Hi, I just did a repair install on XP SP3 after a motherboard failed and I replaced it with one that has a different chip set. Everything seems to be working fine with the exception of just one thing. I wanted to open an exe file from the motherboard CD to load a new sound driver and got this .. [url]http://i38.tinypic.com/sendcn.jpg[/url] Moreover, a program that I use has some jpgs, that according to the programmer have umlauts (German accent) in their file names, and they don't load when I open the program. I have run system file checker. Any ideas would be much appreciated, Mike

Do the file names actuslly HAVE umlauts? ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

The programmer that wrote the program that can't load the jpgs told me; "Windows XP is a Unicode operating system which should be able to work with ANY character set - even Chinese. The problem you have happens only in the conversion of file names". I don't know about the exe file from the mother board manufacturer, but you saw the jpg. Thanks for your reply, Mike

If I remember right w2k wouldn't play MP3s with Thai filenames. ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

Solved! I finally decided to take the CD that I received from my mother board manufacturer, and run it on another machine. I wasn't over enthused about running an exe file for chipset installation on a machine that it wasn't intended for. And the 2nd machine couldn't run it either! http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/in... (I know the board is far from the best but I needed to find one that would compliment my 5 year old machine). Great! A motherboard company releases a CD with their product that seemingly doesn't use Unicode! I jumped to conclusions that my PC was at fault because I had just done the repair install. If it had just been an agenda program written in Germany that couldn't load jpgs then I would have not been concerned, but when I couldn't open the manufacturer's CD I added 1+1 and got 3. Not sure what my lesson is? Thank you for the feedback, Mike

Hi, Can you load the driver install program from the motherboard manufacturer's site, if it won't run from the CD. Regards