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If you do some sort of daily or weekly tip or trick for windows or IE or just computer optimization and customization. People will find one they like, and think oh im bored i should go check (insert...

go to start -> run and type in DXdiag, post what version of direct X and any errors listed under the display tab

or a rubberduck

lol, im trying to kill time im actually at work right now doing High-speed internet access tech support, and it is SLOOOOWWW

ok Hope it works for ya

depends, what screen are we looking at? is there a progress bar?

if its still hung go here and tell me what stage we are on what image number are you looking at
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thats a good thing keep me posted

ok, well let set the boot order to CD-rom as the first device, put the xp home in the drive and cross your fingers

we did get the dos disk to boot, but that is running off of itself

i was under the impression we couldnt get anything to boot off of the CD

hmmm well since we can boot a dos program from floppy lets try to run the XP install off the floppy drive...

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ok thats a start, in that area it should list if there is a HD to boot from is there?

hmmmmmmmm we'll get this working yet. Ok do this for me go into your BIOS and just verify that is has a detected HD post back with if it does or doesn

could you please clarify for me a little more,
Are you talking about your homepage in general, like you cant change it? or dont know how? and do you mean you cant get IE to automatically start on...

it should be at the main screen it will have a listing of several options on the left there should be load fail-safe settings. If not then you may not have the option in your BIOS. But lets see if we...

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ouch, well lets hop into the BIOS and make sure you are running on the fail-safe setup not optimized, Also just to be clear you cant even boot from a floppy?

Me is a smaller O/S in terms of file size so its a faster install, so it has less of a chance of setting off whatever the freeze is I.E. bad ram
That on the other hand is just speculation

so what i read was you have a laptop with dual boot either XP pro, or XP home, Also to my understanding XP pro wont boot, and we cant boot from any devices I.E. CD or Floppy, AND the XP home boot...

Ok well there is another way to get to the recovery console, boot into your windows home edition as administrator grab your xp cd and hope for the best.


To install the Recovery Console, follow...

it tells you to reboot with anything in the CD drive? go to your bios settings and change the boot order so that CD comes before HDD (i think standard order goes like this FDD, HDD, CD. so just go...

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Well here is where i would start, pop in an XP pro CD and get to the recovery console, at the console type in chkdsk /f. if that doesnt fix it go back to the recovery console and type fixboot.

It sounds like that "freeze" may not be the culprit. it doesnt seem to be a software issue being as you have already tried a new HD. I built a computer a few months back and the computer would freeze...

by boot recovery do you mean you ran FIXBOOT from the recovery console?, if not thats where i would start. pop in the XP CD, go to the recovery console and just type in FIXBOOT.

try stripping the computer back to bare essentials, I.E. only one stick of ram no modem or NIC, just the bare minimum, see if it still crashes then, if it doesnt, then add stuff in one at a time...

What DMR is saying is look for the registry key {89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383} you can either navigate yourself there VIA

or open your registry editor hold CTRL + F to do a find and...

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Usually nero will be running in the taskbar (lower right side by the clock) you should be able to right click on it and select close, exit, shutdown or something to that affect. To be sure it is...

What happened when your computer crashed the first time, when you were playing the game? Ive never heard of running a game thats has higher requirments than your PC to crash or cause long term...

There are jumper settings on the back of the DVD drive, look at the top of the drive and there should be a diagram showing you three different jumper settings Master, Slave, and Cable Select. All you...

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I had the same problem as you with the sudden freezing with no seeming pattern to it, i narrowed mine down to a bad stick of ram, remove all but one stick of ram and see if it happens again, if it...

It may also be worth while to check you link speed and duplex and make sure its set to auto detect