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PsiMoon314

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  1. Hi, Thanks for that however that reply does not appear to contain one piece of useful information related to my original post. Anyone else care to give a relevant response? Should I just assume that the mod I quote in my OP was not speaking with the official voice of MSFN and basically doesn't know what they are talking about? Kind Regards Simon
  2. Hi, There is an interesting comment on this thread from a mod regarding the ownership of information and postings placed on MSFN. Can someone please point me to where this assertion of copyright is made publicly and what law or statue (presumably international) which allows such a claim to made? If I have the copywrite to something and chose to post it here then I still hold the copywrite. Nothing has changed with regards to the ownership of the material. It is simply being reproduced here, nothing is implied about the status of that material unless a copywrite statement is also posted with it. The best you might be able to claim is that the posting itself is the "property" of MSFN but it's content may (and very probably) is NOT the property of MSFN. This mod seems to be stating that everything posted here belongs to MSFN and the community via some undisclosed mechanism or placed in the public domain. Can someone please clarify the situation here? Kind Regards Simon
  3. Hi, Possibilities to check: Bad RAM; Use a good RAM tester such as MemTest 86+ or Windows Memory Diagnostic from floppy disk or Bootable CD to check the RAM and ensure it works correctly. Bad Hard Drive; Use a Hard Drive testing package (SpinRite or the manufacturers Utility on the Ultimate Boot CD) to check for Hard Drive faults Replace all of the SATA and IDE cables with fresh ones, preferably ones which have been testing and shown to be working Check the jumpers on the Hard Drive and ensure the SATA mode settings are correct. If possible ensure that SATA II / 3.0 is selected if supported by your motherboard. If not then ensure SATA I / 1.5 mode is selected Replace the CMOS Battery with a fresh one and reset the CMOS settings to defaults. Ensure that the "non-Plug and Play operating system" option is set to "No" for Windows XP. Ensure the other BIOS options are set to sensible values or defaults. DOn't overclock or fiddle at this stage! Check that your Windows XP install CD is not damaged or dirty. Clean it or replace it with another copy of the OS on a fresh CD or borrow another known working XP install CD to test. Try booting the PC from a Linux Live CD to ensure that all of the hardware is working correctly. If this also fails to boot then you may have a bad item such as a Motherboard or CPU. Use the Driverpacks from http://driverpacks.net to integrate the Mass Storage Drivers onto a custom Windows XP install CD. These drivers generally work very well, are up to date and should not require any additional non-native SATA controller drivers to be presented on a Floppy Disk during Windows XP installation. Bad Floppy Disks can cause problems during installation. Use an IDE hard drive on the IDE controller rather than using a SATA hard drive on the SATA controller. Ensure you have the IDE drive jumprered correctly as a Master drive and connected to the IDE cable using the connector furtherest from the Motherboard connector. Don't use Cable Select Cables or options, they don't work. If XP installs then you may have a bad SATA controller chip on the motherboard or the drive and controller are not working together correctly. Check the Motherboard manufacturers web site for an update BIOS version; perhaps there is something incompatible here which has been resolved with a BIOS update? I am sure there may be other options to check here but this should keep you going for a while! Kind Regards Simon
  4. Hi, KB918005 has more recent versions of those files and is publically downloadable direct from the KB article. Kind Regards Simon
  5. Hi, Are you installing the Windows Installer 3.1 v2 update at any point? If so make sure this happens early in the post XP install process. I am fairly sure that the WMP installers are .MSI installers so you need to ensure you can install .MSI files correctly. If WMP is still not installing then check for an install log file in your Windows system folder to see what issues the WMP installer has found. The command line I posted earlier in this thread DOES work so something else is causing your WMP install issues. Is the XP activated before you run the WMP installer? You will probably find that activation is needed for WMP 10 or 11 can be installed. I also note you are calling QCHAIN at the end of your install process. This is NOT needed for Windows XP or Vista. Kind Regards Simon
  6. Hi, You could also use Dial-a-Fix to repair or reinstall WMI/WBEM services and such automatically for you. If this doesn't fix the issue then you can download the MS repair tool and the package has the download location for you. Kind Regards Simon
  7. Hi, I typically use the following switches on most hotfixes: WindowsXP-KB932168-x86-ENU.exe /quiet /norestart /overwriteoem For WMP11 I use: wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe /q:A /c:"setup_wm.exe /Q /R:N /P:#e /DisallowSystemRestore /SetWMPAsDefault" and for IE7: IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe /passive /update-no /norestart /silent works here also but I like to see IE7 installing. Kind Regards Simon P.S. QCHAIN is no logger needed on XP or Vista.
