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User to User Help · December 11, 2007

My current Gigabyte motherboard BIOS version doesn't support the Opteron 170 cpu that i am going to install. So it is necessary that i flash my BIOS before i install the cpu.

Now the question is, how do i flash my BIOS without a floppy drive? My motherboard supports Q-Flash, so flashing is alot easier. However, it still requires a floppy disk. I have read from other sources about burning a floppy disk image onto a CD-R, and burning the new BIOS version together onto the CD-R, so the CD acts like a floppy. Any suggestions?

October 24, 2007

This issue is solved! It was really down to the fact that the chipset drivers were not installed.

Thanks from the bottom of my heart to all who bothered to help, with special thanks to 8210GUY, Joe C and IntelGuy.

Cheers PCPitStop!

User to User Help · October 23, 2007

yup, get the lan drivers and the chipset drivers too, you should install the chipset drivers before anything else after a fresh install anmd then the rest of your drivers. Windows may install default drivers but getting the oem drivers are better drivers usually

ok.. thx

will try that this and get back...

October 23, 2007

You need to install the driver before the system will see it, if you tell us what make\model your motherboard is we can direct you to them, but probably 80% or more of your devices will be installed when you install the chipset drivers, but that depends on what board\driver it uses, but if it uses the nForce drivers they install most everything, or else as I said above get and run Everest and it will tell you everything you have on your system.

My motherboard is Gigabyte K8NF-9, not sure what revision it is. So i guess i can install the default mobo drivers that came with the packaging? Or go to http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Motherboa...?ProductID=1860 and download the LAN drivers?

October 23, 2007

I'll put money on you needing to install drivers, if you reformatted and haven't installed the drivers thats why you can't get out, odds on you need to install at least your Ethernet driver then you should connect fine, check under your device manager in the control panel and you will see just what needs installing, just go to the manufacturers site and find the item you need and download the driver, save it to disk and swap it to the new install and install it, if you need help identifying what hardware you have download Everest from majorgeeks and that will tell you what you have.

Ok i have question. In both Network Connections and Device Manager, only the 1394 adaptor is showing. So how do i install drivers for a device which isn't showing?

October 23, 2007

I'll put money on you needing to install drivers, if you reformatted and haven't installed the drivers thats why you can't get out, odds on you need to install at least your Ethernet driver then you should connect fine, check under your device manager in the control panel and you will see just what needs installing, just go to the manufacturers site and find the item you need and download the driver, save it to disk and swap it to the new install and install it, if you need help identifying what hardware you have download Everest from majorgeeks and that will tell you what you have.

Ok thx a million for your suggestion. I'll see if this works and i will post back

User to User Help · October 23, 2007

Onboard or not, the NIC needs a driver.

What make and model motherboard/computer/etc?

The 1394 Net Adapter in the screenshot is a firewire connection. Does the device manager show an ethernet adapter under Network Adapters?

What does the cable that plugs into the computer from the router look like, this:

or this:

If the cable from the router/modem looks like the bottom cable, that is an ethernet cable that is plugging into an ethernet adapter that should be showing in both the device manager and network connections. If there is no ethernet adapter showing, the next step is to find and install the driver.

My motherboard is Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9, not sure what revision.

Device manager and Network Connections only show the 1394 adapter.

My cable looks like the bottom one. So do i go to download the LAN drivers in here - http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Motherboa...?ProductID=1860?

User to User Help · October 23, 2007

the device may appear to work (network adapter) how does it look in device manager, do you have the driver cd incase?

Well if i double-click on it, it will show that it doesn't have any traffic (0 bytes sent, 0 bytes received). It's an inbuilt adapter, so i don't have any drivers.

User to User Help · October 23, 2007

reboot the modem?

Also tried already. No use.

October 23, 2007

I have just formatted my entire computer, and now I have problems getting connected to the internet.

