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Damn. First my soundcard, now this. My IE is running horribly sluggish - and the connection's stable and at the same speed its always been. And now whenever I try to shut down or restart my comp, the comp freezes up. But it's fine doing everything else. This IE sluggishness is REALLY starting to bother me.... every 15-20 seconds it just halts for a second, even as I'm posting this. I've cleaned all spyware off my comp, no BHOs are operating, and i did a virus scan online last night and nothing sour turned up. DAMN IT! It's taking me 5 minutes just to write this because of this glitch. I'm on WinME on an HP pavilion mx70. Should i start backing up everything and change my OS immediately? if so, how do i go about this whole process and getting back to normal again? |
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sorry - i have to keep bumping this until i get a solid answer. |
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somebody? |
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just a sec. you got thtat worm shite, im finding you the link |
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oh christ. |
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i should've figured it was a virus - man, that bitprotector is one lazy shit to overlook something like that. |
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no he doesn't besides, it doesn't affect WinME. |
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my only peice of advice is to buy Win2k STAT! |
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sounds EXACTLY like the worm to me |
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Yeah - I just checked it. It doesn't affect WinME. Fuck. I wish *arrrGGGHHH* a quick solution would come soon.... |
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And besides there's no WinME patch. :( |
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i tried |
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windows ME is the worst O/S ever released upon humanity. if you can't get windows 2000 or XP, install 98se. if you can't get that find an old copy of Windows 3.1... anything is better than ME. just kidding about 3.1... but, ME does suck. |
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it doesn't sound like the worm at all. The worm caused your computer to restart itself. He is just saying that IE is sluggish, and when he tries to shut down, it locks up. It's probably WinME decaying and collapsing under it's hulking weight of bad programming. |
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damn it! i got dc'd - but every time i start up my comp is running FINE. it did this bit- INTERNET EXPLORER WAS CAUSED AN ERROR IN KRNL368.EXE IF YOU CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS, TRY RESTARTING YOUR COMPUTER. Strange..... it's fine right now..... |
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*Has to raise £119.99 to get Windows 2000 :( |
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so is there a VERY HIGH chance that replacing my OS could be the sinple answer to my problems? |
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Another victim of WinME huh? |
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indeed. could it be that my OS crumbling to smithereens contributed to my soundcard becoming disabled? (it appears as disabled device now in device manager) |
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you always could go linux. i just did last week, and it's surprisingly easy to install, and with KDE it looks really good. |
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that's so fucking weird. my computer's acting humky-dorey now. this is tripping me out. ah, the wonders of technology. |
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ummm... does this work on PC? |
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Just in case you have them, try uninstalling Kazaa and Soulseek. They're both potential system killers. |
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I have neither actually. |
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this is just plain nutty. my PC is perfectly fine now. |
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if you were asking me, then yes, linux is just a different operating system than windows. it works on PCs. however, be aware that it is a different opperating system and software that was made to run on windows may or may not run on linux. probably not that being said, it was a snap for me to install SuSE on my computer. it recognised all of my hardware except the modem... which was a piece of shit modem anyway. |
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well that's probably not a good idea since most of my software (Music software especially) is Windows-based. |
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what are the costs on other versions of Windows? (preferrably right before or after WinME) I want the closest version to it so i don't risk losing software. |
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but seriously, can OS crashes/deterioration lead to certain hardware failure? |
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Linux isn't a viable alternative for someone who has been using a Windows desktop all their life, unless that person has time to invest in doing a lot of learning. It wouldn't be advisable to install on a machine that's in regular use for work and such like without being familiar with the OS first. |
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of course of course.... could anyone answer some of my above questions? i'd appreciate it. |
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i've been using windows all my life. until last tuesday that is. but, yeah, i know exactly what you mean. if you are currently using your machine to do specialized tasks, like create music, then switching to a completely new OS wouldn't be a good idea. however, making the switch to linux wasn't nearly as difficult as i was afraid it might be. |
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anybody? please? :D |
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you can prolly find a better price online if you take a second to search. and, software problems could (but probably aren't) cause hardware problems. what's more likely happening is that the sofware is malfunctioning, and that is causing it to look like the hardware is fucking up. |
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so, did my OS fucking itself in the ass lead to my soundcard failure? let me reiterate what happened for those who didn't see my post a couple of nights ago. i had mixed two very high-quality sound files together, and i played the result, and it was playing just fine. then i closed one of the sound files (the one that wasn't playing) and my comp froze. I restart, let scandisk run, and voila, my sound is gone. No volume control, no noise, no nothing. The volume bar on my keyboard doesn't even work. And bastardized WInME keeps telling me i have no sound device. And only a DISABLED DEVICE appears in my device manager under the sound drivers. And the best drivers are apparently already installed. |
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that could be the whole problem to begin with. because i figured if my soundcard was about to die, it would have given me some sort of warning, like some breakup in the audio or noise or some shit. and it's not like I was PLAYING two files at once - I was simply closing one as another was playing. That seems like a retarded glitch for Microsoft Sound Recorder. It didn't make sense. |
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i really don't know much about you're situation, but i'd hazzard a guess that there is nothing physically wrong with your soundcard. and that it is a driver / OS issue. |
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Well I know nearly all the software I have is surely compatible with Win2K. |
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Okay, I'm going to try to buy a new OS soon and see if that's the problem. Thank you ALL for your help. I really hope this works. |
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don't forget to backup files, email addys, bookmarks, ect... then reformat your hard drive(s) to clear off all the crap that ME poos all over the place. |
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alright - i actually have 80% of all my music on backup - so the rest should take up a CDR or three or four. anyways, thanks for the help and direction. See you all in a few days. :D |
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good luck :) |
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well i was about to go do it when i realized i have NO money right now so it will have to wait until the weekend. i just hope my comp survives until then. |
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If you have a spare hard drive it might be as well ghosting your current drive onto it (remove backed up data like mp3s, wavs etc first so you can get away with a smaller backup drive) - so you have a "working" (as much as ME can be said to be working!) backup of your OS which you can ghost back in the event of failure. (Or get a new hard drive to use for your new OS and don't wipe the existing one) Installing an OS from a totally blank drive is a worry, especially if you can't go back to how it was. You panic, get that hot, stressed and on-the-verge-of-abject-terror feeling. It's also vital to make sure you know exactly what hardware you have so you can get the right drivers for them for your new OS. Win 2000 and XP are pretty likely to have most drivers by default, but there's always that one outlandish soundcard or freaky modem that's not got drivers included, and without it your life isn't complete. And of course you forgot to note down the make, model and other important details so you can't track down the drivers online... |
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Hope you spotted this before... worth bearing this shit in mind |
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thanks. i'll probably make backups for the drivers too. glad you pointed that out. |
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