I made a few tests this evening, removing one stick of ram, trying each in slot 1 and then in slot 2, and also removing the cmos battery for a...
Hi, and thanks for responding. Nothing comes on the screen. I think that is more because it is just not on long enough for anything to come on...
Hello, I have a HP Pavillion dv9815nr. I have had it nearly 5 years, and it has been a very good pc. It has a AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 processor....
I know you don't upgrade from XP. That is why I said "replace" in the first line of the question. Replace means doing a clean install. But the...
Say you "replace" XP home using an upgrade version. In a year, say your hard drive crashes or something. Once whatever the problem was is...
For noahdfear I use Norton Antivirus, which I disabled on those attempts to install the service pack directly. And for the firewall, since the...
Doing okay It installed. Seems to be running fine. It gave me 30 days to activate. I am just setting up a few programs for now. I will...
Updates Note to Mattman, it was a Sata hard drive that I bought, not a Sata dvd. My dvd drive is still ide. I will try not to be as wordy as...
Additional to "Well now its worse " I forgot to add, since there is nothing on this new drive yet, I tried all these with lan, usb, and audio...
Well now its worse I guess I made too many repair installs to this installation. It started telling me I had to reactivate, and it wouldn't let...
This weekends attempts After installing the sp2 and it blowing up, I had to revert back to the sp1a repair install. I had to do it twice before...
Tried installing sp2 again On the assumption that its a driver problem.... All the drivers for everything are there and running under the sp1a...
Question on driver issue possibility When I have made a tweak to my system, I have been testing it by simply seeing if the slipstream install cd...
Reply to Rockster 4/18/08 #1 My ram is not on Gigabytes' list, but they point out they can't test it all. My ram is a 4 gig (2 modules-2 gig...
Additional for Rockster-3rd post 04/17/08 The old Tyan board is a Trinity I875P S5101. It used Intel 875P for the North Bridge, and Intel ICH5...
Additional info-2nd post of the day The only new stuff in the new system is the Gigabyte board, the cpu, and the ram. Everything else is brought...
Reply to Rockster2U Yes the 160 gig Seagate, an ultra ata/100 drive, placed into service about May 2005, was from my old system. My old system...
Hello Mattman I have the latest drivers for the chipset as well. I really don't want to uninstall any more programs at this point in time....
Reply to Mattman about drivers Yes I have the latest driver for my Matrox card for XP. Also the audio, lan, etc. In fact I was looking...
Clearing the CMOS Doing this did not fix my problem. I still can't load SP2. I may try one of the beta bios that are available. I'll...
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