SO MANY problems. Nothing works right. PLEASE help!!!

audiobahn1000 · 12-27-2006, 04:07 AM

Ok I am having many various random problems with Windows XP home. I have been having these problems for about a month so two weeks ago I reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled Windows. Well the problems still exist!!!! I don’t know how this is possible because I did a full reformat on my hard drive and thus the drive was erased clean. Last time I checked reformatting your drives and reinstalling Windows fixes 100% of software problems not related to a compatibility issue. So this one has severally stumped me.

Ok these are the main problems I am having.

When I try to shut down Windows sometimes I get this message:

Directly after I get that message I get the “this program has encountered an error and needs to close” message and it lists Explorer as the program that needs to close. I am talking about the general error that asks if you want to send an error report and what not. After I click “don’t send report” I get my desktop again and I have to choose shut down again before it will shut down.

The next problem is that sometimes when I open one of my folders that has lost of video files in it I get this message:

And generally when I exit the message it pops right back up and I have to click close 15 times before it will go away. Sometimes it won’t go away until I close the folder with the videos.

The next problem I am having is that sometimes I will be doing something (anything) and the mouse pointer will randomly jump to somewhere on the monitor (generally in a corner). It will only do it once but its very annoying when playing games.

The next problem I am having is related to my dual monitors setup. I have things set up so that the start menu is on my left monitor and the right monitor is in the extended desktop mode. Well sometimes I will restart my computer and find that the start menu and desktop icons are on the right monitor. So I go into the display properties menu and for the life of me I can’t get it to go back to the other monitor. So the only thing I can do is switch my monitor DVI cables.

WTF could possible be doing all this even after I completely reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled Windows?

Here is a list of most of the programs that are on my computer now that was also on my computer before I reformatted the drive:

-MSN Messenger
-Yahoo Messenger
-Lime Wire Pro
-Aim Messenger
-Gaim
-F.E.A.R. Combat
-UltraMon
-Starcraft
-AVG Free
-Adaware SE
-Total Video player
-Windows Media Player 11
-Adobe Acrobat
-ATI Catalyst Control

Also my CPU is overclocked. Its OC’ed to 380 FSB or 3.04 GHz. However last night I ran ORTHOS for 9 hours and 9 minutes with the “blend” option selected and the system passed. It said:

Type: Blend - stress CPU and RAM Min: 8 Max: 4096 InPlace: No Mem: 1791 Time: 15
CPU: 3039MHz FSB: 380MHz [379MHz x 8.0 est.]
CPU: 3040MHz FSB: 380MHz [380MHz x 8.0 est.]
12/24/2006 4:36 PM
Launching 2 threads...
Using CPU #0
Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer.
Press Stop to end this test.

And when I stopped:
Torture Test ran 9 hours, 9 minutes 27 seconds - 0 errors, 0 warnings.

Also my ram is underclocked to 740 MHz. To keep a 1:1 ratio. The PCI-E slot is locked at 100 MHz. And the GPU is not OC’ed.

patrickv · 12-27-2006, 07:10 AM

yo i dont know about the second problem but for the DATA EXECUTION THING ..right-click my computer-->properties...then go to advance..and settings for performance.then go to the data execution prevention tab and turn it off..turn off dep.

patrickv · 12-27-2006, 07:14 AM

about the mouse pointers jumping everywhere im guessing u have viruses ,spyware etc..since u have limewire, check all your downloadeds files if it isn't infected !!..i suggest u use another antivirus (not AVG,n***a please)...try AVAST, BIDEFENDER,KASPERSKY,SPYBOT S&D..other spyware tools

dmw2692004 · 12-27-2006, 07:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by patrickv

about the mouse pointers jumping everywhere im guessing u have viruses ,spyware etc..since u have limewire, check all your downloadeds files if it isn't infected !!..i suggest u use another antivirus (not AVG,n***a please)...try AVAST, BIDEFENDER,KASPERSKY,SPYBOT S&D..other spyware tools

whats wrong with AVG?

edit: you know AVG isnt a firewall its just virus protection, if you want to stop incoming attacks use a program like zone alarm.

patrickv · 12-27-2006, 02:01 PM

let's not argue please..down in the office we have personal reasons why i dont use avg..(something bad happened on our network and avg couldn't do a danm thing)..again like i said its my personal reason if audiobahn1000 wants to use it..fine with me !!

meanman · 12-27-2006, 05:43 PM

get rid of limewire you will get alot of viruses its not worth it

audiobahn1000 · 12-27-2006, 09:24 PM

I have no viruses /spyware / adware. I scaned with virtual every program known to man. I am clean.

audiobahn1000 · 12-28-2006, 04:11 AM

I have even more problems to add. Now in addition to the previous problems I also have:

The start menu keeps switching monitors. I had to switch the DVI cables not for the second time in tow days. Also now some of my desktop icons are gone. I just restarted the computer and half the icons are gone.

