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Hi Folks,
My XP is feeling poorly. My midi stopped playing. It can't create restore points. So I created an XP SP3 slipstream disc, backed up my C drive. And ran an Install[Upgrade] thinking that would fix things for me. Well after the install, the midi was working (heard the windows booting tune) but when I tried to log into one of my accounts it told me it needed to be activated. When I clicked on activate now, it made the "error" noise and nothing came up to activate it. I couldn't find any way around this. So spent 6+ hours restoring my C drive from the back up. Is there any way to repair my XP without having to re-activate it? I saw some other online directions that talk about booting the install cd, selecting install XP, accept license agreement, then it will find the existing installation and I can press R to repair it .. but is that basically the same thing I already did? Appreciate some advice... |
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Jamie wrote: Hi Folks, My XP is feeling poorly. My midi stopped playing. It can't create restore points. So I created an XP SP3 slipstream disc, backed up my C drive. And ran an Install[Upgrade] thinking that would fix things for me. Well after the install, the midi was working (heard the windows booting tune) but when I tried to log into one of my accounts it told me it needed to be activated. When I clicked on activate now, it made the "error" noise and nothing came up to activate it. I couldn't find any way around this. So spent 6+ hours restoring my C drive from the back up. Is there any way to repair my XP without having to re-activate it? I saw some other online directions that talk about booting the install cd, selecting install XP, accept license agreement, then it will find the existing installation and I can press R to repair it .. but is that basically the same thing I already did? Appreciate some advice... |
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"Jamie" wrote: Hi Folks, My XP is feeling poorly. My midi stopped playing. It can't create restore points. So I created an XP SP3 slipstream disc, backed up my C drive. And ran an Install[Upgrade] thinking that would fix things for me. Well after the install, the midi was working (heard the windows booting tune) but when I tried to log into one of my accounts it told me it needed to be activated. When I clicked on activate now, it made the "error" noise and nothing came up to activate it. I couldn't find any way around this. So spent 6+ hours restoring my C drive from the back up. Is there any way to repair my XP without having to re-activate it? I saw some other online directions that talk about booting the install cd, selecting install XP, accept license agreement, then it will find the existing installation and I can press R to repair it .. but is that basically the same thing I already did? Appreciate some advice... Here is how to do a repair install: http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm Make sure you back up your data. |
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well, if you only had an issue
with the midi, then a repair installation would likely not be the solution. if windows were corrupted then you would have poor performance in the safe modes. what may have occurred is that the sound driver became corrupted. what does device manager report for the midi? -- db·´¯`·...¸)))º DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces - Microsoft Partner - @hotmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~"share the nirvana" - dbZen "Jamie" wrote in message ... Hi Folks, My XP is feeling poorly. My midi stopped playing. It can't create restore points. So I created an XP SP3 slipstream disc, backed up my C drive. And ran an Install[Upgrade] thinking that would fix things for me. Well after the install, the midi was working (heard the windows booting tune) but when I tried to log into one of my accounts it told me it needed to be activated. When I clicked on activate now, it made the "error" noise and nothing came up to activate it. I couldn't find any way around this. So spent 6+ hours restoring my C drive from the back up. Is there any way to repair my XP without having to re-activate it? I saw some other online directions that talk about booting the install cd, selecting install XP, accept license agreement, then it will find the existing installation and I can press R to repair it .. but is that basically the same thing I already did? Appreciate some advice... |
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Jamie wrote:
