nitroshift

Yep ... Just joking. I told everyone.

Probably the dreaded thermal throttling! Pentium 4s are known to underclock if overheating. Ermmmm.... Seated on the CPU is this. Don't think that the score has anything to do with thermal throttling as the CPU stays at 25-26 degrees Centigrade when idle. And why is it seen as running at 1.5 GHz?

You tried with a shovel and a hammer????? On a serious note now: I was reading Paul Thurott's opinions on Vista x64, you shoul do that too before trying to install x64...

LMAO, loved the part where the driver sucks the chip through the helmet

That would rule out the USB ports being faulty.

The path to where kaspersky was installed was wrong. Simple...

FFDShow works fine, as well as the free version of BSPlayer.

Have you reserved a specific IP address in the router configuration baseon the MAC address of your NIC? I fnot, then the router will assign an IP address through DHCP in the range specified in the configuration of the router.

Try this.

With so many routers around, chances are that no-one here stumbled across that particular one. If it suits your needs, then I recommend you buy it. Surely the store will give you a 30-day money back guarantee...

Glad you fixed it... I was gonna tell you to find a scrap mobo and remove that part off it.

Does it work when you right click on the drive and select "Eject"?

I don't use msn, only yahoo. In pm you'll find my ID.

I'd rather not use Norton. Use instead Nod32 trial version.

Sounds like me

LMAO why? Installing SP2 is piece of cake and won't take you long. If you haven't got it, you can get it here.

As you are an IT engineer, I suppose what I'm about to say might be silly BUT have you scanned those pc's for viruses? Also, it might happen due to profile corruption on the local machines. A bit more info on your network setup might be handy. Cheers. nitro

The very first step is to check your pc for viruses/malware. After running a full scan of your pc see if the problem still persists.

Yeah, that was exactly what I was thinking, as windows installs the client automatically after detection and installation of the NIC whether this happens during the windows setup or during manual install of the NIC drivers.

The connection speed is set by your ISP and no third party software can alter that setting. I strongly believe that all these "Connection Speed Boosters" are cr/-\p and will only slow down your pc by accessing more often the pagefile and the internet temp folder (thus the harddisk). Just bloatware IMHO.

Unfortunately, I don't think you can. When logging into a pc, it MUST have a valid IP address to communicate with the server in order for the credentials to be verified in AD. Remember, DHCP allocates an IP as soon as windows starts up on the client pc. One way to do it is to make reservations in DHCP based on the MAC addresses of the pc's that connect to the server and set the pool size to the number of pc's that will be in use.

Try mapping a share from one pc to the other and see if it works that way. You shouldn't need any credentials.

Remember that Vista has a brand new stack of network protocols, including the new version 6 of tcp/ip. Make sure that you disabled the tcp/ip v6.0 under your network connection properties.

I agree, but it IS funny