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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:22:33 AM, on 10/29/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccProxy.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec …

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OK, heres the problem. I have the imac g4. For some reason, I must have downloaded a pretty bad virus, my mac won't start up. All it shows is the blink "?/mac os9 icon." I did the option restart, and the hard drive won't show up. I put in the …

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I just recently got a new computer from ibuypower. I also bought a windows XP installation with it. After turning on the computer, the installation auto ran and goes through the process, I clicked f8 enter enter and it brings me to the part where you choose where or which …

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Hi there I have a feeling i might know the answer to this already but I'm not positive. My brother has a custom built computer AMD sempron 2400, 512MB RAM, Abit Motherboard, 300GB hard drive. This computer was running XP Professional and Linux, but after a recent reformat it is …

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Hi all, Had asked for assistance concerning the problem am having on my pc but it seemed only one person had a similar problem. My hard disk space is just shrinking. I looked for the problem and found that in C:\WINDOWS\Temp something was just creating the following files: Acr4A, Acr4C, …

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I have a kind of wierd issue. My pc will boot up fine in the mornings. If i ever have to do some hardware swaps or hard drive upgrades or anything that requires a restart, my pc wont post, I can't even get a monitor turn-on. Some times at random …

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The fun begins..... I'm upgrading my Powermac G3 B&W with a serial ATA Hard drive and controller card. I want to copy the contents of the old drive to the new drive. I know that in the PC World Maxtor has a utility on a boot disk that allows you …

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I have XP installed on my primary sata hard drive and have Vista installed on my second sata hard drive. When I boot the computer it doesnt give me a boot menu it automatically boots into XP. I can only get it to boot into Vista when I have the …

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I have a Gateway 2000 GP6-233 with a mainboard model Intel AL440LX and BIOS version 4A4LL0X0.15A.0023.P18 and a Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 80 GB ATA/133 Hardrive model 6Y080P0 that don't agree. My BIOS refuses to find the operation system already installed on the hard drive. The jumper is already set …

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:mad: [B]I've had lots of experience with computers with scomputers and know how to work with them well, but i never worked with SATA hard drive and SATA adapters. When i connect my new [I][U]SATA ULTRA 16 300GB 16MB CACHE 7200RMP Serial ATA/150 [/U][/I]to a [I][U]SATA to IDE Adapter[/U][/I] and …

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I had a Toshiba laptop that crashed more than a year ago—it wouldn't start up, and it wouldn't even let me reformat the hard drive. I ended up just getting a new computer. A Mac. :) However, yesterday I decided to try to reformat the old PC. Amazingly, it booted …

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ok we all know that windows isnt the best system in the world but i swear it has AI because even when my bro (age 15) and sis (age 13)(im 18) d/l nothing and touch nothing and do nothing to it, it always seems to die and not work, magical …

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My fujitsu noteboook (about 4 yrs old) has a 40gb hd with OEM software installed & WinXP home edition. There are 2 OEM partitions; C: with 29.44gb Fat32 and D: 7.81 Fat32 (which is a DISE_Backup image.). My CD/DVD is drive E: I just purchased a new Fujitsu 80gb hard …

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I copied folders/files to a back up hard drive. Now that I have reinstalled WIN XP on my primary hard drive. I can see however, I can't access all of the folders on the back up hard drive. I get "The folder 'D:\name' isn't accessible. The folder may be located …

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I recentley baught a used HP Pavilion 6535, 466MHZ Celeron. for my daughter to use for doing school work. The comp was working fine I came home from work and NTLDR is missing is what I found. If she did something she not telling me what it was any way …

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Hello, i'm looking for a good agp video card that my cpu can keep up with, and also plays new games on good settings (like counter-strike, fear,battlefield 2). Here are my system specs: MOBO: ECS K8M800-M2(1.0) Socket 754 VIA K8M800 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard, [URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813135170[/URL] CPU: AMD Sempron 64 2800+ …

