ALL your Pc Problems

Red_Molly · 12th September 2004, 18:19

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Originally Posted by Drifter

Claria is a adware that tracks your surfing habits and bombards you with pop ups these can be hyjacked by malicous trojans that will change the way your computer behaves.Get yourself a decent firewall and use a Browser with a built in popup stopper.Avant Browser is a very good one.

And do a google for SpywareBlaster and download it. It stops much of the unsolicitated adware getting on in the first place.

MelvinYeo · 13th September 2004, 10:20

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Originally Posted by Red_Molly

Unlikely a virus if always afer 4 hours. Could be overheating. Is the fan working and is there enough room for air dispersal? Do you have a lot of applications open at the same time? Have you defragmented the disk recently? If you've only got one partition set up, 'C' drive with everything in it, then after a time the processor can get 'tired' trying to find what it needs and deframenting can sometimes help.

Have you ensured your registry is clean? and that your start-up menu has minimum applications open?

No harm though in running a virus/trojan/spyware check just in case.

Yeah the fan is on pretty much most of the time and I have a window right about couple metres away from the computer.

Yeah I do defrag pretty often, I use FAST Defrag program.

Hmm I got a few extra applications on the start up menu, 2 isnt too much i guess.

Yeah I have run some scans regarding spyware and trojans, no problem so far.

MelvinYeo · 13th September 2004, 10:22

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Originally Posted by Red_Molly

And do a google for SpywareBlaster and download it. It stops much of the unsolicitated adware getting on in the first place.

Aye I have that already, it might have crept in when someone used the computer when I was not around. I am the only one who uses Firefox and I havent put up the protection for Expplorer, so thats probably why. Have now tho, just in case

Red_Molly · 13th September 2004, 15:29

Melvin,

Could be a hardware/application conflict.
Have you checked at the computer manufacturer website that you have the latest BIOS, firmware, drivers for video, display etc?
Is it a desktop or laptop you are using?
Pentium III / IV?
How much RAM?
Operating system - Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP Home, XP Pro.
Firewall? - Sygate?
AV? - Norton?
New applications installed recently?
Have you run System Mechanic, RegCleaner or such to clean your registry?

MelvinYeo · 13th September 2004, 15:39

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Originally Posted by Red_Molly

Melvin,

Could be a hardware/application conflict.
Have you checked at the computer manufacturer website that you have the latest BIOS, firmware, drivers for video, display etc? Nope
Is it a desktop or laptop you are using? Desktop
Pentium III / IV? III
How much RAM? Can't remember, 64 or 128 I think
Operating system - Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP Home, XP Pro. 98
Firewall? - Sygate? Yup
AV? - Norton? Mcafee
New applications installed recently? WinMX only i tihnk
Have you run System Mechanic, RegCleaner or such to clean your registry? Quite reggularly

Thanks for the help

Red_Molly · 13th September 2004, 15:59

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Originally Posted by MelvinYeo

Thanks for the help

Sounds like you have enough RAM for Windows 98, but be careful not to have too many apps open at once if only 64meg. Have you checked Microsoft Update to ensure you have all the necessary patches? I'm not sure if MS are still supporting 98, but check to see. Also visit your PC manufacturer's web site and download all the updated drivers for 98.

My guess is that you have an over-heating problem. Feel the box to see how warm it is after a few hours. If very hot double check that the fans are working OK, and vents unobstructed, particularly the one over the processor.

Also might be worth opening up the box, with power off, and blow dusting inside and unplugging and then reseating everything.

MelvinYeo · 13th September 2004, 16:09

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Originally Posted by Red_Molly

Sounds like you have enough RAM for Windows 98, but be careful not to have too many apps open at once if only 64meg. Have you checked Microsoft Update to ensure you have all the necessary patches? I'm not sure if MS are still supporting 98, but check to see. Also visit your PC manufacturer's web site and download all the updated drivers for 98.

My guess is that you have an over-heating problem. Feel the box to see how warm it is after a few hours. If very hot double check that the fans are working OK, and vents unobstructed, particularly the one over the processor.

Also might be worth opening up the box, with power off, and blow dusting inside and unplugging and then reseating everything.

Ok thanks very much for the help, very much appreciated

Jacqueline_S · 15th September 2004, 22:04

i got a question - i'm using windows XP and when i press 'start' then 'turn off computer', the 'standby' mode icon's darkened.... wonder why...

DEB · 15th September 2004, 22:11

Thanks, everyone, for your advice. I did manage to fix it. It turns out that when I rebooted my network, my network driver became corrupted somehow. When I deleted my network card from the Network Settings in Control Panel, the drivers reinstalled and I'm fine.

