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Windows Hardware 9627

Visioneer 3100USB Need Help

radair

When trying to install with the drivers off the disk I get The installation failed because a function driver was not specified fot this device. The the driver doesn't load. Does anyone have a work around for this? Any help would be appreciated.

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Last reply by Benderass, 2000-02-20 08:47

Windows Games 5469

Any new games working in W2K with the new Voodoo3 drivers? (

badaro

(nt)

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Last reply by EddiE314, 2000-02-20 08:17

Windows Games 5469

win 2000, win millenium

xwifex

I dont know, I have been hearing alot about this windows millenium and its release in late may, I just read it on win2k box , site. I just dont get it, there saying win 2000 pro is srictly for business and millenium is for the individual or in my opinion the home user, others are calling it the gaming operating system.

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Last reply by xwifex, 2000-02-20 08:15

Windows Games 5469

Grim Fandango Dx5

riz

What's up guys, got a quick question. I searched the board already, but i don't anyone else has this prob: grim fandango is always trying to install Dx5 in my win2k (2195) system whenever i try to run it.

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Last reply by EddiE314, 2000-02-20 08:12

Windows Hardware 9627

Windows 2000 pro question from a NT newbie

pr-man

Ok I have never used NT and I am about to install the final beta of windows 2000 on my system, looking at my specs does anyone see any problems? K6-2 450 128 megs sdram 8. 4 gig WD UDMA-33 HD FIC PA-2013 rev 2.

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Last reply by EddiE314, 2000-02-20 08:00

Windows Hardware 9627

One more Question. Creative DVD Problem

darkicon

Does anyone know of a place that has software to use with my Creative DVD dxr2 and encoder card. I would like to be able to watch DVDs/ The NT one screws up my computer. Again any help is appricated.

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Last reply by EddiE314, 2000-02-20 07:55

Windows Games 5469

Homeworld and OGL mode

Panther04

Got a quick question for everyone. I've searched the posts and found a couple of topics relating to this topic, but none have answered my question. I've just installed the version of the v3 drivers found on this site and Q3 runs great, but when I try to use OGL in Homeworld (v1.

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Last reply by Jabba, 2000-02-20 07:30

Windows Software 5498

NAV 2k for NT/win2k

Mr.Sneis

I finally got norton anti-virus for windows 2000, everything worked fine for a while, but now when i startup my computer i get this stupid error message that says NAVNT autostart=SYMEVENT could not load (or something around that).

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Last reply by Per Eklund, 2000-02-20 07:17

Windows Games 5469

Q3A refreshrate fix

Per Eklund

Try this to change Q3A refreshrate under Windows 2000. It works for me using NVidia 3. 78 drivers and Q3A 1. 16h. Go to console and enter: r_displayRefresh 85 //If you want 85Hz refresh f. e. vid_restart //restarts the GL renderer If you want this to be done when you start Q3A, then create a autoexec.

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Last reply by Per Eklund, 2000-02-20 06:56

Windows Hardware 9627

Microsoft Digital Sound System 80

Ricardo Dinis

Anyone has the mixer HID controls for the MSDSS 80 ??? Microsoft said that it would be out in time for w2k luanch but there is nothing in their website! ((((

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Last reply by Ricardo Dinis, 2000-02-20 05:53

Windows Hardware 9627

Black screen w/ Voodoo3 in half life

ao gram

Whenever I open up Half Life I can usually get into a game for the first time using the retail win2k drivers for my Voodoo3, but then if i hit escape, and then come back into the game, the screen goes black again, although i can still hear sounds and am still in teh game.

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Last reply by SHS, 2000-02-20 05:09

Windows Hardware 9627

Hibernation? Where'd it go?

darkicon

When I first installed win2k I had hibernation. Then after I loaded all the drivers in for my stuff: SBlive, and Gullimont Geforce the hibernation disapeared. I don't know what happened. Here is what hardware I have.

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Last reply by Shrink, 2000-02-20 03:27

Windows Software 5498

Norton for Win2k?

darkicon

Does anyone have any ideas when symantec is going to realease a Norton Utilites for win2k. Are there problems using the NT4 one? Any help would be appriciated. THX.

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Last reply by YuppieScum, 2000-02-20 03:21

Windows Hardware 9627

surround with Dell SBLive liveware

czar

is there anyway to get some sort of surround with the dell sblive liveware when playing dvd's?? i have tried powerdvd 2. 55 but there is still no option for four speaker output so i guess that dilby digital is impossible.

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Last reply by czar, 2000-02-20 00:56

Windows Hardware 9627

accessing NTFS partition

dp

To cut a long story short, i have 2 drives: C is FAT with Win 95 installed, D: is NTFS with Win 2K installed. I lost all the information on my C: drive, which is also my boot drive, and can no longer boot to Win 2K or access my NTFS partition.

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Last reply by Awaxx, 2000-02-19 23:58

Windows Hardware 9627

How can I access the bootmenu to edit the text it displays i

kavzoo

in 98 i could edit a file in the root of the c: drive or something to edit the text it displays on bootup in DOS for OS selection, can i still do this in 2k?

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Last reply by Awaxx, 2000-02-19 23:42

Windows Software 5498

dual boot

allvtec21m

i have win98 and 2000 installed onto c: i have 2 questions question 1: do i scandisk and defrag with win98 or win2000? question 2: after i installed windows 2000 i went back to windows 98 and i installed adaptec easy cd creator deluxe 4 for my hp 9100 cd rw, installations in the past have giving me a system file er ...

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Last reply by nova, 2000-02-19 23:41

Windows Hardware 9627

Dual Monitors?

spacey

Has anyone gotten Dual Monitors to work? I tried it with my TNT2 and S3 Virge, I set my AGP as the primary display in the bios so my TNT2 would be primary. When I got into Win2k the device manager gave me an error with my S3 Virge card, code10 or something like that.

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Last reply by YuppieScum, 2000-02-19 23:36

Windows Hardware 9627

Windows2000 & Voodoo2 update

SHS

Voodoo2 on Friday to the general public for use in an as is capacity. These drivers will not be WHQL certified, but will be tested for compatibility by 3dfx. The Voodoo2 under Windows 2000 should be expected to behave as in a multimonitor configuration.

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Last reply by SHS, 2000-02-19 23:22

Windows Hardware 9627

SB Live Mixer Control and Speaker Control?

Ronin

Is everyone having a problem with the Mixer Control and Speaker Control not working?. . . .

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Last reply by Ronin, 2000-02-19 23:21