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I have been experiencing the most torrid computing problems for the past one month. My computer is roughly 4 years old, and it usually runs 24 hours a day. A month ago the SMPS /power went bust, and I got it replaced with a new device. For 10 days; everything went fine until the computer mysteriously started rebooting of its own, in the middle of work. I have dual boot windows XP SP1 and 98 and the rebooting happened with both the OS. The frequency was anything from 2 minutes to 2 hours. There was no blue screen, and no dumps, no errors since it wasn’t a crash; but it was like someone just hit the reset key. There were also couple of occasions when the computer didn’t start at all – The monitor instead of lighting up went into power saving mode and the HD light showed a hang [constant red LED indicator] state. I thought; perhaps it had got something to do with the new SMPS and I again got it replaced. Once again; I experienced no problems for 10 days; the computer was up and running 24 hours. And then, from the past 2 days I am plagued with the same problem. Computer restarts of its own without a damn explanation. The chances of any virus on my computer is very very remote; as I always use latest antivirus. Where could the problem lie………also I have noticed that the monitor power off and HD LED constant red situations have increased in frequency. I have to often switch on/off the computer multiple times to even get the computer to start. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I hope it is not my MB because that would mean virtually replacing my entire system

Hi I desperately need to update my ATI Radeon 7500 with 128 mb ram drivers. The reason is my existing drivers have got corrupted. Kindly suggest a stable set of drivers for this old gfx card?

Hi Comp. Specs P-IV Intel Chipset 1.8Mhz Intel motherboard D845GEBV2 512 MB Ram ATI Radeon 7500 with 128 Mb video ram Win XP SP1 Seagate 80Gigs IDE 7200 LG DVD ROM BENQ 1650 DVD Writer For the past 3 weeks, my computer keeps hanging and restarting of its own at random intervals. The computer was performing well until the 3rd of march, when I bought a BENQ DW 1650 DVD Writer. I replaced it with my old LG CD writer. It installed perfectly well, it was a simple plug and play device. When I restarted the computer after a few hours, after startup the system suddenly hanged. This had never happened for the past 2.5 yrs when I have been using this computer. On a cold restart, I got the error message [might not be 100% accurate as I hadn’t noted it down but I am trying to recall “Your computer has recovered from a serious error. A direct draw function could not be performed by the graphics card.” In the event log, I got this”…… Error code 000000ea, parameter1 817538e8, parameter2 81742a88, parameter3 818a01d8, parameter4 00000001. Data in bytes 0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E 0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er 0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code 0018: 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 65 000000e 0020: 61 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d a Param 0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 38 31 eters 81 0030: 37 35 33 38 65 38 2c 20 7538e8, 0038: 38 31 37 34 32 61 38 38 81742a88 0040: 2c 20 38 31 38 61 30 31 , 818a01 0048: 64 38 2c 20 30 30 30 30 d8, 0000 0050: 30 30 30 31 0001 System Error Category 102 Event ID 1003 On 6th of march, I installed a new DSL connection [prior to that I was on dlup] On the 13th of march, my computer restarted of its own, while I was not on my desk, and I got the error “your computer has recovered from a serious error…notify MS about the problem” Error code 0000000a, parameter1 0000012d, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000001, parameter4 804ee73f. System error Category 102 Event ID 1003 Data in bytes 0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E 0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er 0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code 0018: 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 0000000 0020: 61 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d a Param 0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 30 30 eters 00 0030: 30 30 30 31 32 64 2c 20 00012d, 0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 32 00000002 0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000 0048: 30 31 2c 20 38 30 34 65 01, 804e 0050: 65 37 33 66 e73f I received a third such error on 20th March 2006 Today, on 22nd March, I received a similar error…..during this time, I was burning a DVD…… Error code 0000000a, parameter1 00000166, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 804f48a3. I have also noticed that sometimes the computer hangs of its own [does not restart and is not involved with any 1003 error] Instead I get this error The IPSEC Services service terminated with the following error: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions. Source: Service control manager Event ID 7023 Category None This error is even more frequent, I get it almost every two days, the computer hangs while downloading stuff from the net. This error has started occuring after i installed the DSL connection. Apart from that, the computer functions absolutely normally while playing games, movies, etc……… Can someone guide me, to fix this problem without formatting my computer? I am pretty desperate Regards, P.S. -> is there anyway to attach my minidumps here?

Try CD Roller and CD data rescue... they were able to rescue stuff of my scratched cds but not off my dvd

Sorry; this rather is a newbie question If i buy a dvd writer in US will it be able to play DVDs in India. I am aware of some DVD region thing; now i dont understand whether dvds bought here will play or not (both all region and region specific)... Thx in advance and its kinda urgent.

Its quite a newbie question. I have a ripped dvd vob file 1.5 gb I have to convert it into a avi/divx file within 700mb (1cd) Can you suggest an app which can do so Preferably a freeware/shareware app which provides a trial period cos i need app for this file only. (Please don't suggest Dr. Divx as it has got corrupt on my sys. and i can't reinstall it inspite of my best efforts) Thanks in advance

i got some spyware by installing brixout xp(a game) from www.sunnygames.com (i read their entire license agreement and nothing of that sort was mentioned there.. disgusting) I have uninstalled the program and the files it tried to download but i have a suspicion that it may star again. How can i be sure that there are no adware on my system. Please suggest some good progs. For security i have only NAV 2003 and disbaled activex controls

A patch is available at the nero web site which fixes the bug.

I want to overburn a CD-R with 700 MB capacity with a file which is 711 MB. I am using nero 5.9. However, even after using the expert features and allowing overburning till 90 min., I am still getting the message that there is not enough space on the CD-R. However, I am able to make copies of VCDs containing upto 740 MB. How can i overburn Thanks in advance ;(

I need help in running the game 'Mortal Kombat Trilogy Windows version' I can't get it to run either in win xp sp1 or win 98se It asks for some svga chip which I don't think is present on my system Specs: PIV Intel 1.8 Mhz 512 MB DDR Ram ATI Radeon 7500 128Mb video ram Win XP SP1 or Win 98SE

I have a dual boot machine machine with win98se and win xp sp1 I installed win98se only to play my old games. So far I have seen for past 3 months that only a few games (1998-2001) run which didn't in win xp but the dos games run most unsatisfactorily. One can use vdmsound in xp. 1. For most dos games, I have to restart in MS DOS mode and graphics are extremely poor (they run much better in an old 386) 2. I can't use mouse then (ms optical wheel mouse). Where can I find a dos mouse driver 3. No sound; where can I get old drivers 4. Games like Mortal Kombat Trilogy refuse to run because can't find some SVGA chip? 5. Can someone provide any answers Thanks in advance

I changed my MB to intel D845GEBV2 It works fine now Sorry for delay in answering Thanks once again

Can anyone suggest a good html/text file to pdf convertor Thanks in advance

Everything's fine and running since I changed to the Intel D845GEBV2 motherboard