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| | Well, after two unslept nights, I am finally here, finally turning to someone else so maybe I feel less stupid on finding this pc's problem. Machine Config: COMPAQ 5WV296 5000 Series (I know it is old, guys...) - AMD Athlon 1Ghz - 768Mb RAM - 30Gb HD - Dvd-ROM - … |
| | Hi All. I was wondering if someone could help me.I added 2 Gigs of Ram to my system. Which should have brought me up to 4 Gigs. However when I run dxdiag or Belarc it tells me all 4 sockets are present 1024 x 4 but the total only comes … |
| | I hope you don't mind rookie posts, but that is what I am. I want to add a 200 gig Maxtor HDD to 2 existing 30 gig Maxtor HDDs. I am running XP Home SP 2 ( Atapi.sys version 5.1.2600.2180 ). I have an Asus a7v133 MB w/ 2 ide … |
| | I am using a Toshiba Satellia M40-JM3. I've had this problem for a while, even took it into Future Shop and the gorons there claimed they fixed it after holding onto it for 10 days when they did nothing at all. The laptop is only a month old and the … |
| | Hi everyone, I woke up this morning, had a cup of coffee, and turned on my computer so I could check my e-mail and read some news sites. Suddenly, my computer starts reporting at me with all kinds of system beeps, and I see that my startup is complaining that … |
| | My D drive won't show a CD or open even though I know that there there. It just stoped working one day. Should I just Reformat the computer or try something to get it to work. |
| | Hi, my name is Ivi and I'm new here and have a lot of questions... I have to tell you I know nothing about computers :cry: so please, be nice to me !!! My question is probably dumb and I'm not even sure if this is the right forum to … |
| | i have a virus called LOP and i cant get rid of it. i run ad-aware and it get everything, or soo you would think. everytime i run it i delete around 160 spywhere but never get the one that keeps re-installing lop. everytime i restart my computer it reinstalls …  |
| | Hi ! I'd like help to remove a very persistent virus that have been on my sons computer since early this summer and I just can't find how to remove it. I found on the Internet the it is called W32/Sdbot-ZN as I found this wdfmrg.exe in WINNT/system32 folder You … |
| | Hello!! I have a Dell Latitude notebook which i purchased 2 years ago. It is 256 MB ram. 800 Mhz , Win 2000 pro. I was wondering what can be done to make it work to its max potential speed ? obviously i can upgrade it but it will be … |
| | hi all i m having one problem in while writing dvd from command prompt in linux i m having /dev/scd0 as my externel dvd writer command i m using is growisofs -M /dev/scd0=/home/backup but this command is not executing its comming up with problem that its not an iso file … |
| | Hello everyone. Lately I have had some really [B]major[/B] problems with my computer that I haven't been able to fix. Firstly, I got a virus that didn't allow me to go on the internet and everytime I started the computer, Nortons came up with a Virus Detected Screen. Funny thing … |
 | [font=Century Gothic][b]Seven Tips To Keep Your Pc Running At Peak Performance.[/b] By Dave Fraser [/font][url="http://www.pcsandthings.com/"][font=Century Gothic]http://www.pcsandthings.com/[/font][/url] [font=Century Gothic](c) Copyright 2004 [/font] [font=Century Gothic]Did you know that very soon after you start using your computer it begins to slow down and loses that responsive, "fresh out of the box" sort of … |
| | My thinkpad t40 freezes randomly, at the most within a few minutes of starting. Sometimes I see a slight screen flicker before it freezes. Sometimes it will freeze right at the beginning, before even the IBM firmware screen shows up. Any help would be appreciated. |
| | my operating system is windows xp professional version 2002, it is custom built, last few programs installed are virtual dj. my problem started about a couple weeks ago i wanted to burn a cd and then i realize that i could the program nero did not recognize the cd that … |
| | ok i am going to buy a tv tuner card but i would like to know more about pci cards befor i do. 1) if you have a PCI card in a computer on a network, can another computer on the network also watch tv through that card? 2) can … |
