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Hi, I just bought some PC2700 SODIMM ram for my dell laptop. I made sure it was the right type and everything but when I try to boot it up, the little lock thingy with an "A" on it just blinks, then it shuts off. The notebook has 256 mb already and I wanted to add 256 more. When I boot with the other ram it works fine, but whenever the new ram is in it (alone or with other) it doesn't boot. Anyone have a clue what is up? Specs: Dell Latitude D505 256 MB 2700 1.4GHZ Pentium 4m Windows XP Pro Thanks, Pat

hey, can anyone tell me what a tipical windows 9x machine's config.sys and autoexec.bat should look like? (i.e. device=blah blah) and what is important?

Is the game xp-compatible? If not try to run it using compatibility mode, which may change important xp settings so the game can be played. -Pat

You really shouldnt have any problems with that because both 1.5 and 1.6 work on different platforms, ergo, they are seen as two different programs. If you are having trouble, you should use the system restore feature, works great. Uses the registry as it was when it saved last, go back to a time before you had 1.6. -pat

Hello, I recently purchased an asus a7n8x-vm and Athlon Barton 2500+. I've been having some issues with the video card that I use. I have an AGP geforce4 ti-4200 and when I go into the device manager of Windows XP Pro it tells me the video card is a PCI device....I'm like wah? The video also seems to be running a little slow. I'm new to this mobo so I have no clue if I'm supposed to turn something off or what. Any ideas you have are great. Thank you

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Hello Fellow Techies, I have a slight problem. Here we go. I had Windows XP Home :x , and (well still have) I made a new partition on my 40gig drive and installed XP Pro. Now everytime it boots into Pro I get some kind of Video error and never get past the blue moving thing. Any suggestions on that? Specs: Athlon XP 1700+ 40gig HDD (29gig partition for Home and 10gig for pro) 512 MB RAM Geforce4 Ti 4200 64 MB 29.42 drivers on Home Thanks, Pat

Well, I did the most obvious thing im my situation and started from scratch, it seems I had done an initial format as an ntfs quick. And we all know this can cause problems on a new partition or hard drive, you must do a full format. Thank you all for your suggestions, Pat

nothing......I fixed the mbr but it still asks for a password when I didnt set one, it still trys to logon to some domain help Thanks

exactly! I did what you guys said and did a repair to the pro partition. But now when I reach the login screen it says it can't logon to some domain, with every password I know and even without one!! Help! Ill try the mbr thing Thanks

No, I was never able to succesfully initialize xp pro. It gets to the blue moving thing and goes no further. I can boot into Home normally if I choose so from the boot menu. Thanks

Hi Again, Well, when I try to boot into safe mode under the xp pro copy it doesn't get past the file list. Just freezes after that, you think a re-install will do much? Thanks

Hello, I have a slight problem. Whenever I run Disk Cleanup I get a prompt saying that its calculating how much space it would free if it compressed older files. Its getting to the point where it takes 5-10 mins just to even get into the disk cleanup. Is there any way to stop windows from calculating this information?! If you can help that'd be great, Thanks, -Pat

thanks a bunch

Hello, Go to your start menu, right click on the fav's icon and click explore. From there right click on the folder and select properties. Go to customize and change the icon from there. try that -Pat

Hello again, Quick question, have any of you running Windows XP come across this error when you try to use CHKDSK on your C: drive. "Windows was unable to complete the disk check." after it finishes phase 1. Any reason why? Pat

This is really weird. Most of the time im on the computer after a while my mouse (Intellimouse Explorer 3.0) just shuts off on me! Then 3-4 seconds later it comes back on, sometimes it wont even come back. Now the mouse is fairly new, I dont understand why it happens, Im thinking its may be a software issue. My monthly reformat is coming maybe that will fix it. *edit its connected through ps2, USB does same thing Any ideas would be lovely, Pat

Well guys, I ended up buying a whole new mouse and wouldnt cha know, works fine. I dont understand why the mouse would do that after that short a time, o well. Thanks for your thoughts, Pat

I am running Windows XP Home with all the ms updates. Just the mouse, it shuts off and the cursor freezes but my computer works fine.

sigh, I dont know what to do, It seems so hopeless. I cant stop it!! The driver upgrades did nothing but slow my damn computer down. Heeeeeeelp! Pat

Hey Evrabuddy, (possibly stupid question) I just was wondering if It was safe to reformat with a cable modem? If I reinstall the software (Comcast) for the service, will I get the same downstream and upstream? I went from 56k to cable a lil while ago and still have (unfound) tweaks that are for a 56k modem. I average 1788 down and 282 up, rated 1500-256. Thanks Pat

I actually reformatted 2 days ago, I didnt need the software like you said, and my bandwidth actually increased! lol I get 1833 down and 290 up...from 1788/282. Not enough to notice that much of a difference but its good enough for me considering I just upgraded to cable from 56k. Pat

what drivers do you guys recommend with my set up? it seems some of the 40.XX drivers slow down my desktop. My specs are seen below, Geforce4 ti 4200, windows xp home, athlon xp 1700+. thanks Pat

Its one of the first ones that came out so Im guessing its an older core

AMD is great for the aggressive gamer.... I got my XP 1700+ running at 1900+ speeds, Idle - 118f Full Load - 127f With stock cooler I threw on a Volcano 7+ (great hs@f) Idle - 97f Full Load - 108f really helped out! its kinda loud at high speed (around 6200 rpm) Medium seems to be great (5000 rpm) course it helps that my room is like a constant 57f lol Pat