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  1. cheekonator2

    Disappearing Disk Drives

    I'm not sure, but I think all companies have diagnostics utilities that you can dl at their site. You should try that. Also you said fdisk forces to reformat. I've never really seen that, but you could try to erase and make a new partition and then format it.
  2. cheekonator2

    Do I need to put anything between processor and cooler?

    But you see, the person that told me this, he said that XP and 2000 require and use more of the processor resources or something like that. And I don't mean the resources in the windows from memory.
  3. cheekonator2

    Do I need to put anything between processor and cooler?

    Thanks guys, I'll look into that thermal paste you were talking about. To bellins, I don't thing its a registry or ram problem. I tried all kinds of ram configurations as well. And yes I was doing a clean install, not only did I format, but I was also repartitioning the hard drives, trying all...
  4. cheekonator2

    Do I need to put anything between processor and cooler?

    Hi, I recently got a motherboard replacement, so in order to install it, I needed to take out the processor (P3) and cooler. I noticed some white lubricant in between, so I figured it was fine the way it was. After doing this, I have problems running XP and 2000 Professional (sudden reboots...

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