Posts by caperjack

if its not in emulation mode, you cannot install xp unless you nlite in the chipset drivers
thats because XP does not natively support SATA

that i realize ,my question was when i set it to emulate ,do i change it back in the bios after the install of xp

How do you re-intall a video driver when you have no interface to work with?

hi,if you are referring to the problem you are having with the computer not showing on the monitor ,i think you need to make sure that computer is working ,windows would use a default video driver ,and load and show big icons ,like as if you were in safe mode !!!,if no drivers are installed for you video card

i have a ? when you do this ,"SATA is set to IDE Emulation Mode" do you turn it back on after you install winxp ,thanks ,sorry to butt in

i would guess revolutions per minute, never hear of Response per minuter ,nano seconds maybe!lol

Yes the pc is working as far as I know.

if it worked it would show on the monitor !!
i would unplug all power to drives and remove any pci addin cards
Then i would start with the power supply ,if you have one to swap with !
its also possible its the motherboard or the processor ,

my all icon clear on my desktop.what can i do.

hi,you might want to re-phrase that ,what is "my all icon clear " do you mean that there are no icons at all on you desktop.
If yes ,do,ALT+ctrl+del ,and in the task manager go to File,new task ,and type in EXLPORER.EXE ,hit enter

don't know about you pixels but the fan action is normal,only comes back on when it gets hot .
i would guess the pixels problem is either lcd or video driver related

Trouble is, when changing out the DIMM, the PC saw the correct sizes every time ??

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so the computers boots to a screen where yo ucan see the ram count ,and does it just sit there beeping ,
also, the bios chip makers, is what you need to reference for the beep codes ,the bios chip is on the motherboard . if it AMI BIOS
check this .link.
http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm.

and this one that suggest its possible the motherboard and not the ram .check the Recommendation by the red hand
http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/beep/amiB3-c.html

hi ,i think if you go to control panel ,add and remove programs ,and check show updates at the top ,ie 7 should show up in the list .i hate it too ,i use 6 when needed and Firefox for my default browser
adding this !
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927177

ok
i try ur suggesion.ok tell me when i remove msoffice then i have to take the back up of my all word file or not

uninstalling office will not delete saved files .before you uninstall it try the following
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may i suggest this program before you buy Kaspersky 2009 .
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Download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

(http://www.majorgeeks.com/Malwarebytes_Anti-Malware_d5756.html) to your

desktop.

* Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
* At the end, be sure to checkmark the Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and

Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, then click Finish.
* If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.
* Once the program has loaded, select Perform full scan, then click Scan.
* When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
* Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.
* When completed, a log will open in Notepad.
post the log back here.

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also suggest this program for after you use malwarebytes ,run its cleaner and registry cleaner functions . www.ccleaner.com

Hello,it could be the power supply going bad ,and bad psu can give power but just not enough to fully boot the beast !

Hi ,you may need to download this program from another computer to get it ,but i suggest you run malwarebytes first off.
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Download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

(http://www.majorgeeks.com/Malwarebytes_Anti-Malware_d5756.html) to your

desktop.

* Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
* At the end, be sure to checkmark the Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and

Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, then click Finish.
* If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.
* Once the program has loaded, select Perform full scan, then click Scan.
* When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
* Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.
* When completed, a log will open in Notepad.
post the log back here

agree with hughv,
also when you run hijackthis you should close IE, Bob posted a link for malwarebytes in post #2

No one else got suggestions??

