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I need help from EE types for an electrical problem. We moved to a different apartment in February. Even since, I have had problems with electrical appliances & gadgets dying or misbehaving. I suspect this is what killed my motherboard recently, and why my UPS acts strange sometimes. It...

I used a USB-2-parallel converter with my parallel printer for about 5 years with no problems. It's when I bought a new printer a year ago that I went native USB-2-USB. I'd have to agree that the Startech card is your best bet.

Not sure I understand. Disk2VHD has no option for choosing the controller; only for specifying which drive you want converted to a VHD. Virtual PC has no option to choose the type of controller. The CD/DVD drive can be switched between IDE Primary or Secondary, but that's about it. My plan...

Thanks Chewy and Bozo. I tried restoring the XP boot image from an image backup I had and retried the disk2vhd/VirtualPC route, no dice. This route, for me anyway, is a dead-end. I disconnected all my other drives and tried booting from the XP boot partition; saw the XP logo briefly, then got...

His sense of humor and irony are superb as well.

A couple of quick suggestions: 1) Would using a PCI-E parallel port card help (if there is such a thing)? 2) Would using a USB->Parallel port converter help? I should have one or two in a box somewhere I could ship to you if you need them. Maybe Win7 will treat the above differently. Also, you...

The same problems are there in the Virtual PC VM. That means something has gone wrong in one or more of the following setps: 1) Copy of the boot partition (this is not the original) 2) Creation of the Virtual disk using the Sysinternals tool 3) Creation of the Virtual PC VM by Virtual PC by...

BTW: also fixed boot.ini by using bootcfg.

No luck so far. For this VM, VMW Player always tries "Network Boot From AMD AM79C970A", which fails and results in an "Operating System not found" message. I then deleted the network adapter in the VM config, and it results immediately in the OS not found message. I went into recovery console...

Not true. Converter will not see the OS boot partition on the old drive at all. You can convert a live (currently running OS on which Converter is installed) or you can convert a running OS that is on the network, or it has to be a VM.

Aah! I've misunderstood you all along; I thought you guys wanted me to do a repair on the physical image! I'll try the repair inside the VM. Thanks! Late now, will try first thing in the morning.

My understanding was that the old install would be happier in a VM rather than on the new physical machine. Disconnecting my W64 drives, connecting only the old XP one, doing a repair install, installing the system drivers for the new hw into XP, etc. is quite a bit of work!

There's about a 7 year difference in hardware. Repair install would be my last option. I can't believe it's so hard to convert a physical m/c into a virtual one when the m/c is dead. Kinda defeats 50% of the purpose of Converter.

Used Disk2VHD; it converted the OS partition to a .VHD (virtual disk) file. Converter cannot see that. So I downloaded Virtual PC 2007, which looked at it and created a 9kb .VMC file (cirtual PC VM). Now Converter was able to see the .VMC and created a VMW VM. Player looks at this VM, tries to...

Thanks guys. I'm going to try Disk2VHD first (I respect Sysinternals) and see where it takes me.

That's what I meant by saying "I checked the websites of the first 3; all trial versions are higher than supported by Converter". I don't already have any of these imaging programs.

I wanted to convert my old XP install (the actual boot drive) to a VM. Looks like I'm out of luck. The Converter 5.0 literature led me to believe I could point it any install and convert a physical install to a VM. Not so. The Help says: For computers not powered on: - A bunch of different...

Fixed. Stupid FF wasn't behaving. It behaved inconsistently. Most recently, it was clearing SF cookies when it wasn't supposed to. I cycled through the whole range of options step by step, logging in to SF a million times. Finally got it to stick. There a bug or two there somewhere.

Actually, global warming is predicted to lead to extremes. So this may not be out of line.

No matter who won, the next Prez would have a lot of problems. Obama inherited them in his first term. Looks like he'll continue to have to deal with them for a second.

I'll try your suggestion. I'll also try clearing out SF cookies and having them re-stored. Options > Privacy tab. The Exceptions button next to "Accept cookies from sites" has an Allow button that enables permanent cookies for sites you specify. I don't think this is an SF problem; it's with...

I've done that, not a problem. In W7, with the fresh install, the bookmarks button leaves the bookmarks open permanently till I close it. My office laptop running W7 woks like I want it to - floats the bookmarks and closes the bookmarks as soon as I choose one. But it ran several older versions...

I seem to have this problem every time I use a new PC to access SF. But it's the worst this time, because I started with a fresh install of FF 16.0.2 instead of upgrading on top of very old versions. I always have FF delete all cookies on exit. SF is the only site listed to be an exception...

