danleff

It's always a good idea to post a link to the article that you used to try the fix you mentioned. It saves tome for the person helping you from searching the exact article that you used. I assume it's this one? Quote: from the symatic website it said to boot up in safe mode, turn off system restore and run scan, when scan complete, delete and reboot, turning off safe mode and turning back on sys restore well i got to the deleting part, when i reboot i now have the above message! I assume that you tried the FixVundo.exe file and at some point it asked you to delete the infected files...and did you follow the instructions verbatim, such as disconnecting the system from the internet when trying the fix? Quote: i have checked other websites and none seem to help, saying i need the original boot disk (pc is 3 years old!!) or try an XP disk, well i dont have one (well not a real copy) and hit repair when i gt the option Well, that's why it's good to keep your recovery disks, just for these situations. It does not matter how old the computer is! Can you boot into safe mode now at all? Quote: p.s. i have asked this on another forum and they said to install Knoppix and Linux, but i'm unsure if this is the best solution for me!! Did the forum suggest installing Knoppix, or using a Knoppix live CD to assist in recovering possible lost DLL files? In this case, you are not installing Knoppix, just using the live CD to recover files. It does not touch the hard drive, in the latter case.

OK, try the following in order until (hopefully) it works. 1. If the Device Manager shows "unknown Device" uninstall the device. Leave the ipod plugged in to the computer and reboot. If the ipod is found good. 2. If the new hardware wizard pops up, point it to C:\Windows\System32 and see if the driver is found. If so good. If not; 3. Try another USB port on the back of the computer. Do not use a USB port on the front case. Make sure that it is another USB port that you used your camera or other USB device in previously. 5. If this does not work, try the steps in response # 3 here. Again, make sure to use a USB port on the back of the machine not used before by any other USB device, if possible.

Have you tried the audio troubleshooting steps on the Gigabyte support page? Do you have Windows Service Pack 2 installed? If yes, post the exact model that you have of the 945, there are 9 model versions and revisions. A troubleshooting example for the GA-945GCM-S2 (if that is what you have) is located here.

Did you try all the steps outlines to update the drivers as outlined in the article, including pointing the search to the Windows/INF folder, or reinstall the drivers and scan for hardware changes? Also, did you try resetting the ipod?

Did you mean uninstall the ipod, or update the drivers? If update, did it complete? Did you also try to reinstall the USB drivers, as noted in the article? if so Try resetting the ipod by holding the center button and the menu button at the same time till you see the apple sign. If this does not work I have one more thing to try.

Do you have any idea what software was originally bundled with it? It looks like they had lots of problems with the software. Or are you looking for just the drivers? If you are the original owner of the device, have you tried e-mailing Pinnacle support? What version of Windows are you using?

At the Seagate support site I found this article. See if it helps.

You did not mention what version of Windows that you are using, or what model ipod. But try this Apple article.

Since you don't have a floppy drive you can do one of two things. 1. If you know the make of the hard drive in the laptop, get the format utility from the hard drive manufacturer and make a bootable cd from their iso version. This will allow you to format the drive to NTFS so you can re-install Windows. Of course you need another computer with a cdrw drive to do this. 2. Use the RHE or any Linux live cd disk to format the drive to a fat32 file system, then re-install Windows. You can also do the same with most Linux distros that allow you to boot the system. You would follow the install to the point of formatting the hard drive, format it to fat32, remove the cd and reboot, then re-install Windows. I assume that you are referencing this Microsoft article? You can't use the fdisk command at the boot screen (that shows the install/rescue options) which is why it states that it can't find the kernel image. You have to load the install phase first and work from there.

Was Vista pre-installed on the laptop? If not, did you try to install the drivers for Vista for the Marvell Yukon Lan? It might help to post the exact make and model of your laptop.

You make mention that this is the "lab" computer. So, I assume that this is not your system? Could the parallel port be disabled in the bios or in Windows? So, is the parallel port listed in device manager (com & LPT)? Does Device manager properties state that the hardware has loaded a driver and is working properly? If no, is the parallel port turned off in the bios? If the parallel port is fine, then maybe it is a software problem. Do you have the latest version of the software?

Can you be a little more specific? What distro and version of Linux are you using? Wireless or ethernet connections? Do you mean that you do not have access to the internet in general, the machines are not getting a connection, or that you want to network without an internet connection? Are the machines connected via a router?

Could you post the make and model of the laptop. usually the keys snap on and off. Are the locking snaps on the bottom of the keys intact and not broken?

Take a look at this article. Is it possible to post any more of the message that would narrow down what the error message is telling you? The actual stop error message would be helpful. Have you recently installed any new hardware or updated your drivers for any piece of hardware?

Is the file ntvdm.exe or ntdvm.exe? If the former, see here.

Did you try any of the solutions in the faq section of the Kingston support web site for your model number?