Hi Folks, My XP is feeling poorly. My midi stopped playing. It can't create restore points. So I created an XP SP3 slipstream disc, backed up my C drive. And ran an Install[Upgrade] thinking that would fix things for me. Well after the install, the midi was working (heard the windows booting tune) but when I tried to log into one of my accounts it told me it needed to be activated. When I clicked on activate now, it made the "error" noise and nothing came up to activate it. I couldn't find any way around this. So spent 6+ hours restoring my C drive from the back up. Is there any way to repair my XP without having to re-activate it? I saw some other online directions that talk about booting the install cd, selecting install XP, accept license agreement, then it will find the existing installation and I can press R to repair it .. but is that basically the same thing I already did? Appreciate some advice... Repair Installs only work in certain circumstances. But if you have a bad case of malware infestation, then a Repair Install won't help you. Instead, how about giving us details about your PC's problems? System Restore issues are usually easy to address since there are programs that interfere with it. For more info: http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html Playing midi files should be easy to fix. It's probably a matter of associating the correct program to play them. If you right-click a midi file and choose Open With..., you should get a choice of players. (Or you may need to browse to find one.) "XP is feeling poorly" doesn't tell us anything; you really need to supply more information! Like the following: size of hard drive and amount of free space amount of RAM malware status of PC And here are the typical causes of sluggishness: 1. Malicious software (malware). You need to rule this out first! This page has excellent information: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...iruses_Malware 2. Certain programs that are designed to combat malware (e.g., Norton and McAfee). Ironically, they can slow things down because they simply use way too many resources. Sometime they cause conflicts with other programs. And their default mode is to scan your entire hard drive each time you boot up. Fortunately, there are other antimalware programs available that use far fewer resources (e.g., NOD32, Avast, and Avira). 3. Too many of certain types of programs always running in the background -- with or without your knowledge. (Then again, many programs that run in the background have trivial consequences.) To determine every program and process you are currently running, use the Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and click the Processes tab. You should be able to sort by CPU usage or Memory usage to get a good ideas which ones are the resource/memory hogs. You should write down the names of all the processes for future detective work (or take a snapshot and print it out). Use these sites to determine what these programs are and to learn how to configure them not to always run at startup: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup...p#THE_PROGRAMS http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/ http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...s/tasklist.htm Sometimes it is recommended to use msconfig to configure the programs to not run at startup. A better, more thorough program is Autoruns: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb963902.aspx But before you do this, you should use the preference settings of the program in question. Otherwise, for some programs, they will return to the startup list anyway! If you do wish to use msconfig, it may be accessed this way: Start | Run | type "msconfig" (without the quotation marks) | Enter (or OK) 4. Not enough RAM, which causes the PC to overly rely on the pagefile. A quick way to determine if this is happening is to open Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and click the Performance tab. Then note the three values under Commit Charge (K): in the lower left-hand corner: Total, Limit, and Peak. The Total figure represents the amount of memory you are using at that very moment. The Peak figure represents the highest amount of memory you used since last bootup. If both these figures are below the value of Physical Memory (K) Total, then you probably have plenty of RAM. In case you want to explore this further, you may run Page File Monitor for Windows XP: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm 5. You might also want to check that your hard drive's access mode didn't change from DMA to PIO: http://www.technize.com/2007/08/02/i...while-copying/ and http://users.bigpond.net.au/ninjaduc...duck/udma_fix/ |
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The problem with the midi is that when I go into controlpanel,sounds and
choose the audio tab,for midi playback there is nothing selected. If I choose something from the drop down and click ok, then go back it, its back to being unselected. After my first attempt at upgrade, the midi was working again, but I couldn't activate the license. So the root question still stands, can I do a repair install that won'tneed me to re-activate the license ? "Daave" wrote: Jamie wrote: Hi Folks, My XP is feeling poorly. My midi stopped playing. It can't create restore points. So I created an XP SP3 slipstream disc, backed up my C drive. And ran an Install[Upgrade] thinking that would fix things for me. Well after the install, the midi was working (heard the windows booting tune) but when I tried to log into one of my accounts it told me it needed to be activated. When I clicked on activate now, it made the "error" noise and nothing came up to activate it. I couldn't find any way around this. So spent 6+ hours restoring my C drive from the back up. Is there any way to repair my XP without having to re-activate it? I saw some other online directions