So, Coug and Bozo, no multi-booting, it's only W7-64 all the way!

Am happy as a clam! 1) VMWare Player 5.0 took my old (VMW Workstation 4.0) W98 VM and updated it. My legacy app inside of it works like a charm! 2) I created a new XP VM using Player and installed the scanner driver inside it. Works! Player installed XP in this VM in about 5 mins, shocking the...

I'm not very good at typing. Something happened, and the incomplete message got posted. I went back in and edited, completed the post, and it kicked me out saying max 5 mins allowed for edits. Anyway the gist of my msg is complete, so I won't bore y'all more!

I'm truly thankful I'm shortsighted, and feel much like jtr. I've seen people with normal vision become long-sighted past the age of 40 and struggling to read if they didn't have reading glasses with them. My preferred mode of reading fine print, including newspapers, is to read without my...

I'd like some of it too, please?

Glad to hear you and family are ok, jtr. Sorry about your cat though :(

DD, Our reliance and dependence on power is so extreme: think lights, internet, computers, washing machines, etc. etc. You can have disasters in your area: earthquakes. I would urge you to go ahead with some local capacity, especially with the little one on the way.

Which jackass at MS decided to eliminate creation of extended partitions inside of Disk Manager? I had to google to learn that it can only be done from the command prompt or through a 3rd party tool. Castration time.

A friend that lives in NJ (about an hour from the NY state line) says he's been without power since Monday. Expected to be restored next Monday. He and his family are c-o-l-d! They have gas for cooking and hot water; the only saving grace.

Running the default Prime95 torture test since 4:35pm Oct 29 (19 hours now). No hiccups, but one odd thing; the system went to sleep (power led blinking) with the test running. Is that supposed to happen? I woke it after about 5 minutes and turned off sleep in the Power Settings. CPU Tj. Max is...

We have a little storm here as well; schools closed for the day. Nothing compared to Sandy.

Be careful with the amount of carbon monoxide it might put out.

This one is supposed to have combined with two other ones, hence the panic. It is said that global warming will lead to these kinds of monster hurricanes - all types of extreme events. Many have said we are almost at the point of no return, but you don't see any seriousness anywhere about doing...

Thanks Bozo. I first used VMW Workstation in 2001 when I bought version 2 and run a 3-tier setup (for educating myself) on an IBM T23 laptop with what was then a benchmark - one GB of RAM!

I hope it fizzles out and doesn't cause much of a problem. It's not as big as Tip, but they're predicting it'll be strong.

Thanks guys. It looks like I don't have a choice, actually. I DBANned the drive before starting. XP lived on this drive without problems in my now dead PC when I first built it 6 years ago; can't remember how. My drives may not have been in AHCI mode at that time. But now during installation...

Haha, nice joke, guys. My main OS will be Win7-64. I need XP because Epson hasn't released (and never will) drivers for Win7-64. The last full fledged sw released was for XP. So I plan to dual boot. Anytime I need to scan (which is once in a while) I'll get into XP to scan. The scan output...

Each stick has individually passed at least 5 rounds of the default Memtest 96+ tests, and all 4 have collectively passed 5 rounds of the default tests as well. Now for installation of XP, followed immediately by Prime95 for some more testing.

I'm part of that "almost everyone".

It's just me....reliability and dependability are the two top factors for me, more than speed or bling. So I'm obsessive about configuring and building my system, but once done, I'm set.

It's going to be painful to run tests inside the OS one DIMM at a time. If I put in all 4 DIMMS and test in the OS, finding a problem DIMM will be painstaking. That's why I'm trying to do it before installing the OS. I let Memtest at least do the basics and then move to OS based testing. Thanks.

That was an awesome read! Thanks Merc.

Booted fine on first try. Running Memtest 86+ with only one stick installed. Can you please guide me on what tests to run and for how long before one can assume the stick is good (assuming no errors are found) ? Right now running default tests. I will run the tests on one stick at a time as...

Nice friendly jibes at each other! Back OT, went to the disty this morning. They agreed the pin was bent. Prob with replacement was manifold: 1) they had to wait for approval of the DOA (as they termed it) from Asus 2) they had no stock locally - it had to be shipped from Mumbai which was...

Your command of the language and of expression is awesome, Merc!

I've never liked cases too; keep buying them from time to time, then they end up in the closet. Like to use them bare naked.

I think the guys north of the US are a lot, lot more saner, Coug.