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If you have a floppy drive, it's easier but not exactly like this. You'll have to download the f6flpy-x86.zip and extract all files to the floppy drive. Then set in the bios ahci mode. Then boot the XP SP3 CD and press F6 when prompted and choose the ICH10 (not ICH10R) driver when prompted. Then you should be able to see the hard drive and choose it for install. The almost same method will work with the marvel driver (but as no sata port is connected to this controller on the MB you won't see any hard drive except if you connected an IDE)

If the computer is locked, you'll need to force the shutdown. Psshutdown i linked before has an option to force it and even logoff a user.

You should only need to slipstream intel ahci i linked before (choose the f6flpy-x86.zip as you're installing XP x86). Extract from the zip file the files iaAHCI.inf, iaStor.inf and iaStor.sys. The two .inf files need to be modified then compressed using makecab. iaStor.sys also needs to be compressed using make cab. The other files you need to edit are dosnet.inf and txtsetup.sif (you need to extract them from the XP SP3 CD so slipstream the SP3 before). Then you add back all five files in the XP SP3 CD in the i386 folder. Yes the speed will be almost the same (more or less 15%), you won't be limited to 133MB/s (even if most hard drive won't allow such speed transfer). The benchmark i linked previously should show you the difference : The ssd drives are only about 10% faster using ahci versus ide mode. And the hard drives usually get less improvement when using ahci. Edit: Answered the second question i didn't saw the first time.

No windows 7 include ahci support for most "old" intel chipset and ICH10 was launched in 2008 so it should be alright. Manual slipstreaming an XP cd isn't that complex (you need to edit 4 files) as explained in the post i linked previously. And bonus as it is also the same intel driver, the work is already done, you only need to edit the specified files (extracted from the XP SP3 CD) modify them the put them back on the CD. After this step burn a RW media (in case you didn't do it properly) and boot from it after setting ahci in the bios of your MB.

The specs say southbridge and southbridge is ICH10. The bios (as per the manual) also doesn't show any any ahci setting for the marvel controller. But don't trust me, you don't have to; just try. Slipstream only the Marvel driver with nlite or manually as explained previously and try. I love people who can only learn by failing but who never give up. Edit: punctuation and grammar.

Thanks Jaclaz for discreting my post without having read the motherboard manual (especially the bios settings and the specifications): The marvell drivers were stamped as sata driver but on this asus board the marvell controller isn't connected to any intern sata port as per the asus manual (or if read properly the specifications of motherboard). As the specs also show ICH10 chipset as southbridge, you might also check intel to see how many sata port it support. The ICH10 is the "Intel® 82801JO I/O Controller" and it support 6 sata port (the same of sata port the motherboard provide). Of course you can still say that may be asus connected some sata to marvel instead of ICH10 so you can try with them if you want but you'll end up most likely with your hard drive not being detected (or getting a bsod).

Grub4dos might be a good solution for a bootable usb drive. Some good tutorials are there.

Indeed your code is a better approach of a replacement of the dos blinking escape code but it is still far too complex to be used easily in any script.

Why not simply introduce some error control? This assumes that username has no spaces (and that an user name "MickeyMouse" does not exist on that system ) jaclaz You would have to add more checks to the batch file before the "rd /s /q" so won't lose data. You need to be sure that at least the robocopy worked successfully (ie: copied all data) and most likely need to parse robocopy log file properly and it could be a hassle in pure batch.

A benchmark with ssd that support NCQ (and use it more that a hard can): http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=505&Itemid=38&limit=1&limitstart=3 The right drivers for ahci for ich10 are there. These aren't the lastest but as i remember, these are the lastest to support XP properly. For manualy integrate the ahci driver to your XP (from your other topic) you might try to follow this method.

The dos blinking isn't cleaning the window and rewrite it entirely and that's what wanted the OP in recent windows and this was already clearly explained 3 years ago. Edit: Jaclaz already answered more precisely.

First the drivers you choose to download aren't the right one for ahci. As the specification from the MB say: Second you only need ahci in particular case to improve a little the speed of some drives (for example ahci is useful for ssd) but most likely you won't see a difference between ide mode and ahci mode for the real world applications if you don't use a ssd. Your motherboard manual will explain how to set ide mode in bios (page 77 chap 4.3.5 of the english manual). In case you need to use ahci, you'll have to slipstream intel ahci drivers for ICH10 (the south bridge of the MB). There plenty of examples here to help slipstreaming properly the driver.

The right way to lock down properly (as locking shortcut won't avoid the launch of mmc then load any component), is to use the group policies as already said. For the record, the 2003 icacls included with the SP2 might work on XP.

First: the ahci driver will only affect storage device (either ide or mass storage depending on the controller). If you want to update the other device drivers you'll the inf update utility from intel as those device are managed by the motherboard chipset drivers. Second: if you're already using ahci (check in the bios but it seems it is already the case), you don't need to do anything special when updating the ahci drivers (just launching the install intel matrix storage package like you did is enough).

