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    - Delay selecting items in Explorer on external drive When clicking on any item - folder or file - in Windows Explorer for a USB2 external drive, there is a four/five second delay till that item gets highlighted. Happens every time only for one particular external drive. During that time everything is frozen. Except for this delay everything works fine. Do we need to look out for anything? Drive tested free of malware and viruses. Regards and thanks for any insights. Rubicon --------- Tag: Strange booting Tag: 332058
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    - Trying to recover XP after failed upgrade to SP3 I had my system just the way I wanted it and everything I wanted to do worked. Then I upgraded to SP3. SP3 wouldn't boot and nor would safe mode so I had to "repair" my installation by reinstalling my original SP1 installation disk and installing SP2 over the top of it. Sadly my system is nowhere near the state it was in before. Since SP3 caused this problem and SP3 intransigence in not allowing me to remove it in the usual way has caused a lot of problems that would take me 20 mins to list here ... however A brief list RPC server not working. Now partially fixed DCHP has to be started manually each time I start the machine. NVIDIA driver installation program doesn't recognise NVIDIA Geforce FX5200 card and won't install. I have downloaded 4 different drivers and have the CD driver which will run but still won't fire up the card upon a reboot. Drivers are: 71.89_win2kxp.english 91.31_winxp2kmce_english_whql 169.21_forceware_winxp (US version) 169.21_forceware_winxp (International version) Some programs won't run from links. AVG email detection disabled. Specs: Pentium 4 2.8GHz. 1.25Gb DDR PC2100 Ram I also have Windows 2000 Professional on the computer and that has no trouble booting or recognising the graphics card. Any suggestions? -- Bill Jillians, a dude BJ must be the king idiot here, because I've laughed out loud at his posts. - River (25/11/2007) Tag: Strange booting Tag: 332055
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    - Unable to retain multimedia keyboard 1.1 mouse settings I am using Windows XP with the Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard 1.1 along with the associated "Standard Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse". Everything works correctly, except the pointer options are not retained between system restarts. I need to manually set "Select a pointer speed" and "Enhance pointer precision" everytime I boot. It works as expected until the next time I boot the system. I think the problem started when the original keyboard/mouse failed, and I replaced it with a new identical keyboard/mouse. During the process I uninstalled/reinstalled all the software, downloaded new software, etc. I believe that an old set of software or settings is being loaded after the initial boot, so that the settings are not retained. I notice that there are two similar directories as follows: "c:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliTYpe Pro" "c:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliPoint" The Driver hardware details show: Microsoft USB Dual Receiver Wireless Keyboard (IntelliType Pro) Driver Date: 11/7/2006 Driver Version 6.10.155.0 File version: 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) How do I totally get rid of a previous install of the IntelliType software/settings so that I can do a fresh install?? -- None Tag: Strange booting Tag: 332049
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    - KVM and vista Has anyone sucessfully used a Belkin 2 port KVM switch with audio support and built in cabling between Win XP and Vista Home premium 32 bit using a USB/PS2 adaptor for a wireless mouse and keyboard. If so how did you get it to work? Belkin don't seem able to give a staright answer. Cannot find anything in MS KB. TIA John Tag: Strange booting Tag: 332042
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    - Using the right CPU together on the right mobo I want to know if I can mix and match AMD and Intel CPUs if they have the same amount of pin holes on motherboards. Anotherwords, can I use a Intel CPU on an AMD motherboard if it fits. Yes or no? Any help would be greatly apprecaiated. Thanks, attilathehun1 Tag: Strange booting Tag: 332032
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    - no sound when downgrading from vista to xp hi, would you mind telling me how you 'optimised your bios settings' to get the sound working. I have the same problem, had a look in bios settings but there is nothing there about audio or something that can optimise the bios. did you used a special bios program? Help would be much appreciated regards Christian. Hp Pavillion dv6000 series(dv6810eg)downgraded from Vista to XP Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331999
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    - DVD Drive Not Recognized I just got a new laptop and everything seems normal. However, when I open the C: drive nothing appears for the CD/DVD drive that should be there. How can I get Windows XP Pro SP-3 to recognize the CD?DVD drive? Thanks. Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331988
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    - Changing drive for startup and downloads Hi, I have c and e drive. c is my system startup drive, I have ran out of room on c. I would like to make e my default drive for start up and downloads ect...is this possible. I do have a copy of xp home. Thanks, Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331987
