Quick computer help

[TwoJ's]

I'll make this short. My power was out today for an hour or so, and now that it's back, my computer is pissing me off. First of all, I can't load specific web sites like espn, or the state site that I need to download my work. They work fine on my lap top.

Secondly, I have a CD drive and DVD burner, a normal hard disk and an external hard disk. After the power outage, the external drive is assigned F instead of G, and some phantom CD drive now has the drive designation F. It's pissing me off because all of my music and work files are on there, and the shortcuts I have for them are now useless. So where does this non-existent drive come from? In the device manager, it only shows the two that are there, not the new one.

Halp please; thanks.

[damith]

This may help you

CD and DVD drive
go to control panel and open the device manager and select the optical drivers and uninstall them, then do a "scan for hardware changes". this will allow your pc to install your optical drivers from scratch.


Websites
Try this trick. go to start and type "cmd", that will open the command prompt, then type the following

C:\>ipconfig /flushdns

then reboot the pc.

give it a try. good luck


Damith

[george graves]

Your BIOS batter might be going bad.

[TwoJ's]

for future reference, I have solved problems. The internet was not working because I have Peer Guardian and it somehow started blocking HTTP.

As for the phantom drive, powerISO decided to start automounting shit, and it created the F: drive. I disabled that, restarted and I had to go to control panel > admin tools > computer management > disk management > select the drive and edit the assigned letter.