So, you are sure that the recovery partition is actually gone? I'm not sure that the Windows install deletes this partition, as it is marked as hidden. You might want to look at this before you ship the unit off. If Toshiba suggested the recovery disk first, they may feel that based on what you did (from what they asked you when you spoke to them), the recovery partition may still be there.

You mentioned that you have an older printer and fax? Especially if the printer and/or older fax unit are the same make as the current unit, there may be a conflict. Did you uninstall the applications and drivers for the old units? Also, make sure that you install the software and drivers for the new unit, as per the instructions in the documentation for the Epson multifunction unit. The instructions that I provided above were to discharge any static charges that can build up on the USB ports. Now it's time to look at other possible issues. It may be helpful to post what make and model computer that you are using, as there support pages may have some troubleshooting hints. I did not find much on the Epson site.

Before I looked at this, I did not know that Linux could play on the PS3. Indeed it can. See this wikipedia. Be aware from the description, that you will wipe out the storage on the PS3 if you choose to do this. The correct question on software, is what alternative programs are there to run that you need in Linux. With some effort, you can get some Windows programs to run on Linux, but this is not really what you want to accomplish. OpenOffice has an excellent version made for Linux that is included in most distros of Linux. iTunes does not run in Linux, but I use Banshee and Amarok to manage my ipod. I don't use Sopcast, but apparently there is a bare bones version for Linux. Fedora Linux uses Pidgin as an alternative MSN messenger application. So I suggest that you use google to do your research on this to see if it seems feasible to accomplish what you want to do. Also use my link as a jumping point for your research. What version of Linux you use is dependent on what you find seems the best to suite your needs, based on the wikipedia descriptions. From my perspective, Fedora and Ubuntu are both good choices, but I am sure others will have ideas on this.

I hope that you don't mind me sharing my experience with a Toshiba laptop recently with a co-worker's unit. My co-workers son decided that he wanted to re-install windows. He totally re-formated the hard drive, to find the same issue. I attempted to recover it for him. In my research I found that many Toshiba laptops have a hidden primary partition that holds recovery data and apparently some bios settings as well. After some failed attempts, I suggested that he get a copy of the recovery disk from Toshiba, which he did (note: Toshiba support wants verification that you are a valid owner of the laptop before they will ship a recovery cd for $30 USD). Still the system would not recover from the recovery cd. It seems that the disk looks for the recovery data (which he deleted from the hard drive in the re-format), so the disk would not proceed with the recovery. Apparently, the disk also will not complete at all unless it sees the hard drive partitioned exactly with the hidden partition size intact. I know I was in trouble when I posted on a Toshiba support forum and here and received no responses. IT folks at my job site admitted that they had run into the same issues. My co-worker sent the unit back to Toshiba and they recovered the system for a price. So, just be prepared to run into some difficulties if you formatted the recovery partition in the process of reinstalling Windows. So, I suggest doing some research and I hope that you can get a response from Toshiba or any forum posts that works.

Yes you can download it from the MSI site here. Make absolutely sure you have the right bios for your system There are two or three MS-7030 boards listed. Just leave the platform dropdown at all and pick your system from the board dropdown list. The file is in rar format, so you will need a program to uncompress the rar file. Then follow the directions exactly as noted in the first link that I gave you on my previous post.

Take a look at the Symantec article on the subject located here. Also, take a look at this wiki comment. Finally, this one. Are you sure that you did not delete a Windows file that caused your e-mail to malfunction? If Norton did not detect it, how did you find it?

Do other USB devices work on this system? When you stated that you turned off the power on the back of the system, did you; 1. Turn off the system? 2. Unplug the printer from the USB port? 3. Unplug the power cord and hold the power button on for 10 seconds? 4. Plug the power cord back in and boot the system? 5. Once the system is booted into Windows, plug the printer USB cable into one of the USB ports on the BACK of the computer, not om one of the ports on the front of the system?

You can try a couple of things, including the bios force recovery as noted under BIOS flash failed during BIOS update. But this would require that you know the exact board and download the appropriate bios to a floppy. You can try reseting the cmos jumper if the system tries to boot but stops (and you can't get into the bios to set the defaults). Which board is it? There are a several in the 5 series; 915PL Neo-V (MS-7143) 848P_Neo-V (MS-6788) K9NU_Neo-V (MS-7270) K8T_Neo-V (MS-7032) K8N_Neo-V (MS-7030)... Note the MS number designation. Note the link's troubleshooting steps for different stages of the system not booting. One issue is making sure that the bios settings were set to allow a flash of the bios. The other is that a person thinks that the system locked-up, when the bios was actually still flashing and he/she rebooted the computer before the flash was completed. But I had my system lock up with live update (driver, not bios update), so I understand that it probably could have truely locked-up.

It's usually best to download drivers from the system's manufacturer's web site, specific for the version of Windows that you are using. Did you do so for the laptop? Does the CD drive show in the device manager? If so, does the CD drive have an exclamation mark next to it? It would be helpful to know what make and model each system is. What version of Windows is on each system?