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    - Dual-boot, 4GB seen under Vista, wish to enable /3GB switch under Have a dual-boot PC with Vista 64bit and XP Pro 32 bit. I have enabled the memory remap in the BIOS so I now can see the 4GB (just added another 2 GB on PC with already 2GB). In XP I only see 2GB (instead of 2.93GB when Memory remap was *disabled* - then Vista was just showing 2.93 GB...) My understanding is that I should add the /3GB switch in the Boot.ini file of XP, but I am unsure on how to do since I do not get the same look and content : Microsoft suggest that the Boot.ini file should look like this then add the /3GB at the end: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="????" /3GB But my Boot.ini file looks like this (pls note the *FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN* at the end : ; ;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems. ;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options. ; [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN Do I simply add another space at the end and type ''/3GB'' (without the quotes) ? Or shoud I remove anything before ? Please remember that this is a dual-boot machine - I do not wish to screw anything (as I am not expert enough to feel at ease to recover from such a mistake...) Thanks, Rob Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331981
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    - New I/o Magic cd rw 52x32x52 Device mgr recognizes it as sony cd-rw crx 230ee. Cannot copy files to cd. tends to hang up computer. uninstalled Nero. Had sme problem with original ,assumed drive bad and replaced it with I/O magic. Still cannot copy to disk where is problem? -- Dell 8300 with Dvd Drive which works fine. Don Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331973
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    - Problem With Large Hard Drive Hello, Hardware is Dell Inspiron 9300, Windows XP MCE + SP2. I installed a 250GB WD hard drive in January 2008, and removed the existing 80GB drive. The new drive is IDE, as this seems to have been the last Inspiron made without SATA. The following story has happened three times since January. I booted the WD Data Lifeguard Tools CD 11.2 and created a partition of size 250GB. I booted Dell's XP CD and installed XP without incident. The computer runs fine for a while. After some time, the computer boots to an empty text screen with a cursor in the upper-left corner. This is right after POST and before anything Windows-related happens. So, F8 doesn't work, safe mode doesn't work, and there's no Windows logo. The only thing that I could think of that worked was to delete the partition and recreate it. The first two times that this happened, it was after about 2 months of using the computer. Everything worked very well in that time. I can't think of anything that happened out of the ordinary on the days when the computer stopped booting. The third time, I did a few things slightly differently. I installed CentOS (and a swap partition) on two other partitions. I installed GRUB as well, thinking that this might help diagnose the problem. It turns out that XP stopped booting after less than a month. GRUB works fine, and I can boot into CentOS without problem. When I try to boot into XP, it shows the "rootnoverify" and "chainloader" lines on the screen, and then nothing more. Here's a list of things that I've tried, in no particular order: I ran FIXMBR and FIXBOOT from the XP recovery console. This removed GRUB, but it didn't boot into Windows. I reinstalled GRUB after this. I ran chkdsk from XP recovery console. I checked the NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM files. They match the files on the XP install CD. Interestingly, I can read the files from the XP partition in CentOS. I've been able to back up my files *after* the boot problems each time. Anyone have any ideas? I appreciate the help. - Kert Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331971
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    - Installation of SP3 I am using the Traditional Chinese winxp sp3. I find that IE7 encountered error and required shutdown occurs more frequent than at the time of SP2. Have your encoutered the same? -- Jerry Wong ¦ý§ÚÌ·Ó¥LªºÀ³³\¡B ¬ß±æ·s¤Ñ·s¦a¡A¦³¸q©~¦b¨ä¤¤¡C(©¼«á3:13) But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness. (2 Peter 3:13) Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331969
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    - Quad at 2.4 or Dual at 3.0 ? Intel Quad at 2.4 GHz is priced the same as a Dual at 3.0 GHz. I will be using Windows XP. Which CPU should I get? Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331967
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    - Not powering off HI, When i shut down my desktop, the system does not power off. I only get the display Its now safe to power off your computer (as in AT PCs), Are there any settings in XP or the BIOS that i need to check to rectify this situation? My PC has ATX power supply and AMD Athlon processor. Thanks for any help. Ramesh Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331963
