Recent content by larryn

It's a Gateway 200 laptop running XP sp1. This just started happening; put the laptop into standby by closing the cover; open the cover later and press the power button. when it is awake it has quit showing the desktop icons that were displayed before going into standby. Pressing...

Been there, done that. Problem stayed the same.

I have Roxio CD Creator Classic, v. 6.1.1.48 and since I updated XP Pro to SP2 it fails when I try to write a CD from an iso image file. I can successfully write the same image using a different program. The two errors I get are E80041843 - invalid operation code, and E80041925 - track...

The problem I had with the P4P800-e Deluxe is because of the P4-2.8E cpu I'm using, I've found out. See "XP SP2 vs. Intel Prescott" http://cquirke.mvps.org/sp2intel.htm for the full scoop.

I can confirm that if you have a ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe with BIOS 1001.004 that after updating to SP2 upon restart the system hangs at the XP splash screen. To fix this I downloaded the 1002.002 (the latest) BIOS image from ASUS web site and flashed my BIOS. I was able to then restart and after...