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To: thecow who wrote (38716)	1/7/2004 12:20:40 PM
From: Jerry in Omaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

thecow, You wrote: <<I'm sure your son and the tech did..but my first thought would be to uninstall the TDK drive and try reinstalling it.>> And he'll have just the opportunity as he house sits for me this weekend when I'm out of town. I'll pass along your instructions. He hasn't had the "time" lately, if you know what I mean. <g> A siren's call vs. dad's computer. Not fair! <<I'm using Firebird and I've never heard of Foxmail.>> Roger that. I'm using Firebird as well. Gary says Foxmail is Bejing-ware. He's using it and likes it. I was actually asking about Thunderbird, Mozilla's mail program. Have you used Thunderbird? Jerry in Omaha

To: thecow who wrote (38716)	1/28/2004 5:47:57 PM
From: Jerry in Omaha	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110626

tc, <Long -- possibly boring -- post alert!> I’ve sure learned a few things in the past 17 days. Chief among them was don't make stoopid rookie mistakes! Make damn sure, when Googling, to type an exact phrase *exactly* as it is written. DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE needs those underlines between the words. Had I googled exactly that phrase with those underlines when the problem first occurred I would have downloaded the Roxio patch that pops up in the first Google search result and voila problem solved. But nooo...I didn't use the underlines and got gibberish search results. Then, tc, when I went to look at the link you helpfully provided I was running short on time and only read two deep on the thread. Had I scrolled down just a page I would have noticed Roxio Robert linking to the rescue patch. I could have loaded it up and voila problem solved. But nooo...it seems it was my turn for the Digital Age's equivalent of a Vision Quest; a total Win2000 crash. My first ever, believe it or not. When I returned from a short four-day trip to the desert southwest, my computer was just as I had left it, running but with no TDK software re-install. Seems the son had too much to do to get ready for his first college semester and couldn't get 'round to it. That's all good though. Otherwise, I'm sure I would have been tempted to blame him for the total uprooting of my OS that I was about to experience. At first everything seemed normal as I dialed up the net. Soon, however, I noticed that things were taking about twice as long to get done as usual. Something seemed to be dragging on the system resources. I decided to restart for a flush and fresh. Expecting to see the blue screen with DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE as usual, I was surprised to see another blue screen that said in part, "If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. Use Safe Mode if necessary." And just like that I was in un-charted virgin territory and about to start pushing buttons I just shouldn't be touching. Knowing this, I punched the reset button on the tower anyway. Before you know it I'm at another blue screen saying something about the impossibility of fetching file Windows 2000 Root>/system 32\ntoskrnl.exe Holy crap! All I wanted to do was restart in Safe Mode. BTW -- Did you know there was a study done to show that persons looking for something lost, like keys, recursively go back to places they've already searched to search again? Well, I think that may partially help explain why I hit, once again, the reset button. It was probably too late anyway, but this last blue screen really led to total OS death. The swan song went something like this, "c 0000-218 Registry File Failure Registry cannot load the hive (filename)\systemroot\System32\config\SOFTWARE or its log or alternate corrupt absent or not writable." And that was that. Adios, C drive, programs and data. Anybody know where I can get one of these? patft.uspto.gov Anyway, long frustrating story mercifully short, after addressing numerous formatting problems I'm now running XP Pro and have re-loaded most of my old programs that were safely tucked away in a Program Archives folder on a slave HD. I managed to salvage My Documents from the corrupted C drive. But that's another story. So, a couple of questions, tc. What happens if you reassign new drive letters from Disk Management? For some reason my new "C" drive is F. The slave drive is now C. What would happen if I switched them with Disk Management tools? Secondly, I'm having some trouble managing IE. I can't seem to get it to accept the settings I assign. For the time being, since I use Firebird, I'm letting it be the default browser. (Although the problem I'll describe happens when Firebird is the default as well.) I go online using Earthlink and when I'm connected IE tries to come up to it's default window, still set at MSN.com. An error window pops up, "Cannot find server. The page cannot be displayed." After significant trial and copious errors I found that by going to Tools>Internet Options>Connections where I change from "Never dial a connection." to "Always dial my default connection." Then I press the "Settings" button and de-select in the Proxy Server box the setting "Use a proxy server for this connection." Hit OK and OK and I'm good to surf the web on IE for the current session. However, on a re-boot I have to go back and click all the switches again. Wha's up with that? Jerry in Omaha