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    - New cloned Hard Drive question Hi, The motherboard on my old PC went bad and I had to get a new PC. I installed a second 200G HD and cloned the HD from my old fried computer to this new secondary HD. My new PC runs XP Pro and the new cloned drive, I'm attempting to get XP home to operate. I can get this cloned drive to boot by changing the BIOS but I can only get XP to load in safe mode. Previous to getting safe mode there's a blue screen with suggestions and the problem listed there is STOP: 0x0000007E (0x0000005, 0xBA2F8750, OxBA4E342C, 0xBA4E3128). I tried copying all the drivers from the XP Pro that shipped with my new PC into the Drivers folder of the non booting system but it didn't solve the problem. I need to get this running since my kids had lots of games and educational software on the fried PC that can't be easily replaced. Thanks Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331954
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    - sata to IDE - boot up issues Hi all, I originally ran my xp sp2 pc with a SATA main boot disk. Thi failed, so I replaced it with a new IDE disk drive I had. this wa some time ago, so I cant remember what I did at the time, but I hav tried now to install a SATA data only drive. The problem is the PC i trying to boot up from this sata drive & just goes dead as there is n OS on this disk. I have checked the BIOS & it should be looking at th IDE drive to boot up - but there is clearly a problem as soon as enable the on board sata drive & install the disk, - an suggestions/help ? thank -- randalls Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331942
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    - Old Duke is a TROLL Don't anybody encourage him by responding to his invidious remarks. Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331933
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    - power supply Hi there, How do I find out what are the specifications of my ATX power supply? There is nothing about that in the (MS-6330 ATX) manual. I am beginning to wonder if it is adequate enough for all my periferals. OR Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331917
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    - MS xp sp2 bluetooth stack has no headset profile? So to use a bluetooth headset (VXI) for voice dictation, I first need to uninstall the MS bluetooth stack and disable the bluetooth radio that came with my laptop... thereby allowing me to install a 3rd party dongle and Widcomm? If this is right, how is the MS bluetooth stack unistalled? I've seen this but it is 3 years old. http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/07/05/bluetooth.html?page=1 Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331911
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    - Multiple IDE's Recently an installation disk created problems with my CD's drives, a CD/DVD-R and a CD. I uninstalled the drives and they reistalled. The problem is that I hear a clicking sound when they play. I was advised in a forum to uninstall the primary and secondary IDE's. It solved the problem. Once again an installation disk (the same one) has created the same problem. I looked at the IDE's and I now have three primary and three secondary IDE's. Question - I would like to do the uninstall thing again. Should I do it on all three primary and secondary? They are all identical, except that the first one of each does not have a disable function. I appreciate any help. Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331910
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    - Removing the old arctic silver from the CPU and heatsink What do you use to clean off the old arctic silver from the CPU and heatsink fan assembly? Does it matter to clean off the old arctic silver when using it again, before applying the new arctic silver? Thanks, attilahthehun1 -- attilathehun1 Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331888
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    - Removing the CPU heatsink and fan assembly Ok, I did it, myself. I used a large straight head screwdriver and some large needle nose pliers. I first removed the motherboard from the PC, after labeling or labelling the motherboard connectors with the front panel connectors with post address labels. I then took a good look at how it was hooked up and then pushed down with the screwdriver and pulled out with the needle nose plier the heatsink and fan hook-up and presto! I didi it! Now, isn't it better when someone isn't jealous and will tell someone with precise ways of doing things. Ok, gotta go, but I feel alot better. It took me days of dealing with morons to finally get this to go. I did this myself without any help, wait I take that back. There was one person who said to use pliers and a screwdriver, but he didn't go into detail. I did that, going into detail. See, I don't need to do PC tech work for a living, at least, not yet. Thanks, attilathehun1 -- attilathehun1 Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331887
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    - SOUND CARD/ON BOARD SOUND ENABLING ISSUES I have a sound card installed into a PCI slot on my computer, but a recent storm damaged it; it was in beside my network card (Which was also fried.) I have been told that my HP Pavillion a1737c has on board sound; but... I do not know how to tell Vista to look for it. Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331861
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    - Error 88780078 How to fix 88780078 i cant listen music Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331860
