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    Wireless Connection Stopped Working Suddenly

    After spending one whole day trying to fix the problem by reading forums, I finally fell on the solution. All I had to do was, on IE8 go Tool>Internet Options>Connections then LAN setting and uncheck the "Sue a proxy server..."
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    Wireless Connection Stopped Working Suddenly

    This morning, I woke up to a dead wireless connection on my XP machine. My computer seemed to be infected by some virus so I ran a virus scan and also updated Windows. After this the wirless connection just died. I have a DSL modem and it says I have connection but the sent and received packets...
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    Laptop Freezes and Clock Stops

    Thanks Ben, those are exactly the codes I was looking for. And thanks to kjv1611 as well. Yes the issue with lockups have disappeared. I bought a new system fan for no purpose. It must have been somekind of malware or virus on the system that was causing the problem. Thanks to everyone on this...
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    Laptop Freezes and Clock Stops

    Hey BadBigBen, GPARTED was awesome. It worked like a charm. Thanks for the info. However, now each time I insert a DVD, my windows media player asks for a decoder. I remember installing some kind of free decoder long time ago, but I cannot recall. Would someone know where I can get free decoder...
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    Laptop Freezes and Clock Stops

    Ok, I tried to reformat my drives and ran into some problems. First of all, as Kjv1611 has suggested, I tried to download both ActiveKillDisk and DBAN and run it, but my laptop froze. So I followed the old traditional way. I inserted my Win XP CD, and ran the setup. My drive is partitioned into...
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    Laptop Freezes and Clock Stops

    Well, I can get to the BIOS without any problem. Anyway I am going to reinstall XP again and see if the problem disappears. I will keep you guys updated after this weekend. Thank you everyone.
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    Laptop Freezes and Clock Stops

    That is what I thought too. I have already backed-up all the data on an external hard drive. But the strange thing is, I have started the laptop on safe mode and it runs perfectly fine. It does not freeze nor does the clock stop. So what could be causing this problem?
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    Laptop Freezes and Clock Stops

    Hello, I got my new laptop fan, and I replaced the old one with it. Surprisingly, it did not spin at the boot up either. I went to BIOS to see if I could find a way to make it work and also to check my computer's temperature, but it was not listed there. So now I have the same problem. The...
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    Laptop Freezes and Clock Stops

    What I did was, I got my house fan blowing some cool wind close to my opened laptop. The laptop kept running for more than 30 minutes without freezing. It used to freeze after about 10 minutes before. So I was persuaded that it was the fan that died and I have now ordered a new one. Once it...
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    Laptop Freezes and Clock Stops

    I managed to open my laptop to see if there was anything wrong with the fan. Strangely when I turn the laptop on, the fan does not spin. Should not it spin just like in a desktop? I touched the hard-drive and I could feel and hear it working. So I guess everything is fine with the harddrive...
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    Laptop Freezes and Clock Stops

    Since few days ago, my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop has been freezing. This is how it goes. I start the laptop, after 15 minutes, the clock stops and laptop freezes. Then I restart it manually. Again same thing happens. Strangely I do not get an error message that says the computer was restarted...
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