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Many thanks to Ed, Harry, Roger and Tony for revisiting this thread, especially after so long; it would only be courteous of me to express gratitude and post an update. I replaced the SCSI drive with a larger capacity IDE...i decided it would be wiser to go for a 250 GB IDE rather than a 40GB...

*mild high....not mile high....my minds adrift...see, the noise is getting to me!

Following more inspection, here is what ive found: 1-The connector isnt black, but white like the top one...i havent taken it out yet, but when i do, ill match the order of the wires with standard ATXs to determine if HP did something. 2-I found that there is a mile high pitched electrical...

sorry, latter half was in response to edfair. in addition: the last thing i would want to do is refit everything in a new case...this case has brilliant airflow and temperatures dont go over 35 degrees even when ive run it overnight...okay, so im not overclocking, but its much cooler than my...

Thanks for being so quick! wahnula: I will redo the toothpick thing again as soon as I shut the monster down. In the second image, the top is 20 pin and bottom 24 pin...arent they the two types of standard ATX? Which one is HP's proprietary? Rats...if its a mobo capacitor, then i need a...

I was on the verge of buying a new PSU for my HP XW6000 Workstation when I read on several forums that they may not work as some manufacturers use motherboards designed to be compatible with proprietary PSUs only. Is there a converter plug or something I can use to make them compatible? I dont...

Hi linney...since last posting, i refrained from using zonealarm and switched to windows firewall instead. The rundll32 error hasnt come up. Either zonealarm had a compatibility issue with something else installed on my machine, or its the poor scapegoat.

Thanks to everyone for their help....it seems to have resolved. Still holding off the reformatting.... Best wishes.

hi linney The boot sector reading error on avg is a false positive, according to the experts at grisoft...theyre working on resolving that on their next update. Id hope ZoneAlarm is the cause just so I can declare this problem resolved. Im leaning towards a software compatibility issue...two...

Nope, zone alarm doesnt have any entries for rundll32. When I ran the pc overnight, that error didnt come up with windows defender and no zone alarm running, but with zone alarm, i came back in the morning to find the true vector error and disconnected from the internet. Yesterday evening...

Forgot to mention, system restore and chkdsk were the first things i tried. ZoneAlarm has been giving 'TrueVector forced to close' errors....something along that line when it just stops and i need to close and restart the programme..... Will try windows defender tonight. The problem didnt...

My Windows XP SP2 based machine has been encountering a problem for the past two weeks and I cant seem to pinpoint what the cause is. I have carried out some diagnostic tests but seem to have hit a dead end, so I would appreciate any suggestions any of you folk can come up with. The Problem...

Here is what it had to say: Intel Xeon Prestonia Brand ID 11 socket 604 0.13um 0.272v Intel Xeon 2.80GHZ Family F Model 2 Stepping 7 extFamily F extModel 2 Revision C1 MMX, SSE, SSE2 multiplier x21 bus speed 132.9 mhz fsb 531.6 mhz L1 data 8kb L1 trace 12 ku L2 data 512kb So it has...

One final thing, if i may add...on intel's processor finder website, i found a list of all the intel xeon processors the one in my system could possibly be: SL6VK 2 GHz N/A N/A 533 MHz 0.13 micron D1 512 KB Micro-FCPGA SL6RQ 2 GHz N/A N/A 533 MHz 0.13 micron C1 512 KB Micro-FCPGA SL6NP 2 GHz...

My HP Workstation XW6000 is currently running on a single Intel Xeon processor 2.8 GHz/533 MHz front side bus, 512 KB L2 cache; I am trying to get hold of another identical processor to upgrade my system to a dual-processor set-up as cheaply as possible...(that means im looking around on a...

Linney, My phoenix bios likes to display usb drives as a hard disk, so i did expand that under the boot menu and prioritise that. After following the specified instructions of setting up a boot disk on a floppy and copying the files and boot sector onto the usb stick, i now get the following on...

@linney: I went through the entire procedure of setting up BartPE on my USB thumb drive, yet my faulty laptop refuses to boot from it! Under its boot menu, i put 'removable drives' on top, the installation of BartPE went without errors (I can understand this can be a longwinded process)...

I can understand the logic behind your suggestion, however, considering i cannot boot from CDs to access the recovery console...im a little stuck, right?

wolluf, history: laptops worked like a dream for six months...i bought it from that bargain haven on eBay. The last thing i did was install three driver updates windows update recommended me to install. I, in hindsight wrongly, trusted microsofts analysis of my laptop, installed them, tried...

unfortunately the faulty laptop doesnt have a floppy drive....would i be able to connect my desktop floppy drive to it somehow? in all honesty...if it is a hardware problem, do you suggest i persevere trying to fix it? you may have presumed, i have no warranty on it.