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Try downloading and using a utility called SIW. It will tell you that and much more. Find SIW at the link below. http://www.download3k.com/SIW/Downl...

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And What Do I look for Exactly? Sorry... never dealt with this kinda a problem....

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Install the program and then click on the icon. Under hardware there should be a listing for harrdrive controllers.

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" in the catagory "SCSI and RAID controller is one Item. The "NERO IMAGEDRIVE SCSI Controller" and It has a Yellow "!" Beside it." .... NOTE: The following probably has nothing to do with the error message you get as you boot the computer! You still need to determine what is in PCI slot three! I have never heard of a Nero SCSI controller so I did some searching on the web. Apparently, some newer versions of Nero software (e.g. 6 and 7) have the Nero ImageDrive program included. User Guide / Help File for Nero ImageDrive http://www.nero.com/nero7/enu/User_... Excerpt: "Nero ImageDrive allows you to set up a virtual drive. The virtual drive is visible in Microsoft Windows Explorer and can be used just like a real drive. Instead of an actual disk, you mount images in the virtual drive. An Image file is a file that contains a complete image of a CD or DVD, and can be created in Nero Burning ROM, for example. From the virtual drive, you can open, display, and execute files and programs, depending on the contents of the mounted image" Etc. Apparently, this ImageDrive program sets up a virtual SCSI controller that shows up in Device Manager. "...nero imagedrive scsi controller could not start..." "....it is a virtual controller for nero imagedrive..." http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/a... "Nero ImageDrive names its virtual devices "NERO IMAGEDRIVE2 SCSI CdRom Device" "...all virtual drives are pseudo-scsi. " http://www.annoyances.org/exec/foru... " Nero Imagedrive SCSI/RAID controller (works fine, but it's not a real one, it's just for Nero to read image files)" "D-Tools doesn't like sharing a SCSI controller, so Nero Imagedrive couldn't be used at the same time as Daemon Tools'. Uunistalled them both and reinstalled D-Tools and everything is great." http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/con... An example of what Everest finds when you run it: "Description : Unknown Adapter Driver Description : System32\DRIVERS\imagedrv.sys Company : ahead software gmbh && its licensors Version : 1.1.0.0 Description : NERO IMAGEDRIVE SCSI miniport Attached Devices Description : ID 0 (0): NERO IMAGEDRIVE 1.0f Type : CD-Rom Drive Autorun : Off " http://www.cdrinfo.com/forum/tm.asp... (one link of many where Everest finds that or similar on a computer). ................ When you search on web with: NERO IMAGEDRIVE SCSI Controller you get lots of "hits". In some of them, it is apparent this virtual SCSI controller sometimes conflicts with another SCSI controller or CD or DVD drives or another device or other software on the computer. (Nice going Nero/Ahead Software - problems with InCD, and now this!) Un-installing the ImageDrive program will un-install the virtual SCSI controller, and should get rid of this problem in Device Manager. Take a look in Control Panel - Add/Remove Software for a listing for Nero ImageDrive or ImageDrive - if you see that, Un-install it!! If you don't see that, look for a Nero listing and tell us what it says. .... If you have a Nero CD, or you installed software from a CD that came with a DVD/CD burner drive that has Nero software, that's probably where ImageDrive came from. In that case you can probably Un-install all Nero listings you find in Add/Remove Software in Windows, then if you still want to use the software to burn Cds and DVDs, install the Nero software, but choose a Custom install, and choose NOT to install ImageDrive. If you can't choose to NOT install ImageDrive, DO NOT INSTALL the Nero software - abort the Install/Setup!

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So... Uninstall this NERO Item, or All Of NERO it's self? Ok... In the Unistall Programs List, I see a "NERO Digital" A "NERO 6 Ultra Edition" a "NERO Media Player" and a "NeroMIX" Anyway... Moving on. I didn't find the list of Harddrive controllers. I did find a list of devices? I think I have "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller" No sign of any SCSI or SATA controller cept for the NERO thing. At least that's what I found... Does that help any?

