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Check to see that you don't have something scheduled, like backup. But, to be honest with you it sounds like you either have a Controller card going out or some bad memory modules. This might be coupled with the build up of heat and if so perhaps you have some fans that are not cutting in or a power supply beginning to short itself out.

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Boot from your CD. Get into the console. Back up the data that you can. Grosse = size. I think that this partition is being seen by Partition Magic as a 64KB size instead of Fat32. In the end I think you will have to clean install W2K, however, there may be someone who will join this thread in a little while that can give you better instructions.

Could you supply the following information - What kind of controller are you using? How do you have the drives attached to the controller and to each other? Are they sharing a single cable where one disk is Master and the other Slave? Do you have one disk attached to the Primary IDE and the other disk to the Second IDE? Did you go to the Device Manager to see if both disks are set for UDMA transfer? When was the last time you defragmented these drives?

My German is not that good. Rough translation I think that you are saying that you have a 40GB Maxtor hard disk. Using Partition Magic 7 you partitioned the hard disk into a Primary 15GB and a Logical second partition of 25GB. This left a 5GB free area. When you installed Linux, it installed itself into the 5GB free area. This next part was difficult to translate. Either you replaced some cables or added a second hard disk, but when you ran Partition Magic on your present hard disk, you noted that there were errors on the boot drive and used Norton Disk Doctor to correct them. Now Partition Magic reports that you have 4 nonDos partitions occupying 4% 6% 9% and 81% of the disk. Something to try first: Run Partinfo from Partition Magic: 1. Select Start > Programs > PowerQuest PartitionMagic > PartitionInfo. (If you are using ServerMagic or VolumeManager under Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000, select Start > Programs > PowerQuest ServerMagic (or VolumeManager) > PartitionInfo.) 2. From the "Physical Drive" drop-down list, select the disk for which you want to create the PARTINFO. 3. If there are any numbers in the "Errors" column that are greater than 0, click the affected partition to view descriptions of the problems in the "Disk & Partition Errors" box (located in the top right corner of the PartitionInfo program screen). If there are only INFO messages listed in the box, then no actual errors were detected. 4. To save the PARTINFO as a text file, click "Save As," enter a name for the file, and then click "Save." These are some of the switches that can be used with Partinfo: /EPC This switch causes PARTINFO to check for logical drive entries in Extended partitions that are in non-standard order, and also logical drives that start in a cylinder after the one containing the logical drive table. These formats for logical drive entries, although technically correct, cause the partition to be invisible to the IBM Boot Manager or may cause FDISK programs to fail. These formats are produced by older versions of Linux FDISK and other Linux disk-partitioning programs, such as Disk Druid. /EPF This switch functions the same as the /EPC switch, except that it also repairs the entries by changing then into the standard format. Bottom Line I think that you will have to remove all the partitions, clean install Windows 2000. Consult this page to install Linux on your hard drive: http://www.powerquest.com/support/primus/id2607.cfm Don't use Norton's again. Hope this helps

Boot from the CD. Get into the console and save your data if you can. You could reload Windows, but it would be best to clean install. If you get it running and it is working fine, go immediately and buy and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS).

Every motherboard differs. The memory space you are reserving is typical for most graphic cards. Nvidia, 3dfx, and STB cards usually like to assign their cards to their own IRQ especially if they are PCI cards not AGP. Sometimes motherboards do this, sometimes you have to do it from bios. If it is an AGP card it is usually automatic. Anyway, if you get XP up using your ATI card, you should be able to change the drivers for it from ATI to Standard VGA (see above). After rebooting the card will work, but it will not be using the specific ATI drivers. Many ATI installations have a little program running and there is a little icon in the task tray. You will want to remove that program by going to Add/Remove programs from your Control Panel. Once the machine is using the Standard VGA drivers, you should be able to power down and replace the ATI card with the TNT card. XP will still be using Standard VGA and the TNT should work with those drivers so there should be no memory conflicts. Then, you can install the appropriate Nvidia software and drivers for the TNT once the system comes up.