that talk about booting the install cd, selecting install XP, accept license agreement, then it will find the existing installation and I can press R to repair it .. but is that basically the same thing I already did? Appreciate some advice... Repair Installs only work in certain circumstances. But if you have a bad case of malware infestation, then a Repair Install won't help you. Instead, how about giving us details about your PC's problems? System Restore issues are usually easy to address since there are programs that interfere with it. For more info: http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html Playing midi files should be easy to fix. It's probably a matter of associating the correct program to play them. If you right-click a midi file and choose Open With..., you should get a choice of players. (Or you may need to browse to find one.) "XP is feeling poorly" doesn't tell us anything; you really need to supply more information! Like the following: size of hard drive and amount of free space amount of RAM malware status of PC And here are the typical causes of sluggishness: 1. Malicious software (malware). You need to rule this out first! This page has excellent information: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...iruses_Malware 2. Certain programs that are designed to combat malware (e.g., Norton and McAfee). Ironically, they can slow things down because they simply use way too many resources. Sometime they cause conflicts with other programs. And their default mode is to scan your entire hard drive each time you boot up. Fortunately, there are other antimalware programs available that use far fewer resources (e.g., NOD32, Avast, and Avira). 3. Too many of certain types of programs always running in the background -- with or without your knowledge. (Then again, many programs that run in the background have trivial consequences.) To determine every program and process you are currently running, use the Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and click the Processes tab. You should be able to sort by CPU usage or Memory usage to get a good ideas which ones are the resource/memory hogs. You should write down the names of all the processes for future detective work (or take a snapshot and print it out). Use these sites to determine what these programs are and to learn how to configure them not to always run at startup: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup...p#THE_PROGRAMS http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/ http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...s/tasklist.htm Sometimes it is recommended to use msconfig to configure the programs to not run at startup. A better, more thorough program is Autoruns: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb963902.aspx But before you do this, you should use the preference settings of the program in question. Otherwise, for some programs, they will return to the startup list anyway! If you do wish to use msconfig, it may be accessed this way: Start | Run | type "msconfig" (without the quotation marks) | Enter (or OK) 4. Not enough RAM, which causes the PC to overly rely on the pagefile. A quick way to determine if this is happening is to open Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and click the Performance tab. Then note the three values under Commit Charge (K): in the lower left-hand corner: Total, Limit, and Peak. The Total figure represents the amount of memory you are using at that very moment. The Peak figure represents the highest amount of memory you used since last bootup. If both these figures are below the value of Physical Memory (K) Total, then you probably have plenty of RAM. In case you want to explore this further, you may run Page File Monitor for Windows XP: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm 5. You might also want to check that your hard drive's access mode didn't change from DMA to PIO: http://www.technize.com/2007/08/02/i...while-copying/ and http://users.bigpond.net.au/ninjaduc...duck/udma_fix/ |
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Will this repair install NOT want me to reactivate my license, which failed
for me the last time around when i did a install/upgrade? I saw another web site that showed this same repaor with screen shots and the screens looked just like the upgrade screens did ...so it makes me wonder if its the same thing and will require license reactivation ? "Mark Adams" wrote: "Jamie" wrote: Hi Folks, My XP is feeling poorly. My midi stopped playing. It can't create restore points. So I created an XP SP3 slipstream disc, backed up my C drive. And ran an Install[Upgrade] thinking that would fix things for me. Well after the install, the midi was working (heard the windows booting tune) but when I tried to log into one of my accounts it told me it needed to be activated. When I clicked on activate now, it made the "error" noise and nothing came up to activate it. I couldn't find any way around this. So spent 6+ hours restoring my C drive from the back up. Is there any way to repair my XP without having to re-activate it? I saw some other online directions that talk about booting the install cd, selecting install XP, accept license agreement, then it will find the existing installation and I can press R to repair it .. but is that basically the same thing I already did? Appreciate some advice... Here is how to do a repair install: http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm Make sure you back up your data. |
