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    The Vista Hive

    Sorry people if I was mistaken about Windows boot partitions. Sounds like you have a lot of drives and/or partitions? Is there a C:? It's been my experience that the boot files for Windows 2000 , XP have to reside on a HD partition C:. There are 3 boot files I think. NTDETECT.COM , NTLDR...
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    The Vista Hive

    RideFree is right. I've been working with multi-boot setups for about 2 years - it's tricky at times. At one point: Fedora, 2000, & XP. A Windows installation will only boot from a drive recognized as C:. My strategy is to partition the hard disk(s) prior to any installation. For example...
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    The Vista Hive

    System specs: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe [nForce4 SLI, Realtek ALC850] AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ OCZ PC3200 Platinum R.2 [2x512MB] ASUS EAX850 Pro Western Digital Raptor 74 GB [2x on nvRaid] Antec TruePower II 550W Canon Pixma MP500 I am having some minor driver issues, which I'd like to...
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    Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 - Drivers Needed

    Thanks people. I gave up on it for the day, with many failures and only 1 success. The Canon Pixma MP500 XP x64 drivers installed and operate without problems. nVidia has drivers from nForce4 + in the "Beta section"; however, they don't come with an installer and the instructions are poor...
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    Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 - Drivers Needed

    Oops, I pressed Enter instead of Tab on that last post. Here's my related system hardware: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 1.0 GB OCZ Platinum [2x 512 MB Dual Channel] ASUS EAX850 Pro 2 WD Raptor 74GB [nvRAID] Canon Pixma MP500 Multifunction Drivers are my issue at this...
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    Bad Power or Bad Motherboard - Multiple Problems

    Quinton McLeod: I installed ASUS PCProbeII. The voltage outputs are level, but I don't know how to create a log to watch for spikes. Also I called Antec about the PSU. The tech suggested that I should use a wattage calculator to estimate if my supply is sufficient. He said that bad power...
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    Bad Power or Bad Motherboard - Multiple Problems

    Luckyboy1: The outlets here are obviously not commercial grade, I can say that much. But I don't have the expertise or option of working on them. My only option for a good source of power is likely that UPS. But can I actually rely on one to provide good power if the wall outlets are, for...
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    Bad Power or Bad Motherboard - Multiple Problems

    Okay, first, here's my hardware: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ [512 KB per core] Stock AMD CPU Fan OCZ Platinum [Rev. 2] Dual Channel 512MB x2 (1GB total) ASUS Extreme AX850 Pro (PCI-E x16) Western Digital Raptor 74GB x2 (NVRaid Stripe) Antec TruePowerII 550 W Logitech...