Intel PC Hardware

Upgrading Intel Extreme Graphics

I have Intel (R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller installed on my Elonex CY27 laptop and I want to upgrade to something that will support pixel shader 2.0 so I can play Spore. What do you suggest I upgrade to?

Ghost boot disk!!!

Hiya all, I have a problem making a boot disk for an intel pro/100 S adapter. I'm making it for Ghost Corparate 7.5 so i can pull an image with no kids in so i can deploy it quickly when they are back. Sort version - It will not pick up the network card. I get protocl.ini does not have a...

Hiding System Tray ICons

Hi Guys.. I want to know how do we remove/hide system tray icon without stopping the service. I have a monitoring software which appears in the system tray which i want to hide. I m using win xp prof . I dont want to hide it i want to remove the icon from the system without stopping the service. I...

Restricting Broswe capability in IE

A generic User account is used to run an application in an IE Browswer - I would like to remove the address bar so it can't be used. I think its a Registry tweak - can it be done using a policy specific to that account in Active Domain? If so how? Thanks Cripdan

Stop Error (C000021a)

I am receiving this stop error(C000021a) "windows logon process system process terminated unexpectedly" with win 2000 server. Safe mode and Last Known Good Conf. works fine. Is there any solution without reformating the HDD? I have ERD with me. Will that help me? Any advise on this would be...

slow pc

hi i have Pentium-4 processor with 128 MB RAM .I have a dual boot system with Windows 2000 Proffessional and Linux AS3.0.My system was working fine but since few days it has bcome very slow.what shd i do to improve speed. thanks for any help.

DVD drive tray height

I want to replace an HP CD-ROM with a DVD burner. I bought a Sony, replaced the system cover, and the tray wouldn't open because it bumped into the front panel drive flap assembly. The HP drive trays have an 18mm (3/4") front opening. The Sony was 21mm (7/8"). I returned the new drive and...

Hard Disk Data Recovery - NTFS MBR Failure-2

Hello everyone, I have a Western Digital 800JB ATA 80GB 7200rpm drive that was used for a time as a boot drive for WXPP. It was replaced recently as a boot drive by a smaller 40GB drive, and the 80GB drive relegated to backup duties (slaved to a CD drive on a 40-wire cable). Before full transfer...

Hard Disk Data Recovery - NTFS MBR Failure

Hello everyone, I have a Western Digital 800JB ATA 80GB 7200rpm drive that was used for a time as a boot drive for WXPP. It was replaced recently as a boot drive by a smaller 40GB drive, and the 80GB drive relegated to backup duties (slaved to a CD drive on a 40-wire cable). Before full transfer...

goldmine kicking user out

Hi, im new to this forum so here goes. One of our users is having some trouble with her goldmine. when she gets to the "Document Management Center" and tries to open a document goldmine locks up and closes it has been working correctly until yesterday and the GMLINK is installed . The goldmine...

Windows 2K PRO

Hey Folks! My desktop crashed....Windows 2000 Pro....Intel D850GB motherboard, Intel P4 1.4GHZ Processor. The Processor took a permanant vacation. I have placed my HDD's into another PC...Intel D845GVSR motherboard, Intel Celeron 2.40GHZ processor. According to Intels website and my motherboard...

Win2k sp4-2

I upgraded my hp vectra machine(running w2k) from sp3 to service pack 4, now it is behaving erraticaly. It reboots it self, produce blue screen of death very often. Before the sp4 it was not behaving this way, though it was hanging for a while when restarting windows or at login. I update all...

Win2k sp4

I upgraded my hp vectra machine(running w2k) to service pack 4, now it is behaving erraticaly. It reboots it self, produce blue screen of death very often. Before the sp4 it was not behaving this way, though it was hanging for a while when restarting windows or at login. I update all drivers that...

Power Meter and Processor overheating

I am facing a strange problem with my win 2000 server pc(256mb RAM, P4, 40gb hdd) as it automatically restarts when I start the computer. Yesterday it completely shut down before showing me the desktop and when I pressed the power button the initial screen came up showing message "the processor...

Windows media audio codec

Hi, Sometimes in some programs(for example Training CD's) there is no sound from my sound card!!!!!!!I try this program on another computer and it has sound!!!!!!! In control panel->sound->audio codec->properties there are some compression driver for sound for example "Windows media audio...

Moving DNS outside

We are moving DNS services outside and I would like to learn more about how to set this up. We currently have AD Integrated DNS server, Primary DNS server, and Secondary DNS servers set up in our AD domain. We have 2 Domain Controllers, one on Windows 2003 w/Exchange 2003 w/GC, and one Windows 2000...

Installing Oracle 9i Standard Edition on Windows Server 2003 with Xeon CPU: Why does Java Virtual Machine fail?

We are replacing an old NT 4.0 server with a new Windows Server 2003, the new hardware (a Compaq ProLiant) equipped with Intel Xeon CPU. The old server was running a couple of database instances in Oracle 8i Standard Edition, which we want/need to replace with the 9i version. The installation...