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"Jamie" wrote: Will this repair install NOT want me to reactivate my license, which failed for me the last time around when i did a install/upgrade? I saw another web site that showed this same repaor with screen shots and the screens looked just like the upgrade screens did ...so it makes me wonder if its the same thing and will require license reactivation ? You might have to reactivate, but so what? There is no limit to how many times you can reactivate on the same computer. If it doesn't activate online, just do a phone activation. No big deal. "Mark Adams" wrote: "Jamie" wrote: Hi Folks, My XP is feeling poorly. My midi stopped playing. It can't create restore points. So I created an XP SP3 slipstream disc, backed up my C drive. And ran an Install[Upgrade] thinking that would fix things for me. Well after the install, the midi was working (heard the windows booting tune) but when I tried to log into one of my accounts it told me it needed to be activated. When I clicked on activate now, it made the "error" noise and nothing came up to activate it. I couldn't find any way around this. So spent 6+ hours restoring my C drive from the back up. Is there any way to repair my XP without having to re-activate it? I saw some other online directions that talk about booting the install cd, selecting install XP, accept license agreement, then it will find the existing installation and I can press R to repair it .. but is that basically the same thing I already did? Appreciate some advice... Here is how to do a repair install: http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm Make sure you back up your data. |
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Well actually the activate was a big deal .. I tried to do it when the PC
booted up and I got the "error" noise and the activate wizard never ran. Is there a way to lauch the activate wizard like in safe mode? Does anyone have the phone number to call to activate it? I looked online and MS seems to have hidden all the XP help phone numbers since its barely being supported anymore .. thanks ... "Mark Adams" wrote: "Jamie" wrote: Will this repair install NOT want me to reactivate my license, which failed for me the last time around when i did a install/upgrade? I saw another web site that showed this same repaor with screen shots and the screens looked just like the upgrade screens did ...so it makes me wonder if its the same thing and will require license reactivation ? You might have to reactivate, but so what? There is no limit to how many times you can reactivate on the same computer. If it doesn't activate online, just do a phone activation. No big deal. "Mark Adams" wrote: "Jamie" wrote: Hi Folks, My XP is feeling poorly. My midi stopped playing. It can't create restore points. So I created an XP SP3 slipstream disc, backed up my C drive. And ran an Install[Upgrade] thinking that would fix things for me. Well after the install, the midi was working (heard the windows booting tune) but when I tried to log into one of my accounts it told me it needed to be activated. When I clicked on activate now, it made the "error" noise and nothing came up to activate it. I couldn't find any way around this. So spent 6+ hours restoring my C drive from the back up. Is there any way to repair my XP without having to re-activate it? I saw some other online directions that talk about booting the install cd, selecting install XP, accept license agreement, then it will find the existing installation and I can press R to repair it .. but is that basically the same thing I already did? Appreciate some advice... Here is how to do a repair install: http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm Make sure you back up your data. |
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: The problem with the midi is that when I go into controlpanel,sounds and choose the audio tab,for midi playback there is nothing selected. If I choose something from the drop down and click ok, then go back it, its back to being unselected. After my first attempt at upgrade, the midi was working again, but I couldn't activate the license. So the root question still stands, can I do a repair install that won'tneed me to re-activate the license ? "Daave" wrote: Jamie wrote: Hi Folks, My XP is feeling poorly. My midi stopped playing. It can't create restore points. So I created an XP SP3 slipstream disc, backed up my C drive. And ran an Install[Upgrade] thinking that would fix things for me. Well after the install, the midi was working (heard the windows booting tune) but when I tried to log into one of my accounts it told me it needed to be activated. When I clicked on activate now, it made the "error" noise and nothing came up to activate it. I couldn't find any way around this. So spent 6+ hours restoring my C drive from the back up. Is there any way to repair my XP without having to re-activate it? I saw some other online directions that talk about booting