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re: New Computer Internet Dies Periodically
Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 10:34 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(19379 messages posted)
"and transferred all of my software and files over from my old computer using PCmover."
There's nothing like a clean install to eliminate weird problems that are virtually
untraceable.
Yeah, it saves time in the short term, but hours are wasted later.
On Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 9:14 am, Tracey wrote:
>Hi everyone! I recently built a new XP system and transferred all of my software
>and files over from my old computer using PCmover. Everything has worked great...except
>for two things:
>
>1) The lesser evil. I can't get any of my links to work in Outlook Express or in
>programs that browse such as iTunes. This is problematic in the latter because I
>can't update it, as the button will not allow me to copy the URL like I do for Outlook.
>
>2) The worst. My internet connection dies periodically. I have two other XP machines
>linked (wired) through the same router (Linksys WRT100 RangePlus), and they have
>had zero problems. My new system will work fine for 5 min or maybe 5 hours, and
then
>it suddenly stops working. No "network cable unplugged" message, it just suddenly
>takes a long time looking for a page and eventually gives me a "network connection
>has timed out" message. My network connection always looks the same. All I have
to
>do is restart, and it works just fine again...for 5 min to 5 hours.
>
>I've had trouble researching this issue because the search keywords are so common.
>Can anyone shed some light on possible solutions? Thanks!
>
>System details:
>
>-ASUS M2N-VM DVI AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 7050PV Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
>-AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Windsor 2.4GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 89W Dual-Core
>Processor
>-Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard
>Drive
>-Kingston 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel Kit
Desktop
>Memory
>-EVGA 512-P2-N548-TX GeForce 7600GS 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 SLI Supported
>Video Card
>-Antec earthwatts EA380 ATX12V v2.0 380W Power Supply 100
>
>PS - I’d classify my computer knowledge as high intermediate…enough to get myself
>in trouble, so try not to get TOO technical on me. :-)
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