Posts by jbennet

Okay this is prettymuch Crunchies domain. He is kind of a master of HJT logs and usually hangs out on this board. give it a day or two and see if he checks in.

You can toggle the setting on the menu where you can select safe mode etc...
At least on windows server you can , not sure about xp

Run MBAM. Do the quick scan THEN do a full scan. Fix any detected infections in both cases (leave the full scan overnight). Reboot, then run hijackthis. DO NOT remove anything using HijackThis, just post the log here and we will comb through it

Stick in your XP cd, and go into the recovery console.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654

use it to configure the Bootloader and install it by using "fixboot" and "bootcfg" (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291980). Cant rember which one you need to do first, if it matters,.

no problem. One tip by the way - do not install IE7. It will be slow. Stick with IE6.

Moved to the spyware and nasties board. will get more attention there

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

You could run an antivirus, just dont enable the realtime protection, thats what eats memory (bad thing is that then means its only good at clearing them once you are infected, and you have to remember to manually scan)

windows firewall is generally fine, especially if you are behind a router

So it will need support for windows file/print sharing?
Will it need wireless?

AVG and zone alarm are not reccomended for machines with less than 512 of ram.

If you are going to buy a new hard drive get the biggest one you can affort

The fact his machine has a 20gb leads me to believe its an ancient machine in which case he may have a drive size cap of some sort

20 gigs is too small for vista. A clean install of vista uses like 4 to 20gb alone. 40gb+ is the minimum reccomended.

Buy a bigger hard drive and reinstall.

Yeah there are lists but it kind of depends on what you intend to do with it.

Tell me what you need the machine to do and I will make you a list services + settings suitable for you.

Using the classic theme + disabling the themes service also increases speed, as is using the classic login instead of the welcome screen.

For which architechture? is that x86 asm?

consult your reference manual

we cant do much with the info you gave us

put the content in /var/www usually

Works fine for me on VPC 2007 SP1

Make the VM, and at the top click CD then Capture ISO Image.

Point it at the saved .iso file. Click open. It should then boot off the cd no problem.

Control panel -> system -> performance
Control panel -> admin tools -> services

Xp pro x64 is crap. Nothing runs on it

The Vista 64 bit version(s) aee much better, but i dont think there is any upgrade path to it.

There aint any real need to get the full amount available. Most games etc.. wont even take advantage of 4gb+ . Dont worry about it

Flashing the BIOS means updating it

Glad you got it sorted. Ive got an old Thinkpad R30 (pentium 3 650mhz, 128mb ram, 25gb hdd). I upgraded the ram to 384 and it runs fine with xp. Runs a lot faster if you disable visual effects and tweak the services.

It originally shipped with Win98 and Windows 2000 pro. Windows 2000 seemed much faster than XP but its getting a bit long in the tooth these days.

Yeah, it will not use all your ram to full effect, it will only use about 3gb. Thats normal.

What OS?
Is it a 32 bit OS?

Windows 32-bit wont use more than about 3gb of ram, no matter how much you have installed

Safe mode only loads the core microsoft windows drivers. If its vista compatibile. then that means it should aught to work..

Is it compatible with 64 bit vista though?

boot into safe mode and see if it does it

You almost always need to reinstall windows (repair usually works too) after changing a motherboard. After that, reinstall the motherboard drivers for the new board,

motherboard model?
CPU?

can it not see it in both the BIOS and the OS?

No problem. Marked as solved.

Your windows installer database has somehow become corrupted. use this to convince the system that itunes is no longer installed
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

then you can reinstall

red the whole page. this isnt guaranteed to work and could leave you with a broken system etc...

lol inhaling cigars like cigarettes = bad idea

Yeah i dont know how the HTC works but ive got a hp ipaq and i can do this:

go into file explorer, find the .exe and do copy

then go /windows/start menu

then you can do paste as shortcut

Ubuntu will run extremely slowly, if at all on that hardware. That machine needs a ram upgrade to say 256 though, then it will be fine for a very light window manager or command line operation as a lamp server.

