I actually DO like some of the features of XP. The fact that I don't have to reboot/turn off my machine for a month at a time is GREAT. I have only seen 2 BSOD's too...Roxio...forgot to install the patch before rebooting and an nvidia driver. Other than that...none. The BIG problem is that like many other OS's from M$, it is about as secure as a sieve with a gunshot through it, and you REALLY have to tweak it to turn off all of the garbage (GUI trash). I have had a MUCH better time with troubleshooting at work too...not as many problems, unless you count the user in that spectrum LOL.

I was wondering if anyone would catch the wtareborne trees LOL. I'll upload it to you this afternoon when I get home (4:30 CST). I DO need to add some bushes and ground foliage, and rework the trees again. Could the problem be that I have SOOOO many trees? There are about 25-40 trees in this scene. They are all variations of the Maple/Fall maple. Would SO many objects in this scene be the problem? I have tried rendering grouped and ungrouped, still to no avail.

GOOD GOD MAN!! This is definitely a work to be proud of!! Just when I think that I ave seen it ALL from Vue, somebody like you prooves that the frontier is still there. AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!!

Absolutely stunning piece Sharen! Your attention to detail is awesome! Bravo!!

WE GOT IT. We fixed it friday night. It ended up, that all we had to do to rectify this was to throw the xp disk into the drive, reboot and then choose fresh install.....then choose repair when you get your options. The install will show dynamic upgrade in the list of items being installed. This removes all otherdrivers etc, but still keeps your data and the registry intact. After that I had to reinstall all of the "updates" and pull the new drivers from my MOBO disk and invidia's site. Because of the friggin HARD TO READ sticker on the back of me NEW IBM drive, I had clipped the drive to 33.8 GB, SO before the repair to XP, we had to do a SYS C: from a dos prompt (boot disk) to rectify trhe verifying DMI pool data. Once that was all done, we were in business. My VUE is running better than I EVER could have expected with the 512 DDR400 and the 128MB overclocked TI4600. I am VERY HAPPY to saythe least. Anyone who runs into this problem in the future can feel free to let mek now and I'll write out detailed instructions as to what we did to alleviate ourselves of this problem. THANKS PETE! and all that posted!! Akenaton

AMEN TO THAT PETE<<<<deer in headlights. This isn't rocket science people...it's more like LEGOS<<I LOVE THOSE TOO. If you buy a car based on what the salesman says ALONE, then you need to be introduced to RESEARCH...use the internet DOH. I will give up the rant, but I feel that Pete<<

WOW angela, I LOVE that 135 image. I think it's a date palm. I'd love to see that when Pete rips them into shape. that would make some REALLY nice additions to alot of different scenes. I saw a bunch of those in Phoenix AZ over Christmas. Too cool

I DO have a crossover, but I want windows left intact so that I don't have to waste the media burning. Besides that, I want to tell Microsoft where to put it by proving their single seat garbage wrong. I KNOW that we'll get this, but it'll just be a culmination of what we know and what other ideas we get from people...like yourself. Rock on man...we'll beat this and post the way that we did it. Let the strongest mind prevail!!

Alright Pete....I hear you man, and really don't want to argue about this. I'll private message you the logistics of where Microsoft and I stand. When we get this figured out I'll send you a message, and let you know what we did. As for the change machines idea....you got it man. That is what we were going to try if the partition recovery software that I bought didn't get me all of nmy partitions back. I DO appreciate the post man. Thanks

Ummmm Thanks Pete....I think. I feel your angst when it comes to XP, but BELIEVE me when I say this... XP isn't my fault or anyone else's fault. When the WORLD is dominated by one OS (or style of OS), then the smart thing to do is follow suit. I LIVE in Microsoft...doesn't mean that I like it....just means that the world goes where the money is. Linux...GREAT! if you can hammer code...Mac....GREAT! if you want to surf the world for software that might not even exist. Windows...BUGGY! and Doomed to be full of marketing Rapes...the only way to fly if you want to have ALL of the software on the market. AGAIN!! I AGREE with your anger, but don't say that "I" or anyone else is responsible for the stuff....BUSINESS and CORPORATIONS are to blame...they are the ones that catered to Microsaoft's wallet and Marketing ploys. If the whole world buys it, and you use it, does that make you responsible? Not likely man. And by the way...I am one of those people that are in cyber space that is taking their toll on Microsoft....so if anything, you should be thanking us. NOW that I have said MY piece....Thank you for the post. If you have any feasible plans, please feel free to let me know....if you want to rant about the "Microsoft Propaganda/Marketing Rape Machine" then post on another page and I'll gladly join you in the verbal routing of Microshaft. Thank you, Akenaton

Also....The reason it deals with VUe is because I have about 6GB of Vue material that I want to retrieve. That is a huge compilation of hours and research that I don't want to thave to respend. I think that backing VUE stuff up in the future is in my cards. LOL

Thanks Cheers, But I bought this PC OS-less. The 40GB drive came unformatted. I have swapped drives in machines a LOT of times without problems, but they weren't XP OS's. It seems that XP has MAJOR issues because of the restore points and hardware configs. Unfortunately, my partitions were almost smoked from this transfer and even then The backup file would take WEEKS to complete when I get the partitions back (I have 110 GB of data on those partitions). Have you ever heard of this happening before? That is mainly why I posted this, was to see if anyone has heard of this before. I would like to think that I am very savvy with hardware and OS's, but this is something new to me. Thank you VERY much for the reply! Anything else you guys can submit would be awesome. : )

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