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If it is listed and you can Un-install Nero ImageDrive, or ImageDrive separately, do that. If it's not listed, it's got to be part of one of the Nero listings - probably Nero 6 Ultra Edition . Sometimes the Remove/Un-install gives you the choice of un-installing component programs within the software, but often it doesn't - if the latter is your case, the only way you can get rid of ImageDrive is to Un-install all of Nero 6 Ultra Edition - that may have also installed the other two Nero listings, and un-installing that may un-install all three. Also see the last paragraph response 10. If you can't NOT install ImageDrive, you will have to use a different program to burn CDs or DVDs with. Do you have more than one in your Programs? ... "I didn't find the list of Harddrive controllers. I did find a list of devices? I think I have "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller" That IS hard/optical drive controllers - that use IDE. ATA is used for the hard drives, ATA and ATAPI for the optical drives (drives that use lasers - e.g. CD, DVD drives). If you had a SATA or SCSI controller it is another listing. "No sign of any SCSI or SATA controller cept for the NERO thing." Then you have only the virtual - simulated - SCSI controller that ImageDrive installed. You have no actual physical SCSI controller on the mboard (or if you do which isn't likely it is disabled in your bios Setup), or on a card in a slot. ...... The error messages you get while booting before Windows loads are created by the mboard's bios - you would probably get those even if your hard drive was disconnected. Removing ImageDrive in Windows will probably NOT get rid of that message while booting. You haven't said what you found in System Information - see response 2. You haven't said whether you tried running the SIW utility or program OtheHill pointed you to - see response 7 to 9. Copy what it finds and paste it in a post it here. If you had/have not installed ImageDrive when you ran that, IGNORE the NERO IMAGEDRIVE SCSI Controller information. You don't have a physical SCSI or SATA controller (unless you do and it is disabled in the bios Stup)- what you need to do is look for information about what card or device SIW finds is in PCI slot three. If that doesn't help or SIW doesn't provide any info about what is in PCI slot three, see response 2 - try removing whatever card is in PCI slot three. What ports does the card have? Look at the card to see if there is anything printed on it that could possibly be it's brand and/or model numbers on it, or copy the model numbers from the largest chips, and tell us what you find. If all else fails you can leave the card out of the computer, or try installing it in a different slot, or try loading bios defaults or turning PNP Operating system on or off, whichever is applicable, in the bios Setup. See response 1, 2.

