99% Failure Rate On Sp3
May 15, 2008
Microsoft should pull sp3 i am the owner of a computer store i handle tech part of it 50 machines upgraded to sp3 from a fresh install of sp2 failed.The machines reset in a loop and in some instances failed to boot period.The machines range from dell p4's to quad core intel systems.6 diff brands of motherboards, customers are bringing machines into the shop because they did windows update installed sp3 and there machine no longer boots into windows.
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Jul 3, 2006
I am using Logitech standard optical mouse connected to the PS/2 port. Although the Trails option is disabled I still get some trails. While not a [problem] after 6 or so years it's becoming rather annoying.I also understand that while the mouse is connected to the PS/2 prt the refresh or Sample rate can be reg tweaked to 200Hz which I have done, but it seems to have had no effect.I understand that the refresh rate could be increased to 500Hz by connecting it to a USB port, but that this can cause severe resources problems. Does anyone know if this is correct. Or if the Sample rate can be safely increased above 200 w/o blowing up my cute little mouse?I am using a Logitech standard optical mouse with XP Hone. I had to remove the manufacturers mouse driver has it was causing the options to freak-out, in particular the wheel that would constantly appear on the screen and entrap and lock-up the mouse.
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Jul 22, 2005
Control Panel Sounds and Audio Devices has a tab for setting playback performance but does not have a tab for recording performance.I have two 24-bit, 96 KHz USB 2.0 sound cards on my system and I would like to set the default recording rate high.The external sound cards are the Sound blaster Audigy 2 NX and the Phillips Aurilium PSC 805/17.
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Apr 11, 2005
There i have a pc on my corprate network, and it appears to be dialing premuim rate dialers. is there a program i can download that will safely remove theese i am aware of spybot but.
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Jul 27, 2005
Download the "Corp" version of Win XP Pro, file-sharing or torrent, and then run validation, fail, and get MS to sell you a retail copy of 1/2 price. Do the same thing, download Corp XP Pro. Burn a copy to CD on a computer it isn't install on, make up a receipt, and go to the Library and do a search of newspapers for computer shows from a couple years ago.Fill out the forms MS gives you and send in with the CD and receipt, and get MS to send you a retail copy for free. OK, I'm not really advocating anybody doing this, just trying to make a point. If someone is gonna pirate XP to begin with, what makes MS think that people won't be doing things like this? Why isn't retail XP sold at the price that is being offered to people with pirated Windows to begin with?
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Mar 20, 2007
I have attempted to post two threads to you today. I wonder how much chance this one has of getting through? My problem is that emails have been disappearing at an alarming rate over the last two days. I spent over an hour writing to make a very serious complaint to a major company, saved it to draft and minutes later it had disappeared. Only the heading was left as a draft email.
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Sep 6, 2005
I got this problem, my cmd prompt typing rate is very slow. This happened after i have enabled my HyperThreading in my system through some hacking of boot.ini and bios setup,Installed some patches with MS automatic update. And turned off some services in my system. Now it's like about only 20% of the speed of the previous cmd prompt
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Aug 12, 2002
Have you ever had headache while playing a game? Did you ever noticed a low refresh rate in your game? Here is a solution how to change it.1. Select Start > Run, and type "dxdiag".2. When the dialog appears find the last tab, and click "Override" (or somthing similar).2. Just type your Value (be careful, dont type a value that your graphics card or monitor can't do!). Click Ok, and that is it!Remember you changed the refresh rate only for DirectX Applications, not for OpenGL.
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May 10, 2010
This one has got me completely stumped:I am running windows XP, and have not made any hardware changes recently The only recent software install was Kaspersky internet security 2010, over the top of the 2009 productShortly after that install, my PS/2 mouse stopped functioning - the red light on the mouse comes on, but the pointer does not move. I checked with a USB mouse, and with a USB graphics tablet- same story, no response. The USB devices were tried in the main USB slots and in a hub. They both work fine on another PC.I have started in safe mode, and deleted all HID devices. Windows then detects the mouse, but then reports (via device manager) that it cannot detect the hardware.
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Dec 26, 2007
After POST, when does Windows begin to load? After a re-start, PC had been on for 1 hour; off 5 min; boot hung at flashing cursor in upper left.
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Jul 5, 2005
Today I notice that my WinME (ICS host) and WinXP (client) can't communicate(simple peer to peer setup). First clue was when I couldn't send a print job from my ME to the XP where the printer is connected. XP pc reports "network unplugged". A forced "disable" and then an "enable" doesn't help. I also notice that the little lights for the network cards are not lit up. I thought they would normally BE lit up if the computers are on, right? However.. the lights on the network cards/ports on BOTH machines are off. Could both network cards have failed simulateously?
