Indeed, that's always the unknown. What I do for a test is start the equipment from a dead cold start and immediately check all of the temps. as...
OK, just wanted to make sure. BTW, my P4 CPU temp never gets over 40° C. You list yours at 60° (140° F.). That's some concern in my view...
I would recommend as a very minimum that you make a copy of your personal files onto a different media such as a CD. My favorite is to use a...
While waiting, verify that all fans are running and heat sinks are dust free and all vents are unrestricted. Run Everest or Aida to check cpu...
Maybe they want a fat32 system larger than 32gigs? Takes fdisk for that or third party help. Easier to make a boot floppy rather than a boot CD....
No doubt one of the Updates didn't come off properly. Do a search in the Windows directory for kb*.log and arrange the results in chronological...
You tell 'em visionof, I stutter. :D
That's the way it's supposed to work. It's not a perfect world so there are never any guarantees. As I stated earlier, Consider disk imaging...
I forgot to mention that you can also delete the boot.ini file from the Recovery Console. The system will boot without it if you're in the 90%...
Good luck on your repair install and thanks for posting back your progress!
It will be most helpful if you will get something like StartupControl and run it to see just what is calling for the command prompt at startup....
You sure had a lot of index discrepencies. If it didn't cause you to lose any files then not to worry. To be safe though, get your backups in...
You didn't give me any numbers for the cpu usage. Normally you can expect the System Idle Process will be at 97% or above. You seem to indicate...
Tap the key repeatedly as soon as you turn on the power. It should work.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del all at the same time. That gets you the Task Manager. Click on the header named CPU and the largest user will come to the...
Power failure could indeed be the cause, happens all the time. It's the equivalent of an improper shutdown. Check your event viewer for the...
Try some of these bios setup access methods: del during boot AMI, Award Esc during boot Toshiba F1 during boot Toshiba; Phoenix; Late model...
Nope! I never mind others joining in when I'm wrecking someone's system. Now it's going to be your fault. ;) I just wanted it to move along a...
I hope I didn't scare you off Nshimmy. If you have no floppy drive, we can do it another way. Not to worry. You can always boot to your XP...
Do you have a floppy drive? If so, download the following two files. Read the text file first and then place a blank floppy in your drive and...
Separate names with a comma.
