I take it the 4in1 drivers were installed before, after you went through that long procedure checking out disk drive, memory, etc. Is that...
Zander - in the UK a chopper is a kid's bicycle. You would have to do a lot of stripping down to turn a motorbike into a chopper here :) ....
Well I did warn you about six and a half weeks ago that your PC was by far and away the most complicated thing you own. However, now you know...
I appreciate this is going to be like watching planks warp, but could you be patient for a day and just play with whatever joys your PC can offer...
So now you have re-installed XP is it no longer rebooting? Edit: Please do not install SP2.
That can of worms was suspiciously easy to sort out, but at least we're not getting errors any more. It's a pain having all that non-essential...
Stitch - could you post back the errors from the event viewer please? I had thought of the install a different copy of Windows test too, but as...
Having navigated your way successfully, in the right-hand pane of regedit right-click on the entry named Start, and select Modify from the menu;...
You edit the registry with regedit. Just select Start...Run, type regedit, and click OK. You'll get a window that looks and works like...
I think it boiled down to changing something in the registry. I suggest you try it. I don't have a Messenger account, and in any case I think...
Did you follow that link I gave you? I think it wise to work our way through those errors before anything else. BTW, do any of them...
I understand what you're saying about LAN access, but we need to sort this one out: Since your web access is via a USB modem, I'm surprised it's...
Hmmm ... this has opened a can of worms. There appear to be at least two problems here, which may be related. Firstly there is some problem...
Could you please take a poke around Control Panel...Administrative Tools...Event Viewer and let us know of any Warnings or Errors.
OK - it's beginning to sound like something in XP is wrong - a driver perhaps. I'll wait for your reply to mattman's post before saying more on...
When you select CD-ROM support you should see the screen display a whole load of messages, one of which will tell you which drive letter the...
Good luck!
I hope you will understand when I say a negative result doesn't prove the machine is healthy, but if the machine doesn't reboot, then when you are...
OK, I hadn't appreciated until today that you had the data drive (it's a good move to get your work files well away from the Windows structure,...
I think I know what the problem is. Note the following extract from your list: AUTOEXEC.BAT is *not* a Text Document, and the other two...
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