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| | I am having a problem that seems may be common today. I get redirected to random websites when I click on search engine links and I also get a "Failed to Connect" message when I try to access antivirus web sites. My AVG earlier today detected "trojan horse SHeur:chkn" today. …  |
| | Well poop. I have an older Toshiba Satellite (S304-model, methinks). I'm cheap, and a conservationist, so I've been trying to keep the old girl going. Replaced the dying hard drive about 6 months ago, and everything's been kosher til now. Here is the skinny: 1. New thing when booting.... Before …  |
| | Hi all from this post you will soon realise that I am very inexperienced with regards to Networking. So any easy to undestand and help given would be much appreciated. At the moment I have cable Internet via NTL in the UK with a DSL modem and wireless router (Belkin). … |
| | Basically I've got an old computer that's died. I was just wondering if there is any way I can get pics, files, etc off the computer by externally attaching the hard drive from the broken computer to a different computer? I'm a complete novice so I really don't know where … |
| | Hi, I'm Fred. I understand Computers somewhat but definitely no Expert. I have a question about a Display Properties feature. My Computer is an HP 6738 Pavilion Windows ME 4.90.3000 700 Mhz 319 MB of Ram Internet Explorer 6 Outlook Express 6 I have created custom colors and other features … |
| | Compaq presario SR100Z - Athlon processor Installed XP SP3 update... shortly after computer refuses to boot. Powers on, No beeps, no lights on Keyboard, no cursor, black screen, fan runs, tried booting with floppy, bootable CD, nothing. Installed HD into harddrive enclosure and connected to another PC and data is …  |
| | at first my epson c90 status monitor worked, but after refformating the hard drive and reinstalling a clean XP the status monitor will not load, that is the ink levels are greyed out in the printing preferences window. Can anyone explain this problem for me please? I have uninstalled the … |
 | I have this Dell that will not power on. When the power button is pressed it flashes orange. No sound or motion from any of the fans. The power light is on the mother board. So here is what i have done so far. Search dell web site, Fix suggest … |
| | Good day all! I was recently given one of these machines by my son in law (the usual bad power connector) which I was able to fix by "treppaning" the case and cutting a hole underneath the upper keyboard cover to reach the terribly bad soldered joints. That parts all … |
| | Have a go.google redirect at present; looks to be affecting Opera, IE, and Firefox (but not Chrome). HJT log is as follows; any assistance is most welcome and greatly appreciated - Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 12:47:49 AM, on 9/5/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) … |
| | I switched to Linux then back to Windows, and now I'm trying to go back to Linux again. But somewhere I messed up. Now Linux won't install, saying ext 3 cant be created. Also all my partitions are gone for some reason. Any suggestions? |
| | I orignally had a dual boot system and it ran great. I no longer had a need for a dual boot system and removed my second HD. I changed my jumper setting and got it running great with the single hard drive. Now I am getting the error " primary … |
| | [COLOR="Green"][B]Hello!! I recently put a new power supply in a Dell computer for a coworker, and the machine booted up fine for me and ran well. When he took the computer back home, he was able to use it for several hours, but the next day when he got home … |
| | Well it seems that this background changing virus has gotten me good. I have been in safe mode w/ networking just to be able to download Mlb, Hjt, and kaspersky. Any help is greatly appreciated! Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.25 Database version: 1062 Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 11:16:12 AM 8/25/2008 mbam-log-08-25-2008 … |
| | Hi guys, i have a problem. My computer was working fine yesterday morning. I was using it for a while, then turned it off to go to bed. When I woke up, my sister was using it and it was working fine. However she got sidetracked and left it there … |
| | I have a hard drive that I formatted and dropped into a Gateway PC and cannot seem to load Windows XP. It tells me that all kinds of .dll files are missing or corrupted. HELP!!  |
