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- Wireless and LAN works only in one place
- Hi,a client of mine has a laptop which I looked at and couldn't figure out. I will probably get the laptop next week to check out again.It's a Dell laptop with built-in wireless A/B/G card. At home she can connect just fine to her Qwest Actiontec router, but wherever else...
- Tags: card, firewall, LAN, laptop computer, PCMCIA, semmelbroesel, wireless
- Q&A 2006-01-08
- Dell IDE bad (?), PCI IDE not working
- Hi,A client's Dell Dimension 8250. A few months ago it was rebuilt from scratch because of a HD failure. A few days ago it failed again - bad sectors, also in the boot sector. I suspected the IDE controller (2nd HD damage). I tried one more new HD since I...
- Tags: BIOS, Dell Computer Corp., HD, IDE, PCI, PCI IDE, semmelbroesel
- Q&A 2005-12-15
- Shortcuts for disabling hardware
- Hi,I got a laptop with built-in wireless-B card and just bought a wireless-G card. In most cases when I am on the road I will use the built-in card because it doesn't stick out on the side, i.e. I won't break it when I take the laptop out of the...
- Tags: Available hardware profile, enabling-disabling device, Go-to System, hardware, semmelbroesel, windows
- Q&A 2005-12-12
- WPA not available as wifi choice
- Hi,if I remember correctly, XP SP2 has support for WPA encoding as opposed to WEP. I have an unused freshly installed laptop with SP2 and built-in wireless-B card, and it works fine as long as I don't try to access a WPA encoded router - which is what I would...
- Tags: card, semmelbroesel, Wi-Fi, Windows ONLY, wireless, wireless card, WPA
- Q&A 2005-12-09
- DHCP not working
- I recently managed to update my old Win XP Laptop to SP2, and I had hoped it would solve this problem...In my LAN, most computers have a static IP, but when I take my laptop to a hotel or a hotspot, DHCP often fails to get an IP address. I...
- Tags: DHCP, IP, laptop computer, semmelbroesel, wireless
- Q&A 2005-12-09
- Device Manager blank
- Hi,I have a client PC that had tons of spyware/adware on it which I removed, and I don't think there is anything bad left. But when I open the Device Manager, it it empty. In Safe Mode, all devices show up fine.I have read plenty of forums by now and...
- Tags: Device Manager, filter, Safe Mode, semmelbroesel
- Q&A 2005-12-01
- HD partitioning refused by laptop
- Hi,I have an old Toshiba laptop. A while ago I replaced the 6GB drive with a 40GB drive, and whatever I tried using Windows 98 it froze after a while with the new drive, so I upgraded to XP, and it has been working great.Only I only have 2GB for...
- Tags: backup, BIOS, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows XP, Partition Magic, semmelbroesel
- Q&A 2005-10-24
- BIOS POST freezes
- Hi,on an Everex PC I get the following screen from the POST, then it freezes completely. I can get into the BIOS if I hit DEL fast enough, but it all seems OK.AWARD BIOS V4.51PGV VAC43P3 800E MHZAWARD PNP BIOS EXT 1.ATREND CHIPAWAY VIRUSR ON GUARD VER 1.64ABIOS GUARDIANR ENABLED....
- Tags: BIOS
- Q&A 2005-06-12
- What makes a PC slow?
- Hi,a client of mine had a bit of spyware that made the computer slow. I removed it all and also used HiJackThis to weed out a few extra programs that do not need to be running all the time.All the same, the PC running XP is still way too slow....
- Tags: DELETE, hard drive, HijackThis, PC, semmelbroesel, spyware
- Q&A 2005-06-09
- Norton Anti-Spam uses random folders
- Hi,a client of mine has a weird problem between Norton Anti-Spam and Outlook Express 6.Norton Anti-Spam created its Mail Rule to move all marked spam into a specific folder.Problem: It doesn't happen. Not only does regular email appear in the spam folder and vice versa, but sometimes new emails appears...
- Tags: anti-spam, e-mail, Norton Anti-Spam, Norton Co., semmelbroesel
- Q&A 2005-06-09
- "Network cable unplugged" in only 1 OS
- Hi,a client had a bunch of spyware that I removed one of them resisted a lot. Now it keeps saying "a network cable is unplugged", and I cannot get any connection.I tested the cable itself, and it works fine.When I start the PC using a CD that starts a miniature...
- Tags: cable, Microsoft Windows XP, network, network interface card, operating system, Registry, semmelbroesel, spyware
- Q&A 2005-06-09
- XP pauses loading with black screen
- Hi,a computer I am trying to fix appears to be clean of viruses and spyware, and SFC didn't find anything bad.When I start the PC, POST will go through and Windows will try to start and then stop with a black screen. The HD will go rattling for a few...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, network, registry, semmelbroesel
- Q&A 2005-04-25
- VB6 "Permission denied" only sometimes
- Hi,I wrote a little VB6 program that is being called by my email server when a certain email comes in. The program is then supposed to access a file on another PC on the LAN and create an email out of that file.Theoretically it works perfectly, but sometimes when the...
- Tags: e-mail, email server, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, permission, programming, semmelbroesel, server
- Q&A 2005-03-21
- Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird = 100% CPU
- Hi,I have a problem with two programs: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (both version 1.0).On my main PC, they work fine, but on my Laptop (P3 500MHz 96MB RAM WinXP) each program takes nearly up to 100% CPU load, and loaded together they share the load fairly equally.If I switch them...
- Tags: CPU, DHCP, DHCP Server, e-mail, laptop computer, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, semmelbroesel
- Q&A 2005-03-02
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