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@jaclaz & @CarterInCanada: I took the liberty, even if belatedly, to attach another copy of the full downloadable .pdf version of CarterInCanada's unbricking guide to the end of BlouBul's FGA sticky, therefore creating a second, independent, place it can be downloaded from... just because I don't quite trust the cloud (Google's or not) at all.

I have XP SP3 on an 3770K i7 (Ivy Bridge) on a Z68 based motherboard (Asus P8Z68-V LX): it works perfectly and it's blazing fast. All drivers are official and easily findable, including the Intel Graphics, for chipsets up to and including the Z68 and processors up to and including the Ivy Bridge. So you should really have no problem at all with your chosen processor. But do avoid Panther Point chipsets (B75-Z77) based boards, because that's where driver availability problems begin. However, most intersting boards do not have IDE anymore, but you might very well add any one of them a trusty Promise Ultra133 add-on card you may get over on eBay quite cheap, and that'd give you the ability to add up to 4 IDE HDDs.

No way. The sp4 is English only. Forget it, it'll just hose your system, if you manage to get it to install.

Is Mouse a USB Mass Storage Device? Is Keyboard a USB Mass Storage Device? No and no. So, why did you expect them to be supported/detected?

I provided you the correct link: nVidia GeForce and Win 9x/ME - Relevant Threads There you'll find a link to the only thread specifically about a 6800 where the OP didn't succeed. And in it I mention Multibooter uses successfully a 7800. The only function of a index thread like that is to help people locate things more easily... But it turns out I was wrong, after all: risk_reversal actually has been using a 6800 for quite some time, already.

It only means that I don't recall anyone having reported success with a 6800 here... It's been a long time since I actually read the threads In the link I just gave you, so I may be wrong, but what I remember is that the 6200 works. You should contact RLoew by e-mail. When doing the definitive install, be sure to use the /M switch.

I don't know anybody who's got a 6800 to work right... so it may simply be impossible... Then again, if anything can help you at this point, that'd be the RAM Limitation Patch. Do try it.

What about KB2993651's "Known Issue 2" ? Does it also happen on Win Server 2k3 / WEPOS / POSReady 2k9 / XP ?

Would you please be so kind as to elaborate some more on why PEPassPass is needed?

The best source sure is Noctua's own site. I think the one you'd be looking for is the NH-U9DX, but there may be other adequate ones, too.

That, at least, you can rest assured it will. Yet, you'll continue to access the same amount of RAM you've been used to, both from 98, and from XP, because they're 32-bit systems (the rest, however, can be accessed by using a RAMDrive: the Gavotte, with UsePAE=1, is a great solution for XP and RLoew's non-XMS Ramdrive, the only real solution for 98).

Ditto! How did the Noctuas perform?

I think it might be around 30 degrees... but then I decided to go for it and try to shoot for maximums, even if somewhat unlikely, just to see what should be the maximum damage attributable to a baseball ball sized lump of the densest metal conceivable. An interesting obsevation is that the "Pi Scaling (Preferred method!)" diverges for 60 degrees: there must be a bug in its programming (although that value can be estimated by interpolating, of course).

Way to do, Noel! Thanks for the wonderful image!

[...] Try using the very convenient Computing Crater Size from Projectile Diameter online calculator : http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/tekton/crater_c.html Thanks, jaclaz, you do rock! :yes It seems I was off-scale by a factor of about 100!!! A baseball ball made of iridium is required for a 14.4 m crater!!! Wow!!! A pea-sized droplet of iridium should yield a crater of less than 3 m (or less than 2 m, if made of iron)...

Its authenticity, however, will be real hard to prove, because any bean-sized quartz or metal droplet should be enough to cause a 12 m crater and, being already hot from the plunge in Earth's atmosphere, it really might be vaporized on impact and, well, "disappear"... What size crater should be expected for, say, a baseball ball hitting the dirt at the full speed 2014 RC's travelling at? Surely way more than 12 m, in my opinion...

Whait a sec! Are you telling me the system uses more Proc #0 while at BIOS (= unbooted or while before booting), and that, once XP takes over the machine, the load is evenly divided between Procs? Why, I'd expect XP to be more knowledgeable about Proc/Core scheduling than the BIOS (or, I'd expect the BIOS to be more naif about multiple processors/multiple cores/hyperthreading than XP)... 9x/ME, on the other hand, knows only about a single core inside a single processor.

A third, plain vanilla XP installation, perhaps on an older 40-80 GB IDE HDD (added temporarily just for this) might be the way to go, right now... no need to activate it, since the grace period should be more than enough for what I have in mind... If the higher temps on Proc #0 go away on the plain vanilla XP, then something subtle went wrong on trasplanting your old XP to the new machine, else there really might be hardware, but, at least, we'd be double-sure your current XP installation is really working as it should...

Here's something I think you'll find interesting, Larry: "The GIF artist who draws with humans"

Do try SpeedFan on your board... it might very well be able to read actual temperatures on it. I'm aware it probably won't solve any issues (although, maybe it even can, since it can be used to control the fans...) but, in any case, if it succeeds in giving you sensible temperature readings, that sure would be some progress, right?

You're much welcome to MSFN, Dave! ASM programmers are great to have around,please do wander through the XP, 2k and 9x/Me communities, and you'll see there's projects galore where one with your abilities might contribute, time permitting. Cheers! den.

Congratulations! 9x/ME is for the unswerving only, nowadays. And, of course, welcome to MSFN!

MS released KB2993651 (MS14-045) on Aug 27, 2014 (so totally out-of-band). It should be a full fix to a previous botched update (KB2919355) but, at least The 7+ versions came out already also botched. At WU/MU there actually is a KB2993651 for WEPOS and POSReady 2009, which is also available from the MS Upd Catalog, as usual. Care is recommended. Better prevent it from installing right away, at least until we're sure it actually is safe or a further hotfix replaces it. Just my 2¢, of course. Interestingly enough, AFAIK, KB2919355 wasn't ever released for WEPOS and POSReady 2009... or, at least, it sure wasn't offered at WU/MU.

Dave? Are you there? Do please give us an update... are things OK, now? I'm aware you've already bought new fans, but, just for the record (or in case you still need this info): for the case I do recommend Gelid or Noctua fans, but or processor-heatsink/fan assemblies, I prefer Zalman, although their products are rather bulky, so perhaps Gelid or Noctua solutions might be a better choice in your specific case, too. They cost more, but they are worth every cent they cost, IMO.

Look at it on the brighter side: you're almost anonymous if compared to: Bold red is mine. The above quotation refers to my XP SP3, using FF esr 24.7... The plugins I use are the source of most of the uniqueness. One's best bet at anonymity seems to be to use a totally plain vanilla (preferably heavily sandboxed) IE or FF installation. Go figure! Even then, stylometry can identify one, and make no mistake, 5000 words is needed for singling one very adept at hiding one's style, not average users.