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I personally wouldn't advise you tinkering with the psu without the necessary know-how. I'd suggest you take it to a certified electronic technician and have it checked out. Electrocution is not a very pretty way of making a grand exit in life.. :cheesy:

I don't understand why they have to develop/release/sell something new when the not so old ones still work... I mean, you have winXP, win98 and win2k... they're working fine as long as you don't screw them up yourselves, and they can be easily updated using service packs... I say don't …

I think I remember encountering the same problem a while back. I installed windows xp, installed an antivirus and then while installing i was hooked up to the internet. I discovered that there was a virus infecting my computer even before I get to install and update the anti-virus and …

I never really had that problem. I've used W2k with SP4 running Office97 and everything was running smoothly until that damn sasser virus destroyed my life :cheesy: then I was forced to upgrade to XP.

[QUOTE=Drumstik]Does anybody know what services are safe to disable or set to manual? Also, what recommendations to use as far as turning off themes, using a screen saver, power setting options, i want to get the best optimization possible. Thanks in advance[/QUOTE] Go to 'control panel' .. double click on …

(blows a whistle) prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!! I think it's high time we go back to the original topic of this thread, don't you?

I agree! you might've accidentally touched something inside your PC. most of the time it's the video card but just to be sure reseat other cables as well, and all those other stuff you have inside too.. oh! and don't forget the Memory modules too...

I agree with Catweazl, 10Gb of space for windows is enough but I'd suggest you upsize it a bit up to 20Gb. It's always better to separate all your data files from your system files, this way, it makes reformatting and re-installation of your OS safer and easier.

I believe this is a glitch in the winxp SP2, or so i've been told. I also experience the same thing using an optical and ball mouse. I've tried doing some reading about this and many people have been experiencing this very same problem.

I don't think you can fix the problem without the office XP CDs. The same thing happened to me under Win2k, but fortunately, I have the CDs with me.

[QUOTE=chound]What is the use of svchost?[/QUOTE] Here is an excerpt from a website I found using google. [quote]"Svchost.exe" (Generic Host Process for Win32 Services) is an integral part of Windows OS. It cannot be stopped or restarted manually. It manages 32-bit DLLs and other services. At startup, Svchost.exe checks the …

It's most probably wear and tear. In my past experiences, spywares just screw up windows and not the hardware.

does it work on win2k?

Pigkisser, can you give a more detailed specs of your computer. Is it an old computer? is the USB port an expansion or is it built into the motherboard. Models and brands can be of great help too. Maybe we can help you look for the driver online.

[QUOTE=Steve Dodds]...The MB is P4, but I am running a Celeron 2.6.[/QUOTE] It could be this, maybe the mobo only supports P4 processors.

have you tried hooking up your computer to another monitor? it could be the monitor. Another possible cause could be the video card, I just discarded an old video card that does something similar to the problem you're having. Try hooking it up to another monitor to see if it's …

I'm gonna give it a try.

I would tell you about me but I know you won't give a damn anyway, so I might as well don't... :P

does the computer perform it's POST and stops at bootup? or is the monitor just simply dead when you turn it on? I agree with alex, it'd be the video card. unplug all of your USB devices and start it up again so you'll know if it's the USB.

[QUOTE=MAD_DOG]If you tried those two & it didn't remove the spyware man seriously I know people might disagree with me but, I think it might be time to reformat. Besides you'll get good practice.[/QUOTE] But of course, a reformat should always be the last resort... which means, if all else …

those were the days, :) well, kids today would never think of running around and chasing each other all day means fun... and during my younger years (dang, i hate saying that) all you have to do to find your friends was go out of the house, but most of …

This thread has been moved to Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 since the question is about Windows XP.

try installing a separate NIC, if it works then it is probably the problem. you can always disable an onboard NIC

have you tried contacting sony? i'm sure they have a replacement...

click, click, click, click... if you ever get it to work, salvage what you can and get rid of that HDD. It's gonna be next to useless after a while...

[QUOTE=mrlau]I have a win98se setup cd.But its not a upgrade ver. Can I upgrade my computer from win98 to win98se with the cd?[/QUOTE] I think you can do that... but i'm not 100% sure since i don't do upgrades, it's either i stick wit what i have or have a …

DBZ rulezzz...

IMHO, I don't think that much money is worth spending just to be able to play some st.p.d game (sorry for the word)... Well of course, if you are to use it for other purposes such as web design, server, or anything that might give you a return on the …

4 more months and the thread that you responded to is already a year old... :P

not trying to offend or flame anybody, but i don't think it's that good a series... I'd rather watch Enterprise and drool over T'Pol, or a rerun of Star Trek Voyager and again drool over Seven of Nine... :)

I guess late if better than never... :)

maybe it's really something that those people who makes these malwares exploit. don't you think?

what are they trying to do? drive their users away?

KT is correct, the quicklaunch toolbar is no different from your icons on the desktop. It's more like a smaller version of the start menu.

[QUOTE=Marvel] Please help me with this as I cant think what else to do but buy another hard disk.. I know I should have used partition magic but I thought I'd be clever.. that'll teach me!!![/QUOTE] We learn from trying out new things, this is a good example... once u …

I would suggest you use PartitionMagic or anything of the likes. It can resize/create/remove partitions without deleting your files.

I don't think you can make a windows boot disk while running linux. But then again, I might be wrong...

and me! (I'm starting to read on stuff and i cant seem to get any of it on my head)

so, generally, Linux is a freeware branch of unix??? am i correct?

Actually, it's supposed to be a site for beginners since what we really want to do is help those in need. I'd offer all the help I can give... :)

Try booting from a diskette. If you're hard drive is formatted in NTFS then download [url=http://www.NTFS.com]NTFS Reader DOS Boot Disk[/url] and back-up all your files. After that, you can reformat the hard drive and do a fresh install of your Windows XP Home. This might be cheaper than getting a …

I once saw a virus that spells scvhost.exe, I almost didn't notice it except that the anti-virus im running alerted me about it. multiple instances of svchost.exe running at the same time is perfectly normal, except if you are infected with the blaster worm that executes it and takes up …

nice, that issue never came up to me. It's really nice to know something new... :)

maybe you can try using it on a different computer. just to check if it's the printer that's causing the problem or not...

I had a friend who swapped his 32MB video card for my 16MB one... not really sure why... the video card works fine and I'm using it now... maybe sometimes we get lucky and we have to make sure we make the most of it... :)

It's most probably a problem with your phone line. Try and contact your telephone operator and ask them about modem connection speeds, but try and ask your Internet provider first if it's a problem on their side.

If you're installing XP, might as well boot from the CD and format the whole thing... there's an option that asks you to format the HDD giving you less work to be done...

Microsoft's not Microsoft without the loopholes... :D

i was always wondering what the difference between an hsf and an hcf modem was... any ideas?

I already asked this question when i was a few months registered here... this [url=http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread3370.html]thread[/url] i started last February might be worth reading. Most of the replies i got were very informative...