Recent content by jason

thanks. i've used norton firewall without any problems on my windows 2000 computer for years. the strange thing about this is that even when i disable the firewall, still nothing works. either way i've just removed it for now.

yeah, port 80,81,82,83,1080,8080,8088 and another one are not blocked

i just installed norton firewall my girlfriends computer and now i can't access anything. IE won't load pages, aim won't connect, nor will liveupdate or anything else. has anyone run into this before? her computer also has norton antivirus and is connected via router. thanks

i drive an 83 monte carlo that i am trying to find a place to store currently. damn snow.

http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?sku_id=0926INGFS10079760&catid=20217&PCName=desktop%5Facer&logon=&langid=EN its for my gf, she doesn't need anything that spectacular, just something that does what it is supposed to. she mostly uses it to surf the net, write papers, download...

yeah i tried fixboot and fixmbr and still had the same problem but chkdsk /r fixed it. glad to hear its most likely not a drive failure issue.

hi, the other day the electricity went out while i was running adaware, after starting my PC back up i got this error, inaccessible boot drive (0x000007B) (0x00blah ect. after running chkdsk /r in the recovery panel the computer worked again. i was just wondering, should i be worried that my...

i usually have at least 3 gigs of free space. i need a bigger hard drive tho, 40 gigs just doesn't cut it these days but it will have to do for now. my OS is windows 2000. anyways, i installed half a gig of ram and it has seemed to fix the problem. i should of done this ages ago. thanks everyone.

a router and norton personal firewall.

thanks bruce. going to pick this up tomorrow. http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10047700&catid=20359

ah, ok. yeah it takes ddr. much cheaper :) also it says it takes pc 1600 and 2100 but can it take newer ones? they don't make those anymore.

its not the cpu, its usually only at 10-20%. its the memory thats maxed.

cool, so how do you know what is the right ram to get? is 256megs of sdram better than 512 of ddr ram? does it matter how many 'pins' it is? how can i tell how much ram my computer can take?

well yes, i know using less windows would help but i was wondering if there was another solution. would getting a better computer solve it? like a p4 3 ghz with 1gig of ram? or would adding ram to my current computer help at all?

my computer is a few years old, pasts its prime but i want to get another six months or so out of it if i can. the problem im having is that my computer loads all the time. sometimes seemingly for no reason, other times it takes ages to load programs, even lags some when opening 200 byte text...