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Windows Hardware 9627

Castlewood Orb Drives in Win2K

SallyOReilly

anyone know if these drives work in windows 2000? or has anyone even used one for that matter? i've never heard of them , any info or feedback would rock. 2. 2 gigs for 30 bucks sounds amazing. . . if no one knows what i'm talking about, go to castlewood.

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Last reply by DocSilly, 2000-07-25 22:50

Windows Networking 2246

SWBell DSL (not PPPoE) and Win2K

farphle

Would anyone happen to know why SWBell told me that in order to qualify for the Customer Self Install for DSL I had to be running Win98? I asked and they said it was a driver issue. What drivers? Are they expecting me to install some POS software on my stable system? To the best of my knowledge, all I need is the e ...

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Last reply by farphle, 2000-07-25 22:14

Windows Hardware 9627

IRQ sharing

SHS

Go to Device Mangaer Do you Computer click on the + DBL Click on it go to Driver click on Driver Update change to Standard PC all so update you bios by disable ACPI. You will losee ACPI & Hibernation mode.

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Last reply by adrianhall, 2000-07-25 21:58

Windows Hardware 9627

Win2000 CD Boot and setup

Michael Lin

I have AHA-2940 SCSI Card and Teac532S SCSI CD-ROM. I try to Boot and install win2000 from Win2000 Pro CD. But it fail. (I set the SCSI BIOS can boot from CD-ROM Already) Then I use another SCSI Card MDX-3194UP, It boot well.

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Last reply by gramaglia, 2000-07-25 11:03

Windows Games 5469

X-Wing VS. Tie

Sinster

How do I get around the game wanting to install DirectX?

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Last reply by Ekstreme, 2000-07-25 10:42

Windows Games 5469

Vampire The Masquerade and W2K

In2Deep

Bought the game, won't install. Is it/Will it be W2k compatible? Has anyone had luck installing it yet? One can not be betrayed if one does not have any people.

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Last reply by oldspice, 2000-07-25 05:03

Windows Hardware 9627

Anyone know if Diamond's Supra Shotgun technology works unde

FlyingPenguin

App description says 95 or 98 only, but it was written before Win2K. Diamond doesn't seem to be supporting it anymore and won't give me an answer. Stuck with a 26K connection here for the forseable future and need some options.

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Last reply by FlyingPenguin, 2000-07-25 05:02

Windows Hardware 9627

Guillemot Force Feedback Racing Wheel in win2k? can it be do

Silent-IQ

Is there a way to make Guillemots Force Feedback Racing Wheel work in win2k? are there any working drivers for win2k? //Silent

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Last reply by Silent-IQ, 2000-07-25 02:49

Slack Space 1613

Need some opinions.

EddiE314

Ok, i'm on the road alot doing Networking and i have to have some way to check my mail as well as have something to play with, so i'm thinking about buying a Compaq Presario 1200 series notebook. Celeron 566 32mb ram (buying an extra 64mb) 5gb hard drive 12.

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Last reply by PatMan, 2000-07-25 02:48

Windows Hardware 9627

Update Info on Hauppauge WinTV WDM Win2000 Drivers

SHS

Ok here the deal with those drivers they DO NOT work in Windows2000 I'am sorry about even know they work just fine for me, Here why they work for me I'am DX8 beta tester & min of you are still runing DX7 at the time it didn't dawn on me intell I did new install of Windows2000 boy did the problem show up real fast, ...

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Last reply by SHS, 2000-07-25 01:04

Windows Hardware 9627

Overclockin athalon 750 on K7M

mello_j

Hey I was wondering how far has anyone been able to overclock an Athalon 750 on K7M motherboard, while maintaining relative stability (relative cause, that combo isnt that stable to begin with) Thanks!

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Last reply by mello_j, 2000-07-24 21:14

Windows Hardware 9627

Detonator drivers and hibernation

sk

Does all detonator drivers prevent hibernaiton? So far I have tried ver. 5. 22 and 5. 32. I have to add that I use my Asus Geforce DDR as a secondary video card/game card since it delivers a ****y picture quality at 1600x1200.

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Last reply by euankirkhope, 2000-07-24 19:49

Windows Hardware 9627

Win2k Display Problems HELP!

URinsane

Hello, I am running Win2K Pro. When I try to go into Display Properties, and then try to go into advanced, I get the following error msg: An error occurred while Windows was working with the Control Panel file C:\WINNT\System32\desk.

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Last reply by ComputerMan, 2000-07-24 19:41

Windows Hardware 9627

HOLY F*CKING POSESSION, BATMAN!

INFERNO2000

Ok. . . now here's a classic computer demon that I need exorcised. Banished to the Mac world, if you will I just disassemled 3 computers, 1 486(took a 20x CD-Rom, a 325 MB hdd, and a floppy), 1 Pentium 1(the 1 GB Hdd), and the other a Pentium III(took the DVD Rom, CD-RW, Video card, 2 Harddrives, and 384 RAM).

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Last reply by ComputerMan, 2000-07-24 19:34

Customization Tweaking 1790

QuickRes for Win2k ?

CeRbErO

Hi Is there any program similar to the QuickRes. exe that came with the win95 powertoys? I need it to change resolution quickly for watching movies. I have kind of a ****ty graphics-card (a STB Velocity 128), and in win2k, i cant watch mpeg files and such in a scaled window, then it gets pixelled, and lags alot! I ...

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Last reply by CeRbErO, 2000-07-24 18:33

Windows Software 5498

"Referenced Memory Could NOT be written!"

STi Sev

Application popup: Hotline Client 1. 8. exe - Application Error : The instruction at 0x00458a42 referenced memory at 0x0022c000. The memory could not be written. Click on OK to terminate the program I get this message often.

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Last reply by Ryanrk, 2000-07-24 17:09

Windows Games 5469

NFS 5 + Win2k + Athlon = Doesnt Run

andrmgic21

Hey, I just got my new Athlon 800 mhz and i installed NFS 5 again after I formatted for the switch from a PII to the Athlon and now it will get past the cd check and get to the loading screen and hang up.

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Last reply by andrmgic21, 2000-07-24 14:48

Windows Games 5469

Quake II under W2K

Mookie

Having seen on the compatible games list that QII (original version) should run under W2K without problems I tried to install it. I tried both the normal setup. exe and also the one in the /install directory.

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Last reply by Mookie, 2000-07-24 11:48

Windows Hardware 9627

sparatic reboots

zeuz

I am running win2k on a Asus P3V4X board. My PII 400 runs at 42C but for some reason my system will reboot whenever it feels like it. Any suggestions, I know that there are some compatibility problems with win2k and the VIA chipsets.

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Last reply by Outrage, 2000-07-24 10:38

Windows Software 5498

Which services can I turn off or set to manual in Win2k pro

pr-man

Anyone know where i can find a c0omprehensive list? ***TRUST YOUR TECHNOLUST***

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Last reply by DosFreak, 2000-07-24 09:07