Recent content by redroach

hi there i am trying to create a dual boot system. ive installed 98se no problem. then when i try and install win 2kpro, it says it cant intall kernel32.dll and also says the same about a few other .dll files. the logical drive im installing to is 1024MB fat32. if these files are corrupted on...

thanks for the advice u guys. how do i do a thorough scan from dos? thanx again RED

i had a problem with HIMEN.SYS and could not load windows. i changed my ram and still the same. i didnt have anything important on my hard drive so decided to format the hard drive and reistall windows. first of all after formating i was getting a message "bad partition table", i...

pc appeared to be working fine, then it crashed when i restarted it would not load windows. it starts then says protection error. when i start it in safe mode it said - Error Himen.sys has detected unreliable xms at address 03C0078A XMS driver not installed since then it has started saying...

ive got an audigy platinum. the card works fine but theres no response from the drive. ive checked the connections and all seems fine, plus there is a hissing through the headphones so i guess there power? is there any settings in the Bios need changin or any thing in windows. its a athlon 1600...

ive been trying to install win 98 on my new computer. everything fine at first. when booting up it it wouldnt boot from the IDE. i formatted the drive again and reinstalled windows. everything fine, put ms Workssuite on and then started putting my ISP cd on. when rebooting a message came up...

ive tried closing every thing on start up (through the system confiuration utility) but am still having problems. even if i were to be able to run scan disk with everything else closed is there anyway i could solve the problem once and for all, or does anyone know which particular piece it may...

i am running window2000 when i run the scan disk it starts gets as far as scanning the disk surface then goes back to scaning folders and back to scanning surface. it does this 10 times scanning a little bir more each time. on the tenth time an box comes up saying another program is writting to...

a friend has a newish laptop (tiny) it worked fine for a while but now Iexplorer seems to have a problem. the connection goes fine and it stays connected(as ppl are still able to copy mp3 files) but the browser will not bring up any web pages, the message "this page cannot be displayed...

also when i try to access my dialing locations, dial up phone books or internet connection folders i get a message come up telling me i have an unexpected error, could this also be linked to the origional problem?

i had a silimar problem, in my case it was that the CPU was over clocked, (you can change this by going into the CMOS settings and then going into CPU PnP setup), but you could also running the system file checker and the registry checker, it is possible it could by a memory problem. you could...

win 98 se

thax for the help, the article on http://www.grc.com was an eye opener (as well as being possitivly scary)i have followed the advice on there and at the mo it looks like my system is fine. before i install zone alarm, are there any updated virus scanners you would recommend? again i would...

thanx for the help, but do the 'symptoms' ive talked about sound like i had an intruder? cheers jared

would i firewall protect me and where can i get 1 for free? also in "netstat 2" the "state" column says "listening" on almost every line?? shit happening again im goin offline pleaase halp jared