the install cd, selecting install XP, accept license agreement, then it will find the existing installation and I can press R to repair it .. but is that basically the same thing I already did? Appreciate some advice... snip Playing midi files should be easy to fix. It's probably a matter of associating the correct program to play them. If you right-click a midi file and choose Open With..., you should get a choice of players. (Or you may need to browse to find one.) snip By default, midifiles are associated with Windows Media Player. If there are no MIDI devices installed in the computer, there would be only the MS GS softsynth showing up in the MIDI section of the audio tab in the sound control panel. If there is nothing showing up in the MIDI section of the sound control panel, MIDIFILES won't play, no matter what program they're associated with unless that program has it's own integrated MIDI device playing through the computer sound device. To the OP You say "Well after the install, the midi was working (heard the windows booting tune)" What do you mean by "windows booting tune", if you talk about the sound Windows makes when it starts, it has nothing to do with MIDI, it is "WAV audio" and it uses the sound device, not the MIDI device (the MS GS softsynth plays through the same sound device). If you don't try playing MIDIFILES or some type of KARAOKE files, you shouldn't need MIDI. MIDI stands for Musical Instruments Digital Interface and is a protocol for musical instruments (mainly synthesisers) to communicate between themselves or with computers. It's usually used by musicians or music/film producers and sometimes in some older games. Your sound problem seems to be associated with your sound device or soundcard. You must figure out what is your sound device (Device manager Game and sound device), go to the computer or the motherboard or the soundcard manufacturer website and download the latest drivers. Go to Add/Remove programs in the control panel, remove the sound driver, (SoundMax, Realtek, Creative, etc.) then go to the Device manager and remove your sound device (deinstall) and reboot. Windows should detect the sound device and start the "New hardware found" wizard. If the driver you downloaded before is an ".exe" file, cancel the wizard and after Windows has finished loading, run the driver file you previously downloaded. HTH |
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I have built in sound in the mother board, SoundMAX is the s/w for it .. I
removed sound max and went out and bought a CreativeLabs sound card 2 weeks and installed it and still no midi sound .. so removed the card and returned it and reinstalled SoundMAX. We noticed this because like videos from youtube were nolonger playing...its not a huge deal (mp3 etc still play) but wanted to try to fix it .. Tried another reinstall and same thing .. system comes up but widnows wants to be activated and when i click ok the activation wizard doesn't run. so restoring my backup and I'm going to give this up I guess... "Doum" wrote: =?Utf-8?B?SmFtaWU=?= écrivait : The problem with the midi is that when I go into controlpanel,sounds and choose the audio tab,for midi playback there is nothing selected. If I choose something from the drop down and click ok, then go back it, its back to being unselected. After my first attempt at upgrade, the midi was working again, but I couldn't activate the license. So the root question still stands, can I do a repair install that won'tneed me to re-activate the license ? "Daave" wrote: Jamie wrote: Hi Folks, My XP is feeling poorly. My midi stopped playing. It can't create restore points. So I created an XP SP3 slipstream disc, backed up my C drive. And ran an Install[Upgrade] thinking that would fix things for me. Well after the install, the midi was working (heard the windows booting tune) but when I tried to log into one of my accounts it told me it needed to be activated. When I clicked on activate now, it made the "error" noise and nothing came up to activate it. I couldn't find any way around this. So spent 6+ hours restoring my C drive from the back up. Is there any way to repair my XP without having to re-activate it? I saw some other online directions that talk about booting the install cd, selecting install XP, accept license agreement, then it will find the existing installation and I can press R to repair it .. but is that basically the same thing I already did? Appreciate some advice... snip Playing midi files should be easy to fix. It's probably a matter of associating the correct program to play them. If you right-click a midi file and choose Open With..., you should get a choice of players. (Or you may need to browse to find one.) snip By default, midifiles are associated with Windows Media Player. If there are no MIDI devices installed in the computer, there would be only the MS GS softsynth showing up in the MIDI section of the audio tab in the sound control panel. If there is nothing showing up in the MIDI section of the sound control panel, MIDIFILES won't play, no matter what program they're associated with unless that program has it's own integrated MIDI device playing through the computer sound device. To the OP You say "Well after the install, the midi was