drmarvin

Just curious if anyone knows about problems when upgrading from a single to a dual core chip (same type). Is it required to reinstall Windows when changing a CPU in this fashion? Does it require a new HAL? Thanks DrMarvin

Use the wizard, or once you have create your VM, you can select Add, and use the wizard to create a virtual hard drive. VM Ware works beautifully for testing unattended CD's.

You can start the script in a number of ways. Good examples are the same as for XPlode (http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=15076), but I choose to start minhe with [GuiRunOnce] in the winnt.sif file. I haven't tried it any other way, but I figure any other way will work too. This is the command line that I use in the winnt.sif file: [GuiRunOnce] "%systemroot%\system32\cmd.exe /c cscript /nologo %systemroot%\wpi.vbs" This works because as I said before, I put the wpi/vbs script in the $OEM$\$$ directory under each OS. Then it works, and you just have to change the one post-install directory on the DVD.

Also, I have foudn that using Hmonitor, using the throttling feature, I can make it stable with the Radeon card, but it seems with other testing, the onboard video and a Kyro2 64megKyro2 64meg are stable without throttling, figuring it may be a problem with my Radeon card in this system. The card works flawlessly in my slower system, but the jump from an Athlon 650 to a P$ 2.8gig seems to be a problem.

Thanks for the replies. I have compe to the conclusion that it's a cooling problem. I believe that initially, it was a power supply problem, but that was rectified. Now I just have to plan out a good cooling option, since I think the freezing is from overheating.

I'm at a loss of what is wrong, with my new system, so I thought I'd throw it out there to the experts. The following is my prediciment. Brand new Soyo SY-P4VGA ATX P4 motherboard, BIOS flashed to most up to date (happened before flash too) Brand new Intel P4 2.8gig non-Prescott 512k cache Brand new 512meg DDR PC333 ram Board has onboard Audio, S3 video, and Ethernet Also have tried with my ATI Radeon 9000 Pro, Promise ATA 133 card + hard drives Symptoms occur with any configuration, even with just onboard equipment and hard drive. The computer is stable if very little is going on, but if you get it to do more than about 1-2 things at once, or anything graphical, this go down the tubes. The computer freezes all the time, for no obvious reason. The temperatures seem fine. The heat sink is mounted with thermal paste and the stock fan. No fan on the mainboard chip, but heatsink is in place. Now when looking at the temps with HMonitor, it looks like the mainboard may be heating up (say 74C in red) and the heatsink definately feels warmer than the one on the CPU. I have a feeling this is what it is related to, but I'm not sure. I have replaced the RAM to no avail, so I am looking for some input into what you think the culprit is. New Mobo? New CPU? I want to play with my new faster toy, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks Dr Marvin

Then the next thing to figure would be the DVD writer. It may be saying it's writing ok, but there may be small errors, especially if it is reproducable on other computers. The other thing to check would be the RAM with ramtest86, since this is where I got many errors on my system. One of my SIMM's sucked, and had a massive number of errors in it. Try copying the files to a different computer and building the ISO there and burning it.