Recent content by Automan

I had a very similar issue with my Audigy 2 when I initially installed it. In my case a relocation of the Audigy to a different PCI slot solved my popping. I now have the Audigy in PCI Slot 2 (I have a VIA K8T880 Pro board versus your nVidia, but other than possible interupts differences on our...

80's TV...of course. :D

I'm not sure that you will have a location near you, but a friend of mine needed to replace his retention mechanism on his Dell recently when he decided to upgrade the processor. We found his at PCClub.com. Maybe not the cheapest place, not sure as we didn't spend a lot of time looking (he...

Well I definitely will not be able to solve your issue (my apologies in advance), but I can sympathize with your issue. I have an AIW 9600Pro and have experienced issues not exactly like, but maybe somewhat related to what it sounds like you are describing when I was trying to load Windows...

Another happy Win2k and Windows XP user here.

<SPAN class=hssr>:Q I'm not sure this is true, but I noticed it was posted over at xbitlabs and thought others here might be interested. The story appears that it originated from a story at the Inquirer so we will see. Link </SPAN> <DIV class=dssr>ABIT and NVIDIA Break Up Mainboard Maker...

I use the command line based uptime.exe on my system. Would that work? Here is the link. <a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/management/uptime/default.asp" target=blank> Uptime</A>

If you are asking for recovery of the data it has been several years since I have had to utilize a data recovery specialist, but a company I formerly worked at used a company by the name of OnTrack Data Recovery that used to do file/data recovery. We had an old NetWare 3.x hard disk many years...

Good day. It kind of sounds like the /SOS parameter got added to your boot.ini file. Just in case you are unaware of how to look for this and since you are saying that you are running XP, just right click on My Computer, either on your desktop if it is there on from the Start menu and select...

I normally use Filesync. It is shareware, but I think you can get a 30 day trial from the site. Once you load and start it, go into it's Options/Preferences, and you can enable the 'Binary Compare' feature. Once that is enabled then just run a binary compare of the 2 images and I think this will...