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Did you all realize the OP started all this discussion, interesting as it may be, with a one liner, and never came back to reap the results?

Yeah, well... it should be v. 6.2.8102.0, so, yes... still the same Win v. 6, just as the other two.

Do either alias work equally normally?

Thanks, Aloha! That's good news, indeed!

It's OK, Larry! I'm just tossing in some ideas, from time to time. Feel free to ignore them as you see fit. Now, just to answer your question: 900x1600. And no, it's not a mistake, it's really 900x1600, because I'm using a Dell U2410 LCD monitor in portrait mode (i. e.: rotated by 90º).

Can you open the enclosure and post here a link to a good quality pic of the HDD's full label, please? And, BTW, how is that enclosure powered? Just through the USB connection? Has it a pair of male USB plugs, of which you're using only one, perchance?

I like the new dollar sign, with a pair of barbs above and below, much more than the former one. But i do think it might even work with all the other letter in the other font, too. Now, one thing I didn't address (although it was implict in my example) is that you're using a shade of green which is near black, while I used a much more "greener" green, which I think works better, although the one I used is maybe too luminous.

Thanks, JorgeA, for your first impressions! I have one question, though: What about <Alt>-<Tab> and <Ctrl>-<Esc>, and other such key combinations? PS: My beloved 101-Key IBM Model M Keyboard (1993) has no Windows Key, of course!

I cannot resist meddling in from time to time, so here's my 2 ¢: I think the dollar sign should be made from the original capital S, to be in complete harmony with the font. So I've turned just the S green to ilustate it. Of course, there's still need to draw the cross stroke(s). But this illustrates my concept well enough. I mean: in 001_Sa_Ug_V02_sig the dollar sign is made of too thin a line, making it difficult for its good harmonising with the rest of the letters.

Welcome to the fold! Most of what you're asking is answered here somewhere and the Search utility is very good when you get the feeling of how to use it. You're mostly right about being covered if you use the packs you named. But you should, by all means add RP9, even if you're not interested in skining, just because it really helps with the resource bottlneck. And Opera 10.10, just to have a decently up-to-date browser to get around the web. IE6SP1 is too limiting, nowadays. BTW, I understand your first language is English and you're studying Japanese in Japan, or you're the native speaker of Japanese with the best grasp of English I've ever met. No matter which of the two above alternatives is the correct one, you're studying Japanese writing, so can ask for your help, too? Over in the 2k forum, we're looking for someone willing to translate major sections of the Japanese-only BlackWingCat blog into English. It's precious. Would you have time and interest in helping with this project?

That's my position, too. I know for sure some HBR Hotfixes are buggy. But, except for those I do know are buggy, my standard is to consider them OK, and usable. That's my 2¢, of course. BTW, shouldn't we mark this [solved] by now?

Before going on to buying another pair of RAM sticks, let's do it a bit more scientifically: I asked you to lenghten all timings. You said you did it to no avail. OK. Let's do the following: take a pic and post the BIOS screen(s) where the RAM timings are, with it set to AUTO, so that we'll see both what settings we have available and what the BIOS thinks are fine settings for these RAM sticks. Do it twice: once with the pair of your old RAM sticks on, and then one with any one of them substituted by one of the new 4 GiB sticks, please. I refuse to give up without giving it a last try, if you don't mind. And, BTW, Merry X-mas!

Merry X-mas to all of you!

I agree. That and the output of our fellow MSFN members, whose work we know well, I trust implicitly. Files from any other sources need careful analysis and testing, before being accepted as trustworthy.

I agree with RLoew. Moreover, my own adventures in attempting to establish which files are older than which, in some specific cases of MS official files (documented in less than 10 posts around MSFN) has let me very skeptic about the real usefulness of common file dates. They can even change on decompressing a packed archive, depending on the decompressor one uses. That's why I do rely primarily in PE Timestamps (when available) and Version Numbers, although I reckon neither are foolproof either. Fact is this is already a very confusing situation as it stands, and proliferating identical files with either different dates or, even worse, different Version Numbers will do no good, IMO, and increase the confusion. My take is, when there's no good solution in view, let sleeping dogs lie. Of course, here more than anywhere else, YMMV.

Doesn't the service pack decide what to overwrite based on version only, like all MS official updates and packs?

He actually said it twice, and the second time was anwering a direct question : Yes, one of 4GB and one of 2GB.Sorry, what do you mean by part number? Moreover the symptoms point very clearly, IMO, to a northbridge overwhelmed by too much RAM. It would be much more difficult to make sense of them were the new sticks the same size as the original ones.

went into the fertilizer business. moved on to the big internet up there. went ENIAC's way.

Toast. Kicked the bucket. Kaput. Bit the dust. Is pushing daisies. Folded. Sprouted wings.

No. Same version number means equivalent files, but small corrections to the source might not warrant a version change, so it may be better (or worse, or equivalent). No. They're meant to all of 9x (not ME). And anyone that actually had installed the one from IE401SP2 wouldn't have it replaced latter when applying IE55SP1/2, because both versions are the same version and MS usually doesn't "update" files to same version ones, unless there is a reason for it. Probably just an oversight, IMO. But we'll probably never know for sure.

Does this happen with either of the Ripjaws? If so, it seems your board cannot cope with 8 GiB... Try upping the timings by +2 and setting command rate 2T... Also disable ram interleave, if you have that setting.

Thanks, LoneCrusader! You gave a great solution to the problem, because that Prozactive post belongs to both threads, and in providing the quote you provided that missing part of context. One thing I cannot do is to duplicate a post, which would be of great help for thread surgery. But you've just made me realize we can even add non pre-existing quotes for context, where warranted. I hadn't thought of that, but it may be handy in the future, although I do hope I'll not need to do so many major thread surgeries next year.

Lenghten, by +1, all the memory's timings. This should get your system booting again. If not, try +2. The northbridge is being unable to cope with all that RAM using SPD's default timings.

Regardless of the brand, consider the following: some manufacturers, in an effort to produce ever slimmer pendrives, decided to omit the armor (metal outer-casing) from some of their pendrive's connectors. The SONY Micro-Vault Tiny was one of the first such armorless pendrives. But... the armor is there for many reasons, one being that it helps hold snugly the connectors in both parts of the USB connection (the pendrive and the machine's USB connector), so that, by omitting it, the manufacturer created a less reliable product, that will give bad contact in any well used USB connector, forcing one to jiggle the pendrive to get contact. So, nowadays I avoid buying any armorless connectored pendrive. I like Corsairs a lot, but I do avoid the Flash Voyager Mini line because of this. Just my 2¢, of course.

@Prozactive and @submix8c: Please do revise the newly split threads, taking care to check all links are working. Comments and corrections are also quite welcome. This post and the previous (if Prozactive is OK with it) one will be deleted as soon as we all agree the thread surgery has worked.