  8. Hi, Ensure that you do have the correct drivers for your hard drives SATA controller and put them onto a floppy disk, or perhaps a USB Stick. When Windows XP setup starts press F6 so you can supply the drivers to Windows setup before hard drive detection. The other way to do this would be to integrate the drivers into the Windows XP install CD using Bashrat's Driver Packs; to be honest this is the best solution as it may work better for your laptop if you don't have access to a floppy drive. Kind Regards Simon
  9. Hi, For WMP11 I use: wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe /q:A /c:"setup_wm.exe /Q /R:N /P:#e /DisallowSystemRestore /SetWMPAsDefault Which was the same as I use to use for WMP10. It's be soooo long since I have even seen WMP9 I cannot comment on that version. Kind Regards Simon
  10. Hi, Frankly if this was happening to me I would be worried that that Microwave Oven was faulty or leaking microwave radiation into the environment. It should be urgently tested and if faulty replaced with a newer model which doesn't leak. Kind Regards Simon
  11. Hi, Here is a .CMD file which lists all of your drives and lists their types. USB Drives appear as a "Removable Drive". @echo off setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION set Drive_Count=0 set DrivesList= for /f "skip=1 TOKENS=1*" %%i in ('fsutil fsinfo drives^|more') do ( set Drive=%%i set /a Drive_Count+=1 for /F "tokens=1* delims=- " %%A in ('fsutil fsinfo drivetype !Drive!^|find "-"') do ( echo Drive !Drive_Count!: [!Drive:~0,1! ] %%B set MountPoint_Count= for /F "tokens=* delims=:" %%Z in ('Mountvol^|find "!Drive:~0,1!:\"') do ( set MountPoint=%%Z if !MountPoint:~8! NEQ !Drive! ( set /a Drive_Count+=1 set /a MountPoint_Count+=1 echo MountPoint !Drive_Count!: [!MountPoint:~8,1!!MountPoint_Count!] !MountPoint:~8! set MountPoint[!Drive:~0,1!]=MountPoint_Count ) ) set Drive[!Drive:~0,1!]=%%B !MountPoint_Count! set DrivesList=!DrivesList! !Drive:~0,1!!MountPoint_Count! ) ) rem echo Drive[q] [%Drive[q]%] echo dl: %DrivesList% echo off endlocal This code could serve as the basis of what you might be looking for. Regards Simon
  12. Hi, How would I go about enumerating all current users on a system and using REGIMPORT.EXE on each of them in turn (except perhaps the currently logged on user)? Kind Regards Simon
  13. Hi, Having the MS JVM installed is not really that big a deal. A small number of web sites insist that you use it however most will work with either. You are better off using the latest release of the Sun JVM where possible to keep the number of security issues to a minimum. Ensure that IE is not set to use the MS JVM but the Sun one in Internet Options. Kind Regards Simon
  14. Hi, I thought it was my built-in video, but I bought a x1300pro and it runs much better, but still runs out of memory. If you havent checked the BIOS settings for your PC then check to see that the internal/onboard graphics has been disabled. It may still be active and allocating system RAM for the onboard graphics. Try disabling the onboard graphics or setting the RAM allocation it uses to the minimum value it will accept. You mau still not have enough system RAM even then, how much RAM is installed in the PC? Kind Regards Simon
  15. Hi, I was under the impression that you needed a card with hardware support for DirectX 9c to support the Aero desktop in Windows Vista? I thought that the FX5200 was a DirectX 9 card, not DirectX 9c? Is there some way to get the full Aero experience on such a graphics card? Kind Regards Simon
  16. Hi, Does the process described in Post #1 actually set the correct MCE version numbers in the registry? Does your MCE PC know that this fix has been correctly installed and applied and is the correct entry present in Add / Remove Programs? I would suspect that this is only correctly done if the proper installer for this rollup is used. Kind Regards Simon
  17. Hi, You can also install MS Hotfix KB875506 and add a new registry setting: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\Shutdown] "ShowHibernateButton"=dword:00000001 This hotfix has an updated MSGINA.DLL which allows for all four buttons to appear on the signoff dialog. Some OEM PC's ship this update (I have seen it on some Sony PC's for example) so it's available out there. This hotfix should be available from the usual online sources. Kind Regards Simon
  18. Hi, Is the local set correctly in your OS? I assume you are in the UK as you refer to the £ symbol. Check you have the English (UK) language and the English (UK) for the Keyboard settings. Kind Regards Simon
