The Helper

I agree with the magicman. Best thing to do is a clean installation. You don't want to bring in the problems of an upgrade with the new XP installation. It kind of defeats the purpose.

My father was a computer programmer back in the mainframe days then he switched to micros. When I was 10 I had the joy of playing Adventure and Super Star Trek on his PDP-11. I got addicted to computer games before anyone outside of universities had really played on the computer. After Junior high I took a long break from computers not getting back into them until I was about 24. My first PC was an 8088 that my dad gave me which I learned to program Assembly language and played old games like Liesure Suit Larrry. I became an apprentice programmer at my dad's shop doing Cobol projects. I also learned C then I kind of found my niche as an MS Access/VB developer ever since. During my tenure at my dad's I discovered the Blizzard Official Tech Support forums where I became "The Helper" and started my own tech support site and forum. Been doing the Helping thing ever since. I know Bob from the dmoz thing, known Logical forever as we used to hang out in the Blizzard Open Tech Support channel and he does actually work only a few blocks from me. Rapmaster has been administrator of my thehelper.net forums almost since the beginning and he is also a Microsoft MVP. So that is me in a nutshell.

Open up the case and make sure that all your fans are still working. You might want to leave the side panel off your case and set up a little box fan blowing on to it for a while and see if you still have the problem. The thing that jumps out on me on this problem is heat problem.

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Unfortunately you cannot really uninstall or roll back Direct X 9 updates but you need to make sure you have the latest drivers for your Video Card even after the update. The Direct X updates work in tandem with the updates for your video card.

Thanks for the link - forwarded appropriately :cool:

Probably a stupid question but do you have a firewall installed at home? If you do you might have to some config to open up some ports.

What do you mean by main page? Do you mean the windows desktop?

The best thing to do is pony up the extra bucks for the full XP because it is going to be more stable in the long run but any copy of Win 98 disc is going to work.

Unfortunately I can't help but I have sent a few PM's to some of the moderators of my tech support forum to see if they might be able to help. I can't promise they will help but I think they will probably at least look at the problem. Hang in there.

Do you meet the system requirements mentioned on the Windows 2000 box? If you do then you will be able to install 2000. The thing is here though, I run Windows 2000 Professional and I was able to buy and install an upgrade version without having NT. I have never owned a copy of that. I had to buy a full copy of Windows 2000 server but I don't think you need NT to install an upgrade of Professional. I might be wrong though. Can anyone clarify?