i am upgrading my pcs mobo and proccessor i was looking online and found that you have to do a new boot for windows to work and i dont have a boot disk or the disks that came with the pc. so im not sure wat to do microsoft says they cant give me a disk for it and i paid for it so i dont want to rebuy it just becouse im upgrading
View 2 RepliesHow well does NAV 2005 and ZoneAlarm Firewall 5.5 work together? are there any compatibility issue that i have to be aware when using this two together? and is it competely safe to mix it up? Which configuration would take system resource or drag computer performance? (NAV 2005 and ZoneAlarm Firewall 5.5) or (Norton Internet Security 2005).
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to install a new primary hard drive and reinstall windows xp from scratch on the new c: drive. For the moment I would also like to retain the old disc contents and the xp operating system. To try to do this I installed a second hard drive and cloned the old drive c: to the new drive f:. I created a dual boot computer by editing my boot.ini file so I could boot from either the c: or f: drive. I replaced my primary hard drive with a new drive and booted up in the f: drive. Then I cloned the f: drive back to the new c: drive creating a dual boot system. My concern now is that if I reinstall windows xp on the newly installed hard drive, the Dell installation disk will wipe out the operating system and the contents on the f: drive. Is there any way to retain the old system? I'd appreciate any help with this.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi have 2 sata hard drives and i need to know how to duel boot windows xp home with windows server 2003?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI went to try to install windows xp onto a computer that already had windows on it. I did not boot from the cd. To do it without using the cd it has to copy the installation files to the computer and then run them. When setup does this it creates a new choice of an operating system to boot from called "Windows XP Setup." So now I have a Windows XP and a Windows XP setup. I've been in msconfig and looked at boot.ini but that didn't help
View 8 Replies View RelatedI format windows 98 with win98 startup disk and windows XP was installed. every start the pc,it prompt two boot loader for option.windoes 98 or windows XP. How to delete the window 98 option on the boot loader screen because windows 98 had been formated.
During System startup, the system always halts at "Strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility". The only way I can manage to boot to Windows is by selecting "Boot to utility partition" from the Boot Device Menu or if there is a Windows XP installation CD in the cd-rom drive. When I boot this way, everything works fine .This behavior started when I performed a fresh install of XP Professional (XP Home came with the system). The problem did not start immediately after the installation; I was able to install some drivers and reboot a couple times (maybe twice) before it happened. When I installed the display driver (from Dell) and rebooted, it went to the "Strike F1. " screen. I have since tried another fresh installation of XP Home (the original OS) and the problem is still occuring. This time it occurs immediately after the installation; No drivers have been installed at this point.
View 16 Replies View RelatedOk i made an Xp bootable CD. I did this 2 times and I followed all the instructions, burned it in nero as CDROM (boot) with all the correct settings. I downloaded the XP boot record (bin file) and I used that as the boot image.However, when I use this on the computer I am tryikng to install it on, it says "searching for Master boot record on CD.." for about 15 seconds on startup and then just boots from the existing hard drive OS because aparently it can't find the boot record.The cds work fine on my laptop, if i put it in and run it after my laptop is already started up, the windows xp menu for installationcomes up fine.never had this happen before so i don't know what the problem is.. i changed the boot priority so it is trying to bootfrom the cd rom, but just cant.
