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Windows Hardware 9627

Voodoo 2 on Win2000 with Directx

Womble

Hi, Having just got W2000 I've discovered that it doesn't have Direct3d drivers for the Voodoo 2 and neither does Creative or 3dfx. After hours of searching for an answer I found this in the News Archive: Quote:Thanks to Lauri Nenonen for sending me the follow:Voodoo2 seems to be able to do Glide&GL&Direct3D in Win ...

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Last reply by Womble, 2000-09-12 14:47

Windows Hardware 9627

RAM diagnostic program

DanKick

Where can I find program, which will tell me RAM specification (PC100 or PC133, 8ns or 7,5ns, vendor,. . . ). .

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Last reply by MoreLight, 2000-09-12 14:28

Windows Hardware 9627

GeForce 2 and GeForce 2 MX

sailmoon

NVidia has released a new version of his GPU called GeForce2 MX. What are the differences between GeForce2 and GeForce2 MX? It's like TNT2 and TNT2 M64? The performances of GF2 MX GPU are less than GF2?? Thanx.

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Last reply by bottleneck, 2000-09-12 13:02

Slack Space 1613

Directx and Windows 2000

Matthewc

Hi all, I have just installed Windows 2000 Pro 120 day Trial before I consider buying the full version. Unfortunately any game that requires Directx does not function. My graphics card (Intel740) and Voodoo2(Mighty3D2) both do not appear as Directx under game configuration (such as Imperium Galactica 2 setup), its ...

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Last reply by Wolf87, 2000-09-12 11:43

Slack Space 1613

help with DIR X 8.0 BETA..................................

thesearcher

HI ALL. . . . . . . can any 1 help me with this beta APP. . . . . . . . . im running WIN. ME and it seems like it has an expirary limit. . . direct draw etc. i cannot play any games :-( i cannot go back to DIR X 7.

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Last reply by Wolf87, 2000-09-12 11:37

Windows Games 5469

NFS Porsche unleashed trouble

bottleneck

I installed Need for speed Porsche unleashed the other day,and deleted 'gimme. dll'(otherwise it eats up a ton of memory during loading and then crashes),after what the game run fine. After rebooting(didn't install or uninstall anything meanwhile)the intro moovie and game menues load normaly,but when I hit the 'rac ...

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Last reply by bottleneck, 2000-09-12 10:41

Windows Software 5498

Where does Outlook store contacts?

Sam Reduction

HELP! Where does MS outlook 2k (from office 2k) store it's contacts list? I have a semi dead win2k partition that I can mount (i. e. , shuffle through the directories) from a 2nd, backup win2k install.

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Last reply by Fireman, 2000-09-12 09:56

Windows Hardware 9627

Anyone have this?

pr-man

Anyone have any good video editing software or know somethat I can download that would work with Win2k pro and also with my Studio PCTV pci card? pinnacle just told me taht the Studio movie maker software that came with it is not compatible with win2k Grrr Celeron 300a@464 on a Abit BH6 Rev 1.

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Last reply by pr-man, 2000-09-12 09:19

Windows Games 5469

Hidden and dangerous with detonator 3,= black screen!!

zalem

I have a tnt card, yeah i know time to upgrade!!! I cant run hidden and dangerous after installing detonator 3 in win2k pro sp1, the first screens are ok but last one where you hand out the weapons to all the guys, is just black!!It worked great before!!!

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Last reply by Wolf87, 2000-09-12 08:04

Windows Software 5498

From to Pro to Server: easiest way to change

Down8

Alright, I have Win2K Pro installed. I have Win2K Server, and would like to run it instead. I had Server on first, but I had a problem with my motherboard, and installed Pro to see if Server was the problem, turns out it was user error, go figure.

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Last reply by Down8, 2000-09-12 05:31

Windows Software 5498

Dual boot? Windows 2000 AND Win ME... possible?? how??

Tr0LL

Right now my server has Windows 2000 Professional installed. However a lot of the old programs I had on Windows 98 SE don't work properly or don't work at all. . . . . . Not to mention with my cheap ass voodoo banshee (monster fusion) I can't get Open GL to work in windows 2000, which means no shooter type games (s ...

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Last reply by Four and Twenty, 2000-09-12 03:48

Windows Software 5498

dissappearing icon when dragging in win2k

Romulus

Anyone know what could be causing this? Whenever I drag an icon in win2k I find it is transparent and only shows up if I drag it over a darker area of the screen. Hmm seems to be with the Detonator 3 drivers for my tnt2 card.

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Last reply by DocSilly, 2000-09-12 02:44

Windows Hardware 9627

How stable are new Duron / Thunderbird motherboards?

tourettes

How long do you guys have been able to keep these new Abit / Asus motherbords up? I'm bying new mobo and I don't want to have motherborad that crashes after couple of days on. .

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Last reply by Igor, 2000-09-12 02:20

Windows Hardware 9627

Need some expert advice please

Fusion

I am running win2000 pro, and whenever I run a D3D accelerated screen saver (voodoolights and Sach's marine aquarium to be specific), the screen saver will start, then after about 10-15 seconds, it will boot me back to the windows desktop, almost as if someone has moved the mouse! The screensavers used to work abou ...

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Last reply by Fusion, 2000-09-12 00:58

Windows Games 5469

NFS Porsche 2000 on Win2K with 384mb RAM

neonfire

i have nfs porsche 2000 and can't get it to run on my system. p3-600 (100mhz) asus p3v-4x via 384mb PC100 sdram 2 IBM 20. 5gb EIDE Drives connected to Promise Fasttrak 66 RAID controller creative geforce ddr sb live player etc.

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Last reply by Jester, 2000-09-12 00:56

Windows Hardware 9627

Windows 2000 Professional BSOD

CycloCide

I'm running Windows 2000 Professional, and for the last two weeks my computer has been randomly crashing with the BSOD error message DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. Any idea what could be causing this? Microsoft's Support Knowledge Base doesn't have any information on it.

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Last reply by @~@:~KEV~:@~@, 2000-09-11 22:25

Windows Software 5498

IIS Queries

Exorcist

I just installed IIS, so I could fiddle around with webservers and the like. On startup, however, in the event log I get these messages; The server was unable to register the administration tool discovery information.

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Last reply by Tom Gehrke, 2000-09-11 22:20

Windows Hardware 9627

monitor probs.

rdk

My monitor just stoped working yesterday. the screen went black and the green light just flikered on and of. it wasn't the power from the wall to the monitor, not the graphics card. what is the wrong ? I didn't do anything to it.

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Last reply by tmargarit, 2000-09-11 17:49

Windows Games 5469

Quake 3 OPENGL

Dodgeman

I am having problems getting Quake III running in Windows 2000 Professional. It cant find opengl. I have tried some of the other things on the webpage under 3dfx but either I am not doing it run or it is not what I need.

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Last reply by Behemoth, 2000-09-11 15:09

Windows Networking 2246

DNS in win2k pro

Hebbe

Can i run a DNS server in win2000 professional?

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Last reply by Hebbe, 2000-09-11 14:25