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Borsia

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  1. It sounds like you have the same basic question that I do. I have a A205 with a 2GB RAM limit and I want to go to 4GB. Can it be done? Maybe a different BIOS chip?
  2. I thgink you are overlooking 2 big factors. 1. RAID its fine to have a fast board, CPU, Chipset etc. but when I was doing NLE getting the drives to write fast enough without any faults was a big problem. I used an ASUS board with 2 RAID chanels for a total of 4 drives running stripe 0 as well as 2 primary drives for everythinbg else. A total of 6 drives. 2. With all of that hardware running cooling is a major problem so go with the biggest box you can find and fit it with lots of fans. Yes it will be noisy. be sure to include internal fans so that you don't get "hot spots". I recomend a cooling control head with multiple sensors that you can attach to key positions.
  3. Another BIG THANK YOU it works like a charm. Now that it isn't bogged down by the Vista OS my Toshiba Satellite seems to do OK. I am still hunting drivers but the worst is done. Tomorrow I am going to run the Sony image processing software and Photoshop. With the Vista it ran out of memory with only 2 RAW images being processed at one time. The RAM use doing nothing was almost 1GB. Now it uses 450mb leaving 1.6GB free. I'll post the results. I have been asked countless times by friends and relatives and others over the years if they should go with a PC or Mac and I have always said PC. First there is the cost of hardware and then there is the availability of inexpensive software and the easy upgradability. But with the introduction of Vista I have had to change my thinking. Unless MS stops thinking that adds for ”Mojave” and Bill paling with Jerry Seinfeld and admits that vista is another ME bomb and either drops it or fixes it I am telling them to go Mac. I still consider XP to be way better than Mac. But they are planning to drop support for XP in 2010.
  4. Hi OK her it is [boot Loader] Timeout=5 Default=C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT [Operating Systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect It had another line that ended with "Microsoft Windows XP Professional setup" Which is the line I took out. Any suggestions on where I might find usable drivers for the Satellite A205. Most of the ones I have found don't actually work.
  5. I went into the BOOT.INI and the BOOTBACKUP files and found the offending command and took it out. I just opened the files in Notepad and erased the command line then saved the altered form. I did have to change it from rean only. Now the message doesn't appear but the computer still launches setup. I thought it might have something to do with it being in China so I tried putting my glasses on upside down (Bifocals) And I squinted really hard but it looks bout the same. Is there someplace else I need to change it?
  6. Ahh Success,, It even has that new windows smell!! Iburn is really cool and easy! First I would like to thank Jaclaz I have been fighting this for 2 weeks ever since I arrived in China. I don't speak Chinese so there was no one to ask locally. I followed your instructions with one added precautuion Using another computer I partitioned the laptop drive the way I wanted it to end up. Then I coppied all of the drivers onto the C partition since I was having so much trouble relating to the SATA drivers being missing. Now I have only 1 residual problem. After it burned the image Iburn cycled the tray to check for errors. Windows started installing almost instantly. Now every time I retsart this (my desktop PC) computer it asks if I want to continue with setup or run XP. Usually I hit the on button and go get something to drink, go to the head somethng to kill that 3 minutes it takes to start. But now I have to baby sit it. Thanks again Jaclaz and everyone else.
  7. Well it only shows as 1 ISO file with a size of 680MB. The size roughly replicates the size of the information that should be in the iso image. It consisted of the entire Win XP Pro (sp2) & the batch of drivers (6) listed in the instructions. They were in the form of 2 folders before sending them to nlite. 1 folder "DriverDisk" and 1 folder called "XPCD" which contained all of the XP from the MS original disc.
  8. I was able to burn the disc and it shows about 680MB which is the right size for all of the files. But I can't get my computer to read it. How do I get this image onto the hard drive so that I can run it. I tried restoring Vista and it still doesn't seem to be able to open the file. I am not sure that that would help since my goal is to get Vista, which I will refer to as the "Bloated Pig, or BP, entirely off out of the laptop. The BP is 7.8GB! XP is only 750MB which makes BP 1,000 times larger; and as any pig farmer will tell you getting a 1,000 LB pig to move takes a lot of slop and a lot of patience. And a BP is slower than continental drift on the ,very rare, time it does work. How do I use this image now that I have it?
  9. If you are following the instructions on the Toshiba tech site http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/TSB85017Z0000R01.htm we are in the same boat. I have followed the instructions (4 times) and I have the CD with all the "required" files but now what? My computer won't read the disc. It doesn't recognize a .iso file. I think I would like this notebook if it had XP Pro. But with Vista it is just 6 pounds I don't need to carry around.
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