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Looks like a corrupt BIOS, but everything works??? I'd be tempted to find the BIOS for your board and reflash it. It might go horribly wrong, so question is 'Do you really need the BIOS features?' If not leave it alone, if you do, have a go at flashing it.

Taken from Clonezilla FAQ Not such a good tool for a failing drive IMHO

I agree with Randy, get a domain name to suit your business and use a professional designer if you consider your website as an integral part of your business. I ought to say that I have worked with plenty of good, profitable businesses that only use their website as a way of displaying the business contact info. It depends on your product, your clients and if you are selling on the web. Bottom line is that you don't need to spend a fortune when you are starting out.

Try running System Restore to a point before the problem happened. Also, do you have your Microsoft Office CD just in case we need it?

Yockie, I'll leave it be for now until Starbuck is sure you are clean, then see how things look.

I think that as SECURUS is showing an error on startup you should remove it - it is not needed now anyway. It may be that part of that program runs a firewall system and that may have been damaged - causing the no internet problem. Also, what antivirus software do you run? If you have no firewall installed, once SECURUS is removed, and PC restarted, run the Winsock Fix as it does fix faulty firewall issues. Note: if you use it with a firewall still installed it may damage the firewall - so remove any firewall first.

Starbuck, do you know if the Winsock Fix XP does the same job? WinSock XP Fix Freeware download and review - fix XP internet connectivity from SnapFiles I saw this post last night and thought I ought to leave it the malware guys, and wondered if the Winsock fix would sort it out.

I tried imaging failing drives with TrueImage 9 and had a little success, although you have to remember to tag the box to ignore errors. It does depend on the faults though, any hint of trouble and it will stop. A better method IMHO is to use dd_rescue from a bootable Knoppix CD. If you don't want to use Linux, the other tool that works well is Paraben's Forensic Replicator. Paraben Forensics You can use it as a trial and it will image a full drive, again tell it to ignore errors. I have had a lot of success with this one, but only running from XP - there seems to issues with drive protection on Vista and 7. Paraben also can save the image as a file, then when complete you can open the image and extract data - a very nice touch.

I doubt you will get it to work. The email address you have at Orange is complimentary ie it comes as part of the broadband package and when you move to another ISP there is no requirement for Orange to continue to maintain your email address. Often they close the account, once in a while they forget - Virgin seem to do that. I would recommend you get yourself an email address that is ISP neutral such as Googlemail or Yahoo mail so you can access it whatever your ISP.

You won't get the best out of that card with an E5200, but it will run. What you could do is install that card then at a later date swap your CPU for a quad core if your board will take it. In the mean time you could clock your E5200 - I had one run at 3.26GHz without too much hassle. Course it all depends on your board. The only other consideration is your PSU - the card draws 290W max, so a good 650-700W PSU is a must

No worries Randy. BTW - I don't use a Windows PC anymore.....at all......ever lol. Got myself a Macbook Pro and really happy with it. It's a bit of culture shock to not have some of the utils Windows has - I don't miss them really. There's good and bad in both IMHO, and after working on Windows PC's problems for a good few years I needed a change :)

I reckon the best way to go is to get hold of Toshiba tech support - if there is a known issue they will sort it, it not they will mot probably have you reinstall and update. If the problem persists they should take the machine in under warranty. Probably not what you want to hear, but it may simply be faulty.

Reading through the thread, and considering you have used a non Sony install DVD to install Windows I think the chances of recovery are slim to none. You have probably wiped out the recovery partition on your hard drive, and even if you left it in tact when you reinstalled it won't work anyway. Installing Windows on the drive will have changed the boot manager meaning your recovery program wouldn't work anyway. The best way to deal with it is to contact Sony and order a new Recovery DVD set. That way you will have the correct version for your computer and all of your drivers and software will work as they should.

I doubt it will be a RAM issue - you would get random shutdowns or BSOD's rather than a slow PC. Did you install the correct drivers after you installed Windows 7, or rely on Windows to do it all for you? I'm thinking video driver updates specifically.

What router do you use, an what is the make and model of your laptop?