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When booting into XP, everything else loads up fast and no problem. The network connection takes about 1 minute or so to finally load up all of the sudden. (I try to launch pppoe connection when everything is finished loading and it takes about a minute or two to load up, then the dailog box...

1. Can you mix ECC ram with non ecc ram? 2. Is the easiest way to tell what speed your ram is, is by the processor speed? i.e. if its 50 base number (450mhz etc) its pc100, and vice versa for pc 133 ram?

it was the NIC driver, had to manually remove the ghost driver...Guess I should stop assuming when I physically rip out the device its actually out of the system :P

K after the sbc yahoo! dsl installer rebooted the system, it never came up, only can get into safe mode....so I unistalled everything the installer, cleaned out the temp files because the installer puts in a reboot helper in the temp folder, ran msconfig and disabled all start ups, ran ASD, ran...

nevermind...loose cabling... I know the first thing to do was to check cabling...i just needed to know what the signal cable was :P

wtf?? computer says this on boot up... any suggestions on where to start

I have centurytel DSL, one XP machine and one win98 machine with a linksys router http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=296161&pfp=SEARCH OUT OF THE BLUE During the day connectivity is fine, however at nite, when someone is browsing on the XP machine and the 98 is turned...

I do dsl self install support and twice now I have gotten two separate customers with the same issue that even Bob Carrick didn't know what to say (carrick solutions...THE pppoe authority)...anyway, configure new connection, dail into dsl and get error 720 which is no PPP protocols installed or...

not cabling issue, cables are fine and tried the reset

K...had a cable internet connection shared through a router..moved now have dsl..tried to install the router..can't connect to the router's ip to configure and can't run the software, it gets an unable to connect..i notice that the NIC's ip is the windows2000/xp's auto configed ip (169.254.x.x)i...

actually i just threw in the win98se upgrade, but HP is still proprietary BS but the links will definately come in handy anyway (oh and thier tech support sucks a big one too)

sorry i mean PCI system management bus,

reformat HP (i know) where can i find the pci memory bus drivers??? god what a buncha proprietary junk

I'm in training for SBC Yahoo! Dsl support, and the first thing that we suspect (and the only thing that i've learned so far) is a TON of things can interfere with your DSL, a dusk to dawn light, or anything of the sort, especially if you notice it during certian hours, um AM Radio's are the...

lol it was a keyboard problem. . . i noticed it when i used the keyboard on my other 2 computers and they halted(WITH ERROR MESSESGES), the compaq didn't give out any error codes or beeps so i just spend hours trouble shooting memory, pci cards etc. . .oh well lesson learned.