Xp pro on an Abit SE6 and 512M ram, Celeron 850M-- all very old except the OS It can work well for the whole day and it can also suddenly turn itself off and reboots----and then usually got stuck at the BIOS screen. Serveral resets may solve the problem--for a while. Power supply? Half dead...

Does the drive need to be formatted to be seen? Did I answere my own question?

Hi, Can someone direct me to XP SATA disk drivers for a Compaq Presario F572US? HP supplies that model only with Vista drivers. XP drivers exist for other models that use the same chip sets but I don't know which ones. A Google search hasn't been productive. XP install does not have a SATA...

I just pulled one of my machines out of service to convert the HDs to SATA and to perform a clean install. I pulled all the IDE drives out of the machine, stuck a Seagate 320 GB SATA drive in and created a 50GB Partition to install Windows in. After the XP CD loads it's files, I choose the...

Hello: I am trying to get an older Compaq computer going again for a friend with few needs (word processing, Internet). It kept cycling off and on from and to the XP screen. I reformatted the HD, tried to re-install XP Pro, but keep getting the message: "setup is being restarted", and the cycle...

I moved a 250G hard disk with XP on it from one computer to another, the former being a dual - core 2.93G extreme, the later a 2.93 P4. Now, when I boot the P4 up I get an "A disk error has occurred" error message and the machine won't boot. If I boot with the XP CD and use XP's recovery...

Here's the story... :) The computer is around 600mhz with 2 hard drives and 2 cd rom drives, the main hard drive (120 gigs) so i bought a 250gig to replace it. Turns out that the mobo won't support drives over 137 gigs so I bought a Promise ATA 133 pci controller. It recognized the new 250gig...

Hi, Can anyone tell me why I'm unable to use an Athlon XP 1800+ with the Soltek SL-75DRV2 mobo? When I try, it won't even boot up (just a black screen). The mobo and CPU are apparently fine individually - the mobo works with another CPU (1700+), and the CPU works in another mobo (Asus A78NX).

I was just about to buy a 2500 barton to replace my 2100 tbred when I noticed a 2600 barton for not very much more. I know all about how the 2500 can overclock to 3200 speeds, but I know nothing about the 2600. Is it the same story (but maybe overclocking to XP3400 speeds?!) or are there issues...

I recently upgraded my cpu to a Barton XP2500+ and overclocked it successfully to 2Ghz from 1.8Ghz by increasing the FSB to 182. I am thinking about getting a new nForce2 Ultra based motherboard replacing this KT400 board. Will I be able to push the FSB to 200 using Samsung PC2700 DDR? Would I be...

Hi, i am looking at upgrading my processor (currently a XP1800, with MSI 6380E - KT3 chipset) to a XP2600+. I have checked the mobo settings and i can run the FSB at 333MHz, however my current ram is only 266MHz (PC2100). Is it worth replacing with faster ram (PC2700) so the entire system can...

I recently ordered an XP2800 thoroughbred and got sent an XP2800 barton. I should be delighted with the barton having 512kb and all, but I've lost about 200mhz and might as well have bought an XP2600(?) So are there any credible comparisons (ie benchmarks) of the two so I can see what I've...

What would be faster...taking into account bus speed?

Sorry if this question has been asked, but I need a new PC, and I hate the thought of buying Vista. Anyone major PC makers still sell PCs with XP as an option? Thanks.

PROBLEMS! got my 2x new western digital 10k rpm raptor drives today (SATA) and i cant get them working. i`m running asus default 1006 bios. when i do a fresh install, and press F6, it installs the drivers ok, but it wont see the SATA HDD's. i cant see any options in the bios to enable or change...

Hello, I'm considering a core duo or quad chip with a new MotherBoard and thought that upgrading to WinXP64 would be good although I'm worried that all my software that works under XPPro32 will have a problem under 64. Will there be a problem? ((MS Office to TMPGEnc to Nero to old MS Cardfile...

hi im curious, is there a (worthy driver change) difference beteween xtreme-g 93.71 and official nvidia forceware 93.71 from nvidia.com ? 5fps more dont make a big deal for me, so im curious why so many people recommend them, oh and one more thing, im not fan of overclocking, so driver...

regarding your mobo problems - something like this would be a possiblity http://cgi.ebay.com/ECS-K7S5A-SCKT-A-4XAGP-DDR-SDRAM-AUDIO-LAN-NEW_W0QQitemZ6836640534QQcategoryZ80163QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem because it takes both SDR and DDR memory - you have 2x256mb PC133 I think? It would take your 1.3 CPU...

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