working (heard the windows booting tune)" What do you mean by "windows booting tune", if you talk about the sound Windows makes when it starts, it has nothing to do with MIDI, it is "WAV audio" and it uses the sound device, not the MIDI device (the MS GS softsynth plays through the same sound device). If you don't try playing MIDIFILES or some type of KARAOKE files, you shouldn't need MIDI. MIDI stands for Musical Instruments Digital Interface and is a protocol for musical instruments (mainly synthesisers) to communicate between themselves or with computers. It's usually used by musicians or music/film producers and sometimes in some older games. Your sound problem seems to be associated with your sound device or soundcard. You must figure out what is your sound device (Device manager Game and sound device), go to the computer or the motherboard or the soundcard manufacturer website and download the latest drivers. Go to Add/Remove programs in the control panel, remove the sound driver, (SoundMax, Realtek, Creative, etc.) then go to the Device manager and remove your sound device (deinstall) and reboot. Windows should detect the sound device and start the "New hardware found" wizard. If the driver you downloaded before is an ".exe" file, cancel the wizard and after Windows has finished loading, run the driver file you previously downloaded. HTH |
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: I have built in sound in the mother board, SoundMAX is the s/w for it .. I removed sound max and went out and bought a CreativeLabs sound card 2 weeks and installed it and still no midi sound .. so removed the card and returned it and reinstalled SoundMAX. We noticed this because like videos from youtube were nolonger playing...its not a huge deal (mp3 etc still play) but wanted to try to fix it .. Tried another reinstall and same thing .. system comes up but widnows wants to be activated and when i click ok the activation wizard doesn't run. so restoring my backup and I'm going to give this up I guess... "Doum" wrote: =?Utf-8?B?SmFtaWU=?= écrivait : The problem with the midi is that when I go into controlpanel,sounds and choose the audio tab,for midi playback there is nothing selected. If I choose something from the drop down and click ok, then go back it, its back to being unselected. After my first attempt at upgrade, the midi was working again, but I couldn't activate the license. So the root question still stands, can I do a repair install that won'tneed me to re-activate the license ? "Daave" wrote: I think you took a radical step to fix your "midi". I'll concentrate in that part of your problem, when you go to the "Audio" tab of your Sound control panel you say there is nothing in the MIDI playback field but is there something in "Audio playback" field? That is the field that's important for Windows sounds and Youtube playback sounds, you don't need MIDI for that. If there is somethig listed (tell us what it is), click on the Volume button in the "Audio Playback" section and make sure the Volume sliders are up for "Wave sound" and "Main Volume control", also make sure that the "muted" boxes are not checked for those two. Does that help? |
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"Jamie" wrote: Well actually the activate was a big deal .. I tried to do it when the PC booted up and I got the "error" noise and the activate wizard never ran. Is there a way to lauch the activate wizard like in safe mode? Does anyone have the phone number to call to activate it? I looked online and MS seems to have hidden all the XP help phone numbers since its barely being supported anymore .. thanks ... If you change hardware a lot, that's why you're being asked to reactivate. See the following: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307890 If the Activation Wizard won't work at all: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295539 Doesn't help? http://support.microsoft.com/ph/1173#tab0 "Get help now" at bottom of page. The Knowledge Base is your friend: http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1 "Mark Adams" wrote: "Jamie" wrote: Will this repair install NOT want me to reactivate my license, which failed for me the last time around when i did a install/upgrade? I saw another web site that showed this same repaor with screen shots and the screens looked just like the upgrade screens did ...so it makes me wonder if its the same thing and will require license reactivation ? You might have to reactivate, but so what? There is no limit to how many times you can reactivate on the same computer. If it doesn't activate online, just do a phone activation. No big deal. "Mark Adams" wrote: "Jamie" wrote: Hi Folks, My XP is feeling poorly. My midi stopped playing. It can't create restore points. So I created an XP SP3 slipstream disc, backed up my C drive. And ran an Install[Upgrade] thinking that would fix things for me. Well after the install, the midi was working (heard the windows booting tune) but when I tried to log into one of my accounts it told me it needed to be activated. When I clicked on activate now, it made the "error" noise and nothing came up to activate it. I couldn't find any way around this. So spent 6+ hours restoring my C drive from the back up. Is there any way to repair my XP without having to re-activate it? I saw some other online directions that talk about booting the install cd, selecting install XP, accept license agreement, then it will find the existing installation and I can press R to repair it .. but is that basically the same thing I already did? Appreciate some advice... Here is how to do a repair install: http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm Make sure you back up your data. |
