TheTerrorist_75

Happy holidays, Marty.

I would try to install it and see if it passes activation. If it doesn't you can usually buy Windows 7 OEM pretty cheap at Walmart.

What is a quality company? Does it mean that a well established landscaping company isn't quality? I don't think any company should be allowed to test for drugs unless the employee showed up to work wasted or caused an accident that harmed themselves or another employee. I think that if you want to test welfare recipients then you must test all other individuals who receive compensation from the taxpayers. The taxpayers pay out more for government employees than we do welfare. I believe that we get much less out of the government employees than we do the welfare crowd.

Any person who is paid with taxpayers money should be drug tested. This includes politicians, judges, district attorneys, cops, firemen, teachers, public employees and etc.

With the cost of a used motherboard in the $100+ range plus your time to replace it it may be cheaper to buy another laptop. How the heck do they manage to destroy so many PCs?

Pull the drive from it's enclosure and install it in your computer as a Slave drive. If it is recognized you will need to retrieve your data ( try Recuva ) and save it to another drive. Once the data is saved you can then format the iOmega drive and then test it to see if it okay.

I just scanned my channels and it's listed. I'll check it out later.

When researching the problem I noticed that motherboard failure was common on the MSI laptops. Many laptops seem to fail due to motherboards or graphics chips no matter what brand. Of course most laptop parts are made by a select few Asian manufacturers. I guess it should be expected with such cheap labor. Both of my laptops are old IBM Thinkpad T42s bought off ebay used. They do what I need them to do and the price was right. Parts are cheap and easy to find plus working on them is quite simple. My 15" T42 even runs Windows 7 very well. They are selling newer T60/61s for less than $300 on eba

If the Cmos battery doesn't help then I would suspect problems with the motherboard. If that is the case I hope the warranty is still good.

What model is the MSI laptop? It acts like the Cmos battery is dead and not saving the Bios settings.

Unfortunately it seems as though our malware experts have deserted us. I see an issue in your HJT log that needs an expert to help you with. I would suggest joining the Geeks to Go forums and asking for help with this in their Virus, Spyware, Malware Removal section.

You need a backup generator for the next storm that comes through.

It is a system maintenance and recovery CD that you build using Windows Automated Installation Kit and files from a Vista disk. It's similar to BartPE, but doesn't have has many tools.

Buy two of them. If it doesn't work you can then go the other route.

Get those sand bags piled up around your computer gear.

Keystrokes freezing may be the result of some program starting up to check for automatic updates or your AV program doing a quick scan. I have dealt with that on several systems and tend to ignore it. Their are two lenses on a burner. The reading lens may have gone bad or is dirty.

I made a double batch of chocolate peanut butter no bake cookies for my dialysis nurses. Naturally I had to test them and ended up making another batch just for me. They are so addictive I can't stop getting up and grabbing another.

If you can't tell the difference between a screeching sound or a fast running fan I would suggest you bring the computer to someone that fixes them.

Loud as in screeching noise or running fast?

The sleeve or ball bearings are probably wearing out. Just buy a new fan the same size and replace it. It could also be speeding up due to a temperature rise in which case you may need to blow the dust out of the heatsink and/or replace the thermal compound between the processor and heatsink.

If I bump the RAM up to 2GB I will be able to use XP Mode to allow me to run older programs. I also created three partitions. One is 15GB for either dual booting XP or some flavor of Linux.

I scored a legal copy of Windows 7 Ultimate retail for doing a repair job. I ran the advisor on my trusty old home built desktop and both of my Thinkpad T42s. None were ideal candidates, but the 15" Thinkpad with the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600, SXGA+ screen, Atheros wifi card and 1.5GB of RAM was the better choice. I slapped in a spare 100GB PATA drive, formatted it NTFS with my XP cd and installed Win 7 yesterday afternoon. I grabbed all updates from MS including SP1, installed MSE, SpywareBlaster, MBAM and other favorite programs. I also installed the System Updater from Lenovo for Win7. The

Happy B-Day Jeff!

Quick dinner of two Hoffman Coneys with Gulden mustard and sweet relish on whole wheat hot dog buns. I just had to eat something the dietitian wouldn't approve of. Hey Marsh, I can't use any type of salt due to it's high potassium and sodium levels. My anti-rejection drugs raise my potassium levels so I need to be careful and dialysis patients are to avoid additional sodium so the excess fluid can be removed properly..

After sitting next to my desktop when the power supply's capacitors blew the PC gets shutdown when I am done using it. My printer was scorched and the paper in it caught fire from the sparks and flames out of the PSU. When my PCs start slowing down it's time to run Disk Cleanup and defrag the drives. My computers don't normally get slow due to my cleaning the cache at the end of every day and defragging every 6 months as a habit. I haven't had any malware issues on my PCs since the 90s.