Posts by industry2m

It could possibly be the power cable, replace that one too because i've had that happen but it's very rare.

What kind of power supply are you using (250,300,350,400) ?

and list your specs here like:

- # of hard drives
- # of optical drives
- cpu
- any other hardware that could be drawing power (i.e. pci cards)
- video card

The windows xp boot disk has a built in format option right before it installs windows

You might have a bad power supply or it might not be giving enough juice to power everything. Do you have another power supply to test.

It depends which windows version you have.

I know in XP there is a diagnostic tool for modems. Maybe other windows have it to. You can click on that and it will run a variety of tests on your modem.

Try this program. It's free for like 30 days passmark is great for their test software.

http://www.passmark.com/products/modemtst.htm

I've had the experience of replacing a lot of modems because there is usually a hardware failture on the actual card.

Let me know how it turns out.

If you have a working windows xp cd, then it will have boot support on it.

The problem you're having is that your BIOS boot is probably set to 3.5" drive or Hard drive before the cd rom.

What you're going to have to do is to go into your motherboard BIOS (not physically) and change the boot startup settings. Depending on the type of motherboard you have (see your manual or try F2 / DEL / F10 / F12) when the computer is starting up, it will tell you to press a key for setup. Once you get into that, look for Device startup order. All you have to do is move the cd/dvd rom to the top (1st) and you're good to go (make sure you save the settings before you exit.

Put in your windows xp disk and reboot the pc and you should get teh "PRESS ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM CD ROM...." or some crap like that.

I hope this is helpful :)

NCase is Adware not a trojan (that's a good thing - sort of).

I know you said you ran you spyware removal programs but do the following. One of the biggest problems people make is running spyware or virus removal software in normal windows running mode. A lot of the times, some of the strong viruses / spyware cannot be stopped in this mode. Therefore you have to do it in safe mode.

- install the newest version of Ad Aware SE (make sure you do the updates)
- install spybot the newest version and run the updates
- update your antivirus defenition files
- don't scan yet
- restart your pc in SAFE MODE (press F8 when it's starting up and you'll get a menu)
- once you're in safe mode run adawre, then spybot, then antivirus.

Lastly check your startup log (START, RUN, MSCONFIG) and look for weird items that look unusal. How do you know it's weird, well just type in the name in google. For example, if you see "ncase.exe", write it down then go into normal windows mode with internet access. Go to google type that in and do some research on it. Then you can decide if that is a real windows task or spyware/virus.

Hope this is helpful :cheesy:

It sounds like the reason your computer is freezing is because you installed a new motherboard and didn't do a clean install. With Windows, this is like asking for the blue screen of death (BSOD) and you're lucky that you didn't get it. Anytime you make major hardware changes (especially motherboard) you should do a clean install because windows is bound to fail.

Also, try doing some researching and reading some articles and following links that Catweazle gave you instead of asking a question every 5 seconds.

All I have to say is "HA". I love windows and how it has revolutionized computing but it's very buggy.

eXPerience a whole bunch of new holes, problems and other unstable windows features

That's weird. When I turned off or reset my computer it was fine. but then I come back 8 hours after shutting down the darn thing and the resolution is reset again to 640x480.

does your resolution for your monitor reset everytime you reboot?

We need more info:

--> what kind of video card do you have
--> driver version of the video card

Oh man. I think I got it.

I disabled the nvidia startup program (nwiz.exe) and it seems like now it is fine.

:mrgreen:

Have you tried resetting your security settings under INTERNET OPTIONS. Maybe they are on too high.

Try restoring the defaults.

Catweazle is right. It sounds like there is either something wrong with the memory or the settings of the memory in the BIOS - it could also be the video card memory causing this problem.

Get a program to test the memory:

http://www.memtest86.com

or get burn in test pro http://www.passmark.com/download/index.htm

- let us know the results of the test

Hi,

I just installed a new driver from Nvidia's site on my computer (Driver:6.1.7.6 - official driver). I have a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440.

Now everytime I restart my computer, the resolution is set back to 640x480.

This is really weird and I've never seen this before. The only problem that I think would be causing this is that I have Windows XP SP2 installed (the final release not beta)

If anyone has any ideas or has this happend to you? :eek: