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@chiph: my mac is the only one that can connect, vista-mac (and visa-versa) is perfect, unlike windows-windows. @Smah: the only firewalls enabled are windows firewalls, surely that cant get in the way of networking? All pcs recieve their ip addresses via dhcp from a netgear router/switch. i...

okay, ive tried adding another nic and using that. still seems to be the same. anyone?

hey guys, its been a while so bear with me, I've been tearing my hair out over this one. Basically I've got a vista home prem box which has several shared folders. All the settings are right in sharing, same workgroup, sharing enabled, shares have 'everyone' read permission. for some reason...

s.m.a.r.t says its fine, so does activesmart.

ive run the samsung diagnostic, it says all clear. i'll try the s.m.a.r.t stuff thanks

has the laptops always had this problem? is it not usable anymore? it could have been fried by a power surge. try disabling it in hardware manager, it might work.

check the power lead to your power supply (the one from the wall)... try replacing it or plugging it into your monitor to see if you monitor works with it in. could be a fuse or dodgy connection.

nah, the disk im talkin about is a 20gb ATA33 formatted into one ntfs partition. the 1.2gb was the one i am going to swap with so i can check to see whats wrong.

yeah, im gunna try that, at the moment though all my hard disks are in use in various pc's. i can get hold of a 1.2gb hard disk this week sumtime thanks for the info, i didnt know there was much of a controller onboard the hd

ive got a pc thats been playing up for quite a while now. its really infuriating as im quite stumped as to what to do. what happens is after a fresh reinstall of windowsXP pro, everything works fine for about a day. then it starts to chkdsk on every startup and sometimes refuses to boot until i...

i found out my board has boot-block which is a block on the eeprom which is nver overwritten which allows you to boot from a floppy...however asus in its infinate wisdom has written its flash program to erase the boot-block!! i thought i mite have saved myself!! damn asus

i got another detail...ive got three other pcs runnin on the same board...is it possible i could boot my pc with a eeprom from another board then swap it with my screwed chip after post and update it then? (no guesses please...i dont wanna ruin another chip!)

hi i have an ASUS a7s-vm motherboard (revsion 1006vm) and read that a new bios update was available (1007). Stupidly i downloaded a mislabeled file, which i later found out was revsion 1001vm, a much earlier revision. after flashing my chip with 1001 my computer will not post. the screen will...

i ran partition magic on my ntfs 5.1 formatted 40gb drive (running winxp pro) to create an extra partition onto which to install redaht linux 8.0.I was stupid and arrogant enough not to create a recover disk and now all is not so good! I have made my first partition (winxp) so that it canot be...

when you short soldered the CMOS jumper did you remove the battery? if you didnt it is likely the CMOS has not been reset. you should short solder the points, remove the battery, wait five minutes, reinsert the battery, un short-solder the points and boot the pc. I have an asus m/b and have come...

xp network wizard is awful, try this website: http://www.practicallynetworked.com/networking i have found it to be excellent. if you search around it,it gives excellent step by step adviceon networking windows boxes and internet connection sharing

if you are using roaming profiles, try to store the profile on the machine you log on most, this will stop your settings being dragged over your network everytime you log on.

you can remove any atartup programs that arnt in your startup folder by typing msconfig in start>run. its under the tab "startup" if u didnt know

i have a copy of windows xp pro. i have used the program 'ntswitch' to rewrite some registry entries to change it to windows .net server. is there any way i can perform server task on this operating system such as create a domain, active directory etc... if you are unsure what ntswitch is, read...

have u checked for viruses with an updated virus checker?