Fellow nerds: Windows XP question

[supersizeme]

I tried the same PCI slot. I will try a different one before I reinstall and be sure to remove the adapter from hardware manager prior to doing that. Good suggestion. I don't have the original XP cd though...it'll be able to reinstall drivers without the cd, right? And, yes, I have ruled out network cables as an issue.

I downloaded Pest Patrol a couple weeks ago and cleaned my system of all the spyware on it. I may have new stuff though. I did have some viruses on there that allowed my computer to be used in denial of service attacks by making it join an irc channel, but I cleaned off those viruses. The virus definitions were updated as of yesterday.

I haven't tried removing the tcp/ip from network properties yet. Do I need the cd to reinstall them?

Also, I only have one partition on the C drive. The other one is on the D drive. I won't have to format D will I?

 

[flexygrl]

Did you try replacing the cable? When you tried it out on the other pc, did you use the same network cable. What OS does that computer have? This sounds more like a hardware issue, than a software issue. So I don't think the OS is the problem.

 

[supersizeme]

Did you try replacing the cable? When you tried it out on the other pc, did you use the same network cable. What OS does that computer have? This sounds more like a hardware issue, than a software issue. So I don't think the OS is the problem.

Yeah, I ruled out the network cable as the problem. It's running Windows XP.

 

[flexygrl]

The other computer that works fine is also running XP?

Can you take out the nic of that pc and put it into the one that's being flaky? Make sure to use another slot, like someone else suggested.

 

[messofaboogie]

search for a prog called xpantispy.. that will rid you of the spywear that is constantly calling home and bogging you down... if you use kazaa and remove the spywear it installs it will no longer function... i suggest kazaa lite spywear free

now, when you install xp there is a way to do it so that the spywera that microsoft installs in your computer will be removed before you connect to the internet, thus disabling xp to call home to microsoft... however, you have to remove some registry entries and unless you know a bit about what you are doing i wouldnt recommend doing it...

but, if you are interested, you can easily find the info online or pm me and i can help you

 

[XBiker]

I haven't tried removing the tcp/ip from network properties yet. Do I need the cd to reinstall them?

Also, I only have one partition on the C drive. The other one is on the D drive. I won't have to format D will I?

More than likely, it will ask you for the disk to reinstall the TCP/IP stack. However, any XP cd will have the appropriate files for the TCP/IP.

You won't have to format the D drive. However, if you have a CD burner on either PC, I would make a backup of anything you want (like your equine fisting movies).

Better safe than sorry.

 

[Y_lifter]

Heaven forbid you should lose the Japanese vomit videos...
Where oh where could you get replacements on the web ?

 

[jnuts]

Here is what it sounds like to me...

When you have a massive upload going on your computer (your full upload pipe), it will often choke the download speed of your system - the TCP/IP stack / Router canna handle it. It's a pretty easy thing to see when Kazzaa is cooking on the upload - it almost looks like a DOS attack, when it's actually you doing it to yourself.

Since you've clean 5 virii off your machine, I'm kinda wondering if there isn't another trojan on that machine sucking up some of your bandwidth....

My vote would be to totally nuke that drive and re-install a fresh OS.

 

[Bullit]

Probably totally unrelated.. but do you have SQLServer on your machine?

My SQLServer got hit with that pseudo-virus.

 

[jnuts]

Probably totally unrelated.. but do you have SQLServer on your machine?

My SQLServer got hit with that pseudo-virus.

username: sa
password:

ooops....