I love hearing great stories from IT people and nonits (what I’ve decided to call non-IT folk) and below is part of an email that a lovely IT reader sent in:
If something does break and there are error messages that come up, WRITE THEM DOWN. I can’t stress this enough, those error messages appear for […]
Experiencing endless reboots since you installed Windows Service Pack or SP3? To break the chain, you may first need to halt the automatic restarts. Press the F8 key when you see the black Windows XP screen and then select “Disable automatic restart on system failure”
Now, try to get into Safe Mode by pressing F8 at […]
Since DOS doesn’t handle XP or Vista repairs well, each of these discs boots into one of the following three operating systems. It’s good to know a little about them as they might save your bacon in the future.
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There you are, working at your computer, minding your own business when suddenly WHAM! The system starts rebooting by itself. No shutdown notifications, the system just goes black and then reboots.
If you experience random reboots that have no discernible cause, here’s a little trick that might take you a step closer to solving the mystery. […]
When you start your computer after you upgrade/downgrade to Microsoft Windows XP, you may receive one or both of the following error messages:
Invalid Boot.ini. Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: Windows\System32\Hal.dll
What to do?
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Here are some official ways to help troubleshoot this dreaded BSOD error message:
Method 1: Install the latest Windows XP Service Pack
For more information about how to obtain the latest service pack for Windows XP, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
322389 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322389/) How to obtain the latest Windows […]
When a power supply goes bad, the symptoms can be mysterious and confusing. The computer might hang. It might shut off all by itself. It might suddenly reboot. I experienced these symptoms about 6 months ago when an aging system that performed without hiccups for the past year or so started turning itself off at […]
It happens to even the best of us. You power up your PC and, for one reason or another, it won’t boot into its operating system.
The most frightening scenario is when you press the power button and nothing happens at all. No lights go up, no fans spin, and you don’t hear the familiar chatter […]
Anybody who has multiple computers connected together has encountered network related problems at some point or the other. It maybe as simple as not having the lan cable firmly attached to more serious problems such as sluggishness or intermittent disconnections. Here is a brief article that attempts to fix one of the most common network […]
You probably encountered this problem when you have your old PC try to connect to your new PC’s that come with Vista. Microsoft designed Vista’s networking to be both secure and simple. So much for what they intended. Some networking headaches are specific to Vista, and others existed before Vista and continue to exist.
This […]
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