furious at microsoft
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This is long, so I want to warn you now.
I built a PC last year with Vista Ultimate 64 bit. When I connected it to the internet for the first 2 months, everything was fine. Slowly I began having problems connecting to the internet. Had to reset my network adapter and things like that until it eventually would not get on line. At one point, I did a restore and that was a temporary fix until things slowly getting worse again.
I eventually rebuilt the machine, formated the drive, reloaded everything and it ran fine once again. I re-registered my OS, did the updates....eventually things started to get screwed with the internet again. Network adapter resets, router resets....The same problem was reocurring. My system was showing data packets being sent and recieved, but I couldn't connect. This all began a few days ago.
Two days ago, I overclocked my machine. It's a Q6700 processor, 2GB of PC-4200, 250 gb sata drive and an Asus P5N-32 e sli motherboard. I've got the same Vista Ultimate 64-bit running. It's running at 3.175 ghz with the stock CPU cooler. Once I found this to be the stable speed, I began running some programs. This is where things got very strange.
My internet explorer would not connect even though I'm showing local and internet connectivity on my network icon. Firefox won't work either. I tried some of my programs that access the internet and they cannot connect. They run normally, but when I close them, I get application error--unknown software exception (0xc0000005) occurred in application at---(then it lists the particular location of each program here). Programs that don't connect to the internet do not give me this error. This all started after I overclocked my rig. But even when I bring it back to factory settings, I'm still getting this error.
So I check to see what's going on with the icon that I've been using for months. I delete it and go to create another from an icon that works. When I check my start menu, I now see 2 internet explorer icons. One says "Internet Explorer", the other says "Internet Explorer (64-bit)" The regular internet explorer which used to work for months no longer does. The 64-bit icon connects immediately. The problem is--all of my programs that connect to the internet seem to want to point to the internet connection that does not work-IE or Firefox. And when I close them, I get the error mentioned above.
I traced the path of the icons. One goes to C\program files\internet exploer\iexplore. The Other goes to C\program files (x86)\internet explorer\iexplore. The latter of the 2 is the one that won't work-placed in the (x86) for 32-bit----correct? This is the icon that I had been using for two months and now it won't work. The one in the regular program files works just fine. I also found one traced to C\windows\winsxs\wow_64-microsoft-microsoftie..349Ay28.....This will not work either. But I am on the computer right now typing this post with the "64-bit" icon!!!!!!!!!!!
I spent FIVE HOURS on my CELL PHONE with Microsoft yesterday. I spoke with 6 techs, none of which knew what to do. WTF is that??!!!! Six Microsoft techs and none could fix my problem?!! Is it a 64-bit / 32-bit emmulation issue? Where did this other icon come from? Microsoft says I should only have a normal internet explorer icon. Then again, they didn't do a thing to help, so what do they know?
I have one other problem. I've been playing Ghost recon AW2 recently. Everything was patched to be current and running fine. After I overclocked my system I got some allocated memory error. So I re-installed the program. If I try the 1.0 version out of the box, everything runs perfectly(except for the internet problem). As soon as I patch it, I get this memory error. Any ideas? I've tried backing the system down for that too, but all it does is change the numbers in the memory error.
I need someone to help me because I don't want to deal with Moronsoft again. I don't think I can take another couple of hours doing nothing with them. These problems all began after I overclocked my machine. What software glitch does it sound like I need to fix? Please give me some ideas.
Thanks a lot for your help and advice in advance.
I built a PC last year with Vista Ultimate 64 bit. When I connected it to the internet for the first 2 months, everything was fine. Slowly I began having problems connecting to the internet. Had to reset my network adapter and things like that until it eventually would not get on line. At one point, I did a restore and that was a temporary fix until things slowly getting worse again.
I eventually rebuilt the machine, formated the drive, reloaded everything and it ran fine once again. I re-registered my OS, did the updates....eventually things started to get screwed with the internet again. Network adapter resets, router resets....The same problem was reocurring. My system was showing data packets being sent and recieved, but I couldn't connect. This all began a few days ago.
Two days ago, I overclocked my machine. It's a Q6700 processor, 2GB of PC-4200, 250 gb sata drive and an Asus P5N-32 e sli motherboard. I've got the same Vista Ultimate 64-bit running. It's running at 3.175 ghz with the stock CPU cooler. Once I found this to be the stable speed, I began running some programs. This is where things got very strange.
My internet explorer would not connect even though I'm showing local and internet connectivity on my network icon. Firefox won't work either. I tried some of my programs that access the internet and they cannot connect. They run normally, but when I close them, I get application error--unknown software exception (0xc0000005) occurred in application at---(then it lists the particular location of each program here). Programs that don't connect to the internet do not give me this error. This all started after I overclocked my rig. But even when I bring it back to factory settings, I'm still getting this error.
So I check to see what's going on with the icon that I've been using for months. I delete it and go to create another from an icon that works. When I check my start menu, I now see 2 internet explorer icons. One says "Internet Explorer", the other says "Internet Explorer (64-bit)" The regular internet explorer which used to work for months no longer does. The 64-bit icon connects immediately. The problem is--all of my programs that connect to the internet seem to want to point to the internet connection that does not work-IE or Firefox. And when I close them, I get the error mentioned above.
I traced the path of the icons. One goes to C\program files\internet exploer\iexplore. The Other goes to C\program files (x86)\internet explorer\iexplore. The latter of the 2 is the one that won't work-placed in the (x86) for 32-bit----correct? This is the icon that I had been using for two months and now it won't work. The one in the regular program files works just fine. I also found one traced to C\windows\winsxs\wow_64-microsoft-microsoftie..349Ay28.....This will not work either. But I am on the computer right now typing this post with the "64-bit" icon!!!!!!!!!!!
I spent FIVE HOURS on my CELL PHONE with Microsoft yesterday. I spoke with 6 techs, none of which knew what to do. WTF is that??!!!! Six Microsoft techs and none could fix my problem?!! Is it a 64-bit / 32-bit emmulation issue? Where did this other icon come from? Microsoft says I should only have a normal internet explorer icon. Then again, they didn't do a thing to help, so what do they know?
I have one other problem. I've been playing Ghost recon AW2 recently. Everything was patched to be current and running fine. After I overclocked my system I got some allocated memory error. So I re-installed the program. If I try the 1.0 version out of the box, everything runs perfectly(except for the internet problem). As soon as I patch it, I get this memory error. Any ideas? I've tried backing the system down for that too, but all it does is change the numbers in the memory error.
I need someone to help me because I don't want to deal with Moronsoft again. I don't think I can take another couple of hours doing nothing with them. These problems all began after I overclocked my machine. What software glitch does it sound like I need to fix? Please give me some ideas.
Thanks a lot for your help and advice in advance.