I've a 4 yr old pc I built myself complete with an OEM copy of Windows XP.I can buy a faster compatible CPU (an Athlon XP) for the same motherboard but what will WGA do?My understanding is that I can't change the motherboard but changing some other components may be OK. s this correct or does anyone have some recent experience of changing components on an OEM XP powered machine?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedJohn R Weiss Wrote: "BigFatGoalie" BigFatGoalie.1sd51o@pcbanter.net wrote...- I currently have two External USB HDD's sitting at 40GB each which record shows and sports onto using my TV Tuner card. The onlydownsideof this is that I have to unplug each one and put the other one in or vice versa everytime that I want to use them. Is there any waypossiblethat I could plug both of these in at the same time had an ideathat an AC powered USB HUB might do the trick? Should work just fine.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have just reinstalled WinXP to try to get rid of this problem but it still persists. Basically, my computer is booting itself up from a powered off state but only when the phone line is connected to it (I have dial up internet access). If the phone line is not connected to it, the PC stays off. (Note the PC isn't dialling out - at least i don't think it is). I guess the easy answer is just to remember to unplug the phone line
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI dont know if this is in the right Forum as its a strange one.Just before i was playing on Counter Strike and the computer crashed.The power was still on, on the CPU, and also on the Speakers and Monitor.But the Monitor isnt picking up the Computer, ive tried a different monitor but to no avail.Ive basically just swapped all the wires over from the computer onto one of my old computers which im on now, and there was no problems what so ever.So clearly its something wrong with the other computer, but it still powers up and is running, but just nothing appears on my screen
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI saw another thread on this issue, but it didn't quite fit, so I thought I'd get others opinions. This computer was built for me by a non-major vendor. I consider myself semi-computer literate, and feel comfortable with most work required inside my case. Let me start by saying that this issue happens most often when I've woken my computer up from sleep mode. I have made no major changes to the hardware or software recently. What I did do was move the computer, rather gently, 2100 miles to my new home in a new city. The PC is under warentee, but the original vendor is rather far away. I also noticed that the first time I booted the computer after the move, the computer made a funny noise. It sounded like something (either a fan of the HD) was spinning improperly. I immediately powered down my system and rebooted, and have not had the noise since.
The full message (sans text) reads:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
*** STOP: 0x00000D1 (0x000000EC, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0xAE5A38D4)
*** HTTP.sys - Address AE5A38D4 base at AE592000, Datestamp 41672744)
Begining dump physical memory Physical memory dump complete. Contact your system administrator or technical support group for further assistance. I've also noticed that on the boot screen, my PC no longer seems to be doing a memory test, or showing my 3 gigs of memory. In windows, it appears the system sees the memory, but the memory test seems absent on boot. I have no problems, so far, running resource heavy programs. This seems, like I've said, to happen only when I sleep then wake up my PC. Rebooting from this screen will cause the PC to reboot itself constantly, but turning the PC off and rebooting seems to give me no errors, again, until I sleep it.
my cd rw drive has no power to it at all, i have tried all the help solutions in the packard bee info center but nothing works. the drive is recognised by the computer when you click on the device properties and ry to trouble shoot, it also says there are no problems with the device, however if i try to access the drive via any form eg via my cd rewriting program it claims a stutiable drive can not be found! also if you try and open the cd draw
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My system is a custom-built AMD Athlon 64-bit 3000+ with 1Gb RAM running XP Pro
i downloaded "Demo Version" Jv16 Power tools 2005 from a link to find duplicate files and clean my registry, I thought that programs I had uninstalled and reinstalled for varius reasons were all duplicated with missing files. The download didn't have the handbook which i found out later i needed so now after running dup. file finder, reg cleaner. I have a very unstable system nothing stays stable and there is a mass of backups I don,t know where to start. The forum there won,t help. supposedly I got a old Beta version. My backups don,t look anything like there's. I would like to go back to before i installed with system restore point but i dont know if it can retrieve files from Jv16 backup or what.
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View 2 Replies View Relatedgotta guy with a machine that had XP on it he wanted to put a new copy over the old copy but only had the recovery disk. Anyway it turns out he now has 2 copies of XP on the machine. How Can I remove both copies and re-install a fresh copy of XP.
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