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I have a new HP laptop with Vista Home pro. I am trying to install programs or edit the start-up and Vista keeps saying I am not an adminisrator. There is only on accout and control panels says its an admin (only one account it has to have admin rights). Any ideas?

Thanks, are the SATA drivers specific to Dell or generic should work? Dell BIOS is very generic, I dont see an option to change it to native mode..

I am trying to boot off the XP CD to get to recovery console to fix NTFS errors using chkdsk. Whene the XP CD loads on any menu choice, new install, R for repair I get a message XP does not see the hard drive. I can see it enabled in BIOS and my NTFS reader sees the drive and files. Any idea why...

ok,, thanks IT DMA/UDMA settings? where dio I find those?

I am getting these pop ups indicating disk Delayed Write failed errors on my HD. I have 2 partitions on it C and H. only H is giving the errors nothing on C. Being its the same physical disk, it seems odd only one partition has the errors. Ive checked the IDE cable and BIOS. CHKDSK /f shows no...

Every time i boot up I get - BIOS auto-revovering. This happens thru 12-15 cycles of recovery , poweroff and restart until the BIOS loads. All settings are intact and the PC works fines after the 20 minute recovery. I changed the BIOS battery. Any thoughts of what is causeing this and how to fix...

Is there a way to get detail on pending windows updates being push out by MS. WHile some are security updates I am wondering if an update caused my mouse and window clicks to change. Before if I right clicked and dragged over text and released the mouse ,text would highlight to copy or delete...

Whenever I am downloading thru bittorrent peer client and I start to surf through the IE browser at the same time, the US Robotics cable modem resets. The DL/Upload widow only says 10k/sec DL. The data reveive LED on the modem is solid constantly when DL...any ideas? I hate to call...

I did a warehouse upgrade last year. No question to go LCD. My decison was based on 1) all those spares you have...look at all the space they take up...time to clean out the closet sort of speak. 2) I replaced 100 CRTS on 24/7..power saving. 3) Warehouse is next to RR tracks and the trains...

yes CD and DVR are disks written using Nero. This is the same CD_ROM used to burnd them. I updated the NEC drivers. I am assuming the CDs are good because I put them in another computer and the files are there in explorer. Bizzare thing is when I put a music CD , explorere still doesnt see...

I just did a MB replacement and XP reinstall. All smooth except this problem. CD and DVDs with data are blank in explorer and othere third party apps. CD media is fine and checked on another PC. Music CDs play with no problem. Any ideas on this one? CDROM is a NEC_2200

No, windows is reinstalling files off the WIN XP CD and reboots, when it reboots it comes back to the installation and is asking for the ASMS on WINXP pro SP1. The ASMS file is under the i386 folder on the Install CD. I was wondering why is cant read it. It loaded the files off the CD fine...

i did the Shift 10 to get to the command line but it doesnt see the CD rom at all. I tried ever drive letter in the alphabet.

I swapped Mobo's and doing an update to an existing install of XP. Now its asking for the SP1 CD to load file ASMS. It gives locations D:\I386 or a:\ . Click ok and nothing. Copied the ASMS folder off the XP gold original to a floppy and A:\ - nada Any ideas what is looking for and where to...

I had the same problem and mine was caused by the BIOS looking at the wrong HD to boot from. Simple check but see if your BIOS has a "HD Boot Order" section.