Posts by antioed

What's all this "cd"...if you are at the a: prompt and you want to go to the c drive just type c: and then enter. Maybe I'm missing something here. Either way - you'll enjoy the live file system...pretty cool stuff.

Will I be able to use basically the same settings I have on my current router with the exception of the Wireless config of the router?

On the ISP side of things it should be similar. I would use WAP for your wireless. The hacker kid tells me he can sniff WEP in a matter of minutes. You should have no problems. Make sure you set a secure password both for your router itself as well at the WAP key. Wouldn't hurt to change that every few weeks/months.

Sorry - I meant to say something about that static IP configuration last night but didn't get back to it. You probably need to put the gateway of your router here. That would be something to check with the ISP, actually. You would want to double check with them that you have the correct subnetmask and gateway for your network and setup. Check that first and see if you can get that card enabled and working properly. You will need that to work before doing the other tests!

If it works in Firefox using IP then what is different in IE? Seems like a security setting could disable scripting across domains and consider "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" a "domain"? If your objects reference by DNS...different domain. Either way...defining the IP as a "local intranet site" and checking browser scripting permissions might be worth trying if you haven't already.

I too recommend Firefox - was quicker than trying to sort out whatever it was with Safari, though now I am curious about it too as I have had it happen to me as well. I mess with Apples when other people have problems with them, there is one in the house that I've been known to resurrect from total catastrophe during FINALS! I have a dead iBook G4 looking pretty on a shelf in front of me...needs a keyboard and some display stuff. I want to get it working! Tip: it's not a good idea to throw your Apple down the subway stairs...

Some stuff on sites, particularly javascript, seem to have a knack for busting Safari. In the case of Daniweb it could be some scripting in the features...likely the type of stuff the site's developers would know about. Knowing that like 3% (guessing) of their browser traffic is Safari might not place it high on the list of priorities. Or maybe you need to empty a cache or something. Who knows...it's hackers! There probably is a better place to ask this question. I would imagine someone more savvy on scripting and Safari could probably tell us what it is pretty quickly. Apparently Safari does have high thresholds for design standards so it barfs on certain stuff. I am not a programmer but I have had to deal with a lot of the nightmarish crap that is their world. It sucks. This is just one small part …

First things first...make sure all the web services are up using the IIS admin management console. A quick and dirty test which should work no matter what if the services are running would be to go to the server itself, open a browser and try these sites:

http://<static ip>
http://192.168.1.11
http://localhost

They should all work...knowing if the one with your static IP works will be most important for later!

Quick IP/DNS basics tutorial:

In the interest of alleviating problems, always use IP first when troubleshooting! DNS is a whole world of its own, as I'm sure you found. You have been given a static IP from your ISP. Though you may have correctly registered DNS with whoever is hosting your DNS (I will show you how to check that) it is possible that DNS has not updated or there is a problem with the entry. Always use IP! Or at least first check DNS to make sure this is not the problem. Checking DNS is simple, and you may be familiar having already set up a DNS server. Bring up a command prompt, type nslookup...press enter...nslookup should default to your local network's DNS server. Assuming you have your DNS server @192.168.1.11 configured properly you should be able to resolve your website's DNS address here by typing site.myweb.com (whatever your site's address is) and hitting enter. If DNS for that site is working properly you should get a response …

Sounds like there might be encryption on her user account? Once you make that drive secondary you should be able to take ownership over all files on it unless the files are encrypted.

- Use Computer Management-->Storage-->Disk Management to see if that partition is NTFS
- check out these docs: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/encrypt_overview.mspx?mfr=true

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/encrypt_overview.mspx?mfr=true

Also check all connections, including the cd drive, and make sure the hard drive cables are gouge-free, connections are on solid and maybe try a different cd drive and or IDE cables as well. Might be worth resetting the CMOS battery on the mobos as you work through the problems as that will reset the hardware config so you can have a clean slate hardware-wise.

Most likely the "random beeping" you speak of isn't random at all. Sounds like a "POST" error. Usually a memory error will yield a few steady beeps right after you turn on the machine. I'd say that unless you guys fried the CPU you just have a bad stick of RAM onboard. Try different RAM...leave out the one that you've been trying with if possible. Also - it could be dimm slot itself so if you still have problems try sticking the RAM in a different slot.

