Hship

Hi, I have Windows XP, SP3 on desktop. I just moved my computer back home after visiting family. I got home and connected everything again. When I turned my pc on, a windows .dll file was missing on the c drive and I had to boot with the windows disk. After booting I looked in my d drive and found almost all my files missing. I ran TuneUp Undelete and it found more than 20 000 files (it can only handle 20 000) in a good condition. What caused this, a virus or a bump during the move (my e drive has no errors (partition on the same hdd as the c drive))? What should I do and in what order? Virus scan, disk check or restore? When I restore, can I do it on the same drive without risking the files not included in TuneUp Undelete's 20 000 files, or rather on a external drive? Is there a different program that I should use to restore that will work better? Also, if I restore, will the files be in the same directory as it originally was or would I have to sort all of it? Please help. Thanks, Hship

I enabled it in the bios and it was enabled in device manager automaticly showed it enabled, but with a big yellow question mark and a smaller exclamtion mark, when I selected properties it shows the device type as other devices and manufacturer unknown. The position is PCI Bus 12. The device status is drivers are not installed (Code 28). If I click on reinstall driver the windows add new hardware wizard can't find the driver, even with the xp disk inserted.

Hi, I have a Intel onboard ethernet card, I don't know which one, and it was alway disabled in the bios. Today I wanted to play LAN games and enabled the card. But it won't work because windows doesn't find the driver. Where can I download or find it without re installing windows? I have windows XP service pack 3. Please help!

Hi, It was the video card, replaced it and my pc works perfect now. Thanks for the help!

Hi KenB The hard drive wasn't the problem. It got into the Bios without the hard drive but when I connected it nothing happened, but after fiddling with it I got the computer to go into the Bios with the hard drive. Thus please ignore that post. The heat sink compound on the video card. "With ALL cards and connections off the motherboard does the system reboot ?" I don't understand what you mean, with all the cards and connections off the motherboard, there is no bootable device or a way to connect the screen to the computer to see what is happening. The computer boots in VGA mode (with the video card) but resets soon after.

Graphics card is the problem Hi, I have been able to find that my graphics card (Nvidia GeForce 6800 GS, 256 mb) is the problem. It got to hot to fast, so I checked if there was enough heatsink compound on the processor. The compound was all dried up and basically non excisting. Once I cleaned and replaced the compound the problem persists and I can only get in to the bios a short while before it resets and if I attempt to boot in VGA mode (instead of super VGA) the computer resets when showing the blue welcome screen. Is the card possibly heat damaged and if so can it be repaired? Thanks

Hi, Thanks for your help it seems that my primary harddrive is the problem. I would probably have to take it to a proffesional. Thanks, Hship

Hi, I recently added extra RAM (2x 256 MB, to my excisting 2x 512 MB) to my system and my pc worked perfect with it for about a week. Then later as my pc finished booting my exterior speakers gave three beeps. Not sure what it was, I ignored it. Then while I was busy on the computer it just restarted without warning and finally this afternoon it restarted again and did not want to boot and gave three beeps with the system speaker. I looked it up on the internet and found that it was an hardware fault and most likely the RAM. I removed the new RAM and my pc booted and once on the desktop it restarted again. After that the furthest it got in the boot process was the Intel screen with press F2 for Bios etc. before restarting again. I checked each of my older RAM disks seperately and got the same results.:mad: Is this a RAM problem and can anyone please help me?:confused: Thanks, Hship

Hi, Does anyone have an e-mail address of Microsoft support? I can't find one. Thanks

It is a retail disk. It is a gold/brown CD with various holograms, printed on are as follow: Microsoft Windows XP Professional For distrubution with a new PC only. For product support, contact the manufacturer of your PC. Do not lend or make illegal copies of this software. Includes Service Pack 2 Version 2002 © 2004 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 0504 Part No. X10-59871. My PC Specs are as follow: Intel 3.4 GHz Processor 200GB SATA Harddrive 1024 MB RAM NVidia GeForce Graphics Card 6800 GS 256 MB DDR3 Samsung CD/DVD reader/writer Gigabyte CD/DVD reader/writer

I spoke to a technical consultant at their head offices here in South Africa. The consultant just asked for my activation code wndows gave and she said that it an invalid code. I supppose they think money grows on trees, Windows XP is here, if you can find it, more expensive than what I paid for harddrive and motherboard together.

Thanks for your reply Jelly Bean. I did all of the above and when I got through to the local tech support they said my code was invalid and I have to purchase a new Windows XP copy.

Windows XP Professional activation trouble Hi, I have installed my copy of XP Pro SP 2 for quite a number of times on my current computer and activated it with ease and success until now. I went through the usual process, with fruitless results. I phoned Microsoft and they only suggested I buy a new copy of XP. I am not willing to purchase their same product again. What can I do to activate my software? Regards, Hship

Hi, I have installed my copy of XP Pro SP 2 for quite a number of times on my current computer and activated it with ease and success until now. I went through the usual process, with fruitless results. I phoned Microsoft and they only suggested I buy a new copy of XP. I am not willing to purchase their same product again. What can I do to activate my software? Regards, Hship

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