It did cause some panic, though ... and I've backed up all important files to my roommate's PC.

It may not be time for a new computer yet, but it will be pretty soon. This one is getting slow and won't run some applications I want to run. But I'll get a few months more out of it.

Thanks again for the advice.

Stanley Road · 16th September 2004, 18:00

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Originally Posted by Jacqueline_S

i got a question - i'm using windows XP and when i press 'start' then 'turn off computer', the 'standby' mode icon's darkened.... wonder why...

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Oper..._20841891.html

Jacqueline_S · 16th September 2004, 19:48

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Originally Posted by Stanley Road

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Oper..._20841891.html

thanks, but I think my situation's a bit different than that one. It was working 4 days ago, but I have no idea why the 'standby' mode function suddenly not working....

Stanley Road · 17th September 2004, 08:27

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Originally Posted by Jacqueline_S

thanks, but I think my situation's a bit different than that one. It was working 4 days ago, but I have no idea why the 'standby' mode function suddenly not working....

Did you follow ALL the links within that link???

Red_Molly · 17th September 2004, 15:18

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Originally Posted by Jacqueline_S

i got a question - i'm using windows XP and when i press 'start' then 'turn off computer', the 'standby' mode icon's darkened.... wonder why...

Could be that Hibernation/Standby mode has been disabled. Can be various reasons for this. But first off, unless you are running a laptop, ask yourself first whether you really need hibernation.

Anyway, first check your Bios, to see that Standby/Hiber is enabled. You get there at boot-up (F12 key in my system). navigate your way round to find it in your Bios. Look for ACPI Bios (PXE in HP/Compaq) and enable it if not enabled.

It could also be that your setup install didn't detect ACPI Bios. Check Device Manager (Start/Control panel/Performance Mgt/Admin tools/Comp Mgt/Device Mgr/Computer), if it shows Standard PC rather than ACPI, that's likely your problem, and will probably need a fresh install to force ACPI.

You'll need to check that your system Bios is up-to-date first. Get that from your PC manufacturers website support downloads.

Also check you have the correct video driver, the XP generic driver rather than the correct system specific driver sometimes disallows hibernation.

Are you using a PS2 mouse? or other new device. That can sometimes stop hibernation.

That's as much as I know. Hope it helps if Stan's link doesn't...though I think it's pretty much the same advice.

Jacqueline_S · 19th September 2004, 04:12

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Originally Posted by Stanley Road

Did you follow ALL the links within that link???

thoguht i need to pay $$ to view that site..er.. no thanks lol

Jacqueline_S · 19th September 2004, 04:25

and thanks red molly - i tried all those steps you listed above, but it's still not working.
and here's the funny part -
you know when you start your computer and if you have more than 2 users, there's a user-login-page right, and at the bottom of the page there's a turn off computer button, with 'standby, shut down, and restart' button as well, THAT STANDBY MODE BUTTON's WORKING!! but when I login to an account, and if i press alt+F4 (or shut down botton) that standby mode's NOT working...what is going on...

Red_Molly · 19th September 2004, 23:35

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Originally Posted by Jacqueline_S

and thanks red molly - i tried all those steps you listed above, but it's still not working.
and here's the funny part -
you know when you start your computer and if you have more than 2 users, there's a user-login-page right, and at the bottom of the page there's a turn off computer button, with 'standby, shut down, and restart' button as well, THAT STANDBY MODE BUTTON's WORKING!! but when I login to an account, and if i press alt+F4 (or shut down botton) that standby mode's NOT working...what is going on...

??? Have those accounts got Administrators privelages?

Jacqueline_S · 20th September 2004, 07:09

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Originally Posted by Red_Molly

??? Have those accounts got Administrators privelages?

no....

this thing is screwed

Stanley Road · 20th September 2004, 10:44

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Originally Posted by Jacqueline_S

thoguht i need to pay $$ to view that site..er.. no thanks lol

I was just wondering as there were links to at least 5 solutions provided by microsoft

If you don't try everything then how can you possibly expect further help?? just a thought

Tell us exactly what you have tried to resolve the situation??

Red_Molly · 20th September 2004, 14:03

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Originally Posted by Jacqueline_S

no....

this thing is screwed

Are you using a laptop? If not, just a thought, why do you need standby mode anyway, it's not as if you need to worry about conserving battery power. If not a laptop then I wouldn't worry about it, just leave it disabled. And bear in mind that not all computers support the standby option in Windows.

