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Windows Hardware 9627

MechWarrior4 tells me I need to install DX8, but it's instal

dodgeviperrt10

Does MechWarrior4 work on Ms Whistler BETA 1 ? THX a lot TheViper

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Last reply by dodgeviperrt10, 2000-11-23 15:34

Windows Hardware 9627

Overclocking a Celeron 667

EddiE314

in a nutshell, who has overclocked a Celeron 667 FCPGA before, and what type of results have you had. I have only taken mine to 750MHz, anyone got higher? - Celeron FCPGA 667@750MHz (75MHz * 10. 0, 1.

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Last reply by Hemulen, 2000-11-23 14:48

Windows Hardware 9627

Changing IRQs

FreiDOg

I've got all my suff automatically set to IRQ 9 by win 2k (Geforce 2 GTS agp, a3d sound card 56k modem and 10/100 network card) I want to change my Graphics card back to IRQ 11, like i had in 98 but even when i'm logged on as adminstrator the option to use manual settings is ghosted.

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Last reply by DosFreak, 2000-11-23 09:06

Windows Hardware 9627

HP CD-Writer Plus 8110

Toasty

In the Hardware section of NTcompatible, it advises that the software that comes with the drive should not be used in Windows 2000, well. . if i dont use the stuff that comes with the drive, what do i use?? Thanks in advance, Nathan Collins.

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Last reply by PsychoSword, 2000-11-23 05:51

Windows Hardware 9627

no d3d acceleration

Goober

I have installed windows 2000 with creative's geforce2 vid card. I have recently installed dx8, creative's w2k dirvers_634(build) with their updated blastor control. The diagnostic panel says that Directdraw and direct3d are not accelerated.

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Last reply by jdulmage, 2000-11-22 02:54

Windows Hardware 9627

Very Disappointed....

HarU

Hello. I just wanted all of you hardware/game wizards out there to compare your machine with mine to see if you have any information on why MINE SUCKS!!! I have spent over 1000 dollars lately upgrading my machine to this ultimate kick-a$$ gaming machine, but i am getting pretty crappy performance compared to a lot ...

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Last reply by clutch, 2000-11-21 22:43

Windows Hardware 9627

Need Help!! Primary Disk failures during boot-up

mello_j

HELP ME! Three days ago, I started my system up, and heard 2 beeps, and then a third one. They stuck a chill deep in my bones. The monitor showed a error message saying that there was a primary HDD-0 failure.

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Last reply by FKTOAST, 2000-11-21 20:27

Windows Hardware 9627

DirectX 8 and Refresh Rate/Screen Mode

lordlee

My viewsonic 790 makes a loud and long delay every time there is drastic screen mode change (say from 100hz 1024. x786 to 60hz 640x480). It was never a problem for me before DirectX8 because i could either use a refresh rate program (Nvresfix) or Dxdiag's override function to set every to 100hz or 85hz.

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Last reply by lordlee, 2000-11-21 20:14

Windows Hardware 9627

Creative DXR3 + other player?

mike3411

I was finally able to get my DXR3 to work using creative's beta drivers, but while the application works it's pretty crappy (video must have a border, can't make it always on top, etc. ) for watching movies in non-full screen.

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Last reply by mike3411, 2000-11-21 17:50

Windows Hardware 9627

Tlist -s ?

sharky

I couldn't run tlist -s , is it for whistler personal or for w2k?

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Last reply by Lord-Data, 2000-11-21 15:51

Windows Hardware 9627

A very odd problem

wind

Well, I dont remember when it started happening. . but every 24 hours, on the 24 hour, 1 day uptime, my windows 2000 start bar dissapears, and then comes back. . as if explorer has crashed. . I have no icons and other stuff like that, and it is generally very irritating.

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Last reply by wind, 2000-11-21 15:00

Windows Hardware 9627

SCSI drives change order at reboot.

Down8

More SCSI troubles. . . I got a new SCSI card , and decided to throw my old 1-2gig SCSI drives in for extra room. I have one hooked to the internal connector in my case, and two others are in an exterior SCSI case.

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Last reply by Down8, 2000-11-21 08:41

Windows Hardware 9627

This will work, won't it?

INFERNO2000

I plan on having 2 computers hooked to 1 monitor. I plan on doing this this way: My PIII system has a WinTV GO. There is a VIDEO-IN(RCA) on it. My K6-2 system will (hopefully) have an ATI RAGE FURY video card, which has an S-Video, and I believe a Video-out(RCA)(if not, I have an S-Video to RCA video that will work).

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Last reply by FKTOAST, 2000-11-21 00:03

Windows Hardware 9627

How to enable bass and treble..

jdulmage

I have a Creative Labs SoundBlaster 128 PCI, It's a ES1371/ES1373 model on it. In 9x versions such has Millennium, I have been able to install the drivers, then in the volume properities, been able to turn up bass and treble.

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Last reply by FKTOAST, 2000-11-20 23:48

Windows Hardware 9627

suggestions?

three

Well, I've finally had it with the ALi/TNT problem and will go get a new video card, wondering if anybody has any suggestions. Current system: AMD K6-2 450MHz Gigabyte GA-5AX Rev. 4. 1 (with ALi V chipset) PC100 128MB SDram Leadtek Winfast S320 16MB AGP2x (RivaTNT) 10.

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Last reply by three, 2000-11-20 23:40

Windows Hardware 9627

Guys I still have this problem in Win2k with my G400 or G450

pr-man

Ok I had this problem with win2k before dx8 final came out and now that I have installed that the problem still remains. When I run 3dmark2000 and goto the listing for the g450 it says that I have 48908k total video memory and 47372k total texture memory.

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Last reply by ~Aragorn~, 2000-11-20 22:28

Windows Hardware 9627

Panasonic 7503b

Oak

I am using the adaptec ACI-7850 SCSI controler and the panasonic 7503b. I have remove the 7503b from my 98se system and placed it into my win2000 system. . Win2000 setup the scsi card, but it kept flashing the cdr busy light like 12 times.

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Last reply by Oak, 2000-11-20 21:14

Windows Hardware 9627

Hardware DVD Decoding

SuperG

Hey. . . Peice of crap. Everytime I try to run a dvd on win2k with my msi mobo ( via chipset) with 5. 1 sound w/ my creative dxr-3 decoder card my computer freezes. NOW everytime I run the proram I get a kernel error and a big fat memory dump.

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Last reply by PatkIllA, 2000-11-20 17:50

Windows Hardware 9627

My sound keeps breaking up in Win2k

Dim

I have a AMD400, 196RAM, Diamond TNT2 Ultra, and a Turtle Beach MontegoII Quadzilla soundcard. When I listen to mp3's or something and browse the web at the same time, when a page starts loading my sound starts breaking up really bad, i have to pause it, and hit Play again and then it's ok.

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Last reply by SuperG, 2000-11-20 05:49

Windows Hardware 9627

ICS

Lord-Data

I initialy had ICS working fine in whistler, now when i boot up, the sharing box is not selected, and when i tried to enable it to the first few times i got the message Sharing Could not be enabled. Catastrophic Failure.

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Last reply by Lord-Data, 2000-11-20 02:32