bikingviking 937 wrote:
> Hello all , another poor sucker with an AMD 64 3500 and nvidia 6600
> vc , same symtoms as the rest of you running similar machines , just
> pray to god that microsoft can fix this as it is their F*** up that
> has effectively made my computer vulnerable to attack .Best I can
> say is that if anyone suffers a virus problem we should all club
> together and sue their asses .This is not acceptable from a company
> who makes such obscene profits as Microsoft .Good luck too all and
> hope anyone reading this reports in as we need numbers to make
> Microsoft sit up and take notice .

> Rant ended  thankyou

> "Tolomus" wrote:

>> Hello all you fellow sufferers...

>> I'm glad to here that my PC is not the only one with this
>> problem... I don't know about freezing, but... here goes.

>> I just bought a new Mesh PC about 3 days ago, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual
>> Core, Windows XP Professional SP2, NVIDIA GeForce 6100.

>> After setting up the hardware, I installed Norton Antivirus and
>> Norton Firewall... then AOL. I tried to install some Windows
>> Updates. They downloaded fine, yet, even after three hours they
>> wouldn't install... the progress bar didn't move a milimeter. I
>> tried to shut down, and again they tried to install 11 updates,
>> without any success after a long time. I was forced to reboot, and,
>> on the advice of a £1.00 per minute Mesh helpline, went back to
>> factory settings, and started the whole installation of Windows
>> again, yet have again run into the same problem.

>> I have experienced no freezing, but it doesn't install any Update,
>> nor can it install, for example, Java... again it just doesn't have
>> any progress. And for some reason, clicking on "System" in the
>> Control Panel takes literally 10 minutes before it actually appears
>> on screen...

>> What is going on, or, how can this be fixed, or what should I do?
>> I'm not bad at computers, but no expert either. Or is it a case of,
>> sit tight, and wait for Microsoft to do something?

>> Thanks in advance for reading this...

>> James.

>> "mabster" wrote:

>>> RobertFord wrote:
>>>> I have a gigabyte board as well.

>>>> In add/remove programs under the NVIDIA Drivers I have the
>>>> following options:

>>>> - Remove all NVIDIA drivers, including Display
>>>> - Remove all NVIDIA drivers, except Display
>>>> - Remove only the following
>>>>  * NVIDIA Display Driver
>>>>  * NVIDIA Ethernet Driver Components
>>>>  * NVIDIA IDE Driver
>>>>  * NVIDID nForce PCI System Management Driver

>>>> I'm not on a Raid setup either. Just one drive.

>>> Yep - I see that. Doesn't really look like any of those have much
>>> to do with RAID.

>>> In my Device Manager I see a "SCSI and RAID controllers" section,
>>> in which there is a "Silicon Image SiI SoftRaid 5 Controller"
>>> item. I clicked "Update Driver" in that guy's properties, and it
>>> installed a newer driver, but I'm still experiencing the Big
>>> Freeze(tm).

>>> Hmmmmm.