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At 9/4/08 03:23 PM, fractureboy wrote:

What programs are you usually running?

(antivirus software, scanners, anything that sits on the system tray)

I remember when I was running Windows primarily, I had a lot of problems with a third party firewall that interfered with viewing pictures indiscriminately.

At 9/3/08 03:47 AM, fractureboy wrote: Oh yer i read it up on the internet about the update and apparently it can be uninstalled on xp a\nd below, but not vista and above

Open the Control Panel and go to Programs and Features.
Click View installed updates in the top of the left column.
Rick-click the updated you want to uninstall and select uninstall.

I'm honestly stumped. I've thrown everything out there that I know.
It has to be either a program blocking it, or a setting in your control panel.

Without actually being there to look through it, it could take forever to ask you on a forum one by one to try them.

Thanks TJ and Wreckages.

Shame you can't fix it and btw, the unistalled updates don't work it doesn't show the update on the screen any thing you can do about that??

Anyway thanks for all the help all of you guys

This is a copy of what I asked on general.

My computer has been like this for 6-9 months. (I can't remember exactly.)

I can surf the internet and still access most sites. Sometimes though, I can't download certain things (I get my local host 127.0.0.1) I'll normally get something like "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1."

And here's the real problem. I can't play online games like GTA: SAMP and Fear Combat. It just won't show the servers.

So far I've done searches with my Avira AntiVir Premium and Threatfire but nothing has been found.

Can anyone help me?

I've made sure my windows firewall is off, along with my Comodo Firewall.

The amount of times I come here, I should give some help.

To be honest this isn't really a "help my computer is broked". This is more a query.

So I want to thank everyone who helped me with my prior computer problems in the past year because I never got back to you. No I really mean it, without you I wouldn't of got this far. It's working fine. I just have one problem which all it needs is a simple replace job.

My rear case fan is acting a little odd. It works and keeps everything cool. However whenever I turn the computer on it makes a grinding noise. I've checked and there's nothing making it do that. I replaced my PSU lately because the one I had was a little old so it's not underpowered or a bad PSU. One thing to note it that it only does it after turning to computer on. And only that. To stop it, it goes away after it boots to windows or a simple tap on the fan.

I'm in the process of getting a new one anyway so I don't particularly want to fix it as it poses no harm. A little history behind it:

I bought it for £5, it's cheap and it's not the best quality. I assume either it's defective or just because it's of poor quality. Another thing. This fan is so bad that the mounting screws that CAME WITH IT don't fit, which shows how bad it is.My question is why is it doing that? I've eliminated every thing else as a cause and it narrows it down to just the fan and just the fan. Nothing is causing it to make an unhealthy noise (trust me when you hear it, it doesn't sound good).

Think of this as a little exercise at your troubleshooting abilities.

Hi All,

I've been having a problem with my Wireless connection for a LONG time, and while surfing the forums on NG recently I stumbled upon this thread.

My problem is this:
The small icon in the bottom right corner of the screen that displays internet connectivity ALWAYS has the little red X on it, whether I am actually have internet connection or not. Whenever I move my mouse over it to check connection status, the small pop-up status says :
Connection Status: unknown
Server execution: failed.

I have windows vista.
I think I also have a related problem:
When I go to "Start Menu>Connnect to"
it takes like 10 min for the list of Wireless connections to appear. If I click one and it doesn't connect, and I click "Connect to a different network", it takes another 10 min to display the new list again.

My laptop is an Dell INSPIRON 6400.

Any thoughts? This might not be a really huge problem, but it has a annoyed the hell out of me forever.

At 9/9/08 11:23 AM, BlueFlameSkulls wrote: My rear case fan is acting a little odd. It works and keeps everything cool. However whenever I turn the computer on it makes a grinding noise. I've checked and there's nothing making it do that. I replaced my PSU lately because the one I had was a little old so it's not underpowered or a bad PSU. One thing to note it that it only does it after turning to computer on. And only that. To stop it, it goes away after it boots to windows or a simple tap on the fan.

Jot that down to bad quality. What's the make and model of it? All fans are supposed to power to 100% when your computer turns on. The lubricant in the fan may be settling while your computer is off causing a slight imbalance and once it spins up, it makes that noise until it gets evenly distributed again.

