piece of absolute pants ...

ok any ideas????

used ghost to copy a c drive across .. gets it all fired up and working .. then internet security and antivirus say not registered ???

so goto register them and firewall says bugger off too many installs ...

how .. i have the genuine discs here with sleeves .. only ever been on this machine ..

why would copying c drive create a problem ? surely its supposed to copy everything ?? took me about 5 goes for it to copy the drive as norton system works had hold of the system
system is xp pro service pack 2 ..

what can people recomend to get other than norton then ??

cheers guys

 

If you've ghoseted the drive across from one to another, then you may have to uninstall and reinstall the norton products you have, only way round it I can think of at the mo m8

 

tried that mate .. even removed everything relating to NIS in the registery after i uninstalled it ..
looks like it might be a mass uninstall of all norton and then remove everything from the registery manualy

have emailed syamntec and moaned a bit

 

so what can you recomend for firewall and hard drive copy ???

 

Ghost generally is a good program m8, but I think, as Norton releases a new version of their software, there's a newer way for it to fuck your pc up.

Firewall, Norton Internet Security or Personal Firewall, Blackice PC Defender, McAfee are good

I attended a job the other week, guy bought norton internet security 2005 and got go back free, installed it, told him to restart his pc and it's goodnight from microsoft.

Couldn't do nothing with it whatsoever, had to format it and put xp on again

Hence why I'm sticking with Norton Systemworks 2003

 

hhmmm good idea there dan .. 2003

but i have a major problem now ..

ok epox ep-4g4ae mobo

bleeping at strt up .. its been doing it a bit now say 2 weeks .. keep resetting and it fires up ..

but .. not this time .. installed zone alarm pro .. and it locked my cable modem out

uninstalled it .. pc reboots ok .. still no internet

ok .. reboot it this time .. all i get now is it sat there beeping at me .. its a 2 tone type of bleep .. have removed everything h/d's ram all boards even got a new 500w psu .. still sits there bleeping .. and wont boot at all .. lucikly i have a spare pc i can use ..

tried all the normal things .. so its either cpu or mobo .. any ideas?? oh its award bios .. and its upto date (so the site says)

 

also .. whats the difference

http://processorfinder.intel.com/scr...sp?sspec=sl7pu
http://processorfinder.intel.com/scr...sp?sspec=sl7j6

have a mobo sat here just need a p4 775 for it

 

How many beeps you got ? Unplug everything except monitor cable, keyboard mouse and power socket and then switch it on.

Not much differance in those 2 cpu's neither


If it's cpu you'll get no post beeps at all m8

 

ok .. update ..

removed cpu .. no bleeeps at all ... have removed everything one by one ... still get them.

its a 2 tone type of bleep ..

looks like the 'J' is the better option one...

have you ever had to claim under the intel 3 year warrenty period??

 

Pete,

how many times does it beep, and what make is the BIOS ?

The number of beeps usually tells what the problem is, a bit like ECU fault codes

 

Who did you buy it from ? I get all my stuff from www.ebuyer.com and have never had a problem with their returns department

 

--

 

yeah has been running great since 2003 .. only the past 2 weeks its had problems starting up

its award bios greg . epox ep-4g4ae mobo .. 2 tone beeping .. took the cpu out and it no longer bleeeps

it has the intel 3 year "limited" warrenty tho .. hmm i wonder

 

--

 

no help in the manual at all






http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/mo...Epox/EP-4G4AE/

pheww that took ages ...

 

--

 

Has the cpu got any burn marks on it ? Any burn marks on the heatsink ?

 

Pete, two tone is no good, how many times does it "Two tone ???"

 

--

 

Ah ok, usually, it's the number of beeps, bios' are not usually musical enough to play a melody

So it's the CPU then !

 

yeah .. cpu looks ok .. no damage to it at all

might have to try the intel limited warrenty scheme then

 

Did you buy it direct from Intel then ?

 

nope ...

but...

http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/...0372_50372.pdf

http://support.intel.com/support/pro...S-020033.htm#1


so looks like that there is a limited 3 year warrenty on all intel processors no matter where you got them ...

 

Send it back to where you bought it from then They will test it, then send it back to Intel who will confirm the fault, then the company who supplied you will either refund you, or replace it, depending on their return policies