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Jr. Woodchuck
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A co-worker of mine had a Joe Shmo type work on his computer, and installed pirated software. We all have probably a history involveing the stuff, but this guy pirated it and sold it to him as his buisness. With that said, the co-worker was having problems with his computer and I took a look at it. The problem specifically was that he couldn't browse websites. Sometimes a webpage will half load, but most of the time "no page can be displayed" is the error message received.
Him and I talked about our options and it was decided to format reinstall the computer, there were all sorts of spyware, viruses and what was believed to be O/S corruption. He purchased a valid XP cd and tonight I installed it.
Now i'm no slouch I know what i'm doing <this comment will probably come back to bite me!>
His computer, directly after the install is having the internet problems it did before. The best I can do is get a half page load on googles website. He is running a 800mhz duron with 256mb of ram. I realize this is an old computer, and perhaps not the ideal setup, but it should be at least able to browse the web.
After doing a complete format re-install I can only assume that there is a hardware problem. I've baselined the system pulling out all unecesarry hardware and still exhibt the problem.
...anyone ever have this problem? Also can anyone suggest a good Hardware Diagnostics. I'd like to run it thru some tests to see if perhaps I have a bad proc or memory.
Him and I talked about our options and it was decided to format reinstall the computer, there were all sorts of spyware, viruses and what was believed to be O/S corruption. He purchased a valid XP cd and tonight I installed it.
Now i'm no slouch I know what i'm doing <this comment will probably come back to bite me!>
His computer, directly after the install is having the internet problems it did before. The best I can do is get a half page load on googles website. He is running a 800mhz duron with 256mb of ram. I realize this is an old computer, and perhaps not the ideal setup, but it should be at least able to browse the web.After doing a complete format re-install I can only assume that there is a hardware problem. I've baselined the system pulling out all unecesarry hardware and still exhibt the problem.
...anyone ever have this problem? Also can anyone suggest a good Hardware Diagnostics. I'd like to run it thru some tests to see if perhaps I have a bad proc or memory.
