Ahh, didn't see that it won't even get into Windows now.
That's a little odd for a virus!
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Quote by Shireen_Mids
I have managed to do a system restore which seemed to work for about 10 minutes.... Now the bluddy thing is crashing again
I am now getting the blue screen crash and cant even get to start in safe mode.... It gets as far as Welcome and then dies
Right click My Computer, choose properties, go to Advanced, choose startup and recovery. Take the tick out of restart.
Quote by bigDewi69
If your kettles broken you can either stick your coffee in a microwave, on the hob, in the oven or just eat the grounds.
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Actually, though I've used the microwave to heat/ reheat coffee more than a few times, I read that microwaving mugs of water is a really bad idea!
It's got something to do with the microfissures in the ceramic allowing for superheating of the water to a dangerously energy-laden vapour, whilst the rest of the coffee/ tea/ whatever heats up far slower. Meaning that when you think the whole lot is finally hot enough, there's pockets of far far too hot steam just waiting to erupt and scald you.
Personally, I like to run my bath too hot, use stairs without grabbing the banister, and so I will continue to reheat my coffee in the microwave...
Quote by grimsby-cpl
The black and white problem is down to the signal format going into your TV, It will appear b/w if you are the signal goint from your PC/Video/DVD etc is NTSC rather than PAL.
Hope this helps
And that too! I wanted to say something along those lines, but couldn't remember if it was true or not (couldn't be arsed to go amd check on my media PC, would mean standing up...).
NTSC wasn't the issue with the telly I mentioned earlier though, that just had far too many inputs, all with different built in settings, stupid thing.
Quote by Steve_Lincs
Thanks for the replies so far.
Im also having yet another problem,this time to do with displaying the pc on our usual got the connection going from an s-video from the pc into a scart at the displays a picture but its black and ideas why its not colour????
BTW your all bloody clever and im thick as pig shit:lol: :lol:
I've seen this before, and I seem to remember it's down to how the TV interprates the signal. The time I saw it, the telly had three or four inputs, and the right AV channel had to be selected for it to run in colour. Then I read the TV manual, where it said that certain equipment had to be connected to the right input socket, with the right settings, or you might get a black and white picture...
Aldi had some SCART - Sperates adpters with 10m cables for a fiver a while ago, I think you can get Belkin ones from Argos for 20 quid or so. You'll only be able to watch whatever the Sky box is tuned into though, but if you want to watch terrestrial (I'm guessing the PC is in another room, otherwise why need 10m?) while someone is watching Sky just run a coax ariel cable through to it as well. People swear by s-video for quality, but I've found with the cheaper cables composite (the yellow one) works better over any sort of distance, but most likely you'll have to just use whatever's in the kit you get. By the way, TV recording and general picture quality can vary massively depending on the TV card in the PC.
All these problems and having to ask the store - Not an issue if you build your own, you know what's in the box, and what it can and can't do then
All these problems and having to ask the store - Not an issue if you build your own, you know what's in the box, and what it can and can't do then
Quote by SXBOY
1985 mini cooper
so nothing to special
No, that's pretty special. Incredibly so in fact, considering they stopped making the Cooper around 71, replacing it with the less than inspired Clubman range, and only started making Coopers again around 91!
I'm not going to mention my first car, but thinking slow old Vauxhauls, I got my first ever bj in a Chevette 1300! I actually like them, but this one was completely knackered, and my g/f at the time and I had to find something to do while the engine cooled down...
Quote by freckledbird
:shock: Whooooooooooooooooosh right over MY head, don't know about Scandal's.
Yay, I get to bask in a false sense of superior knowledge for at least 3 minutes till someone comes along and proves I'm talking bollocks again!
It's the briefly lived little things in life that keep me going....
Assuming this is a CRT, then it sounds like a poor cable, or a fault with the focussing of the tube. However, 1280x960 is a bit of an odd res really! 1280x1024, or 1024x768 are far more common, and most websites are likely to be happier with those. Or even 800x600 if your eyes are shot.
