Recent content by jimsav

Eureka!! Went into the software forum of this site, and saw a problem that mentioned HAL and the problem with ACPI compliance. By pressing F5 when it asks to Press F6 on th windows setup, i have managed to load XP. Thanks for trying to help everybody. Jim

Thanks for all of the suggestions folks , but no luck. i have used ram that i know works. i have changed all ide cables. i have used new cd drive. i have stripped down to bare system. i have checked all bios settings. no new hardware has been added to pci slots. I guess that there was some...

Hi all, changed cables, used a new drive in the machine, drained the m'board and put back to default settings. Still no good. The drives work in other machines. A drive i have with windows me on it works in the failing machine. Is it possible that there is a conflict between the m/b and a...

I have tried all o f the above suggestions - and no difference i am afraid. I have taken the drive out of my PC which works perfectly (XP) and this comes up as a disc error when i try to install it in my friends PC. When i put in another drive that has windows ME as the operating system, it...

Hi folks, last year i made up a budget system for a friend comprising motherboard ASRock K7S41GX, Athlon XP2000 and Windows XP professional.. The system worked straight away with no problems. However due to th efriend 'playing' with it (including loading SP2- but dont know if this is...

Hi, Looking for some help and advice in setting up Raid on my PC. M/b is Gigabyte GA7N400 Pro2. O/S is Windows XP I have loaded drivers for Gigaraid successfully. I have loaded the Raid management software. I am trying to set up a normal array as I only want to be able to use 3 hard...

No, but it certainly does seem like the k'board is not communicating with the m'board. I have tested the k'board on another pc amd it is ok.

Hi I am having great problems trying to mend a friends PC. First problem was an error message <windows root>\system 32\ ntoskrnl.exe - please replace this file. I tried to get into BIOS to change settings so that I could boot from XP cd and go into recovery panel. However it would not...

I put it in mine as i was having trouble doing it in my sons. Since your reply i decided to try to format the driv ein my sons pc, but when i turn it on it is only getting as far as checking nvram' on the start up screen (just after 'Athlon XP 1700'). It will not go any further than this. Any...

My son had a PC that was running Windows ME but kept hanging up and needed closing down every 5 or 10 minutes. I formatted the C drive and loaded XP Professional onto it. When i put the hard drive into my PC it works perfectly. However when i put it back into my sons PC the PC will boot up only...

Murray, Thanks for that info. I was not able to reformat and set up XP until i had turned the ACPI off in the BIOS, but as soon as i did this it loaded OK. Unfortunately, although i have now gone back into the bios and enabled it, the PC will still not power off. when i go into Power Options in...

Thanks Ed There is no problem with the pc powering back upwhen i hit the rear switch - it turns off as it should do. An it turns back on via the front 'on switch as it should do.it is only the fact that it needs switching off from the power supply burtton at the back which is a problem. could...

I have have just updated a friends PC with new m/board and processor etc. However when windows shuts down the PC will not power off. A screen comes up with the message 'It is now saf to turn off your cmputer'. The only way to close down the PC is by switching it off at the back. The operating...

I have a pc that has been running on Windows ME. This was preloaded when i bought it and i just have a system recovery disc. I put a new hard drive in and decided to load windows XP pro. However, after loading windows files onto the newly formatted disc, the pc gets to the stage where it in the...

thank you both for taking the time to reply. i will stick to what i have got i think. BTW, i do have a firewire port already. Cheers Jim