Critical issue - my computer

Guys,

I just had a failure on my computer. Same issue that Tyler had. While I was working to fix it, I double checked all of my connections. I found that my fan was disconnected. Overheating will cause a critical failure so that's probably what happened.

Thanks to Tyler for documenting what he did... I did the same thing to reset the BIOS and it's back up and running now.

Ruben

Lila's computer finally fixed

Well, it took several tries, but we finally got it fixed.

The problem was that there were two firewalls blocking access to the internet. Noah helped me find that a McAffee firewall was installed along with the Windows firewall. Firewalls block access to harmful programs like viruses and let web sites, downloaders, and other things through. To let those things through, you have to "poke a hole" through a firewall. If you only poke a hole in one firewall, the second one still stops it. That's what was happening here.

Here's an easy 10 points for you. Find your windows firewall screen and snip a picture of it. Here is mine. Also,there are some other points still available... Read the next few posts.

Upgrade WoW

Guys,

You should start up your warcraft program and let it go through the update even if you don't have a card to play. I started mine this morning and didn't need a password to do the update.

The update says it's going to take 2 hours.

Usually with Warcraft, they do a big update for everybody before the new expansion comes out. Then when you buy the expansion it doesn't take too much time to load.

Ruben

System Restore

You guys are doing great. Running your virus checkers once in a while and keeping your computers clean.

Once in a while something happens and your computer needs to be reset. There are viruses out there that really dig into your registry and other deeper parts of your computer.

When that happens, your best bet is to use system restore.

Your system automatically creates restore points when you do a software update but you can also make your own which you should do after you do a big software installation (like WoW) so you dont have to do it again if you get a virus.

I want you to create a restore point.

Go to control panel > System and Security > System > System Protection

That opens a new box.

Follow the instructions there to Create a restore point.

Take a screen shot once you've done it.

Fixed moms computer

Mom had another computer problem. This time she could hardly get on any site and sometimes got kicked off the internet so with the combined knowledge of ruben and isaiah ruben told me to do ping http://www.yahoo.com/ on the CMD which allowed us to see how fast it was running. Turned out it was running slow so we typed in an IP address and found that it wasn't connecting to our router. turns out we had a faulty ethernet cord so we replaced it with a new one. works great now

Found a virus

I was talking to my girl ,(Chelsea) she goes to college with me, on skype and all of a sudden my computer shut off. It came back on automaticly and i told it to run on safe mode

( by this time she was freakn out and asking why i got off), before she freaked out too much i restarted it and loged back on to skype with her and performed a full virus scan (she was completly unaware of my awsome computer skills). Turns out a virus snuck in and was trying to ruin my conversation so i deleted his butt out of there.

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Isaiahs "The Matrix"