You shouldn't need drivers, all they really do is tell the PC what res and refresh you can use, and maybe give a colour profile.
Try setting the res to a standard one, upping the refresh rate, and if it has a seperate cable, make sure both ends are fully in, it doesn't loop around anything that might cause interference and so on. If th cable is seperate, try a different one if you can. The quality of VGA cables can vary massively, and it's more noticeable on a bigger screen.
You shouldn't need drivers, all they really do is tell the PC what res and refresh you can use, and maybe give a colour profile.
Try setting the res to a standard one, upping the refresh rate, and if it has a seperate cable, make sure both ends are fully in, it doesn't loop around anything that might cause interference and so on. If th cable is seperate, try a different one if you can. The quality of VGA cables can vary massively, and it's more noticeable on a bigger screen.
Quote by Gemmalou85
Sorry my bad
I best delete it then. I didn;t know. I don't use the forum very often to be honest and haven't been around for too long.
Sorry if iv bored anyone
You've not bored me. I find the webcam thing intriguing though. And I get put off bythe thought pay sites and mass chatrooms.
And I always wonder what actually happens? Do you start naked? Do you try and adjust the cam every so often, or keep it focused on one area? What if it falls over? Are you supposed to get on with self gratification, or type? What are you supposed to type? Is it OK to watch without having a cam yourself? What if you're being watched by someone that doesn't have a cam, and they're a bunch of students taking the piss? Or worse, someone you know, who you've accidentally clicked on meaning to click on that person from the other night? Is the other person actually enjoying a damned thing? When's the right time to say you're bored of seeing a close up of some grainy out of focus pink bits, and go for a ciggie? Is the other person recording this so the next thing you know there's you naked looking bored and smoking on some website? Can they tell in the background there's a couple of old pizza boxes? Should you tidy the place up? Should you stop and tidy the place up? Should you turn the cam off before tidying once you've realised?
And they say the internet is a great way of being yourself without having to worry
Quote by Salooner
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
DONT MESS ABOUT WITH WIRES
£60 might sound a lot but what price your familys safety?
You'd probably pay £300 fora new machine so its only a small cost .
As I used to be involved in this field I know diy jobs are like timebomes waiting to hapen.
You might get it working, and it seems fine but if it not Professionally connected you could easily cause your whole machine to become 'Live'.
Get a qualified, (ask for proof) engineer/electrician to do it.
One more time
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
DONT MESS ABOUT WITH WIRES
Oh for gods sake, it's only a pair of insulted wires going onto an insulated motor, how dangerous can that be FFS?
It's safer than wiring a plug, would you recommend everyone pays a sparky to do that too?
I missed the other thread..
I'd have to choose from:
Was it all worth it - Queen
Show must go on - Queen
Hammer to fall - Queen
Torch Song - Marillion
Or probably one of many others depending on my mood (that'll be my mood before being dead, as lack of life might somewhat prevent my being able to tell anyone afterwards)
I'd have to choose from:
Was it all worth it - Queen
Show must go on - Queen
Hammer to fall - Queen
Torch Song - Marillion
Or probably one of many others depending on my mood (that'll be my mood before being dead, as lack of life might somewhat prevent my being able to tell anyone afterwards)
Quote by gands0719
Mine's an ATI Radeon X300 and that has hotkeys for rotating the screen (it's for LCD wifescreen monitors you can get now that swivel between landscape and portrait mode)
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Showoff!
Mine's a much more basic Radeon, and has the option to set hotkeys for rotation, but none set by default. In fact, given most stuff only comes with manuals on the CD if at all, and most people don't RTFM, setting hotkeys by default seems a silly idea to me. Far too easy tohjit the wrong key when frenziedly typing away...
Quote by lil_miz_naughty_0204
Thanks very much shambolic!!!
We just recently got a new graphics card fitted. Is there any chance it could have been that do you know?
