Nakatomi2010

In case anyone was wondering, the cause of this issue was my DVR box from Bright House Networks, the video and audio out connectors are apparently not grounded properly and are throwing interference out, they'll be bringing by a replacement one later, but I figure I'd let anyhone who was wondering know...

So I've got my HTPC connected to my TV in the living room using a Component cable and audio to my Sony receiver through an optical cable.... Problem is that when watching the computer on the TV I get this rolling green and purple bar, I've got no clue as to what's causing this... I've just recently swapped out all the major components including processor, motherboard, and video card, and the issue continues to exist, I've connected the same cables to my set top DVD player and the bars go away.... I have this computer connected to a battery backup system.... Gy at work told me that it's because something's not grounded proeprly, but I've got no clue as to what they could be.... Anyways one here have any thoughts as to what's wrong?

To fix '\windows\system32\config\system' error get Ultimate Boot CD for Windows and run Registry Restore Wizard, essentially this goes into the System Volume Information and grabs that last registry snapshots and allows Windows to boot again, also allows you to do a repair isntall, if need be, typically just restoring from the SVI directory gets the job done... The 'System' file it's complaining about is the basically one of the registry hives, so you need to restore it from the System restore information, which is stored within the SVI directory..... The cause of this error is typically a failing hard drive, so be sure to run a diagnostic on it.... Don't have UBCD4win? Boot into recovery console and change do the following... go to C:\ssystem voume information\snapshots\rsxxx (Where xxx=directory created a couple days before the issue began) do a dir to get a list of files, once the list is there you should see 5 files that end with different names, (SYSTEM, SAM, SOFTWARE, DEFAULT, SECURITY), copy those 5 files to C:\, rename them so they're just SYSTEM, SOFTWARE, SECURITY, SAM, DEFAULT, then copy them back into C:\windows\system32\config Enjoy

So, being a retail employee I've just ordered my Intel Retailedge bundle (Intel D965WH board w/ Core 2 Duo x6300 processor + RTM version Vista Ultimate (When it gets released) for 250 w/Next Day Air shipping and taxes), currently I run XP x64 edition on an Athlon 64 3200+, my intention is to just replace the motherboard and perform a Repair Install of XP x64 like I do on traditional machines that I do motherboard replacements on.... Thing is I'm going to a true 64-bit processor to one which emulates 64-bit, and on top of that I'm currently running a Stripped RAID array between two 80GB SATA drives... Was wondering what the general census is on whether or not this procedure would work.... Under normal circumstances it would be just a simple matter of initiating a repair install, but I'm not sure if I can get away with that this time.... Why am I sticking with XP instead of going to Vista? Because ATi has yet to release their OpenGL drivers... Until that happens I wont be changing to Vista.... Not on my gaming rig anyways... I might on my office machine, just because I can.... So, repair install possible?

Password the Administrator account and bump his account down to limited access... Or install Windows Vista and turn on Parental Controls, worked against my customers at work for our demo....

So, I had to do a clone of someone's computer at work from a failing hard drive to a new one and during the transfer the data got a bit messed up, so I want to do a non-destructive system restore to see if that will repair the issue, problem is that after the clone hitting 'F10' on boot will no longer trigger the HP restore partition, so I want to know if there's a way to trigger it manually... It's basically a Windows Pe environment that should be able to be trigged with a modified boot.ini file, which is what I'm going to try tomorrow, failing that I'll have to call the customer, see if they have a restore disk, and failing that just reinstall from scratch.... I would do a repair install, but it doesn't work...

Ninetendo was not trying to create a gaming beast, they wanted to make something that parents would look at and say "Hey, this looks like some good family fun", which is also WHY the Nintendo Wii IS Wii (We!), the phonetic sound is WE, while the two i's represent their new controllers, and also two people.... There's an article I read somewhere I can't remmeber that went over the whole thing. Nintendo wanted something that would turn on almost immeadiatly, does NOT consume alot of power, does not make alot of noise... Basically, buy it, hook it up, plain AND simple hookup, and not worry about it, they also specifically designed to not take up much space either.... I wish I could remmeber the article, but the HUGE selling point of the Wii is the remote, which while Lucasarts has not confirmed it yet, there most likely WILL be a Star Wars lightsaber game with it, at that point my a** is getting a Wii.....

I would imagine that while Vista was being designed with dual core processors in mind the engineers knew that quad core was not that far down the pipe.... When designing for a multi core system it doesn't matter if your programming it for dual core or quad core, the actual design is going to be able to "sense" the number of cores and take advantage, XP can't truly do this since it was made in a time when two cores on one chip was science fiction, Vista on the other hand was made in a time when Intel said they wanted 32 core by 2012, and so I would assume that the multicore technology in Vista would be adaptive to the number of core in the system. Seems stupid to me that a programmer would go "Nah, why add support for quad core or more when only dual core chips are out", this line of thought is just asking to be called stupid.... When programmers design software they NEED to think about the technology inovations that are out and coming out... Plus it can't be that hard to add native quad core support, I mean your basically telling the OS "Alright, you've got multiple cores, spread the workload around"

That videos gotta be sped up, I've run the setup on my machine which installs XP in an hour flat, and it takes Vista 2 to 3 hours.... Unless build 6000 has really sped up the install process...... Just occured to me it's possible this guy was running a setup either off a hard drive or over a network share......