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"Doum" wrote: =?Utf-8?B?SmFtaWU=?= écrivait : I have built in sound in the mother board, SoundMAX is the s/w for it .. I removed sound max and went out and bought a CreativeLabs sound card 2 weeks and installed it and still no midi sound .. so removed the card and returned it and reinstalled SoundMAX. We noticed this because like videos from youtube were nolonger playing...its not a huge deal (mp3 etc still play) but wanted to try to fix it .. Tried another reinstall and same thing .. system comes up but widnows wants to be activated and when i click ok the activation wizard doesn't run. so restoring my backup and I'm going to give this up I guess... "Doum" wrote: =?Utf-8?B?SmFtaWU=?= écrivait : The problem with the midi is that when I go into controlpanel,sounds and choose the audio tab,for midi playback there is nothing selected. If I choose something from the drop down and click ok, then go back it, its back to being unselected. After my first attempt at upgrade, the midi was working again, but I couldn't activate the license. So the root question still stands, can I do a repair install that won'tneed me to re-activate the license ? "Daave" wrote: I think you took a radical step to fix your "midi". I'll concentrate in that part of your problem, when you go to the "Audio" tab of your Sound control panel you say there is nothing in the MIDI playback field but is there something in "Audio playback" field? That is the field that's important for Windows sounds and Youtube playback sounds, you don't need MIDI for that. If there is somethig listed (tell us what it is), click on the Volume button in the "Audio Playback" section and make sure the Volume sliders are up for "Wave sound" and "Main Volume control", also make sure that the "muted" boxes are not checked for those two. Does that help? In the Audio Tab for Sound Playback and Sound Recording is SoundMAX Digital Audio. WHen I press the Volume button the sliders for SW SYnth and Volume Control are up. |
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how to do a repair install of XP
=?Utf-8?B?SmFtaWU=?= écrivait
: "Doum" wrote: =?Utf-8?B?SmFtaWU=?= écrivait : I have built in sound in the mother board, SoundMAX is the s/w for it .. I removed sound max and went out and bought a CreativeLabs sound card 2 weeks and installed it and still no midi sound .. so removed the card and returned it and reinstalled SoundMAX. We noticed this because like videos from youtube were nolonger playing...its not a huge deal (mp3 etc still play) but wanted to try to fix it .. Tried another reinstall and same thing .. system comes up but widnows wants to be activated and when i click ok the activation wizard doesn't run. so restoring my backup and I'm going to give this up I guess... "Doum" wrote: =?Utf-8?B?SmFtaWU=?= écrivait : The problem with the midi is that when I go into controlpanel,sounds and choose the audio tab,for midi playback there is nothing selected. If I choose something from the drop down and click ok, then go back it, its back to being unselected. After my first attempt at upgrade, the midi was working again, but I couldn't activate the license. So the root question still stands, can I do a repair install that won'tneed me to re-activate the license ? "Daave" wrote: I think you took a radical step to fix your "midi". I'll concentrate in that part of your problem, when you go to the "Audio" tab of your Sound control panel you say there is nothing in the MIDI playback field but is there something in "Audio playback" field? That is the field that's important for Windows sounds and Youtube playback sounds, you don't need MIDI for that. If there is somethig listed (tell us what it is), click on the Volume button in the "Audio Playback" section and make sure the Volume sliders are up for "Wave sound" and "Main Volume control", also make sure that the "muted" boxes are not checked for those two. Does that help? In the Audio Tab for Sound Playback and Sound Recording is SoundMAX Digital Audio. WHen I press the Volume button the sliders for SW SYnth and Volume Control are up. Oh, I missed a point in one of your previous post, you say mp3s play but there is no sound on Youtube? usually, both use the same sound device. Go to youtube and start a video. There is a speaker button at the bottom- right of the screen (where the video plays, not your monitor unless you're fullscreen) just at the left of the button where it says HQ, if there is an "X" beside the speaker, click on it and pull the slider up. Since your mp3s play, your problem does not seem to be related to your sound device. Try to play a music CD in your computer, if you can hear it, the problem is not with your sound device. HTH |
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