Recent content by jambab

Ok, I finally caught it in the act, this is what it said in the event viewer system logs: Description: The Windows Update service hung on starting. - <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> - <System> <Provider Name="Service Control Manager"...

Ok ye, i will look at that next time it happens and report back

I seem to occasionally get this random freeze while browsing the web using chrome and the whole computer will like freeze and then suddenly do a beep and then everything is fine again. It is very strange because it didn't used to do this and it doesn't do it very often. Any clues as to what...

ah ye I see that now, looks like I will have to replace the BT ones with some different ones then. Typical BT really, but I should have read more into them so I guess there is always two sides to every story. Thanks for the help.

Whenever searching around the web this question seems to be a bit of a grey area when it comes to homeplugs. I recently bought some TP-Link homeplugs the 500AV ones, currently i got the BT Vision ones that come as default which are these ones. TP-Link 500AV Ones...

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 14:04:42, on 25/10/2012 Platform: Windows 7 SP1 (WinNT 6.00.3505) MSIE: Internet Explorer v9.00 (9.00.8112.16450) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\vVX1000.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe C:\Program Files...

There is probably nothing wrong but I thought since I haven't had it checked in a while it's worth checking so here it is: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 22:51:50, on 22/10/2012 Platform: Windows 7 SP1 (WinNT 6.00.3505) MSIE: Internet Explorer v9.00 (9.00.8112.16450)...

I seem to have a problem with my fans on boot, when I boot up they seem to get insanely loud as if my computer wants to take off or something. I know it is normal for the fans to get loud on bootup but if you heard the noise thats coming from mine you would think that is too much. I could even...

nah USB bootables dont work

Just tried that and im still having problems. :( so annoying, is there a way to mirror a hard drive without using the DVD drive? because if there is i could mirror the hard drive to the new one? if yes? what software could i use? is there any free ones?

Ive tried installing windows 7 and windows xp and they have both failed. Windows 7 one just hangs on starting windows after the reboot of the setup and just stays there so i cant finish the setup then the system auto restarts and usually gives me some sorta blue screen error then after that the...

Ye re-download the image, if you havent already burn it to disc, try and repair the installation if it will let you, Windows 7 installation disc gives you the option to repair too, so if its windows 7 your computer has use that see if that fixes the problem if it doesnt, then im afraid its a new...

Ive just recently installed windows 7 for the 8th time, and chkdsk it insists on running on boot up, but when it runs it corrupts files and i have to run startup repair to fix them, is there a tool or something to fix these problems its trying to fix but without corrupting the files. My hard...

Still doesnt work, fails on boot. Doesnt recognize hard drive all the time. BIOS always recognizes it though.

Thanks for the advice, sorry for late reply went to sleep lol, I shall try what you suggested and get back to you to see if it solved the problem or not. EDIT: Ok, when the installation comes up it says i do not have the required space, and it doesnt recognize my hard drive on disk utility. any...