Computer Help...

[spurs_2108]

The last couple of times I have ran Disk Cleanup my computer always restarts for no reason. My Compress old files is 5,380,830. It has never been that big. I have been trying to run disk clean up but it never works. It has worked fine in the past. When the computer comes back from restarting it some error... blah blah, It had all those symbols and numbers related to the error, I am going to try to run the cleaner again. If it restarts I will be sure to get those numbers and what not.

EDIT- I just ran the cleaner a few more times. It either freezes up or restarts. I haven't gotten the message that an error has occured like I did before yet, but I will try and jot down the numbers if it occurs. Also why would it freeze up?

I have gotten the file size down to 3 mil now.

Also, I wanted to see how long it took my computer to go on. So once I pushed to button on the tower, It took me 1 minute and 50 seconds for me to reach the desktop. Why does it take so long?

[Steve Perry]

http://www.pcmightymax.net/demo/PCMightyMaxSetup.EXE


Bring your HD to my place I will fix it for 20.00 bucks
561-9941

[spurs_2108]

Meh. Anything else?

What is that link for? I don't want to download anything I don't know what it is.

[Nbadan]

More than likely your HD is dying. I'm not a big fan of compressing files, better to just get a bigger HD.

Slave your main HD to another computer and run scandisk or use some HD utility to check the integrity of your HD.

[GoldToe]

Take a Journey over to Steve's place. He does good work.

[spurs_2108]

My hard drive isn't even a year old. Its 160 GB and I have 112 GB left.

I am not saying Steve doesn't do a good job, I just don't have the time to take it over there. I just want to get some other views.

[dirk4mvp.]

Meh. Anything else?

What is that link for?
psssssst! Steve left a phone number call him.


I don't want to download anything I don't know what it is.

psssssst! maybe if you read the link you will see the website. Are you sure you should even own a PC :lmao

[PM5K]

Go to RUN and type eventvwr

See what you've got for system errors....

Have you unchecked compress old files?

[spurs_2108]

.exe

[spurs_2108]

I unchecked compress old files and it works... But why does it freeze up and restart when I try to compress old files. What does that even mean... lol. I thought you are suppose to run disk clean up like once a week or so.

I did get some system errors typing that in.

[Aunt Ester]

My hard drive isn't even a year old.

I have seen them go bad after one week. Some are even bad fresh from the box.



Its 160 GB and I have 112 GB left.
You may have hit a bad cluster 48 GB deep in the HD . I had a 30 GB HD that would freeze after I went over 15 GBs.


I am not saying Steve doesn't do a good job, I just don't have the time to take it over there. I just want to get some other views.

Then grow a pair and click on the links he posted in this topic.

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46119&highlight=virus

After you run the scans, paste in here what you found, let us see for ourselves if you don't ever click links your not sure what they are.
:smokin

[PM5K]

No idea why it freezes up when you try to compress old files, that's why I told you to run the event viewer, what version of windows do you have?

[spurs_2108]

I ran event viewer but I don't know what info yall want. I have Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Aunt Ester what scans do you want me to run... I clicked on that think to the virus help. I run CCleaner, Ad-aware, Windows Defender and have Northon Anivirus and System Works.

[PM5K]

...

[spurs_2108]

Well I'm install that program http://www.pctools.com/downloads/rminstall.exe

I am on dial up, so It will be in a little.

[mouse]

What is that link for? I don't want to download anything I don't know what it is.

And I want nice teeth but don't want to see a dentist. we all can't have it our way 24/7 this isn't Burger King, grow some fuzz on your sac and click the fucking links already!

Sorry brah but I am about to lose it over reading your replies.


Scan disk is like someone with Aids taking a shower. The shit's inside the HD not on the surface. If Scan disk was the answer ? then McAffre and Norton would be out of Business

In case your missing some Dll's?

Pull out your windows XP disc and reinstall windows .You will see a prompt asking you if you want to keep your old files click yes and that way you know for sure the virus stays with you since your in no hurry to get rid of it.


Run this scan and tell me what you find.

http://www.paretologic.com/download.asp

then run this one

http://www.pctools.com/downloads/rminstall.exe

[Smackie Chan]

I am on dial up, so It will be in a little.

