DaveBC

I activated windows immediately upon installing. But now i get message on my taskbar counting down days left to activate. So I click the little set of keys and up comes a blank screen and nothing loads, so I wait still nothing loads in the window. So I close it. This is while i'm connected to the internet of course. After a while it does it again.. and again now it is 12 days left and I worry if my OS will stop working after it reaches 0. Any Ideas what to to? thanx DaveBC System Specs: WinXP Home Upgrade from Win98SE Athlon Slot A 850mhz VIA KX 133, w/VIA 4in1437v(a), w/IDE_MPD3014, w/VAGP410 BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 062710 11/20/00 256 mb Kingmax PC133 SDRAM Cas2 Clk2 Maxtor Diamond Max 30gig ATA66 7200rpm Creative 52x CDrom Creative SBLive Xgamer 5.1 w/XP Driver Update Conexant 56k v.90 Flex modem (avg connect 45.2k to 48k) Hercules GeForce 2 GTS/Pro 64 mb DDR w/nvidia ref driver XP21.83 With Quadro 2 driver patch(Infinite loop fix) AGP 4x w/fastwrites enabled, 128 mb apature DX 8.1 MS Sidewinder Precision Pro Altec Lansing 5 Speaker Surround KDS Visual Sensations 19 Monitor Desktop 1024x768x32 @ 70Hz

I find it strange that XP identifies my IDE hard disk and IDE CDrom as SCSI devices...tho they both function ok. Anyone else have this occur? Win98SE updated to XP Home Athlon slot A 850mhz KX133 VIA chipset, 4in1427v(a),IDE_MPD3014,VAGP410 256mb Kingmax PC133 cas2 GForce GTS/Pro 64mb DDR Nvida Ref drv 23.11 Maxtor Diamond Max 30gig 7200RPM ATA 66 IDE disk Creative 52x IDE CDrom DMA mode 2 thanx

http://www.soundblaster.com/drivers/welc...mp;x=82&y=8 SBLiveXPDrvUpdate.exe

thanx Valerie seems to be stable.. so far so good

I don't have any probs with RF with Windows XP Home. Smooth from start to finish.. System: Athlon slot A 850 mhz KX133 chipset w/4in1427v(a),VAGP410,IDE_MPD3014 256mb Kinmax SDRAM CAS2 CLK2 PC133 Gforce2 GTS/Pro Nvidia Ref Win2000/XP 23.11 Soundblaster Live X Gamer 5.1 XP/5.12.01.3210

You might try auto-detect IDE devices in system BIOS also. Then You can locate MSCDEX driver in XP database.

256 mb Kingmax PC133 Cas2 Clk2, AGP Apature 64mb

Since I upgraded from Win98SE to XP whenever I enable AGP 4x with fast writes system becomes unstable and crashes.... Am using VIA4in1 437v(a) Vid Card is Gforce 2 GTS/Pro With Nvidia Ref Driver Version 23.11. I am currently working with AGP 4x enabled with fast writes disabled, and the system is stable. Sys specs: Athlon slot A 850 mhz, SB Live X Gamer 5.1, Conexant v.90 56k Flex modem, Any one with info on this situation would be appreciated. Thanx