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So the Ebay board seems to be faulty at least for the lack of beep without ram. As the two board are the same, a bios update should solve the problem with the graphics card on the Ebay board. If your board did have the latest bios, you should try to update it as it could fix the problem with the 5450. If this step work, you'll need to update both bios, with a bios swapping if you don't have another graphics card which will work withe the ebay board. It look like it should be easy on this board as the bios chip doesn't seem soldered. For directions, see http://icrontic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25538. If you don't want to bother, you could check if you can send back the Ebay board.

Does the motherboard ever beep at all ( did you tried removing everything except the cpu and the power supply from the MB ) ? It should beep when there isn't any ram stick. This way you'll be sure the motherboard is beeping. In most cases like this, you have forgotten something or added something. So if the motherboard is beeping in the previous test, i'll try adding one by one the other components and see if it works at each step. It could be a short circuit or an unplugged (forgotten) cable if all components were working before.

Since it is a home computer, you don't need to be in perfect sync with a time source and you'll have to set time manually from time to time. But if you want to sync your home computer with a time server, you'll have to find a suitable internet time server (might be your internet provider one) and then set it in windows.

If you're looking for a script, you should look at autoit as it will handle this as you almost wrote it.

Even though i am not sure, from what i saw, it seems the repair install do : - do chkdsk of the boot drive - copy (overwrite if needed) the sources files (those present on the CD and the drivers if installed with F6 - do not modify too much reg hives except the system one (HKLM\System).

I would do it like this: @ECHO OFF SetLocal enabledelayedexpansion SET /A X=0 SET /A Y=0 set RES="" rem Extract Resolution in the Format XRESxYRES FOR /F "skip=2 tokens=1 delims=, " %%i IN (test1.txt) DO ( call :evalres %%i) ECHO %MAXRES% ECHO %X% goto end :evalres SET RES=%1 set /A aux=0 for /f "delims=x tokens=1 usebackq" %%g in (`echo %1`) do ( set /A aux=%aux%+%%g if !aux! GTR !X! set /A X=!aux! && set MAXRES=%1 ) GOTO :EOF :end endlocal

Sorry puntomx but you're wrong raid 0 does improve read and write performance. In theory, a raid 0 with 8 drive should allow the speed to be multiplied by 8 in real world with software raid it doesn't increase as much as 4 times (but with hardware raid controller with write cache it can almost do it). I think the problem there is either the format method (more precisely big cluster size for big files and aligned partition) as you can gain a lot in real world, or the source drive or destination drive. The only way to test real world write speed to a (or an array) of drive is to use a Ramdrive or a faster (raid array) source drive.

You need to kill the thread of the process "explorer.exe" begining with stobject.dll!DllCanUnloadNow with process explorer from sysinternals (Microsoft now).

As it is, it won't kill the process explorer used as windows manager but i didn't see the point to kill it. So here is the autoit source: #include <Process.au3> dim $var $var = WinList() dim $n=0 dim $path[100][2] For $i = 1 to $var[0][0] If $var[$i][0] <> "" AND IsVisible($var[$i][1]) AND Isexplorer($var[$i][1]) AND $var[$i][0] <> "Program Manager" Then MsgBox(0, "Details", "Title=" & $var[$i][0] & @LF & "Handle=" & $var[$i][1]) $n=$n+1 $path[$n][0]=$var[$i][0] $path[$n][1]=$var[$i][1] EndIf Next for $i =1 to $n winkill($path[$i][1]) next $res=msgbox(36,"Restore","Restore Explorer windows ?" ) if $res=6 then for $i=1 to $n run("explorer " & chr(34) & $path[$i][0] & chr(34)) next else exit endif Func IsVisible($handle) If BitAnd( WinGetState($handle), 2 ) Then Return 1 Else Return 0 EndIf EndFunc Func Isexplorer($handle) $pid = WinGetProcess($handle) if stringlower(_ProcessGetName($pid))="explorer.exe" then Return 1 Else Return 0 Endif EndFunc I usually wouldn't have done it (because i prefer to help people to learn how to do things instead of doing it for them) but i had a little time to waste and the idea was interesting for another project.

Something based on handle.exe (from sysinternals) or autoit should work.

