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Can't boot at all? Let me get this right because I am confused. When you boot the PC the screen is immediately w*****s? Or right before windows loads the screen goes w*****s? Try this cause it will not hurt. Turn the PC off and turn it back on again. Completely off and wait about 10 seconds before turning it back on again okay. The first thing you should see is the Video card information displayed across the top of the screen. It comes up quick so look for it closely. Then wait to see if it boots normally. If not repeat the process and after the Video Card info disapears start hitting the key to enter the BIOS. In the BIOS, look for a "Safe Mode" setting. Change the BIOS to "Safe Mode" and save and exit. Get back to us okay.

Try #7 Gamehead. The magic number! If that does not work try 0-9 till it boots. Also set your mobo BIOS to boot from first SCSI device. Thats what I had to do.

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This is USB 2.0. Does your Dell and your laptops support USB 2.0? If no. Then the speed will be knocked down, USB 1.1 limits speeds to 4x4x6. Otherwise, you have to install USB 2.0 controllers in the Dell to include your other PCs. Meaning you defeated your own purpose of having a fast burner within your home. Do your friends laptops support 2.0? Good luck with old laptops. This drive requires a PII 300 or faster computer, 64MB RAM in the raw, and with WinXP it requires 128 MB RAM. It only works with Win98 and higher. Is the Case robust - you gonna drop it? Do you have to carry it around in a suit case or will it fit in your backpack without weighing a ton. Alone it weighs 1.7 kg (drive only). Notebook, Burner, Cable, Software, Blank CDs, what else. All heavy stuff champ. Looks good if all you want to do is move it between your home PCs. On the road it will look good but your going to need a mule or dumb blonde to carry it for you. Get a blonde for Christmas dude ... moBetta w00t

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All good advice from FthrJack. The network concept works. The tray concept works to. Install some cheap hard drive trays in the open bays. Instead of a hard drive use the burner. Real easy. Lots of options. Are you going to be using the burner outside your home? Maybe you need a notebook. Remember that burners will not last forever. Even in a notebook make sure the burner is user replaceable. Maybe a stand-alone burner with a PC interface. I like the stand-alone burners, but expensive! The ones with two CD drives, one drive for reading and the other for burning. Just pop in a CD and press one button. Done Deal! The ones with the PC interface allow you to burn from the PC to the unit. Some even come with hard drives! The better ones are PnP by the way. Connect it to a PC or notebook and WinXP automatically recognizes it. About the size of a shoe box and completely mobile. I have had external burners for my personal use and they are slow like FthrJack said. Remember that all that back and forth data involves a cable which is just one more bottleneck in the path. Yes, they are mobile and the good ones are expensive. Most require proprietary software to be installed on the source PC to work at all. That means that everytime you want to burn something from a friend/business associates notebook or PC you have to install the software. Do you and your friends really want to do that?

Tris, I talked to my friend in Tennessee about exporting to the UK / Europe and it looks dismal. The export taxes and associated costs are off the scale for a low volume home business. She looked at it once in the past and did the math. Basically, no profit. Her high-end cases (not even close to the quality of ChiefTech) cost her about $45.00 per case with raw goods, labor, minimal marketing, shipping, insurance etc., (overhead). They decided to fabricate a standard case, mod the front as necessary, and contract out to Fujitsu and Packard HELL. The majority of her production goes to backfill for those two companies. Steady income in any event.

I agree with with Conan's suggestion. ASUS is a long established motherboard manufacturer internationally known to motherboard enthusiast for quality, performance, and support. ASUS often leads the industry. Here are some retail quotes from Europe. Priced in EURO which is equal to the USD. You will find them much cheaper in the U.S. P4T533 (U133 RAID und Sound) Intel i850E ATX Socket 478 100-133 MHz (Quadpumped) 209.00 EUR P4T533-C (LAN and Sound) Intel i850E ATX Socket 478 100-133 MHz (Quadpumped) 204.00 EUR P4T533-C (Sound) Intel i850E ATX Socket 478 100-133 MHz (Quadpumped) 189.00 EUR P4T533 (includes 256 MB RDRAM PC1066) (U-133 RAID and Sound) Intel i850E ATX Socket 478 100-133 MHz (Quadpumped) 329.00 EUR P4T533 (includes 512 MB RDRAM PC1066) (U-133 RAID and Sound) Intel i850E ATX Socket 478 100-133 MHz (Quadpumped) 499.00 EUR The main feature these boards have in common is the Intel 850E Chipset. The main differences are the features i.e. (Sound) as an example. Simply choose the feature set you desire and your all set. This is a high-end board, so the cost is high-end as well. ASUS will not come cheap! More than a few people on this forum use this board or are getting it for Christmas by the way.

Quality, durability, reliability for the lowest price is dependent on the individual parts. PC manufacturer's have to find a balance between quality parts (name brand components) and lesser quality parts (generic brand components) to sell the end product at a low/competitive price to consumers. Therefore, you will be hard pressed to find a high quality pre-made PC at a low price. Only, by building your own PC at your own specifications will you obtain a high quality, durable, and reliable PC. Exceptions to the rule do exsist as members previously suggested, Dell, Alien Ware, and Falcon NW. The alternative to building your own PC is to have a well know PC Builder do it for you. There are online configurators available at major manufacturer web sites (any of the poll choices) where you may select from a limited range of parts and they will assemble it for you. In your quest to obtain your product you will find that PCs often fail due to the weakest link, i.e. weakest part. A pre-made system at a low price will obviously contain weak parts. A pre-made system at a higher cost and has received good reviews will not contain a collection of weak parts. Look for a system that has a name brand power supply and motherboard as a minimal. Visit the suggested PC Maker's web sites and examine the system specifications. Compair those specs to any low cost PC and you will see the difference. Be advised that most low cost systems do not even list the name brands of the individual parts. The reason is obvious as you know. TigerDirect.com is a good starting point for a variety of pre-built low end PCs in the U.S., but be selective.

