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If it says it is looking for a particular file, but then says the file isn't there, insert the second CD and open it with Windows Explorer. Then look to see if the file is there or not.

If you have a SATA or RAID/AHCI controller, you need to put the Vista driver for it in your install.

I checked your specs in your other thread and I think it said 800MHz was the max. Look it up on their site. You need the exact model board tho, which may only be able to read off the board itself.

Why 2 F12? You press one the first time to do the network boot? Don't you get a PXE error?

Did you add the new computers to the domain? I mean, can you confirm they are listed under Active Directory Users & Computers?

I'm not sure if you can switch after installing it the first time. You can still deploy XP the way I listed above. That question was asked here before but I forget what the answer is. Make sure to check the Unattended XP and Vista as well as the Windows PE sections, as these areas usually contain more information on WDS.

I'd love to take it but its blocked by the firewall...

Also, I wouldn't recommend using two different specs in your RAM. Either you are over-clocking one of them, or under-clocking two of them.

x7b means that you do not have the mass storage controller in your installer. It cannot find or properly make use of the hard drive.

I don't understand how AMD numbers its processors equal what they are, but your RAM should be at least 2GB. Basically, think about what game you want to play, and then go to this site: http://www.canyourunit.com/ If it won't work, not only will it tell you that it doesn't, but it will tell you what you would need. Some games aren't listed and it is also true that some games may still run on your computer even if the website says it can't, but it's a good guide.

I use Thunderbird as well. One con is that if used to connect to an account on Exchange, while you can still get mail, the following does not work: 1. No calendar and any meeting requests or confirmations sent do not prompt for addition. 2. Priority flags coming in from non Thunderbird clients do not appear and flags going out do not appear in Outlook or MSIMN. 3. You cannot access the online address book, so you have to create your own. There may be work-arounds for the cons I listed but I haven't come across any. I am one of 2 people who use Thunderbird instead of Outlook on our Exchange server. Pros: 1. Thunderbird is better at giving you errors for Exchange. Example, my email stopped working and I reported it. Of course the admin first said "well use Outlook and you won't have this problem" but it was good because there was actually an underlying problem on the Exchange Server that wouldn't have been found if Thunderbird hadn't stopped working. Also, the problem was severe enough that if the server had been rebooted, email would not have worked at all!

I think you need to do a repair install. A normal reinstall will do just what you are saying is happening.

How I image XP with WDS: 1. Boot to winpe.wim via PXE 2. use imagex to capture image ie. imagex /capture c: z:\xp-pro_standard.wim "boardname Drive C" /compress fast 3. boot new pc to winpe.wim via pxe 4. use diskpart to format drive 5. use imagex to redeploy image ie. imagex /apply z:\xp-pro_standard.wim "boardname Drive C" c: 6. reboot For native-mode WDS, it can see an install Image for Vista or 2008. If you want XP to be an install image you need to run WDS in mixed mode to have RIS support which you can make install images for XP. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums...1-d149bc90f498/

The only main difference between a restart and shutdown is that a shutdown totally removes power from memory, erasing it 100%. On a restart, the system is supposed to empty out memory. You might have some lingering memory issues but this is the only thing that comes to my mind.

What gets authority, users over computers? Perhaps these 20% have users that over-ride the computer policy?

I looked into doing this when trying to install the latest iTunes. The registry hacks do not work, as described after the reboot they get changed back. I determined that (iTunes installer at least) checked the version info in winlogon, kernel32 and another file. You'd have to reshack those files to update the SP2 version. I tried it but since my computer at home can't boot off USB (to use NTFSDOS) i didn't bother trying to do it.

In the future, you can note this. The "wrong OS" message was coming from the installer for the drivers. In most cases, you can unpack the installer with WinRaR, which *may* allow you to get the actual drivers out of it. Then you can manually update the driver in Device Manager and have it look at those drivers and see if it can install. I've had to do this a couple times.

Make sure your sleep setting in the BIOS is set for S3 (suspend to RAM).

There is but it involves modifying Windows system files. These methods are not published by Microsoft and I am not certain if it is legal or allowed to discuss here.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731279.aspx

Our installer called a script from the network after install. I think it uses the guirunonce, not sure. Anyways, we keep a batch file on the server that silently installs all the updates. So when new updates come out, we download them, put them on the server, and update the script, so the installer runs the current updates every time. It isn't the best way, but we use it for now until we figure something else out.

That's probably the limit... i hope

As posted in the old one, I use Limewire primarily, and have the BT client for other stuff as required.

Is your profile over 2GB?

You mean this? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en