simjen

why would you want to activate if you have an illegal copy? thats the whole point you are missing. If like me couldn't get on the microsoft preview program because nothing seemed to work (2 credit cards wouldn't go thru) then why bother with the right channels when you can just download it anyway. Are you trying to tell me that MS will let you activate a copy of XP without it being legal? I don't think so. Not everyone likes to deal with Microsoft, I will be buying a full copy once XP goes gold. But I like to check these things out first.

I installed XP RC2, and it ran fine....for a while. I added my Skymedia internet card and it would lock up when loading as it starts to play the sound. Take the SBLive out and it runs fine and vice versa. So I tried to load the latest SBLive drivers from Creative and it just locks and BSOD when trying. So thinking it was a conflict with IRQ's etc, I tried disabling ACPI which seemed to work fine, but now it gets BSOD in games, and I can't get rid of them It is definately a SBLive problem as it tell you the driver files when it BSOD's. But up[censored] the drivers doesn't work? I am now going to do a reinstall and was hoping some of you guys had a method of installing (slots? irq reserving? etc) which may help me out... System Specs: AMD 1gig @ 1.4gig (140x10) Iwill KK266R 512mb PC150 Infenion Leadtek GeForce 2 Ultra @ 275/500 Seagate 20gb ATA100 on std IDE not Raid SBLive! Value Telemann Skymedia Satellite Card Dlink 10/100 Nic Win XP RC2 Cheers SimJen