In relation to your question, yes, you will have to partition your hard drive. Install windows FIRST and when partitioning, do not make the windows partition (c) the full size of the drive. The space left over can be used for linux. Most modern distrubutions can dual boot with windows very easialy and some include the facility to shrink the windows partitions of already installed systems.

One without a GUI. The CPU and Ram will be too slow for a decent GUI.

The hdd is no problem. A web server with a CLI will use 300-700mb. Neither is the vid card.

If you intend to run MySQL you need 256mb minimum or you will get strange errors.

See tutorial here for a command line debian based system:

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread78131.html

? what do you mean jen?

Yeah batteries only have a life of about 2 years. Same with mobile phones etc... its just the way it is

You need to download the BIOS update from the ibm/lenovo site and install it. either run it from an older operating system (put the old hard drive in with win98 on?) or use the floppy-based version

Follow the usual precautions for flashing a BIOS. Exercise caution, understand what you are doing, and DO NOT turn off your machine during the flash.

You need to update the BIOS i think

I had a very old R series and in order to get XP to run on it i needed a BIOS update

its the same with win98. A key will work so long as it passes the check (for a long time it was something like the key was valid ifs sum divided by 7 or something) which meant made up keys would work.

yeah 1 to 3 hours is average

I got a Lenovo c200. 1.78ghz Core Duo and 2gb of ram, dvd, wifi, and 120gb hdd. I get 1.5 to 2 hours out of it.

As a general rule with pc laptops, less than an hour is bad (but acceptable for a used laptop as after a few years the battery will be worn out so it only works for like 20-45 mins) and more than 3 hours is good.

marked as solved

like i said, its not possible

office versions prior to 2002(xp) did not store the key as there was no need to (no product activation), they merely checked if it *seemed* to be a valid key at install time

Nah that wont work. Dont UNIX machines operate using UTC offsets so that it doesnt cause problems with timestamps on WANs?

What country are you in?
If you are in the EU you get like 12 months guarantee on all electronics, if they break the retailer must fix/replace it.

Are they both free?

Probably easier to get it repaired, that way you dont run the risk of getting another one that has some sort of dead pixels

What is the refresh rate set to?
Resolution?

Using VGA or DVI?

There is always a tiny bit of flicker evident in monirors but you generally shouldnt be able to see it unless you look real hard.

nope, if your dell didnt ship with an HT processor, you cant enable it

Dells have very limited BIOS options.

When you do that, you will then see the drive, and it will just show up as Unknown Partition(s) as windows doesnt support most linux formatted drives. Delete all the unknown partitions (D key i think) then make a new one (C key i think). Hit enter on the new partition and choose to format as NTFS.

XP cant see SATA disks out of the box, you need to use F6 and a floppy, or slipstream the controller drivers using something like nlite. Altenatively go into the BIOS and try setting your disk to IDE Emulation mode.

Is it a SATA disk?

This was pretty old. It was like 20-40gb in size and was an upgrade for an NT4 box (found NT4 wouldnt ket you have a C bigger than like 4gb or 8gb or something, so i upgraded to win2k) so maybe early 2000s, perhaps it was ahead of its time, which is why it died.

Best hard drives are server ones seemingly. Ive got some 2.1gb (old) hotswappable 7200rpm (mush have been blazingly fast 'back in the day') SCSI drives in a compaq server and it runs 24/7 for like the 6+ years i have had it lol (before that it ran for like up to 5 years with someone else). Only one of the three disks has died which is real impressive.

The recovery disks will work regardless of whether windows has the correct drivers or not. You boot off of the recovery media using the BIOS, they will run independantly of any installed OS. If you cant even boot off of them using the BIOS, then its a hardware fault.

Delete all your old system restiore points to make sure viri dont live there. disable it, reboot, then re-enable it (under the properties for the volume in my computer) to do this.

For me, Avast is the one to keep. I would take Avira before AVG.

Yeah AVG has been having issues with killing XP installs lately

Also, check your HOSTS file. It should contain only:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

127.0.0.1       localhost

basically, but they can all be subdivided.

DOS and dDOS. dDOS can also be done non-maliciously e.g the slashdot effect