I usually use this for this kind of task.

I would check if the default screen resolution set in windows/nvidia is supported by the lcd monitor. Some lcd monitor only support a few screen resolution usualy at a vertical refresh rate of 60Hz unlike CRT that could handle more than 100Hz.

x264 encoder use the error channel for its normal output so if you need to log its output, you'll need to add "1>NUL 2>%temp%\x264_encoding.log" for example to the line launching it. For the second point as you need the output in the console and in the log file, you could try to launch x264 with log (as explained before) as background process and then print the log with "tail -f" (from the unix tools). So something like this will work: start /B /separate "encoding" x264.exe --level 4.1 --preset slower --tune film --pass 1 --bitrate 1500 --deblock -2:-1 --keyint 300 --min-keyint 30 --aq-strength 1.2 --fps 29.970 --output NUL Copia.avs 1>NUL 2>%temp%\log_x264.log tail.exe -f %temp%\log_x264.log As tail -f will wait forever, and as the --pid option doesn't work in this dos port (and some newer mingw32 port), you'll have to interrupt it with a control+C after its ending or kill tail process. This lastest option might be automated if you don't run many x264 process at the same time as batch doesn't provide any simple way of getting the pid of a launched process. Edit1: as a side note, doing this with a higher programming language (C++, VB, vbs, autoit ....) will be a lot easier. Edit2: In batch using third party tools - unix tools sleep, tail, gawk, wc and sysinternals handle -, i was able to make it work: @echo off start /B /separate "encoding" x264.exe --level 4.1 --preset slower --tune film --pass 1 --bitrate 1500 --deblock -2:-1 --keyint 300 --min-keyint 30 --aq-strength 1.2 --fps 29.970 --output NUL E:\encodage\dimitri.avs 1>NUL 2>%temp%\log_x264.log start /B /separate "logging" d:\utils\command\tail.exe -f %temp%\log_x264.log setlocal :wait set ended=0 for /f "usebackq" %%i in (`handle %temp%\log_x264.log ^|findstr /i "pid:" ^|wc -l`) do (if "%%i"=="1" set ended=1) if "%ended%"=="1" goto killpid sleep 1 goto wait :killpid handle %temp%\log_x264.log |findstr /i "pid:" |gawk -F"pid:" "{print $2}" |gawk "{print $1}" >%temp%\tail_pid.txt for /F %%i in (%temp%\tail_pid.txt) do (taskkill /pid %%i /t /f >NUL) :end endlocal pause

As he will run AD on the server, i would disable dhcp on the router and use the server as dhcp server and configure it to set dns ip with its address instead of allowing the client computer to use internet dns defined by the router. If you don't do this step you'll have bad time with your AD client computers not seeing properly the DC. Also AD should have at least 2 DC so you should install at least 2 servers (virtual or physical) if you don't do this you "might" sometime need to reboot all client computers after rebooting the DC to allow them to communicate properly. What wasn't said and is requirement for a properly working AD, you'll need to properly configure the DC to use a reliable time server as it will be the source of time for the client computers (a five minutes time difference might completely block communication between two AD machines). Another important point is the AD dns domain name shouldn't be already used or a possible internet dns domain name (for example if you used myad.com as AD dns domain name, you might encounter AD problems as it is already internet registered ). For this matter, usually using anything with strictly more than 3 characters as extension will solve this easily (example mydomain.myad will do perfectly fine). If you configure the dhcp server properly it should automatically register the client computer in the dns server.

As i understood you used tree loadbalancing methods: - the round robin functionality of the DNS. - the NLB functionality of windows. - the RDS connection broker. You should not use all those at the same time. You shouldn't use NLB if you're using the RDS connection broker (which is the right method to allow users to get their session back if they get disconnected). The Round Robin won't help load balancing that much. Most likely you'll need a real load balancer replacing the dns round robin if you want the same number of user on both servers. Forget about a Microsoft load balancer, you'll have to look for either open source (yes there are some open source load balancer) or a network appliance solution (cisco content switch, F5....). The licensing issue shouldn't be a problem if you're within the 120 days.

Did you read the guide ?

In pure Batch, you just need to add "set __COMPAT_LAYER=RunAsInvoker " in the begining of your batch file to bypass uac.

For running VMs (if that what you meant with emulator), i would choose without a doubt the i5 (or better an i7). Hyperthreading isn't a feature that provide more power (it access twice the memory each normal cpu cycle so it "emulate" two core with one), it allow smoother multitasking with low cpu needing applications than with it disabled that's all.

That what i already proposed in his previous thread....

Scheduled tasks service will be installed on nt4 after upgrading Internet explorer to version 6 sp1 and this might solve problems with at tasks not working properly.

They work for sure on OEM key what you read is just wrong at least for XP/2003 OS. Why don't you try Aida32 or Everest (if you want a big name to be sure ?)