Last thoughth from me is to check Power Options in Control Panel to see that you've got the PC set up to use standby and/or hibernation (they are different things).

golden_blunder · 20th September 2004, 18:36

debug,format & reinstall

pete_8 · 21st September 2004, 12:40

Well Paz
I would imagine you have some serious bugs in your registry along with some possible trojans and spyware.
Install Spybot and run that.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Go to
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
And do a virus scan online.
Then Down Load Crap Cleaner from
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/14/4/14-4-131.shtml.
Run That re boot and see how it goes after

Cheers

Pete

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Originally Posted by Paz

Okay lemme start off...

My Win XP laptop is constantly running on 100%...and the laptop keeps turning off if I run a Norton Anti-virus scan, or ad-ware scan or anything like that. It just sits on the usual 1-10% until I start any program, and suddenly it eats up 100% of my CPU processing...

pete_8 · 21st September 2004, 12:44

Type in your modem details download the driver and run from there.
By the way you have to log in
User id : temp
Password : 512
Cheers
Pete

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Originally Posted by Livvie

OK - forget everyone else's problems and concentrate on mine as it's URGENT!!!

I'm trying to update my modem driver as that's what I have to do apparently, because I keep getting "Page cannot be displayed."

Well I've tried three times, followed all the instructios and got as far as rebooting PC for "modems to be uninstalled" - but the new driver never appears. Same old driver, same old problems.

Jacqueline_S · 21st September 2004, 20:27

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Originally Posted by Stanley Road

I was just wondering as there were links to at least 5 solutions provided by microsoft

If you don't try everything then how can you possibly expect further help?? just a thought

Tell us exactly what you have tried to resolve the situation??

at least i tried all those tips Red Molly provided, i'll go and try the one you gave me tomorrow, bz at the moment. *duh..i didn't notice those solutions are posted under those banners.....*

Jacqueline_S · 21st September 2004, 20:27

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Originally Posted by Red_Molly

Are you using a laptop? If not, just a thought, why do you need standby mode anyway, it's not as if you need to worry about conserving battery power. If not a laptop then I wouldn't worry about it, just leave it disabled. And bear in mind that not all computers support the standby option in Windows.

Last thoughth from me is to check Power Options in Control Panel to see that you've got the PC set up to use standby and/or hibernation (they are different things).

'coz i'm lazy to wait ..

Neppe · 21st September 2004, 21:47

Need to recover some lost data.

A mate of mine messed up his hard drive, he's got one of those external USB drives, and no he cant access one of the partitions.

He was trying to resize the partition with PQ Magic 8.0 , but halfway through the process his computer crashed and he was forced to restart. On start-up after the crash, PQ tried to roll-back the process unsuccessfully. So basically he's fecked at the moment...

The partition is accessible through programs like Partition Magic but Windows are unable to 'find' it. According to PQ Magic it contains no data, I believe the data is still there ,and can't repair it because there are to many errors on the partition...

Is it possible to recover the data?

Are there any programs that are suited for this?

Fortunately it wasn't important data but it would save him a lot of work if he could recover it. He was just about finished backing up his CD collection, converting it to MP3, totalling over 300 CD's.

Stanley Road · 22nd September 2004, 01:00

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Originally Posted by Neppe

Need to recover some lost data.

A mate of mine messed up his hard drive, he's got one of those external USB drives, and no he cant access one of the partitions.

He was trying to resize the partition with PQ Magic 8.0 , but halfway through the process his computer crashed and he was forced to restart. On start-up after the crash, PQ tried to roll-back the process unsuccessfully. So basically he's fecked at the moment...

The partition is accessible through programs like Partition Magic but Windows are unable to 'find' it. According to PQ Magic it contains no data, I believe the data is still there ,and can't repair it because there are to many errors on the partition...

Is it possible to recover the data?

Are there any programs that are suited for this?

Fortunately it wasn't important data but it would save him a lot of work if he could recover it. He was just about finished backing up his CD collection, converting it to MP3, totalling over 300 CD's.

I used GetBackData NTFS for my crash

Download it and find a licence on the net

Neppe · 22nd September 2004, 07:16

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Originally Posted by Stanley Road

I used GetBackData NTFS for my crash

Download it and find a licence on the net

Thanks

I’ll pass the advice on, and maybe I’ll even help him.

Used to be able to do this myself with programs like Norton, but that’s a long time ago, and nowhere near the size of this. Need to recover about 25-30 G.

Stanley Road · 22nd September 2004, 12:11

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Originally Posted by Neppe

Thanks

I’ll pass the advice on, and maybe I’ll even help him.

Used to be able to do this myself with programs like Norton, but that’s a long time ago, and nowhere near the size of this. Need to recover about 25-30 G.

