I think that the Automated System Recovery feature of XP was made for people using a Radeon. I finally got my system working with the Radeon AIW. The DVD player works, even the SPDIF pass through for Dolby Digital. The video capture is working and the TV tuner. I done a backup using ASR and now when I install new drivers and my system crashes or the player or something else does not work I just reboot and hit F2 and select Automatic System Recovery make a cup of coffee and have a few smokes. Half hour later system is back and working. It sure beats reformating and reinstalling everything. I tried playing around with Ghost and keeping a second hard disk with a copy of my good setup but that did not always work, Plus the hassle of connecting the 2nd hard disk and jumpering and making sure you did not copy the wrong way (which I have done) I also played around with dual boot, but both systems are not completly seperate. What I came up with and I have never heard of it being done before, is install an old power switch from an old at case in the front of my case. Then I ran the power plug to my first hard disk through the switch. I set the CMOS to boot from hard disk 0 and then hard disk 1. With the switch being on hard disk 0, if I turn the switch on it will boot from hard disk 0 and I can see both hard disks. If I turn the switch off the PC will boot from hard disk1 and I can do all my tampering on that disk and nothing can be written to my main disk as it is not connected. It is easier than going into the CMOS and changing the boot sequence. So now I can install as many drivers and programs as I like and not even worry about crashes and Radeon problems.
Phill
Phill