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Best bet, take a look see. Surprised you got that for nearly free. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=Alienware+M17x+R2&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc

I would prefer larger devices anyways. Making them so small is prone to being lost or passed through the washing machine.

The Logitech Bluetooth Nano Receiver is just about that size too.

MS is changing how the Technet forums look again!

Have you checked the Task Scheduler to see if anything was run at the time of the wakeup?

Well you can take a look at this: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/cs-012644.htm The minimum requirements for video is a DirectX 9 compatible adapter as mentioned here: http://support.rockstargames.com/entries/479504-Minimum-system-requirements-for-GTA-San-Andreas However the datasheet for your adapter mentions DirectX only once and makes no mention of what version it actually supports. http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/29074602.pdf How much RAM do you have, and what speed is it?

I would say that XP could have potential problems on a UEFI board since it isn't supported at all. I only get to work with current products so I do not have experience with it... yet. However I get the pleasure of porting an XP Embedded image to a UEFI board so I'll get to see first hand how it handles it.

What about the CPU and the RAM? Will those be a problem for Windows 98?

Well it is part of the Chipset drivers, but not sure what exactly it is.

I am not looking forward to working with Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 so right now I'm going to pretend Windows 8.1 doesn't exist.

Gamehead200 isn't so active anymore. His life got busy after getting out of college it seems. Welcome back!

So basically you are seeing that the one causing the problem is the last one that gets 100%? I can try to do an update again after I am done with driver servicing.

What happened between now and earlier? And what kind of games do you mean? It looks like you are using onboard graphics and 64MB VRAM is not something that will let you play newer games easily, if at all.

I see a couple but I'll let the Win9x experts take over.

Newer hardware and XP will be tough. If I wanted to use XP I wouldn't want to try and get a board with UEFI on it, such as that Asus board. Finding non-UEFI boards has become troublesome lately, as I also deal with people who want to use 32bit Windows 7 on a new computer but the OS isn't supported. XP is even more unsupported if such a thing is possible. So I'm mostly only finding boards that people don't want, such as ones with Atom or AMD CPUs.

I never had any problems but I never use any USB key larger than 1GB.

I am not aware of a way to install the OS remotely, that is without an existing server in place already. However, it would be possible if the client can install the Server OS for you and enable RDP, you can use RDP to do just about everything else. For example you could enable WDS and install MDT which then can deploy Windows 7 to the computers on the server's network.

Welcome to the MSFN!

Wow just doing an update to Windows 8 Pro x64, DISM barfed up a slew of errors... I saved the portion of the DISM.log file for the DISM session the command was run in and is available upon request.

So in Windows 8 the TPM is always enabled? I recall that it still uses a driver to use it. Can't you just disable or uninstall the driver in Device Manager?

Well it looks like Windows 8.1 isn't really ready for RTM, since they are still busy debugging it, so this will give them a chance to meet their October deadline. As a former developer, who had to try to work within the arbitrary deadlines imposed from on high, I feel really sorry for the W8.1 developers. I also feel very sorry for the three W8.1 app developers and see no reason why anyone would want to join them. No it is the standard procedure MS uses for RTM an operating system. Basically MS makes the annoucement that a product is RTM but it takes 2-3 days before anyone can actually download it. I don't know why MS just waits until it is available for download before telling the world that it is out.

I can't even imagine what the tech world would look like if Microsoft went away... Heck, the world by itself! PS: Windows 8.1 is RTM today. http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2013/08/27/readying-windows-8-1-for-release.aspx

Just like how MS will publish updates that do not show up in the catalog?

Someone wrote a poem about Windows 8 (some language) http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?47616-I-Hate-Windows-8

I wonder how Lenovo plans to get away with it. It isn't allowed for a program like that to be pre-installed on a PC sold into the retail channel. It can only be used with Embedded or Enterprise SKUs.