TomBilliodeaux

When I installed the Abit mobo and the cpu did not revert to the default, something had happened to it so as to make it faulty. It was set at 933/133 which is oc from 700/100. For some reason bios was written by XP so as to set it and not allow bios to change it. Only after I changed the dip swithes from soft to manual was I able to reset the cpu and then contol it again by bios software. XP did this somehow that I cannot explain. Its errors were in fact real and caused it to not transfer files correctly concerning the IDE channel. It was causing files to be not recognized randomly. I believe this is purposely installed by MS because of so many people experienced similar problems. It goes well with MS's attempt to control install ability when one changes hardware. I own registered products and admire MS for a fabulous work with XP. I can't immagine being able to produce such a software that will install on EVERYONES systems with all their different variety of hardware and do so well. But please acknowledge these problems and tell us or warn what will happen as these problems occur. So beware of reinstalls if you change hardware around like i do. :hohum :spaced FINALLY INSTALLED. tombilliodeaux@hotmail.com EDIT: looking over my noted, I remember an incident that may hold MS xp blameless: I installed a usb cdrw that was faulty. The drive smoked and crashed the computer! Literlally burned up. It was shortly after that incident that problems began with the ide reading/writing. (isn't it human to blame others). While the problems were not immediatly noticeable, they became only evident when installing an o/s for some reason I can't explain.

Thanks but that was what I was trying to do with the 98 install that did not install. But you may be inferring to a bad hdd as the reason it did not install. At this point I have replaced the mobo with an Abit Se6 (that previously would not post due to this original problem that began with XP crashing). I just got it to post by reverting allowing all to sit for a few days (really only needed a few hours to cool down) and I changed the bios setting to revert to default (no oc). This booted it up. I am getting the feeling this is a cpu problem. This mobo is booting fine and running the 10gb with xp installed on it fine. But so was the Gigabyte mobo. I will try installing using this mobo and no oc'ing. The gigabyte was locked in on 933/133 setting for the p700 processor and I could not get it to boot up without oc'ing for some reason. This Abit board tried to do the same thing at first attempt to boot. Will post my results but at this point it seems NOT to be the hdd.

I don't know what XP did to this system or hdd, but I cannot install any o/s to it. It is a fairly new 30gb Maxtor that has been low level formatted and checks good using the Maxtor Utilities. I have wiped my bios and reflashed it. Turned off Virus protection in bios. Using one stick of memory that runs XP well. Unplugged everything except cdrom, hdd, bothl on Primary Channel. Hdd partitioned as C: primary, fat32 D: logical fat32 Cannot install to either logical or primary. I have swapped memory locations on mobo with no results. Swapped memory with another system running xp, no results. I have taken this hdd over to another computer that is running xp with an identical Maxtor hdd and swapped hdd. It did not install on that machine either. Errors when transfering files and crashed. I had great difficulty installing W98. Could not install W2k. W98 could not setup itself without many errors and crashes. It is still not fully installed and functionable. Because of the W98 problem, I hesitate to condemn the hdd only. I can use this 30gb, ata 100 hdd as a slave to a 10gb, ata 33 hdd with Wxp installed. this puter will boot up normally and recognize all partitions and function well. Next step is to find another hdd and attempt to install XP on this computer and the other one to see if this is possible. Note that the first install was with the Corporate version that previously installed and is running on the 10gb hdd. The re-install was attempted with my registered Ms XP pro cd as well as the corporate edition cd. My questions are: 1. Why is it that this computer can no longer install a MS o/s product (w98, W2k, Wxp)? 2. Is this hdd bad even though functional in every other area of data transfer?

I'm glad you detailed that all 6 floppies would be used to boot. I made them and never used them and was wondering why so many. I have experienced times when I was glad to have the floppies with W2k, --cd would not be recognized in bios. Its too late to wish you had made them then.

[i:06350537c0]boot your Windows XP CD from the BIOS[/i:06350537c0] I don't know how to boot from bios. Could you please explain?

Will be ok in next version (hopefully), but right now here's its claim: 1. Can't use same device to copy cd. (can't use the cdrw as reader and burner-- must copy the cd to the hdd or have a cdr.) 2. Can't copy music cd's. If you can (and by now are) living with applications that don't have these limitations, keep them. Otherwise it is a nice add on to XP's existing burning application. I find it is rather slow compared to using Nero.

thanks for the link LS. Will give it a try and post later today.

Thank LS You are right, I am relying on the green light and I do believe the connection is still active, as indicated in the icon next to it in the tray. Even so, why is this occuring only when the client is running? After this post, I will go to the client machine and see how long it takes before disabling the connection and try to log what is occuring. Concerning upgrading the softw, I guess I would have to contace BellSouth fastaccess to see it this is available for XP and their Alcatel USB modems.

I am having the same problem with my DSL ICS client. I share my DSL connection using XP on 2 puters, one directly connected via USB Alcatel to BellSouth, client is connected via hub to server both using NIC's. Connection works great as well as LAN. Only problem is with semingly random disconnects that is ONLY corrected by rebooting server. At least I would like to know is how to restart the Inet connection if it is disconnected. I checked all my services before and after a disconnect and do not see any services that are stopped. The disconnect only occurs when the client is using the connection. Also it only occurs when the client is connected but does something (meaning that if the connection is active and client is just sitting there not scrolling to different pages or sites, the connection is not broken). Can there be a conflict concerning Client wanting to be server causing this? I did get an error a few times about this. I know this is not a solution, but rather support for (OUR) problem.