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Hi Peter, Thanks for the message. It wasn't actually a driver issue though. The computer guy tested my card and drivers on a slightly faster processor and it was fine. He tested the CPU usage with serenescreen running on my system and it was intermittently excessive under xp (hence the...

Hi Guys. Thanks for all the help. It is now Tuesday and I am back on line! Finally took the computer before the weekend to the local computer store and explained the problem. They fixed it for £20 - but it took the guy 2 hours! There was fortunatley no hardware problem. Win2k has now been...

Thanks Peter, Yes, been down the driver route a few times. I curently have the Xp drivers for the ELSA erazor III pro. But previously tried the NVidia detonator drivers. It doesn't bode well that ww.elsa.de is off line! I have come accross lots of problems listed on the internet (e.g...

Guys, I am actually starting to see the funny side of this now. Have just made the 4 boot floppies for win2k. The computer booted from floppy 1 and entered win2k set up. It then asked to insert win2k setup disc 2 and press enter. However, despite pressing enter, the computer froze! Repeated...

Destructa and mithrilhall - really appreciate your help again guys. Regards, Mark.

Thanks Guys. Can't tell you how helpful these instructions have been to a novice like me. Hak - Would gladly have gone to comp usa but unfortunately air fare would be around £600! Yes I'm English - thought you would have guessed that from my lack of knowledge! :-) Anyway, finally did the XP...

wolluf - I really appreciate your help. Thanks again. Mark.

Destructa and wolluf - thanks very much. Destructa - I like the sounds of option 1. Does this mean reformatting my hard drive is not necessary? Sorry to display my ignorance yet again! Mark.

Thanks mithrilhall and linney. Much appreciated. Despite saving the BIOS settings and being speedy on the press key to boot from CD, XP still appears. Linney - I was just trying to get rid of xp altogether. I am hoping formatting the hard drive will be the way to go. I'm not really very...

In desperate need of some help. Started a thread previously about the graphical pauses after installation of Windows XP on my PIII 550 xeon with 256 MB and a RIVA TNT2 Pro card. Now just want to do a clean install of windows 2000. Just cannot do it! Have been into the setup BIOS and changed...

I really appreciare your help guys. Wish I had more knowledge of IT. Really should have listened more at school! Thanks again. ww.histopath.co.uk mail@histopath.co.uk. Mark.

Just tried installing windows2000. Did the above as suggested but got the message "Windows 2000 is incompatible with this version of Windows. For more information, contact Microsoft.". Can anyone help me do a clean install of windows2000. I currently am using windows xp. Thank you...

Thank you MSeng. Very much appreciated. Mark.

I have finally given up with windows xp. Despite extremely helpful advice from beer4meok it just isn't worth it with my outdated hardware. Could someone please tell me how to do a clean install of windows2000? I have the windows2000 installation CD but cannot work out how on earth one goes...

Beer4meok - cannot thank you enough for your help with this. I didn't even know there was a 'compatability mode' under properties! It has worked a treat for MAME space invaders and most other games. Run perfectly under windows 95. Think I will still take your advice about extra RAM though...

I am hoping against hope that someone can help me! As you may have guessed I am somewhat of a novice to this! I have a PIII550 xeon with 256 MB, ELSA erazor III pro (TNT2 pro) and lord only knows what mother board :-). I was running windows2000 and all the graphics worked just fine. I...