any luck with running amd and xp without having problems with booting speed I had an AMD cpu based pc running at 1 ghz which ran fine for years with windows 98 but when I added the xp it took like over 1 minute to boot and that was after a fresh install and...

to just install the driver but even if you download just the driver it wants to install the Catalyst Control Center. So you are stuck between wanting to install the drivers for your video card or using the generic video driver that is stable and won't crash...

who helped me on the boot problem. Yesterday, Saturday, I was finally able to send Gary S.Terhumethe the files from the Thinkpad, he checked them and couldn't see anything wrong with them. So there we are. It looks like a clean install of the OS. Again...

it sound otherwise.. i think all of the windows 7 upgrades allow for a fresh install, you just need the key from the previous version of windows so if i just right click my computer and use that product key for my XP media center, would and then install 7 on...

install, that was fresh following a full format of my system partition, thus ruling out registry troubles. The problems were also there upon first boot of the fresh install, so it's not down to any drivers I've installed. I'm stuck in the same situation as...

channel if available. leave it set as slave, even if you have to put your cdrom/dvd/burner(if you have one)as master. the system must boot from the fresh install. if it boots, then check if you can acces the files on the other hd. If that works, give the...

go past 15 MB/s, while the Intel system instantly got it upto 88 MB/s average, top being 91 something and least being 84. This speed difference was apparent in boot-up. Alongwith Intel's RapidBoot, it booted (fresh install) in 27 seconds flat, while Windows...

of a fresh install? Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsme.general () The WININIT.INI file is not used during the reinstall of ME - although it will almost certainly be used during the final boot phase of installing drivers. It is created...

up the problems. I booted on the old hard >> drive. I then tried to upgrade my copy of Norton anti virus in order >> make sure my problems were not caused by a virus. This did not work . I >> could not install the upgrade. I decided that I better boot...

usage for a few days and installation of drivers/utilities/programs, eventually the problem goes away. I know it's a certain thing that has to be installed on the system to trigger it not to do that anymore, but I don't know what it is. Anyone have any ideas?...