Recent content by CptnJon

A few responses... linney... I searched the Registry and found nothing... tried the other tweaks on the IE options but no success. erikhertzel... thanks for the link to Webroot Spysweeper. I downloaded it and it seemd to do the trick!! jessicatechy... I am on a home network but the other...

Recently, my computer has IE windows opening by themselves with the url of http://www.google.cm/! This doesn't happen on a boot but seems to happen when the computer is idle! When I got on to my computer a few minutes for the 1st time today there were 6 instances of IE open with the same url...

SimonDavies... Using the Power Supply Calculator (http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/) I determined that I needed a 336 watt PSU and that is for peak wattages. Even under full load, actual consumption is usually less than the figures calculated. I recently installed an Antec TrueBlue...

BigBadBen... My BIOS seems to properly recognize... however I will try to Clear the CMOS and see if it does anything... at this point I will try anything... vacunita... they are NTFS drives, so I will try to find a utility that repairs this type of files system. To answer your question on why...

Sorry... don't know why that last message got posted twice!! I only pressed it once!

linney, vacunita,rodrunner79... thanks for the replies. I looked up the sites that explain event errors but unfortunately found nothing that seems to relate to my problem... or, more importantly, helps me understand what went wrong... I downloaded pcinspector and had a look at the drives...

linney, vacunita,rodrunner79... thanks for the replies. I looked up the sites that explain event errors but unfortunately found nothing that seems to relate to my problem... or, more importantly, helps me understand what went wrong... I downloaded pcinspector and had a look at the drives...

Follow-Up I once again rebooted my computer and now see that another of my hard drives is no longer accessible! This drive is a 200GB drive that I split into 3 partitions. Note that this drive is brand new... I installed in on Monday! Since then I have been converting old VHS tapes from...

Within the last hour I lost access to one of my hard drives (60gig)!! This happened on a reboot. Just before the system closed down (as I was rebooting) I saw an error message about some file but it disappeared too quickly to read or do anything about it! So I opened up the event viewer to see...

Yes the CD does boot in a non-usb situation. I tried my Windows CD and had the same result. I also tried it on another NetVista I have (same type #) and had the same problem. That PC has a non-usb CD drive and when I set that as the 2nd startup item in the sequence (after the USB Boot Device)...

Thanks Linney... However nothing from that site helped me... I tried the Generic Approach to only leave the USB Boot Device as the only bootable item in the Startup sequence but all I get is a screen telling me that there is no operating system present!!

I have an old (2001) NetVista type 2257 which I recently fixed with a new motherboard. I am now busy setting up everything but I am having trouble booting the PC from a 'USB Boot Device'! I installed a new hard drive on the computer and everything seems to be running well, but I want to run...

After I submitted this thread I realized that I meant to post this in the hardware forum!! I will repost it there...

I have an old (2001) NetVista type 2257 which I recently fixed with a new motherboard. I am now busy setting up everything but I am having trouble booting the PC from a 'USB Boot Device'! I installed a new hard drive on the computer and everything seems to be running well, but I want to run...

Update... I finally got into the BIOS config... I read somewhere that if you hold down the insert key when booting that it sometimes works... not sure if that is what did it but eventually I got in and was able to change the start up sequence so that it now boots from the CD... now I am able...