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BIOS Upgrade gone wrong
My coomputer is a Gateway product and is running an Intel D845PT chipset with an AMI BIOS. The BIOS has never been upgraded since I bought in 2001. I ran the ExpressUpgrade for this chipset provided by Intel. Of course after the fact, I read some more documentation suggesting to get the...- BRen13
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- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
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Removing WINNT folder
I recently had my system crash on me and had to re-install XP (Home Edition). In doing so I mistakenly installed it again in the same partition. In removing the corrupt version thought I eliminated all the old folders that were associate with it. However, I failed to remove the WINNT folder...- BRen13
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- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
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Two versions of XP in same partition, need tu remove one
I have two versions of XP Home Edition installed in the same partition. One being corrupted the other perfectly fine and running better than ever! NoobX and bcastner have helped me resolve some issues and provided some great help and resources. Thanks again guys! Now I would like to remove...- BRen13
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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Associating Files with XP
I run XP Home Edition and recently ran into a problem with my system not starting. The stop message I received was "stop: 0XC0000008E(0XC0000005, 0X8060AB13, 0XF76089AC, 0X00000000)" which I could only troubleshoot down to corruput or missing drivers. Since my OS is an OEM product I tried to...- BRen13
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