Wow make sure at the next GTG I shake your hand. I always wanted to meet someone from the Dial up era. You must wait 2 hours to download stairway to heaven :lmao

For someone who doesn't like to click on links you sure have alot of useless spyware. get rid of it all. remove Norton and download this. it found some trojan horses Norton never knew was on my system.


http://www.grisoft.cz/softw/70/filedir/inst/avg71t_405a791.exe

[Fillmoe]

never download an exe file from someone online unless you 100% trust the source.....

[spurs_2108]

I don't know why yall think I have a virus. I was just asking why it would scan disk would freeze up once I would run it.

[spurs_2108]

I had a bunch of view point. The danger wasn't bad at all. I removed it all.

[Fillmoe]

format c:

[ducks]

sell computer buy a mac

[ducks]

never download an exe file from someone online unless you 100% trust the source.....

I have
and guess what my virus program detected a virus :lol :lol :lol

[spurs_2108]

I had 133 problems with the Registry Mechanic.... I need to register or what ever.

Also, what about my computer taking a while to load up. Is it my RAM.

[mouse]

maybe it's your memory run a test.

http://www.bugdoctor.com/downloads/BugdoctorSetup.exe


http://www.memtest86.com/#download0

[ducks]

I had 133 problems with the Registry Mechanic.... I need to register or what ever.

Also, what about my computer taking a while to load up. Is it my RAM.

go to run
type msconfig
click startup tab
disable all
then check your virus program rebot

use spybot search and destroy
and adware se
both are free and work good

the other is ok but the reg is not the problem why it is slow at startup

[mouse]

I had 133 problems with the Registry Mechanic.... I need to register or what ever.



use this
Name : Giovanni Arocho
Serial : BFDF-D4A4-6FE8-58A9-534C-7BB2-111C-C93B

[Leetonidas]

mouse is the computer master.

[ducks]

how much memory do you have?

[mouse]

go to run
type msconfig
click startup tab
disable all
then check your virus program rebot

use spybot search and destroy
and adware se
both are free and work good

the other is ok but the reg is not the problem why it is slow at startup

That does not go so smooth with Norton. That shit is deep. Norton alone can add another 30 seconds to your start up. I find it hard to use norton it wants to control every move you make. It's a wonder he can have more than one spyware using norton.

Since this guy still has dial up? I am thinking he has an old motherboard, he could have some over clocking issues with a large HD and any upgrades he made if he has a POS pc.


Some folks forget your dial up modem can go bad and you can still get on line, If the modem is bad it will short out the system and may cause freeze ups.

Does your PC lock up when you click the add new hardware icon?

I would start from scratch.

Unplugg all cords to the PC phone line printer etc.. If you have a bad mouse or keyboard it can make you freeze up also.

Put in another HD to see if it is something else.

Take out your HD and place it in another PC.

or........

Put all your music/movies and porn on DVD and flush out your system start over.

brb gtg take the dog out to piss...............

[spurs_2108]

I have 512 MB of Ram. I probably need more.

go to run
type msconfig
click startup tab
disable all
then check your virus program rebot

I don't understand the last part.

On Bug Doctor I had 13 errors.
I need to register again..

I had to order a brand new computer last year. New everything except a monitor. MB everything. So the dial up modem is also pretty new.

[spurs_2108]

Does your PC lock up when you click the add new hardware icon?
No.

I don't have a spare HD. So tomorrow. I am gonna unplug all of my stuff. And try that.

[mouse]

Ok back

Do a system restore to the time before all the lock ups.

when your PC locks up, is it always the same time? like after you have had the pc on for 15 minutes? make sure the fan is working on the cpu


Do you have a disc in the cd rom when it locks up? If your cd rom is going out it will cause lock ups also.

Did you disable call notes? Since your on dial up ,any call you get while on the PC can cause a break in the system and sometimes lock ups.

Check your time and date if it is wrong everytime you boot up? you may need a new battery, Many folks have no idea how importaint the battery is. They can't figure out why they can't check thier account balance at the banks website. The date and time has to match up to get access.

what kind of HD do you have? Many of those brand types are known to all of a sudden flake out after one year.

