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    panda antivirus causes bsos windows 2000 pro

    please help me; i recently installed panda antivirus (first antivirus installed on that boot drive and no firewall installed yet),and after the preinstall scanning, it found 3 viruses and disinfected; after rebooting, i get the bsod (irql less than or equal ..... ntoskrnl.exe) but i can boot to...
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    win2k pro computer loses network connection

    hi, i have a LAN at home with all computers running windows 2000 pro n connected via linksys router; 1 of the computers recently lost network connection (the internal ip reverted to 169.254.xxx.xxx instead of 192.168.x.x); 1/i have tried pinging the loopback ip 127.0.0.1 and it works but...
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    question about debugging tool for win2k pro

    hi, i have win2k pro sp3 installed; i recently installed the debugging tool so that i can read what the memory.dmp files say when i have the bsod but havent had much luck with it; i dl the symbols from the MS site i use the complete dump (vs the minidump 64KB) option if there's a BSOD. when i...
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    please help; computer reboots by itself

    ok, i'm on win2k; primary HD has 2 partitions; 1 gig of ddr ram; after i changed some of the services according to some guides on some tech websites, and took out a slower HD to replace with a bigger and faster HD when i reboot, it shows post ok, shows the correct number of RAM, gets to the...
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    please help; windows not bootable

    please help me; this is the second time i reinstall win2k pro on this disk it crashed on me and when i reboot, it hangs at the boot from cd screen, and i notice that the irq says n/a instead of a number for input device serial bus controller (3 lines of serial bus controller) it 's a 250g...
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    losing network connection after trying to uninstall norton system works 2004

    please help! I am on win2k sp3. i had nsw 2004 installed fine before; my HD had major trouble so i had to format it and after the format, i can't reinstall nsw; it keeps giving me error during the install process, so i followed symantec's suggestions to remove all traces of symantec; but i must...
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    program crashes when playing videos

    hi, ok, another problem on yet ANOTHER computer; when i play avi's, it plays ok for a few minutes and then the sound stutters and then the program crashes; that happens with bsplayer and powerdvd; i think it' s hardware /driver related but i dont know how to fix it; i installed the xvid codec...
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    please help with hardware trouble

    Hi, (not sure if i should post here or in the win2k forum) ihave a recent p4 2.6 mhz with 1 gig of ddr ram and an ati aiw 9600 pro card built for me; just in the last few days, i notice that it becomes dead and unresponsive when i reboot, it says os not found; after tightening the ide cables...
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    please help - windows freeze at start up (even in safe mode)

    please help - windows freeze at start up (even in safe mode) hi, please help me; my computer started freezing on me when i tried to do norton disk doctor on it; it freezes right after the F8 option to boot safe mode (the starting window.... screen) - i'm on win2k pro; the hd (120 GB WD) is on...
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    window explorer does not show all drives; please help

    hi, i ran in to these strange propblems with windows explorer. i have win2k pro on all my computers on the LAN. 1/ recently when i mapped a network drive, it doesnt show up in window explorer afterwards; i can see it being mapped correctly; plus it's not a connectivity issue b/c another drive...
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    Looking For Alternative To Chkdsk /f /r

    hi i wonder if theres'a third party app out there that does the same as chkdsk /f /r for win2k pro but faster than chkdsk; i have a lot of big HD's and when i do occasionally do chkdsk /f /r (b/c i want it to be throrough), it takes more than a day esp for this computer (5 big HD's) also, just...
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    i need advice on formatting a HD

    1 of my friend's computer has been acting up real badly possibly due to virus and malwares,etc.. 1/ it's on winxp pro and has office 2003 2/ it has 2 partitions with the important data on D partition i'm trying to format it clean and install win2k pro instead of winxp pro but will still use...
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    please help; hard drive died on me

    one of my computers died on me; it's a primary 200 gig divided into 2 partitions; i tried to repair with ERD but doesnt seem to work; if i chkdsk it on another working computer, where should i hook it up to or does it matter? it has an ultra ata pci card on it also, what other tests can i do...
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    does an ERD disk from 1 computer work on another computer?

    can i use an ERD from 1 computer on another computer? one of my computer 's first disk went dead, and before trying to reinstall the OS (if that's even possible), i should try to use the emergency recovery option, but i never made the ERD disks on that computer; can i create ERD disks from...
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    please help; can't connect to other computers in LAN

    hi, i 'm sure it's an easy one for many of u; i was working away and suddenly i can't connect to other computers within my LAN; but the LAN icon in the bottom right says that it's connected; i tried to tighten as well as replug the connections and no luck BUT when i do an ipconfig, the ip is...
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    please help with bsod "inaccessible boot device"

    Hi please help me; i replaced my RAM which worked ok until i put back the cover and move the pc back in place, then it gives me a bsod "stop:0x0000007B (0x84DAD870,0xc0000032, inaccessible boot device" after rebooting, it still gives me the same bsod screen; it happens after the windows...
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    please help me with RAM trouble

    i had an amd athlon with 512MB of memory; i just went and bought a 512MB kingston valueram DDR , but it doesnt seem to improve performance any; in fact, it gave me a blue screen of death when i was working on diff things as well as program crashing my question is how do i know if it's a bad...
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    can't play avi's

    please help ever since i had my ati all in wonder card installed, i can't play xvid or divx files anymore; i can hear sound ok and can play mpg files ok; i open those avi's with gspot and it says that all the video/audio codecs are there, so i dont know what can be the problem thanks
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    Runtime errors

    hi, i tried to upgrade my ie browser from ie5 to ie6 and i got this runtime error related to advpack.dll in c:\winnt\system32; i have the same error when i tried to install wmf v9 runtime. does anyone know what causes this runtime error and how to fix it? thanks a lot!!
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    please help with video driver

    i have a video card that 's part of the mobo; i accidentally uninstalled it by mistake and now the screen looks weird and grainy; i cant play videos any more I cant seem to find a place where i can dl the driver to reinstall; please help!!! it's an s3 prosavage ddr (that's what i saw; dont know...
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