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Ok. Here's What I found in System Information: System Information - Hardware Resources - Conflicts/Sharing: I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 PCI bus I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 Direct memory access controller IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System IRQ 9 Intel(r) 82801AA SMBus Controller IRQ 17 Linksys NC100 Fast Ethernet Adapter IRQ 17 Intel(r) 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF RADEON 9200 SERIES System Information - Hardware Resources - IRQs: IRQ 0 System timer OK IRQ 1 HP PS2 Keyboard (2K - 3) OK IRQ 3 Communications Port (COM2) OK IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK IRQ 5 MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device OK IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK IRQ 9 Intel(r) 82801AA SMBus Controller OK IRQ 12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse OK IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK IRQ 14 Primary IDE Channel OK IRQ 15 Secondary IDE Channel OK IRQ 16 RADEON 9200 SERIES OK IRQ 17 Linksys NC100 Fast Ethernet Adapter OK IRQ 17 Intel(r) 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller OK IRQ 18 Lucent Win Modem OK IRQ 19 Intel(r) 82801AA USB Universal Host Controller OK System Information - Hardware Resources - I/Q: 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 PCI bus OK 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 Direct memory access controller OK 0x00000010-0x0000001F Motherboard resources OK 0x00000020-0x00000021 Programmable interrupt controller OK 0x00000024-0x00000025 Motherboard resources OK 0x00000028-0x00000029 Motherboard resources OK 0x0000002C-0x0000002D Motherboard resources OK 0x00000030-0x00000031 Motherboard resources OK 0x00000034-0x00000035 Motherboard resources OK 0x00000038-0x00000039 Motherboard resources OK 0x0000003C-0x0000003D Motherboard resources OK 0x00000040-0x00000043 System timer OK 0x00000050-0x00000053 Motherboard resources OK 0x00000060-0x00000060 HP PS2 Keyboard (2K - 3) OK 0x00000061-0x00000061 System speaker OK 0x00000064-0x00000064 HP PS2 Keyboard (2K - 3) OK 0x00000070-0x00000071 System CMOS/real time clock OK 0x00000072-0x00000077 Motherboard resources OK 0x00000080-0x00000080 Motherboard resources OK 0x00000081-0x0000008F Direct memory access controller OK 0x00000090-0x0000009F Motherboard resources OK 0x000000A0-0x000000A1 Programmable interrupt controller OK 0x000000A4-0x000000A5 Motherboard resources OK 0x000000A8-0x000000A9 Motherboard resources OK 0x000000AC-0x000000AD Motherboard resources OK 0x000000B0-0x000000B5 Motherboard resources OK 0x000000B8-0x000000B9 Motherboard resources OK 0x000000BC-0x000000BD Motherboard resources OK 0x000000C0-0x000000DF Direct memory access controller OK 0x000000F0-0x000000FE Numeric data processor OK 0x00000170-0x00000177 Secondary IDE Channel OK 0x000001F0-0x000001F7 Primary IDE Channel OK 0x00000200-0x00000207 Standard Game Port OK 0x00000274-0x00000277 ISAPNP Read Data Port OK 0x00000279-0x00000279 ISAPNP Read Data Port OK 0x000002F8-0x000002FF Communications Port (COM2) OK 0x00000300-0x00000301 MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device OK 0x00000376-0x00000376 Secondary IDE Channel OK 0x00000378-0x0000037F ECP Printer Port (LPT1) OK 0x000003B0-0x000003BB RADEON 9200 SERIES OK 0x000003C0-0x000003DF RADEON 9200 SERIES OK 0x000003F0-0x000003F5 Standard floppy disk controller OK 0x000003F6-0x000003F6 Primary IDE Channel OK 0x000003F7-0x000003F7 Standard floppy disk controller OK 0x000003F8-0x000003FF Communications Port (COM1) OK 0x000004D0-0x000004D1 Motherboard resources OK 0x00000778-0x0000077F ECP Printer Port (LPT1) OK 0x00000800-0x0000087F Motherboard resources OK 0x00000A79-0x00000A79 ISAPNP Read Data Port OK 0x00000D00-0x0000FFFF PCI bus OK 0x00001000-0x0000105F Motherboard resources OK 0x00001060-0x0000107F Motherboard resources OK 0x00001080-0x0000109F Intel(r) 82801AA USB Universal Host Controller OK 0x000010A0-0x000010AF Intel(r) 82801AA Bus Master IDE Controller OK 0x000010B0-0x000010BF Intel(r) 82801AA SMBus Controller OK 0x00001180-0x000011BF Motherboard resources OK 0x00001200-0x000012FF Intel(r) 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller OK 0x00001300-0x0000133F Intel(r) 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller OK 0x00001C00-0x00001C7F Motherboard resources OK 0x00002000-0x000020FF RADEON 9200 SERIES OK 0x0000FD00-0x0000FDFF Lucent Win Modem OK 0x0000FE00-0x0000FE0F Motherboard resources OK 0x0000FEF8-0x0000FEFF Lucent Win Modem OK 0x0000FF00-0x0000FFFF Linksys NC100 Fast Ethernet Adapter OK Ok So After That, I went to The Device Manager And Went Through All The Devices, To See Where they are, and I found that: Lucent Win Modem: PCI Slot 3 (PCI bus 1, device 10, function 0) It's the only one I found on slot 3... But I don't see that it has any resource conflicts and it says it's working correctly... but I really don't need to. I have Cable internet... lol... Uh... how's that? What else do you need?

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Matt Is your network card an add in card? Are you using a USB mouse? The only sharing that could be the conflict would be the sound and network are sharing the same IRQ. I suggest you pull out the modem if you don't need it. Assumming the network card IS an add in move the network card to the slot previously occupied by the modem. I would like you to boot into the BIOS (del) at startup. Look for a setting called "PnP aware OS". If that setting is disabled, enable it and save at exit. Then find a setting for com ports and disable them, assumming nothing is using the com ports, like a serial mouse.

