danleff

Is this a new installation of the geforce card and you were previously running off the onboard graphics of the motherboard?

Interesting, I have a TA790GX 128 and it did not like the onboard graphics either with Windows 7, RC1. Windows XP 32 bit was fine. Sounds like perhaps video to me. Looks like you got the latest bios (6/3/09). Did you install the CPU utility form the Biostar website? Don't know why I am thinking of this, but are all your drives sata, except for the one optical drive? Good sata cables and connections? What happens when you remove the IDE optical drive from the mix?

The exact model of the Acer would be nice to know. There are dozens and most have a recovery option that either returns the laptop to it's original state, or you make a recovery cd of your own at any point or time. What does your neighbor say that he/she did? Also the neighbor may help troubleshoot the problem with the laptop in front of him/her. If a plain jane Windows XP disk was used, did he/she install the drivers for the system? Also, what service pack was installed? Your MP3 player needs Service Pack 2. If it was the recovery disk for the laptop, then you can look in another direction.

What Windows version are you running, XP, Vista...? What is the make and model of the laptop? Perhaps the person that installed Windows did not download the usb drivers? Was the restore done via a fresh install of Windows, or an actual recovery disk for the specific laptop? Do any other usb devices work on the laptop...and did the MP3 player work on the laptop before the restore?

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide in the users manual? It may be helpful if you describe what you did so far and what setup you are trying to achieve, usb or ethernet? Sounds like usb? Did you try the reset button?

Post the exact model of Vaio that you have and the make and model of your tv, so that folks will know what exactly what you have to work with.

Try this wiki article.

Did you try working through the issues with the Linksys faq page for the router located here? If you think that you did all the troubleshooting possible, why not call the ISP support, as they may have a solution right off that works (they can help troubleshoot the issue by asking pertinent questions based on their service)?

If your information is correct, the motherboard on this system does not have an AGP slot, so any AGP slot card will not work. See here and here. You only have PCI slots on this system.

Since the author of the post stated that he installed RedHat initially, the CD is set to boot normally. But, he never responded, so It's hard to say. It sounded to me that the XP CD was unable to see his hard drive, which is usually symptomatic that it is unable to read the hard drive due to the drive having only a Linux partition on it.

Do both video cards work alone on the system when you swap them out? What exact power supply did you buy? The wattage is not the only indicator that it can handle the load in the system. Did you try to get into the bios and check the CPU temperature with the system without booting into Windows? Also check to see if the bios is set up correctly for SLI as per the users manual. Does the CPU fan seem to be keeping them temperature down to an acceptable level and seems to be working properly? What other cooling do you have in the system? Any aux. fans to keep the cooling down?

There were a few different models marketed under this name (WEBCAM for dummies). Did you install the software package before plugging in the webcam? The software contains the drivers that are supposed to get the webcam working. These are older model webcams, so while I am not surprised that they claim not to support XP, it is still not helpful to customers, is it? The manual actually states that it should work. Try installing the software package first, then plug the webcam into a USB port that you have not already used for other USB devices, such as your thumb drive or digital camera.

When you updated the drivers, did you point the device manager update to the C:\SoftPaq\sp26608 folder that was created during the softpaq installation? Did you also try to run PC-Doctor on the system, as noted here?

Pentium 4 systems tend to generate a lot of heat. Without knowing exactly what make and model system (or motherboard) that you have (not the type) it's hard to say what the bios beep code was that you were getting means, or if your system supports Windows XP, but it does sound like an overheating issue. The bios beep codes usually mean either a CPU problem (like overheating), a video problem or memory issue. If you can, try taking the case cover off and see if the CPU fan seems to be running properly (steady and without undo noise). If by chance leaving the case open and installing XP works, you know that you have an overheating issue. Pentium 4 systems with your memory count should install XP fine, but it is hard to say, since you were having problems with the old install, you most likely have an issue with some hardware component in general. Could even be the hard drive flaking out do to excessive heat in the case. With the case open and under load (installing XP) see if the hard drive makes any clicking noises or if the hard drive LED on the case seems like it is on constantly, without flashing or occasionally going of when it is not under load.

You don't say how the hard drive is not working properly, but if you are sure that it is not related to a virus (you have a good quality antivirus program and spyware checker) see this article. It also has links to other troubleshooting methods. Also see the wikipedia document here.

Did you try reinstalling the chipset drivers from here then up[censored] the drivers (as per the instructions) if the device manager still showed an exclamation mark next to the USB entries or SMBus Controller?

Here is a description of the error. Can you post the machine specs.? 1. System make and model or motherboard make and model. 2. Amount of memory in the system. If a self built system, what components you have in the system. 3. Any recent hardware changes that you have made. For example, if you added memory, what make and model memory and is it the same brand and model memory that was in the system originally. Has any other operating system been tried on this system?

Usually this occurs due to a hardware problem, such as overheating, overclocking, bad memory, or a bad power supply. Can you post some specs.on the system? Reference

I assume that you tried all the techniques in this article?

The original owner may have done some funky things with the drive (ie; installed a third party bootloader) that affected how the Windows install disk sees the drive. You should have seen more than almost 9 gigs. Either it is what I said above, or this system has a hidden partition that stored configuration data. Compaq HP and other system makers often do this. Also, you will get these errors if Windows does not see the drive capacity correctly for the full reinstall. Memory installed is also important, as XP likes at least 256 of RAM. Do you have another hard drive that you can try on the system? Otherwise, either you can crack open the case to see what drive is in it, or use a Linux live cd to see exactly what drive that you have. The eMachines site does not give the original make of hard drives that they put in this system. Each hard driver maker usually has a utility that allows proper wiping of the drive (zero writing) and prep. for Windows (formatting the drive to NTFS for a Windows installation). Maxblast is Maxtor's utility.

Looks like your USB drivers are not installed. Is this installation of Windows the original on the box, or did you install a version of Windows afterwards? What exact model of HP/Compaq system is this?

Forget about Grub, unless you have a dual boot system with a Linux distribution on it. The posts that you read probably was speaking about that situation. You are probably speaking of this post? Did you try a repair installation as described here? Not the recovery console? How much memory is in this machine? Also I notice that you have a 10 gig hard drive. Is this the one that originally came with the system? There may be issues with hidden partitions on the hard drive and Windows can't find enough space to install. It may also be that the hard drive is going south. What was the partition size that was created when you reformatted the drive? You may want to get a utility program, such as Maxblast (if you have a Maxtor drive) and zero write the drive, then format it to NTFS. At that point, then try to install Windows.

Am I correct in assuming that you installed Windows (or had Windows first), then installed RedHat? Are they both still on the hard drive? One method to make things right is to follow this Microsoft article on the subject. The other method is to get the hard drive utility for your hard drive manufacturer's website and delete the partitions, or zero write the drive. A third method is to use the Redhat install disk to start the install to the point of partitioning the hard drive and delete the Linux partition. The windows install disk is unable to read Linux partitions, so it thinks that there is no usable hard drive space on the disk (can't read it). So, you need to remove the Linux partitions first, then install Windows.

Let folks know what version of Windows that you are using. Also, this is a home network? If so, did you follow the steps in this article?

Do you have a DVD burner and know how to burn iso images to a dvd? If so, follow this link.