Hi guys' for what it's worth, I got the NM issues fixed. It was the USB drivers just like I thought..I also had to reinstall the drivers for the external USB hard drive case. After I did those two things, everything is fine..Still blows my mind that a bad setting on MY machine can cause programs on her machine 611.7 miles away to crash?? there's something going on there I just don't get... at any rate we're back in business Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric C. Vogel To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 12:34 PM Subject: [CTS] Re: netmeeting/ICQ screwups LiveMeeting will be replacing it soon I am sure, and they want $$$. Thank you, Eric Vogel ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Eddy To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 1:41 PM Subject: [CTS] Re: netmeeting/ICQ screwups Hi Jackie, I too am doing the beta for SP2..I've been on the MS OS beta team since August of 97...This is XPSP2 build 2120. the next step above the RC1 released to the public. I have two installs of XP on this tower..Plus 2 versions of Me plus a version of Suse Linux.:))) anywho...the 2 versions of XP one is old and was really having problems but the SP2 works fine on that one..Netmeeting and ICQ work fine.. The clean installed version is the one I'm having trouble with. Ms wants the general public to use windows messenger, but NM is still widely used for corporate meetings online. Just can't figure out why it works fine on one side and not the other..you'[d think the clean install setup would work much better than the older one.... thanks for your ideas tho. Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: Jacqueline MacWhirter To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 2:52 PM Subject: [CTS] Re: netmeeting/ICQ screwups http://www.tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=850 If you have xpsp2 is still in the beta stage --still lots of bugs yet-- even the latest version of xpsp2 . which I am beta testing Why don't you uninstall beta xpsp2 and reload ICQ and Netmeeting see if there is a difference. I had difficulty with ICQ and MSN Messenger 6.2- ICQ will knock out MSN Messenger when loading up there is a conflict with ICQ with other messaging programs. Try it with SP1 see if its okay-- above is an URL that might help you .. - Jackie ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Eddy To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 6:29 AM Subject: [CTS] netmeeting/ICQ screwups Hi guys, I have a severe problem with ICQ and Net Meeting. I have a clean install, everything working extremely well no errors anywhere..ICQ works fine...but, when we fire up Netmeeting, the video starts perfect then gets corrupted..and ICQ stalls....sometimes even disconnects? anyone have any clues? this is windows XP pro Service Pack2. I have another XP pro setup here also with service pack 2 and there's no problems with the ICQ/netmeeting video corruption at all? I have on board USB2 and a USB 2 card. but I can't find any differences in the two installations. any idea would be greatly appreciated? thanks Bruce