Here's the story:

Upon installing a fresh copy of Windows XP SP2, I opened IE and typed '192.168.0.1' in the url bar, as that was the url for my router configurations. However this appeared: http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/1750/19216801wj5.th.jpg

I then unplugged my router and connected my modem directly to my computer instead. I resetted my modem via a switch on the hardware, and i installed the ADSL utility on my computer. This was what happened after i clicked on the 'diagnostic test': http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/5493/adslem4.th.jpg

I have tried to set up a new connection via network connections manually, but it all seems like my network adapter isn't being detected. But i have checked my hardware list through 'device manager' and my network adapter is working fine. This is what is showing in my 'Network Connections': http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/2795/ne...tionsjh3.th.jpg

I am using a Netgear router and an Aztech ADSL modem. My internet access was perfectly fine before i formatted my computer. Anyone have any idea what is wrong? Help pls?

User to User Help · October 23, 2007

Use the New Connection Wizard

Best Regards

I have already tried it. No use.

User to User Help · October 23, 2007

I have just formatted my entire computer, and now I have problems getting connected to the internet.

Here's the story:

Upon installing a fresh copy of Windows XP SP2, I opened IE and typed '192.168.0.1' in the url bar, as that was the url for my router configurations. However this appeared: http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/1750/19216801wj5.th.jpg

I then unplugged my router and connected my modem directly to my computer instead. I resetted my modem via a switch on the hardware, and i installed the ADSL utility on my computer. This was what happened after i clicked on the 'diagnostic test': http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/5493/adslem4.th.jpg

I have tried to set up a new connection via network connections manually, but it all seems like my network adapter isn't being detected. But i have checked my hardware list through 'device manager' and my network adapter is working fine. This is what is showing in my 'Network Connections': http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/2795/ne...tionsjh3.th.jpg

I am using a Netgear router and an Aztech ADSL modem. My internet access was perfectly fine before i formatted my computer. Anyone have any idea what is wrong? Help pls?

User to User Help · January 1, 2007

I finally solved it on my own. Solution was to manually set the drive to 'open with' shellexplore.exe (file in system32 folder). Rebooted and all drives open normally again.

Thx to everyone who tried to help.

User to User Help · January 1, 2007

since its file association and you dont have a backed up registry, theres a repair install or trust a google search

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari...-8&oe=UTF-8

Holy %@$#! Resetting the file associations almost f%$#ked my comp up. I couldn't boot up into windows after i merged the registry settings. Luckily something called 'Last good known configuration' saved me.

User to User Help · January 1, 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859/en-us

someone must have changed the file association when opening things

I have seen this article... but doesn't help, unless somebody knows what program a drive can be opened with.

User to User Help · January 1, 2007

http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html

Doesn't do anything as well...

Since system files aren't the culprit, I guess it has something to do with file associations in the registry being messed up. Anybody?

User to User Help · December 31, 2006

hello,

try visiting this link

CAUTION: Once downloaded, running this script changes your registry settings. Shogan

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts/xp_folder_open.vbs

when you see finished!! at the bottom, try opening your drives again.

let us know if it fixes it.

Doesn't help...

For everyone's info: This problem arose only after i removed several adwares, trojans and crappy stuff from my comp using Ewido anti-spyware. I think it could be due to the program removing an infected file which was required for my drives to open normally. My 1 cents' worth..

User to User Help · December 30, 2006

Hi there,

When i open My Computer and double click on any one of my drives to enter it, an 'Open With' menu would appear instead. The only way i can access my drives is by right-clicking on a drive and selecting 'Explore' to open it. What should i do to be able to open my drives directly once again via double-clicking on them?

August 28, 2006

Ok i guess i am gd to go then!

I can't say thanks enough for what you have done. I would have been so lost!

Thx for YOUR patience and guidance!!!

CHEERS! :clap:

August 27, 2006

Well, one of the reasons to my reluctance to install anti-virus programs is that they take up resources and they conflict with many programs. Moreover, my computer was absolutely fine and clean before i disconnected the router and connected to the internet via my modem only. This, i believe, was what caused my computer to be attacked so severely.