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Happy Holidays FthrJack. Thanks for a wonderful year. Looking forward to next year

McAfee SpamKiller, McAfee SpamKiller Web Site, Approximately $40.00 USD I just installed McAfee SpamKiller this afternoon and have been using it with success. It may become a permanent addition to my software collection. However, I want to use it for a few more days before I commit to it. Basically, it scans my email at my mail server before it is downloaded to my hard drive via Microsoft Outlook 2002. The mail is filtered based on settings I choose or by McAfee SpamKiller's default settings that are pretty good. The mail is displayed in a easy to understand GUI for my examination. Here, I decide if I want to accept the email, delete it, assign a filter, and more. Remember, the email is still on the email server. If I decide to delete the email it is deleted before it arrives to my hard drive and if I decide to accept the email it is scanned by Norton AntiVirus as soon as it is on my hard drive. Yepper, Norton AntiVirus is my anti-virus software and works perfectly with McAfee SpamKiller. As with any new software it takes a little bit of getting used to but the learning curve is easy. The appearance is much like Outlook 2002 but much simpler. This program stands between my PC and my email server in a non-obtrusive way. It sounds-off when a new email hits my email server which is a nice touch, but may be obtrusive to some people. There is an option to turn the sound off if it bothers you. Outlook may do pretty much the same thing as far as filtering is concerned, but this is much simpler and I like it. From the McAfee.com SpamKiller Web Site: Benefits - Block emails using both lists and preset filters - Update internal filters automatically - Filter MSN/Hotmail, POP3 and MAPI email - Create custom filters - Quarantine spam outside of your inbox - Import "friends" automatically into your safe list - Monitor and filter multiple email accounts - Fight back against spammers System Requirements - A POP3, MSN/Hotmail or MAPI email account - Most Internet email systems use POP3 accounts. - Important: SpamKiller filters MSN/Hotmail, but currently does not filter AOL, Yahoo or other Web-based email. - Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000 or XP - 5MB free hard disk space McAfee SpamKiller Web Site

I did that once. It has been over a year since I did it. Microsoft had editable templates at their web site free to download. They probally still have them. I use FrontPage for that purpose now.

Yes, unless you set it up differently through the Admin Panel. Keep in mind that one of the accounts will not have full privilages. I use fast user switiching. It keeps things tidy. Some of the other things include games. Since each user account can be setup to use different resolutions and hardware profiles and not all games are compatiable with my optimal settings that comes in handy. Also, when I serve, I have a user account for that with protected folders, etc. But I don't do that to often because I have a seperate PC for serving. Just when I am in a pinch for time. Big hard drives here. LOL. I also use hard drive trays. When I want to boot to a hard drive with special stuff *cough* I have different user accounts for that to. But each hard drive has a full installtion of XP on it. Say, for serving mails, with customized email accounts. The great thing about user accounts is you have a lot of options when it comes to software and hardware profiles.

After running third party utilities it is difficult to suggest a fix because the utilities may interfere with the solution. If it was my PC ( it is a PC I assume - not a MAC ) I would un-install the utilities and rerun setup from the Windows CD. Alternately, you can insert the XP CD in the drive and run sfc /scannow in the run shell. Without more details regarding the software and hardware configuration to include how you installed Windows this will at least put you in order. Let us know and stay with us as we can work it out. Welcome to MSFN mishac

It is fast thats for sure and looks nice. Welcome to MSFN

I had that same problem with Windows staging the files and I was unable to burn with NERO. Took me better part of an hour mucking around the GUI till I figured it out. Forgot how I cleared them. I think I noticed it when I was in control panel but not sure. Anyway, I created a user account just for burning with Roxio and another just for burning with NERO. Keeps things tidy.

Nice post Dragons. I took the liberty of editing and moving the topic as you requested. Wish I had it. M$ says I have to wait 4-5 weeks for the CD. Keep us informed please.

May also need to delete IE cookies and files. Tools > Internet Options > Temporary Files. Be sure to close the browser and reopen it after doing the above. If that does not work open Windows Explorer ( Not Internet Explorer) and manually delete the temporary cache files. May just be a corrupted directory. Reboot Windows and the directory will be rebuilt automatically. Check your page file and virtual memory settings as well. They may need adjusting. Lots of things. Let us know. New PC right? What did you get? Tell us about it.

Snake Inside ... or ... Intel Inside I wonder if something was going wrong with the PC and they opened it to fix it just to find a snake. Possibly pulled the PC out to take off the side and that snake was hanging out like that. Jesus, I would crap all over myself. I hate snakes.

What a woman huh. I'd pay good money for that w00t

Flier that is excellent quality. If I had access to that quality then yes I would change my mind.

Tris, he paid about US $2,000.00 for the press and assorted tools from DRMO, Defense Reutilization Marketing Office. Your Naval DRMO in the UK: Defense Reutilization and Marketing, MOLESWORTH, Sales 44-1480-84-2632, Hours 0800-1630 Huntingdon, UK, (RAF Molesworth). You would be surprised at what you can get at the public auctions. I paid $400.00 for a 1989 Chevy Pick-up truck in 1997 that had about 8,000 miles on it. Sold it for $1300.00 same week. Picked up a ESDS Work Bench for $250.00 "Brand New" still in the crates and sold it for $1600.00 same week! Call them or make a visit and I bet you will be real surprised. Have them email you the Sales List.

Its nice. No Link? I made it my desktop wallpaper anyway. Nice.