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My other computer (the family box) has never had Windows reinstalled on it since its birth 4 years ago at a Dell factory in Texas. The only time I changed it was about a year and a half ago to upgrade it to XP, as well as numerous hardware changes over the course of its life (including a SECC2 cartridge-style processor upgrade).

If you're smart about it, and use tools at your disposal, there's no reason you should have to format at all. My current computer is a self-built XP Home box, and I have never had a single stability or speed problem with it. It runs just as well as the day I turned it on for the first time nearly a year and a half ago.

What a/v are you running? Ihave a freind who just d/l's anything and everything and just puts his computer through hell. He brings it to me every couple of months to clean it up for him. I ran norton on it the first time and found nothing. I knew there was something on it so I uninstalled norton and put mcafee on it found I think it was about 10 or so viruses and 3 trojans. And like Probe said, did you defrag?

I ended up formatting anyway, it's nice and fast now. Except my internet is acting weird, the cable modem is only working when I connect with USB but not with my ethernet card; thus, my network is messed up until I can fix that. Any ideas?

windows xp?
Did you try running the new network wizard without the usb plugged in and reboot afterwards?

Says it cannot find the hardware, it's there though.

btw, reformatting sucks. I put the folder of stuff that I've programmed (and their sources) onto the disk *I though* and when I went to open a project that I've been working on for 4-5 months, it wasn't there, nor any of my other sources.

Quote from: Stealth on March 02, 2004, 01:59 PM
My other computer (the family box) has never had Windows reinstalled on it since its birth 4 years ago at a Dell factory in Texas. The only time I changed it was about a year and a half ago to upgrade it to XP, as well as numerous hardware changes over the course of its life (including a SECC2 cartridge-style processor upgrade).

If you're smart about it, and use tools at your disposal, there's no reason you should have to format at all. My current computer is a self-built XP Home box, and I have never had a single stability or speed problem with it. It runs just as well as the day I turned it on for the first time nearly a year and a half ago.

Same with me, mines on 5 years and no format. Go go home built pc's!

Mine was home built.

go to the website of your ethernet card, get new drivers, install those, and reboot.
that'll prolly fix the problems.

Correct, I was looking through this small box of stuff I had of what came with the computer parts. (CD's, cords, etc) I noticed I hadn't installed the drivers for the motherboard and stuff. Everything is fixed now, as far as lag/networking etc. Nothing I can do about lost sources and programs and stuff. Thanks for everyones help.