[spurs_2108]

Its a Maxto 160 GB EIDE HD.

Do you realize that it only locks up when I run disk cleanup?

My computer time is pretty dead on.

[spurs_2108]

It either locks up or restarts when I run disk clean up. Before after it rebooted the desktop came up and said error... blah blah with some numbers and that, I should of did a print screen of that. Next time that happens I'll try to.

[Roger Troutman]

Need a special girl
To share in my computer world
I no longer need a strategy
Thanks to modern technology

[Steve Perry]

It either locks up or restarts when I run disk clean up. Before after it rebooted the desktop came up and said error... blah blah with some numbers and that, I should of did a print screen of that. Next time that happens I'll try to.

Do you have your xp disc?

did you try the system restore yet?

You need to say what your going to not do so we can move on to step 2
thanks

[Smackie Chan]

It either locks up or restarts when I run disk clean up. Before after it rebooted the desktop came up and said error... blah blah with some numbers and that, I should of did a print screen of that. Next time that happens I'll try to.


pop in your XP disc and press R to restore your regestry.

[spurs_2108]

I will be able to try all this later on in the afternoon. I have school.

[I am Tom]

Your still in school? and you still use dial up? you wouldn't happen to be amish?

[GoldToe]

My PC started acting up this morning. It is running real slow.
I'll try some of the stuff posted and early and see what happens.
Mouse has always worked on my PC's and I haven't a problem yet...except that I'm running ME instead of XP.

[Useruser666]

Get a new hard drive as soon as you can. Maxtor are the worst brand by far. Western Digital or Seagate are much better.

[ducks]

boot of the cd run chkdsk /r
do a repair then you will get a place to type that

msconfig disable able everything at startup then it will ask you to restart your computer
then go back in and try diskcleanup
then go to msconfig then enable your virus program

[ducks]

My PC started acting up this morning. It is running real slow.
I'll try some of the stuff posted and early and see what happens.
Mouse has always worked on my PC's and I haven't a problem yet...except that I'm running ME instead of XP.

me is the worse shit bill has ever made

[leemajors]

Get a new hard drive as soon as you can. Maxtor are the worst brand by far. Western Digital or Seagate are much better.

i've had a couple maxtors and had one fail, but i can say the same thing about western digital . :madrun

[spurs_2108]

So far this afternoon I have....

Unplugged everything and left if off for about 10 minutes. Then plugged everything back in.

I did what Ducks said to disable everything in the start up and run the cleaner... Well it froze again.

What do you want to do with my XP disk?

boot of the cd run chkdsk /r
do a repair then you will get a place to type that


I don't have a spare HD so I can't reinstall XP. Also, I don't think I have a virus, Disk Cleaner just freezes up when I try to run it.
Does any one have a username and all that for bug doctor?

So I don't know what to do now...

Oh the reason why I have dial up.... I live in the middle of no where. I can live with out high speed. It would be nice but its not like dial up doesn't work. It still gets the job done but slower.

Also I have tried or am going to try system restore. I downloaded some stuff that I don't want to go back in install.

[GoldToe]

me is the worse shit bill has ever made

I did a clean up and it is running fine now. Have had NO problems with it what at all. Works for ME.

[Al Gore]

me is the worse shit bill has ever made


When worm blaster hit did it effect ME? NO

Do you get that annoying warning messg window telling you about missing Dlls and urgent updates? NO

It's no big secrect windows ME was just made to keep the microsoft share holders happy. It's really windows 98 with a tint of windows 2000 thrown in for good measure, I know ''its windows 98 with an earl screib paintjob''

But If you take out a HD with XP on it and try to put in in another PC? It will just sit there and do nothing.

But if you take out a HD with ME and put it in another PC? it starts to look for the dirivers and has a better chance of booting up.

But the main reason ME is better than XP?
when you flush your PC or someone elses PC? do you have to activate it in 28 days or else no more windows? :lmao

[resistanze]

You don't have the XP CD? Because i would backup essential documents then just format my HD if i were you.

[mouse]

Ok brah go grab your pocket protector and a phillips screwdriver and respond to this topic and we will fix your shit tonight,

But if I ask you if you did a system restore? you need to say yes, or no, I can't go to the next step if I don't know what your doing.

