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Not sure about activation, I may recall M$ no longer accept activation with XP, via the internet. As for phoning they may say no more.
John, there was no problem, XP “activated” without a qualm. Once the first 128 updates installed another 23 updates turned up the following day. I do understand Ed and Dave’s concerns about XP, but once I’ve got it working again I promise not to surf the internet with it.
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Well, they seem to have worked for me. After downloading and running everything John sent to me Windows told me that it was XP SP3, and IE 8 enabled me to get limited access to the internet, but I could not connect to Microsoft websites. I then had a secondary problem, in that my mouse stopped working, but I think that’s an unrelated issue.
After a couple of restarts, “Automatic Updates” offered me KB898461, a package installer, and so I installed it. Then the floodgates opened and windows update offered me 128 security updates. This is what I remember from the last time, this is why reinstalling XP used to take so long! I accepted them all, on the assumption that it was a security issue that was preventing my access to some websites. After about half an hour it was done, but IE 8 still could not connect to Microsoft! (How is it connecting to Windows update?). I tried installing Chrome, and ah-ha, now I can look at Microsoft Support. I installed Firefox as well, (Version 52.3 ESR edition) and that seems to work too. Next restart, Auto Update wants to install .Net 3.5 and stuff… this myth that support for XP ended four years ago is nonsense.
I’ve got a few more things to sort out, but it’s beginning to look a lot like christmas.Philosophy is the new rock and roll.
Gosh! It works! I have IE8, but it seems reluctant to connect to microsoft.com
What am I to do with the .Net stuff?Philosophy is the new rock and roll.
John, I am working with my “new” PC which is Windows 10. I have copied your XP SP3 to a USB memory stick and opened it with the “old” Windows XP PC which has extracted the files and is presently installing SP3. . . Indeed it now claims to be Windows XP Pro Version 2002 SP 3 in System Properties. That was quick. It used to take ages! So all I need is a web browser and I can download antivirus, windows updates and all that. Thank you, again.
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John, thank you very much for your input, but my problem is that IE6 will not connect to the internet. How do I get IE8 onto the machine without a disc? Do you want me to burn an “iso” or something? You are going to have to take me through this step by step! Hold on.
I’ve just checked and I do have USB capability. It reads a stick. Will that be enough? How much space do I need? Hmm. . . about 500Mb. . . OK I’ve downloaded it to my “good” PC, (Win 10). . . and now I have XP SP3.zip. should I just transfer it to a USB stick and open it with the old PC? Sorry, I’m out of my depth here. I’m not stupid. I just don’t know what to do.Philosophy is the new rock and roll.
I guess its not the games exactly, its the nostalgia. This old machine cost me a lot of money to build, 10 years ago, with its twin 8800 GTS in SLI. Its SATA RAID array, DVD writer, multi memory card reader and so on. It could do anything. Those were the days, when graphics cards were like motorbike engines and the CPU cooler was the largest component in the box. I don’t need it any more, it just feels like a terrible wrench to let it go.
But times change, and I don’t really have the time to go back over Command and Conquer, Syndicate Wars, Far Cry, Railroad Tycoon, Dungeon Seige, Rome-Total War and the rest. In any case I have plenty of new games on Steam that I can’t finish either.
Thank you for all your suggestions, I’ll try a bit of Ebay snake-oil to get it up to SP3/IE8 or better and I’ll see if I can get Win 7 to work on it. There is life in the old beast yet.Thank you, Duke, Ed, Dave, Bob, Les, Richard, dwynnehugh and wasbit.
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I am not saying that you are lying to me. I understand that XP is past its use by date, and appreciate the security vulnerabilities. But is there really no way of ressurrecting this PC? It started having problems a while ago, random crashes, blue screens of death, et al. I attempted a “repair” install on the original drive but this failed, and then it refused to boot. I bought a new drive, was pleased to find a 320Gb SATA for only £18.50 on Amazon, and proceeded to do a fresh install. But now I’ve hit this brick wall. Can’t connect to internet. Can’t update.
Looks like I’ll have to stop digging the same hole deeper and give it up as a bad job.
Thanks anyway.
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But, but… Ebay is awash with Windows XP SP3 discs and COA’s. Are you telling me that they are all fake? You can buy PCs with XP on them from the same source for about £50. How are the refurbishers doing the install?
