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I forgot to mention, this was after I bought a new mobo and still had the same issues. I bought a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP and a gig of new DDR-333 memory and had the exact same problems, so I took it in. I'm just glad they found it. I guess this means the old mobo was ok, unless the short screwed it...

Ok, I ended up taking it into the shop to have it checked out. They found a brass riser behind where the IDE cable plug that was shorting out everytime I plugged a cable in, which was every time I swittched out drives and/or cables. They also found a bunch of stuff messed up in the registry...

I'm thinking it must be a mobo issue now. I use an ATI 7500 for vid. I used to have a car that had strikingly similar problems, come to think of it...just in reverse. It had a bad solder on the ignition module and when it got too hot, the solder would run and loose contact. Something like the...

Updated the bios and cleared the cmos in the process, still no change. I downloaded a demo of Sandra, but I'm not sure what I'm looking for to be wrong. Everything seems normal once the machine is up and running, unfortunately it takes several boots to get it up. And this is with the "old...

Well, the power supply didn't do it. It still takes a minimum of three boots to get to the XP desktop. I'll try the battery and cmos deal, but I think I might just suck it up and grab a new mobo and memory Monday.

No, actually I never thought of that. If I pop the battery out to take it somewhere for replacement, will that alone clear the cmos? I did reset the cmos to default a while back, on the third hard drive I believe. then changed the couple of things that needed changing. btw, is there any low...

I have eliminated quite a few possibilities. There are no knocks to the HD, it is secure and the desk is ancient and an earthquake could not move it. I run the unit with the side cover removed and plenty of airflow from 4 fans, not counting one for the processor and another on the vid card...

Ok, not in any particular order... I have only thought to try the drives in another machine after they fail badly and will not boot anymore. They do the same in the other machine. The Seagate seems to be back to normal though. No problems the last few days. I did go out and buy some monster ATA...

The sound is almost new and the video is also. I'm thinking it could be the power supply because the failures always seem to happen on the initial boot, maybe a surge or something? Once it is up and running, everything is ok, even on restarts. But if it sits overnight off, and I go to boot in...

As I sit here waiting for my 6th replacement drive from Maxtor, I start to think it might not be the drives after all. The problem is, after a few weeks of working fine, I start gettting boot errors like the system files are corrupt or missing and I have to use the XP disk recovery panel to...

I did turn out to be the memory. One of the sticks had a bad address on it. I pulled it last week and have been completely error free ever since. I ran this box for 5 days straight without a reboot and it had peformed flawlessly since pulling the bad memory module. Thanks for all the help.

The only time I ever got the "Out of memory" box was when I had a memory module going bad. I had two matched 256 sticks and one of them had a bad address. You might want to take them out one at a time and reboot and see if it runs it. 256 is enough to run just about anything out...

Of course, if you can't find the installation in the recovery console (just reread you post, duh) none of this will help. I would try taking disk one out of the computer and just fixing the system files on the second. Then put disk one back in and let the good XP have a whack at it. Up The Irons!

When I had a similar problem, I had to repair the system files on the XP installation. You will have to reload all the drivers...video, audio, etc, but you don't loose the data. Here are the steps from the Knowledgebase article that got me through it. I printed the article, but the # doesn't...

I copied and pasted this from an article at another forum asking the same question: NHKSRV is a service. Netropa NHL Service WIN2k ; NT4 A restart of your PC is required if it’s running at 100% CPU. Alternatively, you may wish to look at the “Netropa NHK Server service” and attempt to stop...

Thanks, I didn't even know this MSDN site existed. Another start for Linney (even though you were the second post ;) The first post was also helpful. I just get so frustrated when I search the KB and never come up with anything. One last question though, could the hardware mentioned in the...

Simple question. What is the best way to search the MS knowledge base? I'm still crashing and still getting the same code: Multiple_IRP_Complete_Requests Stop 0X00000044 (0X81fb5530, 0X00000D60, 0X00000000, 0X00000000) I have tried searching this so many ways, it is making me nuts. I know...

I have run the same searches. I have even contacted hundreds of people who have made those posts and none were able to give a resolution to the problem. MS even has an article that is closely related for Win2k: http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q317506 But, it is...

It appears that XP has some of the same online gaming problems that W2K had. Whenever I try to host a game of Quake 2, I go along fine for a couple of minutes and then it shuts down to the console and gives me a &quot;WSAECONNRESET from <ip address>&quot; I understand it has something or other...

It appears that XP has some of the same online gaming problems that W2K had. Whenever I try to host a game of Quake 2, I go along fine for a couple of minutes and then it shuts down to the console and gives me a &quot;WSAECONNRESET from <ip address>&quot; I understand it has something or other...