 | *You can probably find different methods of doing this somewhere online, but this is the way that has always worked for me* *NOTE: This hack might not work 100% all the time, i'm not exactly sure why, but I know that after you re-start having installed a program that puts … |
| | Every time I open up a new internet page or if I go into My Computer, a Norton Antivirus warning pops up saying virus alert and it is unable to repair this file. I have run HJT and here is the logfile: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 8:49:35 …  |
| | hi all i m having one assigmnet. please help me in solving thati need to write one script for linux fedora core3. in wich i want to mount one file system to some place and then check that weather that partation is mounted or not now i have to select … |
| | Hi Can anyone help please I have recently installed a new HD, setup XP Pro SP2 and all seemed to be working well. Recently when I plugged in my USB Memory Sticks, the stick shows up in my Computer, (will not autoplay) but when I doulbe click to open it, … |
| | Im having simular problems... firstly my PC would not boot through POST and i wouldnt get that now beloved beep, it was a problem with the processor and managed to fix it by either disconnecting it from motherboard or just lifting up the clasps then putting them down again. however … |
| | Hi all: I've been looking at these Jump Drives for awhile now. Has anyone have one of these and do they work as stated? [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1234978&sku=l61-3578&CMP=ILC-FOT01[/url] Dougie |
| | Hi All, I have recently formatted my HDD and proceeded to re-install Windows XP Home with the suppliers recover discs. Everything seemed to be progressing correctly untill i was told to press any key to restart after the installation was complete. When the pc restarted it got as far as … |
| | Hello, I don't know how exactly to explain this but usually menu bars in programs have on underline letter which you can use with Alt key to choose it. For example in almost all programs you can use Alt+F to open File menu. However in some programs you cannot see …  |
| | Hey everyone, I'm new to posting forums, so please bear with me. I don't know what info I need to put down and all that. I have Windows XP Professional Edition, and I think something got onto my computer yesterday. It keeps changing, though so I couldn't really get help … |
| | Hi, whenever I open up a video file in WMP 10 it is zoomed in and crops part of the video off. Any suggestions? |
| | Hey guys. Im trying to format/reinstall XP pro and when i attempt to reinstall the computer finds no Hard Disk Drives, where i have 2 (only 1 is powered atm though). I have downloaded the Seagate Disc Wizard (i have a Seagate Barracuda 120 gig) and made the floppys i … |
| | How do I get into my computer to delete viruses and other bad things like that? How do I get a Hackthis log? |
| | hi there! was wondering if hijackthis can fix the problems i've been having with my pc. i am always always led to sites like thirtysinglesplus.com, spotresults.com, starware.com, etc. also, there are those darn pop-ups. please, please help. i am no techie so i don't know what to do. running ad-aware … |
| | This all started when my emachine T1840 wouldn't shut down. The fan just kept running even though nothing showed on the monitor. I tried the C Alt DEL and it didn't work and then even holding the start button until it shuts off. I finally had to pull the plug. … |
| | I just purchased a Seagate 200gb hard drive. I am trying to install windows xp. I am receiving the following error message: kernel_data_inpage-error. It goes on to read: stop: 0x0000007A (0xe124f3f4,0xc000000e, 0xbf8ed7dd, 0x0c01d860 win32k.sys- address bf8ed7dd base at bf8000000, date stamp 3b7de698. Does anyone know what this means? Please HELP … |
| | i have windows me, i want to upgrade to xp, my computer is 6 years old, i have 256mb ram that i just upgraded, everything else is old, do i need a new processor or graphics card or anything? |
| | Not sure how to ask this, it’s my first time ever in a group like this. So I’ll just explain what’s happing. 9 computers on a network all working fine as far as getting to the network drives. But 2 of the computers will lose internet connection on and off … |
| | Can someone please tell me how to get rid of those irritating desktop pop-up balloons on XP. I reinstalled a few months back and forgot how to 86 them. Thanks |
