Tech Help and Discussions

Hey All, Here is my problem: I just recently did a scan for spy/adware and found a few things. I deleted them successfully and rebooted. I found that after the reboot, I could not connect to the internet through a couple of different browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera). Although it said that the page could not be displayed, I can still successfully ping the server and receive all four packets without error. It seems I am connected, but cannot connect ...? Anyway my ISP is Road Runner and I use a Motorolla Surfboard cable modem. Please do not suggest using LSPFix because I have tried it and it found nothing. Thank you for your help and consideration. -Tommy Moiseve

Hi my name is Dave, and here is my prob. Im upgrading my friends puter from a 2 gig HD to a 6gig hd(I know, I know..why) HaHa... My problem is her mother board only see 2 gig(Dell). What do I need to do to get her board to see the full 6 gig? Thanks for any info that you can give me. Dave

Hi everyone! Is it me or does XP randomly lose custom settings in the OS? For example, today, the "show desktop" icon in the quick access tray (beside "start") suddenly reverted back to its Win98 style- no warnings, no errors! Other problems I've had: - icons of different programs were mismatched with each other every now and then (a restart fixed that) - the icon for dial-up internet connection permanently changed -the colour of icons may switch from 32 bit colour to 16 bit colour (a reboot sometimes fixed the problem) Has any of this ever happened to you? Do you have a solution to my problem? If so, enlighten me! :D:D -------- Comp Specs: Wi…

I am having problems with my Nortons AntiVirus Live Update. When I click the Live Update button, it appears to go out and attempt to access the Symantec site, but it fails. When I try to simply to browse to any of the Norton or Symantec sites I get a message saying "The Page Cannot Be Displayed" and on my tool bar is says... "Cannot find server" Is it possible that a Virus of some sort would disable access to the live update site? I have check in the "Restricted Sites" area of Internet Explorer and no sites are Restricted. Let me know if you can help

Hi, I have an ASUS P4SDX MB in which I installed an Intel 2.8ghz cpu. I have power to the system, all fans run, the MB light is on, but I get no POST or Beeps. I think I may have a faulty MB, but wanted to know if anyone has any insite to Asus MB's. Maybe I missed some jumper, although there aren't any cmos specific jumpers. Frustrated and Lost, Roland

hello everone this is my first time posting so please forgive me i i dont do it right/// this is my problem i am tring to install a radon display adapter in my new computer it is a AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 224MB RAM 52% system resources free Windows-managed swap file on drive C (33474MB free) Available space on drive C: 33474MB of 39188MB (FAT32) I had this ati in my old compaq and had no problems. the proble i am having now is when i go into the bios to change the agp to pci and load windows it frezzes up i have read that the onboard grapics card needs to be dissabled but have no idea how to please help ther is also no way to dissable it under devise mange…

I currently have 2 hard-drives and i want to invest into a 3rd. However i am out of power cables and IDE wires, is there a way i can add some sort of component to allow me to add another HD? I currently have a DVD and CDR on the other two IDE's. Thanks

undefined :confused: Hello, I have been haveing problems with my XP Pro version for about 2 months now. Every Time I shut my system down or reboot, I have no problems until it is almost done. I get a blue screen that says This error message. Sysevent.sys address EB9641AD base at EB95F000, date stamp 3f31ac37 also I have above it 0x0000008E (0xc0000005,0xEB9641AD,0xF798A4C,0x00000000 ) Then it says Dumping Phyical memory to disk: I then see if I wait longer than about 5 seconds max numbers starting from 01 to whatever by the time it gets to 10 I have shut it down by using my main button on the CPU. Help I can't go to system restore to set it back due to im…

Hi, I decided to have a go at installing debian. All went well apart from when I tried to install KDE onto it. DSelect is just beyond a joke. Its just such a mess! I admit I havent installed linux before but still. So i think I have selected everything for KDE with Dselect but when I go to install, the first odd thing is that it keeps on trying to read past the end of the CDROM so pages of errors come up there. Secondly it displays a list of the dependencies. It says to "Add a solution". How seriously useful... So after my rant (sorry) does anyone have any tips for getting round this? Cheers Chris.

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I have heard that it is better to have fire fox then internet explorer. What do you guys think?

Hi everybody, I'm making a forum for my school and as it turns out, the school's ISP does not allow for any databasing. The only option for me is to find a free host that will support it, and then set up a redirection page on the school ISP's webpage to the new host. I was just wondering if any of you knew of any hosts on the internet that will provide some free space and allow for basic databases? Thanks in advance Edit: Oh yea, forgot to mention this before- is there any free foruming software that only uses php or cgi scripts? that'll make my life a lot more convenient. :)

Hey All; Hope someone can help. I'm desperatly looking for a power supply for a HP Pavilion 3260 desktop. This is the first power supply that I've seen without it's own cooling fan, so it's small. The original was made by Bestec. Please let me know, if there is somewhere I can find this. The computer is sold and the lady is getting upset. Thanks ...........Jim :eek:

Hi folks, Over the last week, games have been crashing constantly seemingly for no reason. I play a lot of Call of Duty which was running nicely, I installed Medal of Honor: Allied Assualt which ran for a short time then crashes every few minutes. Likewise now for COD. I have installed all the latest patches for both games, the latest video card drivers, and am using Direct x 9.0b. I have tried disabling anti-virus progs etc but no joy. It was suggested that I try swapping my two sticks of ram over which I will do this evening. My Cyberlink DVD player now even crashes several times during play. New games I install crash every few minutes. They even crash to a blue scre…

Hi! I was wondering if it was possible to add a feature onto user account options to allow for username migrations from one username to another without losing current settings and information?