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ONE HELL OF A LOCK UP??
Name: Patrick Date: November 1, 2001 at 20:37:02 Pacific
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HELLO TO WHO IT MAY CONCERN: I HAVE A "GEEK" COMPUTER MADE BY COMPUTER RENISSANCE THIS COMPUTER IS A CUSTOM BUILT BY THERE TECHS I PURCHASED IT LAST YEAR IS A DURON 700MHZ WITH 128 MEG RAM, 20 GIG HD THE PROBLEM IS EVERYTIME I TRY TO START THE INTERNET THE THING JUST LOCKS UP PERIOD. SO I POWER IT DOWN AND RESTART IT. IT NEVER DID THIS BEFORE UNTIL I PURCHASED XP. THANKS
You may want to double check your properties on your internet connection. Most of XP defaults have compression marked in several places. My ISP does not like any compression sub routines so I had to turn them all off before my login would work.
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Response Number 2
Name: ted Date: November 1, 2001 at 21:19:34 Pacific
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btw, why are you YELLING?
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Response Number 3
Name: chad Date: November 1, 2001 at 22:57:58 Pacific
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Do u have a scanner or anything u added to ur system? What all do u have hooked up to it? Reason i asked is cuz i have a Hp scanner and everytime i went to click on Internet Explorer it locked up where i had to manually restart it..I finally got the new drivers recently and now everything works fine...good luck
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Response Number 4
Name: Eric Date: November 3, 2001 at 23:59:39 Pacific
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Mine did that try this: Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshoot > and slide the Hardware Acceleration bar one to the left. It fixed mine has worked fine ever since.
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