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Does anyone know of a way around the fact that the portege 3505 cannot boot from usb cdrom or flash drive? I don't have any pcmcia cdroms which seems to be the only thing that will work. I do have an adapter to hook a notebook harddrive to my computer; is there a way to partition the drive and put the windows installation disk on the drive so that when I put it back in I can install windows to the other partition? Or if anyone else has any ideas it'd be much appreciated.

Would that get past the sony driver installation checking and saying they won't work for this system? It checks to see if the computer has it (which it does) but it says it doesn't.

But the thing is the only good drivers are in the sony driver packs and it doesn't even recognize that it needs them and exits the install.

I'm not sure if this is the right forum but I've been having a problem with my sony laptop. I installed the omega ati driver and when i start it up it shows the windows xp progress bar and then it goes blank until it pops up with the blue error page saying 'driver caught in infinite loop.' I haven't been able to install the original sony drivers because i reinstalled with a version of xp i had; something about the sony drivers checking something before they allow install. So if anyone knows what I can do about this, it would be much appreciated.

Is there anyway to block all sites except those specified by a file, like through dns or something on windows xp?

I've used Windows 2000, Xp Home, and the trial of Server 2003. My mp3s sometimes just stop playing and I can go to another song and it plays... but they keep hanging up. I've used the sound card in my mother board and an Emu 1820m but both do the same thing. I can play movies all the way through without them messing up. But I use my pc as a recording studio of sorts and this just messes things up. I use foobar2000 for mp3s and media player classic for movies. Does anyone else have this problem? I just need to figure out how to fix it.

Has anyone here tried replacing the color icons with say monotone icons to see if that lessens the memory usage or increases the speed?