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Jul 19, 2006
Updates download but fail to install. When I go through Microsoft, the check for updates keeps running but never responds.
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Aug 6, 2007
Media test failure, check cable Exiting Intel Boot Agent Disk boot failure, Insert system disk and press enter.
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Sep 28, 2010
I purchased the Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop about 2 years ago. It shipped with Vista at the time, but I installed XP on the partition Vista was installed on and have been using it happily ever since. There is a common problem as it turns out, after having read through other forums, that used to exist with Dell laptops, including mine and that is that they would come shipped with the Mediadirect button. When pressed, it supposedly boots the laptop to another partition, which would start up a multimedia software that can playback CDs, DVDs and/or other media files on the accessible storage. The critical and serious issue is that once this button is pressed and you try to turn on the laptop normally again (boot into Windows), it would not boot up, producing the Invalid partition table error at boot-up, suggesting that the former process messes up the boot record somehow.
The same thing happened to me before. A quick suggested fix was to press the button again. While it didn't solve the issue, it at least booted in the right partition, but complained about an ntfs sys file not being there. I solved this myself by repairing the existing Win XP Pro SP3 installation via an XP SP2 CD, which reverted back SP3 to SP2 without much hassle, surprisingly, and Windows booted up normally. I just had to manually update the system to SP3 again using Windows update and that was all. Other software like IE and WMP were also reverted, but reinstalled to the latest version manually.
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May 21, 2008
the Systemax OEM PC we bought in 2006 had its Windows installation on a FAT32-formatted C: partition by default. I only noticed it this month, and after backing it up, I tried convert.exe based on what every-website-ever agreed on was the right instruction. Since it was running off of the partition it needed to convert, it asked me to run on the next restart, which it did. The process took at least 2 hours, but sometime in between the last time I checked up on it and when it finished, it apparently *undid* all the conversion it was doing, because the C: partition still read as FAT32.
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Oct 2, 2006
Instructed to avoid using IE, so browsing with Netscape 8.x instead - was exploring my nephew's MySpace site. She said that the monitor began flashing intermittantly (go black for half a second at a time, then come back on). Because she insists on running scripts, I instantly suspected some malware and ran some scans that came up clean (Symantec AV and Windows Defender antispyware). After a reboot, the problem was still there but a bit worse. I tried restoring to progressively older restore points, but that didn't work either. I found, in fact, that after the reboot, my keyboard did not work. In Safe mode, I get no monitor blinking, but the keyboard still won't work.
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Jan 21, 2006
Looking for work-around solution standby/hibernate failure in WinXP system after installation of PGP 6.x.
Problem is completely described in Microsoft KB
article Q-314118 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314118/en-us
I am presently using PGP 6.5.1 and want to keep it. I'm using it for the PGPdisk features with encrypted
volumes (directories). It works fine in WinXP with both existing PGD volumes that I have (from previous
systems) and it also works fine with newly created PGD volumes. The only problem is that it prevents WinXP from entering Standby modes when I attempt this power down feature in WinXP for my laptop.........
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Mar 22, 2010
Ever since a power failure yesterday, my computer is not booting 100% of the way - it seems to stall at the end after loading desktop etc, can't see anything missing but I am unable to do anything. Nothing opens when clicked on. It works perfectly in Safe Mode with Networking.
I checked Device Manager and found 3 things highlighted:
HID Non-user input Data Filter
HID Non-user input Data Filter in HID section, and
WAN Miniport (IP) in Network Adaptors.
I do not have a wireless network, only a hard-wired one, so not sure what that is about.
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Mar 27, 2008
My Dell XPS 410, running WinXP, has a problem (or at least an annoyance)which seems to be getting worse. Very often -- maybe even most of the time lately -- half or more of my system tray icons fail to appear, even though the programs are running. It's very inconsistent, sometimes it's fine, at worst only 2 or 3 of the expected dozen or so make it. And the whole startup program-loading is really bogging down.I know that it's software related of course, as all is fine when I boot up to my back-up WinXP OS on another partition. But *where* is the glitch? I scan constantly for viruses, trojans, spyware and all, and also keep the registry clean and def ragged.It would be great if any of you might have some ideas for things I should look for, as any day now I'm going to decide to just bite the bullet and do a clean re-install of Windows. Everything's backed up, of course, but it will take days to re-install all the programs and configure everything again.
