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This is the first time I've seen a capacitor detach itself like that, with the leads still intact. The factory either forgot to solder it in place, or it was done very poorly. You're right, it does go in the area you indicated. The stripe on the capacitor (negative terminal) should line up with the shaded portion of the circuit board. If the other components don't show any signs of damage, you can solder the capacitor back and it might work, but consider that a temporary fix until you get a better PSU. The burning smell is probably just the transformer heating up. The rapid clicking and power cycling is the overload protection, better PSUs will shut off completely instead of attempt to turn back on again.

Maybe "mute" option was reversed... you thought it was muted but it's actually open, and vice-versa. Opening the line-in on my onboard AC'97 audio also results in a soft crackling and hissing. This is normal since the open socket is acting as an antenna and recieving nearby electrical interference.

What do you mean, "no use"??

This is strange, since in a corporate environment hundreds of machines are usually Ghosted simultaneously. Not that the authorities would come and check if you've been using your copy on more than one machine...

From your procedure above it seems like it is indeed working. Looks like defrag from WinME does work with partitions bigger than 128Gb... One more confirmation: I'd like a screenshot of the Properties page of the 300Gb drive being filled past 137Gb, ajacent to the information dialog from a successful scandisk'ing.

I've found the 4.10.1119, but now you say it's pointless to patch Where does the 32Gb limit come from? That's 64M sectors i.e. 2^26 which doesn't look like a familiar limit.

Which program would that be?

Use a standard PS/2 optical mouse.

You'll need to find a working proxy... approximately 1% of the proxies from proxylists actually work.Proxomitron only works with HTTP proxies, but its main use is as a "filter" to rewrite webpages in realtime (kill ads, popups, drive-by-downloads, etc.) - in fact I'm using it right now. I recommend Proxifier and a SOCKS proxy, in conjunction with Proxomitron. Here's a few thousand SOCKS proxies to try: http://nntime.com/socks

Wrong procedure. DOS 7.1 uses Int13x which supports 48-bit LBA. It has nothing to do with ESDI_506.PDR.

Same here, I don't care about it. Nothing malicious. Seems to open up an explorer window with C:\ if I try to use it to open a file.

Go with Ghost.

I've tried something like that before. Convenient, but the connection tends to be unreliable and slow. It depends on your existing power infrastructure and quality.

Did you copy the files from DOS or Windows? All the copy operations must be done through the driver (disk access must not be in 16-bit "MS-DOS Compatibility Mode"). I have posted a recommended procedure a few posts previous.

AVG uses a rootkit and kernel hook. Probably related to your problem.

If you could give me a link to 4.10.1119 then I'll try to fix it... the one I have from my Win95b distro is 4.10.1111 The driver structure changed greatly between 95 and 98 (and again with ME), so this is going to take moar time to implement... but I will do it Any test results yet?

Because Microsoft wanted it to.

Here you can find corrected version of FDISK http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=263044. I have tried it with 250 GB disk, it works but has a display bug for disks and partitions bigger than 99 GB. Or you can use any 3rd part too, I use Ranish Partition Manager. Petr That's what M$'s description of the hotfix says. "not supported" must mean untested, not doesn't work...

WGA annoys legitimate customers, while pirates are just going to crack it and continue as normal. I don't think M$ was successful in "preventing piracy" at all.

Yet another Linux distro... I don't see anything that special about this one... BTW the smallest distros fit on a 1.44M floppy.

You must've never tried to unpack that combination before, because Execryptor is MUCH more difficult than both of those combined. UPX unpacking takes at most a few seconds, y0da cryptor maybe a minute. Execryptor... 10 minutes to an hour to "unprotect"

Solid-state memory not affected by radio-frequency radiation. In fact, cellphones contain Flash RAM of the same type used in thumb drives (of smaller capacity, probably several Mb)

I don't think ms06-015 is that "critical", but I'm considering fixing the 2GB limit as my next project (currently Enable48BitLBA hasn't finalised yet)

You mean her patches Actually I don't really care about the versioning system, IMHO I don't think it's that important. What's more important is verifying that it actually works correctly. Use this FDISK replacement : http://www.23cc.com/free-fdisk/ (ignore the "works on hard disks up to 128Gb" statement... it supports 48-bit LBA via Int13ext) Windows 9x's disk tools such as Scandisk and Defrag are limited to 128Gb partition sizes. As such, here is a recommended test procedure, to be done on a clean drive. 1. Make several partitions, each less than or equal to 128Gb. 2. Format and install Windows on the primary partition. Replace the ESDI_506.PDR with the fixed version. 3. Copy a large file as many times as necessary to fill the entire drive. 4. Run scandisk on each partition to verify that the data is intact. Also, 4.10.2186 has been fixed.

Ghost.