Sampson

I am not sure that your answer is found in the Graphics Accelerator Bios. Gigabyte makes it own graphics cards. The drivers and bios they offer is for those cards. Yours is a Leadtek card. The problem is that your computer is not seeing the AGP card at all. You said you installed the most recent Via4-in-1 drivers from Gigabyte. Have you tried installing the VGA Via driver for 2k/XP http://ftp.gigabyte.com.tw/support/driver/km266_2k.exe ? It maybe that the Leadtek card just won't connect with your computer perhaps because of an ACPI issue where the IRQ it is on conflicts with other devices. If I find such an issue, I'll get back.

Did you set your video driver to Standard VGA using your old card before installing the AGP card? You can have both cards inserted simultaneously. Does your Hardware Device Manager indicate that the card has been found?

You can't really know what these Stop errors mean without a debugger to point to the location in the program of what is failing. In general, this message comes up because the HAL.dll is set as ACPI compliant and your bios is not. In particular, it may indicate something about the L2 cache on your processor. In any event, as clutch is asking, list your hardware and any software like anti-virus' running in the background. Be sure that your Bios is set to it default in case you set something before and forgot about it.

Problem 1. try this page to see if any of these will help: http://www.reactorcritical.com/download.shtml#1500 ; There is probably also a patch for jedi knight 2. However, given that you are going to use XP with that card, you will save yourself a lot of frustration if you were to purchase a new card since it is unlikely that Microsoft (or anybody else for that matter) is going to support drivers for a now defunct company. As much fun as the voodoo 2 was, it is quickly becoming a museum piece. Problem 2: For the moment forget the Graphics Accelerators Bios. The newest Bios for your motherboard is the f4. When you boot your computer look to see what Bios you have installed. It will say something like GA7VTXE+ F? where the "?" stands for the bios installed. If your Bios F number is not F4, download this utility from Gigabyte: http://ftp.gigabyte.com.tw/support/driver/biosflash108q.exe . Make sure you are connected to the Net then using Windows Explorer double click on this utility where you saved it. You can then Flash your Bios through the net. Once the Bios has been flashed, reboot. Apparently you are using a PCI card. You will need to go into the BIOS and set the AGP card slot as primary. When Windows comes up, go to your video card setup and change it to the Standard VGA driver. Reboot. This is to make sure that it is using standard VGA. Close down Windows. Turn off the machine. Put in your AGP card. Take out the PCI. Turn it back on. If you have enabled the AGP slot as primary Windows may or may not recognize new hardware. If it does, it will install its own Nvidia drivers; which may or may not make you happy. If it doesn't install the drivers, then insert your CD for the Leadtek and install as per the instructions on the CD.

Short answer Local Security Authority SubSystem. It performs the authentication of log-on credentials passed from the WinLogon process against the Security Account Manager or other authentication packages. In other words it is responsible for the local system security policy (such as which users are allowed to log on to the machine, password policies, privileges granted to users and groups, and the system security auditing settings), user authentication, and sending security audit messages to the Event Log. Lsas has a database that contains the local system security policy settings. This database is stored in the registry under HKLM\SECURITY. It includes such information as what domains are entrusted to authenticate logon attempts, who has permission to access the system and how (interactive, network, and service logons), who is assigned which privileges, and what kind of security auditing is to be performed. The Lsass policy database also stores "secrets" that include logon information used for cached domain logons and Win32 service user-account logons. It also checks TCP/IP connections It is also known to be the site of some hacker attacks utilizing pwdump2.exe which injects samdump.dll into the LSAS process to steal passwords.

Look at this article from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q303825

The gaming board that I see most often recommended for that chipset is the Epox 8k3a+. It is cheaper and faster on the whole. This is presuming that you are getting it for gaming and overclocking. Who can argue with the quality of Asus on the other hand? It is not as overclockable, but if you get into that, there are the physical jumpers that have to be played with to get the best out of the board. Hope this helps.

Both MusicMatchBox and Winamp have components that go out to the net. Winamp does so for CD's in order to get titles, etc. It may be that they are trying to access your modem or network card, or it may be that you have some "spyware" component utilizing your internet bandwidth. Try downloading Ad-aware and running it to see if such components exist on your machine. Run your Anti-virus software to see if you have something like a mssg or a Newbiero component. Try the easy stuff that can be stealing CPU cycles first.

