ok, sorry again. for someone who calls himself pretty good at computers i seem to run into many problems. to reduce my thread cound asking for help I've consolidated many questions into this one thread.

1. a while back i was trying out Fedora 9. i was dual booting xp as well and didn't want to have to format my xp drive so i used a seperate HDD. this was formatted using whatever filesystem linux uses. since then I've formatted the drive with FAT32 because i now use it for backups of my XP stuff. but, the GRUB bootloader is still there. I'm planning on putting win98 (don't ask why) onto that drive but i can't if GRUB is still there. I've tried deleting all the partitions on the drive but its being a stubborn biatch and not going away. can anybody help me with this???

2. I'm having trouble installing Nero 8 on my computer (xp). i run the installer and i get a progress bar that will go back and forth for about 10 minutes and then tell me that something on my computer has requested a reboot. i'v tried multiple downloads of Nero 8 and they all do the same.

3. Every 45 minutes or so I'll get a message come up on my computer asking to connect to the internet. i have no internet connection (wee'll get to that later) at the moment so i can't connect. its the same message Internet explorer gives you when you try and browse without an active connection with the same 'work offline' and 'try again' buttons. it goes away if i click either button but after another 45 minutes it rears its ugly head again. this is very annoying if I'm playing a game because it takes focus. I've checked in task manager and its the explorer.exe process that's giving this message if that helps.

4. I'm having trouble installing drivers for my modem. the modem is a Thomson SpeedTouch 330 USB ADSL modem. i don't normally have an internet connection on my computer but every now and again I'll connect it to get 'updates' (*cough*hershey kisses*cough*). i do download updates as well though. anyway, the problem is when i try and install the driver it says there is a newer version of it currently installed on the system. there isn't; its a new install (about 2 weeks old) of xp and the driver I'm trying to install is the newest one released. I've tried using the original cd that was supplied by my ISP but that doesn't work either. it asks you halfway through to plug in the modem, which i do and then the installer freezes.

5. does anybody know where i can find connection diagrams for a Creative SoundBlaster Live! SB0440. its quite an old card but it works well and i like it. i need diagrams showing the pinouts for the front panel audio connector.


Sorry to be a burden everyone but nowhere else seems to be willing to help. you guys (and gals) are all i have *sob...*

+rep and e-pigs for anyone who posts a relevant solution to any of the above problems!