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    - Intel Extreme Graphics Wow... all these threads date three years back.... Is there ANY known fix for this... I've noticed all of these threads about the subject of upgrading the craptacular Intel Extreme Graphics to the Chaintech Nvidia FX 5200 video card has no seen solution. I've been researching for a few weeks now and found nothing... absolutely nothing on getting a permanent fix for this other than reformatting but forget that, I will not do it. I also get the same error of "New Hardware Found" when done with the BIOS... and that's everyone's failed remedy. Contacting Intel is hopeless... I never got a straight answer on how to correct it. Nor did I think the support dude know how to fix it... the best suggestion I got was to reformat... and then I got a refusal when asking Intel to provide a legit copy of XP so I can, in fact, reformat.... lol - HYPOCRITES Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331842
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    - CD ROM not detected by Bios/Windows I was trying to help someone with a cd rom problem. The Bios said the cd rom is not installed and it doesn't show up in windows. MSINFO doesn't recognize any cd rom. It has been there and worked fine in the past. You can open the cd rom and the rw drive bay. They at least have power and nothing happens if you put in a cd. The cables are all connected in the right place. I thought about trying to get a new IDE cable for the cd and cd rw drive. Anything else I should try first? Thanks. Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331837
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    - HUM sound I have Samsung 26" monitor cum TV and I get a continuous Humming sound from its speakers (and it was not there previously). When I minimize the window the sound gets reduced. Tried to lower the volume nothing happens. Even tried to keep 'No Sounds' in the sound scheme in the sounds and audio devices properties---but failed. I want silence. Could it be achieved? Please guide. dkb Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331834
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    - OT: APC BK650MI ... Anyone know how to get XP Home to automatically shut-down, when there is a power outage ? Years ago I bought an APC Back-UPS 650 (not the "pro" version i.e. it didn't come with Powerchute CD and serial lead,...there is however a female RS232 port on the back of it.) ...I just bought on ebay, for 90p, an "APC basic signalling lead," which I understand is an RS 232 with unusual pin-outs and a resistor across two pins somewhere ! i.e. it's an APC 944-0020C http://www.apc.com/support/faq.cfm#5 ...and it's now plugged in ! I suspect there is some sort of comminication on the RS2323 lead, because if I go into XP power management | UPS tab and change COM 1 to COM 5 I get an error message on the UPS tab in XP Power management. I've selected APC Back-UPS in Power management, and any change in settings in there, takes a good half minute before the timer bottle goes away. ...anyhow, cutting the mains power so that the battery kicks in, does not produce any messages on screen. I haven't been able to install the APC Powerchute software. i.e. I've downloaded several versions and tried them, and each one says "unable to locate an APC battery on a USB port" !! ...so I've tried locating an older version that hopefully will detect an RS232 port. ...any clues gratefully accepted ! regards, Richard Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331831
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    - Core 2 Duo CPU, and Task Manager I've got several systems running Core 2 Duo T5500's, (mobile) on some mini-ITX motherboards (iGoLogic i3899). Device manager shows both CPU cores, but Task Manager will only show one on the Performance tab, regardless of the settings I choose. Any idea why I can't see a chart for each core? The View menu doesn't give me the typical dual-core choices. Win XP Pro SP2. -John O Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331828
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    - Blank Device Manager Am lost, I have a device manager that has nothing there. I have checked. plug-and-play, Regedt32 ck ENUM and Started windows in the safe mode and last good confg plus I went to device manager and ck view to see if it was hidden .No help still have a blank device manger.Am Lost. Thanks for you help Joe Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331819
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    - sp3 will not re boot with a firewire external hard drive attached Please help. I have 2 Identical computers. One which had the WD Firewire my book attached and turned on all the time sp3 was installed has no problems re booting. The other which had the WD drive off during the sp3 installation will not reboot if it is later on at the time of the boot. Once xp up and running WD drive can be attached as normal but must be off for boot ups. Uninstalling and re installing sp3 with it on doesn't help still won't re boot with it on. Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331805
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    - More than 1 bluetooth stack ok? I have a Microsoft bluetooth keyboard/mouse using these: Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator Microsoft Wireless Transceiver for Bluetooth 2.0. Can a Widcomm based wireless headset run ok with this bluetooth keyboard set? I mean can I also add the bluetooth software that comes with the new device so that both the keyboard and new bluetooth device will cooperate? Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331794
