I read late July or early August. But... ;)
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I'd say something stayed resident in memory, and a 240v shutdown cleared the memory. Interesting that it happend after only this update. As I said...
Welcome to the BBS Irene and Lubos, :) Be sure to do as Miz suggests and edit your email off the post! Check to make sure Outlook Express...
Welcome to the BBS j1ohn. :) I tend to reinstall less now, probably because as I've learnt a few of the limitatations of W2K,XP and W2K3 and...
Agreed, XP is fairly robust and can correct (within reason) some errors. Apart from running the sfc /scannow command to replace...
Martin, If an older registry backup is overwritten to the registry then any newlt installed programme that made changes to the registry will need...
A good low end choice Joel. I've been thinking of an MX 4000 for my secondary machine, an Athlon Thunderbird 1.2G to replace the aging (aged!)...
Worth running the corporate full install. It is around 130MB, so on dialup is a bit impractical. It should also be available on PC mag cover cd's etc.
Interestingly, I applied this Windows update to 3 work W2K SP4+ machines and on one of the PC's the monitor shutdown every 20 mins (the annoying...
Having both (Athlon Thunderbird 1.2 and P4 2.8) I'm a fan of both. ;)
A new graphics card is certainly in order. Even the low end available today will support 32bit colour. Carefull not to go to high end in a new...
Beats me, A SFC can't hurt. If it were me I would check/reseat all cables and memory sticks, and finally reformat and start again. Sometimes a...
Another option, depending on whether your M/B supports it, is to download Everest and go to the Sensor area under the Computer icon.
Screen contrast, brightness, colour purity and focus should be similar regardless of OS used. changing the refresh rate between 75, 85 and 100Hz...
Welcome to the forum! :) Get on the phone to them and ask for it! A slim chance is that they may not have used a password for the admin...
Goodluck, At least with a clean install you've rulled out legacy problems from a previous install. Works fine for some, but I'm a clean installer...
Just keep good backups, and documentation of your settings. The inevitable will eventually happen, but you've taken steps to reduce the severity...
Failing a hardware issue that you allude to, it's probably worth doing a reformat and clean install. I gather you have been upgrading over the top...
So I gather the system is up and running OK now? Have you loaded W2K SP4? If not then I suggest you do, plus updates from windows updates after...
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