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It may not be related, but here's a link to a solution for the same type of problem. http://mattfleming.com/node/328

In your BIOS under Integrated peripherals, besides having a "SATA port(0-3 Native mode (Intel p55 chipset)" setting, which should be enabled, there's also a "SATA RAID/AHCI Mode (Intel p55 chipset)" setting; this should be set to AHCI

Either in address bar of explorer, or hit start and enter the name of the XP machine: \\XPCOMPUTERNAME (backslash backslash computername) and hit enter

check and see if the pagefile is being cleared at shutdown. if enabled, it will be overwritten with zeros at shutdown, which takes time. The following Microsoft article explains how to clear it at shutdown. However, you want it to be disabled, which is just the setting of the value data; [0 =...

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/4c455bcb-a019-492e-9767-6a102f9c633a

My Windows 7 pkg says it was made in Puerto Rico, so I suppose China could be legit.

In the case of XP, the Win 7 upgrade version can be used. As long the XP is activated, the upgrade will proceed but will perform a clean install.

I have a Q9650 overclocked to 4.0 ghz and did a fresh install of win 7 at that setting without a problem.

Hw must have a sideshow compatible device installed. If you want to see the selection show up in the control panel you could try installing: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e0162d32-3253-4a4f-8f97-cc4a69f773ac

Sorry about that; my eyes aren't what they used to be. However, for sideshow, my understanding is that its hidden until a compatible device is added. Once that occurs the sideshow icon will appear in the control panel.

Windows Media Center includes a slideshow option!

Or - you could try super fdisk (freeware) http://www.freewareland.com/utils/2498/

http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2007/11/windows-vista-windows-xp-resetting-mbr.html

The URE as referenced in the article is a drive spec and will occur (theoretically) whether the disk is used alone or in a RAID configuration. Also, all RAID controllers will flag such an error as catastrophic EXCEPT for those systems specifically designed, such as video only systems, whereas...

Are you running any antivirus software; downloads are sometimes held up while the file is being checked.