AMD 3500 on an AM2 motherboard made by asrock, 2 gig of memory.
At some point in the Windows update process after a fresh reinstall, and not
always the same point, the computer will not restart automatically.  It shuts
down, and the video shuts off, and the main power and fans ...

when i have to reinstall windows xp, i obviously have two options.
upgrade or fresh install.
i choose fresh install, go through the initial set-up procedure, then reboot
pc.

I have a problem that I have been battle for a couple days now.  This is one
strange problem.  It all stemmed when I wanted to install Windows XP Home SP2
on a Gateway 700X.  Booted from the XP SP2 CD, Hit enter, Hit F8, Selected
the drive to install on went to format the drive ...

I have tried several time to install Windows XP Service Pack 2.  I have
contacted the support center about it and we have tried diabling both my
anti-virus/firewall before installing and I still get the "Access Denied"
error message.  Has anybody else ran across this problem and ...

My HDD got fried and now I need to re-install XP. However, I've realised
that in a bout of cleaning house, I threw out my old Win98 CD set, my XP
discs are upgrades only which require 98 to be installed first.
Is there any way I can get my PC up and running without replacing the ...

I recently had to re-install my version of XP, so I put all the
programs I wanted to install on my d drive and went ahead with the
install, after installing windows said something about the data on d:
been corrupt and went about some sort of automatic recovery, now I can

A friend has just had his PC reformatted and Win XP reloaded. the PC ran ok
but every so often it would shut down,maybe every 45 minutes,  or 2 hours
sometimes.
It has now ceased to start up at all, when switching on,the PC runs untill

I have a XP Home SP2 install that is old.  I need to rebuild it.  I have the
original XP Home CD and have SP downloaded ready to add on top.  Will do
dis-connected from Internet.
Q is - how do I get the install started.  When I am in XP and install the

I own a copy of XP Pro, but temporarily switched to Linux.  Now I'm trying to
come back to the Microsoft family and need to install Windows.  However, it
was long enough ago that I have since lost my CD Key and thus am not able to
install it.  How would I go about getting my CD ...

I need to find out if I can do an upgrade from (98se-Millenium) to XP pro
with a Full version OEM disk. There seems to be some differing views on this.
I have heard you can do a upgrade (were you will not lose any information
or files) with the XP Pro Full retail version but not ...

I finally decided to update my Gateway desktop from ME to XP.  I installed
the program last night and thought all went well.  In addition I am also
installing a wireless gateway.  The computer rebooted, and since then I keep
getting a message that one of the disks need to  be ...

Hi ... When ever I use the disk cleanup tool from within windows system
tools the entry for " Downloaded Program Files has been replace by
@C\Windows\System32\occache.dll , Though If I click the view tab for it
? It will open the downloaded program files folder , Does anyone know

I have installed windows Server 2003 on my laptop(System1) and
Installed windows XP on another system(system2).Now i want to connect
the two systems,system1as domain controller and added the system2 to
the domain.

Newbie with thanks
Connect someone else's notebook to data projector - it doesn't automatically
connect or show desktop on projected screen
What do I do after going to:

I have that problem which others seems to be having with installing
windows xp 64.  It is a notebook HP pavilian ZV6000.
It was working but after a hangup and rebooting, just get the screen
saying, start normally, safe mode, last good, etc.... clicking on anything