Electronics help?

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 6:02 pm

Darth Aux wrote:I have a similar (If not the same) problem, my PC just shuts down and I can't access my hotmail account anymore

Got uptodate antivirus and updates from Microsoft? Are you also using AOL?

Darth Aux · Post by **Darth Aux** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 6:52 pm

NTL for connection but I don't use them for email or anything else.

I have Zone Alarm and MS XP, ZA just updated today and recently updated MS.

I've used spybot and ZA virus scn and nothing came up.

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:06 pm

Darth Aux wrote:NTL for connection but I don't use them for email or anything else.

I have Zone Alarm and MS XP, ZA just updated today and recently updated MS.

I've used spybot and ZA virus scn and nothing came up.

How are you connecting to the Internet, through dialup?

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:10 pm

I love you Karl.

System restore seems to have undone most of the damage (I have sound!), but AOL is still being a prick. I've just had to reinstall it again, and it's claiming it didn't install properly (although, here I am). I'm on their 'Live Help' thingy right now, although I'm not seeing any help as of yet.

Another question: How do I permanently delete something, so that not even system restore will bring it back? I noticed that some stuff I binned the other day (Half Life 2 for example) is back now-like I said, this goes back to my ex in a week, and I don't like the idea of someone being able to hit 'System Restore' and have access to stuff like Firefox with all my passwords etc. Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have brought back the documents/photo's that I deleted-nothing dodgy mind, just can't be arsed to spend all that time deleting them again.

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:18 pm

Pissin' Poonani wrote:I love you Karl.

System restore seems to have undone most of the damage (I have sound!), but AOL is still being a prick. I've just had to reinstall it again, and it's claiming it didn't install properly (although, here I am). I'm on their 'Live Help' thingy right now, although I'm not seeing any help as of yet.

Another question: How do I permanently delete something, so that not even system restore will bring it back? I noticed that some stuff I binned the other day (Half Life 2 for example) is back now-like I said, this goes back to my ex in a week, and I don't like the idea of someone being able to hit 'System Restore' and have access to stuff like Firefox with all my passwords etc. Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have brought back the documents/photo's that I deleted-nothing dodgy mind, just can't be arsed to spend all that time deleting them again.

I often have trouble with people and their dialup connections, theyre very hokey. It can be many things- noise on the line, the ISP just giving you bad service to make you upgrade and all sorts of things.

The best thing I can advise is get a cheap broadband connection, theyre not much more than dialup now

To 'erase' all the restore points for your computer, click START > CONTROL PANEL > SYSTEM > SYSTEM RESTORE and tick 'TURN OFF SYSTEM RESTORE', press APPLY. Then uncheck 'TURN OFF SYSTEM RESTORE' and press APPLY > OK.

That will delete all the old restore points

Anything else I can help wif?

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:22 pm

Cheers Buddy.

I'm on Broadband, which makes this even more annoying.

There are always more questions!

When it comes to restoring, if I picked the earliest point possible, would it affect things like the ex's saved Sims 2 games? It's just that it's the only way I can think of to remove the curse of AOL fully.

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:26 pm

Pissin' Poonani wrote:Cheers Buddy.

I'm on Broadband, which makes this even more annoying.

There are always more questions!

When it comes to restoring, if I picked the earliest point possible, would it affect things like the ex's saved Sims 2 games? It's just that it's the only way I can think of to remove the curse of AOL fully.

You are on broadband? This is most intriguing then, I'd assumed otherwise. very sorry.

How does your broadband work, I assume you have an ADSL modem (probably USB?) that plugs into your computer and into the phone line? Or do you have a proper network cable run to your house and a cable modem?

Could you also give me again the error which your web browser gives you exactly? Was it 'host lookup failure'?

EDIT- also, have you changed your firewall program/setup recently, i.e. about when these problems with your net started perhaps?

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:30 pm

I do indeed have an ADSL USB modem jobby.

And yes sir, it was a 'host look up failure'.

I haven't changed my Firewall-I only went into it to see if it was denying AOL access to the net after these problems started, but all was fine with that.

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:36 pm

Pissin' Poonani wrote:I do indeed have an ADSL USB modem jobby.

And yes sir, it was a 'host look up failure'.

I haven't changed my Firewall-I only went into it to see if it was denying AOL access to the net after these problems started, but all was fine with that.

Have you tried temporarily disabling it/removing it completely and seeing if that helps?

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:48 pm

I thought about it-it's McAfee and came free with the computer, so if I deleted it would I be able to get it back of t'internet for free? I don't think it's the problem to be honest-uninstalling AOL leaves tons of crap behind, so maybe the amount of installs I've done has just confused the system?

