Windows. :?:Can some one tell me how to delete … |
| | I'm a newbie and i came across this forum while looking to see what iswrong with my comp i have a virus on my cmputer and from reading all the posts i have spyware quake.....on the bottom of my screen i get a message saying your computer is infected system … |
| | Hi I tried searching this forum, but couldn't find any problem quite like mine. I was hoping that someone would know the answer to this problem I have a Laptop Toshiba Qosmio F10-136 under a year old Windows XP All the drivers that came preinstalled (I have looked for updates … |
| | Hi newbie here :mrgreen: I posted this message at the bottom of a similiar thread but thought i would actually start my own :cool: Im not pc stupid and understand the basics and have built many, but this problem bugging me. Lets say to start with my pc is running … |
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