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along with uninstalling, if you deleted a bunch of files from my documents and such, try emptying the recycle bin, i had about 4 gigs of lost space from that one time.

try to killbox it. from the program files directory. either a standard kill or a boot time kill should work. if that doesn't work, i don't know what to say. you could also try norton killer, thats easy. and after all that, get Avast. its better.

copy the firmware that should on the micro onto your hard drive, then uninstall the micro. as long as that works, you can then connect it, and the micro should show up as a removeable device or something like that, then you can put the firmware back on. if that doesn't work then i don't know what to tell you. its tricky business getting firmware back on.

i'll test something i have over the next few days, and get back to people on this...i see where everyone is coming from, and all the stuff about it. i wanted to avoid having a PCI IDE controller, the one i have now has serious issues, i wanted to avoid that again. if i can get my PCI ATA/66 controller working, if it still works for installation i'll see what i can conjure up. left or right, i'll be getting the IDE to USB cables for data recovery [theres an extremely old computer that i need to take a look at in my room, and also the power adapters might be handy, i'm also getting a USB2.0 PCI card, because i'll need it, especially if i use the computer as my main. we'll see how it all works. i had the idea because in theory it should have no problems when it comes to accessing/using the drives. [no agression intended]

i'm compiling it by source, because thats well...how i have it really. either way its good to know. but thanks for the video, i saw theirs on dual booting, when i get sound working i'll watch it.

no fan of double posting, but i found the answer to it, and i want to share it with people, because it wasn't something i thought of. "> I have the Mesa-3.2.tar.gz. I unpacked it into the /root folder. "Directory." Aside: generaly, you should build and put stuff like this under /usr/local, not /root. > Inevitably I do the "./configure" in the correct folder, and it runs thru a > bunch of items, answering yes and no (mostly yes) then I type "make" and get > the reply "bash: make: command not found" > > What's up? Either "make" isn't in your PATH or it isn't installed. > Am I missing something in my YDL installation? Possibly: rpm -qa | grep make If you get nothing in response, then "make" isn't installed." to install "make" you need to hop into your synaptic package manager, and search for it. then you won't have any troubles doing it. when i upgraded from 5.10 to 6.06, make was uninstalled, and i never knew. thats for any new users [like me] who need a boost

well, in a nutshell, i'm trying to install a program called Ardour, which is an audio mixer/recording program, similar to adobe audition. to install it, you need to use SCons, and it also needs a few other programs to work, i got one of the 5 to work, now it keeps telling me that the command 'make' doesn't work. i've read even some idiots guides to it, and have gotten a little further from stuff i learned in the past...linux would be easiest if it had executeable files, but i guess source has its good points too.

ok, so i'm pretty new to installing things on linux, but i've followed a lot of instructions for it, but after the './configure' command, when it finishes, and it did successfully, i'm supposed to type 'make' or 'make && make install' but in the command line is says "bash: make: command not found" what can i do now? in the install directions it says that all you need to do is extract it, mount it, ./configure it, then make, then install.

yes, i understand what you're saying, but if the drives are going through USB, they'll be recognized as external, and i'd even be able to unplug them if i wanted at any time. the big thing about going PATA is that its 33mb/s. even though i may go with linux for it, i don't want it to be that slow. if i get USB2.0 for it, i'll be rockin' out with 480mb/s. thats a significant jump. also, i want to reserve the PATA connectors on the motherboard for optical drives, not waste them on HDDs that may force me into an endless reboot cycle because they're all formatted NTFS except the ones that don't work etc. its not that i'm trying to make it complicated, its that i'm trying to completely resolve a few issues before they start. also, i dont want a PCI IDE/PATA controller because i don't want cables stretching all around the case. its a SUPER S2DGU, with 2 intel PII Xeon processors, they aren't the smallest processors to hit the face of the earth. i plan on having 3 optical drives, 1 SCSI drive and 2 PATA drives. 3 optical drives will max out the PATA connectors giving me room for one slave drive if i wanted. i'm not trying to bash anyone or say they're wrong, but for my usage, PATA isn't the best of ideas with this board for HDD's. i use Adobe Audition for music editing, luckily i have an 80GB PATA at the moment. my /temp folder is about 46GB, and thats reserved for adobe auditions editing. the larger the temp folder, the longer the program can go before crashing. i've run on as little as 4 GB /temp folder, and gotten 15 minutes of recording, then it crashes. i'll use a 9GB SCSI drive to boot off of, that solves the 33mb/s issue, as it'll be 80mb/s. if i use USB for the other HDDs, one will be a 40gb, specifically for the /temp folder, and the 80GB i'm running now, for saving music onto. having the faster drives will help me because it'll take some off the processor. its not hard to realize that 33mb/s is extremely bottlenecked for an OS, and if you're recording something, you don't want a slow access time to your /temp folder, that acts as a buffer for the recording. as much as i would like to go SATA, i'd rather not, i'm used to PATA, i don't want to get into anything else. it may seem a little stupid to some, but i have it worked out for what i'll be doing, and how i need it. i'm not going to say anyone is wrong about anything, because all other methods will work, but the other methods are out of my reach. i get the case and PSU for christmas, a combined total of about $90+, and thats about all i can really ask for, the USB and whatnot will be from my sisters, because as cheap as it is to get IDE controllers that are PCI based, i'm no big fan of ribbon cables all over, as you can tell if you look at the picture of my current computer. it may be a big case, but the size of the processors take away from some room that most people do have. the size of the two processors on the board is about equal to a PSU, so i'm contouring the setup with space and speed.