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My dad was playing some games on my laptop and he got a blue screen saying "..... need to shut down to prevent more damage ..." he not entirely sure what the message was . he shut down the laptop. what he was doing was basically playing solitaire. after that …

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Can I move ALL my Applications folder from one hard drive to another? Hi, i'm trying to help my parents on the other side of the globe with an emac i bought them (2nd hand) they're saying the start-up disk is full...which is ridiculous, as this mac has 2 hard …

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Hi can anyone help as I am going nuts ! for three weeks I haven't been able to figure what's causing my pc to crash and as was writing this and posting this thread, the dam thing crashed again so had to start again !ARGHHH ! My CPU and memory …

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I recently had my Dell Latitude D600 fail while it was docked overnight. When I went to get on it said that the Primary Hard disk drive 0 not found. Another PC had disconnected from the LAN but was otherwise fine. When I check the setup it is stating that …

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Installed new western digital hard Drive, 160 Gig.HD is not detected in manufacturers setup disk, and also not in BIOS. chanel 1 cabel has no hard drives displayed, chanel 2 ribbon cabel(secodary), shows both my CD-RW'S. Cofused, can you help? The origina HD has WIN XP on it.I got a …

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hit there, I wonder if any one can help, I have built my own pc which has been runing fine for the past few months. all of a sudden i installed Nero 7 & Norton systemworks 2006 & found a trojan which is deleted. Then all of a sudden my …

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Hello, can someone tell me if these pc parts are compatible, reliable and overall worth it? CASE and PS: [URL]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=329194&sku=B452-1018[/URL] MOBO and CPU: [URL]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1959173&sku=MBM-6100M9-3500[/URL] MEMORY: [URL]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=84386&sku=K24-5201[/URL] HARD DRIVE: [URL]http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101318[/URL] DVD DRIVE: [URL]http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=172470[/URL]

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I just reformatted my computer (and what an improvement!) and mostly all is well. But one thing that does not seem to be happy is Windows Media Player. The picture quality is obviously degraded. All videos have a reddish hue to them and just look poor overall. This isn't happening …

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Okay this is my problem: Whenever my computer is booting up, or whenever I'm playing a game it restarts. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes I can play for say an hour and nothing happens, but at other times when the computer is booting up it will restarts or whenever I …

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I have just recently tossed together another computer with some spare parts, but when I try to Install Win XP on my hard drive it will not format the drive for me to install on, it says my drive is corrupt. So I put the drive in my main computer …

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Hi I am getting the above error on my Dell Latitude 600 laptop. Is there any way I can get the data out of my old hard drive. Dell is sending me a new hard drive , but I need the data out the old one . Any possible solutions …

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I know this section is for barebones, but its the closest i could find for what I need I am building a computer off of tigerdirect canada and I was just wondering if I could get someone to check and see if all of these parts are compatable with each …

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:confused: Hi there I have acquired a dead computer and would like to try and fix it. The problem is this: Computer powers up, makes all normal noises, beeps once (although very loudly!) all looks fine. Then where you would expect to see the windows loading screen there is a …

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At the moment, I've got an old computer with Windows 98 SE installed. Because I upgraded my hard disk, I needed to install a dynamic drive overlay. But now I want to install Linux (I don't know yet if I'll install Mandriva One, Ubuntu or Kubuntu). I've got a Maxtor …

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Hello People, Recently installed a new external hard drive to backup my stuff, since then was unable to see my CD-R/W drive on My computer . Found some help online which suggested removing 'Upper' and 'lower' filters from here in my registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet/Control/Class/ I did so and rebooted and I …

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I've been searching for an answer, and haven't found one yet, so any help would be appreciated! Ok, I have a P4 Dell Dimension 8400 Desktop, motherboard supports up to 4 sata drives (has ide slots, but those are used for cd/dvd drives), no floppy drive. BIOS is A09. After …

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Hi there. I have this old laptop with Windows 98 on it. and its a Compaq Armada 7800 anyway i would like to see if i can reinstall Windows 98 by doing the following. 1. I Have the Windows 98 CD 2. I Have a PSP (PlayStation's Handheld Device) Since …

