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I recently came back from a Europe trip for five months, and when I arrived home I took my computer system from out of the garage from which it was stored and tried booting it back up. For some reason my hard drive died. It wasnt detecting it on my …

So I have a question and I really need some guidance for this as networking unfortunately isnt my strongest area of IT expertize. I've recently had a new client of mine approach me wanting to setup internet access for tenants at an apartment complex he owns. Attached is a very …

Anyone find a solution for this problem? I'm also dealing with a similar issue and my server is on the compatability list. I was forced to create a software RAID set on my Windows Server and the performance is no where near as good and I lack any kind of …

Having some issues with securing my home FTP server running FileZilla FTP Server. Basically I was running through the guide on Life hackers guide on how to setup a personal home web server [Click Here](http://lifehacker.com/124212/geek-to-live--how-to-set-up-a-personal-home-web-server). Regarding the section of locking down directory access from HTTP I did the following. 1. …

GPO Problem So I’m having an issue configuring a password complexity group policy in my company’s network environment and I’m hoping someone with some solid experience with GPOs can help me out. We came in a while ago as salary workers to replace an out sourced IT department. I’m guessing …

So I’m working on an active directory restructuring project my manager has assigned me to do since the new company name change. Basically the meat and potatoes of it is making new OU containers in the Active Directory and throwing user, printers, computers, distribution and security group objects into their …

Dumb question, but I dont suppose you can boot in saftey mode (by pressing esc or F8 upon startup) I had a friends computer that was presenting similar conditions in that it would just shutoff when it was booting up. If you can at least excess your computer in safety …

So I have a question. Recently while I was in Europe I purchased a Torax AMD 4200 computer bundle complete with an LCD monitor equipped with XP Professional edition… I bought it due to the fact that I was going to be there for a very long time, that taking …

So I'm 25 and really want to be an Information Technologist but I have this problem where the past 5 years of my work experience has been in customer sales and service. While I am good at customer sales I hate it. I dislike having to talk to, and convince …

I think its worth mentioning but the HP dv2500 series are notorious for having defective wireless cards.

There is a variety of reasons why you would get this kind of error message. If you are booting using a recovery partition, then its clear that your recovery partition is faulty and you must recover the operating system using system discs if you are using system discs and are …

Sounds like something you installed if you are able to boot into Safe mode without a blue screen crashing your system. Are you getting an error message that says IRQL_LESS_THEN_OR_EQUAL_TOO? If so conflicting drivers maybe the cause of your personal anguish. Following mjdodds advice and initiating a system restore usually …

So how can you determine a motherboard failure is the culprit for no POST? Here’s my story I recently acquired an Acer Aspire M5700 Desktop system. It was an acceptable system but the chassis it came in was truly horrid. Having a left over antec case I wasn’t using I …

Hay Guys, I have some Vista Horror I’m trying to deal with and I wonder if you might be able to help. My friend has just got a new HP a6724c desktop computer with vista installed straight from the factory. He's had it literally for 2 days and then boot …

So I just want to confirm how to figure out when your motherboard is dead. My Gateway GT5235H Media Center Desktop Computer was functioning fine for a few weeks until suddenly one day when I tried to power it on after about a week of it not being used, the …

So I have a problem that’s driving me crazy and Im worried I wont be able to fix it My friend needed his computer reformatted so he dropped it off to my house. I did the reformatting using the windows discs and a basic installation. He had his motherboard disc …

So I have a problem that’s driving me crazy and Im worried I wont be able to fix it My friend needed his computer reformatted so he dropped it off to my house. I did the reformatting using the windows discs and a basic installation. He had his motherboard disc …

Hi I’ve recently come into possession of a Sony Vaio VGN-N230E notebook computer ([url]http://esupport.sony.com/CA/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=VGNN230E&LOC=3[/url]) and I’m having problems restoring it to factory preset. I got it from a friend who forgot his password. Now I want to reformat it, but the obvious problems arise. I cant access the partition after …

How rewarding would career in information technology be if you enjoy fiddling around with computer software and hardware, troubleshooting and fixing them? Any good and bad experiences anybody from within the field on here care to relate?

