Slow Connection And Failure To Find Peripherals (Moved From Malware)
Nov 29, 2007
My laptop (HP Pavillion zd8000) running XP Home has been acting odd these past two weeks.* My internet connection runs very slow.* Pages fail to load a good 90% of the time.* Either they try to load for several minutes before timing out, or they may instantly open with a "page cannot be displayed" error.* If I hit refresh a few times the page may eventually load.* I've tried various browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera) all have the same problem.*
** Along with the hangs and load failures there have been other problems as well.* My printer and faxes folder is empty despite the fact that there should be several printers in there.* My computer cannot find my PDA when I connect it via USB.* When I do connect the devices there is an audible "found new hardware" noise, but it stutters and nothing happens.* I can't sync my devices and this is becoming obnoxious since before I could sync without issue.* Also, I tried to access my BIOS today and was prompted to enter a password, something I have never had to do in the past.* I ran through a few obvious options (such as admin, password, and the like) and was eventually locked out.* As if all that wasn't enough, my battery is perpetually recharging.* In my system tray for two weeks now my charging icon is displayed indicating that my battery is at 53% and climbing, but it always stays at 53%............
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Sep 1, 2005
The weirdest things are happening on my pc My Local disk C and D has moved right to the bottom of the list in My Computer. Nothing is wrong with them, I can access them , but they just decided one day to move to the bottom of the list. Where can I move them back to where they belong, naughty drives. And don't know if this might be related to the same little problem, but my internet connection disappears every now and then.
I can't find it anywhere, have to reboot to get it back. By this i mean the actual icon to connect to the internet.
It's not even in my network places. I run DSL, but have set it up so I connect as if it was dial up ( so I can connect and disconnect as i please) It's been happening more and more often, sometimes I have to reboot two times in a row to get it to come back, most annoying.
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I get the Windows XP splash screen, then sometimes it takes anywhere from 5-15 minutes to boot up.
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Aug 27, 2006
Ok, I'm losing my patience with my dial-up connection. I signed up with a new provider and I am getting this message under the Network and Dial-Up Connections window.
Error 623: The System Could Not Find the Phonebook Entry for this Connection
I can connect to the internet via dial-up but it periodically drops my connection and I get the above error message. I am still able to connect to my old dial-up provider and I don't get this error or get dropped. I'm skepitcal that it's the way I initially set up the new connection with the new provider. I found this link (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/227391/) to microsoft'ss website addressing the issue but it does no help me.
It says to do the following;
1.Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Network and Dial-up Connections.
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3.Select the "Dial another connection first" check box, and then select the appropriate Dial-up connection from the drop-down list box. If there is no Dial-up connection to choose from in this location, you may have to create a Dial-up connection and then repeat these steps.
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This problem is on my other computer. im using comcast high speed internet.I have wireless internet going from my desktop and my laptop on my desk top it says im connected to my router but can not find internet connection.I have talked to comcast and they say that it is a problem with my router. but i have eliminated the router and hooked straight up to my pc and it still does not work.also on my network connections i have a wireless connection but my local area connection is gone. could my network card be bad?
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Sep 10, 2008
i just reinstalled windows xp home edition and now my local area connection is gone so i cant get on internet. how do i install the network adapters to get a connection? i cant seem to find the driver i need to install in the windows folder (where?)
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My problem is when I turn on my Dell 5100 I get a floppy disk failure message and it instructs me to hit f-1 which then allows me to boot up. I dont have a floppy disk and this is slowing start up. What can I do to fix this? I went into Bios to try and fix this, nothing has worked. Also when I attempt to start windows media center it crashes.
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Oct 4, 2005
Ever since I have rebooted my whole machine the Internet runs very slow. I mean very slow. Everything else of the computer works fine but this, I'm sure it is not virus that caused this.
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Jan 29, 2006
I have a pc with windows XP, with over 700mb Ram, 80gb hard disk space and not many programs running. My video program is NVDIA GFORCE4, and my internet connection is by DSL. Yet whenever I'm online for the past 6 months or so, my pc is very slow and whenever I go to Yahoo Games I basically just freeze up for several minutes. Yes I've got Java programs running, many anti-spyware and antispams running, plus AVG antivirus. I even re-installed and nothing seems to work. Can anyone help me please? I've tried everything and can't figure it out. I even had different laptops on the same connection - the problems seems to be the same but a lot less than with the desktop, and with a friends laptop it was nearly normal. My pc is over 2 years old but the problem only cropped up about 6 months ago and I can't figure it out.
