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    Gateway FX6800 bios

    Thanks, not yet. Can't believe I didn't think of that. I will do that today and post back.
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    Gateway FX6800 bios

    After years of building my own boxes, I finally broke down and bought a Gateway FX 6800 with the new Core i7 920 CPU in it. The package was just too good to pass up. Yeah I know... Gateway... I'm over it. Now: I rewad about the overclockability of the CPU and want to give it a try. Does...
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    Help-Keep getting install atempts at bootup

    System: Dell Laptop, XP Pro SP2 I tried to install WinDVD8 and some DLLs failed to register, so I uninstalled it. I tried a couple of different things (stopping antivirus etc.) and reinstalled/uninstalled a couple of times. Then I sucessfully installed WinDVD7. However, at bootup, I...
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    New Install - NERO won't see my burners -Help?

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    Laptop will not install XP over Vista RC2 - Help?

    In the bios, there is a way to disable SATA. Set to disabled, rebooted, Win XP is now installed and I'm loading all the add-on drivers. Thanks for all your input!
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    Laptop will not install XP over Vista RC2 - Help?

    MrMike, I think you just hit the nail on the head. Now I have to find a way to install the controller without a floppy (when is the last time you saw a floppy drive on a new laptop)? Hopefully it can work from a CD also. Thank you for that info! bbzghost: I know how that works, but I...
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    Laptop will not install XP over Vista RC2 - Help?

    Thanks. bloo: you misread my post. Vista RC2 is currently on the machine (clean install). Now I want to wipe Vista and put XP Pro Sp2 on. djnes: thanks, I'll look into GPart. Any other ides guys?
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    Laptop will not install XP over Vista RC2 - Help?

    I bought this new HP dv6150us laptop with 120GB hard drive and 2 gigs of ram.. It came with XP Media edition. I ordered an XP-SP2 CD. While I waited for XP to arrive, I threw on my legit copy of RC2 Vista, which went fine. Now I have my XP cd and I want to format and install XP. I boot...
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    Vista RC2 - Windows DVD maker problems!

    No one has the same issue, or no one has tried to capture a movie from a camcorder to a DVD in Vista?
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    Vista RC2 - Windows DVD maker problems!

    I hooked up my miniDV camcorder with Firewire. Windows Vista RC2 immediately recognized it. I got a window asking whether I wanted to transfer the tape to HD or whether I wanted to transfer the file to HD and burn a DVD. I thought 'Sweet!' Nice easy GUI. I was prompted to load a blank DVD...
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    Vista 5728 will not see my SATA drive...help?

    In my system, I had 5 x 120 GB plus 2 burners. I changed my Master 1 IDE to a 500 GB IDE ATA 133 drive. I just bought a 400 GB SATA drive today and plugged it in. I removed all other 120 GB drives. The bios detects the SATA drive correctly, but in Vista, I see nothing. The driver disc...
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    Vista 'test' release build 5728 - now public

    Same here. I updated from 5536 to RC1(5600) and from 5600 to 5728 without any problems... I even got all the stuff to work that I wanted: - CloneDVD - Avast Antivirus - Nero Lite 7.2.7.0
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    Vista 5536 or 5600/RC1: what does everyone use to burn CD's and DVD's?

    I'm using Clone DVD to burn the DVD video files and that works. So the issue is with Nero and Vista. I wonder why 6614 is working for some people and not for me...
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    Vista 5536 or 5600/RC1: what does everyone use to burn CD's and DVD's?

    I upgraded to RC1. I installed Nero 6.6.1.4 The program runs, but when I get to the point where I click 'burn', the burn fails immediately with the error: Specified Host Adapter Invalid I'm using a Sony DVD RW DW-U18A, which is Master on its own IDE channel with DMA turned on. This...
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    Vista 5536 or 5600/RC1: what does everyone use to burn CD's and DVD's?

    Thank you. I'll upgrade to RC1 tomorrow. Nero 6614 it must be then...
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