Hi. Does anyone have any opinions as to whether Windows 2003 server would run smoothly on a stand alone computer. Would the speed be slower...
Hi Arie. Thank you for the article. It was very well done and obviously involved quite a bit of research. I'm concerned that Microsoft...
Hi FireDancer. For reliability you might consider a Xeon 3.06GHz cpu (possibly with 1Gig on-board cache). These are 533MHz front side buss...
Newt made a point there on something that went right by me. Most hard drives have multiple platters and each platter has a head on the top...
Hi GuyGadois. That's a good one. Among the things I would check are; be absolutely sure the jumpers on the hdds are correct and they probably...
Hi drecollet. More than likely the head bounced off the surface of the hard drive and damaged a sector. That can't be repaired but it can be...
Hi NJTech30. Check the bios and see if there is a setting for using PCI or AGP on startup and set accordingly. Might have gotten changed.
Hi Christer. Yes, I absolutely remember that thread. I was going to email you re this thread. I did some tests when the ATA100's first...
Hi. YES! Mr. Chiles4 is absolutely correct and I stand changed. I haven't run these types of tests in years but I put an ATA133 drive on a...
Hi. If you insert one of the paths where that file is located in where it asks for it in your first post the install process should get past...
Hi. Glad to help. Things like that can just drive you nuts.
Hi. You can try that but it probably won't work. More than likely you'll have to go through the install procedure so Windows can set the...
I have XP Pro with SP1 loaded and the file is in the following folders: \Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386 \Windows\System32\Drivers If you...
Hi bmartin. One of the causes of this problem is an hdd that is jumpered "master" when it is the only drive on an IDE port and the jumper...
Hi enrique86. That file, i8042prt.sys, was never loaded so that is probably the problem. The location it specified was just the last location...
Hi Joe Locke. Each IDE port is a world unto itself. You have it set up exactly right. Each IDE port will run at the speed of the slowest...
Hi gplea. You can boot from a floppy with fdisk on it and type "fdisk /mbr" (no quotes) and it will redo the mbr. Normal causes of this...
Hi squirrel. Mattman has a very very good point on that power supply. If memory serves, Dell has a power supply that is not normal. I think...
Hi BAM. It does not sound like you have a problem with your video card. VxD does not denote "Video x Driver," vxd is a generic file extension...
I usually just shut down, jumper another in parallel to the old one, change out the old one for a new one and remove the one jumpered in. The...
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