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IF Try to boot in safemode and see if you can operate the drive. ELSEIF Boot the PC with a CD (data) in the drive and see if - after it "established network connections" and you logon - u can use it. THEN Your drive is toasted, maybe u flashed it with the wrong firmware

"When I start window XP today I got a logon message that says that my password is expiring in 14 days and asked if I want to change it. Any ideas on how to fix this?" One needs to remark the innocence

If Linux would run all my games and most of the hardware nowadays, I would be willing to go thru all the pain of tweaking my kernel, or living in a console window. Right...maybe then pigs will fly too. So much for OS alternatives

Or you can disable the "user welcome screen" in the User Manager tab in CTRL Panel. That will give you a normal user/pass dialog.

In W2K yes, but not in XP. In XP I have wireless headphones on one analog out jack, and a pair of CSW Digital speakers hooked up to the SPDIF out. Both work simultaneously, with no prob. In W2K however, I cannot use both "outs", unless I install LiveWare

Keep away from upgrades, they tend to mess up most of the time. Save your documents on another partition, that's all there is to backup. Apps and stuff you can always install again later...

For the C: drive, you can disable hibernation and system restore...that will buy you some space.

Ya man, I have similar problems with BC. I cannot run as usual, by pressing the UP key, instead I walk. Then I press SHIFT, usually my WALK key, and if i depress it, only then i can run. But only until I stop, or if use the LEFT/RIGHT keys, then I walk again. IT sucks... However, in XP i don't have problems with the SBLive drivers...in W2K i cannot really use BC or the Voice in CS1.3, cos i get only feedback and echoes.

Reinstall...it happened to me too after I installed WinOnCD 3.8 and it kept giving me errors about a faulty driver at startup. Of course I decided to delete it, and after that none of my drives were showing.

I had some troubles too with the 2 NIC configuration. Do you have a firewall installed? How did you install windows in the first place?

Anyon know any alternative mirrors for this? I dont't feel like filling in 1000 forms before I get to the download...

I hope 114 is in Fahrenheit, cos otherwise your $hit would melt, lol. What's 114 in Celsius, btw?

It should use the same HAL, since you don't need a MP Kernel. Doesn't hurt to just dropping in the new CPU and see if everything went ok before you might decide to reinstall.

Voodoo is DEAD, man...wake up! Do a search in the forums first, before you ask. You might find some leaked drivers, but don't come back *****ing about stability/performance and stuff...

For the sake of it, you can try to install only the AGP driver. In my case everything runs fine with default drivers, I only installed the new detonators. Never touch a working system

You got a 5.1 card, or a "normal" Live ?

Did you look at a specific model, or did you go thru all the models? I looked at mine for example, and there were no drivers for XP posted. (at least there was nothing in the description).

I think it's not worthed the price difference from a 80GB...at least not yet.

You might want to take a look at the new ATI Radeons...

Easy CD Creator 5.0x works with XP if you don't install TakeTwo and DirectCD. Nero also works without any ASPI fiddling, to get CDRWin and FireBurner to work, you need to install separate a ASPI Layer. WinOnCD 3.8 does NOT work (yet) in any shape or form. Word from Roxio is that EasyCD 5.1 will be fully XP compatible...

First of all, do NOT use PartitionMagic 6.0 if u're running XP. Use version 7 instead, it has XP support. Secondly you can disable the hibernation (that takes space on your C partition as big as your RAM), and disable system restore. Hibernation can be disabled from the Screensaver tab in the display properties, click the power button, i think, below the screensaver options. Hope this helps...

Can anyone answer the question: are they ONLY for 5.1 cards or do they work on the normal Live! cards too?? Frankly speaking, I don't need LiveWare, it works problem free with me with the default XP drivers.

It doesn't have to be on the C drive, it resides on the drive on which HL is installed. And why is that?...don't ask me

If you did an upgrade, it probably still uses the Logitech mouseware for W2K. And since that is not XP compatible (the newly released version is), you have a dead mouse. Try to uninstall the old mouseware before you install the new one.

Realistically speaking, how much improvement do you expect from a 1.33@1.4 GHz???