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Thanks for replying I worked it out, made a boot disk and sent him that via another pc, then got him to boot from it and run regedit and import the hive he'd changed. All is well now, he's more than 100miles from me so I had no choice but to talk him thru it, and it's cost him at least a days...

I think the guys learnt his lesson. He cant use his system at all. (just logs off in safe mode or standard, and restore doesnt work either) What I need to know is if there is a way to load the registry off the drive thats been corrupted into regedit so that it can be repaired and then stored...

Hi Someones phoned me up, he's edited something to do with his "hiberfil.sys" file. Now the system just logs on and the logs straight off. He needs to edit his registry in dos mode, but when he goes to run any prog at the dos prompt (booted from xp cd) he just gets command not recognised...

Since posting the original thread I have started to use K-Lite Codec Pack available from: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm This has most required codecs and players as listed below: >> Features: * BSplayer [version 1.00.808] * Media Player Classic [version 6.4.8.2] * DivX Pro...

ASPI is used by IDE devices, and this does stop many writers from working ! --------------- Johnodq --------------- Please let me know if the advice I give is of help. Feedback will benefit all Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply. Help...

You might need to check the ASPI layer, a new version with installation and diagnostics is available from: http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/drivers_by_product.jsp?sess=no&language=English+US&cat=%2FProduct%2FASPI-4.70&prodkey=Windows+ASPI+Package Writing software often writes some aspi...

Since posting that tip, I've had to install the AC3 audio codec as one batch of files didn't have any sound until I did so, but other than that everything else has so far worked fine. --------------- Johnodq --------------- Please let me know if the advice I give is of help. Feedback will...

After installing many systems and having loads of problems getting media files to play with various codec combinations I now use BSPlayer which so far plays everything without the need for any codecs installed at all. It has played mpeg, divx, xvid, ffdshow and ac3 files all on a clean...

try installing them, just go into the network properties and add protocol, microsoft, ipx, then unbind them. --------------- Johnodq --------------- Please let me know if the advice I give is of help. Feedback will benefit all Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my...

I ran Duke Nukem on 3 machines that ran 98 for years, the thing I found that made most games more relaible was to unbind the IPX driver, games such as Commando's wouldn't work when the bindings were on but worked fine once unbound. I never needed to use just DOS, and this is a solution that...

You could try "AUTOPATCHER" available from http://www.autopatcher.com/ This has virtually every patch available and a lot of performance tweaks aswell, but I suggest that if you use it know what the patches are because it does a lot you might not require (as does windows update), ie: it...

Oops, sorry didn't notice it was a P4 not a Intel 64, but as paparazi said if it's for gaming then the AMD will be better. --------------- Johnodq --------------- Please let me know if the advice I give is of help. Feedback will benefit all Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my...

The Intel chips have NO support for 32bit os's/apps but the AMD's will run 32bit os's/apps aswell as 64bit, if you don't want to invest in all new 64bit software then AMD is the better option. I would suggest that you look at the sites for the respective manufacturers to help you decide...

Also just thought, how are you running Fdisk ? If you are in Dos or 9x then you will need DOSMode drivers for your scsi card. --------------- Johnodq --------------- Please let me know if the advice I give is of help. Feedback will benefit all Any advice I give is my best judgement based on...

Well as I've had no replies, I thought I'd post the solution for anyone else with a similar problem. The problem is with the S-Video to Scart adapter. The details and a cable to sort the problem can be found here. http://www.svideo.com/svideoscart.html --------------- Johnodq...