Shutting down running wild

So with migration you will no longer have the long shutdown, but CNN still wont play video content, in IE 7.0 that is. Will play ok in Safari.

You have tried resetting IE back to its defaults and disabling add ons.
You can see if your running the latest java version here.
You want to try reinstalling IE 7.0?. The page describes a reset of IE which you tried and provides a download link to reinstall.

What originally led me to a faulty hard drive was the shut down issue. According to the HP tools the HD is ok.
 
shelf life said:
So with migration you will no longer have the long shutdown, but CNN still wont play video content, in IE 7.0 that is. Will play ok in Safari.
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Yes, with the New set-up , shut down is no problem but CNN remains a problem. It virtually freezes.

shelf life said:
You have tried resetting IE back to its defaults and disabling add ons.
You can see if your running the latest java version here.
You want to try reinstalling IE 7.0?. The page describes a reset of IE which you tried and provides a download link to reinstall.
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I have done all these, and did it again as you instructed, but to no avail.

Now, my comments are the following. While setting things up, with the necessary configurations, and installations of the softwares, something came as a shock to me.

As I have just said that Shut-down was no problem with the new setting now, but the minute I installed AVIRA the free version, Shut-down went wild like the way I have described it so far. But after un-installing it, it becomes normal. Immediately, I took the old Hard Disc, and tried to un-install the Avira, and to my surprise, the shut down was normal.

Here is my question. Why does the Shut-down behave like that with Avira installed? Is it because of Windows XP?

Having said that, both Hard Discs are alright without Avira, but both still don't like CNN.

Now, I have left both HD without Antivirus until I get further instructions from you. Just for information, I used Grisoft AVG before adopting Avira (after un-installing the AVG). I wonder if this might be the cause(?).

(Last point. After re-installing the AVG for a test, no problem with Shut-down. Normal.)

JB
 
Software can and does cause problems. Can be hard to track down unless it starts right away, becomes a process of elimination after that. Don't know what caused your problem and theres probably no support for the free version.

You might find some clues at the Avira support forum if many people had the same problem.
Normally I would just uninstall and reinstall some other software, not worth the time or trouble when theres so much other software out there. You might want to try the free version of Avast as another choice for AV.

Do you have alot of codecs installed on your machine. For playing/watching or encoding video? Some people like to install codec packages, Could cause problems.
 
shelf life said:
Do you have alot of codecs installed on your machine. For playing/watching or encoding video? Some people like to install codec packages, Could cause problems.
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I am not very familiar with CODECS, but I can tell that I have the software called Aplian (Replay Media Splitter, Replay Converter, Replay Music, Replay Media). I am not involved in "game"ing, therefore no game softwares in the System. Oh, lest I forget, there is also Blaze Media Pro installed, together with Audacity ver.2.0.1. Realplayer is my main media for almost everything.

A couple of years ago, I must have tried few things for MP4 when it was hard to convert into it, which made me adopting Applian, after trying all sorts of available free softwares.

shelf life said:
Give this a try.
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I have just installed it, and run. The following was listed:
- AVI Splitter Codec
- Cyberlink Demultiplexer codec
- FFDShow LibMplayer codec
- FFdshow codec
- Indeo audio codec
- Mpeg Splitter codec
- Real Player Shell extension

It has successfully corrected all the items in the list.

After testing it, it has changed nothing for the moment - CNN remain unchanged.

I am now using the new setting from the previous Hard Disc 10th of October 2009. I am still in the process of updating the Windows, and upgrading the softwares. Jerusalem Online (which was a problem before, like CNN) is now working perfectly alright. System Shut-down is normal. CNN, shows no change. Once it starts to show the pictures, the fans accelerate wildly - sucks much cpu, and freezes, or erratically moves. I have installed this time, Firefox (instead of Safari), the latest version for watching CNN. There is no problem with it, co cpu sucking, and pictures display well.

That's for now. Thank you again for your continued help.

JB
 
So far we know CNN will play ok in another browser. Did you ever try CNN when you had IE 8.0 installed? I know you said you went back to 7.0.
Do have a pci or agp slot video card installed? If so do you have the latest drivers for the card?
 
shelf life said:
So far we know CNN will play ok in another browser. Did you ever try CNN when you had IE 8.0 installed? I know you said you went back to 7.0.
Do have a pci or agp slot video card installed? If so do you have the latest drivers for the card?
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Before I knew it, I crashed my machine. On Saturday, when I started the machine, I noticed something was wrong. First, it stopped by itself while I was away from it. When I came back, it went to sleeping mode, though I didn't set it that way. Next time, it just wouldn't start but kept looping at the Windows Logo, then back again, on and on. I couldn't even access Safe Mode.