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    - 2 External USB HD for XP and ME Hi, I have 2 PC's. 1 with XP with an External USB HD. The 2nd PC has Win ME. Is there such a thing as an External USB HD that will work with Win ME? Where, when and how can I purchase it and install it? Thanks for your help and tips ; Novice @ New Orleans Louisiana "Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist." COMPAQ PRESARIO S5100 Motherboard P4G533LA ASUSTeK Award BIOS v6.0 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz Memory DIMM SDRAM 1024 Maxtor 6Y060L0 HD, External USB 75 GIG Creative Labs Audigy SE Monitor Envision ENVISION Wireless 2Wire Modem / Router Wireless BellSouth DSL Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331792
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    - Canon Video Camera, causing computer to crash? when I plug in my camera it makes my computer crash, or if its plugged in for a few minutes some times its okay, but most of the time it makes my computer crash, or other programs to stop responding before it crashes? Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331791
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    - problem in detecting empty DVD's I have a intel 3.06GHZ processor with 915GML-V MSI mainboard with 1.2 G of ram and 400GB HDD and a LG 20X DVD RW. The problem with my computer is when i try to play a movie DVD, i works fine but if is have a empty DVD disk in there it is no recognising the disk. I tried various branded disks but no go. Update the firmware and then deleted the upper filter and the lower filter an then restarted. Nothing works out. I have no issues with CD's but it i the DVD's that is causing the problem.. plz hel -- yosof ----------------------------------------------------------------------- yosoft's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=4938 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=97213 http://forums.techarena.i Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331784
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    - 4000 ergonomic keyboard DISASTER I decided to try this keyboard (the USB wired version) and am having problems I cannot believe. Here's the list: The scroll wheel on my mouse ONLY zooms text size; it doesn't page up and down as it did before. (The mouse wheel setting is set to "scroll one screen." Why does putting on a new keyboard mess with the MOUSE??) I can't use ALT-TAB to cycle among running programs. All it will do is cycle among tab sites on the page that's up. In FireFox (yeah yeah I know) PGUP / PGDOWN cycle among tabs instead of moving the pages up and down. At least they work in IE7. I can't click on a program icon on the task bar and bring a running program to the front. In fact, with this and the loss of ALT-TAB, I can't BRING a running program to the foreground. Something is overriding my folder options: when I click on a folder within Windows Explorer, it pops a new window. My folder options say, open in same window. I tried to write up my problems and the ENTER and PGUP / PGDOWN keys didn't work at all. I hope it isn't because I use OpenOffice instead of Word for that particular document; a keyboard that only works with Microsoft software would be useless to me. I tried uninstalling my old Logitech drivers and it did no good at all. This can't be the way it's intended to work. Is this a known problem? Do I need new drivers? Is there some setting I'm missing?? If I can't get some answers that fix this Real Soon Now, I'm taking the thing back to BestBuy for a refund, because it is useless in its current state. -- hedera Nature bats last. Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331782
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    - CREATIVE ZEN NOT RECOGNIZED Hi there. About a 2 weeks ago I've bought a Creative Zen 8GB player. It comes with no driver installation - just synchronizing and exploring software. As it is an MTP device, it should be found and fully recognized by Windows XP Pro on which I'm running at. However at my PC it is NOT recognized!!! I tried to plug it in my friends computer - it was immediately recognized and he could explore it by windows explorer, Winamp and WMP (10). I also tried to connect it into my work computer - also with success... Not with my own PC. USB's are working well, have no issues with another devices, and ZEN is also being charged when connected. But not recognized. I have searched for hours at creative forums, at creative help base, tried several things that were advised, but with NO SUCCESS!!! PLEASE for any help!!! I'm going mad about it... Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331771
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    - OT: Intel Wireless WiFi 4965AGN stuck at 54.0 Mbps Does anyone know why a HP Compaq 6820s laptop that has an Intel Wireless WiFi 4965AGN mini-PCI adapter be constantly stuck at 54.0 Mbps when within 3 feet of the 11n router? I have followed the recommendations of Intel and set the router to WPA(2) with AES encryption. The card was warranted replaced and I have tried both the Intel Pro management software and Wireless Zero Configuration. Neither will get the Intel card to exceed the 54.0 Mbps speeds. The router is a TRENDnet TEW-631BRP and I know that the 802.11n signals are working since there is a D-Link RangeBoost N (DWA-142) USB adapter two floors up (router in the basement, D-Link on the second story of the home) which is connecting at greater than 200Mbps. BTW: Does anyone know if the number of wires connected to this model of mini-PCI wireless card is important? This one only has two connected to "port" 1 and 3. One is completely "non-existant" / not connected (port2.) I fear that HP has lamed this adapter since I found several references that this card needs all antennas connected but it seems that there is only one in this HP. Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331767
