erm i do believe they went into the cmos setup and in the boot order removed network boot from the list and left CD-rom at top followed by hard drive (the one the boot loader was installed too?)

look in documents and settings and see if the old username is there... you;ll find the stuff in that folder, however if it was removed then you wont get it back sorry

on the 10mb computer, have you looked to see if the network card settings are set to autonegotiate, and full duplex?

it might be locking up cos the floppy drive error, try pressing f1 to bypass this, otherwise do as DMR said

gemini31 the problem is win xp doesn't put sata as a standard drive in my computer, click start, settings, control pannel now select admin tools, computer management, then select disk management in...

knoppix is cd linux...why is this a cross check?

the dumest thing i ever did was when i was fidelling inside my pc with it turned on attaching a 2 pin fan tail to a 4 pin molex, me being a bodger when i want used kit kat wrappers to make the...

this could be the new ram you put in, it could be faulty, as ram does cause random crashes

in the bios, do you have the clock speeds etc set to by h/w otherwise you could have your pc seriously...

mint can you say if this worked or not?

ok, when it gives you the limited access, right click the icon, and say what IP address it has in there, you are running dhcp on the router yea? throgh lan can you connect to the internweb?

right go to http://download.sis.com/

click igp graphics driver

click sis 650 and 740 series

click windows XP

click go

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then try reinstalling your drivers, again make sure you select the correct ones, or use the ones off a cd you got with the pc possibly? you're using XP so if the cd has lots of sis...

does it do it on anything graphically intensive? cos it poss could be over heat.. but thats probably not it but worth considering.

in the bios you will see somthing called agp apature size, what...

just say the mobo broke, and your replacing it, make sure you install sp1 on the master first so you can support drives over 150gb

if you stick the mater onto a new type of mobo windows will...

to copy it accross just look in c:\windows for chkdsk.exe and literally copy 'n' paste it onto the disk... if you stick it in a folder such as a:\check\chkdsk.exe when you get into dos you have to...

if you're making an fdisk/chksdisk disks i would recommend downloading them, (latest and greatest) and put them on different disks....however there a really cool free download somewhere called the...

have they given you the admin password? when you cad do you get a loggin prompt? if not then you will need to reinstall... did you ask how they broke it? it sounds to me like they went into system...

wow your dmi datapool told you?? sorry, but the dmi data pool doesn't tell you, post tests are telling you theres an error with the dmi data pool..

does the mobo use onboard gfx? if so plug into that first

if not take everthing out aparnt from
hdd, mobo, 1 stick of ram, cpu, psu, gfx card if it then doesn't boot

new mobo TBPFH

Also don't disable the raid thing

Arrg google sata

with your mobo you have a S-ata floppy disk

when it asks you to press f5 to install 3rd party scuzi controller do it, then when it asks you broswe to the floppy and install...

Congrats CSGAL the first sensible option i would of said this too, and as it's from Micosoft it won't have spyware(dont belive the consiracy theorists) and it will work..

My heart bleeds as i...

yes you can make a 2gb partition, and make the rest NTFS, the BIOS is the only thing that knows it's just one hard drive, the bios tells the next layer up(windows/windows installer etc) that it's two...

have you set up port forwarding to your PC? if so delete it you don't need the forwarding

try removing the fax stuff from office.. and then restart it?

you mean bootorder of device channels, you still have to boot off of Master though? just select which ide cable it's on

ok when you install DOS onto a drive give it a partition of about 2gb it...

are you using windows XP if so goto control pannel/admintools/event viewer look under application or system and see if the error is in there, it may give more info..

have you turned the water off?

Er try running adaware or the such it could be some spyware type stuff

ohdear. er.. it still may apear in the list and you might not have to have the disk... er you could borrow it off someone else? did you not even get a recovery disk?

boot from windows XP CD and do a clean install remember to use QUICK format unless your drive has dead sectors

Can you post your <head> code in here so we can see

i would recommend not puting the info in there as it defaults to windows if you don't have it.. or so i believe.... what are you building your...

put your windows XP cd in, goto add/remove progs, go to add windows componant and see if you can find the corrisponind tick box

OKay, if windows XP can boot off either drive? which after reading that it can, and you're then finding that if you install mandrake on the 20gb drive and it freezes, what point does it freeze at?...

eh? as in notepad just opens and displays that text?

look in start/prog files/startup and see if there is a text file in there? if so it's a joke

ELSE which is more likely you have a broken...

i think you might have messed up your serives/registry, if you have your windows XP cd try using the repair function..

lsas.exe was a file that was nfected my the sasser worm, which virus...

go to the motherboard site, and go to their driver site, this is beccause some mobo makers 'customize' their products... also you should get a half decent gfx card for like £20

.. you got dhcp running? or are you assigning ips?

ok don't uninstall unless you can host on another machine!!!!!!!
reinstall is far to irational when it come to servers!!!


you will find that with hyp thrd it won't neseserally say it had 4...

Make an FDISK and delete the partition again in that, and then recreate a new partition, and when it asks you if you want full or quick format on the xp install select quick, if that freezes try full

Why are you installing 2k ontop of 2k? it makes no sence!! but any way, if you feel you NEED to, then do as feigned said, but i highly recommend formating the partition you are intending to install...