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If the fault is persistent, then there is a serious startup condition to be resolved. The suspects I'd suggest in no order of likelihood are: 1/ Your graphics card which presumably has its own BIOS and does a lot reaching into main RAM 2/ Your motherboard RAM esp. if it's …

Something has caused your PC to turn off and I suggest has fried a component or damaged RAM in a spike. Something like that.

I think you're gonna get the same advice here as in your other post! As I recall from your other post you were in some sort of re-install having deleted the Norton SW. I pointed you to a MS KB article that was pretty close to your scenario. What happened? …

Since you've posted two not dissimilar problems, I'd suspect a virus or trojan that has altered your registry to restrict what you can do. The Spyware section of this forum will advise what to download (like AVG Anti-Spyware) to detect what the cause could be. best I can suggest on …

Could you possibly have had a virus infection that attacked this system file and your AV program deleted it? If your system is now clean, you can try repairing windows from the CD-Rom.

Try removing the slower RAM and work in a slightly crippled mode to see if there's stability. Also see what your BIOS reports about the RAM you've currently got in. It should be alright as mentioned by Serunson - but anything can go wrong and first principles are always a …

Quite possibly, there was a surge when power came back. Less likely but possible is that the CPU temperature rose too far when it was switched off because the fan went off at the same time. Like on those projectors whwre the fan stays on for a few minutes to …

To check whether the disk has been corrupted, you could put it into an enclousre and attach it via USB to another PC. You do need to see whether or not the disk is at all recognisable anywhere else.

You can save data on the hard drive by putting it onto a second machine and copying stuff off. Your main problem, however, requires a repair means and that comprises the XP CD. How did your PC get into this state? Is there any history to assist diagnosis?

Is there an IE6? Otherwise it strikes me that you may need to dig back into your old freebie disks and hoik out a copy of IE or FireFox to get you out of the trap. And isn't IE6 on your original Windows disk so you can repair it back …

Pardon my dumb question - what domain? Presumably your local network domain? The one you have to specify (like Workgroup)? What do you see in My Networks? Have you got the TCP setting right? etc.

I think you've been hit by a Virus or Trojan. These things don't happen by themselves. Something's altered the policies. You may have some luck if you log in as Administrator with the likely null passowrd it defaults, or whatever you set it to. But I'm not optimistic. Presumably you've …

To get onto an even keel, I would at least put a wired device pair onto your PC using the PS/2 ports; these devices are cheap enough. Then look at Kaspersky options for dealing with Proactive Defense. I don't think you'll want to go back to your original combination! Good …

It can be quite difficult to advise at this sort of distance as we don't see what you see. I'll assume you've got a clean XP system built and the only device not seen by windows is the Ethernet Controller (other than the PCMCIA adapter). So XP is behaving correctly. …

I'd like to add to Virtual's advice and differ in one respect. GHz matters. If you run a single threaded program in a 2.4GHz core2 duo PC, it'll take the same time to run as a single core 2.4GHz CPU with the same cache size nd same XP. The core2 …

[QUOTE=misscoolness236;445747]Hello! I was hoping that someone could help me with the problem that I am having. Last week, for no rhyme or reason, my computer stop recognizing my CD-RW and DVD-RW drives. I have had this happen before, so I did the registry edit fix, but this time it didn't …

Windows doesn't need to be told by anything other than the BIOS that there is another HDD. What does the BIOS report on boot up?

What happens when you plug the device in again? Is the USB device capable of booting, in which case you can demote it in the Boot list in BIOS.

Have a look at your BIOS settings and play with the AGP options (like disabling fast write); going from 8x to 4x. Make one change at a time to observe results.

Looks like your monitor is going into a test cycle. But you haven't provided much by way of description so I'm guessing.

Have you checked for bent pins? Does the screen's internal menu work OK? What happens in Safe Mode?

In my experience, if the repair function from the XP CD won't work, you've got problems that are best sorted out by a Windows re-install. You shouldn't need to lose any data by doing a Windows re-install, and you will need your applications CDs etc. If you are worried about …

Try booting into Safe Mode which will force 640 x 480. Then you can reset things.

When I fixed my daughter's laptop, nothing short of a full software rebuild (preceded by Format) could get back to a working state. It didn't take me long to work out that I could spend the rest of my life trying by any other means.

Have a look in your BIOS as to your AGP settings. Are your 8x / 4x options correctly set? Have you selected FastWrite? If so, try reversing the setting. It's a memory conflict issue you've got and I'd bet the answer lies in a software setting.

