Douglas

I'm not sure I'm buying the story about breaking sound barriers in vinyl. If I blow up a balloon, then let it go, it makes a sound also. Seems to me the bang of a broken balloon, could just be the sound of the balloon breaking, and nothing to do with sound barriers.

Well, if there are two redshifts. maybe they add like two noises....the square root of the sums of the squares.....to make one.

Are they two different things ?, or is the recession simply a result of the expansion? One in the same.

Yes, I'm also getting a new motherboard. Thanks for the links, I thought I was going to have to asked how to access the HDD after installation, but it looks like everything is there......thanks

Verification....straight from the horses mouth. http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service_ID=9856

One for you, and one for your girlfriend

It looks like it's in Libya, probably Saddam's WMD's

Seems to me if the infected area has a funny odor, gangrene has set in.

Yeah 5614, I suspect the problem has nothing to do with windows update. My laptop was updated with KB 890859 last april, so my desktop must've been updated also. Anyway, I talked to the Dell tech this a.m. he is letting me keep the HDD. If I understand you correctly, I cannot use my HDD as a secondy in my win 98 computer, but I can use it as a secondary when the tech replaces my HDD. You said there's a jumper that make the HDD a slave instead of a master, is this an actual soldered jumper on the HDD? Thanks

It's possible that re-loading windows will fix the problem....then where am I at??

Aronathas, since Dell is giving me the freebie, I don't want to do anything to change my computer. If I try to re-install windows, and it changes the problems that I've described to Dell, I might be in trouble.....I don't want to upset the applecart. Right now, I'm just concerned about retrieving some stuff off my old hard drive.....just in case the Dell tech wants to keep the drive.

5614, you've given plenty of food for thought right here....I'm gonna try it. Will respond to the remainder of your post later, still digesting. Remember, I'm pathetically unknowledgable about computer problems.

Yeah 5614, the problem was on my end. The 1st 2 times I tried to boot from the CD, I wasn't looking looking at the moniter, the 3rd time (after I posted #40), I saw "hit any key to continue" for about 3 seconds, then the XP logo screen came on resulting in the same error. The 4th time, I hit a key, and sure enough, I was able to boot from the CD. Now, here's the kicker.....In the meantime while I'm doing all this stuff, I'm communicating with Dell by E-mail, explaining the problem and giving the results of all my troubleshooting. My computer is almost 3 years, and I almost shit when I received an email yesterday telling me they were sending a new hardrive and mother board to a local Dell tech and he would install it for me FREE OF CHARGE. Sooooo, I'm reluctant to re-install windows in case it fixes my problem. 5614, maybe you can help me with this problem. I have an old computer with windows 98 2nd edition. Can I take the hard drive out of my broken computer and install it in my old computer to retrieve some stuff I have in "my documents"??? Or is this something the tech can do for me (for a few bucks) when he installs the new parts?? Thanks for the help...I appreciate it.

See my post #40

I tried it with a Kleenex (facial tissue) and got 7 1/2 folds, meaning I couldn't quite get it to a flat 8th fold

5614, I did as you requested, I booted to the "boot menu" by pressing and holding F2, I then selected CDROM (instead of floppy) for my #1 priority on the boot menu, I hit "exit", selected "save changes", then shut down. I inserted the windows CDROM, rebooted and got the same message as before.............what now???????

5614, I re-read your post 13. So if I can get on my computer using your instructions on post 36 (recover console), then I will be able to re-load windows..........Am I reading this right??

5614, thanks for the info, I appreciate it. I'm reading your post wondering what to do next. If I'm able to boot from a floppy, and assuming I have to format the hard drive, can I retreive all my unbacked up info from the hardrive before formatting ?

I came across this site http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;305595&spid=1173&sid=global Looks like a boot floppy...wonder if it will work

5614, I have to get on my computer to uninstall the hotfix. I've tried booting from safe mode and the CD, nothing works.

Yes Aronathas, I saw the info on Win update 890859. I checked my laptop (which I'm using now) and 890859 was installed last april. I was going to uninstall it, couldn't find it in "add/remove", so let it go for now. Do you happen to know how to uninstall it?? What do you mean by using the recovery console?? (in bold above). The win xp cd that I have is labeled "reinstallation cd windows xp pro including sp2

Meaning, if you take one step up (north) bang a right and you'll be heading east ?

Here is everything I've done so far.............. Dell dimension 2350 Operating System:Windows XP-SP2 Operating System Version professional I have not made any changes intentionally. However, I have windows automatics updates, Norton automatic updates, Dell automatic updates and Spybot (memory resident). Also have ad aware Problem Description: When I boot the computer, and after I get through the Xp logo loading screen (scrolling dashes),the screen turns black for an few seconds, I hear a click, then the screen turns blue with an error message as follows: "STOP: c000021a (fatal system error) the session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000026c (0x00000000 0x00000000) the system has shut down" The blue screen with error message remains as it is. I Then booted to the "advanced options menu (F8)", and tried booting from the "safe mode", and I get the same error as above. I again booted to the "advanced options menu (F8), and selected "Last Known Good Configuration (your most recent settings that worked" then pressed "enter", I got the same blue screen and message as described above. I then checked the 4 led's "A", "B", "C", "D" on the back of the computer, they are all green. I then booted to the "boot menu" F12, and ran IDE drive diagnostics, I get the following: PRIMARY IDE .......DRIVE 0: WDC WD600BB-75CAA0..... -PASS ........DRIVE 1: NO IDE DEVICE SECONDARY IDE ......DRIVE 2: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-61 -DIAGNOSTICS NOT SUPPORTED .....DRIVE 3: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-24 -DIAGNOSTICS NOT SUPPORTED What should I do next????????????????? Thanks