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TUrn on Windows Firewall or another one, and connect each computer directly to the DSL modem and do your speed check. Make sure you are not getting a bottleneck at the router.

Is Money on the nLite CD?

An OEM CD will make you activate if you had done any Windows Updates. Most notably the WGA update.

I wouldn't recommend a password revealer/cracker as the first choice. Call the ISP.

Metal

I haven't seen either in action, but I pick Bluray because I used to work for Sony.

Verizon DSL, don't know the speed. Can't get FiOS yet but the line is at the end of the street.

I smoke but am an anti-smoking advocate. Nothing beats handing out "Smoke Free NY" stickers while smoking a cigarette.\ Besides, all smokers plan to quit, it just doesn't always work out that way.

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Windows XP Pro Windows 2003 .net Server Enterprise Windows 98

This happens from time to time with any company. Mistakes are made because someone forgets to save something or a server doesn't send data right. Whatever the case, it causes a lapse in the process somewhere. The failing that your report shows is that the motherboard company should have gone right to a supervisor or even a call to the warehouse/receiving to check. I have been on the support side in these instances, and I have called the receiving warehouse, or the repair company to comfirm delivery signatures or that a product has been received and/or what stage it is in. But some reps will do more for customers than others, mostly because either they don't care, or they are just working there for the sake of having a job. I know as I had seen it myself. Then there are those good support people that are pressured by their work environment to not be on calls for a certain period of time or whatever. There is also the potential that the rep is limited in what they can do. Call centers come up with strange rules sometimes, like not being able to make outgoing calls, or a strange unreliable process to communicate problems to other departments. Don't get me started about India. I have had strange dealings with both MSI and AOpen. Here is a recap: With MSI, we got a bunch of notebooks with buttons on it that didn't do anything. There were also Unknown Devices sitting in Device Manager that we found out were linked to these buttons. So I did some research and found out they were part of Windows Hot Start. I go to the website to get the drivers for it on this model, and only the Vista drivers are available. I figured I would download the drivers and take a look at them and see if I could rewrite them for XP (I had previously re-written the Intel IME drivers for Vista on certain Intel boards to use before Intel released them). But it was just 2 registry entries. So I call up our MSI support rep, and he emails me the link to get the drivers.... but for the wrong model. So I email him again and post the complete model number. And he replies back to say "is not sold in the U.S. region you must have..." another model... Doesn't sound so bad but after figuring out that MSI was labelling their notebooks with the wrong model number, we were able to get the correct BIOS to fix the issue. And to continue with MSI, there was another instance where the BIOS update on the P4M900M2-L motherboards would render them "hosed" aka they wouldn't boot after running the BIOS update. We had encountered that only twice, then suddenly we blew through 7 motherboards that couldn't handle their own BIOS update. So we emailed their support again, and they sent us a "new" BIOS update, but the problem was... it was the exact same file we were already using. The fact that this "new" update worked on the next board we tried meant absolutely nothing since it works about 70% of the time. The fault here was that we noticed that multiple boards of the same revision had different circuit layouts on it. Of course "we were mistaken" and their idea is that we were at fault in incorrectly flashing the BIOS on at least 7 boards... The battle continues. And then there is AOpen, another company failing in labelling their products correctly. We received a batch of the DE-945FX "Digital Engine" machines that had a red light on the front. Well since we never seen this before, and the revision changed, I was given the task of calling in and verifying what this light was, and if it was bad or not. To begin with, AOpen claimed this was not a "Digital Engine" even though it uses the Digital Engine naming convention. That aside, the first response was "I don't know". That was not a good answer to us, so I called back. There I got a "we can't figure it out because ours does not look like what you are saying" and "we will research and call you back." Well that call-back never happened, and 6 business days later I called them again. So I am talking to the rep, and I then say "does this light have anything to do with the remote it comes with?" and the rep says "This model does not come with a remote." So my response was "I am pretty sure it does" and he says "you must be mistaken". So I say "OK well I am looking at the open box and it comes with a remote, batteries and some cable." But the rep was clearly confused or had no idea what model I had in front of me. Forget the fact that we had 2 models that looked different and had the same model numbers. He put me on hold and went to talk to someone, then came back and said "yes, that must be it." And that is how it was left... I must say tho, AOpen products do come with some amusing documentation...

Not to mention a commercial internet account with your ISP!

