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Well you could look at the offending machine itself and see if there are any extra services running via the MMC. Also, did somebody on this workstation setup any kind of POP2/SMTP server service perhaps ?!?

First try yankee's suggestion and uninstall/remove the nVidia drivers first. Shut the machine down and then install the Radeon card and it's drivers and see what happens after the reboot.

Originally posted by technoplume: Quote: did you install the ati drive or the sapphire drive. they are realy different drive and one does not work on the other. Hmm, well that doesn't seem likely as I use the OEM ATi Catalyst drive all the time with Sapphire graphics cards at work @bdf, just wanted to make sure it wasn't an older GPU graphics cards. The other possible issue is a corrupted registry or even some kind of hardware failure like with the HD and/or the AGP slot on the motherboard for instance. Do you have any other AGP 4x graphics card to test with ?!?

Just out of curiousity, is your graphics card a RAGE 128 based GPU or did you really mean something like a Radeon 7000 series or greater ?!? The reason I ask is that perhaps the driver installs but doesn't tell you it can't find an appropriate GPU/Graphics Card, goes ahead and installs and when you reboot the machine it reverts back to a default generic driver.

This could be a zombie machine, however, have you also included in your arsenal of tools any anti-spyware ?!? I personally use the following suite of tools, Microsoft anti-Spyware BETA, Spybot Search & Destroy and AdAware PE along with NAV 2005. I'm thinking this is some malware that was installed on that machine via some website.

Originally posted by theefool: Quote: Either something to do with a router, firewall, or 1973 Chevelle Owners Manual. I prefer the latter as I owned a 74 Chevelle

Looks like somebody else on this forum has had the same error message. It could be related to a software firewall and/or security settings. Check out the GOOGLE search and remember that Google is your friend

Yeah, you'll basically have to contact Dell about this and perhaps pay an arm and a leg for their proprietary hardware replacements

Yes it does It also shows just how much cooling you can give to a Prescott CPU if you have a chassis with an Air Guide/Duct on the side panel. All the latest Aopen chassis have this and the guide/duct is adjustable to varying hieghts of heatsink/fans being used. My only complaint was not providing a standard 80mm/8cm mounting hole alignment to augment the guide/duct with more forced air onto the hetsink

I concur, it's best to install that SATA drive into a new or a known working box and attempt a data recovery that way. That being said, there is a chance that the filesystem on that drive is corrupted enough to cause the error and reboot issue you described as well. If this is the case you may need to connect that SATA drive up to a third party controller card instead of the onboard SATA. Some of the higher end boards come with a third party SATA, like those from Promise or Silicon Image, on the motherboard as well, this should work as a sub to a PCI expansion card as well. Another option is to use a data recovery tool, I personally have used R Studio and I swear by it

Originally posted by ross_aveling: Quote: Is it safe to say, that if I go for one that has the Venice core and as much cache as possible, it'll be the latest (and greatest) version? Yes it is

How about the Asus A8V Deluxe as a suitable sub As for a speed improvement, well yes, probably a damn huge one too. Remember that the Athlon 64/FX/Opteron have that lovely memory controller on the CPU die, it's like havine a memory turbo booster with about 15lbs. of pressure and an added NOS bottle to boot

Originally posted by exxccessive: Quote: Originally posted by theefool: Quote: What motherboard, and cpu do you have? Cpu is Sempron 2200 on an Asustek Board OK, you may have to update the motherboard BIOS to properly recognize the CPU as a Sempron. The BIOS could just report the CPU as an Athlon with a weird/strange CPU speed and it could work just fine however, it may report this weird speed to the OS and it may have some issues. I believe the Sempron 2200+ is either a 133 or 166MHz FSB cpu. I know that the 2400+ and faster Sempron's are 166MHz FSB.

Catalyst is ATi's fancy name for their Graphics Card drivers, like Forceware is for the nVidia based cards I run the latest Catalyst drivers on an SP1 box without any problems. I've even installed the .Net framework and tested them with the CCC app and all seems to work just fine...

I prefer my local micro-brews as you can choose anything from a lager to a stout My favorite are from a local brewery named Widmere Brothers

Originally posted by theefool: Quote: Hmmm, sata raid on linux. Raid 5? Perhaps setting up a software raid using Disk Druid would be a nice thing to try today

Well most motherboards, for both AMD and Intel CPU's, usually do not require any jumper settings anymore, they basically come setup in a jumperfree configuration. That being said some however do require some settings so I suppose you have one of these boards You have to match the FSB jumper to the CPU you're going to use, in the case of Intel CPU's here's a quick guide: 1) Celeron/P4, 400FSB really needs the motherboard set for 100MHz. 2) Celeron/P4, 533FSB needs the motherboard set for 133MHz. 3) P4, 800FSB needs the motherboard set for 200MHz. For AMD Athlon's are not quad-pumped so you can't use the same rule, they are double-pumped so if you have something like an Athlon XP 2000+ it would most likely need a 133MHz FSB setting. Others require 166MHz FSB and the latest Barton cores require 200MHz. As for Athlon 64/FX/Opteron, these are jumper free boards, or should be as I've never seen one you can configure with jumpers. However, I think pretty much all these CPU's use a 200MHz FSB and can be controlled via the bios instead of jumpers.

If this relates to your dual-channel memory question, then you should make sure to use matched pairs of PC3200/DDR400 or faster memory modules/sticks

Actually it has both the Intel ICH5R and the Promise SATA RAID controller onboard. Since the Intel chipset also supports a pair of ATA100 ports, these are used as only standard non-RAID mode controllers.

Only the dual-channel banks have to be matching pairs, so you can install a matched pair of 256MB, 512MB or even 1GB sticks into the second channel

I can't say I've heard that claim about the power rating before, however, by design the 875P chipset has the performance features like PAT that help tweak your system. I personally own the P4C800 Deluxe motherboard and it's a fine piece of design, just make sure to have the latest BIOS installed to properly support the Prescott core CPU's

You could try THIS direct link and see if that works for you

Have you tried extracting the REDIST version into a temp folder, then replacing that file in the system32 folder while you're in SAFE mode ?!?

I'd say that something is getting corrupted during the d/l process. Do you have a broadband connection ?!? If so then perhaps the REDIST version of DX9.0c is a better bet, it has everything in one package

I would think that something like this should be available from some of the major vendors by now as you find notebooks using both the ATi and the nVidia GPU's now. Another option you can consider is that there are USB TV Tuner external devices available. I can't say if they are any good or not however as I've only used the AIW AGP/PCIe graphics cards.