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nope. im not. anyway, guys, i think i solved the problem. i think its an incompatibility issue between the NEc drive and nforce 3 IDE drivers. with the driver the DVD wont work. if i uninstall it it works.

btw, both PC's have win xp sp2 installed.

i actually installed win xp using that dvd drive. even used it to boot the win xp cd. but after winxp got installed i noticed it started to act up.

i've recently built myself a rig. the specs: a64 3200 MSI K8n Neo2 bios v. 1.4 6800 ultra 36 gb raptor 160 WD PATA 200 maxtor PATA my problem is my NEC DVD RW drive wont work. i hooked it up as secondary slave with 200 WD PATA as secondary master. i replaced the writer with a Lite-on CD...

hi! thanks for replying. i did the same workgroup name. ahm, is that the same as hostname? what other options should i check on the firewall? should i set eth0 to trusted? one more thing would mandrake be easier? thanks![afro2]

hi all! i have a winxp PC and a red hat 9 PC. both connected to the internet thru a linksys router. the red hat9 PC has 3 HD's each 6 gig in size. 2 of the HD i formatted as fat32. what im trying to do is do file sharing between red hat and winxp with the HD in the linux machine formatted as...

thanks creamcake! oh yeah my video and audio are separate.

update: ok if i disable SSID broadcast my wireless just cant detect anything. but if i enable broadcast i see an available signal .

ok, first i had problems with repeated disconnections with my wireless router. i then solved it by disabling WEP. now i have a new problem. my wireless USB isnt even picking up any wireless networks around(there's 2 more in our area). ARRGG!!! the other day, everything went fine. no problem...

does these two mix well? or is it a no-no? thanks!

chill99, i used to have the same problem. i solved it by disabling WEP.

OMG! so joeAB2M, what do you suggest should an ordinary user like me should do? short of disabling all wireless :( i got 128 bit encryption, plus all the othere settings mentioned above, am i ok?

hmmm. im not sure, but i think you should hear only one beep. after the beep you should see the bios post. if you hear one beep followed by another beep after a while it sounds like spontaneous rebooting to me...symptom of a bad ram(if windows wasnt installed yet). can you provide us specs of...

thanks for the replies guys! 'will follow :)

try this http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b145799