Hi I do ,the other day i have a customers computer with a pile of nasty on it ,i fixed and had it back to them in 2 hrs .
What i did ! save personal data , stuck the winxp cd in the drive and rebooted ,deleted partition ,created a new partition,formatted it, and installed winxp ,and put the personal file back and protection programs on ,and gave it back to customer ,just over 2 hrs ,not 8 dys ,sometimes you just goots give up!
Good luck

Main Memory

• Supports 2 unbuffered DIMM of 1.8 Volt DDR2 SDRAM
• Supports up to 2GB memory size
• Support Dual Channel DDR2 533/667 MHz and up(*DDR2 Memory Modules are not the same as DDR Memory Module, please check your memory vendor for more information)

==================the above is from this site
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=945GCM5-F_V2&class=mb

FN usually works in tune with a num lock key in the top row of keys,
sound more like maybe you split something on the keyboard though

if it 3 short beeps it like a ram problem ,have you tried it with just one of the ram stick in the board ,are you sure its the right ram for the board ,is it DDR2 533/667
do you get anything on the screen at bootup,like can you get into the bios ,if yes install the bios defaults and save and reboot ,maybe, maybe not

if the laptop works when you have it plugged in ,and its not charging the battery then its likely kaputt! my old ibm battery only charges enough to turn it on and then it tells me to plug it in quick

to me that means it going bad ,and formatting will likely fail also !

i took out the hard drive and put it in a enclosure kit and tryed to get the info off it but all it will say is the drive isnt formated../QUOTE] that the key to your problem ,the hard drive is gone bad

alt+ctrl+del ,3 times at the login screen,before you try and log into your user acct! then type in administrator, this should open the admin account

Wanna know the brand name,version..etc..!!!!

almost impossible to find this info out with out opening box, or running software like, SIW.
http://www.gtopala.com/

Hello, Iam new to this group, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about my issue below. I check the pysical connections already its a Dell, I hope to aviod replacing my LCD screen, hopfully their are some troubleshooting fixes before I have to do that. Thank you

laptop screen appears to be malfunctioning, i.e. computer on, screen is off

first thing to do is try hooking the laptop to a regular computers monitor ,you connect the monitor and use the FN [function]key along with the corresponding F key maybe F5 or f7 ,the one with the 2 little monitors on it ,if the laptop displays correctly on that monitor ,you have a lcd problem

9 yr old drives will be ide/ata connection ,new may be SATA connection ,so it will only work as long as you new motherboard has IDE plug on the board ,they are getting scarce,but usually have one! its sometime in use by a ide cdrom device ,but you could disconnect the cdrom and slave a harddrive to it

Hi, fellow traveler,

I was wondering if anyone gave you a fix for uninstalling explorer 7.0 to go back to 6.0, as that is my exact problem!

Thank you!
daygokid

try going to control panel add and remove program and click on show updates at the top and it should show ie7 in there somewhere ,i dont have 7 on my computer

try this see if it helps ,i guess you can skip the part about stopping the autoupdate service,and go to part 2
It may be you have a virus!
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Method 1: Register the Wups2.dll file in Windows
To register the Wups2.dll file in Windows, follow these steps:
1. Stop the Automatic Updates service. To do this, follow these steps:
a. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.

b. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
net stop wuauserv

2. Register the Wups2.dll file. To do this, follow these steps:
a. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\wups2.dll

Note For a computer that is running Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
regsvr32 %windir%\syswow64\wups2.dll

b. Click OK on each verification message that you receive.

3. Start the Automatic Updates service. To do this, type the following command at the command prompt, and then press ENTER:
net start wuauserv

Yup all that junk that I've been adding to fix the computer is what slowed it down. She boots up just fine now but the computer is still totally useless if I want to do any searches on the internet.

Not!

have no idea sorry! check link
http://www.google.ca/search?q=XPDM&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

I think your right caperjack, just looking at mine now, it doesnt seem to be real time.

didn't thins ,but if you look further ,you will see you can now pay for your AVG and it will become active

But AVG 8.0 is the best free anti-virus and anti-spyware package.

yes ,but if im correct i don't think the spyware function is real time in the free version

yeah tried safe mode with and without prompts it loads one page and tries to load a second but freezes. thanks for the advice

maybe overheating ,open the case and vacuum or blow out all dustbunnies ,making sure fans are free of dirt/dust.

ati2dvag, if a file for you ATI video adapter/chipset ,check it out here 1
http://www.modernstreet.com/general/ati2dvag-problem/

is there standalone AVG 8 Antispyware?
I will visit them later but if it exixts, let me know

