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    Lord help me cuz Gigabyte...

    Hi there, I don't know this specific board, but I have just set a Maxtor SATA HDD as the boot drive using a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 board. Your problem is likely to be that XP won't recognize a SATA drive up front unless you provide it with appropriate drivers. What I did was 1) format my...
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    Help - seeking the wise among us

    Hi there, This almost certainly won't be the case, but have you checked that you have connected the small 12v ATX power connector that delivers the CPU power as well as the larger ATX power connectorthat feeds the rest of the Motherboard? I've just built a PC and when the same thing happened...
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    Problems with XP and Norton Internet Security

    Thanks for this Boomerang. I should have checked the MS Knowledgebase myself. It is possibleappears that the very 1st entry here might identify the cause of my problem. Microsoft suggests that this problem occurs if more than one Mylex RAID controller that is supported by the Dac2w2k.sys...
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    Problems with XP and Norton Internet Security

    Unfortunately when I try to execute the Nav application directly it aborts with the message that "This MSI must be launched through setup". Thanks anyway. Can't beleive this has caused so many problems, because I've always been a big fan of Symantec/Norton products' ease of use. However, what...
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    Problems with XP and Norton Internet Security

    By the way when the XP reboot crashes it does so with the message "driver_IRQL_not_less_or_equal" I don't suppose this means anything to anyone? Thanks, Harry
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    Problems with XP and Norton Internet Security

    Tried a few more things and can now say for sure that the problem is not related to NAV but some other component in NIS. I Changed my BIOS settings to disable Onboard LAN chip and Onboard RAID (not really expecting this to make a difference. I made sure my XP Firewall was completely disabled. I...
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    Problems with XP and Norton Internet Security

    I have used Norton Internet Security for many years and am running NIS 2002 on my old PC. I have also recently installed NIS 2004 on both my Brothers' PCs with no problems. However I have just built a new PC for myself with: Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 motherboard Athlon XP2800+ 512 Mb Crucial 3200...