I already checked for viruses and adware / spyware and I got nothing. WTF is going on?

**johnb35** · 12-28-2006, 03:09 PM

Either you are infected or you have a hardware/software incompatibility. Also you might want to take the overclock off and put everything back to normal and reinstall windows again. After a fresh install, see how everything works. Then start installing programs one by one, rebooting and testing after each installation to find the culprit.

audiobahn1000 · 12-28-2006, 09:14 PM

Well I have the over clock off right now and I am trying that. However things are VERY slow!!!! As slow as my $300 Dell. I don’t know why. Its ridiculous. It seems like I am on my Dell again.... Everything is effected including my Internet. My 4 mbps connection is running as slow as a 512 kbps connection because the computer is not loading the sites fast enough.

12-27-2006, 04:07 AM	#1 (permalink)
audiobahn1000 Gold Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 444	SO MANY problems. Nothing works right. PLEASE help!!! Ok I am having many various random problems with Windows XP home. I have been having these problems for about a month so two weeks ago I reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled Windows. Well the problems still exist!!!! I don’t know how this is possible because I did a full reformat on my hard drive and thus the drive was erased clean. Last time I checked reformatting your drives and reinstalling Windows fixes 100% of software problems not related to a compatibility issue. So this one has severally stumped me. Ok these are the main problems I am having. When I try to shut down Windows sometimes I get this message: Directly after I get that message I get the “this program has encountered an error and needs to close” message and it lists Explorer as the program that needs to close. I am talking about the general error that asks if you want to send an error report and what not. After I click “don’t send report” I get my desktop again and I have to choose shut down again before it will shut down. The next problem is that sometimes when I open one of my folders that has lost of video files in it I get this message: And generally when I exit the message it pops right back up and I have to click close 15 times before it will go away. Sometimes it won’t go away until I close the folder with the videos. The next problem I am having is that sometimes I will be doing something (anything) and the mouse pointer will randomly jump to somewhere on the monitor (generally in a corner). It will only do it once but its very annoying when playing games. The next problem I am having is related to my dual monitors setup. I have things set up so that the start menu is on my left monitor and the right monitor is in the extended desktop mode. Well sometimes I will restart my computer and find that the start menu and desktop icons are on the right monitor. So I go into the display properties menu and for the life of me I can’t get it to go back to the other monitor. So the only thing I can do is switch my monitor DVI cables. WTF could possible be doing all this even after I completely reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled Windows? Here is a list of most of the programs that are on my computer now that was also on my computer before I reformatted the drive: -MSN Messenger -Yahoo Messenger -Lime Wire Pro -Aim Messenger -Gaim -F.E.A.R. Combat -UltraMon -Starcraft -AVG Free -Adaware SE -Total Video player -Windows Media Player 11 -Adobe Acrobat -ATI Catalyst Control Also my CPU is overclocked. Its OC’ed to 380 FSB or 3.04 GHz. However last night I ran ORTHOS for 9 hours and 9 minutes with the “blend” option selected and the system passed. It said: Type: Blend - stress CPU and RAM Min: 8 Max: 4096 InPlace: No Mem: 1791 Time: 15 CPU: 3039MHz FSB: 380MHz [379MHz x 8.0 est.] CPU: 3040MHz FSB: 380MHz [380MHz x 8.0 est.] 12/24/2006 4:36 PM Launching 2 threads... Using CPU #0 Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer. Press Stop to end this test. And when I stopped: Torture Test ran 9 hours, 9 minutes 27 seconds - 0 errors, 0 warnings. Also my ram is underclocked to 740 MHz. To keep a 1:1 ratio. The PCI-E slot is locked at 100 MHz. And the GPU is not OC’ed. __________________ CPU: Core Two Duo E8400 OC'ed to 3.90 Ghz. w/ Thermalright True HSF RAM: 4 GB. Mushkin 1066 MHz. DDR2 4-4-4-12 1:1 GPU: (2) Evga Nvidia 8800GTS G92 512 MB. SLI OC'ed to 725 / 1812 / 1010 Mobo: Evga Nvidia nForce 750i FTW SLI PSU: 750 watt Corsair CMPSU-750TX 60A 12V HD1: 300 GB. Western Digital VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM SATA 16 MB. HD2: 320 GB. Seagate Barracuda 16 MB. 7.2k OD: Samsung DVD±RW SH-5203B Monitor: 28" HDTV running at 720p via HDMI Internet: Cable, 6 mpbs down / 1 mbps up

