Recent content by LoneRngr

I have been running Windows XP home for quite awhile now. I do regular searches for spyware and adware, and I use McAfee VirusScan to block viruses. As such, I have a stable, well running PC. Until today. I was running fine, playing Matrix Online, and I exited the game and shut the system...

That's a good Idea...the printer is still parallel, but the serial port is not being used for anything, I don't believe....I checked the BIOS already, because I wanted to make sure I had the onboard Video and Sound disabled. I disabled the onboard modem as well, as I am using cable. I could...

Here's my problem. I am running Windows98SE, and for most programs, I have no problems with IRQ sharing. In fact, I had my GeForce2 MX video card and my Sound Blaster Live! Value card sharing IRQ 5 for a long time with little to no problems. Recently, I have run into a program that requires...

After an unfortunate incident involving a blown power supply that fried the hard drive, CDWriter, and motherboard of a pc, I have installed Windows 2000 Pro and Outlook Express 6 onto a new PC. I have .wab files backed up on a CD, and all my .dbx files are backed up as well. However, when I...

Thanks for the advice. I unplugged all the drives from the motherboard, and it still gives the same result. It simply comes on, the power light comes on, the fan spins, and a little red light is lit up on the motherboard. After about 20 secs, the alarm starts up again. There are no beeps or...

This morning, on of the PCs at a business I do some work at would not boot up. They unplugged the cord from the UPC it was plugged into, and plugged it into the wall outlet. When they turned it on, black smoke came out of it, and it stunk the room up pretty badly. Ok, so the power supply is...

I am having trouble setting the default font for a template in Word and making it the default. I try it, but it never saves. If I shut the program down and restart it, it defaults to a different font. This was changed somehow, but I do not know how. In case I rambled too much in the above...

Hi. I am trying to solve a problem on a Windows 2000 Pro computer running Outlook Express. Here's the run-down... Somehow, the formatting for printing messages has gotten all screwed up. I can set the font back just fine, and it saves, and most other things, but I cannot: 1. Set the...

I just recently updated Windows Media Player to version 7.1 and also installed the WMP Encoder. After doing this, and rebooting, Win 2000 Pro will not boot up. It goes a little way, starts to do a scandisk, and then pops up a blue screen. I think it is a stop error, but I cannot be sure as it...

Just a quick addition: "Disable Script Debugging" is checked in IE options, and "Display a notification about every script error" is NOT checked. So why, then, am I still getting this popup? Lonerngr

Everytime I start IE 6.0 under a Win 2000 Pro operating system, an error box pops up asking if I want to send an error report to Microsoft. Clicking debug, it says "0x024cb75a has refrenced memory at location 0x00000000. The memory could not be read." Then, if I click ok, IE opens...

No, actually, it's wierd. There was a folder, under Documents and Settings folder, that was called "Benetta.benetta". Now, after doing the repair, there is still the "Benetta.benetta" folder, but there is also a "Bennetta.bennetta" folder that popped up(I have no...

I recently had to use the auto reapir option to fix a friend's Win2000 Pro operating system, and it worked, except now alot of the program links are broken and pointing to the wrong places. I think this happened becaue after repairing the OS, it created a new directory that exactly mirrors a...

Also, I saw someone fixed their reboot problem by repairing the Master Boot Record. I tried to "FIXMBR" from the recovery console, and it told me the PC seems to have an invalid or un-accessible boot record, and fixing it may cause all partitions on the drive to become unaccessible...

After uninstalling a program through "Add/Remove Programs", Windows 2000 Professional will no longer complete the startup. The Startup progress bar moves all the way to the end and then the PC reboots itself. I cannot get into safe mode either; the same thing happens. I have tried...