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| | Hi, Can anyone help me? My Panasonic laptop starts to boot up, shows the Windows test card but then goes blank. I can hear it continuing to boot, and I can hear it reach the Windows jingle, but I can't see a thing. I can restart with Ctrl/Alt/Delete, but that … |
| | Some electrical men were working outside when they suddenly turned off our power. The computer was on and fully booted when this happened. Now when I turn it on, it asks it I want to start it in safe mode or revert the settings, etc. Whichever option I choose (I … |
| | Greetings once again. I recently visited a site that ended up downloading a bunch of stuff on to my computer earlier today. McAfee started going nuts about 3 hours ago, and i've been trying to figure out exactly what's going on. This Forum has always served me well and helped … |
| | Basically, I hooked up a new Western Digital EIDE 160 gig hard drive(WD Caviar SE - 7200 RPM, if that matters at all) I put the disk into the CD drive that includes software to help partition the hard drive and such, and it works fine. I restart the computer, …  |
| | I tryed to change my homepage from google but eveytime i do it goes back to google again. And i have been clicking apply btw. It also won't change to blank or defult. Help !  |
| | A. I cant run word or excel cause it's asking me for some file to install from the cd, i put the cd in and it says something like invalid key. B. I try to upgrade to Office 2003 and bypass that file, i do both upgrade and full install … |
| | I have a downloader virus as found by Norton. It's file name is igfien.dll though I know the name probably doesn't matter. Norton won't quarantine it, nor will it delete it. I also followed the instructions to delete it by disabling system restore, and restarting in safe mode. Once in … |
| | I have a 1.2 gig CPU, 760 Mg ram, 160 HD & Win XP Pro.. (5 yrs old) A few days ago I started to receiveing "Delayed write errors." Then I received a boot error message that "operating system not found, insert system disk. This lead me to believe that … |
| | hi there, i recently bought a 6600gt from ebay (so it came alone no driver disks etc.) its pci-e, i plugged it in and booted up the pc, found the drivers on the nvidia webiste and installed them. however after reboot i founsd the computer was still using the onboard … |
| | I had my motherboard droped nothing cracked nothing broken, it kinda landed on the power adapter and bent the dc jack, ok so thats what happended, however it ran fine at the time (until the battery died) so i decided to solder a new dc jack onto the motherboard, so … |
| | Firstly, I don't know any of the lingo, so bear with me. I have a Gateway Solo 1150 laptop that worked great for years--it is an older one. I came to the conclusion somehow that my hard drive needed to be partitioned(that may be misspelled), so I thought I knew … |
| | I have Avance AC97 Audio on my Xp system. Lost sound so I went into Device Manager and there is this message: Device Status: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (code 39) I clicked on troubleshoot and got this error: … |
 | I have a small office where we have several workstations. 7 to be exact. Two of the monitors have been giving me fits lately, [b]the first one...[/b] An Envision EFT-720 started having some difficulty a few weeks ago, it would *zapp* the display, it would collapse from side to side … |
| | Well here I go again, I let my daughter use the PC to keep her intertained . She likes playing the games at Pogo.com and now has found the pleasures of down loading music files. I think she let a spyware or malware in on me, my I.E gets redirected … |
| | I recently subscribed dsl for my lap top which i had to get a pci card to work wireless. Than i got a blood hound virus which i got rid of by an antivirus, then i found that my computer had several trojan viruses which as per the anti virus … |
| | Actually, I have two problems. The title pretty much explains the first one. I installed scanner software from the disc itself instead of using the new hardware wizard (Windows xp home edition, if it matters) on my new HP. Now every time I start the computer, I get the 'found … |
| | Hello all- I was trying to hook up an external ZIP drive(SCSI) to my old W98 machine. I didn't have the software disk for that drive, but that drive had been hooked up to that system before and worked fine. I couldn't figure out why it didn't work, so I … |
| | Ok, been having this problem for quite some time now, but every once in awhile my mouse will just "not be able to click anything" it will still move but yet when i click it, no response!! Any ideas???? |
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| | Hi. I´m new here. This looks like a great place to be. My problem is that once in a while when I´m surfing the internet, I open a link and get a google page with a porn search. Also, sometimes I get a page full of porn pics instead of … |
| | Hi Folks... I was just wondering if this capability was available in Windows 2000.?? Under Windows XP, I just have to do the following: Right Mouse Button on Task Bar Click on Properties Select Task Bar Tab Select Customise for the "Hide Inactive Icons" option Then I am able to …  |
| | My computer is window xp. I have got ad-aware and spybot, do you think those two are enough to be going on with. Thank -you Peter. |
| | My OS is Win2000 Pro and here are the problems I'm having: 1. I had several trojans/viruses that I now cleaned up, but most of the files for the system "Administrative Tools" are missing. So I can't configure any programs such as my firewall options. Is there a way I … |
| | Hi I can connect to my network using my ethernet card or my wireless card, but when I open my browser (either internet explorer or mozilla) I am unable to browse the web - i just get the message saying that the page cannot be displayed. The same happens at … |
| | Just had to install new hard disc due to hard disc crash and decided to install xp Home at same time as new disc, everything fine, all hardware looks okay EXCEPT my sound card. Registered okay, drivers loaded okay, no complaints from XP home but no "&£(*$)(% sound. All leads …  |
| | Hi there everyone. One of my older computers which for some reason i use more then the other computers so i decide that i should fix it up. Here is the specs of this computer right now (This is a oldie but it works fine) Computer: Operating System: Microsoft Windows … |