Sounds like memory to me...I would go for swapping out RAM and trying different RAM slots before replacing the mobo, but it sounds you guys are headed down the right track...

Pulse - you should tell us more about your computer (click start-->run-->msinfo32 then click "ok"): how much RAM (total physical memory + available), what kind of pc (system manufacturer/system model), BIOS version???

A freeze like that sounds like some aspect of your hardware's not working properly. If this is a Dell or other "big brand" you can go to their site and update the device drivers, BIOS and specifically chipset (if applicable). I've noticed lately that newer Intel chipsets need chipset/BIOS for USB (specifically) to operate correctly.

Have you cleared his cache lately? In Internet Explorer go to Tools-->Internet Options and on the "General" tab click "Delete Files". You should also check to see if the cache size is small...under "Settings" on the same tab. 512MB would be a good size.

Wow - looks like this thread helped a lot of people! I dont' even remember how I found the info...glad it helped so many!

Write down exactly what the error says and go to Google and type in "<first five words of error>"...using the quotation marks will get you results on that exact string of words on Google...you may find your fix immediately! If not, come back here and post exactly what the error says.

What VPN are you using? If it's an application then have you tried reinstalling it? For instance, Cisco VPN places a device in Device Manager and I would guess that if I uninstalled it I would have to:

a. really know what I'm doing with the settings for that particular client to be able to re-create the device. (doubtful)
b. reinstall the app to get the device back. (best chance)

The built in VPN in Windows shouldn't need any special devices so I'm thinking it's not that either. By your description it doesn't sound like Cisco VPN either. If this is PPTP do you know the IP of the VPN server and have you tried simply creating a PPTP connection using the built in PPTP VPN client in XP? I'm assuming this is XP Pro - it would have to be to try this. Sometimes a VPN server is just interfacing to a MS VPN server...if that happened to be your company's config then you may be able to use the built in VPN client in Windows to connect to a MS RRAS server at your site. Otherwise I'd say you need to reinstall whatever app you're trying to use there.

Try this first: Start-->Run-->cmd then click OK

...this will put you in the command prompt, type the following command:

netsh int ip reset c:\reset_tcpip.txt

reboot and see if the blue screen continues.

If you still have problems:

Is this on a service pack 2 XP computer? Installing or reinstalling SP2 should get you a new tcpip.sys. SP1 would probably do it too. If you have SP2 there is a fix for a problem with tcpip.sys and you could simply run this to hopefully fix up the file. Good luck.

Very interesting topic. I just wanted to get some stuff down in writing about this real quick for the record...

Freaky fellas, if you can't:

a. Give up the naughty pictures for someone you really care about.
b. Find a freaky chick who's into it. (recommended)

...you don't belong in a relationship!

Ladies, if it really bothers you then go find a guy who's not like that. Remember: love is an amazing feeling but no matter how strongly you might feel about someone it's never going to be worth living a life of unhappiness.

Good luck Amber!

Peace and love to all.

I think Cat's on point with the overheating/possible memory issues. I would also be looking at hardware on this one. Basically remove any piece of hardware you possibly can with exception of a memory stick and video card and see if you still get reboots. A rogue screw or poorly seated device could definitely cause this. You also might want to look for a BIOS update for your motherboard, you should go to the manufacturer's website and locate the latest BIOS for your motherboard and install it. Three things to look at with the BIOS:
1. Reset the CMOS by pulling the battery on the motherboard
2. chassis intrusion detection...might want to see if this is enabled although I think the CMOS reset would knock that back in line.
3. Disable acpi or "power control" settings, the setting is worded differently in each BIOS and may not even be an option on your system but if it was there I would try disabling it...considering you just got a new case it seems likely that it could be related. Did the case come with a power supply? Good luck!

