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You work for 'em, by any chance?

Is this the same HD you took out of the Gateway? If it is, I'd suggest going to Staples and buying a new one and beating the old one to death. You may have carried the problem with you from the Gateway..........

If the message doesn't come up with the hard drive disconnected, it could be the driver for the drive. Check the web site for the manufacturer and see if there might be an update.

Why can't you clean from their on-line scanner?

Do some spyware scanning on all of your disks. AdAware and Spybot are pretty good. Did your system autodetect the external drive(s) or did you have to install driver(s) for it/them? When you disconnect the drives, do the errors go away on reboot without the drives attached?

Ran the on-line version. Only thing it found (till I killed it after about 45 minutes) was a virus file I sent in to Avast. It seemed to get confused and said there were 30 'objects' infected............... with 1 virus found. The only actual file listed was the one I had sent to Avast but I think it was referencing each email within the Sent 'file' for Netscape. Those are most likely bad false positives. I'm not saying Kaspersky isn't good, but rather depending on one program to do it all is not good. I've used many programs, at one time or another, to get rid of spyware, malware, viruses, etc. on other machines. The list includes Avast, avg, norton antivirus, mcafee, trojanhunter, ewido, A squared, Blacklight, F-bot, Hijackthis, Spybot, AdAware, and the Kaspersky online scanner, and others. If I suspect an infection, I use a number of programs to be sure its clean then reboot and scan again and then again with one or more of the programs until I'm satisfied whatever it was is gone. Customers don't like coming back with the same problem the next week (and I don't like seeing them back). Another problem I've found is that when I've already cleaned a machine once with one program and run a different program, the second program finds the renamed instances of the virus files in the 'quarantined' folder of the first program I ran (False positives)... And as a side note it's interesting that you are required to uninstall your current av software, not just disable it, so that kaspersky needs to be installed and run to clean your system. Why not allow cleaning from the on-line scanner with a warning to disable your current virus protection prior to the cleaning?

AVG (Free edition) for 5 years, clean as a whistle. Having dealt with quite a few machines riddled with viruses, spyware, malware, trojans, etc. there is no one product that protects you from all or cleans them all. If you find it, buy it, then let me know!

Yeah, I know, but I'd have to buy it at a NH up here. Some one offered a kegger' ............ FREE BEER!!

Sounds good! Beer there......... Be down next week!

When you hit 40, give me a call. I'll be at the Shady Acres Nursing Home! :haha:

True. The baddest just reinstall on reboot........ thru a sub-process which don't even show in hijackthis. Spent a month cleaning one machine where formatting was not an option. Ghosting is always good both for potential hard disk failure and spyware. A combination of hijackthis and anti-spyware scanning software (use several) is another good solution. If you're not comfortable editing the registry, don't use hijackthis on your own. Just use it with one of the interpreters like the site you mentioned, compuworm.

Here's another article based on the in-stat report: http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,104605,00.html Went to instats site. I'm not going to pay $2995 for the full report....... Talk about profit Excerpted from: http://www.in-stat.com/catalog/Scatalogue.asp?id=86#IN0501748IN ******************************************** Intel Manufacturing Capacity and Die Cost Report Information Report Number: IN0501748IN Publication Date: August 2005 Number of Pages: 44 Report Price: $2,995 U.S. Dollars Table of Contents/Tables/Figures Read Press Release Member Access Full-text HTML Full-text PDF Data File Spreadsheets* Summary In semiconductor manufacturing, interest in Intel

Sounds like your speed is good. Are you getting disconnects? If not, enjoy hitting what used to be your cap! Wish they'd take mine off.......

Profit, maybe?

I think that the electrical signal strength is a function of the system itself, whereas the cap comes into play only to limit bandwidth. This is done thru a script sent to your cable modem that tells it, in essence, it can only use lets say 6mb down and 384kbps up. They probably opened up the pipe because so many people were complaining. If you could, go ahead and post an up and download test. Have you checked the signal strength in your modem? Put this ip in your browser: 168.192.100.1 and post your signal strengths. This is the range they should be in: Excerpted from : http://www.dslreports.com/faq/7124 ************************************* # Downstream S(ignal to)N(oise)R(atio): On QAM 64 systems it should be 30 dB or higher. For those who have been upgraded to QAM 256, it should be 33 dB or higher. # Downstream Received Power: the DOCSIS specification requires cable modems to function correctly with downstream power levels in the range -15 dBmV to +15 dBmV: power readings at or close to those extremes are likely to be unacceptable. # The better the return path is, the lower the Upstream Transmit Power will be. The upstream transmit power will lie within the range +8 to +58 dBmV, with the recommended range of +30 to +55 dBmV. ****************************** BTW: What provider do you have and what is your up/down speeds supposed to be?

Here's a doc out of Duke on chip production costs. www.ee.duke.edu/~sorin/prior-courses/ece152-spring2005/lectures/8.2-performance.pdf - Kind of old, but good info.

Cool deal!

Capping is bad for me because it slows me down but it is good because it allows more bandwidth to be available for the masses. Whats your up and down speeds without the cap?

I like most cheeses, but this one kinda makes the old tummy churn. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JAW/is_2002_Summer/ai_89157430 Elite.pete. Why not stick around awhile? The mods are good, here. Thats why it isn't absolute chaos and a flamefest every day. I didn't see the thread, so I can't comment on it but to say from whats in this thread, I'd say it was not a good idea but now lets move on.

Looks like its 192.168.1.1 www.netpilot.com/uploads/106/DSL_Range_Tech_Overview.doc Shows it in a pic toward the bottom of this doc file.

Netmasta, you could pop the cover off your machine and see if the motherboard has a model number and/or name printed on it. Post it if you decide to take a peek under the hood.

Check the power levels for your downstream and upstream on your cable modem then post 'em. A number of cable modems use 192.168.1.1 for accessing the diagnostics where you can find the levels. If this doesn't work, post the type of cable modem you have. Also, check and make sure all of your connections are tight. Have you added any splitters to your cable line lately?

I'm actually tunnelling into a large WAN to get eventually to a Metaframe server. The ip is correct and the computer successfully connects to the entry point at the firewall, but that is when the tunnel is tested by securemote and when it fails and I cannot traverse the tunnel through the endpoint at the firewall (probably because it was never created). My authentication occurs successfully and the connection stands when running in Connected mode. Its the actual tunnel that fails. I think it might be that some ports need to be opened that I have missed for securemote at my end (to actually build the 'tunnel').

I've been trying to connect through the linksys and the connection succeeds, but the tunnel test fails. I can see the gateway fine (ping), but can't get thru it and suspect its the linksys causing the problem. Win98 machine running latest version of securemote client. Any help would be appreciated!

I was at work and saw the cnn reports thru the web.