Have just rebuilt my computer (on Saturday), now a AMD Athlon 3800+, an Asus a8N5X, a GeForce 7300 GS card, my old D-Link dsl200 modem, and 2g Corsair paired extreme DDRRAM in slots a1 and b1 (I use Photoshop), but sadly a Western Digital 80g IDE harddrive (I keep everything on a 250g IDE drive), and i have several niggly and very annoying probs, and i'm wondering if they are related, and can be solved (I've scoured the internet, but no answers that work yet)? 1st of all, when i start up my system, after the windows loading screen i get a black screen for 10 - 30 seconds before windows starts. My internet connection is being a pain, keeps throwing me off after an hour or so, although the software itself says it is still connected.It won't give me an option to disconnect or reconnect, and if i try task manager it says "The application failed to initialize properly Oxc0000017." I have to restart the whole system (often then the comp doesn't actually power down, although all the programs, and windows xp, seem to, and leave me with a black screen with a static cursor), and when i restart the net is fine. Also my Outlook keeps asking me over and over for a network password, and even though it is always there, and i click on remember this password, at does it at least half the time. Have also had the error message during this "Access violation at address 1000234f in module 'SpinWnd.ocx'. Read of address 00000004." at the same time. These problems are all new since i rebuilt my system. However i have another problem that has migrated through two reinstalls of windows xp on two DIFFERENT harddrives, but only for the last couple of months. Sometimes, i'll click on a folder or something, and my screen will refresh, but then when i look in the start window my Firefox and Email icons have doubled up. Both work, and are gone after each startup, but they keep coming back, and always when i click on something. Is it software, or is my drive corrupt (although the icon glitch has migrated), or what? Please help me, this is all driving me crazy. I just wanted my computer to work!! Is that so hard?
Yours frantically,
Spankdonkey
Yours frantically,
Spankdonkey