hougtimo

I had a gut feeling it might be like that, again, thanks for the clarification

okie dokie, thanks for the clarification

Well not slow ... but not quick either. My problem is that, when I had my old athlonXP 2000+ on an NF2 chipset, XP took 12 seconds from power switch to desktop. I changed my mobo and cpu, to a VIA chipset, with an athlon64 3200+. now windows XP boots slower, it takes more time on the 8-bit colour splash screen, the bar goes across about 7 times. before it went across 1 and a half. I have tried everything to speed it up, but no luck. It seems my mums machine has the same 'feature' also ... she has an NF4 chipset, with the same CPU as me. I used exactly the same CD's for all 3 XP installs, so I'm thinking it must be because of hardware change. How can I speed it up again? Thanks HougTimo

HI, I would like to remove the native ZIP and CAB support that windows XP offers through explorer.exe. I know I could have done it with nLite, but I thought I needed it, and now I realise that I find IZarc better for that. So basically I just need to remove support. Is it just a case of unregistering zipfldr.dll and then deleting it? or are there other things you have to do? Thanks HougTimo

Hi, I am sure that most of you here will be familiar with this registry tweak: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] "AlwaysUnloadDLL"=dword:00000001 My question is, does it actually speed things up. I have no doubt it does delete all your unwanted DLLs from memory - but are they there for a reason anyway. I have heard some people say this tweak actually slow things down because if those particular DLLs are needed again they have to be re-loaded. What do you all think? Thanks HougTimo

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Nah, your alright lol. I'm an AMD fan anyway (i can often be found ontop of the cpu and heatsink .... JOKE LOL)

hmmm ... sounds like a cards.dll error...

Not in Eastern Europe. B) In the UK, you can't get any 32-bit AMD procs anymore, and no 64-bit INtels

Right it wont go over 2550MHz and stil be stable - but im happy with a 550MHz increase Now I have the cpu core voltage set to 1.55v - is this too high? Will I damage something? The temps are 41'C idle and 52'C underload (which are still both about 10'C under my mum's 64 3200+ which is on stock cooling)

After a couple of days of fiddling, I have had even more success It seems the problem was me having 'cool 'n' quiet' technology enabled - disabled that and I'm ad 2550Mhz, and it looks like its gonna go further I will post my configuration when I have got it to max

yes, i did during setup (textmode)

Yeah. I have downloaded it twice and done two full installs

Same mobo as me although mine is a 3200+ and only 1GB RAM. I tried Server 2003 64 yesterday and it is quite good - much better than xp64

Hi, I decided to try out XP64, so I downloaded the 180day trial from ms. Now i was very dissappointed. Several files could not be copied during the installation process, and once installed it moans about not being able to load the local profile. If that isnt bad enough, all the window borders look distorted with themes enabled, they are very thin. The start menu does not work (when you mouseover 'all programs' nothing happens), its slow, boot up time is literally 3mins (). I thought maybe it was a bad download, so i redownloaded, but the same problem was still there. I use Vista and it's less buggy than this! HougTimo

I have had success!! I put a ratio to the ram, and I have now managed to get it about the 2.4GHz mark I will keep trying to see if it will go any higher!

Hi, I have read of several attempts of overclocking an athlon64 3200+ to speeds of up to 2.6Ghz (original clock speed is 2ghz). I can hardly get 100MHz extra out of mine before it gets unstable and won't log me in to windows. I have very good air cooling, the processor never ever exceeds 20'C, even under full load for a long time. Does anyone know why it isnt oc'ing very far? Thanks HougTimo

sounds like some dll is unregistered or missing to me...

well, u can remove the message, but have the hdd set to boot first then the cd drive second, so when your drives are empty it will bott from the CD, but then after it has written the bootloader to the hard drive it will boot into the hard drive, not the cd

Hi, One of my clients has a little problem with viewing some interactive websites on his computer. He is running Windows 98 (not sure if it first or se) and the browser he is using it BT Browser (which I do belive is IE based) and has BT Broadband. Now the site sometimes works ok, but on other occasions it just freezes. Closing the browser and re-opening it sorts it, but it is silly it doesnt work. Does anybody have any ideas on what thi could be? Could it just be a browser problem and swiching to firefox will sort it? Thanks HougTimo

lol, ok, I just wasnt sure thats all. Also I don't have a manual with it as i boughtt he board off ebay, second hand from a broke up pc - it did specify that the mobo is all in working order. PS - I wouldnt buy a ferrari - i would get an aston martin db9 volante

I have an onld p300 doing that job in my house. not sure exactly what wattage the power supply is, i think its around 120, which if you think about it is about 2 lightbulbs

no, im not as n00by as it sounds right, I have recieved my motherboard, but I want to know whether it is all functioning properly. i have NOT got my cpu yet. can i turn it on and enter the bios etc...? or will i break something?

Unfortunately the games won't sway me - I do not belive running games on a PC is morally right.

Ahh, well if it doesnt support MS VPC, i'll stick with 32 windows then