And no more whining about how scared you are clicking on links I provide. I am trying to help you why would I make my job harder?


First things last do you have a DVD or CD burner?
can you open your case and tell me the brand of Hard Drive?

here is your code key to unlock PC Bug doctor

Serial: c527346c
Password: moonoi.tk

or this one

Name: TEAM iPA
Serial: 839c2c16

If tonight is not a good time? then try and let me know in 15 minutes.

[spurs_2108]

I already said that I haven't tired sytem restore. I am not whinning anymore about clicking links that I don't know of.

My hard drive is a maxtor. I thought I mentioned that already, but no biggie.

I do have my XP disk for those who think I don't. I thought I said i had that to already.

[mouse]

I already said that I haven't tired sytem restore. I am not whinning anymore about clicking links that I don't know of.

My hard drive is a maxtor. I thought I mentioned that already, but no biggie.

I do have my XP disk for those who think I don't. I thought I said i had that to already.


You sound upset. That's good! I want you to be alert and upset keeps you sharp. I feel your pain this HD has been bending you over now it's time to get even we are about to get Brokeback on mR Maxtor.

Sorry If I did not see the info you posted already I am in two other forums with folks going at it about which Virus protection is better and HD errors.

I will give you the links later so you can join the fun.

Take all your songs,movies,porn and favorite files burn them to DVD or CD
now go get 3 blank floppys



Ok now I need you to go to this website to get a driver to clean your HD.

http://www.driverguide.com/

use the name: [email protected]

password: shaggin

then on the front page click on Hard Disk Controller

http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=wizard_step_2&devicetypeid=7
then look for the most popular brands Maxtor in on the list click it

http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?devicetypeid=7&companyid=636&action=wizard_step_3
Choose your product's manufacturer:

then download at least 3 drivers. make sure it says XP if that is what you are running.




2. Dm.exe Mar 20, 2001
3. ATA 133 Nov 11, 2003
4. EZDRIVE.EXE Mar 1, 1999
5. ALL Sep 23, 2002
6. sata_card_driver.exe May 13, 2004
7. ALL_HDDs Jul 3, 1999
8. 10999690 (part number), Ultra ATA 100/133 Oct 10, 2003
9. All (Device Manager) Dec 7, 2000
10. MaxtorMaxBlastPlus.EXE Feb 3, 2001
11. IDE Drives Dec 18, 2003
12. Maxtor May 12, 2001
13. Ultra ATA 100/133 Nov 10, 2003
14. All drives Apr 13, 2000
15. maxblast Sep 12, 2000
16. All IDE Maxtor Jan 9, 2002
17. 2B020H1 May 30, 2002
18. hddutil.exe Mar 1, 1999
19. ezdrive9.exe Oct 5, 2001
20. MAX-BLAST PLUS II Jun 9, 2002
21. MAXDIAG.EXE Mar 1, 1999
22. Ultra ATA/100 PCI Adaptor Jan 23, 2004
23. maxtor 6l08oj4 Sep 18, 2003
24. MaxtorPowerMax.exe Feb 3, 2001
25. EZMAX.EXE Mar 1, 1999


make sure you put in the code they give you and save to Hard Drive.

after you downloaded the 3 drivers then we can get to work.
:smokin

[spurs_2108]

Wow, I didn't know it's gonna take that long to do all of this....

Sad thing is, I don't have any blank dvds and all that.

I do really appreciate(sp?) all your help. I think I can live with out running disk clean up. Are you sure its my hard drive acting up? There might be another reason why it freezes while I run disk clean up, but I don't know jack shit about computers and I wouldn't think its my hard drive. I have only have had it for a year. So thanks for trying to help me out, but I might have to live with out. I don't have the time right now. I didn't know it was going to take that long.

[CuckingFunt_]

If tonight is not a good time? then try and let me know in 15 minutes.

Tonight is a great night. I will be over in 10 minutes.

[mouse]

I already said that I haven't tired sytem restore. I.

why not? it's only 5 minutes worth or work?

[spurs_2108]

Put all my stuff on CD/DVD that I don't have...

