jimmyd

Thank's for a reply, I left my E-mail add. for the Oct. release. jimmy

Went to "linux for Laptop's" and it say's for the A20M "Generic" ? what does that mean ? I was thinking about Ubuntu but don't know which way to go. Laptop, A20M, 700mhz, 9Gb HDD, presently Win. 2K. Nothing serious just E-Mail, browsing, experimenting. Any suggestion's ? jimmy Well couldn't wait for Ubunto 5.1 so went ahead with 5.04. It couldn't mount the CD-ROM and the Live CD wouldn't load. Switched to a Toshiba Tecra 8100 and after 3 diff. CD-Rom's the install loaded and I'm now running Ubuntu 5.04. It's pretty neat really, although I've just begin exploring so far. Will try to get the wir

Well after a few impedement's I managed to reformat 8 HDD's. Four other's werent reconized by the sys. So thank's to you guy's support the effort was well worthwhile. jimmy

Thank's for the reply's and will get busy. A further ques. , when connected (as slave) will XP try to start setting up a dual boot sys. if the slave drive has on OS installed on it?? jimmyd

Been away for awhile for various reasons and want to avail myself of some of the board expertice. I've wound up with about a dozen 2.5" HDD . toshiba-Hitachi-Seagate etc. The are in different condition. I have onhand, a 2.5 to std. HDD connector, Partition Magic, and Desktop with XP-Pro to try to get these HDD cleaned out and set-up to be usable. Is this a resonable indever or just a waste of time &effort ? If you have the time and interest I'd appreciate your input. Pls. consider I'm elderly and will require step by step inst. that I can print-out and refer to. Lastly Hello to anyone you

Thank's Efwis, jimmyd

Recieved an E-Mail, saying some one had a ques. on the XT926. Can't find the individual on the Forum so , I'll answer in the dark. Ques. was, Did you get XP on the Machine ? Ans. No but could have easily done it. I had 2k on it and a lot of program's installed and was to lazy to re-install all of them . So I left 2k on it and it run's great. If you want XP, put the HDD in another machine and start the install and shut down at the point the install want's to re-boot. Put the HDD back in the XT926 and re-install XP. Hope this help's. jimmyd P.S. Any ques. get back to me here

Ran some test's last night, on the cooling. 1) duct work OFF, side cover OFF= Mobo=73 (F) CPU = 117/118 (F) ^118 under load. Aux. = 73 (F) HDD = 79 (F) 2) duct work ON, sidecovers ON= MOBO=73 (F) CPU = 109/113 (F) ^to 113 under load. Aux. = 72 (F) HDD = 84 (F) Both Fan's inc/dec by about 200rpm to maintain the temp, depending on the CPU activity. Are these CPU temp's pretty normal for an AMD CPU ??? jimmy

Dave , thank's for some good info. I'll double ck. everything , I'm guessing the fan blowing in is to do as you suggest " not cause Neg. pressure". Looking at it closer , it appears that some of the air being ducted also is applied to the chip-set. So that mean's that , I'd better leave it alone. jimmyd

Well got an extra 256MB of Ram in it and added a few program's & utilitys. It's running good and guess that about finishes it up. Not going to use the Video card i've got coming, will just leave it on the onboard vid. ( it's pretty good ). The only thing I'm not happy with is the "cooling". The machine has a fan on the CPU ofcourse and the PSU. The cooling fan on the rear of the unit blow's in and has duct work directing the air on the CPU. So that leaves NO exhaust fan (except PSU) to get the hot air out ??? Got a couple of fan's but can't find any where to put one . I've never seen t

Hi , got the Video drivers and it starting to come together. Found the Driver's at "Drivers.com". Sure look a lot better. jimmyd

Well still no Ram ( another stick supposedly on the way). also no luck on Video driver's. Guess I'll try a video card, and see if that will work. Trying not to get to much tied up in this project but I'm lazy at the same time LOL. Until next time, jimmyd

I like that, I've been having those DAY's pretty regular. jimmyd

Hi,again. Got the Audio Driver from MS ,last night. Found Video Driver but havent been able to d/l it yet. I'll prob. need a BIOS update also and am looking for that for XP install. jimmyd

Got a project I'm working on and would like to have some HP owner's input's. Really anyone's for that matter. 1st. off the MOBO is A7V-ML (rev. 1.08) , HP say's it's a Lanai MOBO. Has anyone heard of Lanai? Googled it and found nothing much. 2nd, Audio is said to be "AC97". I need Driver's for it for Win. 2K. There not avail on the HP site? I'll bring this project up now and then if it generate's any interest. jimmyd

Chappy, thank you for your input. I only vaguely knew what was actually occuring during a Boot process. I have a cold Boot time (pwr. on to fully ready Desktop) of 65/70 sec. ( XP-PRO SP2) This is by no mean's intolerable, and there doesn't appear to be any waiting or lapse of activity during Boot. My inquary is , I don't really need to see two screen's ( pgs.? ) of data on every Boot-UP. It's very good info. and make's you aware of your sys. parameter's but just didn't want to display it every time, if it can be made to not appear. I wouldn't attempt to delete it (it's part of the natural s

Hi, man ! How did it come out ? Haven't seen any post's on your install, how about an update ? jimmy

Thank's Pro-Driver & Steve, I'll Follow up on your advice/suggestion's. jimmy P.S. tg1911, that's a very nice page. I'll spend some time there. Thank you. jimmy

Thank you. jimmy

brax, can you tell me what's in the "BootVis" program? I have it down loaded but don't want to open it without knowing more about it. Thank's , jimmy

Hi, I'm not refering to start-up program's. I'm talking about the" Black" screen you get at the initial Boot of the computer , showing - Bios , video card , PCI device's , boot devices, etc. etc. I want to Boot directly to the OS, but don't know which item's in the BIOS determine this ? jimmy

Hello, i'm looking for some info. on BIOS setting's to allow the Desktop to boot quicker. As it now stand's on Boot I get all the MB, Drive, and alot of other info. that is nice but don't need on Boot-UP. Sys. Win XP-PRO, 2.4GB cpu, 512MB pc2100, 60GB 8MB 7200 HDD, DVDROM,FDD, A-Open MB, AMI BIOS (not sure of the version right now) Yeah and SP-2. Would appreciate your response & suggestion's. jimmy

Mikex, where are you on the MB situation ? jimmy

Just wanted to add my experience's ( briefly ) of the SP-2 install. 1. On the Desktop (main unit ) i'm on now. Ordered Disk (Free) from M$. Got up the courage to install , well , on reboot she locked up and I had nothing. Finally got it to boot, no Lan, no Dualboot sys. etc. Couldn't get to Sys. Restore. Finally had to do clean install of XP-PRO. Ofcourse had to re-setup every thing. Ok everything (after a couple of day's) running good. Well I re-setup Auto Update's and forgot it, wasn't going to fool with it anymore. Came in my computer Rm. one morning (about a wk. later) and damn if it

Hi M, That MB has some great revues. I'm sure you noted the FSB & AGP ? Hell thier trying to give it to you ( who said there's no Santa ! ) Really man a MB to me is a very personal thing , it's ofcourse the heart of your sys. and should be (within reason) the best you can afford , for the project . You Can't talk about a man's, Wife, Car, or Motherboard. When you see THE right one it will grab you and that's that. I'm afraid I may have to change my bet, your wife has inside knowledge and is prob. going to win-out on this one. Pick a good one and get it in the mail man. jimmy