EcPercy

it has a nice little installer and everything take a look if you are interested... http://wintheme.com/view_ad.asp?Ad_ID=2566...%26Cat4%5FID%3D so if you download it lemme know what ya think in the comments section...

yes i would also do a clean install... the XP cd should be bootable... as was said ... and any windows product cd should work to verify that you have a previous version...or take a look at this... http://209.217.52.178/howto/setuppini.html here is something else... a guide on how to make your xp cd bootable http://www.geocities.com/bootablecds good luck! Edited by ADMIN.....Please read the forums rules, no active links[/color:49c71c1d63] well ok.... thanks for the info...

well i know from the grapevine that if your copy of MP isn't legit that the 1.5 patch kills all the no cd patches...as the latest no cd patch is 1.2 so you will have to wait till there is a 1.5 no cd patch released...if of course that is the case!

um...are you overclocking? oh...nevermind... i see now that you seem to have found a solution here!

this might be considered spamming, but look at some alternatives i seem to have run across lately on cooling solutions! Look! the AMD cpu coolers are pretty wild, but i think that it will actually work...also make a note and check out the video card solution as well!

my config is an XP rig.... i used to leave it on 24/7, but with xp they seem to have fixed the standby issue...ya know the one where you can go to standby, but then the pc locks up and never wakes back up.... anyways my longest uptime was like 3 months without a single reboot or anything... just regular defrags and virus scans...