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It sounds like you need a new motherboard
- get on ebayand have a look for a motherboard that fits your spec.
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Posted: 2005-03-31 12:15:28
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Yeah, I think it sounds motherboardish too
Is it a PCI or AGP graphics card? Just wondered because it might be the PCI bus that's playing up
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Posted: 2005-03-31 12:24:58
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Already did take a quick look, but there's not much Slot A boards these days...
I just wanted to make sure i'm spending some money on the right thing.
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Posted: 2005-03-31 12:25:53
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Cyco's Security Alert 1/4/05
Had a couple of PC's in the shop today with newish problems that I haven't seen before, thought I'd warn everyone because they pose a big threat and are spreading very quickly:
1. 'Searchmaid' aka 'virtual maid'. This is a piece of adware that initially hijacks your homepage and redirects Internet Explorer to the 'searchmaid.com' search page. Nothing particularly nasty there, and you can remove the hijacker using 'hijack this' quite easily.
The problem is that Searchmaid also implants several .exe and .dll files that pops-up an IE window displaying adverts once every ten minutes. This part is much harder to get rid of since the files are well hidden and disguise themselves as legitimate windows files. The removal process is quite in-depth since the files have a habbit of coming back and re-appearing in the registry, so I'll not post it here now. Get back to us on here if you think you've got Searchmaid!
Searchmaid is currently spreading via certain Bittorrent file sharing sites, but it's expected to 'spread' to other dodgy sites at a rapid rate.
2. Funner Virus - New strain
The funner virus has been around for some time now, infecting windows 98 and ME machines. It arrives as a file download sent via MSN Messenger. Once the executable file is ran, it tries to send itself to everyone in your messenger contacts list before corrupting several vital windows files including explorer.exe and rundll32.exe.
Consequently, it prevents windows from starting up on the next boot after infection, even in safe mode. The big problem now is that the new strain is able to infect Windows XP, not just 98 and ME which obviously poses a much bigger threat. Usually, the only solution is to reinstall the OS, AV software currently cannot clean Funner from your system files.
Do not accept ANY files via messenger unless you are absolutely sure that they are safe. Also beware of email attachments (as always!), since funner could potentially be spread that way as well
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Posted: 2005-04-01 19:57:01
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Thanks for the warning. I'm planning to install xp on my aunts machine. This baby has not been formatted for five years and currently runs on 98. Its a celeron with just 64mb ram. Should i do the xp or reinstall to 98?
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Posted: 2005-04-01 20:08:55
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Reinstall 98!
You need at least a 700Mhz processor and 128Mb of RAM to run XP at a reasonable speed (despite what Microsoft say!).
Celerons, because of their smaller cache size and 'cut down' architecture, generally require even more memory to run ok. I'd say that a Celeron 500Mhz with 256Mb RAM is the absolute minimum that you can put XP on and still get bearable speeds.
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Posted: 2005-04-01 20:19:12
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How about if i turn off all the visual effects?
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Posted: 2005-04-01 20:30:18
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Doesn't make much difference usually
The problem is that XP uses lots and lots of components that it needs just to work, much more of them and 'bigger ones' than 98 needs. This means that it needs lots of memory for them to run in, otherwise it uses the page file (virtual memory) almost constantly which results in a very slow PC.
If I were you, I'd maybe try XP on your Aunts machine and see how she gets on with it - not everyone has the same opinion of exactly what a slow computer is!
But really it ought to have 98 on it unless you can get some more memory for it
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Posted: 2005-04-01 20:38:59
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May be i will try a dual boot. And if xp f's up. I will just format the xp partition.
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Posted: 2005-04-01 20:41:10
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