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Quote: I'm almost certian that you installed windows 2000 with the promise controller and the array no? If you break the array your system won't boot either. Stupid microsoft did a pitiful job of supporting IDE controllers in 2000. If you want to change IDE controllers Win2K doesn't just detect the changes and let you live your life, no it will keep looking for the old controller and continually fail to boot. There's a KB article on this, I think it contains "after upgrading to a new motherboard [a new IDE controller as well] the system no longer boots". However you could just take my word for it or you can look for it at MSKB. I think your best option is to read Promise's website and if you can't find any SP3 info call them. By the way I had a promise raid controller and after having tons of stability problems, and being required to re-install windows (per the issue I just described), I tried to return what was in my eyes a defective product. Promise refused to refund my purchase (much to my personal dissatisfaction) so I sold the hunk of junk on eBay. I took a loss both in selling price and countless hours of wasted time. I think raid is a great idea. However I haven't seen one good implimentation yet. If the OS knows about the raid controller I'm already disinterested. Raid also violate KISS : Keep it Simple Stupid . Christian dude raid is simple a simple way to speed up the slowest part of the system and simple way to ensure higher data security raid is the bomb you like watching movies try capturing and editing without raid I currently have 2 raid arrays in my system and i will definatly have more soon that is my next upgrade. also scsi is the stuff to go for find it used like i did and you will get the most bang for the buck scsi supports 15 devices perchannel so it is alot mor expandable than ide like for instance i have 6 IDE ports which means i can hook up 12 ide devices max. I have 2 scsi ports which means i can hook up 30 scsi devices. I don't know where i was going with that litlw rant other than raid is good and buy stuff used.

yea the snap ins are .msc a good one is gpedit.msc that is the group policy editor lotsa good shiznit in there

Quote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2057624181&ssPageName=ADME:B:LC:US:1 You can't beat this deal. If I don't sell it then I will probably part it out. Let me know. Thanks. you might wanna change Imagine what the cost of a high quality computer like this. to Imagine how much a high quality computer like this would cost. or Imagine what the cost of a high quality computer like this would be. or Imagine the how much it would cost to purchase a high quality computer like this. or something

Quote: THe multimedia ones just came out. I have the natural version, No USB ports tho. As for the DVI connector, only ones that are flat screen LCD's have those connectors. A bit pricey mine has 2 usb ports and 19 programmable hot keys

Quote: I just bought myself a Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro (the one with the integrated USB hub). Next step: Reprogramming these keys at the top to do something useful ms keyboards are great i have the natural keyboard pro

you mean without the dog i think that is in the folder options underadvanced

indeed via sucks allways have probably allways will

so the nforce is good stuff that is what i figured i want to get an nforce2 only nvidia could make me want amd

well the title sez it all wait i have never done a poll b4 i will do one now how many of yall are drunk

every time i loaded .net it would say at least one driver or service has failed to start and i would have to click ok so that was a bit annoying but now that it is fixed i am all set

worked perfectly thanks for the tip

Quote: The i8042prt port mentioned in your event viewer is the PS/2 keyboard port. Windows mentions this timeout at boot because it is configured in the registry to look for the keyboard at the PS/2 port first on every boot (every Windows machine is configured this way by default). Since you have a USB keyboard, it's not going to find a keyboard on the PS/2 port and log the error. You can tell Windows to stop looking at the PS/2 port on every boot by changing a registry key. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q262798& If you're on the latest WIn2000 service pack, you can add a "Headless" registry value in the key to disable the startup check. I have to do this to servers very often... groan... --Vermyndax thanks for the tip i had given up on trying to fix it i am going to reboot now and try it

Quote: preferably under 50 bucks good luck

Quote: the best antivirus for me is norton corporate edition v.8.0.try it and then you will found the best anv program. win xp eng with sp1. amd xp2g greece. buy it for me and i would love to try it 7.6 works fine for now

Quote: NAV CE and please try searching the forums please? true indeed this must be one of the top ten most posted topics anyway nav ce here also

i get the same errror with my i840 and my natural kb pro usb i got the a same error with my 440bx i get that error in 2k xp and .net i just stopped carring about it.

no crashes here for a while last time it was due to my system drive failing but the computer didn't reallly crash it just wouldn't boot up again after i shut if off.

thats why i like intel far less headaches

Quote: I tried Connectix VPC awhile back but upon execution of the program, (DCK32) VPC either locks up or acts funny and then eventually craps out, strange program I tell you. The error does occur in both Windows 9x DOS Box, (tried under 95B, 98, 98SE, and ME) and Winnt Command Prompt (2000 and XP). It will work in 9x Restart in DOS Mode or if I select Command Prompt from the 9x menu. It will also work with the Windows ME boot disk. I'll see if I can get ahold of the author. how about vmware vmware has worked well for me

Quote: Wonder what does stable means, perhaps I could loop a benchmark for hours and it happens to die on me when I play a new one, what is stable's true nature. stable is never crashing that is why i love my i840

you can just disable whatever services you want in pro so try to get a list of what is on by default in home and disable everything that is not on that list in pro

right click cdrom drive hit autoplay autoplay suck you are luck it is off

well in a corprate environment the sys admin can config the workstation to work exactly the way that they want so what is the problem all the random shit in xp is linked to the group policies so it can easily be modified accross the network via AD whats the problem?

it is a pny agp card no extras just a str8 gf2mx400 64 megs of ram

Quote: Each time I go into Disk Management, it takes about 30 seconds for it to initialize (i.e., to show me any disks), which in my opinion is way too long. But the weird thing is my optical drives (CDROM & DVDROM) do not appear. They appear in My Computer & work fine too. I want to change the drive letters for them, but am unable to do so. Strangely, if I unplug the power cables to both optical drives & boot back into Windows, then Disk Management initializes almost instantly. I have tried different drivers for my Adaptec 39160, but this hasn't helped any. All my hard disks are SCSI, & both optical drives are IDE. no speed problems here all drives show