Vicky xx
Depends on the card. I've only come across someone accidentally managing it with Intel cards, which are almost always onboard ones nowadays, but there's no reason why other cards might not have the same problem. To rotate the screen on my PC I have to go through the settings, there's no keyboard shortcut, but that doesn't mean other makes/ models are the same of course.
Not that it really makes any difference if you don't ever have the problem again
Quote by Sexysteph
Is it XP?
If so control panel - performance and Maintenance and on left hands side do sytem restore. Set a restore point of say yesturday when you know it was working and let it mend itself.
And for future reference, it was most likely a setting.
Intel video cards have hotkeys that can rotate the screen, and it's quite easy to accidentally press them moving the keyboard around, without knowing what you've done!
Other cards have similar. If you can cope with the bad neck, then to fix it usually you just go to the display properties (right click on desktop, or go through control panel), select advanced in the settings bit, and take it from there
Quote by Silk and Big G
No flames JQL mate , just to say that nothing you have said in any way contrdicts what was said in my previous post about it . For the general average user none of the critical IT people have given a reason why its no good , or why something else is better .
Alright.
There is no reason why an internet connection has to be made using proprietory software. And no, connecting and then minimsing the non standard stuff is not an option, we're talking newbie users, they don't know, and might not want to know, about all that.
You need a basic setup, that doesn't require discs full of crap, just a simple script that sets up OE and IE, and the dial up itself. A brief guide, in Flash or suchlike, telling the basics of the net is not a bad idea. In fact, I've only ever seen one ISP bother to provide information on the dos and don'ts on the net, the rest all just give badly configured software or worse.
The moment you give someone who doesn't know anything non standard equipment, they're learning will be based on that. And they will wonder why people don't talk to them on usenet, why people never seem to email them, why they can't access some webpages. But instead of blaming the shoddy tools provided, they blame everyone else, after all, AOL are a big company, how can they do wrong?
Oh, and then there's the matter of paying a techie shitloads when it's time to try and change ISPs, and the AOL shite won't uninstall.
To be technical, a multi platform network requires adherement to standards if it's to work as it should. AOL doesn't seem to do that, although it's not the only company heavily invested in the internet that does things it's own way.
Quote by KitKat
Kat
There's a thought - Assuming it must use some kind of memory to hold at least the basics of the last state, then how about pulling the battery and putting the laptop in the freezing cold instead?
OK, not much of a thought, but the best I can do.
Chances are it's just fucked though, and the hibernation/ crash issue is just a red herring (cause there's some that did, some that didn't, and it was just a theory this was one of the former)
I can see their point, but on the other hand, fallen angel, Fallen Angel, fallenangel, and other combinations thereof are hardly going to be unique nics in the land of the web. So either pick something that stands a chance of being unique, or live with the fact you're not the only one, and deal with the confusion it might cause.
That's my 6am still sober and bored shitless/ running out of booze take on it all anyway
That's my 6am still sober and bored shitless/ running out of booze take on it all anyway
Quote by SurreyBloke
As for the cost of reloading Windows etc, 300 quid is outrageous! Anything and everything driverwise should either be provided, or can be found online. Or low cost low effort is find a friend who'll do it for beer
From the way I was reading it the drivers are something to do with external machinery controlled by the laptop via hardwire or telephone. I think. Maybe. Or something
Ah, you might be right. Still seems on the pricey side - Surely anything controlled by the laptop can be set up by in house technicians, and anything on the laptop can be set up like any other computer?
But then, the ways of big business when it comes to IT are a black art to me
Quote by KitKat
After leaving my laptop with no attention for the whole day - I tickled the little button, and off she went...... for nearly 30 seconds - and then stopped!
Not sure it applies for this one, but some laptops had a power failure hibernation state. That is to say, if the power was cut, it would power up to exactly the point that happened. Now, in the even of a crash, can you guess what happened?
Yep, every time the thing was powered up, it would return to the state it was last in, ie, crashed. The fix was to send the damned thing back to be reset, although I'm sure it can be done at home, probably a BIOS reset or similar, although that does involve opening the thing up.