I was actually thinking FW all along but I didn't say anything since you said you disabled it. Usually when you see SVCHOST blowing up like that it's something network related...in essence a process on the machine, for whatever reason, trying to access something network-wise and a misconfigured firewall or firewalled network is causing SVCHOST to blow up...it's because your host knows it has connectivity so it thinks it should be able to fulfill the request. Printers and network shares behind firewalls or bad FW settings on the localhost...a lot of times I see where people can't get network connectivity since they haven't set the firewall rules to allow traffic to the DHCP server for the node. Had you changed any IP settings lately? Seems possible that your FW settings may have been lost somehow and most FW tend to default to max security until you tell it otherwise...so then a say you have a printer that lives on a server that your FW is denying traffic to so SVCHOST blows up because it knows it should have connectivity to that subnet and it wants to make print services available so it essentially gets caught in a loop between the FW's denial and knowing it has connectivity thus causing SVCHOST to blow up the CPU cycles.

No idea...I would remove the reg keys for it and delete the file, might want to see if it could be related to something you've installed. I get nervous when Google hasn't heard of something...

BIOS - Basic Input Operating System

This is how your hardware (processor, cdrom, sound card, etc) are able to interact with your OS. The BIOS is an OS...a basic one for hardware input. All "flashing" the BIOS means is that you're upgrading the version of its Basic Input OS...this is also good for any time you have a problem with hardware - especially on something like a new laptop. Flashing the BIOS and popping the CMOS battery are two things I would do if I could not get into setup and I knew I was pressing the keys right. I have had systems that just don't want to go into setup...old Dells liked to do that and sometimes you flash the BIOS and pop the CMOS and still it wouldn't let you into setup...then one day you decide to turn on the old heap after it's been sitting under your desk for two months and blammo, it works and you get setup yaaaaay! I have already seen a few posts from users with 1750's who were unable to get into setup...maybe this is the same problem you are having...or maybe you press F10 too much and fill up the system buffer before getting the cursor...you said it beeps - hard for me to say.

Getting to the CMOS is not something you'll probably want to do if you don't want to remove the hard drive. I don't know where the CMOS is on that laptop...it's likely that they …

OK...I got an idea, maybe if you take the hard drive out and let it fail the boot it will give you the option to go into setup. Otherwise flash the BIOS or try popping the CMOS.

I know on the Dell laptops there's the speedstep settings in the BIOS that superscede Windows settings, which I find pretty annoying, so turning off all the controls in Setup for when the system is on AC power is a must...otherwise it kills the cpu clocks!

Looks like F10 should be the one for the 1700 series models, I looked it up on HP for ya, I don't have one here to test but this is what the manual says:

1. Turn on or restart the computer.
2. Press F10when the cursor appears in the upper right corner of the screen.

if that doesn't work you might want to check on the HP site...looks like you might be able to get a BIOS update - that would be the only other thing, aside from maybe popping the CMOS, that I can think of that might get you into setup. Catching the BIOS screen is kinda tough so maybe you just need to try tapping F10 as the screen is going by...you really don't want to be guessing which key gets you setup otherwise the OS will be booting before you realize it and maybe you missed the F10 key during the 1.5 second interval or whatever for getting into setup.

Disable pop-up blocker...obviously seems like spyware is a common issue in here so that could be it. There's a particular one that shows up as something like "Web Tools for IE" or "search bar" that totally jacks JS - you'll forgive me but I don't remember right off hand. Another thing you can try is to install the latest Windows Scripting host from MS...the install includes a new jscript.dll so I've had luck fixing a few with that. I just go to google and type in "download Windows Scripting host" and follow the link from MSDN. You can try this link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C717D943-7E4B-4622-86EB-95A22B832CAA&displaylang=en

I doubt this is the problem...usually it's the spyware or pop-up blocker, but just in case.

For IE 6 try:

Start-->Run-->regsvr32 urlmon.dll
Start-->Run-->regsvr32 Shdocvw.dll
Start-->Run-->regsvr32 Msjava.dll
Start-->Run-->regsvr32 Actxprxy.dll
Start-->Run-->regsvr32 Oleaut32.dll
Start-->Run-->regsvr32 Mshtml.dll
Start-->Run-->regsvr32 Browseui.dll
Start-->Run-->regsvr32 Shell32.dll

shouldn't have to reboot...