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Wishing to proceed with a big clean-up of my internal HD, I've just purchased an external drive which I duly partitioned and onto which I saved all my data. I thought it would be easy to install OS X Tiger... BUT... the installation aborts half-way through -installation of essential software- …

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After searching through the forums, I can't seem to find someone with the same problem I am having. I have been using the same computer for about a year now without any problems. A week ago I broke my own rule of, "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" and …

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Hi I have several pcs that when they boot up they hang on the applying settings screen, these are windows 2000 boxes with no hardware changes. The only thing we changed was the dns but it's only a few pcs that are booting up in 20 minutes. The pcs log …

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My friend and I have been trying to setup a wan forever, but we just can't get it. I wan to be able to connect to his home network trhough the internet to be able to play multiplayer games like Age of Empires, Starcraft, Halo, etc. Can anyone help?

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I started up a just joined the family thread in the hardware section to describe my decision to buy Linux, but because I can't help but feel at home in Windows as all of my PC experience has been under it's control... I'm about as hesitant at employing Linux as …

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Ok in the EULA it says the licence is like permission to use the software, It does not mean that you own it. I have a copy of XP home upgrade and a laptop which once had windows 98 (now no cd) - but the certificate of authenticity and serial …

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Hi, I recently purchased a computer. I just replaced the stock heatsink with a thermaltake big typhoon from newegg, and I installed new motherboard mounting screws as well. I had to remove the motherboard in order to do this. Now, when I press the power button, the fans go on, …

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Hi there, has any one come across this problem, on a Sony monitor model cpd-210esta (210es). Once you switch it on the led turnes green for about 3 seconds then turns orange and its starts to flicker, there is no static from the flyback, I´ve checked the hole board and …

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I have XP and this problem exists on only one user. The others are normal. The wallpaper is the standard blue and when I select any other wallpaper, nothing happens. Text and icon size and other prefs have been altered and also cannot be changed. Also I am unable to …

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I am seeing a message "error loading OS" on booting up,then PC stalls.Then I insert windows XP cd to boot up . Can anybody help me through the steps to resolve this error so as i do not need to use a CD.

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I've been trying to connect to servers in cstrike but as soon as it starts to connect the game minimizes and i get adware along with a message that says that the servers is busy. some one help me

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Ok it started when I first got broadband. I signed up to [url]www.supanet.com[/url] and I received a modem called Zoom ADSL something. It connected to the phoneline with an RJ11 cable and connected to the pc with a USB cable. It was not an always on broadband. I had to …

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What do you think? Thanks so much!!! Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0 Scan saved at 8:44:13 AM, on 6/24/2006 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 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Ahead\InCD\InCDsrv.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\LEXBCES.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\McAfee\McAfee VirusScan\Avsynmgr.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\CTSvcCDA.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\inetinfo.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\LightScribe\LSSrvc.exe …

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alright, im not a computer geek, so treat me like im stupid :] so i have cable & a network set up so i can go online from several computer through a linksys router. what i want to do is set it up so that i can share files and …

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Well, just last night, I bought a game for the PC that is capable of online gaming. Being my ignorant self, I didn't look at the system requirements for the game. I barely passed the requirements, the only flaw was my graphics card. When I tried to play the online …

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I have been a visitor here for a while and impressed with your assistance to everyone and the wealth of info here. I am sorry that I am now needing assistance myself. I hope someone can find the time to help me. I am need of assistance on a blue …

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When i boot up my computer it goes through the whole startup system etc.. and then when it gets to the login in screen it crashes it says this [B]STOP: 0x00000051 (0x00000001, 0xE29830008, 0x004F4000, 0x000001D6)[/B] I dont know what it means but its very annoying and wont let me use …

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Hello All, I am new to this forum - found it by Googling for help with several errors I've been experiencing. Here's the scoop: My PC is several years old and was running WinXP Pro with SP2 applied. Everything was fine, until it started crashing intermittently. I had added several …