As for the cost of reloading Windows etc, 300 quid is outrageous! Anything and everything driverwise should either be provided, or can be found online. Or low cost low effort is find a friend who'll do it for beer
Quote by VenusnMars
Yes come play in the Cafe, most ladies like to get to know someone`s personality first.
Venusxxx
Maybe that's where I'm going wrong. After all, in the cafe, I come across as an argumentative, opinionated miserable bastard.
Which of course, I am, but I fear it severely decreases my chances of a shag if people realise!
Quote by KcKat
:swingingchair: Woooooo Hooooooooo :bounce: :bounce:
It's working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thrilled:
Finally managed to nuke the buggers lurking with Sophos SAV32CLI from the safe mode command line.
Thanks to everyone for all the help and advice given
Kitty xxx
Typical, it's always the thing you're sure it's not going to be!
Yet another reminder not to trust that whatever you ran actually did its job I suppose, but good news that you got it working again :)
Quote by easy
If Trillian is capable of passing a file and you accept it, then yes.
But then, you shouldn't ever accept a file unless you know what it is, or who it's from.
And IIRC, the latest version of Norton has all manner of chat and net protection, don't know if it's actually any good or not though.
Quote by HornyRepairman
Your problem has nothing to do with routers/firewalls etc.. it’s simply the connection is not being made in the first place. try removing the connection if you can then reinstall from the Pipex CD.
I agree with most of that post, apart from this. I have seen, and can easily replicate, cases where a connection can be made, but a firewall can prevent any traffic whatsoever. I have also seen instances where antivirus has stopped email working, although I've yet to see it take out all net access.
I installed Norton Firewall a while ago, and got exactly the same symtoms as being described here, I could connect, but could do absolutely nothing afterwards.
And not being able to ping anything could easily be a firewall issue. Mine asks me if I want to allow the action, but if I set it to block, it won't, and the ping will just time out.
I'm not saying it is firewall, and it could be a TCP issue, or a driver problem, or a connection error, but firewall is the first place I'd look. Also SP2 has an updated MS firewall, which might be not liking Zone Alarm much, or causing problems of its own. Worth checking that isn't running.
Oh, I've never had to run an ISP CD for a connection either, and hate trying to fix the mess they often leave behind. It's easy enough to set up manually, and if you've ever had the joys of trying to remove AOL, BT, Freeserve or similar, you'd never let one of those discs near the PC again!
Of course, the best place to start is by working out what the last change to the system was before the problem started
I take it it's a USB adsl modem then?
If you can dial the connection (why won't adsl just connect, instead of using the archaic dialup procedure?) and connect OK, then I'm not sure. I found AVG to be crap, and haven't used ZA myself for a very long time, but I'm not sure they're the I do remember ZA used to be a bugger to actually turn off, it would always leave bits running in the background.
The fact you can't ping either is odd. It does make me wonder if it's a firewall problem though. Have you got the windows firewall running as well?
Also, although port 80 must be working for you to get even one page up, can you set Zone Alarm to allow traffic on the MSN and ports, as well as mail (mail should be 25 and 110 I think).
If all else fails, it might be worth uninstalling the TCP IP from network settings, deleting the dial up, rebooting and reinstalling the TCP IP and recreating the dial up. Also removing things like the MS spyware tool is a good idea, it's not getting a very good reputation so far, same goes for XP service pack 2, which also can cause random problems with all sorts of things.
I still have a nagging feeling it's firewall or AVG related at this point though, from what I've had to fix in the past.
If you can dial the connection (why won't adsl just connect, instead of using the archaic dialup procedure?) and connect OK, then I'm not sure. I found AVG to be crap, and haven't used ZA myself for a very long time, but I'm not sure they're the I do remember ZA used to be a bugger to actually turn off, it would always leave bits running in the background.
The fact you can't ping either is odd. It does make me wonder if it's a firewall problem though. Have you got the windows firewall running as well?