12-27-2006, 09:24 PM	#7 (permalink)
audiobahn1000 Gold Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 444	I have no viruses /spyware / adware. I scaned with virtual every program known to man. I am clean. __________________ CPU: Core Two Duo E8400 OC'ed to 3.90 Ghz. w/ Thermalright True HSF RAM: 4 GB. Mushkin 1066 MHz. DDR2 4-4-4-12 1:1 GPU: (2) Evga Nvidia 8800GTS G92 512 MB. SLI OC'ed to 725 / 1812 / 1010 Mobo: Evga Nvidia nForce 750i FTW SLI PSU: 750 watt Corsair CMPSU-750TX 60A 12V HD1: 300 GB. Western Digital VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM SATA 16 MB. HD2: 320 GB. Seagate Barracuda 16 MB. 7.2k OD: Samsung DVD±RW SH-5203B Monitor: 28" HDTV running at 720p via HDMI Internet: Cable, 6 mpbs down / 1 mbps up

12-28-2006, 04:11 AM	#8 (permalink)
audiobahn1000 Gold Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 444	I have even more problems to add. Now in addition to the previous problems I also have: The start menu keeps switching monitors. I had to switch the DVI cables not for the second time in tow days. Also now some of my desktop icons are gone. I just restarted the computer and half the icons are gone. I already checked for viruses and adware / spyware and I got nothing. WTF is going on? __________________ CPU: Core Two Duo E8400 OC'ed to 3.90 Ghz. w/ Thermalright True HSF RAM: 4 GB. Mushkin 1066 MHz. DDR2 4-4-4-12 1:1 GPU: (2) Evga Nvidia 8800GTS G92 512 MB. SLI OC'ed to 725 / 1812 / 1010 Mobo: Evga Nvidia nForce 750i FTW SLI PSU: 750 watt Corsair CMPSU-750TX 60A 12V HD1: 300 GB. Western Digital VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM SATA 16 MB. HD2: 320 GB. Seagate Barracuda 16 MB. 7.2k OD: Samsung DVD±RW SH-5203B Monitor: 28" HDTV running at 720p via HDMI Internet: Cable, 6 mpbs down / 1 mbps up

12-28-2006, 09:14 PM	#10 (permalink)
audiobahn1000 Gold Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 444	Well I have the over clock off right now and I am trying that. However things are VERY slow!!!! As slow as my $300 Dell. I don’t know why. Its ridiculous. It seems like I am on my Dell again.... Everything is effected including my Internet. My 4 mbps connection is running as slow as a 512 kbps connection because the computer is not loading the sites fast enough. __________________ CPU: Core Two Duo E8400 OC'ed to 3.90 Ghz. w/ Thermalright True HSF RAM: 4 GB. Mushkin 1066 MHz. DDR2 4-4-4-12 1:1 GPU: (2) Evga Nvidia 8800GTS G92 512 MB. SLI OC'ed to 725 / 1812 / 1010 Mobo: Evga Nvidia nForce 750i FTW SLI PSU: 750 watt Corsair CMPSU-750TX 60A 12V HD1: 300 GB. Western Digital VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM SATA 16 MB. HD2: 320 GB. Seagate Barracuda 16 MB. 7.2k OD: Samsung DVD±RW SH-5203B Monitor: 28" HDTV running at 720p via HDMI Internet: Cable, 6 mpbs down / 1 mbps up

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12-27-2006, 07:10 AM	#2 (permalink)
patrickv Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: I wonder !!! Posts: 6,299	yo i dont know about the second problem but for the DATA EXECUTION THING ..right-click my computer-->properties...then go to advance..and settings for performance.then go to the data execution prevention tab and turn it off..turn off dep.

12-27-2006, 07:14 AM	#3 (permalink)
patrickv Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: I wonder !!! Posts: 6,299	about the mouse pointers jumping everywhere im guessing u have viruses ,spyware etc..since u have limewire, check all your downloadeds files if it isn't infected !!..i suggest u use another antivirus (not AVG,n***a please)...try AVAST, BIDEFENDER,KASPERSKY,SPYBOT S&D..other spyware tools

12-27-2006, 02:01 PM	#5 (permalink)
patrickv Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: I wonder !!! Posts: 6,299	let's not argue please..down in the office we have personal reasons why i dont use avg..(something bad happened on our network and avg couldn't do a danm thing)..again like i said its my personal reason if audiobahn1000 wants to use it..fine with me !!

12-27-2006, 05:43 PM	#6 (permalink)
meanman Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: england Posts: 1,864	get rid of limewire you will get alot of viruses its not worth it

12-28-2006, 03:09 PM	#9 (permalink)
johnb35 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Near Joliet Illinois Age: 39 Posts: 3,630	Either you are infected or you have a hardware/software incompatibility. Also you might want to take the overclock off and put everything back to normal and reinstall windows again. After a fresh install, see how everything works. Then start installing programs one by one, rebooting and testing after each installation to find the culprit.

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