Since you re-installed XP, make sure that your DVD and CDRW drives are set for DMA support. They probably are set correctly, but often they are treated as a CDrom PIO. If it is Office products giving you trouble - You might try to repair Word through the Add/Remove Software module in your Control Panel. I think you have to rename mso9.dll and winword.exe before you repair it. Just rename them whatever.bak or whatever.old.

Actually the message reads "earlier than version 7.1." While the "latest and greatest" 7 series player has the moniker 7.01. in the About pulldown, it is the 7.1 that Microsoft is referring to. You mention that you were using 7.0. Just upgrade it. I'm not trying to be patronizing and I do agree that Microsoft is discontented that the world, particularly the business world, is not beating down its door for XP.

Don't know if this is what you are looking for, but these are a few things that might speed up shutdown: Registry hack: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q305788 Two possible registry hacks worked out by others: http://www.aumha.org/downloads/autoend.zip http://www.aumha.org/downloads/shutmedown.zip A suggestion in relation to Nvidia cards: In Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services, stop the Nvidia Driver Helper service

Since it is a Gateway machine, and admittedly they don't change their bios all that frequently, you should check to see if there is an upgrade. Gateway and Dell sometimes play fast and loose with their machines since their presumption is that you won't be upgrading but will keep it as is for the duration of its life expectancy.

Whether it uses a different voltage bus or not the source is still the PSU.

Some of these programs used Visual Basic Runtime files. Many used 5.0 and were superceded by 6.0. But, some just aren't happy without the old 5.0 files. I'm guessing, but I think installing the VB5.0 might make it disappear. I'm putting the Microsoft link for you to read it for yourself. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q180071 . You won't find any reference to YahooMessenger in it, its just that CoCreateInstance rings a bell in relation to the runtime version of VB. If you install VB5 you will probably have to reboot.

I went through the manual but could find no beep codes. The reason I mentioned the power supply is that you had recently installed more memory which means that there will be a further draw on the power. Other than the beeps, does the machine do anything unusual?

When did it first start happening? Can you tie its first appearance to new software or new hardware? By the way, did you see if you have the most recent bios?

If you've been hit by lightning, there is precious little you can really do about it no matter what protection you have. It is sometimes a question of luck how the surge branches. As I said when it came through the phone line and took out my modem, it did go into the motherboard. I used the thing for weeks after it was tested and waited for the replacement. I never really had a problem; then, again, I didn't trust it either. Sorry about your mobo, but I would backup frequently.

Have you tried the memory in a different computer to see if it really is working? If you have more than one stick, try one at a time. Do you have a network card installed? This computer comes with USB 2.0 support, but does your copy of XP recognize it as such?

The first two articles will allow you to troubleshoot the installation: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q296603 http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308490 Perhaps, most relevent, and I think what is happening is this which provides a workaround: http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q280561

In general this type of error is due to the Bios not being ACPI compliant. Again, in general, it means you should look for a Bios upgrade: http://www.fica.com/techsupport/bios_and_drivers/bios_and_drivers.stm . In particular, the (0x70) error is a timing question where the RTC (real time clock) is generating a memory address for its calculation of perhaps date, time (or possibly clock speed) in a memory register that usually is owned by Com1: You don't say why or when this error occurs. I notice that you have it overclocked. If it just started happening and it had been running fine previously, look to better cooling. If it is happening within a game, the game wants to access perhaps the Com1 port and slams into the memory address being used by your real time clock. More specifics would be helpful. So many of these Stop errors are undecipherable without a debugger to track down the exact code line error.

How big is your power supply?

Cant' say that this is the same, but lighting hit the phone line. It was such a discrete burst, it came through the external modem, through the serial port right into the motherboard, yet other than the modem not being able to dial out, the machine worked flawlessly. I did have to replace the modem, the serial port and the motherboard. The storm was mild, mostly rain. While your problem is with your hard drive, and the burst may have come through the power lines, I would have that motherboard thoroughly tested. I would also look at my insurance policy to see if you are covered.

I am not exactly sure what you are wanting to do, but ... After putting a CD in the drive, depressing the shift key stops the CD from autorunning. On the other hand, depressing the Shift key for too long will cause W2k to display a message about being ham handed and do you want windows to give you a default time for holding down the key.

I've used both. The one whose page I gave you is the online bios flasher. I prefer it. After downloading it, just double click on it from Windows explorer and it will go to Gigabyte. It will usually guess your machine. If not, it gives you a choice. Then, it installs the bios and saves the old one. Much easier than booting from Dos.

Download the online bios flasher from Gigabyte: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/home/a_bios.htm There is an F3 bios. The F4 is beta. Why did you not want to install XP as ACPI?