Recent content by Alaskan_IT

What do you mean it will not boot up? Do you mean you press the power button and nothing happens? (No fans or beeps). Or does it not boot to Windows?

Free: http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/collection/5928/2011_free_av.html Paid: http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/collection/6706/top_paid_antivirus_for_2011.html Read the pros, cons, benchmarks, and overall reviews. Then, decide on an AV. Edit: Just noticed these are outdated by about 10 months...

Microsoft Security Essentials. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials It's free and uses little resources. I dislike the free version of AVG because of the constant attempts to try and get you to upgrade to the paid version.

I used the vendor and device IDs you provided. ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp31001-31500/sp31190.exe Which i got from here: http://www.pcidatabase.com/vendor_details.php?id=240 You can Ctrl-F your device ID 0x4372 and it will bring you to the link I provided. Chip Number: IXP SB400 Chip...

According the image that he posted, the only ethernet controller driver there is the one I mentioned (RTL811EL). All the others are either drivers for his wireless network adapter or the application to manage connections for the wireless adapter.

I think a10killer is saying that he does not see the ethernet controller driver on the Dell driver page. But it is there, it is the very last one that says "Realtek" and "RTL8111EL" That is the driver you are looking for.

No, you need to go to download the zip file, extract it, and burn the iso to a disc. You then boot off the disc to run memtest. http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.iso.zip Also, please download and run WhoCrashed, as I suggested earlier.

Do you have a third party firewall installed? Such as Zone Alarm? Also, the first parameter suggests a hardware issue. Open your case and re-seat ALL cards, RAM, and cables and run memtest. Also, download, install, and run WhoCrashed and let us know what driver it narrows it down to. Once...

Go into the BIOS and make sure the boot order has the DVD in the first slot.

Well, if you can still boot the computer into windows, there is a program that will burn the discs for you. Usually under Start menu>Toshiba>Toshiba disc creator.

open the start menu and type cmd in the search box. It should show up in the menu just above that. Right click it and click run as administrator. Then, in the command prompt, type "ipconfig/ flushdns" without the quotations and then hit enter. Then try navigating to facebook again.

I wouldn't say that the drive is defective just yet, this is a common issue that can be solved with a little registry editing. Click Start> type "regedit" in the search box and hit enter (User Account control may pop up)> on the left pane expand HKEY_Local_Machine>expand System> expand current...

If the drive does now show up in device manager, then you more than likely have a defective drive. Look online for a replace drive for your model. They are very easy to replace. Just one screw, slide the old one out, slide the new one in, screw it in. Done. Give me your model number and I'll...

Ok, so it is new. And do you me 'terabyte"? Still, even new out of the box drives can be defective. 7% of all electronics are defective in some way right out of the box.