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I'll be brief, but over the last few months I have posted about numerous
computer issues from 'blue screen crashes' to installing SATA drives and
'Flat Screen Monitors', all an expensive excersise.

The SATA drive was an attempt to see whether it was a Hard Drive / IDE
cable / MoBo fault, that the MS Error messages were suggesting. (Treat
these messages with a pinch of salt).
I successfully installed the SATA drive over a week ago, after some
initial complications due to my lack of understanding. A new install of
Windows XP Pro, and within a hour a 'blue screen' crash / reboot. Also
various programmes continued to have faulting modules and closing down
with 'send error message to Microsoft' etc, before closing. (Firefox /
Thunderbird / Excel / Wordpad and more). Only a reboot would get them to
work again.

I joined the Abit forums over Christmas and after a day stumbled on this
'Blue Screen' thread.
http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=98805
Without anything to lose I made the suggested changes to the DRAM and
have had these manually set since Monday.
Since then, NO Crashes, No Faulting Modules, and I've even got the
Network and Printer sharing working properly now.

So if anyone has a simalar problem it maybe worth making a note of this fix.

Thanks to all who have replied to my posts either on usw or by e-mail.

Fingers crossed this post won't put the mockers on it !

My next task which has been put on hold since last summer due to this is
to start to have review of my website that I have a million and one
ideas to improve it. This may take some months :-) Now what did I do
with my copy of dreamweaver?

Thanks
--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net

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"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
...
I'll be brief, but over the last few months I have posted about numerous
computer issues from 'blue screen crashes' to installing SATA drives and
'Flat Screen Monitors', all an expensive excersise.

The SATA drive was an attempt to see whether it was a Hard Drive / IDE
cable / MoBo fault, that the MS Error messages were suggesting. (Treat
these messages with a pinch of salt).
I successfully installed the SATA drive over a week ago, after some
initial complications due to my lack of understanding. A new install of
Windows XP Pro, and within a hour a 'blue screen' crash / reboot. Also
various programmes continued to have faulting modules and closing down
with 'send error message to Microsoft' etc, before closing. (Firefox /
Thunderbird / Excel / Wordpad and more). Only a reboot would get them to
work again.


Check your memory, clean and reseat. Get a copy of Win2000 Pro.

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On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:40:02 -0000, Russel Sprout
wrote:


Get a copy of Win2000 Pro.


Or even better get a copy of OS X :-)

--
Gareth

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Gareth Slee wrote:

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:40:02 -0000, Russel Sprout
wrote:


Get a copy of Win2000 Pro.


Or even better get a copy of OS X :-)


or Lin.. oh hang on, this is a weather group.



--
Brian Wakem
Email: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/b.wakem/myemail.png

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It DOES say [OT], Brian!

Go on! SAY IT! :)

PKH

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"Brian Wakem" wrote in message
...
Gareth Slee wrote:

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:40:02 -0000, Russel Sprout

wrote:


Get a copy of Win2000 Pro.


Or even better get a copy of OS X :-)


or Lin.. oh hang on, this is a weather group.

Yes but we all want Keith's site to work smoothly.
I would reccomend Win2000 Pro to any windows junkies, 95 98 or ME upgraders,
or XP downgraders. Linux and BSD (OS X) are OK too.

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Russel Sprout wrote:
"Brian Wakem" wrote in message
...

Gareth Slee wrote:


On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:40:02 -0000, Russel Sprout



wrote:



Get a copy of Win2000 Pro.


Or even better get a copy of OS X :-)


or Lin.. oh hang on, this is a weather group.


Yes but we all want Keith's site to work smoothly.
I would reccomend Win2000 Pro to any windows junkies, 95 98 or ME upgraders,
or XP downgraders. Linux and BSD (OS X) are OK too.



It's taken me 6 months to get this computer working properly, I'm not
going to start changing things quite yet ;-)

Plus it's still early days, although things do look promising for the
moment :-)

--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net

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Quoting from message
posted on 7 Jan 2006 by Keith (Southend)
I would like to add:

Russel Sprout wrote:
"Brian Wakem" wrote in message
...

Gareth Slee wrote:


On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:40:02 -0000, Russel Sprout



wrote:



Get a copy of Win2000 Pro.


Or even better get a copy of OS X :-)


or Lin.. oh hang on, this is a weather group.


Yes but we all want Keith's site to work smoothly.
I would reccomend Win2000 Pro to any windows junkies, 95 98 or ME upgraders,
or XP downgraders. Linux and BSD (OS X) are OK too.



It's taken me 6 months to get this computer working properly, I'm not
going to start changing things quite yet ;-)

Well that's Windows for you innit????[1]

Plus it's still early days, although things do look promising for the
moment :-)


Hope you continue to be successful.

[1] Bill Gates should have been strangled at birth or directed into a
career which did not involve developing computer systems ( don't use
smileys but I suppose there ought to be one here)

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"Russel Sprout" wrote in message
...

"Brian Wakem" wrote in message
...
Gareth Slee wrote:

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:40:02 -0000, Russel Sprout

wrote:


Get a copy of Win2000 Pro.


Or even better get a copy of OS X :-)


or Lin.. oh hang on, this is a weather group.

Yes but we all want Keith's site to work smoothly.
I would reccomend Win2000 Pro to any windows junkies, 95 98 or ME
upgraders,
or XP downgraders. Linux and BSD (OS X) are OK too.

I don't know why everyone is gong on about the OS when Keith's problems seem
to have been caused by an incorrect BIOS setting.

In my experience Windows XP has ben completely reliable both on my home
computers and the one my wife uses for work I have known an upgrade to
Windows XP from Windows 2000 reveal a buffer ovrflow bug in an application
but the OS can't be blamed for that.

Alan

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In message , Gareth Slee
writes
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:40:02 -0000, Russel Sprout
wrote:


Get a copy of Win2000 Pro.


Or even better get a copy of OS X :-)

FreeBSD :-)
--
Tim
http://www.stopharlownorth.com/