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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 3:11:04 PM, on 6/22/2006 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 C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe c:\program files\mcafee.com\agent\mcdetect.exe c:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\vso\mcshield.exe c:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\agent\mctskshd.exe C:\PROGRA~1\McAfee\SPAMKI~1\MSKSrvr.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe D:\Program Files\Belkin\Belkin Wireless AG Desktop Network Card\Wireless Utility\WLService.exe D:\Program Files\Belkin\Belkin Wireless …

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I need a REALLY reliable software that can shutdown xp systems automatically everyday at a certain time. I prefer to use MS utilities but can't find one. I dont want the BIOS to crash the system and do all kinds of damage to the platform. It needs to be as …

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Ok yesterday norton told me I had trojan.nebular or something and I couldn't install or use the recovery console cus when i would boot up with the windows disc and press R it would reboot my pc so I just deleted all winrk32's registry entries and it's .dll (and yes …

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I just finished setting up a p2p network of 5 pc's. File and print sharing is enabled on all computers and I have verified my workgroup name on each computer. The printer I want to share is on pc1. Pc2 and pc4 found the printer on pc1, loaded the drivers …

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I recently bought a new pc with an onboard video card. In xp and in the BIOS, i see that it has 128MB of video memory, but vista will say i have only 16MB of vram, so i can't turn on all the cool features in it. Does any one …

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My browser has been jacked and I also recieve random pop ups with some slowing down and random crashing of IE. I read someone elses thread about this exe, and I have already downloaded HJT (obviously), and Smitfraud fix... awaiting further instructions... thanks for the help in advance. My HJT …

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so i installed a SP1 pack of windows xp on my computer, it worked fine at a resolution of 1280x1024, and then i installed my drivers for my Radeon 9250 and now the biggest i can make the resolution without making the desktop area too big is 1024x768, when i …

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please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:cry: I m having a problem in ma computer. i cannot open any folders including my document, my computer, control panel. is there any know how to treat this problem??????? if yes email me [email]shb234@hotmail.co.uk[/email] waiting for reply...................

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This Pavillion 7955 was given to me by a friend who told me the hard drive died. When trying to boot it shows a message that the boot disk is bad. I put in a new hard drive and got the same message. I tried a new connecter ribbon with …

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Original thread, but still not 100% unresolved. [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread46853.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread46853.html[/URL] Here is the latest log: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 2:48:06 PM, on 10/06/06 Platform: Windows 98 SE (Win9x 4.10.2222A) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSGSRV32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SPOOL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MPREXE.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSTASK.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KB891711\KB891711.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\mmtask.tsk C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\TASKMON.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SYSTRAY.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\STIMON.EXE …

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I made the biggest mistake of my life when i purchased my Area-51 770. The overheating is outstanding- unfortunatly my video card was already shot by the time i knew there was any issue. I have a 3500$ Laptop sitting here rotting. I would love Love LOVE to know where …

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My graphics card has been overheating i think or getting to the point of almost overheating... When i turn my computer on even when i have the entire left side off and a huge fan blowing in my monitor will show thin weird lines and dashes of either florecent green, …

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Hello, I recently bought a new power supply box(400 watt), I am using a radeon 9700 pro and i plugged in all my IDE cables and power cables to my drives(with the new power supply) and the power connector to the radeon, but when i turn on my computer my …

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I have an ATI Radeon 9000 graphics card. I am having trouble getting it to work with my computer. I have removed the drivers on my previous card. When I put this new card in my computer, it won't boot up. The screen just goes black. Is there anyone that …

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Hello all. This afternoon I was browsing the Internet using Easybrowse Platinum. It crashed. I reopened it and it crashed again. Then I noticed MSN messenger had closed itself. On trying to restart it it kept crashing. When opening Outlook Express it closed itself within a few seconds. Firefox is …

