There is a patch from microsoft for Intel chipsets/cpus. Search their site for Intel.
Also, go to Intel and download and install the latest INF files for your chipset if you are using Intel.
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After restart hibernate builds a very large file on your hard drive.
Indexing service will also thrash your hard drive to death.
You need to kill them both.
These two items were some of the most complained about during the beta, but MS never bothered to address them.
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Download the Western digital hard drive utility. Run it from a floppy or cd. Have it write all zero's to the hard drive.
Then install the operating system of your choice.
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Instead of dban, why don't you use the hard drive manufacturer's utility to write all zeros to the hard drive?
You might want to re-flash the BIOS and set everything to default settings.
Change the motherboard battery?
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Shut off Mcaffee for one night and see what happens. If that fixes it, remove Mcaffe and install AVG. If not try disabling Counter Spy.
If you are worried about catching something, disconnect the internet connection while testing.
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I don't think it is the Matrix setup.
Right click on My Computer Then click Properties. Click the Advanced tab. On the Startup and Recovery window, click Settings. Uncheck the Automatically Restart.
Save everything.
Now you will get a BSOD. The error can be searched on Google.
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Did you defrag before the upgrade?
Have you run chkdsk?
Did you go to MS Update and let Vista download the latest updates?
Have you installed the proper Vista drivers for your hardware? Some XP drivers don't work right.
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The slow install was caused by having 4GB of RAM.
You need the 64bit versionfor 4GB or more.
If you noticed, your XP install (if it was 32bit) only reported 3.2GB or something like that.
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The RAID must be enabled in BIOS first.
Then you will get a splash screen during boot up. Press 'ctrl I'. That will get you into the RAID setup page.
Odds are your OS won't boot after setting up the RAID. And, you will loose all your data.
There is supposed to be a way to do this from...
For best performance set your BIOS for RAID. Then set your boot order to CD then Hard drive.
You don't need to set up the RAID controller. It will default to a single drive.
Boot from the CD. Press F6. Load the RAID driver. Let Windows delete the old partition. Created a new partition and do a...
One of the first things XP does when it sees a new or resized partions is to run 'chkdsk' on it. PM8 mangled the resize job and the 64K cluster didn't help.
Try running PQ8 again and deleting the new partition. Then try to boot up. If it boots, make sure chkdsk ran on the boot partition. Then...
Creative Sound Blaster cards are notorious for causing problems. Look for some upgraded drivers or check Creative's site for fixes.
This is definately not an XP problem.
Bozo
Install a temperary hard drive (stand alone). install XP on the stand alone. Use XP to convert the drives you wish to mirror to dynamic disk and RAID 1 (or RAID 0 ). Shutdown and remove the stand alone. Boot from XP CD and install on RAIDed drives.
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