[mouse]

did you get the PC bug doctor codes I posted?

[spurs_2108]

I do have some of it on CD's, but not all of it.

[spurs_2108]

Yes, I got that code and put it in.

[CuckingFunt_]

Yes, I got that code and put it in.


How deep?

[mouse]

Yes, I got that code and put it in.


MmmKay........... what did it say?


why do I feel like


http://images.southparkstudios.com/media/images/614/614_image_20.jpg

[spurs_2108]

I had like 13 errors or something like that.

[mouse]

Don't forget Norton does not like you jacking with the HD so uninstall it and then try the disk clean up again.
make you a start up disk and we can do some fun shit to bypass norton.

[spurs_2108]

Eh. I think I am done with the computer tweaking for the night. Thanks for the help. You know a lot about computers...

I have ran clean up while northon was on before. Oh well. Stupid computer...

[mouse]

My money is on you have a virus. did you ever intall the AVG free virus check?
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/8/lng/us/tpl/v5

[mouse]

Eh. I think I am done with the computer tweaking for the night.


Dam I just made another expresso


Thanks for the help. You know a lot about computers...

It's called Google I don't really know shit :lmao


I have ran clean up while northon was on before.
since you have such a large HD I can see how it may freez up after 40 GBs what are you trying to clean ? 140 GBs is alot of space already.

use the Registry Mechanic, Xoftspy, Spy Doctor, AVG, and bug doctor twice a day and you should be free of all shit.


Oh well. Stupid computer...

It must be if your spending your night talking to me :lmao

Good Luck brah look for me here in da future

http://www.majorgeeks.com/

[Fillmoe]

use my advice from earlier and format c:

[spurs_2108]

Well my whole problem is that my computer freezes when I run Disk Cleanup.

[leemajors]

Scan disk is like someone with Aids taking a shower. The shit's inside the HD not on the surface. If Scan disk was the answer ? then McAffre and Norton would be out of Business

rack!

[spurs_2108]

Ok, I finally got the error message I was talking about earlier.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/5172/error1zl5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

That is the first main error, then I clicked "click here" in underlined blue print.

Then this is what "click here" said.

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/3675/error2ex0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

What can we do with this info?

[Steve Perry]

I think you have a hardware Issue! Video card USB port etc is giving you trouble.
do you ever see this?


Error Signature
BPCCODE : 10000050 BCP1 : BF759AC8 BCP2 : 00000000 BCP3 : BF80C943
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1

Error Report contents
C:\DOCUME~1\SEANSSI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERbd5e.dir00\ mini032305-03.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\SEANSSI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERbd5e.dir00\ sysdata.xml


Error Signature
BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : BF80D889 BCP3 : B4F3A770
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1

Error Reports Contents
C:\DOCUME~1\SEANSI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER462c.dir00\M ini032505-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\SEANSI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER462c.dir00\s ysdata.xml


Error Signature
BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : BF810175 BCP3 : B5E308B8
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1

Error Report Contents
C:\DOCUME~1\SEANSI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER3f04.dir00\M ini032605-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\SEANSI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER3f04.dir00\s ysdata.xml


Error signature
BCCode : 10000050 BCP1 : BF0C5942 BCP2 : 00000008 BCP3 : BF0C5942
BCP4 : 00000002 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1

Error Report Contents
C:\DOCUME~1\SEANSI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER44e1.dir00\M ini032605-02.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\SEANSI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER44e1.dir00\s ysdata.xml

[spurs_2108]

Where would I see those errors? When I am shutting down my computer? As of right now, I haven't seen those.

[Steve Perry]

The problem is with ram fact,....
any file (error) related to mini dump is ram related,
so its possible it could be a ram virus, a cute ram virus possibly unable to be removed from the hard drive, possibly if so this virus shields a couple of fragments of your drive,so it cant be detected, but yet runs in the memory. (ram) formating the drive wont work, just damaging your drive by overwrithing it, mmmm... Well
my idea is if im correct then if it is running in memory and if it a type of virus, take out ram and put in a shity stick you wont use again start computer wait till it reboots itself, and dont let it start again then, change your hard drive, bingo the virus has no where to go so put origioal ram back in and your shity stick be infected now i hope.

here try this seems microsft have d awnsers... no surprise they caused it

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;905539

this is what i typed for this google seearch below: download updates for error code product 256_1

http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=downlo...le+Search&meta=


http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;897079

[Steve Perry]

try this

http://www.errorkiller.com/download2.html

and this

http://registrysmart.com/download2.php

let me know what you find.

