No problem whitcheywoman, Keep us informed, I don't hold out much hope regarding the HD test but it won't do any harm. This is looking like a...
Hi John, I don't use Win 7 myself but a small suggestion that may help others answer your query. Can you post the make and model number of your...
Hi Paul, Early days but keep us informed. M/B : Motherboard. SFC : System File Checker, I'd leave this for the moment but the motherboard...
Insert the first floppy and boot from it, you'll be prompted for the others and finally your XP SP3 disk, Do the repair install from there....
Do you have a floppy drive? If so download boot floppies images from microsoft and create them, try the install from them (you'll still need that...
Great, Thanks for letting us know :) Could you mark this thread resolved...
Looks good, Try and boot from it, if you are able to boot then try a repair install. Backup any important data first. To do a repair install......
Ok, Do you have a Windows XP SP3 install CD? Note: Install CD not a recovery CD.
OK try the clean up utility again as described in this Knowledgebase Article. Let us know precisely what happens and can you please start using...
Thanks Gene. And again, you are trying to install H&R block from? Is it a CD, File on your HD, File on your network, installing straight from...
Hi gener1, Can you supply more information with your replies we are not psychic ;) Did you try Dial-a-fix again? Did you try Windows Installer...
Story from the BBC Forget about dodging cars, how did it know where the rescue centre was:confused: Shouldn't laugh but that is one intelligent...
PeteC as usual was right, did you read the Knowledge Base article he posted?
OK, Try dial a fix again this time with all the fixes on the main page Let's try Dial-a-fix first it can often resolve issues like this......
Makes Virgin medias DSL service look even more impressive, 10 Mb/s, 20 Mb/s or 50Mb/s FWIW here in the UK most ADSL providers offer up to 16Mb/s...
Nope, Dial-a-fix will report an error just click OK and ignore it, proceed with the rest of the instructions.
Kimsland The Optiplex Range are desktops, I assume the battery that witcheywoman changed was her CMOS one (no charging required) ;)
A couple of things to try In your BIOS look for fail safe defaults or something similar. You say you can't hear the fan so the system could be...
Hi Gene and welcome to WindowsBBS :)
Your first error code is incorrect (0x007) please verify and post in your next reply. Try this, when your computer restarts tap away at the F8...
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