Is a Refurbished unit worth it?
in IT Support ·
I'm curious to get your take on grabbing a laptop from this site—windovv.com? Just a heads-up, they're all Refurbished.
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Windows issues
in IT Support ·
So I've run into a massive headache with my PC,
I was having some weird issues with my internet connection, so I thought I'd try disabling my antivirus to see if that was messing with the signal.
Big mistake. Now the whole system is trashed. I can't turn the antivirus back on, and I can't install anything else—every single attempt just throws an error saying files are corrupted.
I've already tried running a system restore, hitting up CMD with sfc /scannow, and even trying a system repair, but nothing is working,
Please, I'm begging for some help here. Just please don't tell me the solution is to reinstall Windows. Seriously, I've done that so many times lately I'm practically living in a setup screen. 😢
I was having some weird issues with my internet connection, so I thought I'd try disabling my antivirus to see if that was messing with the signal.
Big mistake. Now the whole system is trashed. I can't turn the antivirus back on, and I can't install anything else—every single attempt just throws an error saying files are corrupted.
I've already tried running a system restore, hitting up CMD with sfc /scannow, and even trying a system repair, but nothing is working,
Please, I'm begging for some help here. Just please don't tell me the solution is to reinstall Windows. Seriously, I've done that so many times lately I'm practically living in a setup screen. 😢
PC issues/troubleshooting help needed
in IT Support ·
Joshua Garcia3 said:What kind of motherboard are we talking about here? Need the manufacturer and the specific model number.
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PC issues/troubleshooting help needed
in IT Support ·
Hey everyone,
I am seriously at my breaking point with this PC.
Here’s the deal: a few weeks back, a massive thunderstorm hit my neighborhood and fried my network card. I tried messing around with it for a couple of days before finally taking it to a repair shop. They swapped in a new card and the internet technically works, but everything is incredibly laggy. YouTube videos buffer constantly, Facebook apps are crawling, and when I try to play a quick game of Counter-Strike, I keep getting kicked out with some random error message. It’s just constant, weird connectivity issues.
Then, the day before yesterday, the power went out while I was mid-session. When I woke up the next morning, the internet was basically dead—it "works," but it’s so slow it might as well be broken.
I open up Firefox, and after hitting refresh about a hundred times, a page might actually load. And don't even get me started on CS; I can't even get into a match.
I tried deleting the network adapter in Device Manager and rebooting, but that didn't do squat.
So, I finally just nuked my OS and did a fresh install of Windows.
Now the whole computer is acting glitchy. I try to install a program, and it tells me I'm missing some kernel32.dll file. I tried downloading the DLL, but I can't even extract it because WinRAR won't install, and trying to run WinRAR gives me some sxstrace.exe error.
Man, if anyone knows what's going on, please help me out. I'm losing my mind here.
Windows 7, DSL connection, 2 GB RAM, 2.22 GHz single-core CPU, ATI Radeon X1600
I am seriously at my breaking point with this PC.
Here’s the deal: a few weeks back, a massive thunderstorm hit my neighborhood and fried my network card. I tried messing around with it for a couple of days before finally taking it to a repair shop. They swapped in a new card and the internet technically works, but everything is incredibly laggy. YouTube videos buffer constantly, Facebook apps are crawling, and when I try to play a quick game of Counter-Strike, I keep getting kicked out with some random error message. It’s just constant, weird connectivity issues.
Then, the day before yesterday, the power went out while I was mid-session. When I woke up the next morning, the internet was basically dead—it "works," but it’s so slow it might as well be broken.
I open up Firefox, and after hitting refresh about a hundred times, a page might actually load. And don't even get me started on CS; I can't even get into a match.
I tried deleting the network adapter in Device Manager and rebooting, but that didn't do squat.
So, I finally just nuked my OS and did a fresh install of Windows.
Now the whole computer is acting glitchy. I try to install a program, and it tells me I'm missing some kernel32.dll file. I tried downloading the DLL, but I can't even extract it because WinRAR won't install, and trying to run WinRAR gives me some sxstrace.exe error.
Man, if anyone knows what's going on, please help me out. I'm losing my mind here.
Windows 7, DSL connection, 2 GB RAM, 2.22 GHz single-core CPU, ATI Radeon X1600
Internet issues
in IT Support ·
Alright, let me try this one more time from scratch.
So, we had a massive lightning strike near my place the other day, and it absolutely fried my modem.
An AT&T tech came out, swapped out the modem and the DirecTV box, and those are both working fine now.
The problem is, I can't get any internet on my PC. I actually went ahead and replaced the network card myself. I installed it, and everything seemed fine for a little bit, but then we got more thunder and storms, so I shut everything down to be safe. Now that I've powered everything back up, it’s dead again. I checked the Device Manager and there's that annoying yellow warning triangle. I try reinstalling the drivers, it tells me I need to restart the computer, so I do—but nothing changes. It still won't connect. My phone's Wi-Fi is working perfectly fine though.
I even took the PC in for repair, and they told me everything was running perfectly. I get home, plug it all back in, and it works! But the second I hit reset, it breaks again. I tried a hard reset on the modem and checked if any cables had been damaged,
but still nothing. Help me out here.😢
So, we had a massive lightning strike near my place the other day, and it absolutely fried my modem.
An AT&T tech came out, swapped out the modem and the DirecTV box, and those are both working fine now.
The problem is, I can't get any internet on my PC. I actually went ahead and replaced the network card myself. I installed it, and everything seemed fine for a little bit, but then we got more thunder and storms, so I shut everything down to be safe. Now that I've powered everything back up, it’s dead again. I checked the Device Manager and there's that annoying yellow warning triangle. I try reinstalling the drivers, it tells me I need to restart the computer, so I do—but nothing changes. It still won't connect. My phone's Wi-Fi is working perfectly fine though.
I even took the PC in for repair, and they told me everything was running perfectly. I get home, plug it all back in, and it works! But the second I hit reset, it breaks again. I tried a hard reset on the modem and checked if any cables had been damaged,
but still nothing. Help me out here.😢