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I think it's an add in card... No I'm not using a USB mouse. It's a regular mouse, connected to the mouse port... ? The "PnP OS" is how it looks lin my BIOS. It's already Enabled... Where do I find the Comm Ports? Will that hurt my network I'm connected to? If it is my modem, would it help if I uninstalled it from the device manager? Ok. I'm sorry guys. Your all such great helps, but let me lay it out like this: I can't open up the computer. I don't know what to do even if I could... I'd have to go through my dad and get him to do it... He's a pain to work with too.... So if there is anyway to get this fixed without opening the Tower up... please... I beg you my friends.... Sorry to sound like a coward...

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I would have tried response 1, no harm in resetting bios to defaults Some HELP in posting on Cnet plus free progs and instructions Glad to Help!

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Will It Screw Up My Computer? Cause My Dad Had To Plug in the monitor to something then go into BIOS and set it to use the graphics card.... That's about all I know...

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Is your mouse have a round connector or a tapered rectangular connector? As tubes has mentioned above, the messages you are getting on the scren appear before you even enter Windows. If you don't want to open or can't open the case we will see if anything can be done through the keyboard. One thing that can be tried would be to Disable the PnP setting in the bios. There may be another setting in the BIOS that may straighten out the conflict. The settin is called "reset configuration data". You can enable this for ONE boot cycle and then reenter the BIOS and if still enabled then set to disabled. Try that one first and get back with the results. Don't disable the comports until after you reveal the type of mouse in use.

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Here are some answers to **Will It Screw Up My Computer?**: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&... Some HELP in posting on Cnet plus free progs and instructions Glad to Help!

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Ok. Doing that setting didn't do nothing. You know... the "reset configuration data". It went for one cycle and was disabled again by it's self. Didn't do anything... The mouse Is A Round Plug That is Plugged into the pack of my PC. Does that tell you anything?

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Yes, means you have a PS/2 mouse. You can disable the com ports in the BIOS screens. May be called serial ports. Disabling them will free up two IRQs. When you have the PnP aware OS enabled the BIOS doesn't bother trying to sort out the resource allocations, leaving it up to windows. After you disable the Com ports reboot once and then reenter the BIOS and try the reset configuration data again. If no go there, then try disabling the PnP setting.

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You know it just dawned on me that I don't think you were asked if this message is new, or has been there always. You may need to eventually open the case.

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Ok... I've got bad news. None of those Ideas for BIOS worked. I haven't tried going to Default settings yet... If I have to open up the case... I'll have my dad look at it.... I hate too.. he's mean... but Oh well.... lol....

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Did you disable the com ports? What about my question about when this message started?

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Yes I disabled the comms, and the Reset Data thing, and the PNP thing as well. The message is new. It started the night before I started this Topic. I'll tell you what I was doing before that night. I was on my forum. I've had this for 6 months so this isn't what caused it. LOL. I did install a new game called "GUNZ: The Dual". But it crashed my computer.. so I took it off. And it ahad required an ActiveX thing to be installed. But i had set a Restoration point before it just in case. So I uninstalled the game and then the ActiveX. Later, I had shut down the computer to watch TV, you know, why waste power if your not using it? So later that night after TV, I turned it back on and it worked fine, but I noticed that it "Found" some new hardware (Which I had not installed any), and IT said It was "installing" something about the modem. So I restarted it and that is when the Error came up. Hopefully this helps more... If it does come down to opening up the Tower, can I still use it with out doing anything and just pressing F2? I mean... it works normally... just have to Press F2. I'm sorry this is such a long post. It's pretty pointless. It's just my dad's dealing with a lot of things and I don't wanna bother him, but I don't wanna make anything worse by opening it up myself... :/ So there's the story. Any questions?

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Well, I really don't know why the modem would give an error unless the modem is defective somehow. I suggest you remove it if not using it. If you have you dad do that all that is needed is to pull the power cord, open the case, remove the holddown screw and pull straight up. There is a small possibility of a thin cable being attached to the card. If so, that would be for sound and it can be safely disconnected and left loose in the case. If after removing the modem card you STILL experience the same message, then use the reset configuration data option like before.

