When I have Formatted drive previously It has copied in NTFS.
So if i have probs I use recovery console?
I Have a bit of Knowledge.Dangerous?:-)

You can only format a hard drive in NTFS not floppeis or CD.

Recovery console is a way of accessing XP from a command line when it won't boot. The most used command is probrably "CHKDSK" which is OK. Use caution with any others.

Iain, why do you think you need a boot disk? its not normally needed or advised with w2k onwards?

Optimist, thanks for the help so far, but still struggling. Re my post 1731, I have tried to get into the windows networking stuff, this is what I have:

Using Win 98 in control panel, I have "Network". Click on that brings up three tabs, first is Configuration. In this it says:

Client for Microsoft networks
Microsoft family login
Dial up adapter
TCP/IP

Is one of these the one I want to remove? Sorry for being so thick but I feel I am in a vat of treacle making slow progress at the moment. TIA (again!).

Seymour

Right click network neibourhood and select properties. You should get a list of all your network connections including dial up, LAn and wireless networks (if you have been unlucky enough to aquire any trojan dialers they will also be listed here so it is worth checking). If there are any that connect to your wireless card then delete them - it is possible that the instalation never got that far and therefore there are no connections.

What you are trying to do is get rid of all possible refferences to your wirless card so that when you reinstall it Windows has the best chance of sorting it automatically. Ifg that does not work we will have to find some other way.

Edit I think you may have got to your list by the method I suggested in which case you don't have a connection to the wirless card so don't worry about that stage.

Morning All,

Just thought I would update everyone on my proposed RAID setup and the resolution of the problems, see earlier post 1713

I managed to set up the raid array as raid 0. Apparently Windows needs a third party driver to make this work. Consulted my manual, found the relevant file using search and attempted to load into the new machine to make the discs work from the floppy drive (copied file)

No joy here. Consulted Gigabyte, told the file was in the boot driver section, bootdrv, found this again using search, went to the menu and up comes a dos screen giving various selections of drivers for additional arrangements. Put floppy into drive, selected the driver for the Silicon Image raid array and the drivers were copied to the floppy.

When loading up Xp, it comes to a screen where it asks if you want to load third party drivers, if you do not have any the setup fails. Click S and the floppy starts and loads in the relevant links. I have a feeling the other software is actually on the Xp disc.

Setup then continues as normal. When finished alter the bios to boot from SCUZI and not from the IDE port.

Thanks for all the help in the past.

2abbey, glad you are sorted, when you reported the problem earlier it sounded as though you hadnt got the drives working, normally you can check raid drives via the raid BIOS on the mobo (or raid card).

The method you describe is the standard way of specifying raid or scsi arrays for w2k and xp.

2abbey

Good to see you got it sorted. I'm still interested to know why you need to have a RAID array.

o is biffer over the road sorted out? i wasnt sure from his posts?

S I think he is still trying things but concentrating on cooling. which IMO is the first thing to eliminate.

O yes, did you see my comments re that one, may be the heatsink is not alligned if one of the pads is missing. I agree with yo its probably cooling if he has bigger cpu or extra cards etc could be power.

Edit Wrong thread

S Yes I did see your comments. Very useful as I had not come accross the pad system myself. I think he may get a new CPU heatsink which should prove it one way or the other.

Initially my problem was one of setting up the Raid array in the bios, eventually sorted that by trying various combinations etc, the suggestions in the handbook didn't seem to work,

Optimist, just thought I would try one as I needed one new drive in any event and since the mobo supports raid i would give it a try. Heard good results as for speed etc.

In the process of updating for microsoft atm, big list!

2Abbey

Thanks for your thoughts you should certainly have a fast machine. My only worry is that you now have two chances of disk failiure.

A lesson to us all!

Loaded up the software, just Xp at this point, then the modem software and logged on to the Microsoft site to get the relevant updates.

Problems started here, needed Service Pack 1 and other updates, initial file downloads and then a window appears initiating the remainder of the download. The window disappears!!

It seems that the computer had been struck with a virus, already!! Microsoft inform me that this is a symptom of the Sasser Worm virus.

Reformatted drives and reloaded software, then anti-virus software, then connected to the web. Seems you can't be too careful.

2Abbey

Sorry to hear of your problems.

Make sure that the Win XP firewall is turned on before you connect. It is turned off by deffault.

Just a bit of info, been using "Nortons Internet Security 2004" for a while, but found it slows down quite a lot even after the upgrade, decided to bin it, had enough and installed "ZoneAlarm Security Suite" in it's place, web pages load so much faster, even the PC is faster, should have done it long time ago, now a very happy bunny.

Sorry to come back with my Broadband problems but I am still not connected by Broadband :-(

I simply (at this stage) want to connect to the web using one PC - a new Medion machine. It has both wired network 10/100 socket and wireless. I am trying to connect it with a wireless adsl modem (3com Officeconnect 11g firewall router). I have tried disabling wireless, re-enabling it, at the moment the computer is showing Wireless network connection disabled, 1394 connection (whatever that is) disabled, and Local area connection enabled. The router is connected to the PC via the supplied cable, and the other end is connected to the microfilter.

When I try to type in the IP address for the router to set it up, it does not recognise it.

The router has the following lights:
DSL group of lights: Power - on, Sync - on, Online - off, WLAN - on.
LAN status group of lights: 1 - on. 2,3 & 4 - off.

I am at the end of my tether and am going balder by the minute. Any help / advice really would be appreciated.

I will not be able to retry again until tomorrow evening (unless someone is a night owl!) so I apologise if there seems to be no immediate response from me. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.

TIA (again) :-)

SC: what version of Windows are you using. Also not sure why you're using a cable between the PC and the router, if it's a wireless router. What IP address are you typing in? Try opening a DOS box and typing IPCONFIG and post up what comes out (highlight text with mouse, press Return and then ctrl-V to paste here). IEEE 1394 is a connection similar to USB, not relevant here.