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- May 11, 2002
I built my 1st comp using an Abit TH7II, P4 1.6A, 512Mb Samsung Rdram, Maxtor 6L080J4 HDD & The old IBM 10Gb HDD from my old system< Ge Force 2 Mx400 64Mb Vid card. I originally partitioned & formatted the Maxtor HDD & installed Win98SE. Everything was working fine except for a couple minor problem. Win98 started acting real funny- certain things would not work at all. I figured I had a bad copy of 98SE ( came w/ the old system a friend built for me - not original MS). So I got a brand new copy of Win XP Home OEM from everybody's favorite comp store - New Egg. Reformatted & installed XP. Everything OK Until I tried a little o/c- did something stupid ( idk what) -wouldn't do anything. reset CMOS & boots ok but a file is missing. Next time I start comp - no boot -system32/config.sys is corrupt or missing. I end up starting all over again (there is aalways time to do it over- it's called a good learning experience) & everything now seems to be OK. I have been looking over info on this forum and I'm wondering if I should use the Intel App accelerator. HDD's are connected to Hp370 controller- 1 on each channel. Ive seen some questions in the forums about the app accelerator. Any help is of course Greatly Appreciated. THANX!!