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Oh wow, look what google found!!! http://203.150.225.245/UpAndDownLoad%201/N...239_XP_WHQL.zip And for anyone else looking for complete windows xp drivers for this system, all is found here http://komku.blogspot.com/2008/10/aspire-4...-and-vista.html Scroll down to update 2 in red and the xp drivers are listed. Vista drivers are listed under update 1.

Nice info ponch, not done it myself for a while but thats useful to know.

Google is your friend for WinPE and BartPE. As for the floppyless I believe its telling the windows xp install that you have no floppy drive in the machine so don't look for sata/raid/ahci drivers on floppy, but I didn't find that on google, I just guessed, wildly. Oh and next time it would be more relevant to create your own thread for a new question, that way things stay on topic.

What tool have you used to produce that list? What other information do you have for us to interpret? Are you having a specific problem with your PC or you just going overkill on the maintenance?

to keep this topic on topic and wrapped up, you might want to either send me a private pm requesting help with the bios & overclocking, or create a new thread in the hardware section asking for help and pm me the link to your new thread. OFF TOPIC: don't do any overclocking without reading some guides or seeking help here first, you need to monitor temperature!!! Glad you got sorted...well it seems you got sorted....maybe post back and confirm no more bluescreens after 48 hours.

Microsoft Mail is limited, I suggest downloading Microsoft Live Mail, it comes bundled with Windows Live Messenger if you need that as well. You wont have any problems with missing contacts or mail filters etc. The interface is nicer and it operates pretty much the same as Outlook Express and Windows Mail. I use it for hotmail and it works flawlessly and thats not using pop3, its the http mail setup. http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

you might want to provide more information. I guess that you mean you want to be able to install windows onto a sata (possibly raid setup) hard drive and not have to put the floppy in for the drivers during windows xp setup. If you, you need nLite. Search the forums for it and how to use it. There's at least 1 thread relating to putting drivers into an xp installation cd.

Not sure whether your problem is windows related or not. Have you overclocked the machine at all? even a little bit? If so tell us full details. Was it CPU multiplier, CPU FSB, RAM:CPU FSB ratio etc etc even ram timings. Two suspects come to mind. One is chipset drivers, including the ones for the IDE controller. Check Gigabyte's website for updated drivers here http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Motherboa...?ProductID=2814 based on the model in your signature, Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H ver 1.1. The second reason is proper bios settings. I say this because you have 8gb ram and 3 hard drives like me. And like me they are attached to a Gigabyte motherboard, although mine is a Q6600 on a P35 chipset, the bios layout is pretty much standard... With your ram, you should have set the correct timings according to the manufacturers specifications and more importantly the correct operating voltage. The standard is 1.8v for DDR2 per JDEC specifications. I would guess that g.skill requires at least 2.0volts based on my OCZ Gold requiring 2.1v and my crucial ballistix requiring 2.2v. Next after setting your ram voltage correctly, you should be looking to up the mchv(northbridge voltage). This might appear under a different name being a amd based board which will most likely use an nVidia chipset these days. I suggest upping the voltage at least +0.1v(possibly appears as +0.100v) because not only do you have 3 drives running from both the SATA and IDE ports you have used all 4 ram slots with 8gb ram. This produces a strain on the chipset (northbridge/mch on intel based systems) and could cause data corruption in either memory or on the storage devices attached to SATA and IDE ports. Get the hardware part right and your operating system usually doesn't cry unless bad drivers are involved. *You may have to press Ctrl+F1 on the main bios screen to access the hidden advanced settings such as memory timings and voltage modifiers* If you cannot boot after modifying the bios, you will need to clear the CMOS by either removing the battery on the motherboard or shorting the CMOS pins as per your manual. Usually the modern Gigabyte motherboards reboot until stable by reducing overclocks or modified ram settings back to defaults to save opening the machine up. Hope this helps.

I would think that this is a task relating to resource hacking where you modify key system dll files to achieve the appearance you desire. Wait for someone more knowledgable to respond.