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Ok. Thanks, though... I have to ask, Resetting the BIOS to Defaults like XPuser suggested won't work you don't think? If not, I'll ask my dad later... It won't hurt to leave it go for a little while will it? Till the madness dies around here?

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Each time you clear the CMOS you are setting the values to defaults. That is why you need to change some things afterward.

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Oh. Ok. Sorry. Thanks for your Time. I'll ask my Dad later then. Thanks again. :)

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Matt, it's OK, you don't need to keep apoligizing. I can only speak for myself but I usually get some enjoyment from helping someone here. Especially if the problem can be solved. Not knowing exactly what is causing the error message I can't state definatively that it won't hurt to continue as you have but I don't THINK there is much risk.

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Well I'll let it go for now, till things calm down. Everything Runs Normal, cept for getting that error and pressing F2, So, Thanks Guys. I'll contact you when I have him look at it and let you know how we manage to fix it... If we cna fix it. lol.

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Good luck

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ask your dad to restore the default settings in the bios. Some HELP in posting on Cnet plus free progs and instructions Glad to Help!

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"IRQ 17 Linksys NC100 Fast Ethernet Adapter OK IRQ 17 Intel(r) 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller OK" OtheHill said: "The only sharing that could be the conflict would be the sound and network are sharing the same IRQ." If you aren't seeing any yellow ? or ! or red X for these two devices in Device Manager, and both show up there, there is no problem with those. You're not using IRQ 10 and 11, so those may be available if you switch a card or cards to another PCI slot. OtheHill said: "Yes, means you have a PS/2 mouse. You can disable the com ports in the BIOS screens. May be called serial ports. Disabling them will free up two IRQs." Each Com port uses an IRQ if enabled, but not many other devices can use the IRQs assigned to them if they are disabled and that makes the IRQs they were using available for other devices e.g. most dial-up modems can. It would be more likely another device could use IRQ 10 or 11, or some may be able to use higher than 19 on this computer, but that may require you use a different PCI slot for one of your cards. If you also have a USB mouse available and use that, if you disable the PS/2 mouse in the bios, a few things such as network cards can use the IRQ 12 that frees up, or USB can use it but you might have to disable USB in the bios, save settings, then enable it again, save settings, in order for USB to change it's IRQ (you can get into and do everything in most bioses with just the keyboard - in this case it would need to be a PS/2 connected keyboard if you want to try disabling /enabling USB). Lucent Win Modem: PCI Slot 3 (PCI bus 1, device 10, function 0) "If it is my modem, would it help if I uninstalled it from the device manager? But I don't see that it has any resource conflicts and it says it's working correctly... but I really don't need to. I have Cable internet... lol..." It's the only one I found on slot 3..." The bios and Windows may identify different slots as PCI slot 3. What card is in the actual physical PCI slot 3? In this case, that's probably the fourth card in the slot space from the center of the mboard you see on the exterior of the computer, the first one being the video card. "....it worked fine, but I noticed that it "Found" some new hardware (Which I had not installed any), and IT said It was "installing" something about the modem. So I restarted it and that is when the Error came up. Hopefully this helps more..." Yes, that means the problem is probably related to the modem, but unfortunately not necessarily - it could be the modem is not finding an IRQ while booting because something else grabbed it's IRQ while booting . Windows itself