Hard to find fixes for those done gone stubborn problems you encounter in every day tech life.
The new year is almost here. What does 2008 have in store for Random Fix?
I really don’t know. I hope to continue to bring everyone the fixes and reviews that they wish for.
It is hard juggling a full time job, being a student as well as a family man. I’m doing my best to try and shoot for a daily update. That’s my ultimate goal come 2008. To have one post per day at least of worthy content.
Until then, I wish you all a happy and safe new year! God bless!
I am having problems with this Dell Dimension 8400 desktop. The main issue is that it blue screens at random. I have a feeling and hunch that it has to do with the memory modules.
This particular unit has 4 dimm slots and also 4 slots populated. Two slots have 1GB sticks in each and the other two are populated with 512MB sticks of PC3200 memory.
The 1GB sticks are the same brand and the two 512MB sticks are the same brand as well; however, ALL FOUR are not the same brand.
Now I have not really seen this pose a problem for most computers in this day and age. I have seen mixed memory modules work fine together. However, this thing is driving me nuts. I’ve had it for well over a week now.
The hardest part is that it happens at extremely random intervals. I can never get it to happen twice in a row. I have to re-start the computer several times before it actually happens.
I’ve looked through the minidump .dmp files to no avail. The data that I find is all random – which indicates that it has something to do with the memory.
I’ve swapped out all components possible and even tried a new hard drive, no luck.
I go back tomorrow trying to push at it to get this unit up and out of the shop. Wish me luck, I’ll need it.
It looks like the Storm Worm has made a revival. My good friend Steven over at www.securityzone.org has reported that a possibly new variant of the Storm Worm is going around right now. The main theme is revolved around Christmas. If you start to see Christmas greeting cards or various Christmas e-mail, please be careful. The card will possibly mention http://www.merrychristmasdude.com (please do not visit this LINK!!!!!!!!!!) Always take precaution, keep your antivirus program up to date, never give out any pertinent information such as your name, address, phone number, social security number as well as your credit card number to people you do not know.
Christmas is two days away. Can you believe that it’s come so quick? I mean, it seems as though just yesterday we were trick or treating and then eating turkey on Thanksgiving! The days go by so fast now. Life goes by so fast. The sad thing is you only get to live once!
This is really strange talking about this but I felt I needed to post this personal post. Here we are, two days away from Christmas 2007. It’s a great time of year, I have to say. We get together as family, spend time together, eat breakfast lunch and dinner together and most of all, get to give to our family and friends.
I would like to wish every single reader a happy and merry Christmas! From the bottom of my heart, to your family and your friends, I hope everyone will be safe and enjoy their Christmas’!
My first thoughts on Microsoft Windows Service Pack 3 are: its shit!
I was reading around and saw that Service Pack 3 supposedly speeds up folder load times. I have a folder which includes several thousand MP3s and the amount of time it takes to open the folder so that I can navigate through the folder is the same prior to installing SP3.
Besides that, it patches the UXTHEME.dll file. The UXTHEME.dll file is a file that allows you to utilize un-signed themes. These themes are customized and built by others who do not work for Microsoft or have an affiliation with Microsoft.
I have SP3 installed on a test bench but went ahead with the installation of SP3 on my main bench. The reason was related to testing it out on my test bench. Everything seemed fine, except for the two minor things I’ve already mentioned.
It will be nice to have the entire updates since SP2 into one big SP once the service pack is finalized. Until then, I would recommend staying away from Windows XP Service Pack 3.