It's possible that by leaving the PC on, you've been hacked. Anyway, first step if you haven't tried it is to boot into safe mode as Administrator (presumably there is a null password for this default account). You can then reset passwords for other accounts. If you have tried this, …

I wasn't aware that 64 bit programs will work at all on a 32 bit OS.

In past Dell Latitudes I've had to remove the CD drive and reinsert it to get recognised. That would do for a while till I had to do the same thing. It was the drive itself that was knackered. I bought an external USB device to get round this.

I would always use NTFS because of the 2GB addressing restriction on FAT. So: 1/ FDISK the drive to a single volume NTFS 20GB 2/ Format the disk appropriately 3/ Reinstall XP from the CD 4/ Then report problems in detail

Have you searched the similar posts on this forum? Apart from that, you should boot in Safe Mode. If you can do that regularly without problems, then there's something happening at normal startup that needs diagnosis in Safe Mode; like what's being loaded etc. So try that and report.

I recently had the same choice to make and I also chose the same Quad as you. I have an application that can work across as many processors that you tell it and so 4 is better than 2. Another point, I can do 4 things on my PC where …

I've always worked on the principle that memory slot pairs should be balanced. Also, in your CPU manual, it'll tell you how to balance the 4 slots on your mobo. I suspect your problem will go away if you match the 512MB card in the other slot. I'm assuming that …

We have to be very careful what we advise here, IMHO. It could be a Trojan, especially if therte's more to the error message like asking you to download some control or other to fix the problem. So you're best advised to go across to the Spyware section and do …

Windows XP will crawl with a Pentium 2. As advised, simply don't do it. If you [U]need[/U] XP, then buy/build something current with at least 1GB RAM on it.

There's another thread here that deals with the 3.5GB report against 4GB actual and it points to a relevant MS KB article. But in your case it'll be something else. I presume you've got the memory specs right and teverything is nice and symmetrical. What does the BIOS report when …

Date of thread start so I've removed my nonsense.

In my experience, things that happen to IE are done by external agents such as add-ons. Non-benign add-ons are spyware, trojans and viruses. Benign add-ons include Adobe Acrobat - and a bug there would be reported as an error in IE. So have done these scans? Do you have any …

You've had a lot of advice from the above posts. All decent AV packages can be set to low or high intervention according to your requirements. You can make the package scan everything in and out, inspect URLs, dance sing and provide the Hallelujah Chorus if you wish. As Ox00 …

This article might help: [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/82001[/url] It means that your data might not be properly constructed or there is a bug in the VB programming of MagicTool (whatever that program is).

O2 - BHO: (no name) - {4EBC417D-C9A7-4FD3-8135-7E33E63B051F} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ssqrr.dll O20 - Winlogon Notify: ljjkheb - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ljjkheb.dll O20 - Winlogon Notify: ssqrr - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ssqrr.dll These look dodgy and as Gerbil suspects, you need to get rid of a Trojan. I didn't see a telltale ldoger (.EXE) in your root C:\ - …

Did you look at Task Manager/Processes-->CPU? That will tell you what is hogging your CPUU, assuming it is still running when things have loaded. Look in your Registry at the RUN key to see what's being started up and in which order. If your desktop has data files on it …

I assume it's IE7. On the icon bar with the home page icon (and your browser tabs), click the TOOLS option and then select Menu Bar. That should do it.

You can record a macro that follows your clicks to the directory containing your PDF files. The macro can go on to insert object and you finish it off from there for the specific file. That macro becomes a button in a cell and it takes you there to select …

ANything can happen to your PC when the power fails. I too would have said that you should boot the last known good configuration from the F8 options. If that doen't work you likely have a more serious problem on your hands. You'll be lucky if all you have to …

I recall this problem on a Dell laptop a couple of months ago. My daughter hd got it into a right state. Most of the desktop icons had gone to a default image. The programs themselves were missing from their folders. If that''s your problem, then you're stuffed. I copied …

Yes. I did it (once) and although it works perfectly well I won't do it again because of complications later when you want to change things round and can't remember exactly what you've done. Write it all down!

Macros, Visual Basic, MS Access or SQL Server. These tools enable you to program what you need to accomplish.

In my experience it's likely to be a hardware drivers problem. I can't guarantee that but it's what comes first to mind. Try a number of things in this order so as to build progress incrementally: 1/ Boot up and interrupt the BIOS so as to get into its settings. …

what happens when you look in [I]My Network Places\Entire Network\Microsoft Windows Network[/I]? You should see locally attached network devices and can reconnect that way. or is there something you haven't told us about the nature of your Z: drive? Like exactly where does it sit?

Why isn't the Task Manager/Processes table being analysed here? Whatever's hogging the CPU will be clearly displayed.