may correct the problem later and the modem works fine in Windows, but you still get the error message generated by the bios while booting. "The "PnP OS" is how it looks lin my BIOS. It's already Enabled..." As I said before, if it is enabled, try setting it to disabled - sometimes that helps. "I can't open up the computer. I don't know what to do even if I could... I'd have to go through my dad and get him to do it... He's a pain to work with too.... So if there is anyway to get this fixed without opening the Tower up... please... I beg you my friends.... You can try loading bios defaults, changing the PNP OS setting, resetting configuration data in the bios, turning the Com ports off, turning the PS/2 mouse off, without having to open the case. In Windows, you could try Un-installing the modem in Device Manager and rebooting, or Un-installing the drivers for the WinModem in Add/Remove software and installing them again (Windows will find a Simple PCI Communications Device or similar while booting - don't point Windows to where the drivers are while booting if it doesn't find drivers automatically while booting - Cancel that and install the drivers after the Desktop loads), if you know where the drivers for it are on the computer or can get them from the HP web site in the downloads for your model beforehand, if and only if it came with the computer. XPUser4Real said: "I would have tried response 1, no harm in resetting bios to defaults" OtheHill said: "There may be another setting in the BIOS that may straighten out the conflict. The settin is called "reset configuration data". You can enable this for ONE boot cycle and then reenter the BIOS and if still enabled then set to disabled. "Will It Screw Up My Computer? Cause My Dad Had To Plug in the monitor to something then go into BIOS and set it to use the graphics card.... That's about all I know..." Resetting configuration data usually does no harm at all and usually does not change the settings in the bios Setup. You probably have an AGP video card. Most people have all the settings in the bios set to defaults except for what they must change. You can usually load bios defaults and have no problems, but in this case before you do that you have to look in the bios for settings along the lines of intialize display first: in your case that's probably was set to AGP or the video card slot or simlar by your Dad - the default is often PCI, or onboard video, or similar, and that is what loading the bios defaults would set it to. You will still have video in Windows if that is left in the default mode, but the AGP card's advanced capabilities won't work. Copy down what you see there, load the bios defaults, change that setting to AGP or whatever, and you will probably be fine. You didn't state the model of this computer or how old it is - if it is older than, say, 5 or 6 years, there may also be a setting in the bios Setup somewhere to Assign an IRQ to AGP, or similar - if you see that in your bios Ssetup, copy that setting down too, and check that setting and change it if it is not the same after you load bios defaults. If you really to make sure you don't screw anything up, you could copy every setting down before you load defaults. Sometimes the user manual for the HP system tells you what all the default bios settings are, sometimes it doesn't. .... Your ImageDrive SCSI controller problem really doesn't amount to anything important if you don't use ImageDrive. If you don't need the modem: - if the dial-up modem is built into the mboard, there should be a setting in the bios Setting to turn it off. - if it is on a card and not built into the mboard, if you don't want to open the case, you could try Disabling it in Device Manager - however that probably will not make the message go away while booting and won't help much. The dial-up modem has one or usually two standard telephone connector ports, wherever it is. - if you don't find a solution that works, if if it is on a card and not built into the mboard, you have to unplug or otherwise remove the AC power to the case, open the case, and remove the card. It is easy to remove. You remove one screw, usually it needs a cross head (X point; Phillips) screwdriver, and unplug the card from it's slot.

