Recent content by Vilandra

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    Reinstalled XP, now I cant boot into Win 7

    XP still would not boot, so I installed the beta release of EasyBCD 2.0. It has the option to create a new boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect for the XP drive. Now everything is working.
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    Reinstalled XP, now I cant boot into Win 7

    Thanks for the help Dahak.
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    How long does it take to install Windows 7?

    I timed mine today on my main machine and it was about 20 minutes. I also installed the RC on an older P4 machine with a noisy HDD and it took all day. Literally all day. Started that morning, and it finished later that evening. Boots up fine though, and works with no problems. Just took all...
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    Reinstalled XP, now I cant boot into Win 7

    Ok, so after installing EasyBCD on Win 7, I rebooted and it gave me the 2 OS choices (win7 and XP) however both would not work. It said there were errors.... So I booted into the Win 7 DVD and used the Startup Repair option. It listed a couple of problems and fixed them. Now I have the options...
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    Reinstalled XP, now I cant boot into Win 7

    Ok, ive tried part of that.... Here is what ive tried. bootrec /fixmbr "completed successfully" bootrec /fixboot "Element not found" I dont think ive tried your suggestion of rebuildbcd and scanos. I'll give those a try. Also, I just now got EasyBCD to install under XP (had...
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    Reinstalled XP, now I cant boot into Win 7

    Already tried that as well. It didnt work.
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    Random rebooting while rendering

    Its been a while since I last updated this situation... I sent the machine in for repair and they replaced both CPU's. According to them, both CPU's has a faulty core. The RAM was fine. After using the machine for a couple of months, it started randomly rebooting again while under a load...
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    Reinstalled XP, now I cant boot into Win 7

    I have 2 drives on my machine. HDD-0 is C and has XP on it. HDD-1 is D and has Win 7 on it. Both have been working just fine, and when the machine boots up, I get the OS choice menu, "Windows 7" or "Previous version of Windows". Yesterday, I started having trouble with XP, so instead of...
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    Random rebooting while rendering

    I'll give that a try... but I did already disable that using the right click on My Computer --> advanced tab --> startup and recovery method. Im using XP.
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    Random rebooting while rendering

    I am using the standard Cinema 4D rendering engine. I have also tried other render engines (other 3D apps) as well, and I have the same problem.
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    Random rebooting while rendering

    Yes. I took the DDR and AMB voltage up, but that didnt work either.
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    Random rebooting while rendering

    I have a machine that I use for animation, modeling, editing, etc. The hardware is.... Dual Intel Core2 Quads QX9775's 4 Gigs FBDIMM RAAM Intel D5400XS mainboard nVidia Quadro FX 1700 Silverstone 1000w PSU Asetek closed loop liquid cooling While rendering out animations, the machine...
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    Available Video Editing Software/AE vs. Premeir

    Premiere is for editing (splicing, joining), adding audio, mastering, final encoding, etc. After Effects is for compositing, visual FX, layering, rotoscoping, masking, keying, particles, 3D camera, and a million other effects thru the vast plugins you can obtain for it. There are many...
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    Need suggestions on dual socket mobo.

    At $520, that supermicro mobo might be out of my price range. As of now, for a dual xeon E5420, 4 gigs ram, geforce 8800GT, case, psu and a tyan mobo, the price was coming out around $1600 to $1800. That supermicro board just hit the $2k mark. I'll put it on my list of motherboard to look over...
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    Need suggestions on dual socket mobo.

    Ok. I understand now. When it comes to mobo's, is there a particular brand that I should avoid? Ive been checking out the Tyan boards over at newegg, but also saw some SuperMicro, Asus, etc.