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  1. Wish I could be of some help, but these problems are new to me as well. I've yet to find a solution to my problem or yours. It seems several models of Asus boards are faulty right out of the box and all of those are probably made in China, rather than Taiwan. I know the entire P5K line is Chinese made. My RMA'd board is still en route back to the store, so it's going to be awhile yet before I get anything back, what with the holidays slowing things down. If the new one has the same problem, I'll send it back for a full refund and avoid the P35 chipset from now on. I'd suggest you do the same. I've also read that the Marvell Sata Raid controllers that Asus is using on non-raid boards, like the P5K-SE, has been rigged to not support raid. I haven't been able to confirm this though, but I wouldn't doubt it. Even though the ICH9 southbridge doesn't support raid, hacking the controller has got to cause some sort of problem, if it's true. BTW, can you put your ram in another pc and see if it works? The only thing I found in relation to your problem had to do with a cracked chip on the ram. I seriously doubt your ram is bad, seeing as it's Crucial Ballistix, but you never know what the package had to go through before it got to you.
  2. The entire P5K product line is plagued with a similar problem, as well as other Asus boards and some from other brands as well. The STOP error is usually 0x0000007B, meaning 32bit XP can't see the hard drive no matter what you do. The bsod always comes up right after the copying files part of the install. X64 however will install just fine to a pata drive, but I didn't bother trying it on my sata as I was ready to commit murder after 2 days of fighting with it and I really don't want X64 anyway. I just ran into this problem with a P5K-SE, which I've just gotten an RMA on. I don't know if the problem is inherent to the P35 chipset or to various sata controllers or what, but it's serious and widespread.
  3. Like many people, I use RyanVM's update packs and I don't use Vista for anything, so I don't need LLTD. I was wondering if there's a way to tell windows setup via winnt.sif to not install LLTD, even though it's slipstreamed into my XP cd. Or maybe a way to tell setup to uninstall it. A vbs script might be nice, but I don't have a clue how to uninstall a networking component with vbs, if it's even possible. My vbs experience is limited to tweaking my start menu and quicklaunch. I'd prefer not to have to use an AutoIt script, as that's just plain sloppy. I know I could probably remove LLTD from the update pack, but I'd like to have it for future use. Searching the web and using this forum's own search feature has produced nothing useful.
  4. Shortcuts can't be created with batch files. Try VBS instead. It's simple, fast and it works.
  5. You shouldn't have several files to install as Creative put it all in one file months ago, which means you don't have the latest driver. To insure you get the correct drivers for your Audigy, the first thing to do is either look on the card itself for an SBxxxx number and write that down. OR if you don't want to bother pulling the card out just for that, any number of system info apps, like Everest, Sisosft Sandra, or Belarc Advisor should be able to tell you. I know Everest will show you, since that's how I found mine, which is SB0092, just to give you an example. Once you have the SBxxxx number, then go here: http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/ and in the box below the 3 main ones, where it says "Search by File Name or Model Number", enter your SBxxxx number. You will then see a page full of direct download links, with the latest driver on top. That's the one you want.
  6. Thank you very much. EDIT: Still won't boot, but VMWare isn't giving any errors either, it just sits there with a black screen. BTW, what's -m do? It's not listed in the commands when I type oscdimg /? lol nevermind, I removed -m and just got a nice little error telling me what it's for. Still doesn't boot though, even after 5 tries. Any ideas? I'm using oscdimg.exe v2.45 and etfsboot.com from the XP SP2 OPK. Maybe it's the wrong version? FINAL EDIT: Turns out I had to use xcopy to make sure I was copying everything to my hd. Also, I used etfsboot.com from the Vista disc, since it's 2 years newer. Boots fine now.
  7. I've been fighting with RC2 and CDImage GUI Beta 3, trying to make a bootable .iso, but every time I try to boot the image in VMWare, it says NTLDR is missing. Does anyone know the correct settings to use in CDImage? Searching the Vista threads here has proven useless, as has google. I'm thinking that I just need a Vista boot sector file, rather than the XP boot sector file that comes with CDImage. Or maybe I'm using the wrong tool?
  8. I use PC-Cillin IS 2006, but I'm going to setup a Smoothwall box if I can find a new socket 370 mobo for my old pc. I'm also behind a Linksys router. I've tried at least a dozen different firewall apps, and none offer the control of PC-Cillin.
  9. Yeah that does seem to be the case, however there will always be people out there who will find ways around it. http://informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193104692 If that's all that gets disabled when you don't activate, then I really don't see a problem. I don't use IE or WMP, or any MS internet security software or firewalls, and don't care about their fancy resource hog of a user interface Aero.
  10. This article says different. http://www.vistatechnician.com/windows-vista-business-edition/ And here as well for the Ultimate edition: http://www.vistatechnician.com/windows-vista-ultimate-edition/
  11. All these draconian measures will do is force more and more people to pirate corporate copies to avoid the activation BS, just like with XP, so basically, nothing has changed.
