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CA AV 2009 for a few days was turning false positives on 6 Windows files, placing them in quarantine. Solution was to restore these necessary files, and get the CA Updates that corrected the problem...

Hey guys,

I've had two people call me with this problem this morning. What is up with the "Windows File Protection", "a file has been replaced by unrecognized versions", "insert your Windows XP...

Just wanted to update you guys, we got the replacement motherboard, and after a couple of hitches in our giddyup with flashing the BIOS and tweaking the memory voltage, we have a stable system again....

A few of the links provided by the HP business forum had gone stale, but I was amazed at replying to what was an already an old post there to have a tech answer back in an hour with a fresh link! A...

Hi Don,

I did try setting it to "Always dial my default connection" just to make sure it was ignoring the NIC, but as I say for some strange reason, when it dialed ISP #1, after successfully...

P.S. When I say he flashed the BIOS, this was prior to this problem. There was NO way this motherboard was going to get flashed after this current problem. It just would not cycle through it.

We set the BIOS (he flashed the latest version) to defaults, no improvement. He did mess around with BIOS a lot, but defaults, failsafe, no improvement.

All SATA drives were disconnected, all USB,...

I don't think that was it, I had set the Connections tab to dial if a network connection was not present, so that it was covered both ways. When I tried the alternate dialup ISP, it connected via...

Yeah, the HP forum guy was right on the ball here (their own tech). I think I have been able to find all the drivers I need for XP.

Will keep you posted on results.

I just did a google "hp a1710n drivers xp" and the first link is to HP Forum, looks promising.

Hi Guys,

I have a customer who wants to downgrade his HP Pavilion a1710n from Vista to XP Home Edition. Motherboard appears to be Asus: A8MZN-LA

My search for drivers at the Asus support site...

We installed a Thermalright Ultra 120 Heatsink here in the shop, it displays the temp on the fan: 25.7 degrees currently, always ran cool and stable for 6 months now.

No IDE on rig, just two...

Hi Guys,

Got the kids computer in today, EVGA SLI triple (pared down to just one GX-280 while testing), Intel Quad Core CPU.

Anyway, I get a POST beep right away, but... the detection of drives...

I will try pinging the ISP, thanks for that....

I just tried using an alternate ISP and it displayed google.com

I wonder why this happened, and if I am the only account with this particular ISP...

OK, dial in, connect at 44kbps, open command prompt and type- ping yahoo.com, can't find server.

Tried Firefox, can't find server for google.com

Hi Guys,

I have a Compaq with XP Home here, did a complete software rebuild, installed all updates, IE 7, Service Pack 3, using the ethernet connection and DSL, but when I went to test the dialup...

Thanks guys, I will save the link and your posts on my server for further reference. I've run into a whole host of software operating system related issues, so I've recommended to the customer that...

Is that right, eh?

Thanks!!!

Hi guys,

I have an HP in the shop, XP Home, has CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. Drive is seen in Setup. But in OS, normal start or Safe Mode, device manager shows an exclamation point by the drive and...

I've had Acronis TI v11 for awhile now, for Vista pc's mainly, just never tried (except that one time on my bench computer), the F11 bit. (You guys helped me get a bootable that would see SATA on...

I'm leaning toward your suggestion of a recovery dvd alright, that's the way I've always done it. I like your idea of embedding a batch file to get him started. I will set BIOS to look for optical...

Yeah, that's how I do it most of the time, regular Ghost with bootable disk. But my son would get confused by that I'm afraid, browsing to the gho file and so forth, he's just not that savvy. He's...

Hi guys,

My son is going to live with Grandma and I want to set up an easy way for him to launch a recovery by hitting F11. PC will be custom build, Windows XP Professional, 250GB SATA. I have...

Thanks for that link, next time I am going for a larger drive, that will come in handy!

Just one added question about Acronis in general: Is there any provision for adjusting the size of partitions when recovering with T11? I imaged an 80GB IDE laptop drive in order to replace it with a...