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Use 3x1 oil on fan bearing... check the link. I have done this and it made the fan work as good as new. *www.dansdata.com/fanmaint.htm

I used Spinwrite ver 1 for low level non destructive formatting in the old days when the hard disks were 40mb (mb not gb) and even running on a 40mb drive Spinwrite used to take about 5 hours. I wonder if it is any better now ? @Dexter - any idea how long would it take Spinwrite 6 take to...

I read Blue rays burners being sold in Japan for Yen 395,000 since August - see this page *buffalo.melcoinc.co.jp/products/catalog/item/b/br-pd23u2/

try a Repair Install - you get corrupted files updated and this maintains your current setup.

BOOTVIS has a strange quirk - if it completes the optimizing process in XP in less than about a minute or so then it does not make any major difference to the boot process - but at times for no apparent reason BOOTVIS will take upto 20 minutes for this same optimizing process and after this...

Get BOOTVIS version 1.3.37.0 or later. Do a Google search.

The MS Freeware Bootvis has an option to speed up boot process and it also has an option to show in a graph form the programs/drivers/dlls loading during the boot process and the time taken for each.

I dont know if this will work - Tweak UI for XP has under the Repair section an option "rebuid icons". This seems like something that may help.

Keeping in mind problems as what you find yourself in I had setup my system accordingly. See my POST in the following thread to see what I am refering to... *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7869

The problem I can see - how do you start XP from D if the boot.ini file gets deleted during the formatting of the C drive ? I am not an XP guru - but I think there will be problems to just rename D to C in "disk management". I have come across a program that lets you change drive letters by...

If you format the C drive will the Boot.ini file not get deleted - is not the boot.ini file located in C root ? Can you get XP to start from D if the Boot.ini file gets deleted when formatting the C drive ?

I dont have an wireless optical mouse - but I read somewhere that if you want to save on battery consumption when the mouse is idle you should place it on a white base. This true ?

I am waitng for the Blue Laser DVD writers.... follow link.... *www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/04/blue.dvd.reut/ at the moment 23gb for $3,800 :shock: I will wait for these prices to be what we pay for our 52x CD writers today. LOOOOONG WAIT :D

I got my first ASUS MoBo many years back - it was a P1 board with no cache and cost me 16,000/-. I sold this board to a friend and he is still running it with no problems with a P1 150. In between I tried Soltek and had problems with 3 boards and now I am back with ASUS.