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[COLOR=Black]message[/COLOR]I have a Mac G5 which I have had for one year. Also am using Tiger. Problem: recently when I turn on the computer I get a noise that sounds like I have a cricket. This not happen all the time. Yesterday it did and it would make that noise …

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Hello everyone. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop that only has a floppy drive (no optical drive). To skip a really long story which isn't relevent, here's my problem now: I installed Windows NT 4.0 onto my laptop's hard disk using a desktop computer (with a laptop hdd to …

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I finally got one of those MacBook beauties! So I set about putting Wine on it so I can finally access some of the programs I've been missing out on as a Mac user. So when I try to run Darwine, it says it can't find the truetype libraries. When …

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Okay, so here's my data: szAppName : svchost.exe szAppVer : 5.1.2600.2180 szModName : ntdll.dll szModVer : 5.1.2600.2180 offset : 00011f52 C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER2f6a.dir00\svchost.exe.mdmp C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER2f6a.dir00\appcompat.txt I've cleaned these above temp folders on various occasions, and done every bit of cleaning that's recommended here on Daniweb, and even tried a system restore, but it …

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My computer is less than a year old and all sorts of problems have been occuring... Recently my computer will start but there is no graphic or display and the computer says once at the beginning "System failed mediator"...which i have no clue what the heck it is talking about. …

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Whenever i tried to open Internet Explorer it directs me to my Desktop Folder instead of opening IE browser is this a virus? any ideas? thanks

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Hey guys, I'm caleb, and I'm in a bind. I'm the itt for an engineering company with roughly 25 computers on the network. I'm currently in transition from peer to peer going to server/client. My problem is weird. I've researched Google for probably 90 minutes and nothing has worked. We …

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OK, I have a Compaq Presario 1255 laptop that had a loose power connector. I soldered in a new connector (I'm experienced at doing this). It now powers up and passes the Compaq diagnostics utility. But, it doesn't recognize the hard drive. It sees and reads from the CD-ROM so …

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unfortunately i have this installed on my computer and do not know how to remove it. please help me if you can, thank you. below is my hijackthis log. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:53:50 AM, on 6/27/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 …

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[B][COLOR=Red]Hello all, I'm new here, my name is eddie. I have an IBM T22 that the liquid screen has shadowes streaking across from left to right. the color is effected because pictures look awfull. I don't want to buy a new puter if I can fix this. Does anyone know …

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I am having issues tryin to boot my puter OS is Windows XP Professional. I had issues and found out it was a faulty mouse afer spendin $100.00's on new parts. I am gunna build another puter with the extra stuff lol. Anyways I cannot seem to boot this thing …

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Recently I've become concerned about the heating issues my laptop has been having so I did some research. Turns out Im using a disproportionately large amount of memory even when Im running nothing (Firefox with 2 tabs open and Google Desktop). It says 70% memory usage. If I turn everything …

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Hi, I have a hp laptop (about 14 months old) with CD/DVD drive. It doesn't read CDs. I can see the drive on my computer, but when I open it, it shows a blank CD. Rarely it opens and writes CDs . But most of the time when I try …

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i joined because my homepage will not stay at what i want it to. it will only allow this homepage [URL="http://www.syssecuritysite.com/"]http://www.syssecuritysite.com/[/URL] and then sometimes i get an error on my web browser saying "error404site" can anyone help me i have tryied using spyware to remove the issue but that doesnt …

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i installed etrust pestpatrol a while back.. and i didnt want it anymore. so i uninstalled it, and then when i start my comp up i keep gettin a system pop up.. from etrust.. sayin .. Error Database Init failed(error 1:C:\Documents and settings\owner\core\ppinfo.dat does not exist!) even if i press …

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Well, my problem is the trojan nvctrl.exe, I dont remember the trojan name but its associated with the virus nvctrl.exe. At first I tried manually removing it, and managed to delete most of its associations like mssearch.exe but I couldnt manage to get rid of nvctrl.exe, infact I cant find …

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