Or maybe your fan just can't handle the high rpms without a little noise. What you could do to try test it out is download a fan speed controlling program like RivaTuner or Speedfan and rev that particular fan as high as possible to see if it'll make that noise.

At 9/9/08 04:47 PM, Wylo wrote: Jot that down to bad quality. What's the make and model of it? All fans are supposed to power to 100% when your computer turns on. The lubricant in the fan may be settling while your computer is off causing a slight imbalance and once it spins up, it makes that noise until it gets evenly distributed again.

I still have the box somewhere.

It's a CASECOM 8cm blue LED fan and that's all the information I got from it. From what's happened it's getting quicker to making that noise when turned on. From the look of the box it does look like the budget rubbish you're bound to get at one point. There were no instructions but with a fan it doesn't need instructions. It's still nice to have them.

Actually I left out one piece of information. When this started I immediately opened up my computer to check if any loose wires were blocking it. None and I just put it back together without touching anything. Did not make that noise.

At 9/10/08 05:31 AM, BlueFlameSkulls wrote: It's a CASECOM 8cm blue LED fan and that's all the information I got from it.

Never heard of them. And their site lacks detail. Conclusion: Bad quality. If you are going to get a replacement may I suggest getting something with a well-known name like Scythe, Nexus, Coolermaster, Antec, etc. I personally like Scythe's fans.

From what's happened it's getting quicker to making that noise when turned on.

If its grinding, then it ought to be wearing something down faster.

From the look of the box it does look like the budget rubbish you're bound to get at one point. There were no instructions but with a fan it doesn't need instructions. It's still nice to have them.

Waste of paper if you ask me. My fans don't come with instructions unless they are a specialty fan.

Actually I left out one piece of information. When this started I immediately opened up my computer to check if any loose wires were blocking it. None and I just put it back together without touching anything. Did not make that noise.

You did say that if you tap it it stops making noise. So when you opened it up you would've vibrated the computer a bit allowing itself to reset.

I've had a similar problem before on an old 60mm heatsink fan. However it was like 5 years old so it was way past its lifetime. It would sound incredibly loud sometimes so I'd hit my comp and it would go back to being quieter. I got it replaced eventually.

At 9/10/08 10:58 AM, Wylo wrote: Never heard of them. And their site lacks detail. Conclusion: Bad quality. If you are going to get a replacement may I suggest getting something with a well-known name like Scythe, Nexus, Coolermaster, Antec, etc. I personally like Scythe's fans.

Sounds like it. The place I got it from have a huge stack of them. When I asked for a case fan they immediately picked up this one. Probably tried to shift them as quick as possible. Thanks for the recommendations I was just about to ask which is a decent brand. Not many people review simple case fans. I've been looking and I don't really want to waste money on a duff fan again.

Waste of paper if you ask me. My fans don't come with instructions unless they are a specialty fan.

I can agree with easy to install parts but when it comes down to parts that require great care it needs instructions. I've come across a few parts and hardware alike with a bare quick start guide. I got a router once that had a crude diagram and no information on settings.

You did say that if you tap it it stops making noise. So when you opened it up you would've vibrated the computer a bit allowing itself to reset.

I think the tap method is beginning to stop working. But it goes away pretty quickly. I have turned the computer on and left it to do something else for a few minutes. When I came back, no noise just the gentle hum all computers make.

At 9/10/08 04:49 PM, BlueFlameSkulls wrote: Thanks for the recommendations I was just about to ask which is a decent brand. Not many people review simple case fans. I've been looking and I don't really want to waste money on a duff fan again.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article63-
page2.html Pretty much lists all the best case fans although they prolly won't review fans with LEDs. But if you are interested in a particular fan model, the best place is to Google for customer reviews. If there are no reviews then you know its untested, thus unreliable.

