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Topic: help
Posted By: blackboat
Subject: help
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 7:50pm
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got any pc gurus here,,,i have been having some major dramas with my pc ,im running xt telecom stick and 2 saturdays ago my net stopped would connect but not view web pages ,after many hassles was told by telecom that in my area others were having same trouble ,9 days went by still no net so bought a vodafone prepay stick which got me up and running ,,,yesterday the missus down loaded at work the last software from telecom on a flashdrive bought it home download on this pc ,reinstalled xt software a great back up and running ,,now when i shut off the pc and restart i get msgs of invalid enter and cant connect to net only way i can i unistall software and reinstall ,this problem was here before the missus downloaded the flashdrive ,how can i fix this ,i use avg which seems ok does the trick ,cheers jason |
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Posted By: Screaming Reels
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 8:06pm
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AVG is history aint used that in a long time.If you live in Auckland give thuis number a ring might be able to help just tell him Alan gave you his number. 096250059 ------------- The Car Doctor Mangakino |
Posted By: blackboat
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 8:11pm
| cheers SS but im in nelson ,so what you use i go for the free stuff |
Posted By: davethefisho
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 8:13pm
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blackboat, I use Avast for my anti virus, one of the best free ones around. just google it. |
Posted By: ThomasW
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 8:14pm
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Is invalid enter the entire error message? I doubt it is virus related so I doubt AVG has anything to do with it. |
Posted By: blackboat
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 8:19pm
| nah tom thats the first msg cant remember the next one ,,hard to describe it its like a programme that stops the connection manager |
Posted By: ThomasW
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 8:22pm
| Maybe you could try asking the same question on this forum http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp - http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp , I have never experienced such a problem before so would be blind stabbing trying to diagnose it from afar. |
Posted By: Brooook
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 8:32pm
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What OS are you using? Have you tried the Telecom stick on another PC or laptop?
Maybe Telecom is correct and the XT network in your area is playing up? Vodafone and Telecom use different networks which is why one would work but not the other. ------------- Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.............Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer, |
Posted By: blackboat
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 8:35pm
| the stick works fine on others as well as this one ,,it only happens when shutting off pc next time you startup the msg occurs when the connection manager comes up ,,whats OS karen |
Posted By: Brooook
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 8:39pm
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Operating system. Do you have XP, vista, or windows 7? ------------- Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.............Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer, |
Posted By: ThomasW
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 8:40pm
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It might be worthwhile to download and run a registry cleaner. They can cause problems at times but it might help in this case. http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/tp/free-registry-cleaner-programs.htm - http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/tp/free-registry-cleaner-programs.htm I do not like fiddling with the registry but it might be at fault. He is using Windows Vista/2008 |
Posted By: blackboat
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 8:43pm
| vista on this lappy some reckon its crap i do not know,it did an update and the guy in telecom richmond reckons it played havoc with stick so he updated stick drivers ,,im no techy dude so not sure what the hell im talking about which makes it worse |
Posted By: Brooook
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 8:47pm
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Don't do a registry cleaner unless you know what you are doing....
The XT connection manager software is a piece of ****e, apparently.
Are you plugging it into the same USB port everytime? ------------- Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.............Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer, |
Posted By: Screaming Reels
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 8:48pm
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Wont be a virus but like davethefisho i use avast it is free and i never ever had a problem with it. Good luck with your problem. ------------- The Car Doctor Mangakino |
Posted By: Brooook
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 8:51pm
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Did you uninstall the previous connection manager before installing the new one from the flashdrive? ------------- Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.............Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer, |
Posted By: blackboat
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 9:01pm
| the other sat morn i decided to play with unstalling which i can do and thats when i got the probs forgot to mention ,but only because the flamin net decided to seize working ,got it plugged in different slot now make no diff into the hospital it will have to go |
Posted By: Brooook
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2010 at 9:20pm
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Now that you have the software on flashdrive, unplug the T-stick and try uninstalling from Control Panel:
Control Panel - Programs and Features. Uninstall every version of connection manager that you see there. Make sure you have the T-stick unplugged when you uninstall and reboot.
Once it's rebooted, try plugging in the T-stick and see if it downloads connection manager automatically. If not, reinstall from your flashdrive.
It's worth a try... ------------- Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.............Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer, |
Posted By: Pickles
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2010 at 1:29pm
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A lot of the software released with Telecom products have pretty flakey uninstall executables that miss several important footprints including the registry keys.
Uninstalling the t-stick only may not work (fingers crossed it does) but if not you will need to also clear out several different areas of the OS regardless of the OS version.
Dont get a reg cleaner whatever you do, take it to a pro like me
 or some of the other lurkers in these forums that know their stuff. And be wary of small pc shops that will find all different kinds of reasons to upsell you to new hardware/software. It sounds as though its just misconfigured software.Good luck
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Posted By: Softbaiter
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2010 at 8:26am
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have you tried a system restore to roll back the pc to an earlier point in time? not my fav way of resolving these issues but it comes in handy from time to time. And DO NOT use a registry cleaner, most of the time they do more harm than good. if you can get connected like you mentioned earlier, but have no data transfer, id recommend doing a ping test, go to start - run (or the search box in vista\windows 7) type cmd and press enter, type ping google.com press enter. you should get 4 replies like below C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com Pinging google.com [74.125.127.103] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 74.125.127.103: bytes=32 time=218ms TTL=50 Reply from 74.125.127.103: bytes=32 time=218ms TTL=50 Reply from 74.125.127.103: bytes=32 time=218ms TTL=50 Reply from 74.125.127.103: bytes=32 time=218ms TTL=50 Ping statistics for 74.125.127.103: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 218ms, Maximum = 218ms, Average = 218ms if you dont, then try pinging an ip address type ping 74.125.127.103 and press enter. If you get a reply from the IP address, but not the host name (google.com) you have a DNS problem, if you can ping both, its likely a browser issue, if you can ping neither it is likely something is blocking ports such as a firewall, or your TCP/IP stack could be bung. |
Posted By: blackboat
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2010 at 7:09pm
| cheers guys, yip still got this problem SB will run through that list see what happens ,will let you know what i find out ,,,been told will have to format etc but i not know how that all done so will see if missus knows |
Posted By: Softbaiter
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2010 at 8:53am
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Try the system restore first Blackboat. |
Posted By: CEEBEE
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2010 at 2:10pm
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Blackboat
Pm me if you like (If you are on the Northshore) can have a look for you, advise etc.
Cheers CeeBee ------------- I STARTED THE DAY WITH NO FISH AND I STILL HAVE PLENTY LEFT |
Posted By: blackboat
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2010 at 9:39am
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CEEBEE wrote: