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  1. Hunter97321

    Strange notebook hard drive issue

    I am currently working on a Dell Inspirion E1505 notebook computer. It has a 120GB SATA Fujitsu hard drive. First bootup it tells me hard drive is not recognized. I pull the drive and install it in an external enclosure and the drive works fine. I get no errors and can access all the data. I...
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    Crashes at certain website - Comcast.net

    Hi, I built a computer (system specs below) that crashes when accessing comcast.net. I thought that it was from Macromedia Flash but, it seems to also happen on the sign in page and I don't think that page has flash. Anyway, I went to macromedia and installed their latest version of flash and...
  3. Hunter97321

    How many wireless connections to one access point?

    There is a security company with 11 cars, each having it's own laptop, wanting to connect the computers to their network wirelessly from the parking lot. Will one wireless access point handle ll laptops? Is there a limit?
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    How do I make a wireless router act like a wireless switch?

    How do I make a Netgear wpn824 act like a wireless switch? If more information is needed, please let me know what would help.
  5. Hunter97321

    Unable to view advanced system information

    When I received the computer I had to run chkdsk /r to get it to start. The person didn't know why it wouldn't start. I bet that the registry is toast and am going to do a reinstall. I tried to reinstall help and support seperately but, no luck. Thanks for the help!
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    Unable to view advanced system information

    I have a Windows XP Home edition pc that will not allow me to view Advanced system information (error log & running services). I get a message on the screen that says "No such interface supported". I did have to remove Norton AV as it was causing errors. Anybody else run into this problem? Any...
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    XP needs hard booted to reset Modem

    Reinstalled the modem driver. Tested here and seemed to be ok. Returned to customer to see if that fixes his problem. The machine has Norton A/V + Ad-Aware + I have bookmarked Panda Activescan and Trend Housecall and he says that all report the system to be clean. If the customer reports back...
  8. Hunter97321

    XP needs hard booted to reset Modem

    I don't know if it was like that originally or not. Customer can't recall either.
  9. Hunter97321

    XP needs hard booted to reset Modem

    I have a customer with Windows XP Home edition installed. He uses AOL and dial-up with a PCI v92 56k Intel Modem chipset Modem. When he first connects to AOL (after starting his computer) everything works normally. If he disconnects from AOL then tries to get back on later the modem doesn't...
  10. Hunter97321

    Page fault in non page area - XP or hard drive problem?

    I installed an old hard drive that I had laying around and installed Windows XP just as a test. Everything went smoothly. On a side note, I was messing around with Microscope diagnostics (with the original hard drive) and the hard drive shows a 32mb partition of unknown type that it called the...
  11. Hunter97321

    Page fault in non page area - XP or hard drive problem?

    I was unable to boot the drive with floppies as well, thanks for the advice. It looks like it's time for a new drive.
  12. Hunter97321

    Page fault in non page area - XP or hard drive problem?

    No Ideas? I'm getting desperate here. Help!
  13. Hunter97321

    Page fault in non page area - XP or hard drive problem?

    I guess that I forgot to mention that it does the same thing when I try to start the computer with the operating system cd. I can't get to the recovery console and it also will not reinstall.
  14. Hunter97321

    Page fault in non page area - XP or hard drive problem?

    I am trying to fix a Dell computer with an 80 gigabyte WD hard drive. It doesn't matter which boot option I choose to start the computer, it comes up with BSOD (page fault in non page fault area). Also, when I tried to slave the drive to my computer it caused my computer to go into a reboot...
  15. Hunter97321

    Keyboard stops responding

    Thanks for the posts Bcastner, I added the link to my favorites and will inspect the capacitors when/if I get the computer back. Come to find out from customer that the machine is under warranty through Home Shopping Club or QVC and I think she is going to call them to look it over. Thanks...
  16. Hunter97321

    Keyboard stops responding

    The only usb device connected to the computer is a Lexmark X/73 printer/scanner. Since first posting I reinstalled Windows XP, Ran Doc-Memory from www.simmteter.com in burn-in mode for 6 loops with no errors, thinking it might be a memory issue. Customer appears to be a heavy smoker and there...
  17. Hunter97321

    Keyboard stops responding

    Yes it happens with other keyboard as well. Also, no errors in error log.
  18. Hunter97321

    Keyboard stops responding

    Computer is a P4 1.8ghz Windows XP SP1 installed ECS P4VMM v1.0 motherboard System will run correctly for a while then keyboard stops responding. Mouse still works correctly. Keyboard works again after reboot. Connection for keyboard appears to be in good shape, not loose or anything. Any...
  19. Hunter97321

    Installing Windows XP >137GB HDD - No Maxblast

    Thanks for the responses. Unfortunately, I had to get the system completed and reinstalled using the Maxblast software. The MSI board and/or Windows XP Pro didn't recognize the HDD as 160gb without Maxblast. So I did all I could and sent the computer out the door. It was a clean install and I...
  20. Hunter97321

    Installing Windows XP >137GB HDD - No Maxblast

    I was wondering how to install Windows XP on a 160gb Maxtor drive without using the maxblast software. I had everything up and working using the maxblast software, then I installed SP1, then formatted the unpartitioned space. When I tried to reboot it would make it to the splash screen and...

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