 | [B]hey[/B] i have a 203966-001 board and got the bios from hp as my new cpu had a microcode error i put the bios onto a cd and placed the file onto my desktop it started to install and then it will ask for a floppy in drive A but … |
| | I think im going to connect another computer to the Internet under linux. As I am a complete Linux noob I dont know very much about it. I'm going to put it on an old computer (96 mb ram p 266) I'm going to put on SuSE 8.0 cause newer …  |
| | hi everybody, I was wondering if there are any ways to fix this problem, my folder names are now %THISDIRNAME% ,instead of My Documents,C Drive, and ect. I realized that my folder names changed when I got a virus and after the virus was gone, the folder names remains the … |
| | SNMP heating up - new unique problem...!!! Hey wonderful people here, A new problem....??????? and faced for first time.... PROBLEM: Presently desktop having SNMP of 220 Volts (most probably) but the entire machine gets very heated too soon. The engineer saw and said that change SNMP to 350 Volts. My … |
| | I have been getting blue screen errors for a couple of days now. The technical information i got from one of them was Stop:0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x820EA2f0, 0x820EA464, 0x80604450), I think thats the right one... anyway any help on how to stop these would be much appreciated. Oh and im running … |
| | Hi, Can any one help? My IE is so slow I first noticed when browsing ebay, I noticed that the picture action was canceled too. I had good conection speed with all other sites except ebay, Then the Next day all browsing was so slow but my download speed was … |
| | I am using a pentium 4 2.66ghz processor, windows XP professional, 512mb ram 80 gig hard drive etc........... I am using nero 6 to burn a movie file to my dvd rewriter. As soon as I have added the file and click burn (although nero 6 will transcode the file … |
| | I am in no way an expert, although I can follow directions so please be patient please. I cleaned trojan.cachecachekit with nortons directions and I still keep getting that warning page saying it has been deleted with the OK button but it won't go away. I can't seem to get … |
 | im seriously thinking about installing knoppix to my hdd i was gonna partition my C: drive. But im gonna purchase a new hdd in the near future and install linux on that. After gathering info to go about this ive found i need a grub or lilo for dual boot … |
| | Hi, last week I recieved the about blank "virus". I ran all of my scans (I have Avast 4.5 Virus Scanner, and Microsoft Anti-Spyware) and they did not work. Then I ran MSCONFIG and tried to get rid of it all. Then I looked on the internet and was told … |
| | hi, i'm new to linux, have installed FC2, done some C programs, got the printer working, and thats about it! can anyone plz tell me the steps needed to get the cd roms (R/W) to work on FC2? exactly which application is associated with video file types? thanks. |
 | Actually a Double-Barrel question Can I use Alias, Redirect, or do I need to set up a Virtual Host situation? Apache/1.1.33(Win32)mod_perl/1.29_01-dev Running on an XP machine which recieves My DSL via Bellsouths' Westell External Modem. XP then connects My LAN(three machines) to the Internet via ICS. The folders I need …  |
 | when my computer goes to stand by it doesn't come up with my mouse signals ,and not even with the keybords keys till i push the windows start button,and then my computer restarts .and i get this massege: computer restarted after an unexpected shutdown. microsoft windows detected a possible device … |
| | While surfing the Net on the 6th of July, my wife got a prompting to scan for viruses and when she clicked on the "X" to close the pop up, all hades broke loose. First abetterinternet loaded, then some nail trojan, then some aida trojan, and close to 3 weeks … |
| | When Windows need to download a activeX file, I dont get the download (tab line never shows). Do anyone know why and what I can do to fix this? I have SP2 and must have messed up some security settings. |
| | Hi, I connect to the internet at home via a modem. When i log in to my account (UCLA is my ISP), the screen immediately goes blue with a messsage saying the system is doing a memory dump. I don't have the exact error msg with me (for which i … |
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