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Jan 13, 2006
My pc has a slow connection so i thought i'd clean it up. when i ran hijackthis i checked all the boxes, clicked fix and got a protection error near the end of the list. when i restarted the pc i tried again and after clicking fix watched the curser get towards the end again, and on the 180 search assistant entry there i got the same protection error.then i tried it again with 180 search assistant unchecked, and it freezes on the entry before that one.is it bad to check all of the boxes? doesn't it basically just set the browser back to original?
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One of the most frustrating things to have with a computer is a slow internet connection and 56K is about as slow as it gets these days. I feel the pain that 56K users have and hope that by following this thread they can experience a faster more reliable internet connection. There are a few things that one must understand prior to tweaking their 56K connections. The first is that it is actually a 53.3K connection since that is the speed that the FCC limits you to, on top of that most dialup users actually connect in the 40,000 – 50,000K range, which is excellent by dialup standards.
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I Upgraded Me To Xp After A Fresh Install Of Me.Prior To The Upgrade My Dial Up Always Connected At 52 After The Upgrad To Xphome I Always Connect At 28 I did Not Knowling Make Any Other Changes.
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Feb 3, 2007
Right now I can't afford to get more memory so I was just wondering what I could do
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Feb 7, 2006
I have 2 computers I am trying to network together and share a dsl connection. One my wireless laptop everything is fine. On my desktop my connection is very slow I have tried everything I can think of and I am still at a loss. The other thing that is happening is my printer is hooked up to my desktop If I try to print from my laptop on the printer screen it says it is spooling but after about a minute it just drops off and never prints. I am using a Westell versalink modem/Router from verizon. I thought the router was not working right so I took the D-Link router back to best buy and ordered this one from verizon but I am still having the same problem. So the next thing I tried to do was reinstall windows on my Desktop but I am still having problems. If I switched from a hard wired system with my laptop and went wireless would this help. Any help with this problem would be great.
Frustrated Network Installer
Patrick
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i got amd 5200+x2 brisbane 1x 2gig mem chip win xp spk3 all drivers updated machine full ok but as soon as my wifi 802.11b/g key on net at 54mbps everything slows and web browsing near impossible on IE8 and google cpu runs at 0% most of time ? and temp of cpu 34 and 35 average.
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I`m on a dial-up connection at the moment and each page takes ages to load. Plus I`m being nagged to get off the PC. Also, sorry if this topic is being posted in the wrong place.Anyway, my PC decided it would be fun to revert to default settings (not a BIOS issue) every time I booted it up, so I decided to reinstall XP Pro, since it was due for a reinstallation anyway.
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I am using Windows XP Home Edition and a Smart Link 56kbps modem. I don't have a very good internet connection speed.
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Feb 18, 2007
I'm on a 1500 plan and at the moment my download speed is the equivilent to dial-up! It's driving me INSANE but I can't figure out if the problem is a hardware or a software one. I have a NetComm NB5Plus4W ADSL2+ Modem Router all the required lights are lit up (ADSL light is solid, not flashing or out). I've restarted a zillion times, checked Windows Firewall (off), checked my AV software (not the problem), run a full virus scan (nothing), run Adaware and Spybot S&D and run a scan at PCPitstop which came back that everything was fine.
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Apr 25, 2007
The main issue is that as soon as I connect to the internet, it takes about 10 minutes for me to be able to do anything. Before the connection is established, the system is normal. After connecting, I can't open any programs, or even task manager or control panel. After about 10 minutes, everything opens and seems to run normal, but still a bit slow. If I disconnect and try to log off or shut down while waiting for IE to open, it freezes the computer and I have to manually shut down. I do go through the task manager and shut down everything that I can before signing on to the internet and it does not make any difference.
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Jul 19, 2005
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Jan 2, 2007
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Jun 30, 2006
I posted this under the software thread as well, but maybe this is a more appropriate place.This is the deal. I got on here a while back because my parents suffered a lightening strike which rendered their computer worthless.After the great input on here, I replaced the PSU and the motherboard and blam, $140.00 later the computer started.However the internet connection (cable broad band) was so incredibly slow it would not open any web pages other than something simple like: Google.com or yahoo.com, etc. Click on a story or the weather and nothing. So I contact the internet provider (Insight Cable) and talk with their tech support that ran multiple tests. They seemed to think that there was a virus problem.
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