i'm posting here as a last resort, it's now 2:53am and i have to be up at 7 tomorow, this is driving me crazy

this week, everytime i plug my second gen ipod nano into itunes (7.5, windows vista), i've had to restore it to it's default and then resync, but tonight i upgraded to itunes 8.0, wanting to sync my library to my ipod, i plugged it in expecting the same error message, low and behold i got it - i ran through the same message about my ipod needing to be restored, and then the usual "itunes has detected an ipod in recovery mode, you need to restore it in order to use it with itunes" - so i do that, oddly i'll have to do this 3 times over in order to actually be able to reinstall the ipod to itunes

anyway - TONIGHT, i have been doing the same rinse and repeat literally 10 times over and i'm still getting the same messages, although, i realised that every time my ipod was replugged/unplugged, windows vista would automatically pop up a message telling me it needs to format the disk drive for me to use it - i click cancel here because windows =/= apple, if windows formats it, it could corrupt even more because it's not the "apple" way, so i guess it hit me that windows was detecting the ipod as a generic storage device rather than itunes opening it default, this was because that the ipod was in recovery mode, and everytime i use itunes to restore it, get the windows message again. relieved, i found this, it looked very hopeful, but i'm still getting the same message, that article is designed for windows XP though.

i'm formatting my ipod the "windows way" now, i'm sure itunes can restore it to factory defaults.. i hope.

but for the love of god help, thi is driving me crazy

At 9/10/08 10:00 PM, wreckages wrote: but for the love of god help, thi is driving me crazy

Ok.
(1) I very much dislike the way iTunes handles their own iPod product. It's very slow and doesn't give you a whole lot of control. For a windows user I strongly suggest you look into Winamp. Especially with it's extensibility (plugins galore!!) you can really get it to do exactly what you want it to.

This is probably enough to get it working. If not, try the next option:

(2) There's a format utility you can use (It's used for iPod Linux) that might help iTunes recognize your iPod. Remember, as long as you can turn it on and your computer detects it as a disk of any kind you can fix it.

From the iPod Linux tutorial
Install This utility first.

Open a command prompt window.
Screenshot.

Now, you'll have to "find" your iPod. Type in:

aes 1 /info

Some information will be displayed, most likely your hard-drive. What you're trying to do is replace the "1" with the number of your iPod. It will most likely by "2", so type in:

aes 2 /info

The totaly capacity of your iPod should be displayed as either 2 or 4 GB (the only 2 sizes the nano comes in). If "2" is your iPod number, then remember it. Now type in:

aes 2 /show

The following should be displayed:

aes X /info
EBIOS characteristics (C/H/S): 497/255/63
Total capacity: XGB

The "X" is a number that should be displayed, depending on your iPod's number and capacity.
Screenshot

As you can see my ipod is disk number 2, the 2GB ipod should show a similar message but displaying 1GB in capacity, the following commands are based on the fact that my ipod is disk number two please replace this number with the number of your ipod. Type this:

aes 2 /delete:2
aes 2 /pri:1866:fat32
If you have a 4 GB nano, then use /pri:3851:fat32 instead of /pri:1866:fat32

aes 2 /activate:1

Now repeat the "safely remove hardware" part and boot into disk mode. Yes, disk mode will be there even though you just formatted your nano.

Now go into My Computer. Your iPod drive should appear, but Windows will be unable to open it. It will ask you to reformat it, so click "Yes" and make sure the reformat is under FAT32 and that the "Quick format" box is ticked. Reformat it, restart the iPod and go into Disk Mode once more.

Now run the Apple Updater. It should recognize it with no major problems. Restore the iPod, wait for it to restart, and choose a language.

One of those should be enough to fix it.

At 9/11/08 10:26 AM, RageOfOrder wrote:

At 9/10/08 10:00 PM, wreckages wrote: but for the love of god help, thi is driving me crazy

Ok.
(1) I very much dislike the way iTunes handles their own iPod product. It's very slow and doesn't give you a whole lot of control. For a windows user I strongly suggest you look into Winamp. Especially with it's extensibility (plugins galore!!) you can really get it to do exactly what you want it to.

i'm looking around winamp now, i'll definitely be using it as a default music player, but it's not picking up my iPod at all, went to prefernces > ipod support > restore ipod, i got the error message "could not create directory to restore ipod" (i downloaded this plug in after hearing good things about it), so i'm stumped.

