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A friend of mine asked me if I can reformat her computer. Its a bit of an older machine, but good enough to handle Vista. She has a legal copy of Windows Vista. The computer she has has two optical drives, CD-RW and DVD-ROM. However, the DVD-ROM is faulty and does read the discs all the...

There is no way around it bro. You gotta start fresh. I activated a legit OEM copy of XP Home and fell into the same predicament as you. All you can really do is go into safe mode as administrator and then back up all your files.

I took a quick trip down to Office Depot and picked up a Microsoft Digital Media 3000 Keyboard, which has USB connection. I plugged it it and I could tell right away from seeing the Num Lock LED come on that it was working. I was able to get into safe mode. I was also able to press F12 and...

I cannot interupt the boot. I was able to interupt it once but pushing F12, and got to the boot screen where it gave me the option to boot from removeable drive, floppy, optical drive and hard drive. Again, I could not choose any of those options and I cant even get to that option again...

The last time I formated I set it to boot in this sequence: D > A > C (A or D might be reversed but I know that C is the last). When I power it up, I get IBM logo. Tells me system is starting up, press enter to interput normal startup. The keyboard is a new PS/2 type. This is the first time...

Right now I cant even get into safe mode. Thats a good tittle tidbit but its useless for me at this point.

Like I said before I do not have the option. I'm just going to reformat, however being a IBM computer its not letting me. I cant get it to boot from disk, into safe mode nor into the BIOS. Any suggestions?

It doesnt give me that option. Once the PC loads up, I guess to the log in screen and tell me Windows needs to be activated. I click Yes, and it opens a window and says Windows is Activated. So I don't get the option to activate over the phone.

Well if you can't connect it then thats not that bad you just made a mistake. My cousin bought a new computer, got all the parts, and they said for $10 they will connect all the components and install windows. Insted of me wasting my time, I said "f it" and pay the $10 bucks and get them...

Sometimes Dell is worth it, you just have to look out for those killer deals. However, if you don't get any of those killer deals then its not worth getting. I know with my Toshiba laptop, I saved $450 @ Best Buy, during a back to school sale. My laptop is almost as good as my rig. It cost...

Personally, I think the flaw with Vista is that it is like a step backwards for us. The system requirements are so high, and unless you spend an arm and a leg on a computer then its like using you computer from back in the day.

I havent been here in so long I guess I forgot the rule of the forum. But in my defence I'm not really discussing it, I'm just saying is there another option that I really have here other then using that copy you know they dont sell XP anymore. I chose to activated over the internet. It...

I have a computer with Windows XP Home edition OEM. Its a legit copy of Windows. I've installed this version on one computer. However, its been over 30 days and now I am getting a error message when it boots up saying its not activated, when it is activated. When I choose to activate it...

Well I actually got the mouse working. I went into the BIOS and practically re-did the whole BIOS and got the serial mouse to work.

Good to know that I shouldn't really have any problem. Now what do you mean by slipstream them to a CD? Like burn the drivers on a cd, then push f6pop the xp disk out, install the drivers and then pop the xp disk in again?

Alright my bad bro. Intel® 946GZ + ICH7 chipset. Do you know if this is one recognized?

StrangleHold do you know if XP has a generic driver for a Western Digital 160GB 7200RPM 8MB SATA II (WD1600AAJS) hard drive?

Ohh really thats good then. I've only built one computer, the one in my sig, that had a SATA HDD but Vista picked it up so I didn't have to istall 3rd party drivers. you see I need to do an install of SPK2 on one of those no os ready to go systems but it also doesn't have a floppy drive.

Just get what you could really afford. At least try to get a 512MB stick or RAM in there. If you can get a 2 x 512MB then go for it but if not then just add the 512MB next to what ever you have right now and then when you can get another 512MB stick in there do so.

Quick question here. Will Windows XP SPK-2 Installer recognize a SATA II Hard Drive, or will there be a need to install third party SATA drivers? If so is there a way to load them up without a floppy?