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There is one thing that came to mind about MyPal 68 and that was it's SSE2. But after checking the specs, the Intel Pentium D Dual Core, which is in my system, is not only SSE2 but also SSE1, SSE3 and MMX compatible so that's not it. ????

Thanks for that info. So there is a reason why there is such a lag before Windows is fully functional. I'll try your suggestion.

Been trying to get MyPal going but I keep getting a MyPal can't continue error in kernel32. This in on XP SP3. It does create the folders "mypal" in both My Documents and Settings\Application Data and in Local Settings\Application Data under my account but then blows up. What's wrong?

@N It's the RealTek installation disc that comes with the adapter. @B Maybe that's it. Using Windows to install the driver get's me the "Available Wireless Networks" screen but when I click on my network and click the connect button nothing happens, it doesn't connect. But I did notice the button on the bottom of that window for Wireless Zero Configuration but didn't know what that meant so I didn't click it. Is that what I'm supposed to do? . When I use the RealTek install disc everything works but I get that long lag before Windows is fully functional. Maybe I just have to live with that?

Anybody else have the problem of installing a usb wi-fi adapter in XP? After the install, with the RealTek software, the BIOS screen locks up on boot and restart. I have to remove it from the usb port to get past that. And when windows starts up there is about a 2 minute delay before Windows is functional. I'm running XP SP3. Have tried letting Windows install it without the RealTek software and it does install it but something is missing as I cannot connect to the server. Have tried 3 different usb wi-fi adapters but the results are the same. Anyone know what's going on?

Thanks. I downloaded 2 of the above but have a feeling they are ones I've already tried. But we'll see.

Every time I try to install .net Framework 1.1 I get the following error message. Are there some prerequesites that are neccessary that I don't have installed? This is on XP Pro SP3. Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.Vsa.Vb.CodeDOMProcessor,Version="7.0.5000.0",PublicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a",Culture="neutral",FileVersion="7.10.3052.4"'. Please refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT: 0x8002802F. assembly interface: , function: CreateAssemblyNameObject, component: {7D4B5591-4C80-42BB-B0E5-F2C0CEE02C1A} === Logging stopped: 6/18/2025 16:25:31 ===

Does anyone know where I can get this download as an offline install? All I'm finding are IEXpress setups which I've tried and they don't work because they want to go to MS website to complete and that webpage doesn't exist anymore. Would like to install it on ME and XP and XP Media Center. Thanks.

Just simply turned the computer on and the 2 drives connected to a RAID controller card started clicking. Turned the computer off immediately. Know that sound isn't good. They are both WD300BB-75DEA0. The one I don't care about. The other I do. It's got 10 years of programming on it. A complete auto dealership management system. Found another place that may have a solution. They have equipment that can retrieve information off of even a severely damaged drive. I have to contact them for details.

Thanks. Don't know if you know who Gillware is but they are a data recovery service that has a burnishing machine. The problem they said that prevented them from attempting recovery was that the platten had pieces of the magnetic coating chipped off. So even if they burnished it, it would still have places that would have little (nano) craters. That's why I was asking where the hard drive parks the head. If its at the hub, then it would probably sweep across the disk to the outer edge and would probably catch on one of those craters and make things worse. One idea I had would be to spray coat the whole disk with something that could then be burnished off leaving the craters filled even with the original magnetic coating. Similar to what car paint specialists do to repair chips in your cars paint.

Anybody ever swap plattens between drives with any success? I have a hard drive that went bad but need to get something off it. Have already tried 2 recovery places, including Gillware, but they said the damage to the platten is too bad. There are pieces of the magnetic coating missing. I would like to try one more thing before I give up on it. I would like to transfer the platten to a good drive of the same model and move the bad drives board over to the good drive too. What I'm trying to retrieve is right at the beginning of the data area which is at the outer edge of the platten. I do have software that will position the head to wherever you want it. I will have to look at the platten first to be sure the damage is not at the beginning of the data area. If it is then there's no point going any further. Also, when a non operating system hard drive powers up. where does the head land? I ask this because if it sweeps back and forth over the platten it's going to hit one of those chips and crash anyway. I know this is a long shot but it's that important. Thanks.