Also, although port 80 must be working for you to get even one page up, can you set Zone Alarm to allow traffic on the MSN and ports, as well as mail (mail should be 25 and 110 I think).
If all else fails, it might be worth uninstalling the TCP IP from network settings, deleting the dial up, rebooting and reinstalling the TCP IP and recreating the dial up. Also removing things like the MS spyware tool is a good idea, it's not getting a very good reputation so far, same goes for XP service pack 2, which also can cause random problems with all sorts of things.
I still have a nagging feeling it's firewall or AVG related at this point though, from what I've had to fix in the past.
Hold on, just reread some of the thread. You're connecting through a network card, into a router? So when you plug in at work, to a network, you're using the same port on the same computer, and same connection setting?
In which case, it's time to look at issues with the router, which I assume has an IP address you can connect to to change the settings, through a web page interface or similar?
Maybe there's a settings problem going on there.
Off the top of my head, if you wait for a while after trying to load a page, does it work later? Some firewalls block traffic for a length of time if they think it's a threat.
In which case, it's time to look at issues with the router, which I assume has an IP address you can connect to to change the settings, through a web page interface or similar?
Maybe there's a settings problem going on there.
Off the top of my head, if you wait for a while after trying to load a page, does it work later? Some firewalls block traffic for a length of time if they think it's a threat.
Does anything actually work? MSN/ don't, how about email? IRC?
Sounds more than a little odd, seeing as you've cleared the crap out the system.
If you're using IE, does Firefox show the same problems? How about trying it with Zone Alarm either turned off, or set to allow all (don't know if that can be done with ZA)?
Have you tried simply deleting the connection and making a fresh one?
A reinstall would be the quickest and easiest option, but it doesn't really teach you much. Keeps you sane though.
Sounds more than a little odd, seeing as you've cleared the crap out the system.
If you're using IE, does Firefox show the same problems? How about trying it with Zone Alarm either turned off, or set to allow all (don't know if that can be done with ZA)?
Have you tried simply deleting the connection and making a fresh one?
A reinstall would be the quickest and easiest option, but it doesn't really teach you much. Keeps you sane though.
Quote by KcKat
I've had to escape to Eagers place for the weekend to get my fix of the site.
Ok, I have more reasons for being here than that, but don't any of ya buggers go telling him that!!!!!
I got a few, well ok 27 trojans and viruses on my machine at the beginning of the week. Despite my best efforts with AVG, Ad-aware, Spybot, SpySubtract, Microsoft Antispyware and Prevx I still can't use the internet.
It connects (Pipex / Broadband) and I can load one page, as soon as i try to move on it stays connected but throws up page cannot be found.
IM / MSN won't load at all.
Helllllllllllp please, I'm gonna cry if I have to spend another week without my fix :upset:
Don't know if it's been covered, but what is the web page it loads up? Any, or always a certain one? And is it cached, or actually loading it?
Sounds like a DNS error, maybe something hijacked the settings. From what I remember, you don't need to add the DNS settings to the dial up with Pipex, but you can do. You can also use others instead (Pipex does have DNS problems sometimes, and this is a workaround).
If you run a Dos box, can you ping web addresses in their IP form Try Google: (To do this, open a command prompt window, and type ping followed by the numbers). If that gives a response, then it's time to look at the dialup, and make sure either automatic DNS is enabled, or the numbers and are in the primary and secondary boxes (they're Pipex's details).
Quote by PoloLady
The seemingly pointless need to label, categorise, define and even stereotype all relate back to a combination of our sociological and psychological need to create our self-identity and the need for sense of belonging or ‘community’ with others (whether consciously or subconsciously). I would happily explain this statement in more detail, along with referenced writings on the subject – but I would rather find-out where the sex is at and get shagged!
:twisted:
I agree with all of that, I just have issue with people having a definition of themselves that they expect everyone else to agree with, especially when it's about something that's meant to be enjoyable!
For the person who started the thread - So long as you feel happy with what you do, does it really matter what label you put on yourself whilst doing it?