I'm sure as hell not planning on buying Ultimate, I'll probably buy Home Premium, prmarily for the Media Centerish components... Worst case scenario I have to buy more copies to go around.... **** Gaming, office, media center PC, and laptop.... Much rather be allowed to install a single copy accross the board than buy 4..... Why am I upgrading? I HAVE seen a HUGE boost in performance, and my hope is that by going dual core I'll seea bigger boost since Vista is designed with this in mind.... Need to remmeber here folks, Windows XP was made in a time when Dual Core chips were a theory, and compatibility has been stapled in, same as WiFi (Hence why SP2 was a huge boost for XP WiFi)

What kernel do they use? If they're custom floppy images that don't have standard filesystems (MemTest86+ is an example) then I can see the point, but if they're all DOS utilities or something similar then having a DOS kernel on each floppy image is just a waste of space, not that it really matters... but still, IMHO it's a bit better to have everything "unified" and accessible from one command prompt. While being true, it's also easy to have the floppy images because if you suddenly need to actually make the floppy for some reason, the image is on the CD and readily creatable...

I figured it'd be easier to just use a bunch of floppy images than pack a crap load of files onto a CD and hope it all works... I grasp how to make a multiboot CD pretty well, and just figured thi'd be easier.... My flash drive is one of those thumb drives that has that U3 drive on it, so it thinks there's a 5mb CD drive on it.... Hell, it'll try to boot from it like a CDROM drive even if USB booting is disabled....

So, I'm making a multiboot CD for work in order to resolve my issue with computers not having floppy drives, there are plenty of tools on floppies I use and want to continue using them... So I'm making a multiboot CD for JUST floppy images of various tools that I use on a fairly regular basis, and some that I don't, and then organizing them.... Why not just use the UBCD? Because I like doing somethings myself, if something goes wrong I don't always need someone elses help to fix it... So... I was trying to think of a name to called this CD and I got to thinking about hiw it's a CD full of floppy disk images... I am under the impretion that disk refers to things like a hard disk drive, or a floppy disk, and other things like that, while a disc is related to CDs, hence the C instead of a K... So I wanted to call this CD 'The Floppy Disc' or just plain 'Floppy Disc'... Now, with that name if you were someone else, would that make a little sense? Edit: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302152 Food for thought....

Being that you're using nLite I know your probably a really bright person already, but I'm going to throw this out there just because I do run into this issue several times a month.... I generally recommend leaving System Restore turned on, primarily because in the event of a corrupted registry you can pull the registry snapshots from the System Volume Information directory from either the recovery console, or through a PE and then restore the registry to one from a couple of days ago. The only other option would be to use the registry from within the 'Repair' directory, which is generally the original install settings, forcing you to have to reinstall all of your applications... If you don't mind the risk of not being able to properly recover your system from a potentially catastrophic event go ahead and disable it.... I'm not saying "You're an indiot for removing", I'm simply saying "Hey, here's another thing that's useful about it that some people just don't know about system restore".... I generally just lower the amount of drive space it gets to 8 percent from 12.....

To integrate IS7 into my setups I used nLite 1.2 Final, it allows the direct integration of the actual IE7.exe into the setup... As for WMP11, there's an nLite Add-On made by Boooogey who posts on RyanVM's forums who's made an add-on available which appears to work...

http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?...ws+media+player This is the one people told me works, I'm integrating it now and I'll know better tomorrow since it's almost time for me to go home from work now....

I'm nLiting my XPs and nLite doesn't seemt o be deleting the catalog files in the SVCPACK directory despite the fact that I put a check in the "REmove Catalogs" box under "Advanced..." Did I do something wrong? I'm integrating RyanVM's Update Pack 2.1.3, his DirectX 9 pack, his WGA pack, the IE7.exe and Boooogey's WMP11 add-on.... Are the extra catalogs normal under these circumstances? They didn't used to be there....

Yeam, I just let Automatic updates do the work, let it download all the updates over night, then install them on the next shut down (A feature I love)... A customer computers I only install the updates at AU gets them, can't always spare the time for it....

Link?

So when trying to integrate WMP11 into my setup with nLite it gives me an error complaining that there's no integrate option... On extracting the setup file I've found that there are also several instalers inside, which all appear to be controled by 'Control.xml', which inside has all of the silent installer command and what not, more importantly on 'installername.exe /?' I've found that each of THOSE files ARE capable of being integrated into the setup, sp I was wondering what the procedure would be for integrating those files into the setup CD using nLite? As a side note, by running the installers individually you're bypassing the legit check....

Well, data is data if you can figure out how to get the MBR to boot like CDImage, or whatever bootloader you're using then it's entirely possible....

The /q only works if you're using a legit OS, by integrating it into the setup using nLite it'll install on a machine that hasn't even been activated yet, similar to IE7 does now.... Only thing that upsets me is that I just finished updating 9 versions of XP to include a whole bunch of stuff, now I gotta do it all over again tomorrow to include WMP11... Unless I can run nLite real quick to add only WMP11..... This wont integrate in with nLite since the /integrate option is not there....

Could be your video card, I have a Radeon X700 and BF2 and 2142 work just fine for me, no visual glitches....

When I originally used 1.2RC to integrate IE7 it only worked properly in XP Pro Coproate, I'm assuming that now it has full support all accross the board for the OEM, Retail variants of Home and Pro?

Bare in mind however that I look at things from the stand point of a technician trying to fix computers, so while its all great and dandy that this backup tool will allow us to create backup images of Vista (It really is neat), if a system crashes and you're unable to get into Vista, or the drive is failing and using traditional Windows software to make the image you're always but down to having to use DOS version of Ghost, which is where my comment on how Ghost DOES work, but you need to run that boot repair thing to fix any unexpected problems.... Otherwise, really cool stuff.....