Zero Serenity

Update: All situations remedied. Board works great and the sound functions again. The sound has an interesting story. As I was pouring through the manual, it aparently said unless you had front sound headers attached, you need to short the board in two places to get the sound to operate. Well, I had the sound header, I attached it and we were all square and happy. Enuff: I've done it on T3. It still takes 12 hours. The reason? It's trying to go to Japan for every file. The game uses registry entries (a good number of them) and fails to operate if I don't place them in. Jeremy: Great idea. No idea how to export registry entries though if you could give some help here. (Burning DVDs I can do though) Severach: I think I lost you too. The board was not worth using again so I sent it back, so what you said is useless.

Um... aparently you missed a whole lot of the topic. And the reason my game takes so long is because I have the original version of it. As in the one released almost three years ago. Since then probably every file the game uses has been replaced/upgraded. That's 7Gigs of information right there. 12hours is rather fast if you consider it that way.

It's in and it works, but I can't get the sound to function yet. Still working on a remedy for it though.

So, about a month ago I found out my old motherboard had blown caps which attributed to heavy freezing in the weirdest way (only happened when the computer was idle). So, I have come across a new board in the interest of getting the machine back to operational status. I implanted it, with all the goodies I had before and as expected it restarts on boot even when going to safe mode. So, assuming I can't use the old hardware, is there anyway I can avoid reinstalling XP from scratch? Someone suggested using the repair installation function, but I want to know what that would do to the OS first. Why avoid fresh installation you ask? Simple. Once I finish the install I have to put in all my software. This is an affair that can take up to a week. Hell. One game I have takes 12 hours to update (FFXI) from installation. Any advice or methods?