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Sorry - scratch that thought. This laptop is a D810 not a C810 so the software config could be different. Must be the end of the work day or something :-)

I have one of these babies too (but only for a week so far). Hate to check the obvious, but have you gone into Control Panel - Power Management and/or the Dell-supplied QuickSet program? It might...

This may be completely irrelevant to your situation, but since upgrading to WinXP sp2 I've found that my ASUS DVD-ROM used for audio and DVD playback (E616-P2 or some such serial no., latest firmware...

Nerdier than 91% of the population. Thought I might check in at 50%!!


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Since you have disabled some Windows XP services, do make sure that Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) service is on. This is the service provided in XP that prevents you from needing specific drivers...

Have you seen this??
Brought tears of nostalgia to my eyes... :-)

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Thanks confus-ed. Actually did a format c:. clean install of slipstreamed xpsp2, clean install of M$ Office 2000. Same issue with weird rtf conversion performance and weird hangup when converting...

Just a thought - is your usb hub 1.1 while your device is 2.0? Had this problem putting a usb flash drive in a front port on my home PC (the front port is supposedly connected to USB2.0 pins on the...

Oh, I completely agree. But they suck :-P MS actually did a pretty good job IMHO with Office 2000 - pretty stable, not too much crazy feature bloat, does everything I need it to. Had no interest...

Hi all,

This is definitely odd. Recently installed SP2 to an otherwise well-behaved and patched WinXP Pro SP1 machine running Office 2000 Pro. No obvious issues, but two: Word 2000 took AGES to...

Go to (C:)\documents and settings\ and find the limited user folder you want. Look in the subfolders for Start Menu and then Startup. Place shortcuts for any programs you want to autorun on login...

Pleasure to help out. I just hope your tabor3 board lasts a lot longer than mine did (about 2 years only)... :-(

Had this kind of problem once when I was replacing a video card that had been connected to my 440bx tabor3 board - got the same POST beeps (indicating no video). Had to reset the bios (by taking the...

I've seen this behavior before with cross-platform version of MS Office or even Office 97 vs 2000 etc. - a (re-)installation of the MS graphic filters usually does the trick. Go to the MS Office...

find either Xteq X-Setup or Microsoft TweakUI (one of their 'PowerToys') - they each have tabs which contain a list of all entries in the add/remove control panel and they will offer to remove those...

My one suggestion, considering that this is a proprietary build (Vaio), is to go their website or any manual they supplied with your computer and just check exactly what those 3 restore CDs should...

installed new psu - and all powering-on and POST problems seem to have disappeared. NooNoo was right! Thanks for all the much-appreciated help. I'll file this piece of computer misbehaviour away...

can be hard to find, but I'm very fond of Yamaha in the 2.1 speaker range. I have a 2.1 set (YST-MS201) at work on a Mac G4 (don't know what the sound card inside is, probably not as good as my...

thanks for all the advice so far. Garak - good thought on the capacitors issue, I actually checked this as one of the first things, having had clues from other people's discussions on these forums...

your suggestions are always great, NooNoo - didn't intend to doubt you! :-)

If it does turn out to be the psu, that is going to be a demerit point for Antec. Because they have a fairly good...

thanks - I'll try using the psu from another machine I have and see if that helps. Do you think the symptoms of the last few months (occasional stubbornness / refusal to power on correctly) are...

Hi all,

If anyone has any suggestions about this problem I would very much appreciate a reply.
Here's the situation: have been running a self-built machine just fine for a couple of years -...

Yep, iTunes has a burning plugin. I've never used it and don't intend to - love my Nero! If the burning plugin is the source of iTunes' apparent bad behavior, then that's a demerit point for Apple...

I've actually tried both ways of doing things. Just right-clicking the CD icon in My Computer (which won't eject stubborn CDs) is apparently not the same thing, as far as XP is concerned, as going...

Thanks for the welcome! Have been reading these forums for a few weeks, have learned a lot, and it's nice to be able to contribute something back.