Guest ellas Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 not much can go wrong if its the right bios,the difference between madboys xp upgrade and mine is hp kindly provided a xp supported bios with clear instructions on its site,m/soft recommend a bios upgrade to support xp,madboy has a very old bios and lets it face it how many of us are using drivers nearly 4 years old,when I did the remote the system feels a bit flacky with error after error in the error log (madboy can you post some of these) a bios upgrade can transform a system but it does not look like we can find one for madboy anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 This is probably the trouble with comps from Time/Tiny et al, they buy in a bulk lot of mobos that are soon to be superseded whack em in and sell em quick, only trouble is when we buy a time/tiny set up we don't know enough to realise this. Its only with experience we find this out and wish we had gone for a more expensive set up with uprade possibilities. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted January 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 Craig has also advised on doing a clean install of XP which i will be doing in the near future and clearing out all the TINY clutter on my HDDone thing that is troubling me, if i do change to NTFS will my zip drive work on it as i see it is FAT(not FAT32)madboy33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 I understand ntfs can see fat but not the other way around, I can see my zip disks no probs with XP on ntfs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 If you go for a clean install get your drivers backed up with Windrivebackup from http://www.jermar.com/save a lot of grief Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 yes zip will work,clean install you must format it and hope the recovery discs are accepted because I tried to do a clean install to ntfs from the upgrade cd and it would not let me,so think carefully about that,madboy try ntfs ,before you do I will post to show you how easy it is to get the recovery discs to delete ntfs and go back to fat32. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 NTFS and system recoveryIf you chose the NTFS (Windows NT File System) option during a Windows XP New Installation, you will need to delete the non-DOS partition of the hard drive before starting a system recovery using the System Recovery CD. Otherwise, you will not be able to use the System Recovery CD that came with the computer later if wanting to reinstall Windows 98. If after upgrading to Windows XP, you select to convert your file system to NTFS, you can no longer revert to Windows 98 without losing all your data. You also will need to repartition your hard disk drive using the FDISK utility on your hard drive for the System Recovery CD to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 to do a clean install using upgrade, if XP doesn't recognise your restore disc as acceptable, beg, steal or borrow a copy of 95/98/me on disc it will accept any of those, even the u/grade versions I understand ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted January 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 mark2yep i am going to borrow a disc from someone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 I think the options there when you first install xp but not when xp is installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted January 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 problems here folksi assume that in the bios i have to change the 1st item to start, ie do i want the HDD to start 1st? ide1, which is where my slow cd rom is or IDE2 where my fast cd-rw is situatedi have tried it in the bios but cant get the configuration right for the XP CD to load 1st and get the option to re-formatregards madboy33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 Do the cdrom and cdrw not show identified by name in the bios ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted January 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 all it syas is cdrom, not cd-rwin advanced it says ide1 and ide 2 and ide0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted January 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 dont worryi have just found out how to do it anywaysset primary master = cdromprimaryslave= userthanks mark2all sortedmadboy33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 set 1st boot as cdrom for now and XPcd in the master cdrom/rw, my set up where I have dvd cdrw and hd, I have to use dvd tio boot from as it is set to master of the pair dvd/cd you should find that then picks the master cd to boot fromshould have refreshed 1st :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted January 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 lolthanks mark2madboy33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted January 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 going to close this one down nowthanks all for inputCLOSED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted January 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2003 well folks you are not going to believe this, but i have founs some drivers for my scanner and guess whatwooooohooooooooooo, i have my scanner working and up and runningaint i gooda bit of detective work and how to add the software and i now have a perfect scanner againmadboy33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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