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Issues with Norton Internet Security and SATA drives?
Sorry if thi is not the relevant Group for this question.
I built a PC last weekend with: Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 Motherboard Athlon XP2800+ 512Mb Crucial DDR 3200 Hightech Excalabur Radeon 9600XT Video Card Maxtor 6Y080MO Plus 9 80Gb SATA HDD Windows XP Home/SP1 After a few hiccups everything apears to be running perfectly and the PC seems completely stable. I have run memtest to check out the memory and have run 3DMark benchmarks 2000, 2001 and 2003 and am getting impressive results. All applications and games that I have tried seem to work perfectly with one exception - Norton Internet Security. The Gigabyte M/B came with NIS 2003 free. I tried several times but it just would not complete the installation. I then tried an old copy of NIS 2002 which I use on another PC and it installed perfectly, so I assumed there was a problem with the application on the Gigabyte disc. Rather than wait for a replacement (because I want to get on-line with broadband quickly, I bit the bullet and bought a copy of NIS 2004. This appeared to load successfully , but after the inital re-boot the system would repeatedly go into a loop of loading windows, crashing as soon as XP attempted to load NIS (too quick for me to see the message) an dimmediately re-boot. The only way I could break the cycle was to interupt the boot-up with F8 and chose to boot up with my last good configuration. NIS of course won't run. Can't think what this might be. There aren't any known issues installing NIS onto SATA drives, are there? Any help greatly appreciated. Harry |
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