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"You didn't state the model of this computer or how old it is - if it is older than, say, 5 or 6 years, there may also be a setting in the bios Setup somewhere to Assign an IRQ to AGP, or similar - if you see that in your bios Ssetup, copy that setting down too, and check that setting and change it if it is not the same after you load bios defaults." Well, The Model is: HP Pavilion xt928 with an Intel Celeron Processer, 1.10 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 80GB Hard drive, a little over year old Radeon 9200 Series Graphics Card, and an 8 Speed CD-Writable CD-ROM (I think it's an 8 Speed). That's probably more then you needed to know, but I ain't got anything better to do, cept for run my forum, write fan fics, and play games, and mow lawns. :D As for how old it is... I don't know. My dad had it before I screwed up and bought a game that wouldn't work on my old computer. lol. I think it's as old as Win XP, cause it says on the tower it was made for XP.

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Matt What happened when you were playing the game you feel screwed up the computer. Did you need to change any graphics card settings?

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No. I didn't need to make any changes to the graphics. I don't know, It just sorta quit responding, then it came up with a blue screen and a fatal error message and how it needs to be restarted. So I restarted it, and I didn't see anything wrong with it. So I uninstalled the game and then later that night... well you know the rest.

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You haven't said whether you have tried anything new you haven't mentioned yet, such as - setting PNP OS in the bios Setup to OFF or Disabled (if you haven't tried that, do that - it is harmless in any case) - loading bios defaults (see response 34). - disabling the modem in Device Manager. "I did install a new game called "GUNZ: The Dual". But it crashed my computer.. so I took it off. And it ahad required an ActiveX thing to be installed. But i had set a Restoration point before it just in case. So I uninstalled the game and then the ActiveX. " Have you tried loading that Restore point? Games are leading edge software and they often will not work on all computers even if your computer meets the minumum system requirements, or better. Sometimes there is trouble shooting info on the web site for the game. GUNZ the Duel - International web site http://www.gunzonline.com/downloads/ Forums link does not work, at least not for me when I tried. No apparent t-shooting information (that might be in the Forums) "System Requirements Minimum Requirements OS Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 2000 DirectX DirectX 9.0c or above CPU Pentium III 500 Mhz Memory 256 MB Graphics Card Direct3D 9.0 Compatible(Riva TNT) Sound Card Direct3DSound Compatible Mouse Windows Compatible(Wheel Mouse recommended) * GunZ does not support GamePads or JoySticks. * When operating the game on a PC with the minimum specifications, make sure you set the resolution is set to the lowest. (640x480, 16bit color)" The only thing I see there that your system may not meet is it may have been wise to try a lower resolution and 16 bit color because of the amount of ram you have, and possibly the DirectX version. Do this: Start - Run - type: dxdiag (press OK) The DirectX version is stated at the bottom of the first screen - what version is it? Parent company - Maiet Entertainment, in Korea http://www.maiet.co.kr/index_e.php Gunz The Duel page; http://www.maiet.co.kr/products_e/ No apparent t-shooting information. ...... Your dial-up modem. You have not said whether the modem is in the physical PCI slot three yet.In this case, that's probably the fourth slot space from the center of the mboard you see on the exterior of the computer, the first one being the video card. If it's the one that came with the system, it's a Cheetah. HP Pavilion Desktop PC - V.92 Modem Cheetah2 - (English) User's Guide http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manua... Excerpt: "The modem uses the Lucent chipset and standard Lucent LT Winmodem software drivers...... For Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP, the operating system will install drivers that are included in Windows." Lucent (Agere) LT Data/Fax Modem driver (This is an update). http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/... Try this - look in Add/Remove Software for a listing for the modem. If you see such a listing, un-install it, reboot. If you still get the error while booting (you may need to reboot twice), get the Lucent (Agere) LT Data/Fax Modem driver update and install it. ......... Other. HP Support for Pavilion xt928: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/... No general or specific system manual available, so I have no idea what you see in your bios Setup. Going by a guess you computer probably isn't old enough to have it, you probably don't have the Assign an IRQ to AGP setting, or similar, in your bios Setup. If you want to try removing the modem card, specific info here: HP and Compaq Desktop PCs - Removing and Installing an Expansion Card (PCI) http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...

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"You haven't said whether you have tried anything new you haven't mentioned yet, such as - setting PNP OS in the bios Setup to OFF or Disabled (if you haven't tried that, do that - it is harmless in any case) - loading bios defaults. - disabling the modem in Device Manager." setting PNP OS in the bios Setup to OFF or Disabled (Tried it, Unsuccessful) disabling the modem in Device Manager. (Tried it, Unsuccessful) I'm going to try the bios defaults, I'll report back with results. "Have you tried loading that Restore point?" That was the first thing I did when it happened. Didn't work. "The DirectX version is stated at the bottom of the first screen - what version is it?" DirectX 9.0c.

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Ok ,Resetting BIOS to Default... didn't work. There was nothing in Uninstall Programs for the modem either. Could I uninstall it from the device manager? I'll try that update too...

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"Ok ,Resetting BIOS to Default... didn't work." It was worth a shot. Did you set the video to AGP video? See response 34. "Could I uninstall it from the device manager?" Yes, but Windows will automatically install drivers for it next boot - that, or the update, might help, but I doubt it.

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Well, you were right. None of those worked. I guess I'll have to wait till my dad can get time to open it up. LOL.