| | i have a program on windows me called Ez cd creater, its a way to burn your music cd for a copy of that. when you go to burn it after the cd is copied there is no files that show the cd's music file on it, in other words … |
| | Hello I'm brand new here coming to look for help. I keep getting popups and cant get rid of them. Heres the highjackthis log: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 11:57:11 AM, on 6/13/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe … |
| | Hi All, I have just built myself a new computer. One of the final things I need to add is some more RAM (as I currently only have my old 256Mb of RAM in there). I want to add an extra gig for now and was wondering whether it would … |
| | I have a Sony VAIO laptop, about 2-3 yrs old, with Winddows 2000 Professional on it. Last night, i started it up and it booted fine. Now this afternoon, i go to turn it on, and it does absolutely nothing. When i start it and let it *try* to boot, … |
| | I've been battling spyware for 2 weeks and have tried everything hopefully someone here can give me some help. Here is a log from hijackthis. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 9:25:24 AM, on 7/19/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: …  |
| | Hello all, I am wondering if anyone has ever found a way to put a "Force Logoff" button onto the "Locked Workstation" window. Presently, I have a network with W2k3 dom ctlrs, and 100% WinXP wkstns. We have a GPO in place so that all computers go to screensaver (locked … |
| | I have a Gateway laptop. Up until a few days ago I could listen to CD's, watch movies & burn info to CD's. Now it won't read anything. It says the disk is full when there isn't even a disk in it. It won't burn anything. I checked the devise … |
| | Ok well I let my mom get on my laptop one night and all of a sudden i have all these dll errors about these web searches in the startup. Ive tried getting rid of them but they keep coming back. I have norton, spysweeper, and ewido. Heres my HJT …  |
| | Hi I have had a Trust [EMAIL="SpaceC@m"]SpaceC@m[/EMAIL] USB Lite (Version 1.88.0.0) for 6 years and it has worked ok on dial up all that time. I recently switched to broadband and now the cam won't work. I get white screen and applications (yahoo/MSN/Netmeeting) dont seem to pick it up anymore. … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]Hi,[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I got router (Cisco 2521) 4 serial ports, one token ring port but NO Ethernet Port.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I am wondering is it possible to connect a Windows XP Prof. PC directly to the router token ring port, If I arrange a token ring card and a cable !!! I don’t … |
| | I have the cd that the motherboard comes with the msi cd. I put it in and there are no drivers for for the sound. I don't know where to get the drivers from and i'm to dumb to find the model number. Can someone help me? Thanks Trigun |
| | i'm brand new to this so....be gentle :cheesy: i have a pc and a laptop. the PC is connected to a cable modem through a router and works perfectly fine, as i am on it. my issue is with my laptop, wireless connection of course, which up until yesterday was … |
| | I'm trying to fix someones computer. There problem was after Windows(XP) loaded and they clicked on their name to log on, it would restart. The first obvious problem is that they bought an eMachine computer to begin with. I thought it could be the Power Supply. I went ahead and … |
| | Is it possible to put an OS on a external hard drive:?: :?: :?: |
| | I have a HP ZE4400 Pavilion. When I turn it on it ( I hear the fan running etc) it shuts of and on 4 times then stays on the 5th time every time. The screen is blank. I get no key response either. I called hp ha ha and …  |
| | I have a problem with my SBC Yahoo DSL browser. When I am using the browser and click under "file" and click "open a new window" a small narrow window opens on the right side of my screen, running from top to bottom of the screen, but only open about … |
| | I'm using Ubuntu Linux 5.10 on my laptop (I'm planning on upgrading to 6.06 but I want to get the bugs out of 5.10 first) and the volume control is kind of screwy. I've had this issue with other distros as well (Suse, Debian, and Mandriva) The volume up and … |
| | Hi All, am really needing help as having big probs. I cannot access secure sites, I had been onto my IP which is AOL and they suggested a few things, which I tried, like checking security settings and parental controls, etc, but that did not help. Then the aol guy … |
| | Hi everyone, This is my first time here on the forum. I've been doing some research and found out about this place via google. I visited a webpage by accident yesterday (ended up being a porn site :eek: )and it did something to my computer. My antivirus software cought a …  |
| | I installed my new HD, inserted my Windows XP CD and started the computer. My BIOS reognized the new HD correctly, the CD started working fine... I chose to make a partition. It was about 49% done and I realized I did not chose the right size for the partition. … |
| | Ok, so I had a brownout tonight, and it rebooted my machine. After this I can no longer connect to the internet (good thing for laptops). So, It appears as though the network card is still fine, and my router is obviously still working otherwise I wouldn't be able to … |
| | Um well, I can't access certain forums or get on let's say AIM Triton because of this DNS error. And it gives me a "Page Cannot Be Displayed" or "Action Cancelled" sometimes. . . It says at the bottom DNS Error so I'm assuming it's that. . . I don't … |
| | my system becomes infected with viruses and spyware once too often. so i run anti-malware tools at night. however, i am not able to find any way of confirming that the tool ran overnight succesfully and eradicated everything it found. is there any way to store that information somewhere so … |
 | Gosh today has been horrible.... I'm getting ready to leave work and here's what happened: I was backing up my supervisor's Outlook data and after that finished the laptop became very slow. I tried to open AutoCad to determine if our licenses were still working because I had ran into … |
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