when i used a slave, i had two 40GB hard drives. i have 17.8 gigs of music. if it was all on the master, i'd have little room left for adobe audition. i'm a DJ, and i edit/record music.

whats the importance of having the unattended username/password...if it causes problems, why not just [once and for all] do it after the install to solve problems?

i've used two HDD's in this computer for a long time with no problem. its not an issue of power, its an issue of linux. linux doesn't like NTFS partitioned slave drives, which is what my slave was partitioned as, and what most of my drives are. if it was a FAT16 or 32 format, there would be no problem.

i hear that Red Hat is really good. i'd love to give my sisters old Mandrake a go, but i don't know how that'll go because its really old, along the lines of 6 years or so. right now i'm using Ubuntu 5.1 and updating to 6.06...all i'm doing with it is testing Adour...i'll have to ask my sister what the program is called that acts like microsoft word...but, even still, its not exactly a problem in terms of what you do, its just what you want, because you can get really good OSS for it almost any linux. i only have this Ubuntu because a friend of mine gave it to me because my sister couldn't find hers, and we didn't know how the drivers would work out. also, there are add-ons right on the CD, so if it doesn't install with ubuntu, you can just select it for installation afterwords, so meh, i'm a ubuntu person, its what i learned linux on.

can't say much about what could cause it, but heres my super easy solution: don't use an unattended password at all. just set the password when its finished installing, and this problem should be no more. heres what could be the problem, and since i'm on linux right now i can't provide pictures, so just bear with me. during a normal full installation with an untouched windows XP Professional, you enter your username/password during installation. since the Username and Full Name aren't the same, you may be getting the wrong name during installation. now, whether or not thats correct i can't say much, its just my hypothesis. i'm no einstien, i just take care to pay attention to details.

well, my only problem is that if i don't go USB, i'll have booting issues if i do use linux, like i've had in the past, multiple IDE drives crash my computer, this going into an endless reboot cycle because it fails to load several things properly [this was before i knew enough about computers so i never took notice as to what]. i'll probably end up dual booting windows/linux and having windows just because it wouldn't be that bad...if i had a high enough capacity SCSI drive i'd triple boot with darwin, but eh...i don't think 9 gigs is enough for that, even if windows and linux are really small. i'll have to test it sometime.

the system is 8 years old either way, so speed isn't exactly its middle name. also, this system may run linux actually, now that i found an OSS linux audio editing program. we'll see when i get case/PSU, because i'll be making a video of the build.

Cold cathode in rig: thats what i did to it...the cables aren't the neatest, and i havent had the time to cut that plexiglas down to be the new side of the case, but all in due time, its been a bad month for me. as for the cables that everyone will say are a mess, well, its got a celeron in it, im honestly not worried about it enough to care about the cables. once i get the server going, that will be when i worry about cables.

how am i asking for a world of pain? i've got it all mapped out...the only reason i'm not going SATA is because once i do, i'll have a bunch of adapters left over when i go all out, and the adapters wont be worth much of anything. also, if i boot SCSI, and have two internals go USB, i'll have faster transfer rate, and i wont have to worry about jumpers, or SATA setting or installing. it does sound like a lot to work out, and it may end up being a little pricey, but i'd rather have it... its just the same when you argue onboard graphics and a graphics card...its user preference.

have you tried testing it in a VPC? that screen should only appear for about 5 seconds, a crucial part of the loader for windows may be gone, you may have to start all over. could you post your last session?

1) that system 'hang' may not be a hang at all. it may be the screen being displayed on a different moniter port, a problem i've had before. 2) if it just randomly refreshes your screen, like off and back on in a matter of seconds, thats because the refresh rate of the moniter that you set in windows is too high, and the moniter can't keep up, it happens with CRTs more than LCDs. 3) if its doing the slow motion thing, thats probably windows, not the card.

well, if you but in the DVD burner, just get some foam, and fill in the gaps. it will also absorb some vibrations from the machine and quiet the thing down. theres no need for an extreme, just foam.

ok, well if thats the case, then what does it really matter? let your windows drive letter be whatever...its not half as important as the whole system working, right?

ok, i have an open license copy of Windows XP Sp2, and another of Sp1. now, this is a very strange problem, and i want to know if the copy that i aquired legally is actually legal. during boot, when it would normally say Windows XP Professional and that whole jazzed up screen, it doesn't say professional on the screen, on the Sp2 version. is my copy a fake? i want to know now before i go off trying to install it on anything. i do have the serial number and full CD. if its illegal i plan on getting rid of it fast.

its not the graphics, its the 16bit process handling. graphically it would be equal. but in terms of processing, it would be a ton harder, AMDs are meant for 32 bit and up, windows 98 doesn't really fit that bill.

i don't use his comparison guide, but i have looked into some of his BIOS tweaks and i've really sat down and read 18-30 pages about processor technology, and how its evolved. the guys a really smart person when it comes to computers, must have a lot more free time than i have [and if you knew my hobbies you'd think i have too much] in my sig the link about the Xeon processors is there...i have a server board that i'm going to get running soon from 1997-8 that runs a pair of Pentium II Xeon processors. now they don't seem like much, but its the first dual processor setup i'll ever get running alone. i don't consider myself a guru or a real smarty when it comes to computers, but i've found my ways around. "the best way to learn about computers is to just fart around with them until you figure out what you're doing"