  12. Thank you very much, Delprat. It may be badly coded but it works great. It's also the best explanation I've seen yet.
  13. I've written an AutoIt script to make Nero portable. It works great, except for one problem. I need to have the script (compiled of course) pass a single parameter (/w) to the Nero executable via shortcut. This will allow me to select Nero Express without having to go through Nero's main interface, or if I use a shortcut for Nero.exe, it loads the main interface. I've spent literally hours searching the AutoIt forum and help file, google and here without results. There is not one clear explanation of how to pass a parameter easily. Here's the line that runs Nero. RunWait(@ScriptDir & "\Nero\Nero.exe") It should be as simple as adding $1 or %1 like this (like every other language on the planet): RunWait(@ScriptDir & "\Nero\Nero.exe" & $1) But of course that doesn't work. The genius that wrote AutoIt removed that nice feature from the latest version. I don't understand $CmdLine at all. It makes no sense.
  14. I tried allowing the 4 Trend Micro services to logon to a user account with admin access, but the app just wouldn't run right, so I had to revert to default settings. When I get a chance next, I'll try your first solution, but I'm not sure it will work either. I was told just today that task manager won't run unless a user is logged on, so I'm back where I started. I'll give it a a shot though. Thanks for replying, allen2. At the very least, I learned how to make services logon differently. Just goes to show that no matter how much a person knows about Windows, he has just as much to learn still.
  15. Here's the problem. I recently discovered PC-Cillin Internet Security 2006 will not run a scheduled virus scan unless someone is logged on, since PC-Cillin does not use the XP task scheduler. PC-Cillin 2005 didn't have this problem. I need to know how, if it's even possible, to set a scheduled logon of a specific XP Pro user account to allow PC-Cillin to do it's scan each week. TrendMicro has been completely useless and so has Google, and I've searched this site heavily. I tried a command line tool called Logon.exe that google found, but the task scheduler wouldn't even run it. On a side note, if I can ever get Smoothwall working, I can dump PC-Cillin and go with some freeware AV app and this problem should then be eliminated entirely. Title edited -- Please, use [TAGS] in your topic's title. --Sonic
  16. Using 2 nics with 2 different isps should work fine as long as you disable the nic you aren't using in network connections. This should force windows to avoid any conflict. I haven't tried 2 isps before, but I have set up 2 nics in one pc on a friend's pc (he's too cheap to spring for a router), 1 for internet and 1 for internet connection sharing and it worked great.
  17. C'Lock is garbage. It's installer tells you how to defeat it. Simply get into the bios and change the boot devices and boot from cd. And the bios password is so easy to defeat.
  18. Are you on crack? I've had a dozen or so computers in the last 24 years and worked on hundreds of others. None have had a battery that large. Most systems from the 80's had a lithium battery about 3/4 inch diameter and a bit longer with a (usually)blue plastic heatshrink over it, and soldered to the motherboard. Sometimes they did leak but that was most likely caused by power surges since surge protectors for home use weren't in mainstream use yet. Some boards even had 2 pins next to the battery and came with a battery holder for 4 AA batteries so when the onboard battery finally failed, you could plug in the holder and keep the settings in the bios. I can't say what sort of bios battery laptops have, since I've never owned one. Modern mobos use a user-replaceable standard watch battery, a CR2032 to be exact.
  19. Is there any way to backup and restore the firewall permissions? I'm not trying to do anything related to unattended here, just sick of having to manually config the firewall every time I set up a system. Trend Micro's site is useless as is their tech support. Google has also been useless on this.
  20. I can't make heads or tails of all the garbage in Regmon. What am I looking for?
  21. Since when did OEM licenses only come in 3 packs? I bought my Xp Home OEM online from Eagle Computer in 2002. And it wasn't a 3-pack, but I did have to buy an internal pc part off their list, which wasn't a big deal cause I had intended on getting a 3.5 floppy drive anyway.
  22. I have the same start menu problem. Can't explore or open submenus, but they both work fine on the start menu root. I don't use nlite or Ryanvm's update packs, wholockme, and no windows components are removed from my unattended. I haven't even manually reduced the size. Programs Files and Documents and Settings folders are in the default places. Drag and Drop is not disabled. I'm using Xp Pro with sp1 and a handful of hotfixes installed via svcpack.inf, with a hacked uxtheme.dll, and custom logon screen. DirectX 9.0c, Ryanvm's dotnet2.0 silent installer (which I finally got to work after I found out you need windows installer 3.1 installed first), TaskSwitch powertoy, and SunJava all install via RunOnceEx. This start menu thing seems to be just another random bug in windows. I've used my UA on several systems, and sometimes the problem is there, sometimes it isn't. But ONLY with a UA cd.
  23. Nice tool Yzöwl. Thanks. It doesn't handle folders with a space in the name though.
  24. This app cannot be made to install silently, unless there's a way to access and edit whatever tells the installer how to install. Look here: http://www.appdeploy.com/tips/detail.asp?id=13
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