Recent content by busaboyz

One unit has a Tyan Thunder i7505 S2665 dual Xeon MB for workstations. It originally ran Win XP and has had Win 7 for 6 months. No issues. The problem child is a Tyan Tiger i7501 S2723 dual Xeon MB for servers. It was running Server 2000 for a decade. For whatever reason Win 7 will not run...

Final follow up. Put on XP and PC ran fine. Unit originally had Server 2000. No idea why Win 7 won't work....

Gave up and installed Ubuntu 12.04.5. Seems to be working fine. PC will go back in the closet since I really don't like Linux.....

I've loaded Win 7 three times with two different disks I burned. I confirmed the SHA1 of the original ISO and the resultant DVD. I have used the same ISO before on another dual Xeon PC without issue. I've put tried two different PCI video cards, ATI and Nvidia, first in a PCI-X slot and then in...

I have run the machine off a live distro of mini XP and it seems to work fine. I'm going to test a live distro of Linux Mint and see how it goes.

Ran SCF and chkdsk. No errors found. Event viewer shows a number of errors but not a lot of info on what caused them. Some apps like Wmplayer freeze after a few seconds but most seem to work OK.

Yes I know MS killed Gadgets but I've been using the same Gadgets for years. They are running on a dozen different PCs around my house with no issues, Vista, Win 7 etc. I've done a complete fresh install of 7 including a disk wipe and the problem occurs before the Gadgets are even loaded on the...

Yes. Still having the same issues.

A Win 7 install on an old server has got me flummoxed. I cannot get the taskbar to function properly. I have tried every trick I have found Googling and none have fixed the problem. I have reloaded the OS twice since the original install and same problems reappear. Once as a Win 7 "upgrade"...