Recent content by spinaltap

Wow, I almost can't believe it, but it worked. After uninstalling my Primary IDE channel driver and restarting a couple times (as per the instructions from windows) everythihng came back to normal. It almost feels like a new computer now, hehe. Thanks to all of you who took the time to help me...

mechBgon: Thats exactly what I thought was going on but I couldnt remember what the name of it was. I looked in my primary IDE driver and it said to do DMA if available but I'm currently in PIO mode, which explains a lot. Any idea what the root of this could be or how I could get it out of this...

Unless I'm reading mine wrong, I'm pretty sure that those services are not a problem. I found them all in my registry and they dont seem to like being deleted, so I'm going to assume they are system processes I need. Matlab is a programming utility I use for vector and matrix programming. It...

vanvock: I can't seem to find anything out of the ordinary in my event viewer law9933 and others: I just downloaded HJT; my logfile should be below. I've never used HJT or posted anything with it, so please excuse my formatting if it is hard to read. From the looks of things, however, I dont...

I don't think this is services related, I've actually been through services.msc (in my opinion a little better than msconfig for dealing w/ services) and gutted out uncessesary services to help clear up memory. I do have a new theory, though. It seems that both glitches in audio and the...

Also, another thing I have noticed is that even when I am idle, the "System" process under the processes tab in task manager seems to be constantly running with about 7-11% of the processors resources/cycles. I seem to remember that usually when I'm idle this number is closer to 0 and the System...

Wow, thats almost no processes. You must have had a field day with your services.msc. Anyways, nope, its not a corporate laptop. I generally have between 35 and 40 processes running at a time unless im doing heavy multitasking. My networking tab seems to be pretty clear for the most part as...

System Config: Compaq Laptop - Presario X1000 CPU - Pentium M 1.4 GHz Mem - 512 MB HDD - 60 GB (4200 RPM I belive...its definatley slower than 5400) Since its a laptop, I haven't added any hardware to the system recently, and havent installed any software. Also there does not seem to be...

Hello all, I was hoping if you had any suggestions for troubleshooting or insights about my latest of issues with my computer. So, starting yesterday at some point, my computer has become extremely sluggish in performance. Windows boot-up seems to take a lot longer now. Also simple...

Thanks man. The eventvwr definately pointed me in the right direction. It was a termDD error in my system log (event ID: 50) which was able to look up in microsofts support knowledgebase. It turns out the problem was in my registry...somehow. All i had to do was kill a certificate parameter in...

stash: I would suspect that maybe there are terminal service errors, although I don't know how/where I would find these. I checked in the Manage dialog but couldn't find it. Where else should I check? mantrius: Nope, all of that stuff is turned off. I don't have any other firewall software...

Sorry bout that. Here are the relevent specs (althought I feel like this is more of a software issue than hardware considering i can remote desktop to other computers on the network from my desktop comp): CPU: 2.8 GHz P4 (with HT) MOBO: MSI 865PE Neo2-FIS2R (not sure about the NIC. It's the...

I'm not entirely sure if I should be posting here, in the tech support section, or in operating systems, but I figured this was the logical place. Anyways, I'm having some strange issues when trying to remote desktop into my desktop computer from my laptop. Both computers are running Windows...

I dont think most modern digital scopes will take more than 150V or so, unless you get special equiptment. For this type of measurement, though, if you are interested only in the AC part of the wave you can just run it though a capacitor with a voltage rating of 500VDC or greater. Capacitors...

Well, for starters, the datapath example they give is missing whole types of instructions; I'm pretty sure its missing all the immediate instructions (I dont have the book in front of me for reference though, so it may be the register arithmetic instructions which are missing) and I seem to...