CyberGenX

This may sound TOO simple of a solution for some to grasp, but it is what i do when that case comes up. PULL THE HARD DISK. PUT IT INTO YOUR COMPUTER. AND EITHER... A. Backup all the data to your own drive somewhere, format the disk, and put the crucial data back. OR B. Simply delete all the windows, program files, doc and sets, etc. Make sure view all hidden files is enabled as well as system files viewable. Something like this takes me a whole 10 minutes and i don't have to deal with DOS commands etc.

Ok this is a fun one. I recently purchased two copies of BFV, one for my wife and one for me. Here are our setups: Hers: AMD XP 2500+ 400MHz BUS 512MB DDR 400 Geforce4 Ti 4200 128MB WindowsXP SP1 Mine: P4 3.0GHz 800MHz Bus 1024MB DDR 400 Dual Channel GeforceFX 5500 256MB 8X and/or ATI 9600 256MB 8X WindowsXP SP1 and Windows Server 2003 I have the same drivers and the graphix settings are identical for the 2 nVidia based cards both in windows and in the game, however my wife get almost twice the FPS that I do!!! WTF!!! I get the same frames with the ATI card... She is getting like 60FPS avg. I get like 30 to 40FPS avg. Why is she getting more frames? Is that Ti card just that bad @ss?

It's the same PC each time. I just either switch the vcard or switch operating systems (fresh install). 21 INCH Sony monitor and yes the same res. each time. 1024X768X32 in the game.

I appreciate your help. However this is happening on fresh installs with the latest updates, drivers, anti-virus. etc. On 1 of the installs I NEVER connected it to the internet, rather electing to update from a clean CDROM with all the manual update downloads. I turn off all the unecessary services etc. only thing i can think of is my MB or memory maybe bad...

No help yet, huh, a stumper?

I have a HUGE problem: I have idiots for clients, one of these idiots has managed to infect 3 of his office computers with adware, malware, and spyware... I cannot seem to get this infection out. I have never seen it so bad. In the last month I have went from meaningful onsite calls to being a friggin' POPUP TECHNICIAN!!! HELP I have used Adaware, bazooka, spybot - search and destroy and a couple others (all with latest updates). As soon as these pieces of software find and remove the 'badware' it just comes right back. I even get popups during the f^cking scans!!! I have tried manually removing a lot of stuff but that doesn't work either. Regedit >Run folders etc. I am running McAfee and it finds no viruses, and limited malware. No odd services are registered. All the boxes are WindowsXP SP1. I have tried running the scanners in Safe Mode and with the NIC disconnected, still not successful. I don't even have to open a browser, just sit there at the desktop and watch the popups flow!!! Hundreds of them eventually. This pretty much has brought productivity at this office to a hault. Could someone PLEASE direct me to a piece of software that actually works!?! I need something that will clean 100%, not 50%, not 75%, NOT 98%! A FULL 100%! I can't charge these tards until the job is finished... BTW: If i ever get the chance to meet one of you f^cks that writes these programs, YOU ARE DEAD, literally. I don't mind going back to prison...lol

Yeah I cannot really afford the time to teach the clients how to use a new browser (as easy as it is). It would be a whole new can of worms. I personally do not have ANY problems with my own machines, funny. I am actually very happy with I.E. under SP2 RC. I.E. now has a built in popup blocker that works friggin great. SpyBotSD was the program that could not seem to get rid of the problem for me, the popups actually would increase when it was running!!! I agree the OS should have that built in for sure. Hopefully Windows2010 (lol) will have that.

I work on a network sometimes in a simple office. 1 W2K Pro machine acting as a file server, and 7 mixed OS computers connecting to it via TCP/IP - Receiving a DHCP 10.x.x.x series address from a DSL modem attached to the 10/100 swtich. There is a mapped drive to the "server" on each of the computers. All day long there are no problems with it. But when the computers are not active (overnight) they lose connection to the server and have to be rebooted to get the mapped drive to respond again. The internet works fine however! OSes included 98, XP, 2000 Pro and ME.

Thanks y'all! I appreciate the quick responses and suggestions. I consider my self a pretty good tech (10 years now). I know where all the reg keys that will run programs, I def. remember and often use the old DOS/Win3.11/9.x ini files etc. I can understand why you'd ask, there are some serious 'educated' ID10TS our there that think they are techs. I make sure all the services that don't need to be running are not, including Messenger, Server(no onr is sharing), Remote Registry, Remote Desktop, etc. I try to lock the PCs down pretty tight. I was able to narrow it down to rundll32.exe! Through another post here I learned that API calls and such can be made through rundll32. So I will use the sniffers you recommended and try again. Thanks a bunch. Death to Crapware writers

I have noticed zero popups on my rigs ever since installing SP2 RC!!!

