Hello all, I think I just screwed up. I have a dual boot setup XP/Vista that I set up from an Vista Home premium upgrade disc. I wasn't on the pc for a few days and much to my suprise I missed the activation (or rearm to get 120 trial days) time.
I am now locked out and I can't activate...
Hello all, I need your help. I want to dual boot xp mce with vista home premium. I have a seagate 80 gig hdd with one partition with xp and all of my apps installed using about 32 gigs. I have tried using gparted and I can't get it to shrink this partition, in fact I can't even get to the gui...
Hey guys thanks for the input. I finally found some time to to put your advice to the test. I lapped the cpu and coolersink. I guess it took about an hour to tear it down do the work and get it all back together.
I did have a bit of a scare though, when I got everythng hooked back up I hit...
Thanks for the reply guys, I have remounted the cooler a couple of different times and I
did hear the pins click as they engaged. Yes It was a big PITA while the MB was in the
case.
I was considering lapping the coolersink because it is kinda rough. Being a noob I could't figure a way...
Alrighty then, I pulled the heatsink and cleaned everything up really well.
This time I tried the rice grain size blob and smushed the heatsink to spread it like the As5 site shows. The first time I did the same size blob and spread it with credit card. It appeared to be fairly evenly spread...
Could be. I not sure I've got cooler seated properly. This is my first build, and that was the one thing I was concerned about getting right. I may just pull it off and clean it up and reapply artic silver.
Sorry about the screw up AGAIN. Anyway I got a new build with cd2 6300, intel mb and ac 7 cooler. After running orthos for 15 min of so my temps show 60 c.
Measuring with core temp. Soes this sound to high? Should I reseat the cooler?
Thanks in advance.
Well I got it figured out with help from you guys.
I had to disable the lan in bios. You get the error mesage PXE-E61 Media test failure
when bios tries to boot from the network,even though I had disabled Thought I would
post so if someone else has the same issue with Intel board. By...
Hey all,
I've been reading here for quite awhile now and I finally got the itch (and the nerve) to
build my new machine. Got every thing put together but I am having trouble getting XP
installed.I got a Intel 965 board , C2d 6300. 2 gig Kingston 1.8v ram Samsung
writemaster...
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