pieboy_87

hes done that, but the entry for the 2nd boot of windows is still in the boot.ini, so doing what i said will ignore the fact the boot.ini is pointing to the other drive aswell... much safer than editing the boot.ini without understanding it.

you can either do it the risky way (you might have to reinstall the other partition if it goes wrong, or the easy, but slightly messy way. ill tell you the easy way as it can be undone again if its done incorrect :D go to start>run and type "msconfig" and hit enter. then, on the "boot.ini" tab of the window that opens, you need to click on the line which corisponds to the option you chose when you boot (so if you select the top OS from the menu on startup, select the top one here)... it will begin something like "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)windows="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect"... then click on set as default. change the timout box to 5 seconds, and reboot. if that works correctly, and it boots windows fine, go back to that and change the timout to 0 sec. if it doesnt boot, quickly change the OS to boot from on the menu on startup, go back to the MSCONFIG and change the default to the other one... you could also try the "check all boot paths" button on the boot.ini tab, and see if it will remove the incorect entry. (i havnt used that before so i dont know) hope that makes some sence, im not quite awake so my wording may be a bit confusing!

sounds like ur comp is just running a bit slugish... when was the last time you cleand out all your temp files (disk cleanup), defraged, run a SBS&D/ad-aware scan? do you have anything else running in the background?, rs does that to me when im rar'ing alot of files, its normaly where RS is being choked and cannot get enough CPU (its a power hungry little beast)

if you have a windows XP cd, you can delete partitions and recreate them again during the install... OR, you can use fdisk from an ol' win98 floppy, to delete the "non dos" (NTFS) partition... (and incase u was still wondering, NTFS is New Technology File System, it offers alot more than FAT32, inc disc compression, file level encryption and sharing, aswell as less chance of data loss due to coruption.) give me a shout on MSN ([email protected]) or email ([email protected]) if you need any more help

thats easy to explain. RS/Java uses near on 100% CPU to run. if you dont belive me, check your tast manager (CTL+ALT+DEL), and look on the process tab. it uses near enough 100% CPU on every computer, no matter how fast (ive tested this, ran RS on my old 800MHZ p3, my 2.8ghz sempron and my dual 3.2ghz zeon server, in all cases RS jumps too 100% cpu) this extra load causes your cpu to kick out a hell of alot more heat than word or web browsing does, so your fans (most modern pcs have fans that will spin faster if the cpu is hotter) speed up to deal with the extra heat. nothing major to worry about, but, farming, and having alot of players in a small area uses more CPU (due to the way RS/Java works). nothing major to worry about, just make sure your fans can cope, and that your processor isnt melting itself....

read my pm. hope it helps