Hello,
I've searched the web at large and this forum for the answers, but haven't found anything to help. I am at wit's end!!!
I have an older gaming rig I built still running Xp. It has performed perfectly until now. It has:
Xp SP2 (3 never would install correctly)
Core 2 Duo Conroe E6600
Asus P5 Deluxe Mobo
Nvidia 8800 GTS Graphics Card
Your basic SATA 5,000 RPM 380 Gig HDD
Some other random things like networking cards, DVD players, etc that have never given me problems.
After a reboot of my machine I can open and run Firefox without incident. Until I close it. After I close it, it stays in the task manager and even trying to kill it from there does not work. If I try to open Firefox again, it says an instance of Firefox is already running, and that it should be closed before trying to open another one. The only thing that I have found that removes this instance of Firefox is a reboot. So, I usually just go off to IE to do my browsing, but...
Internet Explorer will open everytime without incident and will load my home page. However, it too only operates normally after a cold reboot. If I have opened Firefox, closed it, and then go into IE later, the homepage will load properly, but no links will work. Nothing happens when I enter a query the Google search bar. Nothing will happen if I manually enter a URL in the address bar. Just nothing happens. Again, it will work fine after a cold reboot, but will not work fine after I've opened Firefox, closed it, and then have a Firefox.exe sitting in task manager.
Thirdly (if that is a word), After I've had the problems with the browsers, I cannot shut down using the start menu. If I select "shut down" or "restart" from the menu, nothing at all happens. I just click the buttons and nothing at all. This only happens if I've tried to get into either browser. If I don't try to use a browser after a reboot, and do other things like use Office or play a game locally or whatever, everything works fine. All other programs are working just fine.
Seems to me an XP issue. Missing DLLs or something? I am a hardware guy, not a software guy, so I really don't know what I am doing in this realm. I've run every virus and malware scan known to man--all results are negative.
Oh yeah- I can't find my Xp disk. Perfect.
Any suggestions? What does this set of behaviors lead you to believe could be the culprit?
Thanks!
I've searched the web at large and this forum for the answers, but haven't found anything to help. I am at wit's end!!!
I have an older gaming rig I built still running Xp. It has performed perfectly until now. It has:
Xp SP2 (3 never would install correctly)
Core 2 Duo Conroe E6600
Asus P5 Deluxe Mobo
Nvidia 8800 GTS Graphics Card
Your basic SATA 5,000 RPM 380 Gig HDD
Some other random things like networking cards, DVD players, etc that have never given me problems.
After a reboot of my machine I can open and run Firefox without incident. Until I close it. After I close it, it stays in the task manager and even trying to kill it from there does not work. If I try to open Firefox again, it says an instance of Firefox is already running, and that it should be closed before trying to open another one. The only thing that I have found that removes this instance of Firefox is a reboot. So, I usually just go off to IE to do my browsing, but...
Internet Explorer will open everytime without incident and will load my home page. However, it too only operates normally after a cold reboot. If I have opened Firefox, closed it, and then go into IE later, the homepage will load properly, but no links will work. Nothing happens when I enter a query the Google search bar. Nothing will happen if I manually enter a URL in the address bar. Just nothing happens. Again, it will work fine after a cold reboot, but will not work fine after I've opened Firefox, closed it, and then have a Firefox.exe sitting in task manager.
Thirdly (if that is a word), After I've had the problems with the browsers, I cannot shut down using the start menu. If I select "shut down" or "restart" from the menu, nothing at all happens. I just click the buttons and nothing at all. This only happens if I've tried to get into either browser. If I don't try to use a browser after a reboot, and do other things like use Office or play a game locally or whatever, everything works fine. All other programs are working just fine.
Seems to me an XP issue. Missing DLLs or something? I am a hardware guy, not a software guy, so I really don't know what I am doing in this realm. I've run every virus and malware scan known to man--all results are negative.
Oh yeah- I can't find my Xp disk. Perfect.
Any suggestions? What does this set of behaviors lead you to believe could be the culprit?
Thanks!