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You know, it's been said time and time again, by myself, by Jito463 and by others that a Live Meeting is nothing like actually having a copy of the program in our hands to play around with. Programs can be elaborately scripted to appear and act like anything you want when you're not in control. I, and many others, will not believe any of this, with or without attending Live Meetings, without having a hard copy of the program in our hands to put through the trials and test in person. That's all it comes down to, simply.

While the computer is booting up (during the SONY logo), keep hitting DEL. If that doesn't work, try F1, F2 or F10.

You should not delete that user, that user is created for the framework to work properly.

Try starting your computer without your 160GB connected to see if that fixes your PIO issue, if so, then you have your answer.

I guess there isn't any system admins in this forum that ever purchases VLKs from Microsoft?

Check your heatsink to make sure this doesn't happen again. Maybe your heatsink isn't cooling enough, isn't seated properly or is missing thermal paste. AMDs need special attention to cooling. If it gets too hot, forget it.

Honestly, sounds like a manufacturer's deficiency. You may very well have the same problem with a laptop cooler anyway. I'd suggest that you sell that laptop on eBay and buy yourself a used Dell instead. I've personally owned a Dell Latitude C600 (PIII-1GHz), my girlfriend owns a Dell Inspiron 9300 (P4-2.4GHz) and her mother owns a Dell Inspiron 2200 (P4-?GHz). I've sold quite a few Dell laptops to clients as well. Never had any problems with them. The biggest problem I ever had was a touch pad that was worn out which I replaced with an new original one for $60 CAD. There's a lot of Dells on eBay and if you shop carefully (or I can shop for you), you can pick up a P4 based Inspiron for less then $600 CAD. There's also a whack loads of accessories and parts for them for cheap on eBay.

Actually you can. But it would be a lot of work. You'd need to boot your computer with a boot disk, run a batch file in Autoexec.bat of the boot disk to check for those things you're looking for above, then manually start the installion of XP and loading the unattended instructions file by command-line switches.

Guys guys guys! You're overanalyzing and overcomplicating all of this... @hakeem5454: When you installed the new hard drive, your BIOS recognised that the system's hardware configuration has changed and beeped to let you know that. It still keeps doing that after you took out the hard drive you added because by removing the hard drive you changed the system configuration again. What you don't see is that because you have the giant SONY logo shown, you're not seeing the system's messages. There is a system message that will go with that beep saying that the hardware configuration has changed and to press a certain key to accept the changes. All you have to do to stop this beeping from occuring is to go into your BIOS and accept the changes to your hardware configuration. Just going into your BIOS and exiting right away while saving changes is sufficient to accept the change in hardware.

Because I'd like to have all the flexibility that a VLK version of XP offers but legally. Basically, I'd like to legally own a copy of XP Pro that I can install as I see fit without that stupid activation requirement. All I'm wondering is how much that would cost me...

I'd recommend the following (some of it was already suggested above, but you know...): Put your hard drives on one cable on the primary IDE channel, and your optical drives on another cable on the secondary IDE channel. Make sure that both of your cables are 80-wire cables. Update your motherboard's BIOS to the latest version and update your optical drive's BIOS to the latest version. Make sure that your BIOS is set to Auto and that UDMA is enabled. Make sure that you have the latest chipset and IDE drivers for your motherboard installed.

Very possible. Every motherboard has different overclocking methods and each give you different methods to do so. ASUS has some very good overclocking boards.

If you didn't build it, then you don't know what "surprise" you bought. Building it yourself is the way to go.

Does anyone know what it would cost for a legit VLK license of XP Professional for one seat?

You may want to read this discussion on the issue.

Memory in computers is accessed in what is called banks. Each motherboard has different configuration on how to access those banks. Some motherboards will access one bank per slot of memory, while some will access two banks per slot of memory. If you have single-sided memory, it's a single bank, while double-sided memory is two banks. So if you put a double sided stick of memory into a single banked slot, only half of the memory will be accessed. Meanwhile, if you put a single sided stick of memory into a two banked slot, one of the memory banks will be left unused. Dual channel works on accessing two BANKS of memory simultaneously, not necessarily two sticks. Which could explain the odd configuration of your motherboard. It's best to read thoroughly the recommended memory configuration for you motherboard in the manual and then look up the part number of your memory online to verify exactly what kind of ram you have (Speed, Number of Banks, Timings and Size).

You know I find it very interesting, rhythmnsmoke, that after all the energy that you put into trying to convince everyone that your product is the holy grail, you're so resentful to want to discuss pricing and licensing in the public forum. And the fact that you REQUIRE so much details information just to be able to establish a licensing scheme makes me ever more doubtful of the legitimacy of your product. I think system administrators are apt enough to evaluate their own needs and their own purchase decisions, no matter how ground breaking and unique your technology is supposed to be. And by the way, I'm sure that if I took the time to dig through all 30 pages of this thread, I'd find so many contradictions, so many holes in your story and so many changes along the way that it would be an open and close case of bul*****.

What in the world for? Why would you want to change the icon within the file?

Or maybe we can do like windows. And have the user authenticate their registration to be able to get into the forum by having them force-search before posting.

@Zxian: There's much more then Sockets to take into consideration when matching a CPU to a board. There's the FSB, the core generation and the processor features to take into account. A simple example are the new dual-cored Pentium 4s (Pentium D). Those are LGA 775 processors but will only work with Intel's new chipsets, namely the 945P, 945G, and 955X chipsets. @computerMan: Cache is fast memory that stores often used information so that the processor doesn't have to spend time waiting for the rest of the computer to get the information for it. There are three levels of cache. L1, L2 and L3. L1 is the fastest and the smallest (usually 8KB). L2 is much larger, between 256KB to 2MB. L1 and L2 cache in modern processors is always on-die. On-die means it's part of the actual processor. L3 cache, if any, is usually on the motherboard and somewhere between the processor and the main system memory.

Yes, it's the same thing. Never heard of Socket T, though LGA 775 is the correct socket type for this processor. And on-die cache is memory built-into the processor.

Sounds like your power supply may have dumped itself out (blew up).

Someone care to explain to me what the hell Windows XP: Media Center Edition is all about? I have no real understanding of what the hell it is (mostly because I haven't actually tried it myself). Is it just a stripped down version of Windows XP Home with a fancier interface? or?

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On the same page as the computer name, you have the admin password. And I believe that may be your problem. If you specify EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes, then AdminPassword cannot contain a plain text password. To use an encrypted password you must use Setup Manager. If you wish to specify a plain text password, you must specify EncryptedAdminPassword=No.