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Try Windows Updates Downloader, which is at: http://wud.jcarle.com/

IMO, you're lucky to get 10 Mbps with Comcast. VTel, which is in Springfield is supposed to be the fastest! With VTel, I'm taking about 24 Mbps! VTel in the worst case scenario should be at least the same as Comcast for less. The uploads are usually at least 512 kbps. Also, with Comcast, expect the uploads to be capped to 384 kbps, unless you get the expensive package, which is expected to be in the neighborhood of $100 per month! -------------------------------NEWS FLASH------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sad news is that there has been a major slowdown with my VTel DSL connection, lately, at least since October, it has been pokey Joe, at only 1.0 Mbps to 1.5 Mbps for the download and around 384 kbps for the upload and sometimes not more than 200 kbps! I tried to get my ADSL modem replaced and I already gotten another Ethernet cable.

Dial-up! That isn't the right reading then! You're supposed to max out at 56 kbps and then the typical is 40 kbps to 45 kbps! Also, with POTS, the upload reading probably will always be wrong, for me, it usually reported at least around 200 kbps! But, the days of POTS are over for me, back in May, I gotten ADSL.

Yesterday, I confirmed the Windows ME Internet Explorer taking people to the Internet Explorer 7 page!

Likely a bad HDD. RAM usually would be a STOP: 0x00000050 PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA BSOD or it refuses to copy a random file.

I dunno if you have anything bad installed. But that seems to be a symptom of that.

That isn't a BSOD at all. It's just Windows not loading more of the desktop, not common with Windows 2000 and Windows XP, except for a PC loaded with junkware.

It sounds normal to me. I dunno, because unlike most modems with dial-up, ethernet shouldn't rely on processor core speed. I never have been told that it does. Otherwise, shouldn't it be called a software card then?

Probably a bad IDE cable or IDE cable connection!

I had a similar problem, but I didn't see any message at all. It was done in an unusually short time. Then after I rebooted, dxdiag still showed an earlier version!

Yep, I'm afraid.

LOL that reminds me of getting a BSOD with Windows 98 SE or Windows ME when my external serial 56k modem was turned on when loading Windows, back before I gotten ADSL.

Can Prime95 pass?

You probably gotten malware or a virus changed it.

Based on what? A 32 byte ping packet? Run continuous pings (at your external default gateway) with a unfragmented packets around 1024 bytes in size, and I bet you'll start dropping them. ping -f -t -l 1024 [target] I've run into this before, if there is an issue in a neighborhood, or at the CO, the ISP won't fix it until enough people scream, or one person nails Tech Support to the wall by pinning them in a corner. No packet loss when doing around 200 packets. I manually stopped it with Control-C at around 200 packets.

A shutdown. That's usually because of the processor overheating. Modern motherboards have a feature that cuts the power out if the processor core temperature is past a certain point. (Usually at least around 170 F)

I never saw this "silently quit" problem with Windows 9x, unless it's a game that runs in full screen mode, DirectX games are notorious for this, no error message to tell what went wrong! The "silently quit" problem usually is seen under Windows 2000 and Windows XP only, apparently, Windows 2000 and Window XP sometimes terminates the application without an error message. Apparently, it's because of a DrWatson bug in Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

If you have used that CD before and it was fine, then it's probably because the CD drive is bad, the CD is damaged or the CD is dirty.

Heard that you should run it for 24 hours or 12 hours.

Well over 500mb? It's a looot more Is it more than what CDs max out at?

Actually, it makes a huge difference when you're running heavy applications, like 3D games. Maybe if all you did was run win9x and check mails and play older games it wouldn't have made any difference, but for me it's a world of a difference. I am at present on an AMD K6-2 400 (@450 Mhz). I was using a PIII-450 (512 MB RAM) all these years and let me tell you, there's absolutely no comparasion between the processors. The P3 was so good that I never really felt the need to upgrade. I feel that I could have continued even till 2009.. All programs ran well on my XP-SP2, I was even able to play games like Quake 3 and GTA Vice City without any lag. I could run virtual machines with XP in them, run multiple sandboxed environments, browse in Opera with around 80 tabs open, program in .Net, design in photoshop, edit movies.. everything. And then it was no more. After its demise, I switched over to this AMD, with 576 MB RAM. And let me tell you, its absolutely nothing like the P3. Everything is way slower, and even having more RAM than I did earlier makes no difference. It's not surprising though, the numbers speak for itself. While K6-2 has no L2 Cache, the P-III (katmai core) has 512kB L2! Also, the L1 cache controller was way better than what was present in the PII. Infact, the cache in the katmai was so good that, provided you had the right hardware, it could be overclocked to 600Mhz! Even though my AMD motherboard is finely tunable with small stepping VCore, Multiplier and FSB jumpers, my PIII (which was only overclockable thru the BIOS) was able to handle upto a 150 MHz increase with ease. Although it wasn't that stable, a 100Mhz oc was sufficiently stable. The K6-2 on the other hand can just about handle a 50Mhz increase. Anything above that is unstable and would require a high VCore that would be potentially damaging to the CPU, not to mention you'd be needing a very good cooling system. The PIII didn't require any extra cooling even though it was running at 100Mhz+. The Athlon T-birds were good, IMO. It seemed that back when that was the only one I had, the 900 mhz one seemed good enough that I would had still still be using it into 2009! There was only one game that was way too slow. BTW, I had bad luck with K6-2s also, I had a K6-2 450 mhz and when just OC'ed to 500 mhz, it freezed all the time when gaming!

Is the PC an HP? If it is, camera drivers are known to cause a BSOD and reboot! It seems that at least with the Creative PC Cam 300 drivers, it's having a problem with something in Windows XP Home Edition on HP Pavilion PCs. That problem may be affecting other camera drivers!

5 GB in 1995?! That's rare! You're lucky to get 2 GB in 1995! 5 GB usually wasn't available until at least 1998 or later 1997.

A likely cause is malware. Have you scanned for malware?

You could try http://members.aol.com/rloew1/Programs/Patchm.htm to identify if it is your 2gb ram that is the issue It may be bad hardware, especially the RAM or processor, but how do we know, unless you install Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista. If you can complete the installation process of those, the hardware probably is fine.