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I have a friend who has an old Gateway computer with a Intel Atlanta AL440LX mobo. He has an Intel II with an effective clock of 64MHz running Windows 98 (it may be SE). He wants to get a little more system speed from his computer and I told him he should try to upgrade his mobo, CPU, and OS to...

I only had the one reboot, which was when Windows was automatically downloading the drivers for my C-Media soundcard. Obviously due to the age and low value of this card that is understandable. So after some research I am keeping an eye on a couple Creative SoundBaster Audigy2 ZS sound cards on...

After that I ran Windows scandisk, which reported no errors. either. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I see here it appears my HD is ok.

This is the results of the Sea Tools tests (I ran the full tests which took about an hour): SeaTools Desktop v3.02.04 Copyright (c) 2005 Kroll Ontrack Inc. 6/15/2006 @ 12:39 PM The following information has been generated by SeaTools Desktop. Use this information to help you recognize and...

kjv, thanks for your excellent help. I went to the SeaGate site and downloaded their SeaTools HD utility to a floppy, which I can use to check the HD for bad sectors upon rebooting (with the floppy in). I also scheduled a Windows scandisk of the drive upon reboot. I think I will do the Windows...

Sorry, kjv. I didn't mean for my reply to sound so rude. I should know better than to post before I get my first cup of coffee , lol. I gathered from all of this that my HD was infected with an MBR virus, but I'm not sure there are any bad sectors. The event manager is not showing as many error...

No. C-Media is my sound card. A friend gave it to me because I was looking for something better than my onboard audio (which is SoundMAX). As for the bad hard drive we've been through this already (that's what this entire thread was about) and I ran FDISK to fix this problem.

While reinstalling programs and such after the FDISK fiasco, I had Windows search for the best drivers for my C-Media soundcard. While it was downloading the drivers my computer crashed. When I came back to the desktop a message said Windows had just recovered from a critical system error. It...

I wanted to let you all know that the computer is running a little faster now. I have installed my Creative Suite and even that appears to be moving faster. So far so good. I want to thank all of you again for your excellent help.

Thanks, kjv. Can you recommend a good router? I used to have a Linksys, which seemed pretty good, but I've also heard good things about Netgear routers, too.

I have cable internet with the cable modem. I have not had any of those pop-up messages since installing SP2. I'm wondering if it's because of Windows firewall (that was installed with SP2). Freestone, thanks for that link. Now I'm wondering if the Windows firewall is adequate. Obviously I am...

I checked Services and Laa1erps is no longer there. Also, I was able to format my drive with NTSF, and the drive is reporting a correct size at 250GB. So it seems to have worked pretty well. I will finish up the job when I get home tomorrow. Thanks to all of you for your awesoem help. I could...

I installed the SP2 update (I have the CD) and the warning messages have stopped. I'm still concerned about this, but having run fdisk my HD should be clean. Right? So now I will install Photoshop and everything else and see if this entire sleepless day has been in vain.

I ran FDISK (using the Windows ME boot disc version), but I've run into a few snags. The first time I did it I had two drives in My Computer - C drive was blank, and everything was on D drive. So I ran FDISK again. This time checking with FDISK to make sure my drive letter was correct before...

Thanks. Ok, here we go ... I'll post again with my results.