Re: cable and dialup problem

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Hi Needy,
that sounds quite some system you have there. You'll know this but I'll say
it anyhow-without sp2 and with an always on connection it is just a matter
of time before something infects your system. I know SP2 sometimes messes up
systems, but I must say I have 5 pcs here and have worked on quite a few of
my clients computers and very few service pack updates have gone badly
wrong. I'd like to think it was my brilliance, but SP2 is much more stable
than is claimed. Most of the new features can be switched off if necessary
anyhow. What you must have is protection from the flaws that worms like
sasser and sobig take advantage off. I'd give serious consideration to SP2.
Why not make a system image and try it. Actually I looked on
Expert-Exchange about this problem-those people are seriously good with
troubleshooting. The accepted answer to your problem according to them is 1)
reinstall SP1 or 2) put SP2 on.

Chelsea


> Oh, I know how computers can be aggravating.<g> I've done a lot
> of fixes on computers in the past, but this has me stumped.
> As for my operating system, I'm running SP1. I will never
> install SP2. Everyone I know who has tried has had nightmarish
> problems. Some people still haven't been able to get their computers
> back up and running.
> I even stopped installing their updates. I did this after I
> installed one of their updates and it slowed my computer down to a
> crawl. After I uninstalled that update, the computer went back to
> running normally again. I figured, if that's what I can expect from
> their updates, I don't need them.
> As for my system, well, I using a Dell Dimension 8250 system,
> running a 3.06 Ghz Pentium 4 with hyper threading technology, I have
> 1.5 GB of RDRAM, 320 GB of hard drive space, an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
> video card with 128 MB of Ram, a Santa Cruz Turtle Beach sound card.
> The modem is a Conexant HSF V92 56K RTAD Speakerphone PCI Modem. The
> ethernet card is an integrated one.
> You probably didn't need all that info, but I figured I post it
> anyway in case something might be useful.
> As for reinstalling SP1, well, I've already done that in the
> past.....several times actually, but still no luck. What bugs me is
> that I WAS able to setup the dialup accounts when I first got this
> system. I don't know what changed, because I never used the dialup
> accounts until my cable internet went down one day. That's when I
> discovered that I couldn't access my dialup accounts, or, create a new
> one. It's as though, when I hooked up my cable, everything else
> became disabled on it's own. That's why I thought that if I unhooked
> the cable, everything might go back to normal but it didn't.
> So, if anything I mentioned above might give you any ideas, I'd
> be happy to hear them, and as always, thanks for taking the time to
> respond.
>
> Needy


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