How often does this happen? For me, 2 times in the past 20 years.

Sorry I missed your reply. I guess you saw what I saw too. I could cut the arms with a diagonal (while protecting the platen to get it out safely) but what could I do about putting it in the donor drive. It has to be the same model drive and it would be the same situation. However, even though we don't see it, there has to be a way to remove them. They were put in at the factory and must be able to be removed(somehow). I'll bet that's why it came back to me 2 days later. They couldn't figure out how to remove them either.

"In some ways, COBOL is still a "Hot" language." That system I created was totally written in COBOL. I really like that language because it is so easy to get things done. Something that might take 25 lines of "C" to accomplish can be done in COBOL with only 2 or 3 lines of code. On the backside of that, "C" can give you control down to the system level whereas COBOL can't. It's an application program language which was specifically created for business but can do more than just that. "my mother worked for "Cray Research" Now there's a computer! It runs so fast it has to be cooled by liquid nitrogen. Only have ever seen a picture of it. I'm told there's one in southern Illinois at SIU. One of my favorite things to do on the S390 was to go into the SDSF facility (System Display and Search Facility) and watch other peoples programs blow-up. You could also see the execution time for programs. Most ran in about .03 seconds. Talk about fast. TSO and ISPF were 2 other facilities availble for use. "So did my cousin. I had the Tandy Color Computer II. We both got them as hand-me-downs. They were beyond their expiration date, at that time. I never actually learned the included Basic. I just copied text, from old magazines." Was one of those mags "Compute"? I did the same thing too but also wrote some of my own. "If it was IDE, I'm not sure they even plugged it in." It was. I have taken a few apart over the years. Ones that were just junk so it didn't matter what happened. I did open that one up too, but I couldn't see how to remove the read/write arms without dragging them across the platens which would have caused further problems. I do have the tools though. I have read where each hard drive is calibrated at the factory and you just can't swap the platens from a bad drive to a good drive without swapping the circuit board too. The calibration is set on the chip that's on that board and no 2 are the same. That link you provided was interesting. I had a program I found on the web that let you emulate the mainframe MVS environment on a PC, but my computer didn't meet the minimum requirements. QWS3270 is a program that I do have on my system. It turns the PC into an IBM3270 terminal so that you can communicate with the mainframe. You should be able to find it out there as a free download if you're interested. Should we take this conversation private? We're getting off-topic but I do enjoy it.

"Thanks, for sharing some of your history. I enjoyed it." Glad you did. All the languages I mentioned above I have programmed in. Here's a little more history. The ML/Binary and Assembly were on an IBM 360, The RPG was on an IBM 370 System3 and the COBOL/JCL/DB2/CICS was on an IBM S390. Programming on a mainframe is awesomely cool. They are just so fast. And it's nice to program in an environment that is bullet-proof bug-wise. I have also programmed in Basic and COBOL on the PC. For my 1st computer (the little TI99 4/A) I also have C, Forth, Pascal and a couple others I don't remember right now. I've never used them though.....yet! One day I'll get around to it. The early backup of that system I was working on that I lost will have to be run thru the compiler again to see where I left off. It's a good thing though that I kept all my notes and the sample forms. If I get back to it they should help me get back up to speed but I doubt I can completely put it back to where I had it. There was so much and I had it completely de-bugged. And I have never really let it go....it still bugs me. Just less than it did at first. I do have the drive that it was on still. 2 years ago I brought it over to Best Buy to have them retrieve whatever was on it that could be saved but they returned it to me 2 days later saying there was nothing. I really never believed that. There must be something on there that can be saved. At least I would like to take a look myself and verify that.