Still having no joy with AOL's 'Live Help'-the guy takes ages to answer and just keeps asking the same question. Bloody tool.

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:51 pm

Pissin' Poonani wrote:I thought about it-it's McAfee and came free with the computer, so if I deleted it would I be able to get it back of t'internet for free? I don't think it's the problem to be honest-uninstalling AOL leaves tons of crap behind, so maybe the amount of installs I've done has just confused the system?

Still having no joy with AOL's 'Live Help'-the guy takes ages to answer and just keeps asking the same question. Bloody tool.

Host lookup failure implies your computer can't connect with the site you want.

Can you repeat it?

If so go to:

START > RUN

type CMD and press ENTER

type:

ping www.siteyouwanttotry.com

(where the www... is the name of the site you have difficulty getting to)

and see what happens. You will either see a series of pings coming back from the site, or you will get a timeout.

If that works, then there is no problem with your connectivity (i.e. network cable, DNS setup etc.) and its definitely a software problem. Damn AOL.

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:55 pm

Well, the 'host look-up failed' message comes when I try to sign on via AOL, and it won't even let me connect. The error messsages I was getting when online and the connection had failed were just 'could not contact...' or 'The operation timed out when trying to connect to...'-understandable really when you consider I wasn't even connected anymore!

Or have I missed your point entirely?

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:58 pm

Pissin' Poonani wrote:Well, the 'host look-up failed' message comes when I try to sign on via AOL, and it won't even let me connect. The error messsages I was getting when online and the connection had failed were just 'could not contact...' or 'The operation timed out when trying to connect to...'-understandable really when you consider I wasn't even connected anymore!

Or have I missed your point entirely?

If you can't even start your internet connection properly then there is some issue which I think you need to get AOL to look at- it implies there is some fault either with the modem or with your setup, and sadly as I don't work for AOL I don't know what sort of settings it should have

You should be able to get AOL to come fix that!

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:05 pm

Thanks Karl-you've been a great help.

Certainly more that the AOL bloke I'm currently talking to...

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:07 pm

Pissin' Poonani wrote:Thanks Karl-you've been a great help.

Certainly more that the AOL bloke I'm currently talking to...

Try phoning then up, this is the sort of thing they should be able to send a technician out to look at or at least talk you through diagnosis on the phone with someone familiar with their network. Good luck!

Darth Aux · Post by **Darth Aux** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:15 pm

I'm on a 1.5 mb cable broadband.

Sorry about the late reply, a lot on my plate lately.

Post by **Kaylee** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 6:10 pm

Darth Aux wrote:I'm on a 1.5 mb cable broadband.

Sorry about the late reply, a lot on my plate lately.

Again, same questions- do you have an uptodate antivirus program, and have ye got all the most recent updates from Microdoodle?

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:39 am

Now I'm having a Firefox problem.

I can load it up, switch between all my tabbed sites ok, but if I try to type something in the address bar, it says there's an error, asks if I want to send an error report, then closes itself. Bah.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:12 am

odd! sounds like something's got corrupted somewhere, trying reinstalling it, or maybe just remove any extensions you've plugged into it...

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 3:04 pm

Now that we've got ourselves a tidy little topic wich covers a lot of stuff in the digital world, with talented people answering questions,

I thought I might as well pop in with some comp-problems of my own.

I recently changed drivers for my 3D-accelerator, Radeon 9800 Pro and since it's been having some trouble with krasches whenever I try to run any sort of 3D-app, everything from PSX-emus to Doom3 and FarCry.(farcry had the least problems)

And lo and behold, for about 2 days everything improved, I could run my games faster and with more advanced settings, but after that everything started again, only a bit worse. I can only play Doom3 for about 10 minutes without it crashing, and it's begun to affect low-tech games such as COunter-Strike too, wich crashes after about 15 minutes of play.

I've had these problems for a long, long time and sometimes I've been able to correct them, with changed 3D-drivers, and at one occasion finnally getting the latest mother-board bios/drivers, since my Motherboard is known to have a bug in an early series with the agp-port or some such.

Now, can anyone help me with this??

I've got the program Everest for advanced look into my system if there's much data to be needed.

Motherboard: Asus P4PE (6 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Gigabit LAN)
CPU: Intel Pentium 4, 2400 MHz (18 x 133)
RAM: 512 MB (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS: Award Modular (11/10/03)

Graphicscard: RADEON 9800 PRO - Secondary (128 MB)
Graphicscard: RADEON 9800 PRO (128 MB)

For some reason it thinks I've got two cards?? When I've got only one??