first time

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o.k. just finished my first xp install and naturally i have some questions.
1)how do you copy the cabs to hard drive?can you use win explorer?
2)is farstone restoreit same as the restore option in xp?
3)in the bios it says dual channel in use or something to the effect,but the boot screen says dual channel dynamic paging mode.are they the same?
4)there is 512mb of memory installed but upon booting it reads 496mb of system
ram.

system is :intel 865gbf mother--512 mb kingston hyperx--intel 536ep modem.using on board sound video.the os is xp home.i have one more question.
5)when on line----trying to open up a page;its says page not available.in the address bar is: res c:\windows\system32\shdoclc.dll. what is this due to
MS ot the ISP?

[DocPC]

o.k. just finished my first xp install and naturally i have some questions.
1)how do you copy the cabs to hard drive?can you use win explorer?
2)is farstone restoreit same as the restore option in xp?
3)in the bios it says dual channel in use or something to the effect,but the boot screen says dual channel dynamic paging mode.are they the same?
4)there is 512mb of memory installed but upon booting it reads 496mb of system
ram.

system is :intel 865gbf mother--512 mb kingston hyperx--intel 536ep modem.using on board sound video.

Ok, in XP you don't need cabs.

Dunno about Farstone.

Dual channel is Dual channel.

You are sharing main memory for video memory.

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hi doc, thanks for the answers

[DocPC]

hi doc, thanks for the answers

I'm sure there will be more......stay tuned!

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I'm sure there will be more......stay tuned!

There'll be a question at least ... why don't you need cabs ? .. Answer: because you go on the bus ! ... go on then why don't we need the windows cab files? I pressume you mean present on the hard drive ? - generally if there's a 'fat enough' harddrive present I sling 'em on anyway just in case

'Farstone Retore It' is one of those 'evil' proggies like 'GoBack', once installed it to a great extent duplicates what system resore is up to, it also supposedly allows recovery from viral attack, most notably restoring your boot sector. Its for NUMPTIES - if you managed the xp install on your own, remove this proggie, put it back in its box & send off for a refund - IMHO - PANTS ! absolute pooh! forget it - causes more trouble than its worth

Dual channel is Dual channel

-my most insightful!

Dual channel is a technology which allows two sticks of DDR (double data rate) memory to be both addressed simultaneously, effectively producing QDR (quadruple data rate {of the system bus speed}), to gain this advantage you need paired sticks in the appropriate slots or else it works like ordinary ddr.

& Hurrah you got the last one right ! ... though I might have tempered it with the suggestion to either get a 'real' video card (rather than onboard with shared memory) or at least suggested that you look at your bios options & up your shared memory (if you can) - anything with any element of sophistication in its graphics would most likely benefit from more reserved video memory.

Right I'm done now, being all superior & all !

[DocPC]

There'll be a question at least ... why don't you need cabs ? .. Answer: because you go on the bus ! ... go on then why don't we need the windows cab files? I pressume you mean present on the hard drive ? - generally if there's a 'fat enough' harddrive present I sling 'em on anyway just in case

'Farstone Retore It' is one of those 'evil' proggies like 'GoBack', once installed it to a great extent duplicates what system resore is up to, it also supposedly allows recovery from viral attack, most notably restoring your boot sector. Its for NUMPTIES - if you managed the xp install on your own, remove this proggie, put it back in its box & send off for a refund - IMHO - PANTS ! absolute pooh! forget it - causes more trouble than its worth

-my most insightful!

Dual channel is a technology which allows two sticks of DDR (double data rate) memory to be both addressed simultaneously, effectively producing QDR (quadruple data rate {of the system bus speed}), to gain this advantage you need paired sticks in the appropriate slots or else it works like ordinary ddr.

& Hurrah you got the last one right ! ... though I might have tempered it with the suggestion to either get a 'real' video card (rather than onboard with shared memory) or at least suggested that you look at your bios options & up your shared memory (if you can) - anything with any element of sophistication in its graphics would most likely benefit from more reserved video memory.

Right I'm done now, being all superior & all !

Do you use XP? I have yet to load a driver and have it ask for the XP CD.

He was refering to the different wording of the BIOS screen and the post screen. They both mean the same thing. The machine is running in dual channel. He wasn't asking what is is.

Besides, I'm not here to sell anyone anything. If he would have asked for Video card suggestions, I would have happily given them.

That is all.

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I add cabs & change the system install paths to the directory where they are, so I can run sfc quick (or whatever) even when windows has managed to disappear the cd drives again ! or find any other files I might want from time to time, when 'someone' has lost the cd again ! makes repairs/re-installs etc a breeze all for a paltry few mb's... I can think of many instances where having your Windows cd 'on disk' can be handy (not just the cab files - so i'll qualify that then)

Yup he only wanted to know whether his dual channel was on or not ! -guilty !- however according to this Intel 865 chipset white paper -pdf - this chipset can either effectively 'interleave'(that's what dynamic paging is), or be qdr, or interleave the qdr, but it can't be qdr with odd slots filled but it can still interleave. So nope the two things don't mean exactly the same thing, but here the messages do result in the same thing, that is, its going at full whack!

& who's trying to sell him anything? I'm just pointing out that i865 graphics ain't no great shakes especially with only a little memory & the twiddles you have to do to the memory timings (thus doing away with some of your dual channel gains).

& real reason for posting ...

There's a 5 !

when on line----trying to open up a page;its says page not available.in the address bar is: res c:\windows\system32\shdoclc.dll. what is this due to
MS ot the ISP?

That's the file that among other things defines the size of your IE window .. specifically it is 'Used by Windows applications to add web, file, network and document browsing capabilities'

But I dunno if I understand the question !

[DocPC]

WAIT! He ain't playing fair now......5 wasn't there when I answered the first time.

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Doc my apologies for sneakin' one in there.
the pc is for my mom;and she's no gamer.thats why no vid card or sound. i have the option though.
confus-ed I want to put the cab files on the h.d.but when tried it gave an error.
couldn't copy or something.
as for ques.5--aol is the isp.in aol it won't open the pages but in ie it'll open the pages.found an mskb article 165474;but no help there.

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Okay dokey .. just for future reference - if you have 'supplementals' add them as extra posts please, don't edit your original question, for once I wasn't confus-ed & spotted it, but often it just causes muchos confus-ed-ness -which even I can't take ! ...

I'm gonna be 'mean' & say if IE works & connects take up your AOL issue with them, that IS what they get paid for & you pay them for .(If they can't help - come back! & I will ...)

If you can descibe your 'copy' problem a little better, I'll help with that !