  19. Hi RJM, You've got it It was one of those ideas which seemed to be a good idea but never really caught on. As a result the hard drive vendors didn't really check to see if their drive inter-operate with other manufacturers so no one really uses it etc ... Filled into the "Nice Idea but didn't really work" bin. Kind Regards Simon
  20. Hi, Using Cable Select these days is not really needed and can cause problems with drive identification. I always recommend using 80 wire cables and explect Master and Slave settings. There is a good article about this here: Configuration Using Cable Select The rest of the articles on this site also have useful information on PATA configurations. Kind Regards Simon
  21. Hi, While BootVis does improve performance in some circumstances, all it does is to invokes the built-in Windows XP boot time optimization process when you run it. It does this immediately instead of waiting for it to be scheduled by Windows. You may notice immediate improvement in boot performance for this reason. You can achieve the same results by setting the following registry setting, if not already set: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction] "Enable"="Y" Quote from MS: If you reboot and force Windows to process it's idle tasks via a run command: Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks You should see the same effect. Note that some PC's may never be "idle" for 10 minutes if they are busy performing background tasks all of the time e.g. Downloading RSS feeds or E-mails ect. Kind Regards Simon
  22. Hi Waves, There are two issues here, the XP OS install files you use and the product key used to activate. Many royality OEM versions of XP are BIOS locked to the specific PC they were intended for. You can get some indication if this may be the case with a specific PC by checking for files such as: %SystemRoot%\system32\OEMBIOS.BIN %SystemRoot%\system32\OEMBIOS.DAT %SystemRoot%\system32\OEMBIOS.SIG If these are present then the Royality XP is probably BIOS locked. You need to use the specific OEM XP CD with this PC or build your own using these files. More information on this can be found here: http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t63258.html The second issue is the product key used. You may have to use the product key on the XP sticker attached to the OEM PC rather than the key used previously by the OEM for activation. Many of the OEM preinstallation product keys are now blocked from activation due to abuse. The product id on the XP sticker should work (assuming you have the correct OEM files on your installation CD) assuming this has also not been abused by overuse. The last resort is telephone activation which should be fairly quick and free. Kind Regards Simon
  23. Hi, By far the easist way to do this would be to download Autopatcher XP April 2006 and the May 2006 update. This is a free download which installs all of the missing updates on your PC and can be burnt onto a CD for use on many PC's. For further information and pointers to the downloads visit: http://www.autopatcher.com/ This can be automated using an answer file to install only the updates you wish to can can be totally automatic or you can manually select which updates and hotfixes you wish to install via the Autopatcher GUI and then just leave it to get on with the job. Incidentally for those who don't know, XP does not need the use of QCHAIN when installing multiple hotfixes without rebooting inbetween. Regards Simon
  24. Hi, I would be inclined to test for Viruses and Spyware on all user accounts before doing anything else. You never know what you or other users have picked up on their travels around the web. Kind Regards Simon
  25. Hi, When you first use the "Show icons for network UPnP devices" option Windows XP has to install additional items into Networking to enable this functionality, From the dialogs which appear this seems to be similar to the way that the Fax Printer service is installed. If you have a dial-up modem installed you might like to see you can install this. I think that something you have done to your XP install CD or your Windows configuration has broken this install mechanism. There is an article here which explains how to install the UPnP items via the Control Panel which might help: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=886257&SD=tech Kind Regards Simon
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