| | It is quite hard to explain what I mean here, but... Say I have a class that is stored on a hard drive like this.. [CODE]project/helpers/MyToolkit.class[/CODE] i.e. the class MyToolKit is stored in the package project.helpers and would declare it in its code like this.. [CODE=Java] package project.helpers; public class …  |
| | I recently got a mess of stuff happening with my laptop's hard drive so I removed it and put in into a USB enclosure so I could access my data. My laptop did use a windows password which I obviously know but while hooked up USB, I can not access … |
 | Hey Guys My friend has a laptop he deleted D partition of his hard drive and formatted the C partition, after completion, on restart his computer started complaining "Hard Disk Drive 0 not found ". When external Hard Drive is connected it will display message "NTLDR is missing". Please what … |
| | Everytime windows updates tells me to restart,or a newly installed program requires a restart,my hard drive fails to start up..But if I do a manual restart it boots up in seconds..Its only just started happening. The company tech team told me to do a recovery but that hasn't solved it. … |
| | Here's what happened... I had a GeForce 5500 video card and service pack 2 on my machine for months - no problem. I installed service pack 3. When the machine rebooted, the splash screen displayed normally, the screen went black, the hard drive light stayed on for about 2 seconds, … |
 | Hey, I'm a first-time builder, and I just have some questions about what components to get. 1. How many watts do I need for my power supply? I know there are calculators for that online, but I'd rather get a rough estimate from a human. I'm getting an Intel Core …  |
| | Just performed a complete format/OS recovery using original recovery discs. Everything was fine for a few days until I installed MS Office. During the installation the screen went blank, hasn't restarted since. Power supply rating: 15VDC, actual: 15.4VDC. External power indicator (LED) is on, battery indicator (LED) blinks continuously. When … |
| | Well, My problem is I don't know if im going to need a new hard drive or not. I've tried a restore CD but they didn't work. It says it has something to do with not finding the D Drive which is where the recovery stuff is saved. Will I … |
| | Hey guys, I have made the unfortunate mistake of allowing an Active X install which has resulted in some sort of virus being installed on my computer. I have similar symptoms as I've read about online such as: [LIST] [*]no drives listed from My Computer [*]VIRUS ALERT! displayed in bottom … |
| | Hello, i would be grateful if you could answer a question for me. I have the above laptop, which has an 80 gb hard drive. Is it possible to upgrade the hard drive? and how would you go about doing this? Thank you very much. |
| | I just replaced a hard drive that had gone bad (I think) as I was getting a "bad hard drive, backup and replace" message. I tried several options but decided it was best to just get a new one. The problem now is that I get a "Master Hard Disk: … |
| | I have just got a new pc other died on me,Iwant to place the hard drive from the old pc to the new one, the OS is windows XP i have been told that the OS will not boot in the new Pc and that i will have to reformat … |
| | Ok so i recently recieved what i believe is called something along the lines of the "Antivirus XP Virus" Where your background and screensaver both get changed, and you lose the ability to change them back. Ive done some research around here and apparently the fix involves these two programs … |
| | My computer randomly shuts down, its like someone unplugged, but my monitor, speakers, printer, external hard drive right next to the computer remain on when the computer shuts down...and it doesnt go through the normal shut down process, it just switches off...than when i turn it back on it says … |
| | My computer is running Windows XP Home SP2 and has three accounts. My account uses a password. My wife’s account does not. With increasing frequency, my wife’s account asks for a password and, of course, there is none. When this happens, I try switching back to my account and Windows …  |
| | Hello all, the short vers. is I tried to install XP on a secondary HDD, it didn't install properly (never saw gui, only "Disk read error"). When I replugged in the primary HDD (which was running w2kpro) the secondaryHDD appeared as a removable drive. Ran fixboot from XP installer on … |
