Are you logging into your laptop with your domain user account and not a local account? Also, is this laptop joined into a domain?

Try to open the SMB/CIFS ports on Norton.....I think they're...

turn off anonymous access to the website and use the integrated nt security...

What brand and model of motherboard do you have? If it's an Intel branded board, I can help...there's a recovery mode...

Stop Norton Antvirus and see if the delay goes away or not.
Are you mapping any network shares? If so, disconnect them and check.

Also...defrag your hard drive if you haven't lately.

Right on... I was gonna suggest the ThinkPad X31. Battery is amazing on this thing... I get 4 - 4.5 hours wifi-surfing on a full charge. The X31 is light, only 2.9lb. My 4.9lb PowerBook feels like a...

Open up "IDE ATA/ATPI controllers" in Device Manager. Check if you're using an Intel or Microsoft driver. Based on the suggestion you read, if it's using an Intel driver you can roll back to the...

Oracle has tighter java integration... and if licensing is not an issue, Oracle sounds like the logical choice. However, I'm sure it'll take a person of more technical knowledge to maintain an Oracle...

What web server are you running? If it's IIS on Windows, life will be much simplier if you go with SQL 2000.

Isn't licensing a concern? Sounds to me that Oracle would cost more. MSDE is free...if...

You can only assign 1 static IP to the router. If you need to put additional systems on the net, you can port-forward to your internal machines.
i.e.

1.2.3.4 port 80 --> 192.168.1.10 port 80...

thanks!

/s:\dir_name specify source installation files' path (the i386 folder), ie. if it's on D:\i386, you'd use /s:d:\i386

/t:drive: temp drive used during windows...

Does your web browser connect thru a web proxy server or are you running some sort of web caching software? firewall software? Check the proxy setting under Tools --> Advanced --> Connection. If...

Maybe your DHCP server is not renewing your lease? Next time you get the DNS error, open up a DOS box and type in ipconfig /all
to see if you still have an IP...or anything other than 169.254.x.x...

You MB looks to be pretty recent so it shouldn't have any BIOS limitation.
Are you jumpering the drive correctly as slave? There should be no shunt for it to operate in slave mode.

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Run memtest86 on it to see if the memory is bad: http://www.memtest86.com/

Random crashes like this sounds to be cpu related...whether bad cpu or cpu is overheating. Are you using thermal grease...

Sorry dude, assuming you copied everything from the CDROM's i386 folder to C:\i386 (copy the folders inside i386 also.. so that \i386\SYSTEM32 on the CDROM also exists in C:\i386\SYSTEM32...don't...

legit cd or not, it's not up to us to judge...we're here to help...

anyway, don't do what you're currently doing...that is, install xp on another system and take that hd to your system... it will...

If the wireless access point / router has MAC filtering turned on, try turning it off... it just might speed up your connection... mine did.

Does that mean 77% for the format process and not the total installation process? When it's "froze", do you see and hear any hard drive activity? If you do hear the hard drive head banging or...

You might want to boot your system up in Safe Mode to see if the video will come on or not. Sometimes when the resolution or refresh rate is set too high, the monitor will go out of sync and into...

Is it consistently freezing at 15%? In other word, have you tried the install process more than once? You can still boot to the CDROM drive, can't you? If not, get into the CMOS setup and set the...

Well, you won't need the mass storage driver since XP has native support for the ATA-100 controller on the ICH4 chipset.

Have you checked the condition of the IDE cable? Any signs of damage? Try...

Check out this KB article, it seems to have a fix for your problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297185

So I'm assuming this is a normal IDE hard drive connected to the motherboard's IDE connector? What is the motherboard's brand and model? You can usually find the correct driver from the motherboard...

Is that error really "unmountable boot volume" or is it "inaccessible boot volume"? If the later, then XP doesn't have the right mass storage driver, in which case you'll need to create a driver...

A coworker showed me this, it's quite amusing...

go to google.com and do a search for "weapons of mass destruction" and click on "I'm Feeling Lucky"

hehe:lol:

Are any of the systems equipped with 10Mbps network cards? Does your 100Mbps switch support auto-negotiation? If it doesn't then you have a speed mismatch.

1. Use the Windows 98 boot disk and boot to command prompt
2. fdisk the hard drive and create a primary partition, reboot
3. Boot up with the same Windows 98 floppy and go to command prompt
4....

Is this a Samsung SpinPoint 40GB HD? If so, check the jumper carefully. You might have jumpered it to clip off the capacity at 32GB instead of jumpering it master/slave.

Just create the same user and password on both machines. When you're browsing resources, the browser service will try to authenticate with the local user on the other machine. Since you're in a...

I think your question is... is it possible to integrate Project 2003 Server into your SharePoint portal site right? If so, then yes. Just create a webpart to link to your Project server. Both can...

umm...don't betas normally time-out in 90 or 150 days? Well, anyway, I just don't see how you can get high windows uptime when critical patches comes out weekly...maybe possible for an isolated...

Check the related KB articles for your listed article... I dunno, but I think the possiblity of losing data sounds complicated to me. Sysprep is not a toughie, all it does is strips away the...

Is your blank CDR's 650MB/74Mins, but your CD-RW's are actually 700MB/80Mins? Try burning fewer songs to see if that solves it.

Might be easier and faster to run sysprep -factory and then reseal the system without generating new SID.
sysprep is in the deploy.cab on the xp cd. Read the included .chm files first before using...

I'll still stick with my slow browser theory ;)

given the fact that

-since both machines are connected via a x-over cable, there's no need for a firewall and most likely he didn't install...

PPoA (Point-to-Point over ATM) and possibly PPoE via DSL is actually a "dialup" protocol, so he's right in that sense. If your provider uses PPoA/PPoE, your router might be automating the...

Some of the new floppy drives are pretty wacky, they have the pin orientation reversed.
If your floppy cable is not keyed and the floppy activity light is on constantly, try flipping the floppy...

I maintain a couple of servers where I work, so here's what I would recommend:

Hardware:

Try to get redundant components; redundant power supplies, redundant hard drives, etc. The level of...

He stated that it eventually connects, so the services must be running. My guesses are (1) either the NIC's power management feature has been turned on or (2) slow browser service.

For (1),...