[spurs_2108]

Or could I just buy new ram? I don't have any spare ram sticks around...

[Steve Perry]

That's why this is taking long. If you had your XP disc? we could replace any Dll's or drivers you may have lost. If you still have unwanted freeze ups after that? Then I know what steps to take.

If you take the cover off your tower, or if you know the model of your PC?

I need that number off the motherboard so I can see if I have the right RAM for your PC

see if you see a # that says PC-100 or PC-2700 etc........

[spurs_2108]

I do have my XP Disc.

[Steve Perry]

So far I found two 250MB sticks. one is a 2400 and the other is a 2700 I also have a 256MB in a PC I use only for playing games, It's a PC-133 if you need it.

I will want a pack of Blank DVDs if possible :smokin

[Steve Perry]

I do have my XP Disc.

Then put the cd in and re-boot
click boot from cd when you see the promt
then you will see a window that reads press R


http://www.windowsnetworking.com/img/gif_wxp/rcons00.gif

[spurs_2108]

Alright, let me give it a shot. I just click on that one? What do I do after that? Just follow what it says or...

[Steve Perry]

Let's update your shit first.


http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp1/express.mspx












http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp1/default.mspx

[Steve Perry]

Do you need the codes for the ErrorKiller and RegistrySmart? or did you not run them?

[spurs_2108]

I have to go in to work at 6. So If we can hault this process right now, that would be great. lol.

I am running Service Pack 2, so do I have to update?

And no I don't need those codes for those two programs. I didn't bother installing them.

[Steve Perry]

Then let's wait till you get back, the XP recovery could take 20 minutes. I had no idea you had a job, In that case why not just get one of these?


http://www.selectivesolutions.com/store/images/RAIDMAX%20Scorpio%20868%20Mid-Tower%20Case%20Large.jpg

[spurs_2108]

I do have something like that. Last year I got a barebone kit and everything. I had to put it together. My friend helped me put it together. Do I have to update my shit? lol. No right, because I have service pack 2 or what ever.

[spurs_2108]

So I insterted the cd into computer and restarted, but for some reason I can't boot off it. What do I need to do for it to recognize it?

[spurs_2108]

I tired pressing F9, but I got this at the bottom...

"please install express recovery from gigabyte cd title" Um yah. I think I have a gigabyte cd on it that came with the MB? I put it in and I couldn't find anything that had to do with express recovery....

How else do i boot from the cd?

[Nbadan]

So I insterted the cd into computer and restarted, but for some reason I can't boot off it. What do I need to do for it to recognize it?

You have to change your CD/DVD drive to your primary bootable drive in your bios. Press either delete or f1 depending on your MB to get to the bios at startup.

[mouse]

Sorry for the late reply. I made a house call last night and this dude was all jacked up. I had to bring his PC to my place and when I got on line RoadRunner sent me a warning page to call them. His PC was being used to spread some trojan e mails.
RoadRunner only gives you so many warnings then they cut off your www access for a few hours.

Just tell them you work on PC's from your home and you will get some slack.I even know the the Tech boss's name we have chatted many times. He gives me 25.00 bucks off each month since I told so many DSL users to change to cable. It's supposed to be 50,00 dollars off your bill each time, but you have to go to thier website and put the customers name in first. So I told some asshat (trust me he was a real anal dude) on the phone one day how am I going to know when I go to someone's house if they want RoadRunner? I told him If I knew that? That means I would know the funture and I would be in Vegas making sports bets. He said as soon as they want to change just use thier PC to go to the website. I told them how can I use thier PC if they don't have www access yet? Many folks who call me are getting on line for the fist time. I do alot of old folks around the medical center area. You don't make much money but you go home with a shit load of pills :smokin

Anyway I told them I will stop telling folks to change from DSL to Time Warner in the future , it's to much trouble. and that's when I met Richard. He says they give the Bounus to best Buyworkers but only Austin let's private contractors get the Bonus for hooking folks up.