| | I have recently installed a new hard drive. I have Windows Vista Home Premium [COLOR="Red"]UPGRADE[/COLOR]. The install went fairly well, as I did have Vista on the previous drive that died, with one exception. If I try to open desktop from the desk icon, I get an error message that … |
| | Hello, My 1st time here. I recently removed a hard drive & changed sata connections. The "C" drive will not boot correctly, XP boots but settings will not load, programs & files will not open.I ran CMS Products, Inc. - BounceBack Version 7, 1, 6, 0 b/4 opening up the … |
| | Hi, I have an MDG Apton computer that I just formatted. I got rid of everything, so the whole hard drive was an un-partitioned space. I then tried to install Windows XP Media Center Edition. It formatted just fine, but half way through the installation after the format I got … |
| | Hi. I visit my 81 year old father once or twice a year and always try to clean up his computer and get it running better. I delete all the strange things that he "doesn't know" how they got installed.. and run a registry cleaner... (can't remember the which one, … |
| | Last week my wife was on my pc, she went to her email inbox and the PC froze, she rebooted and received the error cant remember exacly but no drive present hook up and press enter, not that exact error, Compaq Presario PC, Sata to HD and DVD. Hooked up … |
| | hi , im running winxp pro and have got a virus with "virus alert" in the task bar. I read quit a bit about this virus and the method of fixing it but when i boot up into window , whether it be in safe mode , regular mode etc …  |
| | Don't know how the emitcoms got on my message. I just wanted to show the drive letter followed by a colon Joe |
| | I would say i'm decent at data recovery. I have recovered off many hard drives, SD cards and the likes. Sometimes with 100% recovery and other times with much lower varying results. I have Several bad 500 gb SATA Drives. 2 seagates (is the maxtor trend still there) and a … |
| | hi everyone, new here and hope you can help. okayyy, so it looks like my problem was the same as most apart from now everything is kind of fucked. situation started the same, blue screne of death with the issue of nv4_display. it would also check my computer for consistencys … |
| | Hi, My number four on my laptop just stopped working. I took the number off just to make sure nothing was below the spring but all is clear. I've just recently installed the operating system for the first time because the plug came out during reboot- (without the battery in) … |
| | hi i recently had to format my computer and have almost every thing up and running. the only problem is i cant get my sound card working, it is the origional one i got with me dell pc but i cant find drivers any where. i ran belarc adviser and … |
| | My computer wont boot.I get message 'secondary hard drive not found' type password. Please advice |
| | I have a Dell Latitude CPx-J laptop BIOS A16. It recently got the BSD and wouldn't boot. I removed the HDD(20GB) and heard a rattling sound. No problem (so I thought) and bought a new 80GB HDD(IDE ATA-6). I replaced the disk and now the laptop won't recognize it. When … |
 | Here are the main specs of my computer system... My computer is a Gateway 3310s Computer: Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition OS Service Pack Service Pack 2 DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c) Computer Name YOUR-1A0F5F316F (Bob's Computer) User Name Owner Motherboard: CPU Type Intel Celeron D 330, 2666 MHz … |
| | Hi everyone. Does anyone know if I can install 2 2gig memory sticks to achive my 4 gig (3.5)max memory or if the max is 1 gig per slot? Thanks A bunch! Specifications Part Number: 1009149Gateway GT5252 Media Center Computer Following are the specifications for the Gateway® GT5252 Media Center … |
| | Hello to all the good folk at Dani Web !!! I have a Dell Dimention 3000, Windows XP Pro., 2.8GHz process. It was given to me and I had to replace the hard drive in it. It also had only 256 MB of RAM, PC3200, NON-ECC , and so I … |
| | Hi Guys, I hope someone can help me. I have a Pavillion laptop and there is a problem with the AC power supply, I have purchased a couple of new adapters as my original one blew, i bought replacements, offical HP ones recommended by HP for the problem, and two … |
| | Hello. Thanks in advance for reading the thread and trying to help. A year ago I bought this pc: Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2GHz Memory: 1024MB RAM Hard Drive: 320 GB Total Video Card: MSI NX7600 GS (NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS) Monitor: LG Flatron L1919 S … |
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