OK I noticed that your computer and your girlfriend's are on different scopes. By that I mean that one is 192.169.1.x and the other is 192.168.0.x. Answer the following: 1. What was your girlfriend's computer hooked up to before being connected to the router? 2. Have you rebooted your computer after connecting it to the router? 3. What is the model number of the router? Explanation: It looks like your computer is still using the IP address that it was assigned by the DSL/Cable modem. Try to release your IP and restart, do this on each computer. Do not renew the IP, Windows will handle that for you. Windows ICF (Internet Connection Firewall) should not be causing a problem with pinging the machines. Windows XP Home has very limited file sharing troubleshooting. 4. DO you have any other firewalls or Internet Security programs running on either computer? 5. Can either of the computers access the internet when connected this way? 6. Did you unpower the DSL/Cable modem before connecting the router to it? I am not sure about DSL modems, but cable modems learn the MAC address of the device it is connected to. So if you unplug your computer and connect a router, the modem will not recognise the new device until it is rebooted. Here is a rundown for steps to try. 1. Run the following commands on both computers from the command prompt. Post any errors you receive. a. ipconfig -release b. arp -d 2. Unplug the power from the modem. If your modem has a power or reset swtich, do not use them. unplug only. 3. Make sure the router is unplugged/off and connect to the modem. 4. Connect each computer to the router. 5. Plug in the power for the modem. Wait until all the lights are on that indicate normal/connected operation. 6. Turn on/plug in the router. 7. Reboot both computers. 8. When each comes up, gather the following: a. what the IP address is (subnet mask is not required) b. see if they can connect to the internet. Post the results of this, or any errors/messages you receive. You may get a message back when you run the 'arp -d' but you do not need to report that.

OK first of all, you said this will be for website testing. The main factor here will be what your projected server load will be. The website you put up on there, will it be accessed by many people at once, by just your computer or your lan? If you aren't going to be making this available to the entire internet to see, don't worry about getting a good server and you can just use the requirements that your software needs. If this is a server that will host a website that will be accessable from the internet, providing you aren't using a residential internet account to do so, then you should get a higher-end device. If you do have a residential internet account, shame on you.

I have a drive image for Ghost that is has 3 files, in VPC, ghost would time or give an error somewhere in the 2nd spanned file. THis was when all 3 files were put on a DVD. When I used the fshare, Ghost timed out when it couldn't find the second spanned file (although it was in the same folder). I tried WinPE in VPC because I also have a WIM of the image, but the WIM is on the hard drive and I couldn't get VM additionals to work and let me see the local folder.

If you are on a network that has more than 5 computers, you should get Windows XP Pro.

Not only must file and printer sharing be turned on for both, but also CLient for Microsoft Networks. They both need to be on the same workgroup for them to appear in My Network Places, but they should still be accessable to each other anyways. Both computers will need to be sharing a folder as well.

Since Virtual PC 2007 does not work with Win PE properly, are there any other VM software out there I can use to deploy a WIM file? I need one for testing since Ghost did not work properly in VPC.

I was looking in the AIK manual and found this section: winpeshl.ini. Maybe something can be done with that?

Try right-click on the drive and choose Disconnect. It might be a network drive. EDIT: or it is a camera or other USB device.

There is no fake bluescreen. Turn your computer on and do the F8 to get the Windows Boot Menu (how you would go to safe mode). Choose the option to not reboot on failure, then when you boot up, it will show you the blue screen and not reboot.

You will need to use a switch. Or if you need to use the hub, you will have to give the Windows 2000 computer a static IP, and make a static IP on your NIC that is not on the domain. It should work that way. ALso, your hub needs to support the network speed of the 2 NICs in each machine. So if each computer has a 10/100 NIC, then the hub needs to be either 10/100 or auto-sensing with 10/100 capability. If the W2K machine has a 10/100 nic, and the hub is 10/100, but the NIC in your production box is gigabit, it isn't going to work.

I use a 256MB Memorex USB 2.0 drive that work has provided me. I use it for storing data, flashing bioses, ghosting machine, running NTFS DOS and more. It works really well by itself. It has survived many a fall. The only time I have had these die on me is because of faulty hardware on some computers.

You only need to do the F6 (typically) is if the HDC isn't supported by default or you are running in RAID or AHCI mode. The fact that your machine can get past the formatting phase indicates that there isn't a problem with that. You can try it tho if you need to. If you have another DVD-ROM drive, you can try that, it sounds like you are experiencing read errors. You can also try a different hard drive cable as well. Are you using a hard drive controller PCI card at all? ANd this Windows disc, is it a retail disc?