View 13 Replies View Relatedi am trying to edit vidoe in windows but it is really unstable i tried to make a dual boot linux but after multiple distros it got fed up and gave up. now i am thinking of makeing 2 windows partitons im just wonder ing if this is possible i also need a good boot load does anyone know of any?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI read something on the Windows website that says Media Center Edition 2005 has a power option called Away Mode. The settings it has are perfect for me, but it is not in my powercfg utility. Is there an extension I can download for the program to get Away Mode? Please note I'm not talking about one of the Power Schemes. I'm talking about a whole seperate power mode available that turns off the monitor, mutes the sound and slows down the graphics and CPU.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have DirecTV and want to watch TV on my computer. I am looking for TV Tuners and they all say that it is "125-channel cable ready tuner". Does that make a difference if I can watch satellite TV through it or not? I haven't found one that says anything different.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have had this problem before on XP Pro and never got it solved, but it is quite the nuisance. Whenever i login to XP, the login screen disappears and the computer goes to the point where it looks like its about to load the desktop, but it doesnt. it just sits there. after about a minute, it will load. the funny thing is, if it gets to this point and i hit any key on the keyboard it continues to boot all the way through without the delay.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm getting a really nice $2000 Dell Dimension 8400 on December 8th, and it comes with Windows Media Center 2005. Anyways, I was wondering if it had the same features of XP Pro, but with the extra media features.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSo I just reformatted last night and installed Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. Since installing it, I haven't been able to restart or shut down. The computer gets stuck on the background (no icons and taskbar). I don't even get to the blue screen that says it's saving settings and shutting down. Is there something I'm missing? I'm going to try starting up the computer with nothing selected in the msconfig and see if that fixes it. I'm 99% sure the problem occurred even before I installed drivers and such, but I'm running a Dell Inspiron E1505 with ATI Mobility X1400.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a very old laptop laying around my house. so i wanted to see if it still works. i booted it up into windows xp. And it was unbareablaby slow. So i decided to wipe out windows and install ubuntu. i burnt a xubuntu cd and put it in the laptop's external cd drive, set the bios to boot cd before harddrive. It didn't work. i then tried booting it on my working computer, it worked. so therefore, my laptop cant boot from cd, but my laptop could read the cd drive in windows. It said hal.dll corrupted, so i went back to windows and downloaded hal.dll from a website. i replaced the hal.dll in windows and rebooted. tried selecting ubuntu but didn't work, then tried to boot into windows, but didn't work. so right now, i have a laptop that doesn't have a working os.
View 5 Replies View RelatedThanks to those who responded to my question on July 7th on Norton Anti-Virus 2005 acking as a firewall. There seems to be a variety of opinons on that but Norton has since then assured me that their 2005 program does indeed act as a firewall as well as an Anti-Virus software and unlike Windows XP's firewall it monitors the behavior of outgoing network traffic. The program did ask me if I wanted the "worm" feature and I agreed and it did turn off the windows firewall to avoid conflict. I asked about installing ZoneAlarm as well and was told there was no need to do that and it might also conflict with Norton
View 2 Replies View RelatedBasically I have run out of PCI slots now - I am not putting anything in PCI slot 1 as the heatsink of the X1600PRO arriving soon will overhang it making it a very tight squeeze. So my only options is a USB 2 DVB Tuner to simply receive DVB and HD Signals with AC-3 Sound. Meanwhilst I can use the Hauppage PVR-150 MCE which has the PVR plugged into its S-Video port to archive recordings from my cable PVR box into a movie file to edit out commericals later on and put onto DVD and free up the PVR so it can continue its series link!
I understand that MCE 2005 supports two TV Tuners so that 1 channel can be recorded from one tuner while another is watched from the other. However does MCE 2005 support two different brand TV Tuners (i.e. the Hauppage MCE PVR150 and a Leadtek USB 2 DVB Dongle) or do the two tuners have to be identical brand, model, etc. The Leadtek USB 2.0 is described as being compatible with MCE 2005.
it will shut off and restart itself. He claims that this has been happening close to when he received it. We had no real proof of it restarting until last night when he was actually using it and it restarted before his eyes. He is running Windows XP MCE 2005.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo I just reformatted last night and installed Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. Since installing it, I haven't been able to restart or shut down. The computer gets stuck on the background (no icons and taskbar). I don't even get to the blue screen that says it's saving settings and shutting down. Is there something I'm missing? I've tried deselecting everything from the startup in msconfig and it still gets stuck on the background in normal mode.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI made the stupid mistake of running the rollup 2 application for MCE 2005. Of course an error appeared and the installation was not successful. As a result the setup program decided to restart my PC and use system restore to restore the computer back to the period prior to that accidental installation. Now everytime I either logon to a user account or logoff back to the welcome screen I get the following message:
Windows - Registry Recovery
One of the files containing the system's Registry data had to be recovered by use of a log or alternative copy. The recovery was successful. The only button I can click is OK - so I do so and I carry on. Under my Dad's and sister's account this message doesn't appear so often but they keep screaming at me when it does, accusing me of "tampering" with the registry when I have done no such thing...............
