Kingknight67

What do you mean with the power removed?

And I wish it was as simple as just restarting the laptop.

Earlier today it was working fine with no problems. Then i put it on standby. A few hours later, when I tried to start it up again, the screen doesn't display anything. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is it broken?

I left it charging.

After a little googling, I found a way to reset TCP/IP and that seemed to did the trick although the first try didn't work, the second time I did it and did ipconfig /release and /renew (with my antivirus turned off), it finally worked.

Everything looks fine in the device manager but what device do you mean? Under network, the netlink gigabyte ethernet says it's working properly.

Well, I have been having trouble connecting onto the internet with my laptop since today. It says there is limited connectivity but it worked fine yesterday. I think I tried all the remedies for small problems such as restarting the computer, pulling plug and putting it back in, using windows repair, turning off firewalls and whatnot but nothing is working. The other desktop on the same network is fine though. I thought it could be the Ethernet cable but when I used a new one, it still doesn't work. I haven't tried wireless since there is no wireless network in my house but could it be that my ethernet socket is broken?

The router still lights up when I connect my laptop to it and my the ethernet socket lights up as well so I'm not so sure. I'm sure I didn't mess around any settings or whatever but that is probably the most likely case. I'm using vista home by the way.

I'll appreciate any advice, thanks.

Have you tried the grisoft Vcleaner. If you have trouble seeing it in safe mode, I put it on a CD the first time. That way it had to become visible. Just a hint. Then run your version 8 AVG free after that. 

http://www.grisoft.com/ww.virus-removal.ndi-67751

Maybe you caught the Sircam Virus. Maybe this will help?

http://www.pchell.com/virus/sircam.shtml

I think the vcleaner did something, I wasn't there when the scan ended and it closed by itself but I think everything is fine now. Thanks a lot.

No edit button? Oh well, I narrowed it down to rundll32.exe. I read up on it and it supposedly is a important process for windows and that's why my antivirus can't scan it. It's a worm or some sort of adware that hides behind it but I have no clue how to remove it, any ideas?

Well i did that in safe mode with networking, nothing in particular came up. In safe mode, everything ran smoothly. I can't tell what's wrong.

What do you mean by reset your browser and I already do my scans in safe mode.

And now that you mention it, the problem with that some sites doesn't work is only for firefox. Internet explorer works fine but it is still slow.

haha ok, serious answers now?

I have a relatively new computer with good specs which has been having problems as of late. When I try to access the internet, it is slow and when I try to go to certain sites, it doesn't work. It may be a virus or something but I have Kaspersky Internet Security installed and after the first complete scan it keeps detecting the same "adware" over and over again even after deleting it. Also it warns me that windows explorer is sending out personal information? I'm lost on what to do to improve internet speed.

It's nothing network related, I have a 15 mb d/l cable service and it was working fine when I got the computer. Thanks!

The software that I have to install is called RuCompliant. After I follow the instructions on the disk, it takes around 2-4 hours to scan until I can get online. There is a site to check my quota. It's called like resnet.rutgers.edu.something. I don't remember. How do I reset the MAC address anyway?

I currently live at the dorms in Rutgers University and they implemented a policy that limits  4GB total download a week and 1 GB upload. If i break the policy, I will have to face a punishment of a week without the internet for my connection. Is there anyway to bypass this limit? By the way, in order to have a connection to the internet in the dorms, I need to install software that they provided us during the first day.

It is split two times.

After moving the modem, I didn't get disconnected for the rest of the day. However today, I got disconnected two times already. Confusing  .

Name

  WebSTAR DPC2100

Hardware Version

  v1.1

Software Version

  v2.0.1r1133

Receive Power Level

  -5.7 dBmV

Transmit Power Level

  53.0 dBmV

Cable Modem Status

  Operational

The signal, status, and log says that the feature isn't enabled.

Please help?

It's been like a week now since my cable modem has been losing connection around 6 times a day. Its a webstar router. The cable light on the modem goes out then i lose connection. I actually lose connection a few seconds before it goes out though. All other lights are fine except the PC light which goes solid when its suppose to be blinking. I usually fix it by taking the cable wire out and letting it cool because it might be overheated. I'm not sure if this is the problem though because it doesn't always work. When the light goes out, it can be gone for hours if I don't attempt a fix. I had this problem before, like a year ago but it went away and I don't know why. I don't want to wait  . Please help, thanks!

alright  , thanks anyways for the responses

so i have to get a new processor as well as a new motherboard? 

its a pentium 4 2.6 ghz, if thats ok, im pretty sure my power supply is fine

how do i know what socket i use?

the problem is that my router just makes everything slower today, yesterday it was fine, wondering what could be wrong

n/m, i just did a test again, its fine again for some reason =

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Download Connection is:: 11706 Kbps about 11.71 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB)

Download Speed is:: 1429 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1)Test Time:: 2006/06/08 - 12:34pm

Bottom Line:: 204X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.72 sec

Tested from a 5983 kB file and took 4.187 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 23.09 % faster than the average for host (optonline.net)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-MQL8K9ZGN

Host Average:: host:optonline.net dl-avg:9510Kbps

User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) [!]

with a direct connection, it was like this yesterday using the router

today its this using router

TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.3.3d

click START to begin

Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Done

running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 1.68Mb/s

running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 11.13Mb/s

The slowest link in the end-to-end path is a 10 Mbps Ethernet subnet

Alarm: Duplex mismatch condition exists: Host set to Full and Switch set to Half duplex

click START to re-test

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Download Connection is:: 2889 Kbps about 2.89 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)

Download Speed is:: 353 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1)Test Time:: 2006/06/08 - 12:44pm

Bottom Line:: 50X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.9 sec

Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 8.484 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 30.38 % of your hosts average (optonline.net)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-9HTRF7D5O

Host Average:: host:optonline.net dl-avg:9510Kbps

User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) [!]

what happened to my router ;/

yeah i ahve latest firmware, i heard that a lot of ppl had trouble with this router so its probaly not just my router's fault. One thing is curious though, i get disconnected while the other computer doesn't, odd. and it is annoying