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    - Computer startup problem Hi All I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro laptop. When I switch it on fan starts then stops and nothing happens its like switching itself off the green light is on but will not show anything. Any ideas where I should start to look for the problem. Thank you -- B J G Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331763
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    - SATA Western Digital Caviar HD install and set up problems I'm having mega headaches trying to install a SATA HD and get it running. My motherboard is a Gigabyte 915P MB -GA-8195P Duo (Pro), new about 2 ½ years ago - which initially had 2 Hitachi 160 GB SATA HDs set up in a Raid O array. These occupy two of the four SATA slots on the MB. It also had an IDE DVD RW originally and I later added a SATA Pioneer DVD RW in one of the spare slots. This was recognised by windows and worked immediately. I've now acquired a Western Digital 400GB SATA drive to occupy the last remaining SATA slot. WD's web site indicated that a jumper was required to cause this second generation SATA drive to revert to a 150MB?s transfer rate which is the speed quoted in the Gigabyte MB user guide. It reads: "S_ATA0/S_ATA1/S_ATA2/S_ATA3 (Serial ATA Connector) Serial ATA can provide 150MB'stransfer rate. Please refer to the BIOS settings for the Serial ATA and install the proper driver in order to work properly" (My italics - I don't understand the reference to installing a driver). The problem. The WD HD shows up during POST and in CMOS but Windows will not boot. Instead the following message appears: "Boot from CD Boot from CD Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter." I've been into BIOS to try and fix things. In Bios, the standard CMOS features show the following: "IDE Channel 0 Master HL-DTST DVD RAM GSH (The IDE DVD RW?) IDE Channel 0 Slave None IDE Channel 2 Master S_ATA1_ Raid drive IDE Channel 2 Slave S_ATA2_ (the Western's id) IDE Channel 3 Master S_ATA3_ Raid drive IDE Channel 3 Slave S_ATA4_ (the Pioneer's id)" In the Advanced BIOS features the boot priority is: "Hard drive CD Rom Floppy." On entering the Hard Drive Boot Priority, I found at first that the WD HD appeared before Intel Raid - Volume 0 (assumed to be the Hitachi RAID drives. I changed the order and rebooted, hoping that I had solved the problem. But the same "Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter." Message appears. What have I missed? The MB user guide reference to "Please refer to the BIOS settings for the Serial ATA and install the proper driver in order to work properly" confuses me. What drivers? Can anyone help me out with this and tell me what to do to get this new HD up and running? TIA John Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331762
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    - Max CPUs supported by WinXP Pro? What is the maximum number of CPUs WinXP Pro will use? I've dug through the MS and MSDN sites but can't find the technical specs. Thanks. Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331750
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    - Windows XP Automatic Updates & 0x800703e7 I have never been more aggravated and frustrated in my entire life! Microsoft Support is about like trying to communicate with one on one. I mean as to HIM actually talking back. You call for tech support & you get some one in India or the Phillipines and you can not understand them because of their accents. I have spent over 12 hours on the phone for the past two days, trying to find out why I can not get my automatic updates to turn on in my Security Center. I have had one technician in my computer trying to resolve this issue for 3 hours and he could not resolve this, but NOT once did he go and try to do an UPDATe and get this Ox800703E7 error. It is very frustrating to be on the phone with some one 3 hours and have them in your computer & all of a sudden get disconnected from you & your computer & they know your phone number and don't bother to call you back, after you have stays up until 530 in the morning. Then they are going to have a SENIOR technician from Microsoft call at a certain time. They did not call me when they said, and waited and called on Sunday when I was at church! Then said that they will call back tonight between 7 and 9. Well I hope that who ever calls me tonight does not have any thing but an American English accent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This problem should be an easy fix for a Microsoft specialist, that is if they exist. I've been transferred and sent all around the world and back and still no help. I'd like to get out my shot gun and give this computer to the junk pile! Windows XP Professional is what I have and a Microsoft Engineer put it on my computer. But he wants to charge me to bring my computer in rather than work with me over the phone! Why can't things ever be simple??? I would think this would be. I did not have this problem until I installed AVG 7.5 on my computer and upgraded to 8.0, and all hell broke loose. I uninstalled the 8.0 and installed McAfee and it seems that is when the problem occurred. I've read that a third party program could cause this problem. SOME BODY WITH A BRAIN PLEASE HELP ME! Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331730
