Recent content by dracan

Hi. Thanks for your reply. I'm not having trouble with sending mail though - just receiving.

I've been using easycgi for a few years now as both a webspace provider and an email provider. When I first started with them, I could check my email via pop3 on my PC, but not on my Smartphone. I contacted them about it, and they changed something on their servers to fix this. I have no idea...

My work computer's motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X (which is NForce2). I'm trying to test our game using various video cards. If I put older graphics cards in (by older I even mean GForce2/3), then it won't boot up. I say won't boot up - I actually mean won't power up. The power light comes on...

If anyone's interested, I found out what the problem was. If the MTU of my PC is greater than that of my router, some packets will get rejected by the router. The router will the return the packet to the PC using port 3 and 4. I fixed the problem by altering my computer's MTU to match that of...

Hi. I'm using Sygate Personal Firewall. However some parts of sites are getting blocked. One for example, is the login page of EBay (note this is just an example, many more sites do the same). If I disable SPF, then it works fine. Looking at the firewall logs, I get the following: The...

Hi. I've just reinstalled Windows and put Sygate Personal Firewall on it (I was using this in my previous install without any problems). Now, all secure websites (https) get blocked. If I choose "Allow All" in SPF, then I can access them. Any ideas why this would be happening? I've looked...

I've downloaded the drive diagnostics software, and burnt it to cd. I didn't try it because I was worried that running that diagnostics software could make the situation worse and make my data even more unrecoverable. Although, now I've done the Norton Ghost clone, at least I've got a backup...

Hi. I'm having a bit of trouble with my harddrive. It suddenly started bluescreening halfway through bootup. It said it was in NTFS.SYS. Before reinstalling everything, I want to get my data off it. I've tried putting it as a secondary harddrive in another machine, and it causes the other...

A friends has asked me to look at her computer. It gets halfway through booting up, then there's a loud clicking noise, and it reboots. It does this everytime. Because of the clicking sound, I immediately thought 'knackered harddrive'. It's a western digital one, so I went to the website and...

I've recently bought a Shuttle SN95G5. I'm having trouble when the computer has been off for a while. When I turn it on, the fan kicks in as expected, but the power light doesn't come on. Also the hard disk light flashes quickly for half a second, then stops for about 2 seconds, then flashes...

Just incase anyone's interested - it turned out to be my router. A reboot of the router fixed the problem. This is why it was working when I got back from holiday - we unplugged everything when we went.

I've got a DLink DSL-504 router. And the router crashes if I try and do an msn messanger file transfer. Has anyone come accross this before?

I'm having troubles with my email. I use uk2.net as my email service provider, and my ISP is Demon Internet. When I try to check my email at home (both via pop3 and the website mail.uk2.net), is fails to connect. If I try from my work (which is just around the corner and uses the same ISP and...

Don't I need to be using DHCP for this? Currently, if I type "ipconfig /release", I get: "Windows 2000 IP Configuration Error: No adapters bound to TCP/IP are enabled for DHCP" I don't really want to change it to DHCP either. Any other ways of doing the same thing?

Tried this, and I can ping it. That would then lead me to blame the router - except if this was the case, why does a reboot fix it? Anyway, I get my new rig tomorrow - so I'm hoping that this won't do the same!