Ok, I see what you want. This is crude but it should work. First, make a copy of you IE shortcut. Right click on it and go to properties. In the target line append -nohome; this would be an example "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" -nohome Then assign it a Short Cut key. Whenever you use that shortcut key sequence, it should start internet explorer in a new blank window.

In IE, Click on Tools on the Menu. Click on Internet Options. Click on the third button on the right "Use Blank"

You could re-install XP, but you should do a clean install if you are going to go that route. On the other hand ... I am presuming you want to use the TNT rather than the ATI card. If you are getting nothing on screen with the TNT, put the ATI card back in. If the machine comes up allowing you to see the screen, do the following Right click on My Computer, Choose properties, Device Manager, Hardware Tab. Click on the (+) next to the Display Adaptor, Right click on whatever Adaptor it sees. Choose Properties, Drivers Tab, Update Drivers. Then, choose the Standard VGA driver. Install it. It will want to reboot. Don't. Go to Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, and Remove any ATI software that is installed. Reboot. Let it come back up to make sure that the Standard VGA is installed. The screen should look crummy. Power down, replace the ATI card with the TNT card. Turn the machine back on. If XP recognizes that there is a new card, it will try to install the drivers. If it does not, go through the same procedure as before Right click on My Computer ... but choose the driver that approximates the TNT. XP and older cards are not a perfect match. After installation the drivers may work for windows but not OpenGl games. You may have to scour the Net to find drivers that will work both under windows and OpenGL

There is a great deal of speculation on annoyances.org about what the directory is. Apparently, it shows up in a number of XP installations. Given the number of Asian sites that come up in Google, it seems to be a high point of discussion among them. Haven't a clue what it is for. Some think it is included as a possible area for Windows Image Acquisition to be compatible with Xerox for scanning abilities. Some think it is a conspiracy upon the part of Microsoft. What seems to be problematic is that it is protected by the system. Some seem to have managed to delete it by going through the Console. You might try the command: DEL \\.\ drive letter :\ path \ file name to see if that will get rid of it. However, from what I read, it comes back the next time you start XP. The same kind of thing showed up in W2K with frontpage though you could delete it and not have it return. There seems to be no references to it in the registry. To put it in the immortal (though plagiarized) words of the original Word tech team to keep the program from being pirated, "only the shadow knows."

They're excellent cards, but there are so many problems with them and the VIA chipset. Look at a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card: http://www.tbeach.com/site/products/santacruz/producthome.asp They seem to want to try to keep their drivers updated. Their sound quality is consistent with the Audigy and they are cheaper.

Look at this article. The author claims that it is the only way to change it when XP/2K stubbornly won't - http://www.networking.tzo.com/net/howto/win2k/default.asp

For windows 2000 this is how you would decrease the time of shutdown: Regedt32.exe) and locate the following Registry subkey in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control On the Edit menu, click Add Value Enter the following: Value Name: WaitToKillServiceTimeout Data Type: REG_SZ String:<In milli-seconds; default is 20,000> NOTE : Try not to increase the shut-down time too much, but you can decrease it if you don't care about it saving settings.

Wish I could go aha! ... got your problem. Still think it is a voltage question since you have more devices running with with IE engaged with modem and video card on the PCI bus with the Audigy. On the other hand, this is a fast system. I have seen this proposed as a solution, that takes advantage of the speed of your system. However, if is "iffy" since it requires a registry hack: Adding the following keys with Windows 2000 to the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\BIOS PCIConcur = 1 (enabled) FastDRAM = 1 (enabled) AGPConcur = 1 (enabled) These settings speed up hardware specific operations by allowing installed devices to use extra CPU cycles: PCI, AGP and/or DRAM based I/O transfers from the motherboard interface/bus/bridge (PCI, AGP, DRAM) to the CPU, and the other way around Mucking around with the registry is sometimes the surest way to a W2K re-install.

Shouldn't think you need to. You need to seek out and purge all of the nvidia drivers in \system \system\32 or system32\drivers. They are usually nv*.* Change the card to Standard VGA. Reboot. Make sure it stays the standard VGA. Uninstall the Nvidia software. Go into windows explorer and erase all the nv*.* drivers in the various folders. Reboot again. The screen should absolutely dreadful. Install the Nvidia software.

