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Update this evening: - Ran the XP Disk Cleanup utility then RegEdit (which is already installed and I hope does the same job as WinSockFix). Then opened a cmd window and ran 'flushdns'. Rebooted the PC and router and pinged both addresses. Still no response from "google.com" but 209.85...

Hi Igorian, I have 'Avast' virus protection and use Windows XP Firewall with IE 8. Unfortunately, I can't find any way to temporarily disable Avast. Today, I started the ADSL modem and after it settled (all green lights) I booted the PC. Avast then automaticaly updated itself from the...

OK, it's not so simple. Turns out Windows Firewall doesn't seem to affect it after all ! Wife came home a couple of minutes after my last post ^^^ while the PC was still on. We quickly set up her laptop and it logged in and connected to internet straight away. However, when she logged in to...

Hi Crofty & Igorian, While checking out your suggestions I turned off windows firewall :oops: Hey presto - internet pages appear. I will now have to wait on 'Er-indoors' to come home before I can try her laptop. I am not hopefull as I know I won't be able to fiddle with any of its...

Thanks for the reply: - 1. "Never dial" is ticked. Don't want to delete USB modem from IE as I am hot swapping between the two to get back here. But I am disconnecting the USB when trying the ADSL modem. 2. "host google.com not found" (checked I was doing it right by also pinging through...

Recently tried a Belkin ADSL Modem/Router (model F5D7633-4) to replace a USB broadband modem we have used with our PC, as wife wants to use her work-laptop too. Router is all set-up OK and all the lights are green. I can access its set-up pages from the PC and the wife can log-in to the Wi-Fi...

OK, I accept what you are saying. However, the magnatite still in the system is not currently a problem and I hope the Magnabooster will eventualy deal with that anyway (and catch the bits of old limescale in the process). I take it there is no easy way of dissolving the limescale out (like...

Thanks for your really usefull and helpfull comment (not) ! But if you check the times you will see - youllneverguess - it was actualy 3 days and 45 minutes ! If you have anything else to say - it has already been ignored.

The Magnabooster has been fitted below the boiler in the return pipe from the rads . It should have caught any crud that might have been floating around the system before it was switched off at Easter. I did drain it off into a washing-up bowl after 4 weeks from fitting but, though the water was...

Yes, it is the central heating water side within the DHW heat exchanger. The cold water side is fine as there is already an in-line filter ahead of the flow-valve diaphram, which has always been clean when I have checked it. The CH was only used for a few weeks since getting the cold GF rads...

No suggestions ? :( I really would like to sort this out before we put our CH back on when the cold weather starts. 8)

8 months ago I got good help from this forum to cure a CH system with cold ground floor rads. During that time the system was well flushed through with Sentinel X400 System Restorer and re-filled with X100 Inhibitor. I also took the opportunity to back-flush all the rads and fit a Spirotech...

Thanks for your suggestion. Having flushed the whole sytem repeatedly within an inch of its life, I have added X400 sytem restorer which I will leave to go round for a month. When I flush the system then, I will get a Magnaclean fitted to the return pipe (convenient location in a cupd under...

Just an update for those interested: - I removed the isolation valve from the flow underneath the boiler which was in a 6" section of horizontal pipe and found it chocablock with black stuff. This stuff extended from the valve into the pipe for about 2" solid. After scrapping the black...

Just been thinking some more about my post above^^^^. If I assume the return pipework and the rads are not blocked due to the good flow out the drain hose when back-flushing with the flow pipe isolated, would the following also be likely: - 1. With all the rads turned off except the one...

:lol: OK if you guys have got that out of your sytems - can I ask you to concentrate on mine and let me remind you of my very first post: - Do I really need to take a radiator off to do it again !!!?

I have been a bit cautious about strong sytem cleaners as the rads are nearly 40 yrs old and I am afraid of causing pinholing. We did have to replace the rad in the living room a few years ago after it leaked. How long should I leave X800 in if I am not using a power flushing kit ?

Its had X400 in it in the past, but has been flushed and re-filled a couple of times since (always added X100) when the DHW heat exchanger clogged up. Previously I allowed the sytem to heat up then drained it while still hot and repeated this a couple of times. A friend who fitted the boiler...

Any advice ? Is it difficult or have I missed instructions in the FAQs somewhere ? Thanks