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Have any luck David? I didn’t have anything to add to Gerald’s post, I’m thinking the double connection is causing the problem becasue I have a system I call the Go-between, which is wired to one network and connected wirelessly to another network and through it I can transfer files between networks and otherwise do neat stuff!
That is, I can do neat stuff if I’m booted into XP; if I’m booted into Win7 32-bit with both network adapters active…its the Go-nowhere system. I don’t know why, its just not working by direct I.P. or network place name.

Many of the older PC’s that still run XP, won’t even run Win-7 anyway. Or run it very poorly.

Depends on what you mean by older. I think there’s a sweet spot, circa when the Athlon +2200 to 57FX ruled the land! I prefer Win 7 on those single core systems because it behaves almost exactly like XP does; and because its newer so its sort of a modernity update without any performance penalty. The key to this sweet spot is probably that I have all decent to very good old video cards in these systems so running and supporting Aero Glass is not an issue.

I’m in agreement with most everything else, though there isn’t much of a conspiracy gene in me, I do seem to see updates that make an XP system perform more like Win 7 when it comes to resource management, which I don’t like, after all it is the reason I run XP on all my high performance systems so it utilizes more resources when facing extended single purporse operations.

If you are suggesting that turning off auto updates in lieu of any updates at all at any time, that’s fine for an individual to make that decision (though some could argue that if one goes online with such a system, it is affecting the Internet and everything else there if its more vulnerable), but in the world of technical support that is a personal business, it does have to be labeled irresponsible behavior; affronts completely aside, one just can’t make that decision for a customer. Suggestions and conveying your personal feelings on such matters, which may in turn precipitate certain actions by the customer is different and fine by me, because then you’re standing by your reputation clear and simple.

Well, it either can’t or wont write the NTFS boot sectors, which means it either prevented by some protocol from writing or its just corrupted and can’t be written to.

Either way it doesn’t look too promising. What I would try, just because its a different approach, and not because it may do the trick (though it might ), is use Gparted to write a new partition table and then try and format it to NTFS with Gparted.

It might be a sour answer but one needs to move away from OE6. If it were still supported it would be worth looking into but it could be something now that is no longer compatible with Windows update or later versions of browsers, etc. because OE6 hasn’t been supported for many years now.

If its stuck on an install or configuration of new updates, rather than trying to unistall recent updates to try and get behind the problem again, I use System Restore to a point previous to when the problem developed so its working perfectly again, and then try installing the updates again, maybe one or two at a time, see if its ok this time or identify what update it may be getting hung up on.

I haven’t had any problem formatting quite a few flash drives to NTFS so I can get some large files on them. Try an XP system and if it doesn’t work there, I would also tend to think there is some glitch with your flash drive.

One slight possibility, I remember something in Optional Windows Updates pertaining to making flash cards = to or greater than 32 gig compatible, but it may not be applicable to USB flash drives.

You can use anything that will do the job for you, including Windows Backup and Restore. The thing I don’t like about the Windows 7 backup utility is that it packs all the backup files into ZIP files, so it is not what is called a one to one backup, where the file structure is duplicated in the backup location for easy spot checking and comparison with the originals. Its doing that because 7 is pulling data from all over the computer so its good in a sense that it might get something you’d forget otherwise to backup and bad in a sense that its much more difficult to verify that it actually got everything and determine where it is exactly and hope that it was all “packed” in the zip files properly so it will restore properly.

So if you’re ok with what I call the verification limitation, it will otherwise do a scheduled backup for you. Microsoft also has a program called SyncToy which you might want to check out. It cal also be run on a schedule and has more options pertaining to the type of backup that may fit best to your usage habits. For example I do a pure syncronization so only the current directories are reflected in the backup and its a one to one backup so I can actually access files from either location and save them there and they will be syncronized with the other location during the next run. If I were the type who perhaps suddenly realized I screwed up and need the version of the file I was working on 3 days ago, I would not use syncronization because it would already be replaced by a later version and I’d be out of luck.

One thing I would use Win 7 for though is to make an image of the system partition and just keep that handy and then maybe every once in a while when a big change is expected or there have been a bunch of little changes, do another image of the system partition (before and after in the case of big change).

I suppose the question is this; since the hdmi cable IS connected to the video card, do I still have to connect the speaker cable to the pc itself? Or should it plug into the monitor input/output and work? There is an option in the monitor menu to enable the hdmi, which I did

No you would not connect to the PC, unless you were not using HDMI sound, then it would be speaker output from the perspective of the computer settings, not HDMI audio output. Sounds like you did the right thing to enable HDMI audio, do you see it now in the Sound control panel?

I really thought that first, the monitor DID have speakers in it, (or why the hdmi?) then why it has the i/o plugs on it if they won’t take the speaker cable and make it work. I hope I am being clear enough now

I think I understood from the start, I have 5 different computers using HDMI connections and 4 of those are using HDMI audio out, so I’ve been through the whole “why doesn’t this work route several times . The real problem may be that you say there are no speakers native to the monitor so it relies on pass thru to speaker jacks. The hardware required to take the HDMI digital audio signal and convert it to analog and send it out the speaker jacks may not exist on that monitor. It does seem screwy that there would be HDMI with no option to get sound from it once it arrives at the monitor, but that’s exactly what happens in some cases.
All of my connections go to HDTVs with built in speakers, so they of course have the hardware built in and know exactly what to do with the HDMI audio once its received.

