thanks guys - rebuild did it Ari. much appreciate Sparrow's time to look into this too. glad he shares my frustration :D FYI - i ran...
Signature() Syntax in the Boot.ini File just found this article... really cool. takes the worry out of moving drives around if you give them an...
actually the board is numbered 1,2,3,4 but the BIOS POST numbers them 0,1,2,3 (IDE) then 4,5,6,7 SATA, and the 4,5,6,7 do NOT 1:1 correspond to...
thx Ari - i can easily get to the drive, because i can boot it fine **if I select it using the ESC at boot time** .. the problem is that it...
update since my last reply, i found basic info on boot.ini in the microsoft library, but it doesn't mention sata as a drive type, only (scsi and...
a bit confused.. Thanks for the tips. Disk is fresh and checkdisk found no errors. Thanks Ari for the pointer - I am however still a bit...
I am running XP Pro SP2 (32 bit), on a DFI nforce4 board with athlon 64 dual core and AMD driver. latest Award BIOS. 3 drive system, all SATA....
By "proper drivers from Microsoft" can you give me a pointer? I have XP Pro SP2 but nothing else. i assumed that XP Pro came with the required...
Can someone point me to an article or post that details the granularity of multicpu support that XP has? I'm looking to understand how the os...
ho-hum.. I made an equally quick visit but it appears that it's *not* cumulative... (someone pls correct me if I'm wrong) but instead it has all...
wow - pretty strange we were just talking about this... i myself won't be collecting any CDs until i need them since they will be obsoleted...
ISO update pack Yup - thanks and I agree. I'm still running W2K and and up to SP4 + all sorts of baggage, not to mention IE, Direct X,...
W2K and dual-core athelon thanks for the reply... yes - I will be doing so this week, if everything works out. I am uncertain about what AMD...
ISO file of updates You are correct and I'm sorry if I was unclear in my earlier post. Clearly if one had a system up and running that was...
slow browsing ok - thanks! Any hints as to what the other key does?
all downloads avail as a single iso file Quote: "I do my updates using the Update Catalog site accessable thu the Admin options on the update...
all updates in one iso file Quote: "Do you have ANY idea of the download capacity this would require???? When MS posts a new Windows Vista...
several keys Hi - as i was watching this thread I recalled this same problem with my machine and went to apply the patch, but in the Namespace...
I looked at the archives and there doesn't seem to be much recent press in re: W2K 32bit compatibility with AMD Athelon 64 dual-core processors....
latest CD with all updates so looking at this thread, everybody seems to like the idea of having a CD with all the latest updates, etc. so that...
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