no the IP is signed when it is first registered, the only way to change it is to call up and you have to confirm some basic information that you typed in when you registered - so the priate would've had to have had access to his system.
Not unheard of but not very likely.
Liquidz somehow i think you've got a virus - i'm pretty sure my system has one atm, about 3weeks ago it started playing up.
Rebooting at random, hanging on bootup, hanging when media player is being used.
Most of the problems actually tie in with media player, i thought it was my new FX5200 at first being incompatible with my mboard (i was assured by Via last time that it wasn't thier board that caused it to be unstable with my WildcatVP, just for 3DLabs to turn around and tell me it WAS the Via chipset being the problem.) but i've tried several cards and the problem remained.
prior to reinstalling the system i was getting crash/memory leak messages to do with my MUP.SYS and the Processor DLL which would then make it impossible to reboot because each time it did it'd loop the boot and the same driver would dump the ram and reboot the system again.
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can't tell you a solution, cause Microsoft said they ain't got a clue - Norton doesn't dectect anything - McAfee doesn't either (which is weird cause if one can't the other oftenly can) - The HDD returns an "OK" health check, so does the Processor and Chipset.
personally can't figure out what the heck is going on, but i know something ain't right.
Had a similar reboot problem about a year ago, was caused by too much power being syphoned off - this time though my power consumptions actually gone down on the system, plus its using a 400watt PSU so should be good.