Before reinstalling the old drivers, install the video card with Standard VGA drivers first. Then reboot and install your Nvidia software.

By looping and looping I take it to mean that the same tune repeats itself over and over until the webpage is loaded and then everything runs properly, is this what you are saying? I suspect the the Via/Nvidia loop phenomenon is based upon the voltage getting to the motherboard. We're putting in so many things in these machines and with more memory, CD's, bigger drives, I think the power supply units are just not managing. As they grow older and voltages degrade, if only by degrees, these problems with video and sound cards are cropping up. Anyway, the fact that they are all sharing the same IRQ (even if your reset them in BIOS) is Windows ACPI. Maybe you could tell us a little more about the machine, what's in it, what do you have running in your task tray, etc.

Copied this off of the MS Support page so that you wouldn't have to online to it again: WINUP- Illegal Operation or Application Error when clicking on Product Updates (Q241122) SYMPTOMS You receive the following error message when you try to access the Windows Update Product Catalog: IEXPLORE caused an invalid page fault in module wuv3is.dll CAUSE The wuv3is.dll file did not download correctly or has become corrupted. RESOLUTION 1. Click Start and then click Run. 2. In the Open box, type "regsvr32 /u wuv3is.dll" (without the quotation marks). Then click OK. 3. Delete the wuv3is.dll file using the instructions below. a. Click Start, point to Find, and then click Files or Folders. b. Type "wuv3is.dll" (without the quotation marks) in the Named box. c. When the file is found, right-click it and then click Delete. 4. If using Windows Me, there is a hidden folder in the WindowsUpdate Folder that will not be visible unless Windows is set to show Hidden Files and Folders. Configure your system for showing Hidden Files and Folders using the instructions below. a. Double-click the My Computer icon. b. Click Tools from the menu bar, and choose Folder Options. c. Select the View tab, then in the Advanced Settings section set the Hidden Files and Folders option to Show Hidden Files and Folders. 4. Delete the contents of the Windows Update folder using the instructions below. a. Click Start, then click Programs, and then click Windows Explorer. b. In the left pane, double-click the Program Files folder. c. In the left pane, double-click the WindowsUpdate folder. d. In the right pane, highlight wuhistv3.log, click Edit from the menu bar and click Invert Selection from the Edit menu. e. Press the Delete key (or right-click and select Delete). Click Yes to confirm. Note: Deleting the file wuhistv3.log will clear the entire Windows Update download history. This is not recommended, as you will have no record of previous downloads. The steps above delete all files with the exception of wuhistv3.log. 6. The next visit to the Windows Update Product Catalog will load a new copy of wuv3is.dll. If prompted to install and run "Microsoft Windows Update Active Setup," choose Yes.

For best throughput, the CD-RW unit should be attached to the Secondary IDE device as the Master with DMA enabled. Some of the factors for buffer underruns - speed of the processor, other tasks in RAM, fragmented hard disk. Be sure that you have the latest firmware. Believe this unit has an XP upgrade available. Burn Audio CD at 6X not 8X though it says it is rated at 8X.

Don't know if this has any relevance. http://www.maxtor.com/products/UltraATA100/TechSupport/TechProcedures/23004.htm While this is talking about a Maxtor Ultra ATA, the installation of the drivers is to take place prior to the drives being connected. "Hard drives should not be connected to the Ultra ATA/100 Adapter Card before performing the following procedure. The UDMA 100 drivers must be loaded on the system hard drive (running under the existing hard drive adapter) before any hard drives are connected to the Ultra ATA/100 PCI Adapter Card."

Tried these? http://www.ortek.com/driver/mck800/800_XP1109.exe

Actually, he would not lose his software. It would still be on the hard disk. Unfortunately, it would not be "registered" in the registry, which means that some things simply would not work as expected. Yes, he could try to re-install XP and it may work out as the best thing to do all around.

NT seems to have a difficulty along the lines of recognizing partitions greater than 500MB as per this article: http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q124307 But, MS suggests using ontrack software as in this article http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q124910 to work around it. It's a start.

Look at this page: http://www.netropa.com/download/mmkbd/download.html