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The system is up and running again. It's back on the Athlon 1100 cpu. Guess the 1800+ was somehow fried.

It's always good to be able to fix things with parts on hand. The only expense this...

I tried all three sticks of ram sinngly. Nothing good happened. I'll try the old cpu in a bit. It's an Athlon 1100 which I pulled not too long ago. I was hoping for a performance improvement with...

I just got back from Frys with some thermal paste. I'll try the old cpu tomorrow. It's too close to 'going to work' time to try today. I tried one of the sticks of RAM singly, but not all. Maybe...

I can't see any sign of bad caps, though they can be hard to spot. It would seem odd that the motherboard would go out so suddenly, but I guess it's possible. I believe the heatsink is attached...

Just when I thought things were going well, I woke up this morning to a system which will not boot. This is so frustrating. Maybe my wife is right, and computers are an invention of the devil.
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Noooooo! It never dawned on me to do that. It's such a parallel treatment process to what you had me do previously, but it never occurred to me.

It worked. I now have only the three services,...

I've now done the uninstall. The two services are gone, as I was hoping they would be. However, I'm now getting a Red X Error telling he that the SAP Agent is unhappy. I can't remember the exact...

I'm making good progress here. I've installed the NWLink/IPX/SPX/NetBIOS-Compatible Transport Protocol. I installed it under Local Area Connection 2 (USRobotics Wireless USB Adapter), but it turned...

Are you meaning that I should install NWLink as in the following KB article?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316019

This is a stand-alone computer. There is no network involved. How would I...

I think I have the first part of this beat, the "Fatal Error". It seems that W2K does not play well with Skype 5.1. I thought I was running Skype 4.x, but apparently it upgraded itself somewhere...