I have genuine, (my original) copies of XP home, and pro, and product keys for them. But they only take me as far as a clean install, which then requires activation, and update to SP3. I will be very sad to lose my old PC after buying a new hard drive for it. Surely the problem is something to do with my network settings, or something I’ve missed in advanced internet options…
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Surely someone must do a download or disc with SP3 on it?
When this machine was last working, a few months ago, it was still receiving security updates! Are you saying I can never get it back to a working XP install? My desire is to have it running games that no longer function since Win 7 etc.Still, regardless of the problems, can any one tell me why Internet Explorer 6 cannot find the server? I’ve tried switching off the firewall, deleting all the temp files, enabling SSL 2 and 3, resetting winsock and god knows what else. It won’t connect with a direct cable connection to the hub, nor will it do so via wi-fi.
I’ve been fiddling about with it now for hours, I’ve got two networking controllers showing up in device manager, two local area connections showing up in network connections, (one calling itself local area connection 4) and am considering starting again with the windows install. An internet gateway shows up which claims to be connected, even showing a changing number of packets sent and received, but every time I open Internet Explorer, it says “the page cannot be displayed”.
Stranger still, there is a “search” pane on the left of the IE window which tells me that 1. Internet Explorer 6 Search Companion is no longer supported, but that I can search any time on Bing, which if I click on it produces a Bing search page in the pane! If I then click on any of the results… “the page cannot be displayed”. It’s infuriating.Philosophy is the new rock and roll.
I understand that Duke, but how do I “activate” and update to sp3 without a connection?
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It would be good to know the model number of your original Philips rig.
As Blacklion said, if the onkyo is looking for a powered sub, there wont be a speaker level output for your sub.
I’ve just had a look at the manual http://www.intl.onkyo.com/downloads/manuals/pdf/tx-sr307_manual_e.pdf
The TX SR307 definatley wants a powered sub.
If you are using just a speaker for a sub, you will need another, separate amp for it.
Good Luck
MS
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Just look for a walkthrough – lots of them about.
Yes I have seen them, and they are no use to me.
Look at it this way. Eli Jay, (14) can do a Rubik’s cube in 7 seconds.
I can usually do two layers in about a quarter of an hour, but I can only finish a Rubik by carefully following instructions like R2URUR’U’R’U’R’UR’ and so forth. Furthermore I don’t seem to be able to LEARN how to do this, just in the same way as I have been learning to play the guitar for years and can still only knock out a couple of Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan tunes, even with the words and music in front of me. Some people seem to just pick up a guitar and have a crowd of 90,000 people cheering them at Wembley. That’s talent I guess, but for most people, like me, we try and try and try again, and get nowhere.
The reason that I am fearful of the “Cheat Engine”, and no, I still haven’t tried it yet, relates very much to Bob (Bullstuff)’s question. It’s that some people seem to think that those who wish to “cheat” are fair game for exploitation because they are in some way morally substandard.
I have revisited this question, because I think it deserves a longer treatment. But rather than here in a technical forum, I would like to move it to a more general area like “Other Stuff”.
Thanks for taking an interest.
MS
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I confess to not being a Gamer
If you were a gamer, bullstuff, you might understand my question better! Thank you drezha for your excellent ref. to Dara O’Briain, who clearly does understand.
I may well be “wasting my life”, playing video games, but my life hasn’t given me much in other respects, and strangely, or perhaps not so strangely, as a loser in life I am a loser in video games. As Dara points out, unless you “git gud” at the game, which may not happen, even after hours of punishing failure, you may never see the end, even later parts of the narrative.
I play lots of games, have over 50 titles on Steam, and have pursued my interest by building better and better gaming PC’s to play them. As a PC enthusiast I was a MicroMart subscriber, and a visitor to the old forum.“Remember Me” is a graphically beautiful game, and I would love to see the remainder of it, but unfortunately my skill at combat seems insufficient to get past a sticking point around the beginning of episode 3 which is only about one third of the way through the game. There is a You-Tube video of a complete “performance” of the game by some kid who must have faster reflexes than me, but that’s not what I want. I just need to be able to survive the impossible (for me) fight sequences and play out the story as the character and see the end.
So I ask again, has anyone any experience of “cheat engines”?
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Hi Dan
What you need is a fibreglass pencil, they are designed for cleaning contacts on PCBs.
Maybe a bit of Contact Cleaner would help your “pastry brush”, try Maplin.https://www.maplin.co.uk/search/?text=pcb+fibreglass+pen
Cheers
S
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