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To help determine whether you have a software or hardware issue, you might try booting from Puppy Linux or one of other Linux Live Cds mentioned in other topics on the forum. If the problem disappears, its a software problem. If the problem remains, it is a hardware problem.
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I had a guy call me about a driver issue the other day. After going over his machine it happened after an update. He has no install disks for Vista. Had 'some' guy make the system for him including a dual output soundcard to run a dj system with beat matching. The drivers quit working and the system says it's not a 'valid' O/S. We bought and installed a valid XP system because I knew I could get drivers for the soundcard but was really unsure about windows 7.
Microsoft has found various ways to test systems and disable something, for this is the 2nd time in about 6 months I've seen this.
My son even bought a souped up gaming computer from 'just some guy' he knew. Ran for a year and crashed. Buddy was unavailable for comment and my son ended up buying a new computer, one year later. Live and learn eh? Microsoft has caused me some grief with this in the past, I've got my system set to NOT update overnight, thanks anyways Bill.
John Conley
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I'm in a predicament but everything is still operable. My daughter gave me her Dell XP - originally XP1 it is now upgraded to XP3. In case it tanks I don't have the original OEM XP Home but have all of the Dell #s keys etc. If I made a recovery disk, would that serve my the purpose. That and of course a drive image.
Big problem is Windows Genuine Advantage - there's a lot of info how that gets in the way of happy computing and how to make computing happier without it. I'll bet that's your problem.
Also get yourself a keyfinder and see what's hanging around on your computer.
FYI - just learned that Firefox no longer stops cookies - you have to get a free add-on - now that's a bugga . . . . don't get me started. Where's the beer?
Cheers - Ian
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Tools-Start Private Browsing will make Firefox not remember cookies, history, or anything,
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
Make your sound your own!
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Yes it does. Under privacy use the drop down and set to custom.
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Thanks guys - I'll check it out.
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In all these years I have NEVER used a darn "Recovery Disk" anyway.
The reason is that these "Recovery Disks" do not actually "recover" your data, your programs, your setup nor anything else that is of any real value to a user, they just wipe the hard drive and reinstall whatever version of Windows that shipped with the computer when new. Without any of the updates.
Now that we have the USB drive option so readily available and so inexpensive, comparatively speaking, the use of a good imaging program and periodically making a new image of the whole shebang is very good insurance.
And should anything bad happen to your C: drive, your OS, etc. - getting it all back to square one is rather painless, costing only a bit of time for the transfer.
For those who don't want to go through that kind of thing, there are also now other methods readily available, such as "Carbonite" online backup systems, costing aprox $50US per year. I use Carbonite on the day job computers, but have not installed it on my music making DAWS simply because I want nothing possibly interrupting the music to call home on the internet and such. That said, I do part time work at a nearby recording studio and they use Carbonite on their Macs and report no problems.
The one thing I've noticed about keeping my own backup drive images:
The only time you will actually *NEED* the image drive to restore your precious "stuff" -- will be on the one machine where you haven't taken the time to make that drive image.
Of course.
--Mac
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Wow,
The problem is solved. turns out it was a defective driver for the integrated 10/100 connection. This was updated, rolled back, etc etc as one of the first troubleshooting efforts. Every diagnosis showed the driver working properly. I finally gave up and took it in to a tech I used when all else fails. He looked at it for two minutes, uninstalled the driver and reinstalled the same driver, wham bam, presto, better than new.
I'm on what is supposed to be a 12 Mbps connection, my XP unit downloads at 11.8, this little vista on the same modem and router, is downloading at 16.3, don't know how that's possible, but I ain't gonna try to fix it. Thanks for the feedback from all who tried to help, just wanted to let you know what the problem was in case you ever face the same thing.
Rob
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"Drivers, Drivers, Drivers..."
Sounds like you were rolling back and forth, reinstalling a corrupted driver.
The tech knew to go find it on the web, download the whole thing again and install that instead.
Don't forget the lesson learned here, next time you are faced with the same kind of situation you won't have to pay the tech you can do it yourself.
All in all, a good troubleshoot and fix for you, though.
--Mac
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Total agreement Mac, the tech did it for free, just being nice I guess, so I bought him lunch, and will send him a bunch of referrals, of course.
Thanks to all who tried to help.
Rob
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