Sampson

If you could see something on the screen, you could use the Rollback function from the Device Manager. See if your Bios sees the PCI card, disable the AGP and enable PCIvideo. If it still comes up blank, if you have a different video card, install it and perhaps XP will find the drivers for it. By the way how did you go about deactivating the VGASave driver?

Also try this page: http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:i4w...riter&hl=en Look at n.32 epatap2k.exe

Perhaps, I am misreading it, but there is available RecordNow CD Mastering Software 8.58MB, the Parallel Port Driver .1KB, and the DLA Software 6.10 MB. The parallel port driver is essential. I think that the drive comes with Adaptec Software, which has been known not to like W2K. I would download these, especially the parallel port driver so that W2k knows where to redirect your burning software. If Adaptec gives trouble try Nero. The DLA software looks like it treats the CDrom as another drive. Probably uses UDF format.

You may already have found this: http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/cposupport/swi...tWindows2000Pro

Maybe you could try this. http://www.imaginelan.com/regsafe/index.html Have never used it myself, but it seems to indicate that it can function with a hard drive that has failed.

The problem won't be resolved in the way you are contemplating. You need to give more information - the motherboard, IDE controller, whether it is a VIA chipset, type of hard drives you are using. For example, some ATA100 drives have to be treated as SCSI drives in the BIOS for W2K to recognize them.

Start regedit from Run. Manuever to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

I think, but am not positive, that you can set a VIA based board through the bios depending on which VIA IDE drivers you are using. Take a look at this page: http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=66

Maybe, but there should be a folder c:\windows\repair\ that should contain - software, default, sam, system, and security. This should have been created when he first installed XP. It will be these which are copied into the C:\windows\system32\config folder AFTER you have copied these files to c:\windows\TMP to get XP to boot. That is step 1.

It is possible that your Video Card and SBLive card are sharing the same IRQ and in turn they both want the same memory alotment, thus the conflict. Some have found by moving the sound card to a different slot, the conflict goes away. You could also change the driver for the TNT to a standard VGA. Then, power down. Put your sound card back in (in the same slot or a different one). Then, install your sound card drivers (if they weren't recognized. Then, reboot and if there is still no conflict, reinstall the TNT with the detonator drivers.

Click on the Microsoft article I cited above. It will give you the info you need to try to save the registry.

Some have succeeded by using the Intel controller drivers rather than Windows.

This kind of thing happens often because some task or program running in the background will not flush out to let XP close properly. Often this task is in your tray. Experiment 1 If you wish to find the culprit, you could bring up your task manager - Ctrl-Shift-ESC and shutdown the tasks for programs in your tray. Often it is the sound drivers that are the problem. Then, shut down the machine. When it shuts all the way down as it is supposed, you will have found out which background task will not release. This is tedious so onto Experiment 2 XP has a command line shutdown program. These are the two lines you can type into the Run command to see if they will work for you: To RESTART Windows XP: SHUTDOWN -r -t 01 To SHUT DOWN Windows XP: SHUTDOWN -s -t 01 If these work for you create a shortcut Called Restart and another shortcut called Shutdown and put these lines into the Commands of the shortcuts. The -t 01 means one second, so you can put -t 10 for ten seconds or whatever your want. You can find out all the parameters of XP's shutdown by typing Shutdown / ? at the Run command. However, this won't necessarily turn your computer off when it shuts down. It will just take you to the C:\ prompt or a screen to say you can turn it off. Try this shutdown program at this website: http://www.budja.com/shutdown/ Others I have heard about but not tried are: http://www.smartline.mu/software/asd.zip http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/ http://www.winutility.com/qsd/ Hope this helps

Here are two articles from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q239938 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q250525 The first one is about a utility you can use to completely uninstall Office 2000. The second article refers to what has been happening to you and attributes it to a virus.

Right click My Computer, Select Properties, Select Hardware Tab, Click Device Manager button. Click on the (+) next to IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Right click on Primary IDE Channel, Select Properties, Click on Advanced Settings Tab, Click on the Pull down arrow, Select PIO only.

Have you ever considered a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card? http://www.tbeach.com/site/products/santacruz/producthome.asp

What Message is it giving you when it fails? I noted that Toshiba included WinDVD as part of its software package. I checked PowerDVD to see if it was compatible with the Trident video drivers for your machine and the Yamaha audio drivers for your machine. It claims to be. Are the Trident XP drivers the same as the Blade drivers or Cyberblade drivers? It is sometimes not wise to change the Toshiba enhanced drivers for those from Trident, but this is the webpage: http://www.tridentmicro.com/drivers/drivers.html

This is one of the registry keys Visceroid was referring to: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run The other place you need to look is in your startup folder.

Went to Toshiba. There is a bios upgrade date 4/11/2002: http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/...p;x=21&y=12

What version of DirectX do you have installed? Is this PowerDVD 4.0?

This is a really lengthy article but it will take you step by step: http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307545

Found these on the Windows help in relation to stress: http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q234540 http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q298936 http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q229703 http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q235614 This interprets the bug check messages: http://personal.cfw.com/~tkprit/stop/anatomy.html These articles are in relation to multiple CPU's http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q142660 http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q298936 You might also contact Compaq.

I believe DosFreak meant \winnt\repair and \winnt\system32\config. It would be better to boot from the CD with the XP system disk. Follow the prompts and Repair.

Sorry, this is their website: http://www.majorgeeks.com/ The menu is on the left. Go to Backups.

Do you have any kind of Virus protection running in the background? Is there a domain name that is not being recognized?