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Post by Mia22 on Dec 21, 2006 2:11:19 GMT -5
This just happened and I had to share. My firefox started going wonky (I hit something by accident) and it wouldn’t stop scrolling and I could not figure out how to stop it. So I try to recreate the events (meaning pressing down and wiping over keys….this’ll teach me to stop eating nearly on top of the thing). I give it a few goes and start getting annoyed, but of course at this point I can’t just close the one firefox window that was being screwy because I somehow froze it and didn’t want to restart all of my firefox tabs, so I like the genius I am I keep going. ROTATED MY SCREEN 90 DEGREES COUNTERCLOCKWISE!!!!! I am like Gibbs I think everything can be solved rebooting my computer. Yea no… AOL doesn’t like starting unless I go through torture with AIM first (note to self: reinstall). So I’m trying to start aol so I can get online, open all the helps and settings all with my head to the side and trying to remember up is right, down is left and so on and so forth and of course trying not to tap with my jerky movement since I end up on the wrong screens. Computer is now fixed twenty minutes later, and I feel like I’ve just spent half the night drinking, a headache, dizziness and an upset tummy (I’m putting this on the position my neck had to be in, like an amusement park ride that lasted twenty minutes to my brain). Also the help section of my computer is COMPLETELY useless. And yea ML it does sound like you need a new keyboard, which completely sucks and let me guess the warranty on yours probably expired a week ago. There’s something on my computer about stickykeys which results after numerous hittings of the shift key, but even as I’m looking at it I have no idea what that means and I’m too afraid to try it out. I should get an award for being such a big idiot. (Umm for those who would like to torture a loved one by doing this to their computer ctrl, alt and an arrow).
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Post by Tweed Pants on Dec 28, 2006 23:52:46 GMT -5
So i've been dealing my my PC (Zion) being an arse for years, i've had him for about six or seven years, but i think most of the hardware has been replaced at least once. For the past couple of years things have been really off, instead of double clicking something i want to open, whether it be an application itself, i have to think of weird and wonderful ways to open things. Whenever i try to open say...Outlook Express, i get an error message saying something about not being about to find rundll32.exe - actually i get this message when i try to open pretty much anything.
When i try to install things from disks (for example all the stuff needed for my old mp3 player, which i dropped in the bath so i don't really need the software anymore but you get the point) i either get error messages when it's installing or nothing happens at all.
So i finally found some time (and you know, the will) to reinstall windows, figuring that would fix things. I found the disk (finally), and that 'nothing happens' thing struck again.
Any suggestions? Or am i just going to have to continue living with it?
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Post by dzero on Dec 29, 2006 1:48:52 GMT -5
So i've been dealing my my PC (Zion) being an arse for years, i've had him for about six or seven years, I didn't know they had computers back then . ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D OK, serious reply. By "nothing happens" do you mean it won't boot up from the cd? You might have to go to the bios and change the boot order. On an old pc like this it might not be automatic from an OS cd. Have you been able to run defrag? and scandisk? I know that's not directly your problem but if you are having problems with those as well it could mean your hd is in bad shape. Failure to properly reinstall an OS ( the problem you seem to be having ) could also be the hd so I think if you can defrag and scandisk we can rule out or confirm the hd as the problem.
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Post by Tweed Pants on Dec 29, 2006 23:52:06 GMT -5
So i've been dealing my my PC (Zion) being an arse for years, i've had him for about six or seven years, I didn't know they had computers back then . ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D OK, serious reply. By "nothing happens" do you mean it won't boot up from the cd? You might have to go to the bios and change the boot order. On an old pc like this it might not be automatic from an OS cd. Have you been able to run defrag? and scandisk? I know that's not directly your problem but if you are having problems with those as well it could mean your hd is in bad shape. Failure to properly reinstall an OS ( the problem you seem to be having ) could also be the hd so I think if you can defrag and scandisk we can rule out or confirm the hd as the problem. By 'nothing happens', the autostart thing doesn't autostart it nostarts, so i'll go into the disk and open the autostart file myself then - as whhat happened with the Windows XP disk, i clicked the install option and nothing at all happened, it completely ignored me the arse! I can run defrag (if i right click>>run as>>sign in as myself even though i'm the user logged in, if i just hit 'current user' it doesn't work) and scan disk (the same as before), infact i did it just the other day which took all bloody day.
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Post by dzero on Dec 30, 2006 1:31:41 GMT -5
as whhat happened with the Windows XP disk, You're running XP on a 6 or 7 year old PC? is that the Operating system that came with the PC? Did you try and search the net for that one file that kept coming up in error messages? Did you try reinstalling it?
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Post by dzero on Dec 30, 2006 1:49:30 GMT -5
I googled rundll32.exe and it is for opening applications ( programs ) which is the main problem you seem to be having.
You should google it yourself if you haven't already. You should try and install it from your OS cd or download it. It should be placed in System32 folder = C:\Windows\System32
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Post by Tweed Pants on Dec 30, 2006 19:50:40 GMT -5
I have done research on it before, and replaced all the files which are known to be corruptable and when are corrupted cause the kind of problems i've been having. I might as well just leave it since i'm used to doing all these odd things to get around the error messages. Honestly no one could use this computer but me. I have considered copying the entire system32 folder from one of my other computers running on XP but frankly i'm too afriad i'll kill my hunny bunny.
