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To: Doug Soon who wrote (13554)	7/24/2002 2:51:08 PM
From: Robert Graham	Respond to of 14778

Thank you for the pointers. The Belarc is an impressive piece of software. I also applied a fix on the Norton software. I have yet to apply the last part of that URL as a possible solution. I unplugged the game port from the sound card which solved a problem I found with the PCMark2002 where the video test pattern would move up from the bottom of the screen and stop for a while. Looks to be some sort of interrupt handling issue. I am hoping this will also cure the boot problem. Time will tell. I have a Logitec optical mouse, and a US Robotics 56K internal modem that supports that V.92 standard. I am using the mouse through the PS/2 mouse port. Bob Graham

To: Doug Soon who wrote (13554)	7/24/2002 2:52:24 PM
From: Robert Graham	Respond to of 14778

OT: My client who is the senior partner of a large law firm sent me another threatening letter, just to get attention. That guy is like a little child. One sentence explains what he is frustrated about, and the remaining paragraphs swears at me and demonstrate other unprofessional conduct, including a threat to sue. Th threat to sue is groundless and I am sure he understands this to be true. I just can imagine him jumping up and down as I read his e-mail. I told an intermediary, who operates between the two of us, this lawyer will need to cut the crap or I will stop my work on the project until a contract is written and signed by him and I and in my hands. For there will be no more goodwill efforts by me based on verbal contracts if this abusive behavior continues. I call this guy "the jackass client from hell".

To: Doug Soon who wrote (13554)	7/26/2002 4:10:12 PM
From: Robert Graham	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Guess what now? I purchased a 80G WDC that has 8M built in RAM for hard caching. This drive worked very well. But before I made this modification to my system, I hooked up the old 6G drive that I had and did some data transfers taking off of it good data. Well, apparently this old drive may have been one of my problems. I ended up with the partition damaged on my other newer 40G drive, the target of the copied files. Even an update style of Win2000 install requires me to reformat the drive since the partition is found to be damaged. I have recently copied important work from the portable I rented to this drive through an Ethernet connection. So before I had a chance of making backups, this goes and happens. I will be looking at that Spinrite by Gibson to see if that soeftare not only can retrieve data that is problematic to access, but also retrieve data from corrupted partitions. Saga Novel III Chapter II Now the good news. I reinstalled windows 2000. I enabled the APIC setting found in the pwoer menagement menu of the BIOS. Now the BIOS is taking adventage of the extended PIC (Programmable Interupt Controller) that comes with this ASUS board. So now I am no longer limited to 15 interrupts. Interrupt conflicts have gone away. Booting problem has also gone away. Bob Graham PS: Backup Now! by NTI appears to work well. But I have not tried recovering from the backup yet. Also its drivers are incompatible with Nero.