Btw, pcast is a tv streaming program. I don't think it's the podcastbar thing. I uninstalled pcast long ago.

August 27, 2006

Well i did a ewido scan and it detected winupdate.exe as a malicious adware, so i removed it.

I am also unable to find the 37211.dll file.

So here's the HJT log

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1

Scan saved at 13:40, on 06-08-27

Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)

MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)

Running processes:

C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe

C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe

C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE

D:\program files\powerstrip\pstrip.exe

D:\Program Files\ewido anti-spyware 4.0\guard.exe

C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe

D:\Program Files\HJT\HijackThis.exe

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyServer = proxy.singnet.com.sg:8080

O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - D:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll

O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\ssv.dll

O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Helper - {AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar1.dll

O3 - Toolbar: &Google - {2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar1.dll

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [PowerStrip] d:\program files\powerstrip\pstrip.exe

O8 - Extra context menu item: &Google Search - res://C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmsearch.html

O8 - Extra context menu item: &Translate English Word - res://C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmwordtrans.html

O8 - Extra context menu item: Backward Links - res://C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmbacklinks.html

O8 - Extra context menu item: Cached Snapshot of Page - res://C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmcache.html

O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://D:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1\Office10\EXCEL.EXE/3000

O8 - Extra context menu item: Similar Pages - res://C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmsimilar.html

O8 - Extra context menu item: Translate Page into English - res://C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmtrans.html

O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\ssv.dll

O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\ssv.dll

O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe

O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe

O16 - DPF: {0E5F0222-96B9-11D3-8997-00104BD12D94} (PCPitstop Utility) - http://pcpitstop.com/pcpitstop/PCPitStop.CAB

O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/...b?1152324366890

O16 - DPF: {9A9307A0-7DA4-4DAF-B042-5009F29E09E1} (ActiveScan Installer Class) - http://acs.pandasoftware.com/activescan/as5free/asinst.cab

O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{BEBB5088-E13A-4229-BA55-73E392119993}: NameServer = 165.21.83.88,165.21.100.88

O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - "C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\msgrapp.dll" (file missing)

O23 - Service: Diskeeper - Diskeeper Corporation - D:\Program Files\Diskeeper Corporation\Diskeeper\DkService.exe

O23 - Service: ewido anti-spyware 4.0 guard - Anti-Malware Development a.s. - D:\Program Files\ewido anti-spyware 4.0\guard.exe

O23 - Service: InstallDriver Table Manager (IDriverT) - Macrovision Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Driver\11\Intel 32\IDriverT.exe

O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\System32\nvsvc32.exe

O23 - Service: Update Service For Windows (winupdate) - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\winupdate.exe (file missing)

August 27, 2006

Btw i am behind a router (which is a firewall by itself), and i frequently use online anti-virus scans like Panda and Housecall, so i don't feel i need any anti-virus programs.

PS: D:\Program Files\pcast

D:\Program Files\Hacking\GM51.exe

D:\Program Files\Hacking\Msn freezer\IceCold ReLoaded.exe

The above files are legitimate so there's no need to remove them.

August 27, 2006

Here is the HJT log:

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1

Scan saved at 10:51, on 06-08-27

Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)

MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)

Running processes:

C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe

C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe

C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE

D:\program files\powerstrip\pstrip.exe

D:\Program Files\ewido anti-spyware 4.0\guard.exe

C:\WINDOWS\winupdate.exe

C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe

D:\Program Files\Opera\Opera.exe

D:\Program Files\HJT\HijackThis.exe

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyServer = proxy.singnet.com.sg:8080

O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - D:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll

O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\ssv.dll

O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Helper - {AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar1.dll

O2 - BHO: (no name) - {E730189A-9973-4121-B046-AD1C161EC3AF} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\37211.dll