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Windows XP Home. Buffalo PCI desktop wireless card, 125* capable. Belkin router, 125* capable. Gateway laptop 7422GX, with Broadcom wireless chip set, 125* capable.

In theory, a fully 125* capable environment will reach 125 Mbps. With just the desktop and router on, I get this. Add the laptop, and speeds drop to 54 or less. With just the laptop and router, still 54 (sometimes 48 or 36).

How to get the 125 speed on all? Afterburner setting enabled on desktop. Afterburner and Xpress enabled on laptop.

I have a Toshiba Satellite p25 S509 with Windows XP Home and 512RAM and 100GB hard drive bought at the end of 2003. I use Norton Internet Security 2007 and AVG for virus protection. About 6 months ago I had to have the motherboard replaced because it wasn’t receiving any power from the A/C adapter.

The screen constantly shakes and twitches; when it gets really bad, the top centimeter or two wraps around to the bottom of the screen and anything displayed is illegible. Sometimes, the bottom of the screen is more distorted than the top (it squishes, sort of). Right now it seems to do it more when a few programs are on, that wasn’t always true, however.

I’ve looked around on the internet and I’ve found a few possible causes: the graphics card (I don’t know how to test this possibility out), the a/c adapter (it was bought Dec. 2006), overheating (what to do, what to do?), virus maybe?, the amount of RAM…

Please, give me some advice on how to figure out what is wrong.
Thank you!
I would prefer to try and figure/fix this myself before consulting a business for help… mainly for financial reasons. I have never had a problem with my computer before the motherboard issue and that work was done by Best Buy because I still had a service plan on the computer; that is expired now. But… this problem might be related to that problem? I am good with working on desktop computers and upgrading them but I have never ventured far enough to open up a laptop…
Which drivers? I am updating everything that is in my computer (ie video card) that I can find on the internet… but there’s nothing external attached to my laptop (or anything I’ve installed on this computer for that matter). Instead of a new screen, could I use a monitor to fix the problem temporarily or would the problem carry over?

Windows XP HOME on both. I have a Linksys wireless router in place and each computer is able to access the internet connection. I would like to send files (Word, Excel, Pictures directly to the other computer.
Any ideas on how this can be done?

I’ve got Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 installed on my Windows XP home computer. I’m able to open web pages begining with “https” (secure pages) but unable to open pages begining with “http” (regular pages) in the address.

I’ve got Mozilla Firefox 1.5 also installed and it works alright…

What’s causing this problem? How can it be resolved?

NOTE:
I require to use Internet Explorer to access my online banking site. It doesn’t work with Mozilla Firefox or any of the other browsers.

I’ve been told that there’s a Memory mismatch with the motherboard on my home computer.

The Internet Explorer settings are the default settings on installation…

I’m using ZoneAlarm as firewall and BitDefender as anti-virus software. I’d earlier un-installed these software to connect to the internet. It still had the same problem without the firewall and anti-virus software. I don’t get any error messages. The page does not display any error messages and the status bar does not display any messages.

i have a windows xp home pc on a small network about 10 PC’s using several linksys routers. ran new cables to new room and moved two pc’s. One of the two pc’s has a database file on it that other PC’s on the network need to get to but know cant access. This PC can get on internet but when I run IPCONFIG /renew I get Media Disconnected error. I can not see any of the other computers in my workgroup from this PC. I have tried the winsockxp fix nothing tried a repair still nothing tried setting a static IP still nothing. Any ideas would help.