philbarnes

Hi all, I tried to install Windows 2000 SP2 onto a Western Digital 26400 6.4Gb Hard Drive. This however seems to be a problem for windows as it then gives me the message: NT STOP ERROR - INNACESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE Oh dear ! This sounds quite serious - any ideas how to make it work ? I tried it on a K6/II 450Mhz on a Gigabyte 5AA Motherboard (and a 333Mhz K6/II on a VIA Chipset Motherboard but it just didn't do anything, got to the loading windows 2000 screen then reset !) Any ideas - is this a solvable problem with the hard drive ?

Hi all, Hooking up my various computers to a 3com Cable Router/Switch and all except one of them want to connect to the switch. My main one. Typical. Its currently using a Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Driver and the switch is a 3com OfficeConnect Cable/DSL Gateway Problem: When it connects to the router, it keeps connecting and disconnecting repeatedly. Any ideas ? I had a stab at all the obvious solutions and fiddled with the network card settings and even downloaded a driver from the Abit website but to no avail.

I need to be able to save the message i am typing to the drafts folder then close it. at the moment i press save and it saves to the drafts, then i have to press close to close it. any ideas ? i don't know how to write a macro to do this - i have a feeling thats how you do it.

not sure i understand you. but i did try setting the speed settings manually in the properties dialog in xp

Hi Guys, Wonder if anyone can proffer some advice. My Computer is as follows: Athlon 2100+ Abit AT7 Motherboard 512Mb PC2100 DDR Gainward GeForce4 4600 Golden Sample IBM Deskstar GXP 30Gb (on RAID) Windows XP SP1 This should be a fairly quick set up. However. I ran 3DMark2001SE yesterday and got a score of about 6200 at 1024x768 on default options. This seems way too low. Any info ?

yup, that it does. I was using the benchmark to put a number to it - it's just to point out that it is still working at the same speed. before, it seemed very sluggish - hence the 6000 benchmark, but now its above 10000 again and is working fine ! now to install simcity and exit real life again.... PS thanks for all the help guys

fraid so !

yeah i thought of that, have tried a really short cable that came with the router, a longer one that I had lying around and a really long one that was hidden in a cupboard. no luck and those cables all work with other computers now you can see why this is really niggling...

installed the 4-in-1's and they seem to have done bu**er all to be fair. 3dmark stands at 10866

1) it did work correctly previously, but with an old 10Mb/s hub 2) as it didn't work I tried re-installing windows, but that didn't help 3) originally used drivers with WinXP, but then tried the drivers on the website 4) router/switch is brand new and works with a sony laptop and three other desktop computers, all with completely different configurations, so i am guessing its this card only thing I haven't tried is up[censored] the BIOS of the motherboard and I am usually slightly wary before doing things like that I think this is a hardware problem! PS Have ordered a nice new 3com NIC which should then make things work - i.e. I give up ! However would like to know what the problem is.....

put on office xp and transferred my files and settings using provided wizard and score up to 10877

put on detonators 41.09 and score gone down ;( to 10750 not sure how that works

I am just about to re-install windows on my computer, and read that if you slipstream Service Pack 1 into WinXP, the performance is better than if you install one after the other. So, having done this, I have a few more queries: 1) I run a RAID system which normally means needing to put in a floppy disk with the driver for my RAID card on it to get WinXP to recognise the card. Where can I copy this on the WinXP CD to not need to have the floppy ? 2) Is there a way of setting the options easily so that I can just put the CD in and it installs standalone ? Cheers

right, this would after all be a PC i am messing with so there are bound to be problems: My newly burnt SP1 slipstreamed CD with RAID drivers is great. Boots, loads all the way up to where it "loads windows", i.e. the slightly higher res text bit where it asks what partition you want to put things on etc BUT it doesn't seem to want to know about my USB keyboard. This works on my original XP cd, but not on this new one. HELP !

Well, I had a few problems with slipstreaming but that's another story. I reinstalled WinXP, and then applied SP1 and then Detonator Drivers 40.72 and now my 3DMark is 11077 much better. I did also do a bit of BIOS tweaking. Two final questions: 1) Is it worth installing the VIA 4-in-1 's 2) Is it worth putting on different detonators ?

even further to this i have found how to include mass storage drivers on your CD http://www.spc.org.nc/it/TechHead/unattended_install_of_third_part.htm PS unattend.txt generated from setupmgr to be put in I386\

further to this i found that on the winxp cd there is a file called setupmgr which you can use to do a full automatic install and is really easy to use.

Thanks for all the feedback guys. First step is to reinstall windows with a slipstreamed WinXP and SP1 install. Then I will see what I can do with the BIOS settings. There is a guide on the internet that I recently found that seemed to go through all the possible BIOS settings possible. Then I will install the latest drivers. Then I will put on 3DMark2001SE again, and see what she says. Watch this space ! PS My CPU isn't overheating but is pretty toasty - 61C - which I am not sure does it any good but I am putting in a cable modem before I start playing around with the insides of my computer again....

When you double click on a .reg file it pops up with a warning box saying do you want to add this information to the registry? How would you make a batch file to enter this information without giving the user the option to mess things up and press no ?

cheers mate

wow might have to give that a go !

Quote: No sound huh? THANK YOU creative labs for creating such good drivers. heh instead of using resources for better drivers when they got some competition from Aureal, they sued them. Nice going creative labs heh customers will get such good products in the future heh sorry for my rant but everytime I must reboot my PC to win9x just to get no crackling for games I think about Creative I had this problem with my old motherboard - it turns out that it is a problem with the old VIA chipsets. You probably get problems with USB occassionally too. As soon as I changed motherboard (I upgraded) then it all fell back into place - no problems !

Guys, Just a quick question - was getting worried that my computer was running a bit hot so slapped on a bigger fan. My current readings are: CPU: 58.5 C System: 32 C Is this OK for a Athlon 2100+ / Ti4600 ? Cheers, P

i'd like to concur with webe123 - my zip100 works fine under xp and has given me no trouble ever. unlike my favourite device ever the 3.5" floppy...

so 49 tops eh ? what cooling you got in there ?