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Hello Everyone, I purchased a used Toshiba 4600 laptop from a military auction on fort Knox today, little did I know that it would be password protected. I knew that the hard drive would be wiped clean. Does anyone know how to get pass/deactivate this? (Help) JD

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Debian Linux is what you might call very, very flexible because it runs on nearly any hardware configuration, from Motorola chips to PowerPC to the x86 structure. So whatever your machine is Debian Linux can most likely run on it. However, because installation is so different between different setups, this …

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I need to wipe my hard drive, because it is so full of crap, and spyware, and everything else that my computer is basically useless. I am running windows right now, but have the software to install Linux. How can i go about wiping my hard drive, then starting anew …

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I have recently started work as an IT support person in a charity. We have about 3-4 Dell computors that cant be more then 2-3 years old im not sure what model. when i try to turn any of these on the hard drive starts up and the power supply …

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First, if this is in the wrong forum, I apologize. I couldn't find one that exactly fit my problem, and this was the closest thing I could come up with. If this is not the correct place for this post, I would respectfully request that a mod move it where …

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How do I remove everything on my hard drive without windows washer because I can't afford It now I went to my computer and right clicked on drive c and clicked format but It said that I have utilites open In that drive so how do I cancel them even …

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Hey, So my laptop hard drive )Seagate- Momentus 5400.2) went belly up the other day, its a SATA, 120Gb, 5400RPM and was wondering if i can image it onto my other drive to get the data back, and whre this cable can be found.. Thats pretty much it, ive looked …

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Sometime last week I found out that the 'user' key on my logitech keyboard puts my computer in standby when my cat stepped on it. The power and hard drive lights on the front of the computer blinked while in standby. All I had to do was tap the power …

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Hi - I know I haven't made it easy on myself (read on) but I'm kind of stuck at the moment. I moved overseas a few months ago, and to save space (boy am I regretting it) decided not to bring tower and cd drive, so I took motherboard, hard …

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I recently bought a computer that will randomly restart (usually happens about once every 1-2 hours). These are the specs: -Case: CoolerMaster Mystique 632 Tower (Black) -Motherboard: Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe -Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 -Memory: Corsair 2GB(2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 -Hard Drive 1: 400GB (7200RPM, 16MB Cache) -Hard …

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I know this is VERY off topic, but I am sure that a bunch of people here are experienced with computer building. I am building a computer off of tigerdirect canada and I was just wondering if I could get someone to check and see if all of these parts …

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I've recently inherited a Dell Inspiron 50003 laptop. It has no hard drive. I tried to power it on but it and nothing happens. I tried to power on with just the battery, just the power supply and both in with no result other than the power light flickering when …

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[B][Moderator's note: post has been split from [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/post36464.html#post36464"]this older thread[/URL]][/B] Have to write this again as the window apparantly closed out on me mid question....anywho.... I am having a similar problem where when the computer is loading up and after detecting the primary and slave drives it will state that …

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I've just been given a spare hard drive that works great except for one thing. Whenever I move my mouse the monitor goes a reddy colour and sometimes has stripes. It's not my monitor, mouse, keyboard etc as they work fine when hooked up to my original hardrive. My refresh …

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I hope some one can give me some advice. My computer was put into storage for near on three years. I got it out last march and it started no problems. I have recently pulled it out again and when I turn it on it starts to load then stops …

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Hi everybody...I'm not a big hardware guy, but I'll try my best to explain my dilemma... I seem to be having a problem with my new 40 pin 250 gig IDE Segate hard drive....Currently I already have a primary Serial ATA only Hard drive which is of course directly hooked …

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I have a whole new set of computer guts that I've been assembling. I have an ASUS M2N4-SLI motherboard, an AMD Windsor AM2 3800+, a one gigabyte stick of PC2-5300 RAM, a SATA hard drive, a DVD-Drive, and a PNY 7300GT video card. I've assembled them and the machine shuts …

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