Call of Duty 4 hangs on launch

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Name: Albert E.
I purchased Call of Duty 4 off of Valve’s Steam program. The download went smoothly, with the game coming in overnight. The problem that I am having is that CoD4 isn’t opening. I double click the icon and it just says “Preparing to launch Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare” and hangs there […]

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HP Pavillion A704W - Powers on, but does not boot

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Name: Michelle Terral
HP Pavillion a704w when turned on fans come on but will not boot, no beeps at all what could be the problem?
This is a desktop, was trying to connect it to wireless network with my other computers and it froze when i tried to restart it at first all it did was the […]

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Cannot download anything from the internet - Security Settings Too High

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Name: Steve Miller
I cant download anything off the internet. for example i am trying to download the expansion for world of warcraft and the computer gives me a little pop up that says that my security settings are too high to download the thing.  same thing with yahoo messanger.  i have deleted my security program […]

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Windows 98 Stuck in Safe Mode - Defrag errors out

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Name: Mary Helen McEvoy
I have windows 98. My computer is genuine interx86 family 15 model 2 stepping 9 608.0mb ram. Fat 32 with more than 31.gb It will not come out of safe mode. I ran scan disk, etc and it says it has corrected […]

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My computer is infected with worm.win32.netsky spyware..!! - Removal Instructions

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Name: Karthik
Hi,

My computer is infected with worm.win32.netsky spyware..!!
Advise me on its removal..!!
Thanks
Well, I suppose that your request is straightforward enough. Netsky is one of the most common viruses that I would run into back when I was primarily on-site for my customers. Sasser was a close second.
Anyway, first off, if you have not updated your […]

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World of Warcraft and Ventrilo keep crashing!

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Name: Rob Mackay

    Hi, I have a Pentium 4 3.6 Ghz processor (on an Asus P5N32 motherboard I think), 2 gigs of RAM, and 2 nVidia 6600’s in an SLI configuration. The problem that I am having is that if I am running Ventrilo, World of Warcraft, and some other applications at the same time […]

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My PC Keeps Killing Hard Drives! - Recurring HD Failure

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Name: Robert Malone
PC keeps killing hard drives. install new hard drive, load all software, seem to run fine for a while then hd dies, machine will no longer see hd. Had done this to 3 hd’s, scared to put anything else in. Any ideas?
I suppose the first item of business is: Are you completely […]

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Trying to remove Spyware - Safe mode cannot be accessed!

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Name: Ryan
When i try to access safe mode in attempting to remove spyware, it does not work; as in, it wont load the safe mode.
Is there something i need to do to allow it to work?

Getting into Safe Mode is pretty straightforward. You simply reboot the computer, and press F8 a whole bunch of times […]

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