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  1. sdakota

    MANY recurring problems keep trashing XP

    Mithrilhall: Good question. I was going to do just that until I found out it would cost $25 to do so ! It seems outrageous that I should have to pay for a software upgrade to hardware I have already paid for, so I refused. The fact that my system was so stable for months leads me to...
  2. sdakota

    MANY recurring problems keep trashing XP

    I've got a home-built P2 350 MHz w/256 MB on a QS440BX motherboard. I use a Promise Ultra100 TX2 hard drive controller card to run my 100 GB drive. I installed XP Home in March, and everything was extremely stable until July. Since then I have had many weird problems and I don't know what to...
  3. sdakota

    intermittent "unable to write to C:" and scrambled data problems

    The solution to this problem was to replace the HDD ribbon cable.
  4. sdakota

    intermittent "unable to write to C:" and scrambled data problems

    Rhort: Thanks for the info ! I had wondered what the exception 00 meant. I think your solution would quite possibly work, but I want to keep the performance as good as possible since my GF wants to do video editing . Of course slow performance is better than random data scrambling ...
  5. sdakota

    intermittent "unable to write to C:" and scrambled data problems

    My girlfriend's PC has two intermittent disk problems which I suspect may be related. PROBLEM ONE: when booting we sometimes get a Blue Screen of Death describing a fatal Windows error "fatal exception 00 at 0028:C17F4854 in VXD ESDI_506(01)". Pressing anykey results in a blank, black...

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