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just a follow up on this thread. two days later the video card took a super dump and no reviving it, so it made for some really good target practice. i guess it was telling me to buy a better card next time. once again thanks to all........jim

hi folks well seems the video card did come loose and was the problem. i pulled the card reiserted it and everything came up as it should. i feel so dumb posting this thread before checking it. thank you all for your help and support. happy new year thanks....jim

thanks Ben i'll check that but the system is only about 6 months old. but i'm thinking i might have fried the vid card or worse the mobo. like i said in an earlier post is the optical mouse lights up even with the puter shut down and not running. go fgr huh. any ideas why that would be thanks...

thanks kippy i'll give it a go again in the morning when im a little rested other wise i might be prone to put some ventilation holes in it from frustration if you get my drift. i did find an article on it that said the beeps could be either bad rom or bad video card. i cant see how plugging a...

ok i just tried to get it to boot to safe but it just does the 1 long beep 8 short ones then 1 long 3 short and wont show anything on the screen. im almost thinking something shorted on the mobo. but i remember i once saw a list of what the beeps stood for but cant seem to remember where i saw...

i tried unpluging everything and even pulled the memory sticks to see if it had something to do with it but just got the usual beeps for no memory and reinstalled them one at a time and rebooted to have it happen just the same. i know that the series of beeps is telling me whats wrong but i am...

yeah i did as soon as it happened and rebooted. something else i noticed is thatmy usb mouse stays hot even when the system is shut down. thanks for the reply

system was running fine till i plugged in a wingman joy stick. the system froze and upon reboot it just beeps. 1 long beep, 8-9 short beeps then a pause and 1 long beep and 3 short beeps. the system has an asrock k7s8x mobo.

i just thought it might be a problem with the original post if xp didnt support ntfs my mistake. always learning...thanks jim

im new to xp. so the question is does xp home support ntfs. i know xp pro does but i didnt think xp home did. take care ...Jim

hi Jay: i have used nero,record now and roxio. out of the 3 i like nero the best because you can do more with it, it seems more user friendly and i have yet to burn a bad disk. im from the US so i dont know what stores you have in the UK but you should be able to get it at any big computer...

id try downloading sisoft sandra. they have a free version with limited access to what modules you can use but it will tell you everything on your mobo. goodluck ....jim

hi guys and gals im new here so go easy on me lol. I've read with great interest all your posts and hopefuly learned from each. first i flunked spelling so dont go there. ok with that said i do a limited amount of data recovery purely because people do tend to learn from costly mistakes. the...