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  1. jacamo
    Thank you have sorted it now
  2. jacamo
    I have just installed a new samsung 840 series 24gb SSD i have formatted it and it is now showing in the bios and the systembut when I try to install windows 7 ultimate by means of a partition copy,it wont boot even when i make it the first in boot order in the bios,can you tell me what I am doing wrong?, I used samsung magician to copy to it,and now they say use norton ghost which I have now downloaded but not tried yet,I will wait to hear from you as you have helped me in the past. :confused:
  3. jacamo
    Thanks jellybean that sorted it much appreciated.:D
  4. jacamo
    A friend brought a pc round and asked me to format it for him and reinstall windows xp sp3 on so I said yes ,I inserted my xp disk and formatted his hard drive but as it was starting to install xp we had a powercut for about ten minutes when the power came back on I thought just carry on were it left off so i started the pc again now all i get is, it starts to boot and a message comes up NTLDR is missing press f1 to retry or f2 for system setup the pc is a Dell optiplex gx280 ,3gb ram.intel 4 dualcore 2800 any help would be greatly appreciated
  5. jacamo
    I have tried resetting bios to default and have updated the bios to the latest one,still same it takes forever to boot, only one sata hardrive and its only 3 month old
  6. jacamo
    No there are no error messages,I suppose if i left it alone it would boot after some time had gone by like I usually switch it on in a morning and sometimes go make myself a cuppa and as i return with my tea it is loading so it takes ten mins or so to boot.most times i get fed up off waiting I press f8 for boot menu and boot that way and that takes sometime to work too.and sorry I have no idea why this is happening "no just cause I know off"I have defragged scan for trojans malware and viruses = nothing .It's baffling me .
  7. jacamo
    Hi I am running widows xp home with sp2,amd athlon x2 dual core 5600+ 2.91ghz, 3gig ddr2 ram.My problem is just recently it has started to fail at the first boot screen, to get it to boot I have to press f8 and go throught the boot menu select the drive and it boots that way,I am totally thick when it comes to technical stuff, I can build them and use them but that is it. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.:confused::confused:
  8. jacamo
    I have Avast free version and I connect via vigimedia cable broadband i have tried without avast running and it still lags i have also minimised my clutter defragged my drives got rid off games and other progs i am not needing and still I lag.:confused:
  9. jacamo
    ok played command and conquer and it played fine so it is only online it lags or freezes .
  10. jacamo
    i will try now and get back to you .
  11. jacamo
    Only online games cos there the only ones I play.:confused:
  12. jacamo
    Firstly I have a 10mb connection through Virginmedia broadband,I am using windows xp Home sp3,amd 64x2 dual core 5600 @2.9ghz, 5 gig of ram, nvidia 8800gts gpu,2x 200gb harddrives,my problem is while online gaming I suffer from lag or freezing up constantly is there anything I can do to stop this .my friend runs a slightly similar system to me on a 1mb BT connection and doesn't lag on the same games,I built this system myself and being a total noob when it comes to tech, I was wondering if I haven't set something up right,I only have problems gaming though not downloading, I can get upto a 3mb download sometimes. :confused::confused:
  13. jacamo
    It is ok guys, I have given the guy his pc back and got a refund of my money, so now it is his problem. Thank you all for your time and effort it is appreciated and keep up the great work.By the way I did reformat it so he doesn't have my windows on it.
  14. jacamo
    Yes i have formatted and reinstalled a windows xphome oem version,and no it is not installed on any other pc and yes it is a legal copy and registered.and yes I have installed it correctly.
  15. jacamo
    yes i have installed the legal windowsxp home and it is still the same.any ideas please.
  16. jacamo
    It's a copy it says, windows xp professional corp sp3 unattended.so it will be not a legal one but I have a legal xp home that i can put on it just wanted to know why nothing will open on the system.:confused:
  17. jacamo
    I have just bought a pc at a bootsale got it home it has xp sp3 installed .It will not allow me to open any other programmes,i have got an anti virus i wish to install and anti malwarebytes and antispyware and a program called dap(download accelerator plus) i just get either an IO.SYS error or another nonnamed error saying a file is corrupt (retry or abort)retry never works. I have formatted and reloaded windows and still get the same errors,I did use the windows disc they left in the pc I scanned it and it came back virus free. my system is xp pro sp3,amd athlon 64 dual 4200+2.22ghz, 2gb ram, 250gb harddrive.as you say I am not a happy bunny so please help.any suggestions would be appreciated :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:
  18. jacamo
    Have you got a decent antivirus installed.
  19. jacamo
    Yes thanks I defragged it and now it is working properly no need to even change O/S xp home is fine, thanks again.
  20. jacamo
    I wish to thank you for all your time and effort into solving my problem, but I have solved it, it was something as simple as ram not put in properly, my son must have disturbed it when trying to connect the ide lead. Sorry to have wasted your time and effort but it is grately appreciated, thanks again.
  21. jacamo
    To be honest, I am not sure now that it is corrupted, that was just what my son said, but if it is, it is still on the harddrive.but the windows cd in the disc drives should take over if I make the pc boot from one of those but it wont,and I dont know why.
  22. jacamo
    Both harddrives show up on the bios My setup is (was) windows xp home sp2 AMD athlon 64 x2 dual core 4200+ 2200mhz 2mb ddr2 memory 250 gb harddrive 80gb hardrive 1X cdwr 1x dvdwr my son now tells me he may have tried to put the ide belt into the floppy plug on the mobo, cos the floppy was not connected and switched it on," he says he could not see properly" .So I am wondering what that could do to the system,could it have blown something.
  23. jacamo
    I cannot get it to boot in the original xp it comes up with DISK BOOT FAILURE,INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. And it was partitioned and the C: drive was wiped forgot what for now but nothing serious that is why the OS is on D: But I have two hardrives on this machine a 250gig and a 80gig and it comes up with same message using either drive,the only difference being the numbers of the error the d:\xpsprtm\base\boot\setup\arcdisp.c. is the same.
  24. jacamo
    Yes I have done it this way lots of times on other machines but for some reason this did not work ,and yes that is the right code I copied it straight from the screen.I am just wondering it was my sons machine if he has tried doing something and failed and said it was corrupt when it was broken. it had two hard drives in and D: was the one with the OS on it,dont know why it went to D: instead of C: it was like that when my son bought it.
  25. jacamo
    I am trying to install windows xp pro sp3 on a hard drive that had xp home corrupted on it.I thought I would just put the disc in boot from disk wipe the hard drive and so on ,but I now get an error message. An unexpected error(1896231104)occured at line1773 in d:\base\boot\setup\arcdisp.c. press any key to continue. I have also tried using my xp home disc and same message appears is this an harddrive error or something else. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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