Have you tried force-feeding the windows vista x64 drivers to windows xp x64? You may need to try extracting the driver files out of a packaged setup.exe or something prior to the following. Go to device manager, click update driver in the properties tab for your device. DONT let it do an automatic search, point it to the directory where the vista x64 drivers are and let it search there. If it doesn't take them, try to do the have disk method. Google it and try it as a last resort. Hope this helps, I don't seem to have been successful in finding x64 drivers either and according to the manufacturers website the drivers are from 2007 which is a while ago. If they can't be bothered with driver updates, who says they were bothered with xp x64 drivers?!

Have you resolved your issue?

if you have a 64 bit install already, then look under the 64bit program files and you will see a folder called Common Files. This also appears under 32bit program files folder. You would have to be able to ensure that nothing in that folder was overwritten by either OS as it contains some required files. Just checking quickly on my own system I have a folder structure underneath both program files and program files (x86) that looks like this Common Files -> microsoft shared -> OFFICE12 Inside the OFFICE12 folder under BOTH program files paths there exists the following files MSOXEV.DLL MSOXMLED.EXE MSOXMLMF.DLL The files sizes are different under both paths indicating unique files between the two structures. I would like to see you bypass that one!!! You could probably allow both the program files and program files (x86) directories to remain but point your installers to the custom structure you create. Again ensure you rename the folders if you plan to install the same program in the same category folder like so program files program files (x86) custom_folder --app1(x86) --app1(x64) --app2(x86) --app3(x86) --app4(x64) This should allow for the common files folders to remain in their respective program files folders AND allow your custom structure. hope this helps until the experts step in.

a quick and easy way to record sound is to get a wire with 3mm jacks on either end and either use windows sound recorder or Audacity to record any output sound. If you can use a microphone you can use this method. Just plug either end of the wire into the speaker hole (green usually) and the other end into either the microphone(pink) or the line-in(blue) hole. I prefer the microphone socket as audacity should be recording from that by default. Also gives you the option to save as mp3 in audacity.

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=33 the have disk method of driver installation is what i suggest and it is explained graphically on the link above, although some of the earlier steps dont apply to you. Just make sure you have extracted the driver files out of the zip and know where they are located. I suggest extracting to c:\lanDrivers and using that on the have disk section.

Or group policy editor's software restrictions. search the forums, there was a post which I and others responded to within the last 2 weeks in this Windows XP section regarding this.

Is the beep constant or is it a single beep or is it multiple beeps? Is it the exact same time that the beep occurs after logging on or is it random? Have you checked your temperatures of your CPU and GPU? I suspect a GPU overheat, but your pc system speaker would alert you to a possible overheating on the CPU if it is set in the bios to set off an alarm after a certain temperature. I assume that you upgraded to a Core2Duo or a Core2Quad. You haven't provided any information about specific hardware you have so it's an assumption. If you have an Intel CPU then download CoreTemp to monitor your temperatures. Anything over 60 and you might have found your problem as most bios alarms dont have options for less than 60 degrees C. If your ram was overheating or under strain from the OC then you would probably find windows would crash rather than make noises. If you have OC'd the cpu in the past too much without adequate cooling or with too high a vCore then you might have permanently damaged the CPU and/or the CPU on-die temperature sensor. For now I would : 1. Check the cpu temperatures 2. Check for spyware and remove anything found 3. Remove all but 1 stick of RAM and make sure you have set the correct vDimm for it as incorrect setting will increase instability 4. Check the bios for temperature alarms, usually under PC health or possibly under an overclocking menu 5. Let us know what graphics card you have so we can suggest temperature monitoring programs (& maybe updated drivers for the card) 6. Check you have supplied adequate power to the graphics card....if it has 2 pci-e power connectors, supply power to them both 7. Make sure you have plugged in the extra power connectors to the motherboard for both the CPU 12v and the pci-e 12v (if the manual states you need to) if you haven't already Provide hardware specs and results from the 7 steps above for more help. Oh and after re-reading your post it's not just a modified windows xp startup sound in the control panel is it?

