hi. i'm hoping someone here can help me. i don't know what happened, i'm guessing a virus of some sort, but my google searches are all wrong. the main links look the same, but the actual website they take you to are like ad websites or something. i tried running ad-aware and a virus scan and it didnt find anything. can someone help? thanks!

Hello, playing Gears of War maxed out and it run like silk when i first start playing, however after a while, about half an hour it starts to get choppy on the intence bits and going into a new area.
I know i could turn them down but isnt that the whole point of spending money on a nice rig?
This would be down to the card and / or cpu getting too hot right? Got stock coolers on both.

Also anyone recomend any good hardware monitoring software? (Dont like the Gbyte stuff)

Specs are below

Cheers !

I see that DxDiag shows that my sound hardware acceleration level is set to basic. I've heard know that Vista doesn't use hardware sound, but I now have a card (Xonar D2X) with a "GX" thing that is supposed to add back HW acceleration in Vista. I have it turned on, but DxDiag still says that HW sound acceleration is "Basic". That doesn't really make sense if it has NO HW acceleration, why wouldn't it be "off"? Anyway, does this mean that I'm not having hardware sound? I have the GX button on in the control panel thing for the card. (How) can I change it so DxDiag shows it as "Full"? Will this make anything different?

Last week I was infected with a trojan that caused a number of problems. I did what I could to get rid of it and then I tried to do a system restore to a point before the infection. I tried a number of different restore points going back a week and every time it said, ..."Restoration was unsuccessful. No changes have been made to your computer. System Restore was unable to restore your computer to the specified restore point. Select another restore point and try to perform the restoration again."

I could see the changes listed at certain restore points so I knew something was wrong. The intial Avast scan found six files in the system volume information\_restore folder all named Crypt-DGV. So I disabled System Restore, ran the virus scan again (it found nothing), rebooted and then re-enabled System Restore.

I've been running various antivirus/antispyware scans for almost a week now and nothing new has shown up, so I figured I was clean. I was having trouble this morning after installing some new software (taskbar icons disappeared, clock changed to military time, etc.) and I decided I wanted to try the System Restore again, but it was the same as last time. I tried going back to Thursday (my earliest point after re-enabling) and it kept saying that no changes have been made, but there were a number of changes that I could see at the new restore points.

Even though my scans haven't found anything, does it sound like this trojan/virus is still causing problems with my system restore?

I have Windows XP Home. My mother board puked so I got a used good motherboard. It was tested and working when I got it. It is an ASUS A7V8X MX SE with AMD 2500 chip set.

I plugged in my floppy. cd roms and hard drive. I want to get the puter working properly before I install my video card and USB card.

When I start the computer it comes up with a screen thats says Windows did not start successfully and gives me options for safe modes or previous configuration. I tried all options. It doesn't work. It just tries to restart. I hear the hard drive crunch a few times then the same problem screen comes up.

I can start it and look at my bios screens. They look 'OK' to me, but I'm an amateur and I may not see the glaring problem.

What can I look for to correct this problem?
What other info do you need?
I'm using my old puter to type this. It is slow, but works...

I can be reached by cell phone. Call Dan at *removed*
I have both computers side by side so I can work on one and post on this one.

Please help !

Thanks.

Hey, so yesterday I accidentally dropped my laptop and I believe the screen cracked...



There are some pics... if you'd like some more I would be glad to upload some. As you can see there is like a crack in the right-hand corner down from there the screen isn't working but everything else to the left works. I'm actually typing on the computer right now so I'm pretty sure the hard drive isn't messed up, just the screen. Could you guys please help me out? My warranty expired last November

Many thanks to anyone who could help me out, thank you!!

Hi,

ive noticed my computer is running very slow and when i click on things in google searches they open in new windows and get redirected to advertising sites. I also get annoying pop ups occassionally.

Im on XP SP3.

I didnt have this problem a few days ago so thought i would do a system restore to then and see if that solved the problem. Sadly when i choose the date to restore to, when i click next it just doesnt do anything. It doesnt freeze just the button clicks and nothing happens. Ive noticed this problem on the net when looking but no one seems to have a solid solution. Ive tried restoring whilst in safe mode but the same problem occurs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks Tom.

Hey, I've got two quick questions in regards to processors and video cards:

1: I've been browsing for a new video card for my system, however, it has been forever since I screwed around with video cards and I was surprised to find that it's no longer just PCI slots, it's now PCI express, AGP, etc. I've currently got a NVIDIA GEForce 6800 with 256MB RAM. Is there any way I can tell what sort of cards my system will take (ie. AGP, PCI Express, etc.)?

2: I'm a gamer and reading the system requirements on games they always put the processor requirement as "2.4 Ghz" or "3.2 Ghz". I've got an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (2 of them). What (comparatively) does that count as in terms of the Ghz comparison? I'm just trying to compare so I can know where I stand (and whether I need a new video card and new processor).

Thanks for ya'lls help.

Hi. I joined because i need help with my windows xp. Thanks!

Hi, I'm new here so I'm not sure I'm posting this in the right section. I use windows Vista and firefox worked well all the time. Suddenly it started crashing a few days ago. I checked my pc for virus and spyware and all were fine. I also checked for proper add-ons and everything seems perfect. As soon as i open firefox, it freezes. It does not even open the homepage. I tried deleting and re-installing but still doesn't work. Can anyone please shed some light on the issue? I don't like intenet explorer and want my firefox back!

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Hey all, I'll be picking up a 2GB 667 Mhz RAM (DDR2) tomorrow and I was wondering if there were any precautions I should take during installation?

I have a detailed picture of my motherboard and it lables everything but I wasn't sure if there was anything I should do before installing it to prevent any mishaps.

Thanks, Fargo.

I have toyed with this idea for a while, but have rejected doing it on the grounds that if i screw up, i lose a good drive.
The while ides is that when i puld my Seagate Freeagent Go into any computer, instead of detecting like a hard drive, it detects like a flash drive. I ask of this because i plug my drive into the school machines, but i am unable to write to it, only read and execute. Any way of doing this without screwing up the drive or having to hack the school machines?

Hello guys once again. Some of you may have noticed i've been a bit "inactive" lately. The reason for this is mainly because of Family issues that i'd preferr not to discuss. Also works been a pain in the backside. Anyway, i hope you've all had a wonderful Christmas and Happy New year to you all! Oh, one more thing. If you're wondering, yes, i am back and ready to help!!!

MrWestie.

Hey everyone.

My Dad bought a laptop a while back, after a few months or so the wireless stopped working completely. The Ethernet cable still worked in getting internet. So he bought a new wireless modem, however he cant connect using ethernet cable or wireless at all. This is just his PC as his flatmate can connect wireless and I can connect using Ethernet (PC no wireless).

Does anyone have any ideas on what might be wrong with the laptop?

Hi.
I'm having problems with the resolution of my TV. When i connect it to my Laptop via VGA cable the image displayed on my TV screen is wider than it appears on the laptop.
I've tried changing the resolution of my Laptop but none of the settings help.

My laptop is a standard Dell Inspirion 1300 with a screen resolution of 1280 x 800. My TV is a Matsui LCD HDTV with a resolution of 1366 x 768.

So basically I'm hoping to find a way of displaying whats on my laptop on my TV without messing up the ratio. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.