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Jun 16, 2005
I'm on a Sony VAIO with Windows XP. When my computer goes into hibernation mode and I try to reboot, I get an error that says, "The system could not be restarted from its previous location due to a read failure." There is one option for me to select which reads "Delete restoration data and proceed to system boot menu."I've done a check disk of all of my hard drives, and none of them turned up anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
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Jul 7, 2007
Today, when the XP boot screen appeared after post, my machine rebooted. Went to MSKB and followed instructions for Recovery Console, but when I got to the money shot, I was denied access - tried this 4 times, same response. Tried repair install, but after drivers loaded and auto re-boot, XP boot screen appeared and machine rebooted...vicious cycle.
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Sep 14, 2007
I was trying to fix my System restore- buy putting in my XP restore disk..Clicking Start then Run..and typing "rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection C:WindowsInfsr.inf".And it starts to run then all of a sudden I get an error and it says"INF install Failure- Reason: Error Performing in page Operation".
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Nov 6, 2007
so my computer is coming up with this message on a black screen. "Disk boot Failure, Insert boot disk and press enter." What is this? What does this mean? I just downloaded a "Regicure" to clean up my PC because it was running very slow and wouldnt open some of my files. Everything seem to be ok, untill this morning. Now i dont know what to do. It wont even boot. That black screen is all i get. Please help me! I purchased this computer in Feb."07. Its not even a year old.
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May 26, 2006
every time I load up my PC (Win XP Pro, Mozilla Firefox) I get the following error box:
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Program: c:progra~1intern~1iexplore.exe
File: .lists.cpp
Line: 480
Expression:!(p==bodykwref.end())
For information on how your program can cause an assertion failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts [note--I've tried this--it's all programmer speak and I'm just a novice trying to get rid of the error!]
(Press retry to debug the application-JIT must be enabled) [This works--for 10 minutes or so]
Abort Button Retry Button Ignore Button. I assume it's got something to do with iexplore, so I've reinstalled a couple times--no joy.
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Apr 24, 2006
many emails received are in text form - have to go to bar above msg. and tell it to post in HTML format - but then most of the links that appear will not activate when I click on them! this is in XP, Outlook 2003
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Nov 21, 2007
The computer shut down due to a power failure in the house. I started it up and the windows loads OK till I get to the page where it has the users names listed. I click on any user name. When I click on the name, it opens the page for a second and shuts down. I can see the wallpaper of each user and it closes immediately. It reads LOADING PERSONAL SETTINGS and then it reads LOGGING OFF, then it says SAVING YOUR SETTINGS.
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Aug 6, 2005
Trying to hook up computer to wireless.Computer has been sitting in closet for 6 months. Worked great when taken down. Now when I hook up I get "Disk boot Failure".Any help will be greatly appreciated. Telling me that IDE Master none if that means anything.
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Apr 23, 2005
I am trying to determine if I really have a hard drive failure. I'm running XP pro. While running EXCEL this morning, my computer froze. Could do nothing but turn the power off and re-boot. Upon re-booting, prior to getting to the Windows screen, I got a message about can't find the hardware. Re-booted again, this time it said there was a problem with the hard drive and it ran a check disc. Took about 6 hours. While it was running, it said there were about 8 to 10 problems had to do with the IE5.1 temporary files. It finished and booted to windows XP.
I thought all was ok. Finished by Excel work. Printed it out ok. Came back later to a black screen with the same initial message about can't finding the hardware.I called Gateway - Tech adviser had me run a program from the Recovery disc that checks the hard drive. Program said hard drive failed. Tech rep said I need to get a new Hard drive.Is this correct or are there other possibilities?
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Jul 6, 2006
Hey guys, as u gather my nakme is stresseoutsandy for a reason, i recently bought a diy kit ocmputer and builllt it up then when i turn it on it says boot disk failure: mplease insert system disk and press enter,when in do so it loads then goes back to the same screen.could this be because the xp disc is a copy ? or is my computer broken?
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Dec 20, 2008
During an installation of XP we experienced a power failure.The installation had been running for about 8 minutes when power went out.I After electricity was restored, I attempted to reinstall XP on the laptop however, now it will get to the Windows horizontal bar screen, and then a Windows Message comes up and says The system is not fully installed.
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Dec 27, 2005
Installed XP on a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 200GB SATA 150 (F6 and drivers from floppy) ive it as 1st boot device, but it gives me a boot failure error after POST my drive's are as follows
Primary IDE Master - Maxtor 40GB
Primary IDE Slave - Maxtor 120GB
Secondary IDE Master - NEC DVD Writer
Secondary IDE Slave - Sony CD ROM
Third IDE Master - Maxtor 200GB
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