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Forum: General XP issues or comments November 13th 07, 03:30 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 2
Views: 97
Posted By x-eyed-bear
Correct newsgroup to discuss network printer problem?

Great. Thanks for pointer.

Gerry wrote:
microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 13th 07, 11:05 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 2
Views: 97
Posted By x-eyed-bear
Correct newsgroup to discuss network printer problem?

Is this the most appropriate forum in which to ask for help on a
printing problem on my home network? If not, could somebody please
redirect me? Thanks.
Forum: General XP issues or comments September 16th 07, 10:03 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 2
Views: 132
Posted By x-eyed-bear
Delete files from ../local settings/TEMP

My /Documents & Settings/user id/Local Settings/TEMP folder contains a
lot of files. I would like to clean it out a bit to speed up the
Antivirus checking. What files can I safely delete:

1. All...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 26th 07, 06:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 1
Views: 127
Posted By x-eyed-bear
New UserIDs created by MS .NET FRamework.

I've read all that time and my ability will permit about the MS .NET
Framework, but I still don't understand it and I don't find answers to
my problems.

I had to install MS.NET when an upgrade to...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP March 25th 07, 12:17 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 7
Views: 175
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How do I make my USB 2 devices connect at HiSpeed?

Paul wrote:


Hmmm. I feel so dumb. If I look at the A8V BIOS screen in the manual
again, at the entry:

USB2 Controller Mode [FullSpeed]

That is the default, but FullSpeed is...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP March 24th 07, 11:44 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 7
Views: 175
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How do I make my USB 2 devices connect at HiSpeed?

This is a most useful and informative set of information (both your
posting and the URLs you have directed me to). I particularly note the
excellent advice about the jumpers for USB ports 5/6 and...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP March 23rd 07, 11:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 7
Views: 175
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How do I make my USB 2 devices connect at HiSpeed?

I can confirm that I have the latest drivers from ASUS - but there seems
to be later ones from VIA, with caveats. I cannot confirm that they are
correct - that's beyond my ability.

JS wrote:
...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP March 23rd 07, 03:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 7
Views: 175
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How do I make my USB 2 devices connect at HiSpeed?

I have some USB 2 devices attached to my computer. When I examine the
ports information report from SiSoft Sandra I find 2 things which puzzle me:

1. No devices are listed as connected to the VIA...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP March 22nd 07, 07:05 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 5
Views: 191
Posted By x-eyed-bear
Guidance on USB Contoller listing in Device Manager, please

Thanks for this clarification.

I do not understand however why a known USB 2.0 device (my HP 8450
printer) is shown (in SiSoft Sandra) as being connected to a 1.1 Host
Controller and shown as...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP March 22nd 07, 04:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 5
Views: 191
Posted By x-eyed-bear
Guidance on USB Contoller listing in Device Manager, please

I'm one of the thousands of users who has the dreaded 'USB Device not
recognized' error. I don't want to burden this forum (yet) but asking
for help on that one. I'm trying to solve it myself by...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 1st 06, 10:51 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 19
Views: 251
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How to remove a hard drive? Not so simple as it first appears.HAL.DLL ?

Pegasus (MVP) wrote:

I feel that you have to come to grips with the "active" flag.
Here is how you can manage this issue:
1. Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com).
2....
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 30th 06, 07:12 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 19
Views: 251
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How to remove a hard drive? Not so simple as it first appears.HAL.DLL ?

Ron Sommer wrote:

:
: OK, part of what you say confirms the little I thought I knew. So, since
: there is only 1 partition on the D drive, I can't make it 'inactive' by
: going to another...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 30th 06, 05:29 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 19
Views: 251
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How to remove a hard drive? Not so simple as it first appears.HAL.DLL ?

x-eyed-bear wrote:
Apologies if this seems like a daft question; I don't actually think it is.

1. My current mobo is an ASUS A8V (Socket 939). It supports the usual 2
IDE channels as well...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 30th 06, 02:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 19
Views: 251
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How to remove a hard drive? Not so simple as it first appears.HAL.DLL ?

Ron Sommer wrote:
"x-eyed-bear" wrote in message
...
: Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
: "x-eyed-bear"...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 30th 06, 02:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 19
Views: 251
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How to remove a hard drive? Not so simple as it first appears.HAL.DLL ?

Ron Sommer wrote:
The hard drives are not on the same cable.
1ary: Master = 60 Gb hard disk; Slave = Lite-On DVD RW
2ary: Master = 40 Gb hard disk; Slave = Lite-On DVD ROM

I thought you...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 30th 06, 01:48 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 19
Views: 251
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How to remove a hard drive? Not so simple as it first appears.HAL.DLL ?

Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
"x-eyed-bear" wrote in message
...
Pegasus (MVP) wrote:

I suggest you take one step at a...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 30th 06, 12:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 19
Views: 251
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How to remove a hard drive? Not so simple as it first appears.HAL.DLL ?

Uncle Grumpy wrote:

Does your C drive require a different jumper setting if it is the only
drive, compared to when it is the master and there is a slave?


Well, now there's a most excellent...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 30th 06, 10:11 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 19
Views: 251
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How to remove a hard drive? Not so simple as it first appears.HAL.DLL ?

Ron Sommer wrote:
The Bios looks for the first active primary partition.
Windows will only make one partition on a drive active.
Primary partitions on other drives can be active, so the other...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 30th 06, 12:22 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 19
Views: 251
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How to remove a hard drive? Not so simple as it first appears.HAL.DLL ?

Pegasus (MVP) wrote:


I suggest you take one step at a time.
1. Disconnect your SATA disks.
2. Connect your two IDE disks.
3. Get the system up and running.
4. Run diskmgmt.msc and find...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 29th 06, 11:58 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 19
Views: 251
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How to remove a hard drive? Not so simple as it first appears.HAL.DLL ?

Ron Sommer wrote:
Do you have a boot.ini on D?
Are you saying that C is multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)?
Is C or D marked active?

There is no BOOT.INI on D: - this was one of the first...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP November 29th 06, 11:35 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 1
Views: 143
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How to remove a hard drive? It's not so easy as it first appears.HAL.DLL ?

Apologies if this seems like a daft question; I don't actually think it is.

1. My current mobo is an ASUS A8V (Socket 939). It supports the usual 2
IDE channels as well as 2 SATA channels.

2. I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 29th 06, 11:34 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 19
Views: 251
Posted By x-eyed-bear
How to remove a hard drive? Not so simple as it first appears. HAL.DLL?

Apologies if this seems like a daft question; I don't actually think it is.

1. My current mobo is an ASUS A8V (Socket 939). It supports the usual 2
IDE channels as well as 2 SATA channels.

2. I...
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