Posts by redryder508

Quote: 1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)? Do not own - no planed upgrade...

 1) Do you prefer to build your own PC’s or buy a branded system? a) Prefer to build my own   2) How often do you replace or upgrade your PC? e) 3 years or longer but components get upgraded along the...

1) Do you currently own an SSD? Are you planning on purchasing one or more in the near future? Don't own one yet ... no immediate plans but if one comes my way it will be used. 2) If you’re planning on purchasing an SSD, which brand(s)...

Solution Found In the BIOS advanced set up was an option called INTEL Speed Step   Disabled the option, and rebooted into SP2 with no issues.    Added SP3, MS Security Essentials without any other...

    these two sites will get you to the MS 1.9MB file that is supposed to download only those files your need . http://download.cnet.com/Windows-XP-Service-Pack-1a-SP1a/3000-2098_4-10147919.html  ....

Tried the XP and then upgrade to SP3 ..got a warning that SP3 requires a minimum of SP1(a), the upgrade exited and back to bare XP  ...And Microsoft no longer has SP1a available as a download.   I've rebuilt/repaired a...

re: straight to SP3   I have tried xp to sp2 to sp3 with no reboots, and that did not work.   could try xp to sp3, but I seem to recall that there was a cavaet that you had to have a minimum of SP1a installed first....

My friend's Gateway 7330gz had a hard-drive failure so I installed new hard-drive (160GB drive), put down a copy of XP Pro, booted no problem, added all the appropriate drivers that I can find to remove the Yellow ? and ! from the...