For some reason San Antonio does not have that luxury. Anyway short story long, this dude has worm Blaster and a few other turds I picked up using his HD as my slave drive. His PC has been in storage for a few years. He still has Rotten.com links.

I would use the phone from now on to further fix your PC ,It's faster and I hate the fact I am spaming this forum as it is, Trust me I can go w/o another warning from Manny, I may want to go to another GTG some day.

[Steve Perry]

mouse go to bed let me take over from here.................

[spurs_2108]

Thanks for you help Mouse, but Steve is helping me now.

[spurs_2108]

So am I ready to try and repair it now? Or is there anything else I have to do. I have had trouble booting from the cd, but I haven't tried Nbadan idea, by pressing f1 or delete.

[spurs_2108]

I went ahead and got the cd to boot. I pressed R when it was time, then I got this message..

Which windows installation would you like to log onto

1 C:\Windows
(to cancel press enter)

So I guess I had to press 1. The first time I ran this I didn't press anything and my computer froze I guess and my tower was making a loud constant beep noise. So I tried this again, pressing 1 this time and it made the same noise, then I tried it again and I didn't press anything and it froze I think.

What is the computer suppose to do after I press 1? Am I suppose to press 1?

[Larry Dallas]

Steve is in the Kings forum I will go get him...............

[Steve Perry]

Thanks larry say hi to Mr Roper for me. Ok spurs 2108 first you need to Disable Norton.
Virus protection software sometimes interferes with Setup,do that now.

[Melmart1]

Thanks for you help Mouse, but Steve is helping me now.
:lmao

[Steve Perry]

To run the Recovery Console from the Windows XP startup disks or the Windows XP CD-ROM, follow these steps:
1. Insert the Windows XP startup disk into the floppy disk drive, or insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive, and then restart the computer.