if you are trying a newer power supply on an older motherboard (example 3yrs old) you might have the same issue I ran into with a customer's machine. I suspected the motherboard was dead as the computer turned on for a second and then shutdown completely. I tested with another power supply(new less than 2 years old) and it wouldn't even turn on for the second it has done. So off I went and ordered a replacement motherboard (socket A) and hooked it up to my new power supply and again it wouldn't even turn on for a second. I went and took an older power supply out of a known working socket A based machine and up it started. I hooked the same power supply up to the original motherboard and that too started and worked fine. The only thing I traced on the net was that there is an optional -5v wire which is white on the 20 pin motherboard connector and some/most older boards require the power supply to have this wire. Most if not all newer power supplies do not have this wire since it is an optional part of the ATX specification. I suggest you check your original and newer power supplies for the white wire and I think you will find the original power supply has the white wire and is dead and the newer power supply doesn't have the white wire and is fine. I also suspect the mobo is fine in the eventuality that you have the optional -5v white wire problem like I did.

There was a program called rockXP 4 which used to retrieve the serial key from a current installation, but I *think* it only told you if you have xp home or pro installed, nothing more detailed, but try it anyway.

1. give each computer a fixed ip address following this link (http://www.hotcomm.com/FAQ/FAQ_staticIPXP.asp#static_assign) 1a. make sure the ip addresses are on the same subnet (usually is not a problem in a home environment on a single router) linksys is usually 192.168.0.x or 192.168.1.x 2. make sure that the windows xp pro machine is set up to use simple file sharing following this link (http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/winxpne...ht/winxpsfs.htm) 3. Share resources such as file/folder/printer/scanner by right clicking and selecting sharing. enable sharing of the resource on the sharing tab that appears and press apply. 4. try accessing the computer from my network places again. If you don't have success connecting in my network places then you need to try accessing via the ip address(es) that you assigned in step 1. The format for accessing a machine by its ip address is \\192.168.0.25 for example. A window should pop up, if the steps were performed correctly, showing shared resources (files/folder/printers/scanners. Things that might prevent the successful sharing are firewalls like norton internet security etc.

I used to do JAVA, so for JAVA visit http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp and download the JDK(Java Development Kit). I should have the runtime bundled with it and you should be able to program from notepad or textpad and compile on the command line. If you want GUI IDE then JDK with NetBeans is the one you want from that link above, and that is a great free way to develop GUIs in JAVA because frankly hand coding a JAVAGUI is a pain in the butt. As for C and C++ on windows your best bet would be Visual Studio, but that can only really be got for free from MSDN-AA (MicroSoft Developers Network - Academic Alliance). Free Microsoft Express integrated development environments can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/express/product/. I don't know for sure but some software developed in Visual Studio might require a developer's license to distribute.

your serial code should be printed on a sticker on the side of the computer which will tell you the version you can use the serial with. If you got your serial from MSDN-AA then go and check your orders and match the serial with whichever version you ordered. Otherwise I suspect you have illegal keys. The other useful thing to check could be http://forums.crackerfest.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1047 (NOT a cracking website, but gaming forums) which shows the PID(last on each line) for each version of windows. The serial keys for different versions of windows will have been generated by slightly different algorithms and the corresponding algorithm used by the xp install cd to verify your key will be selected based upon your PID. This is only my guess on what happens based on this link http://www.petri.co.il/use_oem_version_to_upgrade_xp.htm but using this method could render windows activation a failure meaning you probably wont be able to activate, maybe even not by phone.

My guess is he created a factory image, deploys it to one machine and immediately ghosts it for quicker deployment to multiple machines. So a ghosted factory image makes sense to me.

Being honest, I never got around to trying this and have since had no other thoughts about doing this. I am interested in doing Citrix XenSource XenServer and running a few virtual machines from my main computer and accessing them from my laptop and the other computers in the house. Especially since my dad will be using an early model eeepc which has poor hardware specifications for windows usage really. I figure creating a virtual machine on my computer will yield better results because my hardware is far superior to the eeepc. If I do get around to making the disc as per one of the tutorials jaclaz pointed out I will report back.

Just out of curiosity, you dont happen to have sensitivity buttons on your mouse do you? I have a Logitech G5 gaming mouse and it has two buttons under the mouse wheel to alter sensitivity, which is indicated by 1 of three leds.

just out of interest cluberti, what do you use to read the .dmp files and what do you personally look for when interpreting the .dmp files? EDIT: Do you use http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/deb...installx86.mspx ?? Thanks, MATT