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  1. DavePL

    LCD Monitor keeps turning off and on

    Much appreciate your suggestions. We found the setting in video properties> advanced, for refresh rate. It was set at at 75Hz. We set it to 70Hz (the other choice was 60). Then to be safe went to power options and dissabled monitor shutting off in 20'. That has solved the problem so far. Then...
  2. DavePL

    LCD Monitor keeps turning off and on

    We have a new LCD monitor, when first turned on it goes off and back on every 5 seconds or so. That continues for a few minutes, then works normally for a few hours, but the problem starts again if the computer isn't used for a half hour. We're wondering if problem is with the monitor, which is...
  3. DavePL

    TCP/IP got corrupt, seems not fixable

    Actually, I didn't remove the NIC itself, so that may have been worth trying. Also winsockfix.exe sounds interesting. Will keep that in mind. Much appreciate the comments.
  4. DavePL

    TCP/IP got corrupt, seems not fixable

    I did try deleting the NIC driver in device manager. However the Windows PnP OS was able to completely reinstall all the network components on the next reboot, automatically, without even prompting, as if they had never been deleted. We are all set now, owing to having created a Ghost image...
  5. DavePL

    TCP/IP got corrupt, seems not fixable

    Appreciate the suggestions. The repair install didn't work. System restore sounded like the best idea, but we didn't create a restore point before installing the VPN client. Luckilly we did find a ghost image that should work. Now we probably need to buy newer VPN software, that is compatible...
  6. DavePL

    TCP/IP got corrupt, seems not fixable

    Our TCP/IP protocol got corrupted somehow (perhaps from incompatible VPN software).We've tried a number of suggestions from technical bulletins, and nothing seems to work. The ping command gives: "unable to contact IP driver, error code 2". Ipconfig gives: "internal error, request not supported...
  7. DavePL

    Notebook keeps turning off and on

    Appreciate the suggestion. We will do that.
  8. DavePL

    Notebook keeps turning off and on

    We have an HP/Compaq nc6000 P-4 portable computer. After pressing the on button the power light flashes for a moment, it shuts off then comes back on for just a second, and shuts off again, and keeps cycling like that. We tried holding the on button for 2' to drain excess power, it then came on...
  9. DavePL

    mail delivery error after changing web hosts

    Our school department changed hosts for their email service, (keeping the same domain name). While our department still uses the original host. Now when we try to send them email, we get the following error: "Mail Delivery Message = Warning: message 1DRAc1-0003nd-8M delayed 240 hours." We can't...
  10. DavePL

    "open with" function, can't add new programs to list

    Haven't had a chance to try the system file checker yet, however I found a big improvement after installing new Acrobat Reader 7. That fixed file associations with PDFs.
  11. DavePL

    "open with" function, can't add new programs to list

    If I right click on a file and choose "open with", would like to use Excel, or Photoshop, but they're not on the list, so I click on "browse" and attempt to add the new program to the list. However nothing happens, they will not add. Was wondering is there a way to fix "open with"? It is very...
  12. DavePL

    Rebuild not working

    I'll have to ammend that, after running a reformat, the rebuild process now seems to be working. Hopefully we'll know weather the drive is usable or will need a new one.
  13. DavePL

    Rebuild not working

    We have a PowerEdge 2300 with PERC-2, running NT-4. One of the 4 drives in our RAID array went bad. When we go to the PERC BIOS to rebuild it, it says "rebuild in progress", yet it stalls there for more than an hour with nothing happening, no progress indicated. We could reformat it though...
  14. DavePL

    Corrupt master boot record

    Much appreciate your suggestions. I tried a new hard drive in that same computer and it worked OK, suggesting that the security feature is alright. I'm interested in trying those other suggestions as well, and will follow up when I have the chance. Especially interested in the boot sector only...
  15. DavePL

    Corrupt master boot record

    We have a Compaq Deskpro P3, the BIOS has a security feature that checks the MBR during boot up. We keep getting an error message saying the MBR needs to be restored. We then go through the restore/save utility in the BIOS, and it works fine, until the next reboot, where it always displays the...
  16. DavePL

    Windows could not load the installer for display

    Windows won't allow any upgrading of the video driver, it always gets stuck with that same error message about the installer error. It won't even let us view information about the video display settings. Even in safe mode. I think this case may be impossible to solve and we're seriously...
  17. DavePL

    Windows could not load the installer for display

    We tried to upgrade some computers from Win'98 to Win'2000, with NTFS. Everything works except the video driver, which is somehow corrupt. It says "Windows could not load the installer for display" every time we try to upgrade or install a new video driver. We've tried a lot of things...
  18. DavePL

    Can't access any web sites

    I found I had another problem, involving firewalls blocking my service. I have Zone Alarm, in addition to the built-in Windows firewall. They both were turned off, and yet somehow they were still blocking my ISP. I configured them allow full access to my ISP software, and that finally fixed...
  19. DavePL

    Can't access any web sites

    Actually I tried disabling the firewall which didn't help. However I was able to fix the DNS problem by reinstalling TCP/IP as you suggested. Since I have Windows XP, it wasn't as simple as Win98, and involved disabling and re-enabling it, and then finally I was able to reach some web sites! I...
  20. DavePL

    Can't access any web sites

    Yes, it seems I cannot resolve DNS. Running "nslookup yahoo.com", gives "no response from server", "server unknown", "default servers are not available". It knows the IP address of my DNS server, but cannot ping it. If I type in the IP address of a web site in my browser, it connects, though...

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