I loaded QuickBooks 2005 onto my home desktop, running XP home.When I tried to run the program, it won't open. This message pops up:"Windows XP and Windows 2000 users must have Power Users or Administrato group rights in order to run QuickBooks.
Please contact your system administrator about being granted those rights."I cannot figure out how to set my computer to allow this program to open. My computer now only has 1 user set up.
After putting my pc on standby or hibrernate, about 20 min later it turns on again, restart and shut down work fine, so i always shut down. no errors or anythingthe hibernate and standby work fine, its done correctily and then the pc wakes itself up in a half hour. please tell me why. ive made sure there are no tasks set so its not that.
View 1 Replies View Relatedcan anyone point me in the direction of the system requirements of MCE 2005? I've been looking for ages and i can't seem to find them.
View 4 Replies View Relatedmedia edition 2005. have turned on lap top after a few months and am getting a message saying no operating system.
View 3 Replies View RelatedEverything that I open is coruptted ALMOST everything, some programs will install correctly, but after a short few hours some of them will not even open, like when say I click on Dvd Shrink it just does nothing.
Ive Reinstalled the programs plenty of times NOTHING.
Half Life 2Norton Antivirus 2005 in stalled from 2 different cd roms that have been cleaned numerous times will not install says corupted cab files or various other files corupted
My new rig recently had a Hauppage WinTV PVR-150MCE analogue TV Tuner attached. Following advice from this forum I was told that I could add any other TV Tuner in addition to what I currently had - it was impossible to add another identical PCI tuner because I am out of slots in my motherboard. So I got the Hauppage WinTV Nova-T DVB USB2.0 Stick - it fits in the USB port, provides me with DVB TV and doesnt have an excess unwanted remote control as I already have an MCE remote that came with the PVR-150MCE.
Now in MCE 2005 I cannot seem to record one channel while watching another. It keeps coming up with the message "Media Center is currently recording X do you want to stop recording and change channel?" - I want to change channel and KEEP recording going, why not do what I bloody well want and look for the other second tuner!!!) Why oh why doesn't Media Center use both the TV Tuners to its full potential?? I thought Media Center 2005 could utilize both tuners so I could watch one channel while recording another regardless of what type of tuner they are.
I have a HP Pavillion a1430n with sound problems under Windows XP media center edition 2005.I need help because like 2 weeks ago I turned on my computer and their was no volume where the volume box used to be.Whenever I try to raise the volume nothing shows for volume.My computer seems to have lost it's sound.I was wondering is there a place that I can go to downlad a sound card for my specific type of computer, which is now 3 yrs. old.
View 4 Replies View RelatedThere its there a way to install Visual Studio without Windows Xp knowing that it was installed already? I delete the foldesr Visual Studio, delete the registrys called Visual Studio with regseeker but its still the same.I cant uninstall its say "dont find an installation order"; and already follow the steps to uninstall and the tool to remove visual studio but still the same .Its there away to install it again with out asking me to add/repair/remove?
View 6 Replies View RelatedHaving just updated to the Antispam version of NIS my System Restore now refuses to operate properly. I can open it (sometimes) but as soon as I try to do anything with it it hangs. Most other programs are not affected except as I close IE now, I get an error message "The instruction at "1x127cfb80" referenced memory at"0x0215ad58". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program." This may or may not be related.I tried removing NIS 2005 and System Restore came back to normal but having reinstalled - the problem now re-occurs. Symantec website is useless and I cannot find any telephone numbers.Has anyone else had a similar problem?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have a new computer that came pre-installed with WinXP Media Center Edition 2002 SP2. I was also sent the discs for WinXP MCE 2005. I have tried to updgrade the original installation and then perform a clean install. In both cases after the installation, when I check properties on My Computer it says WinXp MCE 2002 SP2. Shouldn't it say 2005 MCE?
View 5 Replies View RelatedWindows XP Media Center Edition 2005 installed on it.When I try to boot it, it will load well until Windows is booted. Then, it slows down and takes a few minutes to get to the login screen (using the two textbox screen). Then, it takes a few minutes to load a message box with error 0x80090006, Windows can't authenticate. I cannot access safe mode. My friend does not have a repair disk, and I have an XP Home SP0 install disc (from an old computer). Is there a way to fix this issue?
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