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I got a blue screen today on a work laptop. (suprise) Does anyone know if the blue screens look different in Windows XP? The color was a little creamier than the old school hard blue. The error description showed up at the end of the page instead of at the beginning.

Ultimately, I thought it ...

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The machine has got to be more like 5 years old. It doesn't have any AV on it.

Not sure about which protocols its running. If it has more than one, would that slow down performance?

The primary drive is much more recent, but the backup drive is a very recent 80GB drive.

thanks for the reply

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Hey All,

I've been doing some work for a small company that has an old server with a Pentium I running 200Mhz and a new server running a P4 at 1.5Ghz (something like that). I've been running backups to the older machine(which also acts as the domain controller). I just noticed that bandwidth ...

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I use a program called RStudio. I tried out several different programs, and this one found all of my data after a hard drive format.

Its $79 for the standard version with no network capabilities, which I don't need. It has been very useful for the times Ive used it.

http://www.data-recovery ...

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I guess you could at least split the list in half and make A-K/L-Z mailing lists.

Its not a perfect solution, but it seems practical.

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I tried installing the software in Safe Mode and I get an error message again. If I disable the msi.dll and related files then it tells me that Installer won't startup. If I just try to reinstall, I get a message that the service already exists.

YOSC, I've seen this problem before too and all I had ...

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...just the default settings. Logon as Local System Account: Allow services to interact with the desktop.

The user account is an account within a domain. But I tried starting the Windows Installer as both the domain user and a local administrator.

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damn...Im trying to think if I actually tried doing the install while still in safe mode. Im pretty sure that I did, but maybe not.

btw, if I try to start up the service manually, I get an error about not being able to start the service possible because of permissions. Is it possible that my ...

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I was servicing a machine and found myself unable to uninstall or install any programs requiring the Windows Installer. I got error 1719, the installer service could not be accessed. Microsoft has a post on it here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q315346

The installer is ...

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I tried three PS2 kb's and a USB one..Has anyone every removed the kb/mouse PS2 socket and replaced it?

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yeah, sorry. I should have mentioned that. I tried a few times with no luck.

Im also getting the message everytime - "CMOS checksum - Defaults loaded."

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When I boot my machine, I get a long beep. If I pull out the keyboard, it won't bootup due to keyboard failure. Im sure I have the option to halt on all errors in the BIOS. But I can't get into the BIOS without a keyboard at this point. USB keyboard is no good either.

It seems like my keyboard PS/2 ...

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I have worked with the Linksys 802.11b routers, and my impression of them is that they are finicky. The last one I worked with crapped out on me every time I changed a setting. i.e I would change the long preamble to short, reboot and then I couldn't see the router anymore. I had to do a hard reset ...

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Yeah, the site is definitely externally hosted. Third-party online database stuff.

I looked into ADSL here in this area. They could get a 7Mbits/768 kbits connection for about $250. Now that is not bad at all. They are paying more for the partial T1 and..they have a contract. So I suggested, just ...

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I found out some more details. The website is database driven and it does slow down during business hours. It runs faster in the mornings and picks up again late afternoon.

They have a fractional T1, and the company, USLEC, doesn't offer any asymmetric solutions. Im not sure what pricing is right ...

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Thank for the reply YOST,

That suprises me about Cable speeds. The best speeds that I have been seeing have been around 1000. I thought they capped out at 1500 anyway.

We've got two 10/100 switches setup. One serving 10 people, the other downstream from the first switch and serving another 5 ...

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I'm supporting a small company (10-15 users) that has a partial T1 connection..512/512. The network has one NT domain controller, around 15 PC's, 2 network printers and a 10/100 Cisco router. Most internet usage is for email and web browsing with a few users who will download larger files at times ...

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You might as well wait for the 3200+ to come out. The specs on the 3000 aren't great. But that is usually the case when a new core comes out. Or just buy the 2800, its a better chip at this point. After the they up the speed to 3200+ and higher, performance will probably improve.

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I'm looking for a video card, ~$100, to put in a machine for optimal DVD playback.

XP 1800
ECS K7S5A
256 DDR 2100
40 GB Maxtor 7200

Its a budget machine with the best performance for the money. I have used Radeon's (7500, 8500) before and sometimes you get the DVD software and sometimes you don't ...

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Many thanks Sid, that will be very handy in the future. Do you know if this prog will test DDR memory? It tested my PC2700 memory, but it reported the badwidth to be around 700MB/s. That is definitely not my badnwidth. Sandra reports it around 2000MB/s (even though it is theoretically 2700.) Still ...

