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...I've never seen a problem with the CPU prevent a hard drive from spinning up. They're not even on the same power line from the PSU. If there was a problem with the CPU, it'd either (a) be unstable, or ( the system would not POST, you'd just get beep codes or something.

So, will the system POST with the drive attached (via IDE cable)? If so, is it visible in the BIOS Setup? Have you tried changing the positioning of the drive? Try it as slave, master, cable select? Have you tried it on the secondary IDE channel? Is this one of the newer Maxtors? I believe that it should *not* be jumped at all if it is the only IDE device on the channel, because the drives are defined as solitary masters at the factory (I can't swear to that, however, as I use WD drives, only). Uh...that's all that I can think of. No, wait; have you tried turning the power on, then using the reset switch? Perhaps the drive is responding incorrectly--or too late--to the POST signal, and that's creating a problem with powering up? If it's coming out of "park" too slowly, that might be the problem. Have you tried a different molex plug? Or, a different 12V line from the PSU? It really can't be the CPU affecting the hard drive; the board, maybe, but only in the sense of one of the IDE headers being bad, or the drive being misjumped or whatever... Please respond with how this turns out, I'm quite curious...

The concern isn't about information collected or alleged to be collected by MS after the installation of SP3; it's the part about pushing updates that MS determines the importance & efficacy (and, ultimately, purpose) of. Nothing in the previous posts about collected data; anonymous information gathering doesn't bug me very much; updates being pushed out to me without my consent or knowledge, however...that concerns me.

Quote: What about the Sound Blaster® Extigy™? With Creative cards having so many problems with the VIA based chipsets, surley a USB sound device would be a better solution? I don't play that many games, its audio quality that im after with the minimum of fuss. With a Creative card (Audigy included), you can get around the notorious Via chipset incompatibilities by (a) installing the latest Via 4in1 drivers, and ( ensuring that the sound card is not installed in PCI slot 1 (below the AGP port). If that's too much hassle for you, then I defer to other members of this group regardin the best non-creative solution. P.S. I *don't* recommend the Extigy unless you actually plan on using some of those extra ports & crap; it's a helluvva lot of money to spend on features you aren't going to use. And, besides, it's just USB 1; kind of a waste, IMHO. I hear the Phillips Acoustic Edge is a good card.

Well, if your Windows 2000 is installed on FAT32, then use a boot disk and replace your copy of vga.sys, the generic vga driver used in safe mode. If it's on NTFS, then you need an NTFS boot disk...I don't know of any free ones. You're probably best off doing either a parallel installation of 2000 (check MS' knowledgebase), or doing a clean install. Actually, before doing all that, do a fast repair, using the install cd. Good luck!

I never did much "outside" reading, as far as the Star Wars mythos. I always figured that the Clone Wars of lore referred to dark lord clones or jedi clones or something...sort of like in the Dark Forces 2 video game I was sort of disapointed that they were just a bunch of ordinary soldier types.

without blowing away your data...

Do you play games? That's the only reason I can see to pop for an audigy, over one of the many, cheaper 5.1 sound cards. The selling point of the Audigy is that it handles sound processing on the card itself, rather than dumping it onto the CPU. This doesn't particularly matter for things like DVD playback, or MP3s. It DOES matter if you're going to play video games with enhanced 3d audio. If you don't play such games, then just stick with a Live! Value card or something like that.

It sounds like either driver corruption, or system file corruption. Did you try uninstalling the video drivers (from safe mode), and removing (deleting) both the display adapter and the monitor? When you start bcak into windows, they should both redetect and then you can use something generic (say, some generic standard VGA adapter, and the generic plug & play monitor). If that works, reinstall the drivers for both devices. If it doesn't work, try reinstalling Windows--actually, first, try doing a repair. You do that by booting from the cd, then selecting install, then, when the installer detects the existing Windows OS, tell it to automatically repair it. If that doesn't work, then try reinstalling, cleanly.

Hi, First, that sounds like a line of B.S. that Intuit is giving you. However, if it's true, you can try this, and see if it applies to XP: EDITING sorry, forget my original suggestion. try this: http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q318378

Quote: THats becuse the clones are Stormtroopers. I guessed that a long time ago. Well, you (meaning Lucas) can't have it both ways. If the stormtroopers are clones throughout the whole series, then that sort of eliminates the entire concept of the republic having an army, recruiting people, etc... I thought Luke's buddy on Tatooine joined the empire's military and then he caught up with him in the rebellion... Quote: Originally posted by sapiens74 You have to remember this movies are the begining and middle of the tale, not the end, so we cannot expect the same as the final 3 episodes Sure, I can appreciate some different plot points or whatever, but this movie was pretty tedious... Well, like I said, a lot of people really like it, and I just find myself in the position of disagreeing with a lot of people. Been there before, I guess I can handle it...

The critics are right; pretty boring--10 minutes of excitement to start, 15 minutes of excitement to finish, a bunch of tedious babble in the middle. 30 minutes too long. I really don't like the design...the best design for the ships was: Boba Fett's ship, Slave 1, created almost 20 years ago. The best costume? Boba Fett's armor, created almost 20 years ago. Sorry, Jango Fett. And the clones' armor is just a modification the stormtrooper outfits. Not a horrible movie, but pretty disapointing for me.. I don't think I'm in tune with what Star Wars has become... It'll always be the "good old days," when the first Star Wars movie was Star Wars: A New Hope.

Seems like there are some major applications not running under XP (well...major to me, let's say). Timbuktu (build 853), and EZ CD Creator are both buggy, although EZCD is the worst of the lot--I can't shut down XP with EZCD installed. And I got all excited when I saw this link on NT Compatible, but their FTP server is down...what, more QA for the patch? Software developers are starting to get on my nerves...