Recent content by coax31

Well I reset the BIOS and tried a different power supply and processor and still no luck, the green LED on the motherboard lights up but that is it. I think there is a faulty PCI card or DVD drive that is hosing the mother board.

The tester lights up like it is ok could it be insufficent power?

I built a new system for my in-laws: Generic case, Roswell 400watt power supply, Kingston PC 2700 512MB RAM, ASUS P4GE-MX Motherboard, Celeron D 2.4 GHz processor, DVD drive, DVDRW drive and a 40 GB Maxtor PATA drive. After I built it the first time it ran fine for a couple of days and then it...

Thanks for the response, this machine was hooked to a DSL connection for 2-3 years with no firewall or virus software. It didn't even have SP1, I wanted to format and reinstall but the owner does not have the recovery disks. I think it has some VX2 spyware that keeps writting to the HOST file...

I am working on a machine that is running Windows XP Home Edition SP2 and it will not let me turn the firewall on. The controls are greyed out and it says they are controled by group policy? I didn't thing XP home could be controlled by group policy? Any suggestions this machine was seriously...

I have 3 computers and 1 laptop, a D-link 514 wireles router, and a Lynksys 5 port switch. One of my computers is a server with two NIC cards and is running windows 2003 Server Standard. I have a Comcast cable Internet. I want to setup a domain and use the router as a firewall in between the...

I have created an image with Acronis 6.0, the image consists of Windows XP SP1 and Office 2003 etc.. I built this image on a Dimension XPSR 400 and ran sysprep before I uploaded the image. When I download the image onto a laptop it boots up to the Windows XP setup screen without any BSOD but the...

Remove and replace the CMOS battery than reset the VRAM