That's a huge partition

I hope he has a lot of time on his hands

Alek M · 24th September 2004, 16:27

Ok

My pc kept crashing and I suspected a hardware problem. Did a virus scan and nothing came up, nothing in the windows events so I was certain that it is a hardware problem.

Well, after one crash I looked in the bios and my cpu was 60 C-130F degrees. Well, that's not normal for sure, but my cpu fan is working just fine.

Sometimes the overheat happens after 1 hour, sometimes after 4 hours, sometimes after 15 minutes. Is my cpu fecked up? From my engineering background I would think that onve it overheats once, then the barriers in the transistors are pretty much feckd up and the cpu will overheat like crazy.

Any idea? I read recently that you could put some cream on the processors to improve the cooling. Would that help?

It is a 1gHz AMD Duron

Stanley Road · 24th September 2004, 19:04

Buy a fan for your pc

I don't mean the cpu fan but a big fecker that will attach to the casing and will attach to the motherboard

It's not an uncommon problem and a cheap solution

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Red_Molly Reserve Team Player Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Nr Bedford Posts: 2,727	Melvin, Could be a hardware/application conflict. Have you checked at the computer manufacturer website that you have the latest BIOS, firmware, drivers for video, display etc? Is it a desktop or laptop you are using? Pentium III / IV? How much RAM? Operating system - Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP Home, XP Pro. Firewall? - Sygate? AV? - Norton? New applications installed recently? Have you run System Mechanic, RegCleaner or such to clean your registry?

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Jacqueline_S Banned Jackie Chan lookalike Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Luzern Posts: 6,039	i got a question - i'm using windows XP and when i press 'start' then 'turn off computer', the 'standby' mode icon's darkened.... wonder why...

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DEB Does Old Trafford Join Date: May 2004 Location: Back in the Bay Area!! Posts: 1,978	Thanks, everyone, for your advice. I did manage to fix it. It turns out that when I rebooted my network, my network driver became corrupted somehow. When I deleted my network card from the Network Settings in Control Panel, the drivers reinstalled and I'm fine. It did cause some panic, though ... and I've backed up all important files to my roommate's PC. It may not be time for a new computer yet, but it will be pretty soon. This one is getting slow and won't run some applications I want to run. But I'll get a few months more out of it. Thanks again for the advice.

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Jacqueline_S Banned Jackie Chan lookalike Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Luzern Posts: 6,039	and thanks red molly - i tried all those steps you listed above, but it's still not working. and here's the funny part - you know when you start your computer and if you have more than 2 users, there's a user-login-page right, and at the bottom of the page there's a turn off computer button, with 'standby, shut down, and restart' button as well, THAT STANDBY MODE BUTTON's WORKING!! but when I login to an account, and if i press alt+F4 (or shut down botton) that standby mode's NOT working...what is going on...

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Neppe Trainee Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 81	Need to recover some lost data. A mate of mine messed up his hard drive, he's got one of those external USB drives, and no he cant access one of the partitions. He was trying to resize the partition with PQ Magic 8.0 , but halfway through the process his computer crashed and he was forced to restart. On start-up after the crash, PQ tried to roll-back the process unsuccessfully. So basically he's fecked at the moment... The partition is accessible through programs like Partition Magic but Windows are unable to 'find' it. According to PQ Magic it contains no data, I believe the data is still there ,and can't repair it because there are to many errors on the partition... Is it possible to recover the data? Are there any programs that are suited for this? Fortunately it wasn't important data but it would save him a lot of work if he could recover it. He was just about finished backing up his CD collection, converting it to MP3, totalling over 300 CD's.

24th September 2004, 16:27	#109 (permalink)
Alek M Da manic one Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: New England via ___ M A C E D O N I A Posts: 5,549	Ok My pc kept crashing and I suspected a hardware problem. Did a virus scan and nothing came up, nothing in the windows events so I was certain that it is a hardware problem. Well, after one crash I looked in the bios and my cpu was 60 C-130F degrees. Well, that's not normal for sure, but my cpu fan is working just fine. Sometimes the overheat happens after 1 hour, sometimes after 4 hours, sometimes after 15 minutes. Is my cpu fecked up? From my engineering background I would think that onve it overheats once, then the barriers in the transistors are pretty much feckd up and the cpu will overheat like crazy. Any idea? I read recently that you could put some cream on the processors to improve the cooling. Would that help? It is a 1gHz AMD Duron

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Stanley Road I.C.F. Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Viva Ronaldo Posts: 23,007	Buy a fan for your pc I don't mean the cpu fan but a big fecker that will attach to the casing and will attach to the motherboard It's not an uncommon problem and a cheap solution