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Post by Aerie on Jan 12, 2007 12:22:30 GMT -5
Tweeds, you must get an external hard drive, ask your brother for the bucks, and back up everything. You'll still have your hunny bunny.Remind your brother that if he ever needs a kidney you'll donate one. ************************************************ I have a problem with a computer that's not on the net. The OS is W-XP. When I turn it on I get a message - Plug and Play Configuration ErrorStrike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run setup utility I've uninstalled all external hardware. How do I find Plug and Play config?
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Post by dzero on Jan 12, 2007 13:54:11 GMT -5
When I turn it on I get a message - Plug and Play Configuration ErrorStrike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run setup utility It doesn't give you an error code? Does it boot up? Or stop with that error message? How do I find Plug and Play config? I don't think there is an actual "plug and play config" program . All the devices would be done through device manager. But since you've already removed all external devices and still get the error I don't think any of your devices are causing the error. It's some program in your OS that relates to plug and play. Probably. Helpful, aren't I?
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Post by Aerie on Jan 12, 2007 14:46:53 GMT -5
That's the only message I get and it stops with that message. It doesn't boot until I press F1. That's interesting. Most peeps call it "Plug & Pray"Yes, it is. It's helpful to know you are there and you're listening. Makes me get all jello-ee inside and want to pray to the Blue Lady. I always seem to end up with multiple external devices on every computer. It's no problem to press F1 or put it on standby and not shut down. I'll probably be formating and reinstalling soon anyway.
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Post by dzero on Jan 12, 2007 22:05:23 GMT -5
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Post by Reilynn on Jan 12, 2007 22:21:13 GMT -5
PnP (plug and play or plug and pray, your choice) devices do not have to be external. Soundcards, Modems, NICs all use PnP (or try to anyway)
Does the XP box have service pack 2 on it? That was very important. If not get it on the web and keep hitting windows update until there are no more updates.
The only other thing I can think of (with knowing as little about your system as I do) is to go into device manager and look for something with a yellow question mark. If you see that then you have found a problem. Figure out what the device is and go to the manufactures website and download the lates driver. Manually updating the driver might get rid of the error message.
After you press F1 what does it do? (Boot normally? go into Safe Mode? )
If you've got good backups then FFR (short for FDISK, FORMAT, REINSTALL) will solve a LOT of problems, many of which you didn't even know you had. It just take 1634 (give or take) hours to make and restore all the backups.
External hard drives rock!! A bit more expensive then moving your hard drive from one computer to another, but a lot easier than breakin' out the ol' screwdriver and cracking open the case.
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Post by dzero on Jan 13, 2007 12:52:17 GMT -5
After you press F1 what does it do? (Boot normally? go into Safe Mode? ) Yeah, this is what I was trying to ask . And try that yellow question mark thingy . In other words listen to Reilynns advice, not mine . External hard drives rock!! A bit more expensive then moving your hard drive from one computer to another, but a lot easier than breakin' out the ol' screwdriver and cracking open the case. hee hee ;D, remember GHOST? Is that even around anymore? That and Partician Magic ;D. Ah, the old days ;D . by which I mean 4 years ago .
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Post by Aerie on Jan 13, 2007 16:00:54 GMT -5
It was so much fun messing with Ghost, but time consuming. In a way it was the good old days. Yeah, I tried Device Manager first thing. And it does have SP 2 on it. I got the computer just before SP 2 and installed it right away. I know peeps that had trouble after downloading it. My newer computers came with it on. It boots normally after F1. Last night I just put in on Stand By and it's fine. I don't use it everyday and everything on it is backed up on an external drive. ( & DVDs, CDs, zips, floppys, you name it.) I do that with everything as I go on all my computers. I have a business and I couldn't take a chance on loosing stuff. Not to mention my music, all my Dark Angel pics and all that stuff I can't live without. Oh well, since the PnP sounds so complicated I'm going to format and reinstall. I might try a scan and defrag in Safe Mode first. Thank you and and for all your support. ;D hee, hee, now we know how to bring Reilynn out of hiding. She needs to feel needed.
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Post by Reilynn on Jan 13, 2007 16:33:31 GMT -5
hee hee ;D, remember GHOST? Is that even around anymore? That and Partician Magic ;D. Ah, the old days ;D . by which I mean 4 years ago . GHOST?!? Absolutely ghost is still around. And will be as long as there are big corporations. Instead of IT (information technology department) coming over and spending hours trying to figure out what you did you you PC, they spend 30 seconds (literlally only 30 seconds) starting up GHOST from the network and they are done! The computer will run for some time (and THIS time varies wildly, could be 10 minutes, could be hours, depending on how fast the computer is and how big the ghost is) and you better have all your data backed up on the network because if you don't it is YOUR problem not theirs! GHOST rocks!! Partician Magic may still technically be around, but since windows assimilated their functionality, I wouldn't bet on them being around for much longer. When Microsoft notices a function that people use that is NOT part of one of it's Windows products it buys that company and assimilates the functionality into one of it's products. The FUN part is the End User Licence agreement on the lower end products will usually forbid you from adding the functionality that you could have paid Microsoft for but didn't, with thrid party products. At least Microsoft isn't going after home users on this, but you can bet that businesses of any real size had better fork out for their top of the line product. I have no idea why more people aren't running LINUX. Resistance is futile! * if less than 1 ohm.
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