kenshin

You can mix and match; it'll just run both sticks at the slower speed.

Make sure that the XP disc has at least SP1a slipstreamed onto it; prior to that, Windows doesn't support 48bit LBA, so it can't address the entire drive.

64 bit procs can mess with bigger chuncks of data at a time, which certainly gives a perfomance boost, but only with a 64 bit OS and applications. You can still run 32 bit OSes and apps, though. 64 bit won't really be much of a benefit for a while longer anyways, so if you want Intel, take your pick, anything will do. But if you're in it for gaming and are willing to give AMD a shot, Athlon64 is an excellent choice.

Just built my "next" PC... Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Mobo AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Kingston Dual Channel DDR400 1024MB Two Maxtor 250GB HDs in RAID 0 16x Dual layer DVD burner SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Edition Two evga GeForce 6800 GTs Hauppauge WinTV PVR250 And yes, a floppy drive.

I'll assume you know the proper structure of the $oem$ folders (ie, the $1 folder representing the drive you're installing Windows to, etc), and point my comments elsewhere... I've never had to do it, but try putting NTUpgrade=No under [unattended]. NTUpgrade and OEMPreinstall are mutually exclusive, so that may do the trick...

There was a Win98SP1. Its not available anymore, but that's okay, because it only included a few things (Y2K fixes, IE4, etc) that are either available seperately, or are outdated.

What, a new version of a Microsoft product suddenly not working with a competitor's? That's never happened before...

Most systems nowadays support booting from USB, so YES, you can buy a bootable removable HDD. My suggestion, however, is to buy an internal HDD and an external enclosure for it; its usually MUCH cheaper. PS: Whether, not weather.

I believe I may have found what you're looking for... Under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video, there should be a few keys, two of which representing your two video cards. From there, there should be a "0000" key, which has a "MB_Enable" key. If you set that to "01 00 00 00", it should enable SLI. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to pre-determine the parent key's names, though...

Si3114r5 is a mass storage driver (SATA, RAID, SCSI, etc), and NTLDR is actually part of the Windows NT family operating systems (including XP). The combo of the mass storage error and the repair disk probably screwed something up; unfortuneatly, you may have to reinstall the OS; the hardware's probably fine.

Theoretically, if you could find all the registry keys the installer makes and apply them to the new registry, this might work. But you'd probably be better off sticking with running the installer. But I DO know that this method would work for WinZip, at least.