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Once you have successfully slipstreamed a service pack under Windows XP installation source, the next question which comes to your mind is how do you burn / write those installation files under a boot-able CD ROM so that you may boot with it and install your copy of Windows XP. This bellow article would try to provide a step by step guide on How to burn / write a bootable Windows XP installation CD ROM.

Prerequisite

• A PC with CD-RW drive
• One 700 MB CD-R (blank) media
• Windows OS
• Nero burning ROM
• Complete Windows XP installation Files
• Windows XP Boot image

How do your create a boot-able CD Media ?

Please start the Nero burning rom application and select CD-ROM (Boot) as what you wish to burn and please provide the path of Windows XP Boot image (you may download it from here, or use Bart’s Boot Image Extractor)

In the advance option, please make sure you select Kind of Emulation as No Emulation, and Boot Message should be as Microsoft Corporation where as the value of Number of load sectors is suppose to be 4. Rest all should stay default.

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As we all know Microsoft has released the final service pack of Windows XP x86 to the public. The Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now available under Windows update.

One may obtain the service pack via Windows Update or by downloading the stand alone installation EXE via Microsoft web sites also. It is recommended that if you have a single or few PCs, then please use the Windows update as in that case for an up-to-date Windows XP SP2 system the download size would be around 70 MB.

Where as if you have many PCs under your network or administration, then please obtain the network installation or stand alone version to install off-line !!

Windows XP Service Pack 3

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Package

When many users have bought Windows XP, they have found that Windows XP comes with SP2 pre-integrated under the installation media, so when you install Windows XP from such installation media, you find that you installation already have SP2 under it.

Many users are now searching for answer as how do you integrate the SP3 under this present installation media, here is a guide which may help you to integrate the SP3 under Windows XP installation media.

How do you slipstream / integrate Windows XP SP3 into you Windows installation media ?

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As usual, this post is also inspired by the questions I have received via emails.

Many of us have bought Notebook just an year ago and many of them have increased the warranty of their product for another 2 years. With warranty or without it, a notebook bought just an year ago would have good configuration to run Windows XP and basic office and home entertainment applications for another year or 2 at-least.

But there is one major draw back with any mid range of entry level notebook bought a year or year and a half ago. That is, a missing DVD writer. Most of these notebooks come with Combo drive which means support for reading DVD only.

A Combo drive is a type of optical drive that combines CD-R/CD-RW recording capability with the ability to read (but not write) DVD media.

With ever increasing size of our personal pictures taken from high megapixel digital camera and needs to convert a video taken on a handy cam to DVD or burning your favorite videos to DVD would require a DVD writer. Unfortunately a laptop / notebook internal DVD writer or as some call it RAMBO would cost Rs. 7500 or higher when taken from computer vendors like, Dell / HP / Acer / Lenovo.

So the question comes up, is there any portable but external solution available which may do the job without affecting the warranty ? Once again, available options like, an External USB DVD writer would cost you more or less the same amount as a internal optical drive !!

However there is one low-tech solution available for this, which is making an internal 5.25″ desktop DVD writer to work with your notebook.

Let us take a quick look at available 5.25″ casing for external DVD writer.

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Intel LGA775 socket is here since Pentium 4 prescot range !!! Intel have all shorts of processors with LGA775 from the lowest end Celeron LGA775 and upto the highest end 45nm Core 2 eXtreme, yet all of them come with identical looking socket 775 heat sink and fan.

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Firmware is a part of any hardware, which you use. Its the basic software part of the hardware. Your digital camera, micro woven, electronic calculator, watches all contains a software part which is called the firmware.

One of the device which you may use extensively would be your mobile phone. Just like any other interactive electronic device, your mobile phone too has its own firmware.

In short, firmware is like an OS to your phone. Therefore just like in your PC, Windows as an OS would need occasional update for addressing both security and performance issues, your phone manufacturers too issues update for your phone’s software or firmware !!

What exactly are you upgrading ??

Its the Phone’s inbuilt Software (OS / firmware) which is the software that is embedded in the memory of your device, and includes applications such as the calendar and phone book. This is similar to the operating system software on your PC. The update consists of new features, applications, and performance improvements to the software.

Why would you need an upgrade ??

Complex handsets require intelligent software to make them work. These software would require updates both to address their performance with new and upcoming software and hardware as well as to offer your security and new features.

Prerequisite before update !!

• Internet connection to download the updates
• PC with USB 2.0 support / Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista / 256 MB RAM
• Supported handset and connectivity cable
• Back up before starting the update process.
• Read the FAQs (Nokia / Sony / Motorola)

Where to find the PC software to update the firmware ?

• Nokia Global / Nokia India
• Sony Ericsson Update Service
• Motorola India

An example with Nokia 6233

Nokia 6233, released in year 2005 is a very successful model from the company. Though its almost 3 year old model but its still in production and well preferred world wide.

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