Recent content by ach52

Just a thought, before you trash your IDE drive, disconnect your SATA drive and boot, (provided it has a working OS), from your original, (IDE),drive the save your important data to CD 0r DVD. Once you have done that, you can do whatever you want to the IDE drive

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Simple question, how do I turn off these blasted, annoying message balloons in win XP?

Thanks for the help. Basically, it boiled down to two things, my ethernet was connected and my USB HD was connected I was not using either of these when I had successfully installed XP the first time. Again thanks for the help. By the way, this is not a system I would even think of overclocking.

The HD isset as master & the cd-rom is set as slave. Jumpers and cable positions are correct. MOBO - Pcchips m811lu CPU - AMD DURON 1.8gz Memory - 2X 256mb ultra 2100 ddr On Board - lan, sound PSU - 400 watt (manu. unk.) Video - Volari v3 AGP Hd - Western Digital 160 gig CD-RW -...

Have built a new system for my daughter for college. Tried to install XP w/sp2 OEM. Have installed several times but had trouble with HD (bad). Purchased new WD 160gig. installed with no problems. Next install occured because of driver glitches tried repair with cd but hung up at the 9 min...