I have XP x86 and it use /PAE switch and even Microsoft isn't always right when they speak about their OS. On my mobo (a µatx for mobile cpu) xp doesn't see more than 3GB natively (even with /pae switch) but with those Ramdrive, you can use the memory above 3GB in my case. I had 2 stick on 1GB and i replaced one with a 4GB stick to see if that would work. I suppose the ramdrive driver use a specific api (not a Microsoft one) to address memory above (perhaps it use more than one pointer to address memory). I'll probably buy a second 4GB stick soon now that i saw the difference between a RAM pagefile and HD pagefile and i'll create two ramdrive one for page file and one for the temporary files. I'll do this as i am not planning to move to a x64 OS soon. As for the Microsoft article, i it only speak about classical way. I don't if you knew the first hard drive limitation to 137GB but at first, everyone said it was impossible to overcome but even Microsoft did it (other like most HD manufacturer did it before). Anyway, as the XP will be dropped soon by Microsoft, i don't think they will do anything to overcome the 4GB limitation for free. Most people who use a X64 OS choice it because it could use more then 4GB. The strange thing about this limit is why pagefile isn't also limited to 4GB (it is also used a memory for programs) ?

First you need to configure unmanaged memory: see the ramdrive1.png and ramdrive2.png. Then you need to create your ramdrive and set it to loaded at boot automatically and without backup (no need to slow down your boot with the loading from disk to ram of the old pagefile). Then assign a letter ou a mount point to your ramdrive (i set mine to a mount point): Volume 6 RAMDISK FAT32 Partition 2047 MB Sain C:\swap Then i set my pagefile there with regedit (as you can not set pagefile on mount point with the GUI): HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management PagingFiles= (REG_MULTI_SZ) "C:\swap\pagefile.sys 2040 2040" Ramdrive4 is the benchmark with hdtach of the ramdrive. And i'm sorry adamt but you're totaly wrong. If you find a benchmark tool for testing only pagefile memory, i'll show you the result on my comp.

From the link i pasted above: Extended memory access RamDisk Plus 11 has a most unique feature. Our patent pending technology can access memory beyond the limitation imposed by a Windows 32-bit operating system! In other words, RamDisk Plus 11 can use "unmanaged" Windows' memory e.g. above 4GB. It can also use the stubbornly inaccessable memory between 3.2GB and 4GB. See the product's help file for detailed explanation of what "unmanaged" memory is and how to access and use it with RamDisk Plus 11. And yes, it can use only unmanaged meory above 4Gb as written above.... Anyway if you don't trust me, i don't care. It is anoying to help someone and get in return this kind of replies.

Ramdisk Plus. It can use any memory (available under os or not). When windows crash, it create a memory.dmp (if configured correctly) which will help diagnose the cause and this memory.dmp is created if virtual memory if hosted on the C: drive (and the C: drive letter won't be available for the ramdrive). So no more debugging of your crashes or only minidumps.

If you have others routers , tracert will help. Else, you 'd have to check each ar ptable of the switchs (only if you can manage them) and check if you see the ip or the mac address of your linksys router.

You just need a ramdisk like Superspeed Ramdisk. I am using it. But you'll probably loose the crash debug ability.

Any sas raid controller with at least 64MB Cache would perform better than the intel one as its chipset (LSI 1064E) is quite basic and a little old (first released in 2006). As a side note go with a controller with some thermal cooling as those animals may produce a lot of heat when performing heavy duty like defrag.

I will just speak about the raid controller: the one you choose isn't worth the money (performance wise) as it doesn't come with read/write cache. I would go for another (now Lsi) 3ware 9650 2lp : http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?p=3WA965SE2S&c=pw&hash=e0b9a%2Bg65UPO7hj%2FAbnHcsGff8tf6kJ7lCKvJc%2BLoDuLxq38H22tLCuVEIl5n7Nn%2Bmh8TUIJuWsXYfUuiwwawc%2BWrCI31Ejo3WJ0X0Z1RavEh6DSYPGJdosKo6Gq as it comes with 128MB cache.

I'm talking about this "enable background repagination"

Just my 2 cents but did you try to disable "repaginating" in word options (You need to be in normal mode to be able to disable it) ?

I think the function ProgressOn should do.

I would simply use xcacls (from the resource kit) instead of cacls. But i would not let creator owner with full control on his homedir (he can delete it and if someone paste files in this folder the user won't be owner of those files). To avoid these problems, i usually set the following rights on a homedir folder: - administrators: Full control - system: Full control - %user%: modify - optionaly a backup group backup operators. As most of the time i name homedir after the samid of the user, a simple for line is enough to set the perms for all folders: for /f "delims=; usebackq" %%i in (`dir /b /ad e:\util`) do (xcacls E:\util\%%i /T /Y /C /P Administrators:F system:F Domain\%%i:C )

Disabling systeme restore with gpo via registry is there: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\SystemRestore\DisableSR

You could try to disable the drive autodetection in the bios if possible (and set it to none if available). Windows should detect it later automatically.

Did you look at this thread to generate a dump which might be analyzed and help solving your issue ?