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Thank you so much for the advice. I will look for spinrite, and let you know what is happening. Or I will reformat. Thanks

Thanks for the advice. But how come I can get into normal mode of Xp, but none of the safe modes. That is the part that I do not understand.

I have a toshiba satilite 1905-s301 running xp home. When I boot up each time it goes through a scan disk and tells me 10-15 sectors are unreadable. Then I can get into windows, but scan disk will not run in the normal os mode. Also, I can not get into any of the safe modes, because the os...

Thank you for the response. However I fixed the problem it was a bac nic card.

I have an HP Invent and have just reformatted the hard drive. Originally I was running Me. When I was running Me I encountered a problem so I upgraded to windows 2000. Unfortunately I am still having the same problem. The problem seems to be something with the internet. Every time I goto IE...

Ok I found out what was really wrong. With out looking carefully at my situation I was using my neighbors router. I realized this when I went to log onto my router. To make a long story short I changed my ssid and gave the laptop a static IP. thanks you helped me out alot.

The other day I took a Sony Laptop (PCG961-A) from a client to reformat. After putting on w2k I started to try and download all the sony drivers and utilities. As I was going through the process I noticed or felt that under the laptop it was getting VERY HOT!!!! The area was the rear left...

Thanks for the advice I will pass it on to my father.

I was talking to my father, who lives in NJ and his pc started to have problems. First, is video card went for no apperent reason and so we reloaded the drives. Now that works. Second, and the most important his computer takes for ever on start up. So doing the most logical thing we went...

Ok I have turned on the computer for 3-4 days and each time is has worked. I have not given it a static ip yet, but I changed some of the settings. I went to a infastructure and changed the channel. The advice that you gave I will try within the next couple of days. Thanks again for your help.

Thanks for the advice. I will give it a try and let you know.

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. My connection is set up for infustructure and windows is in the driver seat. Also, my Ip address is found automatically. As far as my router it is a linksys. I do have wep enabled. Any advice that you can give based off the information I have...

I just bought a new laptop from HP and it has a wirless nic build in b/g. So I set it up and for a couple of days I had a great connection, and then no signal. Ok, so I renewed the ip address and it came back. Then the next time I turned on the laptop I had no connection, so I went into...

Thank you for responding to my question. I will try it on a VoIP line with fax and see what happens. Again I do appreciate.

My question is the following about att voip: If you have an alarm system can you have it connected to voip? And if you can not why?

Okay I got the Sony Laptop to work. Do not ask me how. I loaded Linux Redhat and then loaded Xp Pro and all is well. Thanks for all of the help.

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I thought I would drop a line to let you know what is going on. Well I put Linux RedHat on the Sony and everything works fine. I have to quess that something is wrong with Xp. I do appreciate the help, and if I put Xp back on the Sony and I run...

I am new to redhat and I am having problems downloading programs. I am trying to upgrade mozilla to fire fox. I can save thr program, but I can not figure out how to run it. The folder where it is saved is in home and I can get to it, but that is about it. Any help that anyone can give would...

I am new to Norton's Firewall and to be honest I am confused. When I enable the firewall I can not access the internet, but I know I am still connected because I can ping sites. Know when I open IE it will not display any site, but as soon as I diable the firewall I am good to go. With that...

Thank you both very much. Tonycard you spoke about turning off my system restore, before any online scan. How do I go abut doing that if you do not mind me asking. Also, what can you tell me about Trendmicro or Panda; and how do they differ from Norton's. Linney, I have checked my settings...