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  7. Posted

    We need more information.

    Is this a new screen/computer/card?

     

    How is your LCD connectd?

     

    DVI - grapics card

    VGA - Onboard graphics/Card

     

    If you are using a new "card" have you disabled onboard graphics?

  8. Posted

    Quote:
    When you reinstall, disconnect the Internet access.
    Enable it after you have installed firewall (and antivirus).

    This way no unwanted processes can access the computer.


    I did on the first try it must have been something dorment?

    Thanks but I'm not a noob, I am a master at screwing up and fixing my computers (although this is the first time in a while),

    Backed up and reinstalled (getting there slowly). Decided to loose my sons files on f:\ reformated and resized the partition (wasn't big enough anyway and the files are easily replaceable).

    Thanks all.

  9. Posted

    Well I managed to boot from c:\ but found I was being hacked while re-up[censored] to sp2. I found some unknown (unknown by google) programs connected to the internet and asking (identifyed as yahoo messenger) to become startup items.

     

    After sp2 was installed the start button was missing.

    Taskbar and system tray are still active (although I cant see them) and I can access most of the the rest of windows.

     

    I think I will have to backup and format/re-install everything.

     

    Quote:
    Take a look at Acronis.

    Thanks. Will do, as soon as I get a chance.

     

  11. Posted

    After fixing my neigbors 2000pro PIII (she was runing for some time(including p2p) without anti-virus).By installing her Hard drive into my computer (It realy was the last option).

     

    Not realising that the partition table had been left on her hard drive. My computer wouldn't boot so I re-installed XP. I was getting someware near previous configuration when I realised that F:\ (a partittion of c:\) was no longer readable. so I consulted our old friend google.

     

    I downloaded a demo of a program (please don't ask which one) which on startup recomended that I back-up to a:\. not having a floppy drive I tryed setting my mp3 player as a:\ (wouldn't work). so I skipped (I know what im doing It "should be ok").

     

    That program couldn't fix the boot sector of f:\ (but recomended a $99 program that would. lol).

     

    I re-boot and "NTLDR missing". I don't know much about recovery console but have tryed evereything that looks like it might work.

     

    I am now running from an old 1.9 gb hard drive (which I was lucky to have lying arround) C:\ (now e:\) is readable (but not bootable) and f:\ (now d:\) is not readable and has strange file names.

     

    Please help. I want my computer back.

     

    p.s. sorry for the untitled thread must have missed it in the many retypes.

  14. Posted

    Age: 27

    Country: UK

    1. Yes

    2. Broadband

    3. Yes

    4.

    Adventure

    Arcade

    Driving/Racing

    Educational

    Fighting

    First Person Shooter

    Platform

    Puzzle

    Role Playing Game

    Simulation

    Sports

    Strategy

     

    There are classics in every genre.

     

    5. At the monent "frist person shooter" previously "driving"

    6. At least 15 years

    7.

    Adventure

    Arcade

    Driving/Racing

    Educational

    Fighting

    First Person Shooter

    Platform

    Puzzle

    Role Playing Game

    Simulation

    Sports

    Strategy

     

    Isn't the internet amazing

     

    8. Frist person shooter

    9. A couple of years.

    10. Never (I own the game. I will not pay to play it).

    11. 6 - 12 hours

    12. Yes

    13. PC (although I would bite your arm of for a ps3)

    14. PC

    15. No

    16. No

    17.

    18.

    19.

    20.

    21. No

    22. No

    23.

    24. Yes

    25. No. Everybody should be entitled to do (within reason and as long as it doesn't affect other people) what they like.

    26. No. Ineffective parenting is the cause of obecity in children.

    27. Yes

    28. Yes. But don't blame developers, manufacturers, or the retail industry (supply and demand). Improvements in technology force developers to create more sophisiticated games (in order to keep up with the competition). Older systems are incapible of playing newer games because those games demand a higher technological specification. It is called progress.

    29. No. Not directly, although online gaming (online community) can be concidered a society.

    30. No. Stupid people do stupid things. A game is just a game.

    [Edited by mctonale on 2006-04-17 04:55:50]

     

  15. Posted

    Need more info.

    What operating system are you running?

    Has the computer been set up for internet connection before?

    How did you try to disable?

     

    Do you have any other problems connecting? (If you don't have another browser installed try WMP, real player, itunes or quicktime). They all have browsers if any connect we know it isn't a network settings problem.

     

    Have you run spyware adware and antivirus scans? Cleaned temporary internet files and cookies? Reset all security settings to defult?

  24. Posted

    My friend has exactly the same problem. I have fixed it twice for her in the last couple of months.

     

    Sorry if this is too late your chip may already be fryed (although hers' has survived).

     

    I don't think anyone has mentioned:

     

    1. Switch off computer.

    2. open case.

    3. ground yourself.

    4. clean all of the dust out of your case (make sure the cpu heat-sink is as clear as possible)

     

    It should work as new now. But try to find a place for it (away from carpets and radiators).

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