Welp if you have an actual legit XP CDROM it is bootable. Set your bios to boot to CDROM. Then it should boot up to the WinXP setup. It may tell you that you already have WindowsXP on that drive, simply choose "delete partition". Then you can create a fresh partition and tell the setup to install XP onto that partition. If you do NOT have a bootable WinXP CDROM you can obtain boot disks from www.bootdisk.com

I used to ride the GeForce wagon, used to bash ATI and their support. But when I actually got one of their cards, 9600PRO 256MB 8X AGP, I was very happy and excited! My GeForce 4 Ti 128MB 4400 couldn't even compare. As for support, what support do you need, it's a friggin video card not an OS! The drivers work great, they release new ones all the time, and i have yet to have any issues at all...

Can I ask why yer friend doesn't just buy a cheap Pentium or P2 box? I can look in my "mountain" of parts and probably put something together for like $50 that will at least run 98 or NT4....

I have several computers that have services running like FireDaemon and DameWare... I need an app that will remove this. The computers had trojans infected on them, the FireDaemons and DameWare were left behind. I have already disabled them and deleted the assoc. files. But i am tired of going through the registry of each computer to manually remove the ref.. Thanks WAY in advance!

Thanks for the help. You would think that if this program has an installer it would have a simple way to uninstall! I know that dameware and firedaemon are not viruses. However, the computer WERE infected with Trojans and variants and the dameware appeared at the same time. I am the admin and at no time did I install those, nor do any of the people in the offices claim responsibility, so I am assuming that dameware was used in conjunction with the trojans. I will keep searching, what a pain...

Can you CTRL ALT DEL to a taskman? If so start killing off some processes.

From what I understood from an Intel rep, Windows 64Bit will work with their "future" 64bit chips just fine.

I have seen something similar and if you are able to hit CTRL ALT DEL at the hanging screen, sometimes you can kill some processes off and are causing the hang. It may hit desktop and then allow you to manual sweep the registry.

I know your pain and too have upgrade two or three times to get the Optimal video editing/DVD burning PC. I started off with an XP 2500+ Barton Core on a dual channel nForce2 ultra board. 1.0GB of DDR400MHz. RAID drives the whole "10" yards. That wasn't enough power for Adobe Premiere Pro to render the speed at which i would be happy with. So now i have an P4 3.0GHz HT 800MHz BUS, Intel based board, SATA drives, same GIG of memory dual channel, yada yada. THe P4 setup screams through Premiere with HT enabled!!! I love it! Oh yeah I overclocked both chips, the 2500+ i got up to 2.3GHz, and the P4 i can get to 3.4GHz easily, no need to though. Go with the Intel setup, it's the closet you'll get to a MAC if you are into video editing and media creation. MACs suck for anything other than media IMO.

I think someone above said it already. What is the point. Linux is still pretty well reserved for advanced users/admins. I have yet to see one 'general' business run their company on anything but a MS based OS. I have the same excuse that lots of people do. "I would use Linux BUT..." But, A LOT of the programs that I use DON'T run on Linux. If they did, it is because of a 3rd party emulator. Which CAN be very buggy. An you pretty much got to compile certain portions of the code in a few of those. Who the h@ll has time for that? Find me a distro that works out of the box with the following programs (without alternate programs) and I will switch NOW. Adobe Premiere Pro Avid Studio Adobe Photoshop Pinnacle Studio Ulead DVD Factory ALL MS products (including Office, Viso, Visual Studio, excluding OSes) ACT! Battlefield 1942, Desert Combat Call of Duty Half-Life2 beta (don't ask)

You don't. Most restore disks will wipe all the partitions on a disk. You would have to put another hard disk in the computer to accomplish that with out some 3rd party software, if it exists. Why not just throw the XP Pro CD in and install it from scratch? If your CD is legit it will be bootable. Otherwise go to www.bootdisk.com

Are both connections from the same provider? If so there is no point.

You can use that drive and boot to it in slave mode with no problem? If so then it is prob. the board. It may be that the controller is going south. Or that you may have to us Cable Select mode. Try the other controller as master, if that works then it is very possible that the controller is bad.

I work for an domain registrar and I got a tech call today with someone that did indeed have that very same setup. I think it's called Outlook Web Access OWA from what I can remember him saying... Unfortunately he didn't tell me how he set it up. I will try to find out more for you if I can.

Is this a SATA drive by chance? Did you jack with the jumpers at all? What chip are you running?