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I am using the latest version, v11.6. I made a virtual cd of the Windows XP SP2 CD and installed from that cd. I have made most of the applications I use like Adobe 8.1 into virtual DVDs and installed them from the DVDs in VDPro11.6. Because I initially bought the Farstone software as a game improvement and not as an application improvement software, can someone enlighten this novice as to what I have actually done with the Windows XP installation in terms of virtualization. I am not using virtual hardware but the the Intel 3.2GHz cpu is emulated as 2 cpus both working at 2.119GHz. I am wondering what sort of virtualization it is I am experiencing. I am more interested in the operating system rather than the applications and games. The system is working very quicly and like that is quite a lot better to work with. I do a little bit of drawing with MSPaint, watch DVDs, email and webbrowse alot, use Adobe Reader to read pdf files with the computer. http://nicholasbee6.spaces.live.com/default.aspx

Hi again, ...is it post #5 that suggested a corrupted Bios? I think the reason my motherboard wouldn't boot was probably because the Bios was corrupted. A corrupted Bios may suggest the memory failure report seeing that Bios is saved in a chip on the motherboard. I have flashed a bios that did not complete so the bios update failed, and then, not because I knew what I was doing but because I just had a go I reflashed the Bios and it updated correctly. So you see, having incomplete bos information in the otherboard Bios chip didn't matter to the flashing program. For that reason, I suggest that the Bios is reflashible . The Bios is probably corrupted and flashing several times, and possibly but not necesarily with an alternative flashing program, like Uniflash, just might overide and replace a corrupted Bios. I am guessing, but if my motherboard failed on me again I would like to try this before I sold the motherboard.......again.

I see noone has replied about your problem yet, so... I had an MSI K7NG2-L motherboard in a computer that ran ok for 9 months and it seemed to have done the same thing as your computer did. I sold the motherboard and later I asked the guy I sold it to if he got it to work, and he said he did get it to work. So hang in there, I think you can get your computer to work again...somehow.

I bought my first computer 3 years ago and told the salesman when he asked "do you want us to install the software" , no . Since then I have been using the computer at least 40 hours each week . All I could do with a computer before that time was click on buttons and type a wee bit . I've broken 2 harddrives and I'm up to my 3rd motherboard . Now , when I think I recognise a problem I can understand as having corrected on my own computer I help someone . More often the problems I help with a operating system setting problems in OEM Windows XP Home Edition which came with my first computer .

I'm the lazy novical type who asks a dumb question and seems to get away with it , like my first question which is what brought me here . And - hello everywhere else B)