Recent content by Jimmill

Old Hard Drive had bad bootsectors. tried rewriting the MBR which didn't seem to help with getting past the dma pool chek on bootup. I was advised that a reinstall of Win XP would not take away personal folders. This was true apart from my sons user area. Sometime he had changed his user name...

Hi. I run athlonxp 2000 (1667MHz), XPprofesssional SP2, Geforce FX 5200, nisys 5.1 audio card. Whenever I try to create a DVD with Nero or MyDVD or Roxio, almost invariably I get a BSOD. Sometimes it says that a grahics device created the problem with a message saying thread stuck in device...

Thanks to all you folks. will try tose plans later.

Hi Trying to restart A pc with a damaged hard drive. The pagefile area is corrupt so XP won't get past the userlogon. (even as admin!) andthe drive is abot to die. Installed a new HD but theold user files were cleverly made private by my friends children. Now we can't see them. Any hope of...

Hi No, I think I meant 7000 VE series. Nice to hear from you. Jim

:confused: My pc seems to crash at the drop of a hat. Usually when screen redraws are happening in small areas (eg progress bars), sometimes when a small sound gets stuck in a loop in media player, sometimes when NAV or speed-disk are running. The OCA console say s a device driver caused a...