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    - Removing the old CPU fan and heatsink and installing the new one. I want to know how to remove the old fan and heatsink from my motherboard. It turns out the CPU is probably good. Now I installed the fan and heatsink on the PC I built 3 years ago by using a screwdriver and pressing down with a bit of pressure to engage the hook mechanicism. Now there is different release points on different mobos. I can see on the Compaq presario 5000 A stock PC mobo there is a lever that I think you push down on to release the CPU fan and heatsink? On the motherboard I'm trying to fix is a model M7VIG 400 mobo that supports AMD processors. I just want to remove the CPU and put it into another M7VIG 400 mobo. There is an AMD processor in it. I bought it 3 years ago from, not Fries, but the other main PC store that has alot of outlets. Anyways, oh yeah, CompUSA and it was a bundle package. There AMD bundle. Ok, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, attilathehun1 -- attilathehun1 Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331727
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    - secondary ide connector issue I have a very puzzling situation. Dell Dimension 4400 Running Windows XP When a CD-Rom drive is connected to the Secondary IDE (either master or cable-select), Windows XP Home Edition will not boot. When it gets to the Widnows XP logo screen, the computer just hangs for hours and hours. The computer will not boot into safe mode either. When I disconnect the CD-Rom drive, everything works fine. I tried connecting several other CD-Rom drives that I know work and I get the same result. I can boot from disk with the drive so I know it's connected, but Windows will not load. I tried a different IDE cable, same result. I tried connecting a Zip Disk 250 and that works just fine. The problem is narrowed down to just the CD-Rom drives. I tried updating the ide controller and that didn't fix it. I also made sure I was using the most current Bios on my PC. ANY SUGGESTIONS? This situation seems odd to me. Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331724
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    - OT: utility that can report memory CAS latency please... ...so that I don't have to disconnect ssytem box, and remove a memory module to actualy look at it ? I can remember seeing current actual CAS latency timing reported in a utility once, but, can't remember what it was. TIA, regards, Richard Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331706
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    - What is wrong with my harddisk? My OS fails, and I remove existing HD into another PC as a slave drive, D drive [C drive as a primary drive] can be recognited, but E drive [D Drive as a primary drive] cannot be recognited, and request for format. This HD can be access before, does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this problem on reading E drive? Thanks in advance for any suggestions Eirc Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331703
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    - SD Card Reader problem I have XP MCE 2005 with SP3, on a DELL Inspiron 6000, with a built in SD Card Reader. On 4/28 I totally reloaded the system with the OEM XP SP2 CD. Applied the downloaded SP3, not WU, then applied IE7,WMP11 and other updates and my software applications and restored data. Hey the PC works great. I have a 4 gig SD chip in the drive that just kinda stays there and I have a batch file I run routinely to backup strategic files. Works great. And to tell you the truth, I don't know when this started as I usually don't take the card out of the machine. When I boot, with or without the card in, it works. Either its there when I boot as a hard drive, or when I insert it, I get the ding dong and the drive appears. All's well so far. If I remove it I again get the ding dong and it disappears. Now the problem. If I re-insert it again or another card, I don't get the ding dong, but a dong dong. And I say it that way as the normal sound is two different tones but the 2nd insert it is the lower pitched sound two (maybe 3) times. And if I look in device manager the SD Memory Card has the yellow ! beside it and the error is: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory. (Code 38) Found the code 38 on MS but it just says run the troubleshooter.. Thanks MS. That's no help. I've uninstalled the sd memory card and then let XP search for hardware, and it finds it, installs it and has me reboot. After the reboot it finishes and asks for one more reboot. But all this solves nothing. I've even tried going into properties and setting the drive to quick disconnect (or whatever that wording is in the properties). I read that it just bypasses the write cache but it should make removing the card easier if not safer. I swear this used to work under SP2, I have a 2 gig chip in my camera and I normally flip these around of course to read the camera chip. Not often but I do every 2 weeks or so when I do a photo shoot. I just thought I'd ask before trying the link for the free SP3 support tomorrow. I've googled and searched MS but don't find a thing. Tag: Strange booting Tag: 331701

After formatting the HD and adding a new one on my Intel pentium 4 PC I
noticed a strange behavior: I need to press any key on the KB to have it
boot. Then everything runs fine.
Any idea?
Thanks,
Andrea

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