Posts by tvegeta

Quote: Originally posted by harrelld This is a known issue with XP. This should help. This is an interesting read. harrelld is correct. You need to take ownership of the files and then you should be able to...

Quote: Originally posted by Bratag Have the guy who is trying to hit your machine run a traceroute to your IP - check out the path the packet takes and the latency at each step. If you are on an internal network it should...

I'd tend to think it's a routing problem or even a port problem on your switch if it's not a problem with the NIC in your 5680. I'd borrow someone's PCMCIA NIC and set it up on your 5680. This will narrow things down immensely.

Taking wild stabs in the dark here but........some anti-virus programs can be configured to only scan incoming or outgoing files. Could it be your anti-virus slowing things down? Probably not but might be worth checking. You may have...

Sounds like your system slows to a crawl when you pipe video exclusively to an external monitor. Have you checked your task Manager when this happens to see what process is bogging down your system? Check the CPU and MEM Usage columns...

Quote: Originally posted by Babbabresaur I suggest to empty your startup folder {MSCONFIG} as previously mentioned, go to Administrative Services and stop or make manual programs you don't need {don't let them run on...

Check your network card properties and see what your "Link Speed" and "Duplex Mode" is. You could be running at half duplex. If that network supports 100mbps/Full Duplex then force your card to run that way. The...

As far I as I can tell, there is no way to turn off that startup BIOS beep on the 8890. It would be a nice feature to have in a future BIOS update...

I just tested this on my 8890 and I get the same result. The Supervisor password (access to BIOS settings) works fine. The User password does not. It never asks you for the user password when powering on the system.

Sounds like a reinstall of XP is in order here. If you end up reinstalling then install XP onto the same partition you had it on before just be sure to choose to "leave the file system intact" when XP asks for formatting...