That’s why I said to check the monitor audio settings for any indication of some control or passthru option, but if there isn’t anything, chances are its not supported.

You mean one hour and 7 minutes into this thing and I’m watching The Crying Game!!!
I probably give myself away with some references here and there, but I most definitely do not resemble one Byron Tarbox in any way…he was one of the soldiers killed, along with good old George Armstrong Custer at the Little Bighorn. Have y’all ever been there? The most striking thing for me besides the topography of the battlefield and surrounding environs, was how small those dudes were! Seriously, one of Custer’s uniforms was there and he’d be shopping in the boys section if alive today.
So from now on, call me Lorretta Tarbox …oh dear, there I go with the identifying references again …
So you see, from my perspective, I make no anthropological attchments to any moniker, because who knows if they’re even remotely associated with reality. I just go for the funny image words can build upon in the mind’s eye, and God bless me, I was laughing out loud!!

Did you hear Ted blasting away over on the left? I hear he may have made his own bunghole! Says he still (oops….she?…it?) can’t see a darn thing though.
Sorry I’m getting carried away now, target bombing my own funny bone does me a world of good but this probably isn’t the right place.—straight face…..straight face—ok, back to serious.

For the keyboard not found halt error there should be a screen in the BIOS, usually the first one that has an entry for Hallt on or don’t halt on any errors except keyboard, or somehing like that. All you have to do is disable that, or enable, whichever is the logical choice based on the words. Most systems only have the error or warning displayed and then continue on but if your’s is dead-stopping, it probably has that setting.
Not all systems were engineered with great foresight however…I have one system that halts on not having a case fan attached to the secondary fan connector cuz it thinks its in a state of failure and has to warm me of the dire consequences that may occur…so the only solution is to keep something attached.

OH! Didn’t know you were in here too! Watch out for Jean, she’s over trying to knock out the bunghole plug for a peek!

Well so far so good, no skipping during some particularly high bitrate playback scenes that were causing a problem before. The networks are not under a lot of stress today though so we’ll see as time goes on this week under normal use. Only had one puzzling moment when configuring the OPlay! Asus Media players, in that the available media list included a workgroup from the other network. How can this be I thought, how can it be doing some kind of I.P. translation protocol and be connected with the other network?? Then after a couple of minutes, a flash fire roared through my vacuous mind and I realized that a wireless adapter on one of that workgroup’s computers couldn’t resist the sexy allure of the new wireless connection and jumped over to it.

Hello… I have a slightly different experience …I have several OS’s and use them all.(same PC). Vista and “7” both 32 and 64 flavors..and only 3GB of Ram. They all use the same hardware (Hitachi Deskstar HD’s) and they all run the same programs …. (Also my main 3 have not one patch or update) Right now i am running Window 7 64…. and my RAM usage is typically at approximately 40% . “7 64” “blows the doors” of my Vista OS and seems slightly faster than my “7 32” So …if the choice “be mine” i would go with the “7 64 ” over the 32 bit flavors and upgrade the “RAM” later if you choose.

I no longer have Vista on any system, which is why I agree , it was like navigating the Queen Mary around on Walden Pond! I haven’t notices a tinker’s bell of difference between 7 32-bit and 7 64-bit, except asthetically I like 32-bit better because it doesn’t have the split personality when it comes to Programs, and because its ultra-compatible with shared devices on all my XP systems. When it comes to 7 and XP (dual boots abound as well as side by sides), I notice something slightly more than a tinker’s bell of difference, but not much…except in certain situations. Most times, if this makes sense, XP is a little bit more nimble, like its quick, gets the first half step, but 7 is more smooth, not falling behind, just more graceful. Maybe all that is just an impression from the dynamics of the GUI for each though, hard to say. Again, important thing is, don’t notice much difference…except in my case when it comes to processor intensive single app. operations. That’s when Windows 7 sometimes comes shooting out of the cup of blown away, like Indiana Jones came shooting out of the nuclear explosion in the lead-lined refrigerator!
For my money Windows 7 reserves too much processor time for multitasking (except in the case of single processors…then it behaves very much like XP) and leaves no compromise or remedy to that situation when single purposing a system to say, rendering. If I was trying to do eveything on the same system I’m sure I would feel a little differently cuz its nice not to lock up and stall while Windows trys to fit your “other” requests into the que for processor attention, but I still can’t find an option to go one way or the other. If we had Priority, Affinity,…and, Dedication, so I could set some systems to use 95% of the processor for such and such a task, I take full responsibility, blah blah blah, I think most of my argument would be gone. As it is, Win 7 is frustratingly underperforming in this respect from my perspective.

Now hopefully someone will blow me away and say, oh, didn’t you know about such and such? It fixes that problem, and actually, it outperforms XP now on single task processing.

Sure its possible Jean, like I said we don’t have any feedback so we don’t know if there is anything at all coming up on the screen at boot, so we’re in a barrel with the lid closed. You grab a shotgun, I got mine…lets start shootin’ (not at each other) and see if we hit sumthin’!

Yeah, I’m sure the NAS server gets a little grogy if the demand is too high, and I hope I don’t find its the ultimate culprit for the slight drops with the hi-def streams. I’m going to give the seperate network idea a try and see how it works. The media network router insertion between the work router and the modem/router went without a hitch…or I wouldn’t be writing this right now…I’ll start changing I.P.s on the media devices and hooking them up later today…with fingers crossed!