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It sounds like you know what you want here. When Im hooking up family members with computers I always keep in mind that the computer will eventually come back to me. So I don't buy somthing that I wouldn't want (still keeping in mind the low cost factor though.) The mobo will do the job, but its ...

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Shadrach...did the same thing for my brother a while back, but I went cheap and upgradeable. The others are right about the microATX, I wouldn't bother with a case like that. I found a cheap case online for 7$. Its just another ATX case, nothing exciting but cheap. For a board, check out the ECS ...

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I don't use ME, and I'm not sure why...but what is this system restore function and where do you turn it off? That sounds useful to know if I run into another user with ME.

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Does anyone know of a RAM tester that I can use in windows 2000? My main partition is NTFS, so I don't think I can boot with a DOS boot disk. Most of the mem testers I see are DOS based.

I want to test my memory b/c I am getting sporadic file corruption and data errors, mainly on bootup.

thanks ...

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That's a good call LT, I hadn't thought of that and the BIOS was in need of an update. I just finished up with the flash, and the OS loads about 20% of the files this time before it crashes...urrrrgh.

I swapped out the CDROM, which I began to suspect might be giving up some errors, and I got a ...

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That's just it LT

OCZ 333 - can't load OS on any memory settings
DDR 266 - ran fine
Corsair XMS 333 - same problem as the OCZ, but I am testing memory settings now.

I just watched it happened. It was copying OS files and at about 4% it blue screens and I get unexpected kernel mode trap.

I didn't ...

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Depression...I have this whole machine in waiting (Gigabyte 7VRXP, XP 1800, 20 Gb, crappy video card right now). I bought 256Mb, 333Mhz, CAS2 of OCZ RAM originally. It worked fine in a friend's machine with a Soltek Purple Ray, but not mine. OCZ only offered to exchange it...real helpful. the ...

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Nothing but trouble from Earthlink. It took two and a half months to get DSL setup when we signed on. Conveniently they started the contract after setup was complete. Such a hassle. There was always some mistake going on. Well, we moved a few months ago and our contract still had three months to go ...

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Ricochet - early 90's movie. Great flick back when John Lithgow played a quality bad guy.

The Professional - a Luc Besson flick. Really good movie. Great cinematography and alot of character depth.

Panic Room - same guy directed Fight Club. He does alot of seamless combinations of filming and ...

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"We're in the pipe, 5 by 5" Aliens

"I don't know which is worse, that the situation exists or that there is a word for it." Broken Arrow

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I read that a study was done with a group of horoscope buffs. They split the group in two and gave them sets of horoscopes that were completely opposite of each other. How accurate were the horoscopes?? Something like 95% accurate. The things we believe in become part of our life regardless of what ...

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Have you determined whether or not the emails are originating from his computer? A packet monitor or network monitor should be able to detect all of that outgoing traffic. I don't think the trojans could hide from utilities like that...I could be wrong.

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Mynetisbest...

Thanks for the post. That's quite helpful, but what really moved me is your second post... :)

This is a clients computer, pretty old machine too. In fact, this is a new hard drive I am installing. I had to partition it though b/c FAT16 won't support a drive above 4G, and at 4G slack ...

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LT-73, the Silverado is one BA cooler. It has five grams of silver in the base...the best heat transfer metal you can use right now. And it has two fans shaped like turbines that are very quiet on low settings. Great cooler, too bad it costs 70-80$.

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Hard drive controllers don't support asynchronous timings...meaning that you can't run two devices at different speeds. SCSI controllers can do just that, but they are a better technology. The controller can't talk to one drive at a fast speed and then to another at a slow speed. The IDE controller ...

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81 CFM!! I won't even buy a 60 because that's too loud. Ha. Why not just get a sweet cooler like the Silverado.

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Snake, 51C is 123 Fahrenheit. The CPU is already well over your room temperature. The room is actually colder than the CPU right now. 51 isn't a temp to worry about. If it were in the 70's, then there would be a problem...80's and you need to shut the computer down quick.

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Right. Now where is the option to convert to FAT32?

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Sid, the partition size is exactly 2 GB. Does that still count? Where is the option to convert the drive?

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The main partition on a machine that I am working on is FAT16. I want to convert to FAT32. The OS is Windows 2000. Can I do this? and can I do it without buying software?

I searched the forum but didn't find any threads for converting FAT16 in Windows 2000.

(I know I can convert to NTFS, but I ...

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