Wow, thats one hell of an infected system. As a person interested in becoming a technician, does this kind of sever case happen often?

My older brother recently inherited an older sony laptop P3 [url]http://altura.speedera.net/ccimg.catalogcity.com/210000/213200/213210/Products/6191580.jpg[/url] Its in good running order and operates using the ME addition operating system. He uses it primarily to watch videos that I give him via our home network, but he has a huge projection TV on his side of …

Ok heres my problem, and I intend to explain it in great detail so you can presume that this problem is a lengthy one. I hope someone has the courage to read through all of it and help me out. I'd rather not have to buy a new computer but …

What about surfing pornography sites? They should be pretty bad =P

Hi I’m currently attempting to fix an older Cicero model I’ve had since my mother fried the hard drive a few year ago. It’s an AMD Athlon XP 2200 I believe (although I may be wrong) Anyways after concluding the older hard drive was too damaged to be recovered I …

Recently I uninstalled Lime wire file sharing software after discovering what it [U][B]really[/B][/U] was! Unfortunately it has permanently disabled my task manager from being opened. What exactly can I do to completely rid myself of any lime wire end trail software / spyware and enable my task manager back again …

Ya I'm having the exact same problem since my brother went on my computer, and I'm positive this isnt legitmate software even though its allegedly coming straight from microsoft. How do I get rid of this crap?

Is it just me or is there a problem with the spybot software? Not so long ago when I tried to update the definitions it gave me an error message "!!!bad checksum!" I was having other problems with my system, so I had just reformated my whole drive. Now I …

If say, you suspect you have some viral files that replaced some important window system files lurking about your computer… and regardless of what you try, you cant seem to locate them, let alone get rid of them... And there’s a good chance that it’s the root cause of your …

Has anybody else encountered the same problem I did when they updated their Radieon 9200 graphics card and recieved the Catalyst Display popup features? I updated recently from the Windows update center, and after I restarted aftering downloading my updates, my system ran INCREADIBLY slow. And I mean, everything... from …

Hi, I’m thinking I’m having some Major problems with my systems tower but I’ll just start with the problems I diagnosed from the beginning Incredibly high PF usage: Initially this wasn’t a problem, now it’s sky rocketing to the 300’s when I have slightly more applications open then I generally …

For some reason, regardless of how many times I try to optimize my hard drive (whether through the traditional scan disk defragmenter provided by Windows or speed disk optimizer provided by Norton Antivirus) I can’t get my disk space fragmentation level PAST 78% It was like this since I got …

(I really need to stop harassing you guys with my computer problems on this forum :-|) I just discovered I have the following two variant viruses floating about in my startup module (Probably allot more thanks to this website which I haven’t thoroughly gone over with every suspicious file type …

Is there any other spyware detect software other then the following (that I already have installed on my system) [B]->Lavasoft Adaware 6 ->Spybot - Search and Destroy ->Spyware Blaster[/B] I seem to have spyware components that norton picks up on but that my current spyware engines dont remove. Is there …

Whenever I scan my system using the [B]spybot search and destroy [/B] utility, I always get, with every scan exactly five DSO exploits Every time, I click the check box and every time it tells me it has successfully corrected the problem. Yet like I said before, scanning my system …

I had a similar problem with my Radeon 9200 whenever I played HALO or Call to Duty. Either your card is too low grade to play the game (which im unfamiliar with), or you simply need the new drivers for the graphics card which you can either download from the …

My mothers AMD tower always had problems (mostly because she downloaded practically everything she saw) but recently, aside from all the hideous pop up ads and unwanted programs invading her privacy and downloading themselves onto her computer, her internet has gone completely offline. The CICERO tower was recently brought back …

Not so recently, my mothers Sony Laptop (among being riddled with other countless flaws and errors) Internet Explorer refuses to open up or run. An error box pops up with the following text message every time [b]Explorer has caused in error in SHELLEXT.DLL Explorer will now close. [/b] Now I …