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Well unfortunately, this is a tricky topic and you may not get a response you'd like. The reason being is that *technically* discussion of this topic falls under rule 1's license circumvention. And our users may be fearful of giving you (the OP) specific information on how to do this because of those rules. Fortunately, an answer was already given in this topic, so I will be closing it. If you (the OP) has any questions about our forum rules, you can feel free to PM me.

Another thing to try, isn't computer related. But even when in the BIOS (or Windows) try spinning the plug while in the jack to see if this makes the sound come and go.

I think that is old info. I believe originally that MS wanted to RTM Win8 in July (from January) but that must have changed. There are things on the Connect calendar that are after that July 17-20 period that still predates RTM, although I don't know the exact RTM date either.

Wowow you use Itanium?!

The problem description is not clear. You say you made an XP CD on Windows 7 and you get a STOP error. You also can run DXDiag. But where does this error occur? Windows 7, XP or during installation of XP? Either way, for that error a file may be specified. Look in Event Viewer around that time frame to see if you can find it.

I'd expect that this is due to what account and/or priveledge level NAA is using. I'd try killing the process and re-launch it again as Administrator to see if the button is available.

In parts of the ADK it talks about the ability to change apps in Metro, but I can't actually find any documentation as to where to start. That part may be incomplete or I don't have the info.

I thought that they had learned by now to just create a .mpg video and simply play it on the tablet during presentations (it's not that difficult to tap on the screen at the right moment ). jaclaz You mean like this? http://www.techspot.com/news/47037-intel-caught-faking-ivy-bridge-dx11-demo-explains-itself.html

Welcome to the MSFN!

The difference you mention is to worse on the Vodafone ones? Well my 5 minutes of googling led to some things like that. But you can't ever be sure regarding what people say online, as you can probably find someone say that *anything* is the worst product ever. But if there is a difference between the Vodafone and the regular version, it would probably only be firmware related.

I think the reason it is so big is that this tool doesn't decrypt the data (which is good lol) and thus the file is bigger than the original. I just did it as a test (I was curious) but I wouldn't ever use a tool like this.

40MHz doesn't hurt. I wouldn't be concerned if it is set for auto. But only N speed can use the 40MHz, so if you have that disabled and only using G, set it to 20MHz. I do not know what this setting is. It isn't the same what I was talking about (dual band router)... I can't find specific if running in N at 2.4GHz is the same speed as G at the same frequency. But presumably running N at 5GHz is the optimal configuration but it is known to interfere with other devices, such as bluetooth. And yes, I found many similar pages referring to the quality of the huawei routers were less than desired, but that there is a difference between the regular models and the Vodafone ones. Oh thinking again about your 11n error. You first were getting this while you had N enabled on both the NIC and the Router. This would make me think that something was configured wrong or that you definately were connecting at G or something...

Typically, using a faster spec RAM in a slower speed isn't a problem. It just won't run at 400MHz, but 333MHz. Your BIOS might let you lock in the memory speeds too, you'll have to check it out. But the one problem is that I don't think you can use a 333MHz and 400MHz in Dual Channel.

What WinPE version?

My "pkeyconfig.xrm-ms" on Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit is 996Ko. That's strange the file size is so big.

Found this, someone might like it. I guess an app for Android phones to make it look like Windows XP. http://www.gizmag.com/xpmod/23039/

Using DD-WRT firmware (if available) may help in your case, but your limiting factor is really the quality of your hardware. As I mentioned before I have a D-Link N router, which was my first wireless router. Using stock firmware, it was crap for G and N. After applying DD-WRT, G was a rock and N increased connectivity dramatically. Say before the update, N was dropping out every 5 minutes, but after it would stay up for at least 2 hours. But it still wasn't good enough on N. Whether this is because of the environment or the fact it was operating in mixed mode, I'm not sure. Another issue is that if you are in mixed (I think, don't take my word on it) that N wireless will run same speed as G if a G device is connected. If no G device, N runs at normal speed. This might be what you are seeing. Alas, while I still have that D-Link, I opted to switch to a dual-band Linksys/Cisco router with the dedicated radios for both G and N and that works like a champ with stock firmware. Either way, DD-WRT has a wiki that explains a lot of the different settings you could possibly have, even if you don't use their custom firmware. While my story probably doesn't help your particular situation, I'm glad you brought to light that different encryption methods can definately cause problems with a wireless connection. That was something I never considered before.

Is your XP a 32bit or 64bit?

Wireless is a tricky thing indeed. I had problems with it, learned a bunch, fixed it and ultimately forgot most of it. I'd consider myself a noob at it too! I was probably like everyone else when starting to use wireless, you plug it in and away you go. But then I need to look at how I am actually using it. What devices do I have and what are their capabilities? For my example, I have multiple (potential) N class devices and then a G device (PS3). So in this situation, in order for me to accomodate all of my devices. With a standard single band N router, this would mean setting it for G. This is because PS3 needs it, and the N devices can use G. But this isn't an ideal situation for me because while the G devices worked fine, there was flakiness with the N devices! So for my purposes, I chose a dual-band router. It has 2 radios set one for G and one for N. And then you end up setting 2 SSIDs for broadcast (if you want). Now to figure out what kind of devices you have. If all your devices connect with N speed, then I would set the router to use N exclusively instead of the hybrid mode. Don't bother changing that signal strength range (20/40MHz) as going to an extra-wide band in a populated area can potentially cause headaches for you and/or your neighbors. Now, the site-survey is an interesting tool that *some* routers have. And some are better than others. For example, on my old router (D-Link N) with DD-WRT, the site-survey would scan the airwaves and show me a list of all other broadcasting devices in the area. This means I can see my neighbors' routers (and an amount of Nintendo Wiis) but most important I can see what wireless channel they are on! This is another important factor as you would want to use a channel (that is legal) and that is not being used by another broadcasting device to save yourself from potential interference. But if your router doesn't have this feature then it won't help you. Which reminds me, if your router is set for "auto" channel, this would mean that the router determines somehow which channel to use. If the router decides to change the channel on you, you definately would lose your connection, but should reconnect shortly after.

Now that Surface has been announced, I understand why the ARM market was locked down to just those 3 vendors. See, except for those 3 companies (and Microsoft), no other OEM or ODM can get ARM cpus or build/whitebook ARM tablets. But there is an interesting thing that no one seems to be picking up on yet. Of the two SKUs announced, although I can't comment on ARM/Windows RT, the x86 offering might be interesting for some people. All that debate over the SecureBoot "feature" where you can't dual boot (except for RedHat) basically died away but what isn't really mentioned in any of those old articles is that SecureBoot is only applicable to systems with UEFI 2.3.1 firmware. Windows 8 32bit is not supported on UEFI, so any 32bit Surface tablets won't have SecureBoot or any other of those UEFI features.

I wouldn't think the encryption type is the cause of the problem. So time for some questions... I can't find the details of this router that I am looking for... Is this a single band router? What band are you using? I see that it supports N and your NIC supports N, so I would like to think you have it set to N on both... Are you using the stock or custom firmware? have you done any fiddling regarding signal strength or anything like that? Does your router have the ability to run a site-survey?

Your cable modem is also your DHCP server. So if you run this in command prompt: ipconfig -all The values of Gateway and/or DHCP server should match and that IP address is your cable modem. I've been out of the cable support business, so I don't know much about newer hardware, but have you tried to connect to the secure page? ie https://192.168.100.1 ... not that I would think it would make a difference but I do know that my cable modem (Motorola) is set for secure login only.

The hold music in the conference center.

Don't know what to tell you...