May
11
My daughter’s computer is a HP about 3 years old and it’s been working fine. She turned it on last night and today went to use it and the blue power light and the green light on the back by the power chord are blinking fast and nothing happens. It won’t turn on and when you unplug the computer…
May
11
Hey guys, I was referred here by a few friends who have had problems in the past and needed help with solutions
Anyway, this is quite a frustrating problem of sorts. I can’t access sites such as Microsoft.com. This is through both Mozilla and IE. I have mucked around with re-registering DLL files…
May
10
newbie
May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Hi i’ve just joined the community………..
i have a desktop at hoem and a laptop
laptop is currently dead and i’m sure its something to do with the updates i installed or tried to!!
i like to tinkle with the comps but probably shouldnt and will no doubt be asking for help on occassions!!!!
May
10
laptop Dead as a dodo or can it be recovered???
May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Hi i have a toshiba satelite L20 laptop
recently it refused to start up so i had the tech guys look at it. they replaced pretty much everything bar the hdd and ram by looks of it.
the past week it has been freezing, nothing worked, alt+ctrl+del, escape etc etc………..only turning it off and…
May
10
My laptop continually restarts itself
May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Hi
My laptop froze the other night, and wouldn’t respond to anything i did, and so i had to manually take out its battery to turn it off. I think it froze again once i restarted it so i took out the battery a second time.
Now, i cant get to the desktop at all, my laptop keeps restarting.
What…
May
10
Desktop icons and taskbar disappearing
May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Hi!
Since yesterday i have a problem with my computer. My PC is infected by some kind of virus when i was trying to install one program for unpacking rar files with passwords, from mininova:(
Result is - all icons on desktop and taskbar is showing for 30sec and then they all disappeare and again…
May
10
HELP! Ran HighjackThis, what should I delete?
May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This is the log. Thanks!!!
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 12:20:06 AM, on 5/10/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16640)
Boot mode: Safe mode
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
May
10
error message everytime i open a window in vista
May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
first of all i kmust say I take all responsabilities for this problem i did not check for viruses or spyware when i downloaded a aplication and this is what i get for being stupid
so the problem is that after i opened the file i downloaded i looked at my user files and a window opend telling me…
May
10
Application Error 437
May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I have a Toshiba Tecra 9100 with Windows XP Professional. Recently, I tried to utilize the Product Recovery CD and ran into a problem.
The computer came with 2 recovery disks. During the download of the second recovery disk, I get the following message: “Application Error 437 Cannot Read from…
May
10
I have no idea on what is happening to my pc.
I have a dell inspiron 6400 laptop and during the last ten days I had always an alert, just few minutes after the start up, saying that the “C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe” had generated a buffer overflow immediately blocked by McAfee SecurityCenter….
May
9
Advice anyone? please help!!!
May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I have downloaded a free antivirus software on my pc called clamwin,hated it, so I decided to uninstall it. I couldn’t find the uninstall folder, so I decided to delete every folder that had clamwin written on it. After that my keyboard was no longer working yet I still have power to it. I’ve…
May
9
Sony vaio vgn-fs 550
May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This model of laptop came with 512 MB RAM (2 x 256 MB) and the manual said that the max RAM allowed is 1 GB. However, when I went to get it installed, the technician installed a generic 1 GB RAM and there was one slot still empty. So, he installed the one leftover 256 RAM. This made the total…
May
9
Laptop boot very detailed info
May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I have an NX570X laptop that is 1 month out of warranty (isn’t it ironic) it is running XP SP2 with two 512mb ram cards installed
Without warning I turned it on and here is what happens.
1. Gateway screen comes up
2. press 11 to start recovery times out in upper left corner
3. of course, since i…
May
9
Need Help Please
May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
My pc, been running sluggish.
Can any one help me
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 9:32:00 PM, on 5/9/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Boot mode: Normal
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
May
8
Hi, Id first like to say I am so happy that a website like this exists and i plan on visiting the forums every day to learn as much as possible.
That being said, my problem is a normal one, had a virus, killed it, but was still locked out of desktop backgrounds.
I downloaded the smitfraud.reg…
May
8
PC Shutting Down from Networking Device
May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I have Nvidia Networking device, not sure as to what version, and Win2k, and when the LAN disable button is clicked, the PC shuts down. That’s stumping me. If any ideas, please help, thanks.
May
7
Vundo trojan
May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Hi!
I’m Neeraj & my computer also was infected but now it’s free from viruses. I don’t have that Hijackthis. I’ve run Vundofix. exe & combofix.exe. But I think after executing combofix.exe some files are missing and that’s why some application is not running. Even I downloaded Java 6 but…
May
7
Sony Pcg-fx140 help
May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Hi, I’m new here I have an old Sony Pcg-fx140 and I’ve been trying to boot it up since the last few months. So I know it the motherboard I predict that its dead but the power is the only
factor in question. the laptop takes 19.5v and 3.0 amps while my universal power adapter only gives out…
May
7
Toshiba Satellite Turns on for 5 secs.
May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
My Satellite m45 s 269 turns on for about five seconds then shuts right off. At times I press the start button and maybe 5 seconds after I press it, it will turn on for only about 5 seconds and shut right off. My father inlaw seems to think I need a new internal power supply. My first…
May
7
My cousin came over last night, and asked if he could check his email. I said sure, and went out to go eat some food with my girlfriend. I came home two hours later to find an extremely annoying virus virtually molesting my computer. If I open up an internet browser, I get a pop-up message saying…
