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Windows Hardware 9627

Beta 2 & Starcraft

Jazzman

I'm having an issue with Starcraft under Beta 2. When I go in to the game, the color depth switches to what looks like 16 colors. I've tried both the standard XP 3dfx drivers and the 1. 03. 00 from 3DFX, but the same thing happens.

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Last reply by Jazzman, 2001-04-12 22:39

Windows Hardware 9627

CA Voodoo3 Drivers Win2K

Qun Mang

The first line on says 1. 07 must be installed first! Now, maybe I'm just stupid, but isn't the highest Voodoo3 driver version for Win 2000 1. 04? If you go here: you will see that the ONLY version 1.

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Last reply by isaacg, 2001-04-12 18:35

Windows Hardware 9627

Differance between 2d and 3d for gamming

JMD

Hello this may seem like a stupid question, but I have been reading the posts on different graphic cards and I see things like the Matrox card is great for 2d but not so good for 3d. Now please keep in mind I know very little about these things, and I have never seen a high end graphics card at work, but I have a M ...

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Last reply by clutch, 2001-04-12 07:33

Windows Hardware 9627

2 Users at the same time and System Requirements

HawkBoy

What are the system requirements of windows XP pro? Can XP pro have two users be on at the same time? (have programs from 2 user profiles run at the same time)

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Last reply by bug_666, 2001-04-12 05:49

Windows Hardware 9627

XP Beta 2 & ACPI.sys

Jazzman

I'm having major issues with pretty much anything USB. (see specs below) When I had my USB Intellimouse plugged in to the USB port, it was very sluggish and would finally end up pulling up a BSOD with an error regarding ACPI.

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Last reply by luders, 2001-04-12 03:34

Windows Hardware 9627

win 2000 and a hp cd-writer 6020

deane-truelove

I have a hp cd-writer 6020. according to hp's website the 6020 won't work because of changes made to the 2000 operating system. if any body out there has gotten the 6020 to work under 2000 I would love to hear from them.

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Last reply by deane-truelove, 2001-04-12 03:31

Windows Hardware 9627

The Nvidia Quadro2 Pro

JBrave715

Gaming wise does anyone know if it is better then the GForce2 Ultra i. e. better frame rates? I know how much it costs. . . .

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Last reply by ThC 129, 2001-04-12 02:10

Windows Hardware 9627

installing voodoo 3 on NT 5.0

technoallah

Does anyone have step by step procedures on installing a voodoo 3 2000 PCI into a windows 2000 nt machine? I can't get it to work, it just freezes during startup. Thanks!.

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Last reply by OLEerror, 2001-04-11 22:49

Windows Hardware 9627

GEFORCE 3 WHEN!!!!!!

falcon26

Ok, I asked this about 2 or 3 days ago, and no one seems to want to answer it, but does anyone has any clue when the geforce 3 is due to hit stores? Thanks, falcon26

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Last reply by Dragon-Lord, 2001-04-11 08:29

Windows Hardware 9627

RAMDiskNT.v1.3.13 in XP

Four and Twenty

does this work in XP can I put the pagefile in the ram disk in XP beta 2? My System Dell Demension XPS T500 (SE440BX-2 Chipset) Triple Boot Windows Millennium Final Retail (c: FAT32) Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1 (d: NTFS w/ 4K Clusters) Windows Whistler Pro Beta 2 2462a (e: NTFS w/ 4K Clusters) PIII 500 @ 512.

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Last reply by Four and Twenty, 2001-04-11 06:03

Windows Hardware 9627

Office 2000 / winxp

JBoDEAN

If i installed office 2000 in winxp beta 2, and im running a dual boot, is it possible to run it in win98se? Or do i have to install it in win98se to, but to the same dir as I did in winxp? I want the emails to be visible / updated in both os's (for my palm pilot's sake)

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Last reply by Sgt Beavis, 2001-04-11 04:25

Windows Hardware 9627

Best card for Recording Studio in Win2k?

oldspice

Can anyone recommend a sound card to be used under Win2k to create high quality professional recordings that include both live, and midi or sampled tracks. I had played around with cheap sound cards but found the reproduction quality to be terrible.

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Last reply by wiyot, 2001-04-11 01:08

Windows Hardware 9627

Unmountable_boot_volume stop error

banditaras76

Does anyone knows why i get this error when trying to install xp beta 2? Thanks

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Last reply by TR909, 2001-04-11 00:37

Windows Hardware 9627

Installation - "Fatal Error"

Ramus111

Hola, Everytime I start to install WinXP Beta 2 I get the following error. . . . Fatal Error Installation of Side-by-Side assemblies has failed This is very annoying, I have reformatted and retried at least 10 times now.

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Last reply by Ramus111, 2001-04-11 00:33

Windows Hardware 9627

Mouse Problem w/ Windows 98 SE

Santa-Jack

I know this is not explicity Windows NT or 2000 related, but maybe the hardware experts might know something about my problem. I recently acquired a few Toshiba Equium 5160D PCs with the following specs: Pentium 166 64 MB RAM WD 644A Hard Drive (Some have Maxtor HDs) Toshiba Floppy & CD-ROM Integrated Intel NIC/ATI ...

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Last reply by SnapperOne, 2001-04-11 00:08

Windows Hardware 9627

Can't shutdown!

evil Homer

XP Beta 2! When selecting Shutdown, computer closes down, and then reboots, and reloads Windows. Suggestions? Athlon 1. 2Ghz ABIT KT7-A RAID 640Mb RAM Geforce 2 GTS (11. 01 dets) SB Live (Using basic drivers) 3com 10/100Mb NIC Homer.

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Last reply by evil Homer, 2001-04-10 22:12

Windows Hardware 9627

Symantec Live Update?

JBoDEAN

Anyone have a problem with live update not finding / connecting to servers? I am running cable modem, and when i run liveupdate (for norton personal firewall and NAV ) nothing connects. . . Proxy is turned off, and I got that sysevent.

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Last reply by Red, 2001-04-10 21:07

Windows Hardware 9627

my pictures screen saver

sciguy007

i was wondering if someone could post, or email me, the my pictures screen saver and the one dll it requires from windows xp, im runnin 2k and it doesnt have it, and i know the xp one works better than the ME one.

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Last reply by EddiE314, 2001-04-10 19:12

Windows Hardware 9627

Windows XP+Athlon+Geforce = %80 Stability

GPRaider

Hey All, Just wanted to share my findings with you guys and see what yall think. Saw an earlier post where somebody suggested that those with MX cards use 10. 40 drivers. Well, I have the same problems that he and a few others were experiencing only I have a Guillemot GF DDR-DVI card.

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Last reply by GPRaider, 2001-04-10 07:31

Windows Hardware 9627

What would this do?

Brian Frank

Im wondering if this would do anything to speed me up? In Bios there's a setting for the video memory cache mode and the settings are UC (uncacheable) and USWC (uncacheable, speculative write combining) Does the GF2MX support this feature? The mobo manual says if things arent set right, might not be able to boot up ...

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Last reply by Brian Frank, 2001-04-10 06:47