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SATA Dvd drive install freeze with Vista
I am using 160 Gig SATA HDD for the OS and it will be my main HDD can I also use EIDE HDD with SATA? I have 2 Seagate 160 Gig drives I would like to keep and use, but not at the cost of a fast boot time. Yes, assuming that your motherboard supports both (or that you add a controller card to support EIDE),

Installing a software firewall.
My motherboard is the GIGABYTE GA-P35C-DS3R. I'm trying to install an OEM version of Vista Ultimate and when I try to load in my copy of XP Pro it does the install menu where you select a partition to format, it does that and when you reboot it goes back to that menu. I'm really not sure what the problem is but I'd

Windows shutdown
(Much similar to the problems seen in Vista) That list I posted points out what might impact you in trying to upgrade XP. I cannot install my audio drivers etc. without SP2. I also would like to say that I'm not very good with computers, so could you please explain in detail what I need to do (if you have a

Vista x64 Memory / Bootup / CRCDisk.sys Issue
FYI my system is: Asus M2N32-SLI Premium Vista Edition Motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 5200+ Windsor 2.6Hz 2X1MB L2 Cache, Socket AM2, 4GB Memory, EVGA GeForce Also, after years of using my trusty Thrustmaster Top Gun Afterburner FFB stick and throttle, I find the yoke and pedals very twitchy [I miss the FFB too].

Seeking Pointers on UAC
Every time I have had to insert the Win98 install CD to get the drivers to work with the motherboard, video card (if changed), etc. But that does not answer the question [okay, I admit I have recently dropped monitoring the XP/VISTA newsgroups]. OR, as I questioned, did Microsoft remove that requirement and the

Choosing the "right" OS
Every time I have had to insert the Win98 install CD to get the drivers to work with the motherboard, video card (if changed), etc.... That's why I like 98. For that reason, I won't even touch XP or Vista. I'm not sure of WinME allows for this or not. The whole issue comes down to the format of the hard drive.

Vista Troubles
If the Bios does not see it then that is a hardware problem or bad cable connection from the power cable or communications cable. -- Quad Core "Dibond" wrote: Also, according to my motherboard guide the only time I should need the drivers are when I have RAID or AHCI mode enabled, neither of which I am using.

Vista Upgrade Question
I might end up making that switch to Linux after all - or (egads,perish the thought) consider switching to MAC and using an emulator to run my windows stuff. The OP is installing a new motherboard. His old wpa.dbl file is pretty much worthless. Will that work if one installs a new hard drive with everything

Mythos (was: Re: Diablo like)
Just a thought, it could be cheaper to try/get the PC shop to try/ a different PSU before a new motherboard and/or graphics card. Yep, 2 x PCI-E lead going to I will vigourously defend my PCs from Vista and could only see myself ever using it if there was a killer app that I required that needed Vista to run.

installation XP professional SP3, SATA driver installation
Some 18 or so showed an install failure. I had around 14 gig of spare memory on my computer. When I did as I was told and rebooted the computer would not that my old version8 of QuickBooks will not cohabit with Internet Explorer 7, and neither will it run on a new laptop running Vista which I am using today to

Changing display settings via registry
I'm using the original bios, not sure which version and I've had the motherboard about 6months. Generally I don't like updating bios's unless absolutely necessary. The bios doesn't seem to be an issue as it will recognise the drive and can even run an install DVD of Vista from it. Disabling writing caching as

REINSTALL XP HOME - THis is a good one
On my newer computer (win XP), the motherboard went bad, i removed the HD (ATA) "hard drive X" and installed on my older computer (Win Me). Is there a way I can do it using some copying software ... maybe? Yes, you can, by installing NTFSDOS from www.sysinternals.com or by installing the disk in some other

Overclocking for the novice (ish)
Fool that I am, I reset my CMOS. Now, I can't boot up at all and even when I try to boot using my XP Pro CD-ROM, I can't do an XP Setup because it can't see my SATA HDD. How do I get my machine to recognize my SATA HDD? I do not, repeat, DO NOT want to go back to ASUS Tech Support. -- Jim H.

Vista SP1 Activation Hack - Vista Loader - Working Vista SP1
So not only does it stress CPU and memory, but also announces when a consistency check has failed. The program cannot test all memory, which is a weakness. On my machine, it can test up to about 760MB of my 1GB total - the rest of memory is used by Windows. 3) 3D Gaming -- I have used 3DMark2001SE build 330,

SigmaTel Audio Problems
This is not likely the cause of your problem though. I also have found Vista x64 to be pretty stable. JB RZOA wrote: Hi, 6 months ago I bought vista home premium 64 bit. So I installed it without a problem and then proceeded to install the drivers for my hardware and also installed some software.

Boot Windows with Generic Drivers
My new vista compatable microphone, my NEW Vista compatable mouse...ect I'm using a clean instal of Vista Ultimate. This is a brand new home built computer. I've RMAed the motherboard thinking that was it but it isn't. Also, Vista will not allow me to use 4G RAM. I have 4 sticks of 1 G memeory(and yes,

CH Products USB Yoke and Pedal manuals
I attempted to install Zone Alarm Security Suite (the latest version that supports Windows Vista). I could not get the installation program to run *at all* under my user account with Administrator privileges. When I switched to the Administrator account it insalled perfectly. Then I switched back to my user account

SigmaTel Audio Problems
I like vmware since I can actually install win98se and vista on it without formatting my pc. I am using abit nf7-s (the one with onboard sound), support all sound card from different maker which will reduce the trouble of hunting driver that sometimes do not want to install on my vmware's win98se virtual machine.

Tyan s2668 dual Xeon 2ghz 512kb L2 2MB L3 - bios problem
Epi E...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsupdate I've managed to get back onto my PC by using this method. Had to do a System restore before all was ok. "Praxis" wrote: I had the same problem. The way to fix it is to boot from your Vista DVD. Since you are not savvy I will step through it. 1.

My computer running XP has gone into perpetual reboot !
I can watch my already recorded TV files fine using Media Player, so they're not corrupt or anything. I can also watch other video files (DivX/Xvid encoded AVI My system is a home built one as follows: MSI P6N SLI Platinum motherboard Intel E4300 Core2Duo nVidia 8600GT 4GB Ram Hauppauge Nova-T 500 tuner Vista