Now, you'll have to "find" your iPod. Type in:

aes 1 /info

i also tried this before downloading winamp, after downloading it and running the exe, i still got "aes is not recognized"

Try typing in the full path of the aes executable, rather than just 'aes'

And it might be that your iPod's hard drive is just faulty and needs to be replaced.

Heyy Rage and everyone else!

Another new problem,

Even when I've uninstalled something from my computer, the icon for the program is still in the list

Help please?

At 9/14/08 04:17 PM, fractureboy wrote: Heyy Rage and everyone else!

Another new problem,

Even when I've uninstalled something from my computer, the icon for the program is still in the list

Help please?

Have a repair shop re-install Windows for you.
That will also fix your original problem.

How do I get my MS intellimouse compatible with Firefox 3.

At 9/14/08 11:18 PM, RageOfOrder wrote:

At 9/14/08 04:17 PM, fractureboy wrote:

Have a repair shop re-install Windows for you.
That will also fix your original problem.

Do it now. Seriously. How can you even continue to use your computer?

At the very least you can say you attempted to fix it before taking the easy way out. Haha. Good luck.

At 9/15/08 12:31 AM, iscrulz wrote: How do I get my MS intellimouse compatible with Firefox 3.

I did a quick google search and found this.

You didn't really explain what your problem was at all, so I'm going to assume this is your problem and that happens to be the only 'solution' I could find about it.

Please elaborate.

I am having a problem with my internet connection. It works but, when I go to school and I come back, it doesn't work. I have to reset the modem, restart my computer, and put it my user and pass everytime. It just started doing this. I never had to do this before. Does anyone have any idea how I can make it stay on all the time like it's suppose to? I have high-speed and it runs through my wireless-g broadban router.

At 9/22/08 03:31 PM, UnknownFear wrote: I am having a problem with my internet connection. It works but, when I go to school and I come back, it doesn't work.

Sounds as if your router just times out for being idle for too long. Check your router settings if you can choose an option like "Automatically reconnect".

Or maybe it's your ISP that disconnects you if you are idle for too long.

At 9/22/08 03:37 PM, Haggard wrote: Or maybe it's your ISP that disconnects you if you are idle for too long.

That was the problem! It said disconnect on idle for 20 minutes, I chose auto-connect on disconnect and saved it. Thanks! :)

i got a problem with my internet...if i open my favorites list my internet freeze and i cant do anything exept remove the favorites or remove a website on it....i found the problem..it´s a website in my favorites..and now comes the hard part...i cant remove it..if i try it says "warning: cant remove object pdef file is missing"...so i´m in bad need of help at the moment

At 9/23/08 04:37 AM, Sweman wrote: i got a problem with my internet...if i open my favorites list my internet freeze and i cant do anything exept remove the favorites or remove a website on it....i found the problem..it´s a website in my favorites..and now comes the hard part...i cant remove it..if i try it says "warning: cant remove object pdef file is missing"...so i´m in bad need of help at the moment

What browser are you using?
For Windows XP and Firefox you can find the firefox folder in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox

Replace "Administrator" with your username.

The easiest thing to do is just delete the Profiles folder, but you'll lose all your extensions, bookmarks, history, etc. If you don't care about re-downloading that stuff, this is the easiest way.

Otherwise, you should try just deleting your bookmarks inside the profiles folder.
You'll have to re-add them manually later.

Laugh as much as you want when you see this, but i really need help finding this out.

Im confident my parents have something in my computer allowing them to see what i type in MSN and whatnot, is there a way to rid this off of my computer other then reformatting or am i basically stuck?

Look for keylogging software and uninstall it

At 9/26/08 06:09 AM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote: Laugh as much as you want when you see this, but i really need help finding this out.

Im confident my parents have something in my computer allowing them to see what i type in MSN and whatnot, is there a way to rid this off of my computer other then reformatting or am i basically stuck?

Are you sure they're not just reading the MSN log files?

I need to know how to get my PC to do a System Restore.

I had a virus that took alot of stuff with it when it was deleted.

At 9/28/08 08:44 PM, Monk-y wrote: I need to know how to get my PC to do a System Restore.

I had a virus that took alot of stuff with it when it was deleted.

If you have windows XP, You need to go to acessories -> System Tools -> System restore.

If you have Vista, I dont know. I'd assume its in the same area.