I inserted the Recovery CD for repairing, and went as far as bootcfg/ rebuild, but I couldn't find the C Drive but E Drive only. It didn't recognize the C Dirive, and said that it was empty. That was very strange. Also, I used the Console for Fixmbr, but to no avail, either.

Finally, the last option left to me was to use Spinrite of Gibson to recover any damaged files (a process which I experienced last year), since I couldn't access chkdsk by the usual mode. When I started the process, I was surprised to see even the first sector was already damaged, and after that, so many unrecovered files appeared. It went all Saturday, Sunday even today, still hasn't finished it yet. That means, the HDD was badly damaged for some reasons which I can't explain, but all I know now, it can't be used again.

Therefore, I have to get another HDD, and restart the migration as before again. I will let you know how it went as soon as the Spinrite has done its job. I am trying to recover some of my data in there. I am very sorry for this string of bad news.

JB
 
Sorry for all the bad news, maybe it will become good news. At least you seem to have back ups and recovery media. Most people have neither one of those. I may be off line for a few days.
 
shelf life said:
Sorry for all the bad news, maybe it will become good news. At least you seem to have back ups and recovery media. Most people have neither one of those. I may be off line for a few days.
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Sorry for the silence from my part, too. The recovery took too long (day after day) that I gave up. I am now in the middle of re-installing the OS from much earlier point than the one I said before. It's very challenging than I thought. I even had to re-install IE7. One problem after another. For example, it took me 4 hours to fix Active X Controller. I have not even installed MS .Net Framework2 yet. I know this is going to be a nasty another experience.

shelf life said:
At least you seem to have back ups and recovery media. Most people have neither one of those.
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Perhaps you might have guessed it already. I had bad experiences before when I lost all of my data. That was a good lesson to me. From then on, I keep changing Hard Discs as often as I could so that, in any case I get into troubles, I just pick one from the stack, and updating it. Also, I do safely keep the two Recovery discs. This was one of my biggest trouble before for not having them ready at hand. Thanks for the compliments.
 
Hello there again,

I have just finished the long process of the migration, re-installing everything, and updating all the needful. The results follow:

- With IE7 kept as it is, I could watch CNN although at a rather dull speed. However, it doesn't freeze. Of course, the fans are quite noisy - consumming quite considerable cpu.

- All the rest are OK.

- It went all of a sudden without my knowledge, through updating, upgrading to IE8. Before I knew it, when I tried to open "Windows" Explorer to get some links I saved in the Favorites, the "Organize Favorites" windows went blank, displaying nothing but blank list. It was then I realized the IE must be (not IE7 but some other higher). And when I confirmed it, it was as I guessed- IE8. However, CNN didn't change much, as both IE7 and IE8 show no difference or superiority from each other. So, I un-installed IE8, back to IE7. However, in so doing, before I knew it, CNN went berserk, as described before. I couldn't watch CNN again. But, all other streaming videos online are OK.

Therefore, I get tired. Perhaps, I might as well stop it here, and to use Safari for CNN, or abandoning CNN altogether for others like ABC, etc.

Thank you again for all the efforts. I have learned a lot through those expertises of yours.

EMILE
 
hi John Bradford,

Sounds like a good plan to me. Whatever the problem is it dosn't seem like its worth spending much more time on it. You might also try FireFox, Opera or Chrome as your alternate browser for CNN. You might like one of them better anyway. Whatever other browser you use, remember to also keep it updated. I know FireFox has a auto update feature, Chrome also. I suppose Opera does to.
Sorry we couldnt get it resolved all the way. Happy safe surfing "out there".
 
shelf life said:
Sorry we couldnt get it resolved all the way. Happy safe surfing "out there".
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In fact I am so grateful to you. I counted it all resolved, considering the title of this thread, with the problem being on the wild shutting down. That was solved. All the streaming video online such as Jerusalem online are doing fine, and what more, even the idea of using other browsers in the case for CNN has been a great idea which I couldn't think of myself. Your expertise has been excellent. You handled the matter in a high level of professionalism. I hope others may find even a greater relief with their problems as I did with you.

John E. Bradford
 
This is a hasty note just to let you know that, I got a surprise this morning. I am sure you would be pleased to hear this. It's so happened that I can't explain what made it so. I could watch CNN flawlessly again with IE browser. What did it, I am not quite sure. It could be the Windows updates or the combinations of all things you led me to, inclucding the updating of Java. From my part, I did nothing besides that. All of a sudden, when I tried just for curiosity to double-click the icon of CNN on the Desktop using IE browser, there it went on normally. I tested it several times, again and again, just in case it was a one-time off experience. But it's real. I am now back using IE for CNN. Thank you so much again. All is perfectly well now.

John E. Bradford
 
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