chocolat, its one or the other ;-)

Whats the green lights called? or what model is the modem?

I have power and link Spacie
and it's BT voyager USB :S

Chocolat, if the PC wont shut down properly that may be a problem with the driver for the modem, but it could be a host of other things as well. I would remove the modem software and then reinstall it.

Oh 'eck :S

Sutherl1
Re printer scanner. I have just looked into these and stronly recomend the Canon MP 750 (MP 780 if you want fax).You can pick them up on the web for about 180 delivered but they are more than worth it. Five seperate ink tanks (2 black) which you can easily get compatables at 2 each. Double sided printing, both totally auto and manual duplex. Excellent OCR and and photo printing. The software package is worth more than the total cost.(also prints direct on cd's and dvd's)
It is very easy to install and so quite that I keep going to check its still working.

If you compare it to some its cost is about four sets of ink replacement.
Graeme. (Two friends have seen / used mine and bought one)

Chocolat

I can't help with your modem, but I've just had a problem with another router. Despite repeated reboots, it would not connect. I solved it by a power off reboot.

Richgit

Win 98 can't read NTFS partitions. You would have to install XP on a FAT32 partition in order for Win 98 to see it. NTFS is far better though.

Re your icons etc. don't be tempted to take any shortcuts, install each program onto XP. Make sure that they are installed onto the XP disc and not the WIN 98 one.

Thanks Optimist - I'll bear that in mind next time. Up to now I've tried allsorts, and suddenly for no reason (as it turns out) it works again. I notified BT in the first instance, which, coincidentally or not, occurred about a week after the 2MB upgrade.

Optimist, thanks ;-)

I got xp working and installed my ASDL modem connected to the internet only to be giving a virus, NT Authority System which shuts down xp once it's started, now I cant get a virus checker to run or download a fix for xp, not enough time before it closes down, ;-(

Tell me why I decided to updated to Windows XP again, oh yes becasuse all my family and friends told me it was the best thing since sliced bread. LYING B*******

RG, this should be solvable but it needs a bit of thought and I dont have time now. Try doing a safe mode start and scanning from there.

However you have a major problem if you have virus after a clean install, there is something wrong with what your doing, XP is prone to virus infections but this sounds to me as though you already had the virus somewhere on your system for example on aother hard disk.

I dont know which OS you had before but if it was made by MS them XP is better !

Spaceman, I've still got windows 98se on my other harddrives, and checked them all with sophos virus checker before I installed XP on other Disk ;-)

I can only run virus checker from win98se, so itdoes not find the XP disk ;-(

Richgit69,

Either try unplugging your broadband, as sometimes NT Authority System shuts it down because of possible remote access.

or if you have time hit "start" "run" and type in

shutdown -a

This stops it shutting down.


Do you know the name of the virus? As this could be a problem with XP, as there was a similar problem with 2000.


(PS Why are you keeping the old drive?)

ADAM,

It seems to be MSBLASTER virus ;-( trying to get a fix for it

The reason I am keeping Windows 98se, is just for my trading sites until I get xp up and running with no crashes or bugs ;-)

Exploitation of Vulnerabilities in Microsoft RPC Interface
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-19.html

If you don't have enough time download and apply the patch before the PC reboots,

Go to start > run > Services.msc.
Right click Remote Procedure Call.
Select Properties > Recovery.
On all three drop-down boxes in this window, select "Take no action."

This temp fix will give you the time to update. After the update, reverse the procedure to get RPC back.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20707069.html

Richgit

If you are not already doing so, make sure you do any virus shecks in safe mode. Your friends are right, XP is very good although XP Pro is the best, but it is very difficult to safely get up to date unless you are behind a firewall/router.

I assume that you are using a modem to connect to the internet, therefore I suggest that you use the following procedure:-

Boot into XP, connect to the internet and run Windows Update.
Get the list of updates required and print it out.
Go back into Win 98 which I assume is still OK
Download all the updates to a directory on your Win 98 disc. You will have to hunt for them on the MS site, try under the network administrator download sections.
Boot XP again but don't connect to the internet.
Install the fixes from your Win98 drive.
Boot into safe mode and run a virus check.

Best of luck.

Here's an interesting Internet site. It allows you to ascertain who is sending out spam - including yourself. TrustedSource gathers data on the behavior of senders across the Internet. This site is where and how it reports its findings.

http://www.trustedsource.org/query.php?q=212.161.99.147

Optimist, Thanks ;-)

It got a whole lot worse last night, updated XP with service packs 1 & 2, then all hell broke loss, none of my software will work cann't get access to internet to update, totally ********** ******* *******

using 98se for the time been, untill I find out whats going on ;-(

Richgit

If your installation disk did not have SP2 on it, then it is a very old one. If you bought it from a retailer then take it back for a refund and get an uptodate disk.

You don't need SP1 in order to install SP2 but no pre SP2 system should be connected directly to the internet even to get the updates.

As yours is a new installation, I'd be tempted to start again and buy or borrow a router/ firewall, which should be good enough to gonnect to the Internet while you update your system. If you don't want to get a router, you could download SP2 and the other fixes onto the Win 98 disk but SP2 is 270 MB and some of the other ones are also large files.

Rich,

The Blaster worm will not let you update XP. You need to remove it first.

Symantec have a removal tool for the Blaster worm:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html

If you can not get on the internet here is how to remove it manually:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

Well got rid of 14 viruses, by putting sophos on and now got XP working with the internet 75% of the time ;-)

still got a few problems ;-(

Sometimes when I connect to the internet and start IE it will not access any of the pages on the Net, I have to start maybe 2 or 3 times is there a fix for this?

Trying to load CMC Spread bet http:\\www.deal4freelite.co.uk and after entering my details it just sits there, I've uploaded all new java files etc, do I need to use proxy instead on XP?

Richgit

I use CMC cfd with no special settings and no problems so you must have some rouge settings somewhere. You could start with C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts - open in Notebook and the only uncommented entry on a new system should be 127.0.0.1 localhost

Your XP system is probably cleanable, but I still think that if it is a new system you would be better off reformatting the disk and installing SP2 and other fixes from files downloaded to your Win 98 disc.