Not anymore but they did do this ! it's complete internet security.antivirus and antispyware in one
http://free.avg.com/

yes I did, nothing happend

ok ,so changing a harddrive will not affect the ram count ,so one stick stopped working ,remove one stick and boot computer ,if computer boots ,then remove and replace ram with the other stick ,if computer boots ,then you know both stick work ,so that leads me to think that they don't work together,seen it many time ,if they did work together before them i'm at a lost for a reason ,sorry

We dont know, but if thats the case we cant really answer any questions on retreiving deleted data, backing data up, installing software, finding or changing product keys due to borked installations, how to format a pc ... where do we stop :-)

none of the above are asking for a password they don't have cant get either [as it says in this posters post !],

I have an ibm laptop and i don't seem to remember the password.thank u

sorry we cant help with lost passwords on this site against the rules,just google you problem

Oh, I see, going through it I can find some errors in Application. Mostly from crypt32 & Application Hang and theres a few warnings from Userenv, MsiInstaller, WinMgmt.
There is also some errors in System.
What do I do now?

in event viewer it gives dates/time of error go to one that is close to the last time you have blue screen error [also next time you get error write down the 00000000xx [312823000xc ] something like that ] double click on the error , then click on the blue gomicrosoft.com link and then click yes .and you will then see the details of the error if its the bsod error you should see the 0xxxxxxx0x numbers there if so post the number back here

i tried to open the 'My Documents' folder on the old harddrive in the new OS, but it gives me the simple "Access is denied" message and won't let me access the file from that hard drive.

hi ,this happens to me when trying to save file for customers ,by putting there hdd in my computer ,its cause is related to the fact that there was a password on the account when you used this drive , ii would just put the drive back in there computer and remove the password ,but of course there are times when that wasn't possible because windows was corrupt/or blue screening .i then would have to try a "chkdsk /f" to get the computer working to remove the password ,

you could also try this if you are using winxp Pro,
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810881

If you are running XP Home it is a bit more difficult.
You have to boot into SAFE MODE by pressing F8 while the computer boots, then log onto an administrator account.

the blue screen error # make not of it and post it back here .also go to start /run and put this , eventvwr.msc ,in and check for error in system

haha thanks, but I don't like spending money where I don't need to. I'll figure it out eventually and just keep using my laptop until then.

yup! me to

How do I know what kind of RAM chips to buy to replace my current beat up 256mb chip

also i just read the other post you made and were giving a link to run and it will tell you what ram it needs

what does it actually call it in device manager ,and if you leave the yellow ! it should stop looking for it on bootup,or if you go threw the install just keep saying yes until it says it cant fine file ,click ok, and it should stop looking ,
you say you think it your radeon card ,did you get drivers for and install them ,.also it maybe the video controller /chipset driver for you motherboard
does device manager show you radeon in the video section !!

I tried loading with each of my different desktop mems and neither of them fixed the problem, just made me waste like 4 hours reformatting my comp a couple more times.

time to call a tow truck and haul it to a mechanic

search google!!
http://www.edgetechcorp.com/memory/upgrade.asp?cid=27548

http://www.laptopmemoryupgrade.com/memory/IBMThinkPadT22TT2xxUKMemory.html

My IT guy at work cant fix it. My techy friend says my bios is corrupted.

cheap fix ,a 5 dollar hammer !
you friend is correct if the info in the post here is correct ,the post who says he fixes this is referring to the bos

I have tried Giant Anti.... but is very limited.
Steve

microsoft bought Giant ,thats what windows Defender is !

I use spybot,and its Immunize ,and malwarebytes along with symantecs anti virus,on xp not vista !

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2008/10/13/marks-spencer

and

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2008/10/10/hackers-break

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2008/10/13/malicious-microsoft

possible you connection between the mp3 and the computer is only mono and not stereo wire!
also have to as what the point in playing the wave through the mp3 player if you already have it on the computer ?? just curious

rules of the forum are that we shouldn't help with this issue ,how do we know the laptop wasn't stolen !!