Click to select any options that are required to start the computer from the CD-ROM drive if you are prompted.
2. When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.
3. If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the installation that you must access from the Recovery Console.
4. When you are prompted, type the Administrator password. If the administrator password is blank, just press ENTER.
5. At the command prompt, type the appropriate commands to diagnose and repair your Windows XP installation
The following list describes the available commands for the Recovery Console:
• Attrib changes attributes on one file or subdirectory.
• Batch executes commands that you specify in the text file, Inputfile. Outputfile holds the output of the commands. If you omit the Outputfile parameter, output appears on the screen.
• Bootcfg modifies the Boot.ini file for boot configuration and recovery.
• CD (Chdir) operates only in the system directories of the current Windows installation, removable media, the root directory of any hard disk partition, or the local installation sources.
• Chkdsk The /p switch runs Chkdsk even if the drive is not flagged as dirty. The /r switch locates bad sectors and recovers readable information. This switch implies /p. Chkdsk requires Autochk. Chkdsk automatically looks for Autochk.exe in the startup folder. If Chkdsk cannot find the file in the startup folder, it looks for the Windows 2000 Setup CD-ROM. If Chkdsk cannot find the installation CD-ROM, Chkdsk prompts the user for the location of Autochk.exe.
• Cls clears the screen.
• Copy copies one file to a target location. By default, the target cannot be removable media, and you cannot use wildcard characters. Copying a compressed file from the Windows 2000 Setup CD-ROM automatically decompresses the file.
• Del (Delete) deletes one file. Operates within the system directories of the current Windows installation, removable media, the root directory of any hard disk partition, or the local installation sources. By default, you cannot use wildcard characters.
• Dir displays a list of all files, including hidden and system files.
• Disable disables a Windows system service or driver. The variable service_or_driver is the name of the service or driver that you want to disable. When you use this command to disable a service, the command displays the service's original startup type before it changes the type to SERVICE_DISABLED. Note the original startup type so that you can use the enable command to restart the service.
• Diskpart manages partitions on hard disk volumes. The /add option creates a new partition. The /delete option deletes an existing partition. The variable device is the device name for a new partition (such as \device\harddisk0). The variable drive is the drive letter for a partition that you are deleting (for example, D). Partition is the partition-based name for a partition that you are deleting, (for example: \device\harddisk0\partition1) and can be used instead of the drive variable. The variable size is the size, in megabytes, of a new partition.
• Enable enables a Windows system service or driver. The variable service_or_driver is the name of the service or driver that you want to enable, and start_type is the startup type for an enabled service. The startup type uses one of the following formats:
SERVICE_BOOT_START
SERVICE_SYSTEM_START
SERVICE_AUTO_START
SERVICE_DEMAND_START
• Exit quits the Recovery Console, and then restarts the computer.
• Expand expands a compressed file. The variable source is the file that you want to expand. By default, you cannot use wildcard characters. The variable destination is the directory for the new file. By default, the destination cannot be removable media and cannot be read-only. You can use the attrib command to remove the read-only attribute from the destination directory. The option /f:filespec is required if the source contains more than one file. This option permits wildcard characters. The /y switch disables the overwrite confirmation prompt. The /d switch specifies that the files will not be expanded and displays a directory of the files in the source.
• Fixboot writes a new startup sector on the system partition.
• Fixmbr repairs the startup partition's master boot code. The variable device is an optional name that specifies the device that requires a new Master Boot Record. Omit this variable when the target is the startup device.
• Format formats a disk. The /q switch performs a quick format. The /fs switch specifies the file system.
• Help If you do not use the command variable to specify a command, help lists all the commands that the Recovery Console supports.
• Listsvc displays all available services and drivers on the computer.
• Logon displays detected installations of Windows and requests the local Administrator password for those installations. Use this command to move to another installation or subdirectory.
• Map displays currently active device mappings. Include the arc option to specify the use of Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) paths (the format for Boot.ini) instead of Windows device paths.
• MD (Mkdir) operates only within the system directories of the current Windows installation, removable media, the root directory of any hard disk partition, or the local installation sources.
• More/Type displays the specified text file on screen.
• Rd (Rmdir) operates only within the system directories of the current Windows installation, removable media, the root directory of any hard disk partition, or the local installation sources.
• Ren (Rename) operates only within the system directories of the current Windows installation, removable media, the root directory of any hard disk partition, or the local installation sources. You cannot specify a new drive or path as the target.
• Set displays and sets the Recovery Console environment variables.
• Systemroot sets the current directory to %SystemRoot%.

[spurs_2108]

Wow.

[Steve Perry]

Ok brah I am back for a few minutes. I got this dudes PC all flushed and its running smooth, I wish I had 4.7 GHZ I could do some serious downloading. It will be hard to go back to my 533mhz eMachine

Did you ever burn your music/porn/ and favorite files to disk? Just in case you need a flush.

[spurs_2108]

No, I never burnt all my music and all that stuff to a disk. If I have to risk that while doing this recovery thing, then I am not doing it. I don't have any cds to do that or the time.

[leemajors]

I do have something like that. Last year I got a barebone kit and everything. I had to put it together. My friend helped me put it together. Do I have to update my shit? lol. No right, because I have service pack 2 or what ever.

service pack 2 was released a couple of years ago.

[spurs_2108]

^ So what are you saying?

[leemajors]

^ So what are you saying?

there have been hundreds of updates to windows since then. that's why he asked if you have run windows update. XP service pack 2 was basically a collection of updates and drivers released since service pack 1. you would want to keep windows updated so you don't have problems with newer hacks and virii.

[spurs_2108]

Well I have service pack two and run windows update. I know I've mentioned have service pack 2 before.

[Mrs.Roper]

Thanks larry say hi to Mr Roper for me. Ok spurs 2108 first you need to Disable Norton.
Virus protection software sometimes interferes with Setup,do that now.

I wish you'd give Stanley some more RAM.

[Nbadan]

Pressing R will only get you the recovery consol. If you want to boot of the disk to reinstall Windows you have to change your boot sequence (the way I posted earlier). It sure sounds like the HD is dying. Slave it to another computer, save your data, and try reinstalling windows after reformatting.

[Sometimes I Do]

Benchmark your pc here www.pcpitstop.com

It will run a diagnostics on your pc and tell you exactly what the problems are.

Then just fix them.