Recent content by georgewel

Don't ever wait for the next operating system because most companies won't know what the final product will look like and I have never bet on the day it will come out. After all operating systems are compromises and don't always end up in the driection they were headed.

A windows small business server sounds like the best thing for you. Windows server 2003 would probably work fine. The server would contain the main files you need and provide a platform to do remote connects and backups of your critical files. You could alos have a small mail server operating...

Some SATA drives have jumpers for setting the speed of the SATA may not be answer but worth a look see.

Raid 0,1, or 5, 10. If I am looking for reliablity use a older typically slower proven drive. If you are looking for speed the larger faster drive is the one you need. Tom's hardware has a great comparison of drive performances if you want to check out their ideas. Good Luck

Most new processors like cooling. Running any power CPU without the fan cycling will ruin the processor. Even though they have thermal failsafes in the unit doing without a fan will eventually damage the CPU. Try to manually set the hard drive parameters in the BIOS using the hard drive's...

Try Casper no pun intended. It run while the OS is functional. Then all you have to do is run sysprep after you move the drive to a new machine. It is kinda like going around the barn to get there but it does work! Good Luck

I don't think the board processor or hard drive are bad. Try this. Reset you CMOS, next when you start the unit go directly into the BIOS and manually set the hard drive to the proper setting. You may have to look up the hard drive's specifications to know what you want. I have ran into this...

The RAM answer is the right answer. Remember during the first install prior to picking the drive everything is loading into memory.

disconnect all power except to the motherboard and the processor power then reset the CMOS to see if yoyu get by the post and start looking for the hard drive

Reset the CMOS put the orginal memory stick back in. I have seen this before and for some reason the CMOS gets confused. I install new memory everyday and have seen this resolve the issue more then once

Your hard drive could be the problem but I sure would try some other things first. knowing the operating system would help but here are a few suggestions. Tey running a chech disk to see if it will be repairable. Next try to repair the Operating System using its repair facilities. Or try using...

Best to reinstall. But you might just buy a small hard disk drive and install on this new drive and use the old drive as a slave where you could then move some programs and data to where you want. I have tried to do the things you asked and have been successful however it took alot of time.

don't need floppies but can use cd of OS where you can run command console from. The cd also will allow for a repair

+GO to manufacturer of hard drive and he will provide a hard disk drive testing softwatre, some have on-line testing software such as Seagate

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=525074 gOOD ARTICALE OF SLOW BOOTING xp BY THE WAY i HAVE SEEN THIS ON SEVERAL amd COMPUTERS