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NOKIA 446XS Monitor & Windows 2000

abraxas81
Hi ! Anybody knows a working driver for the NOKIA 446XS Monitor which make it possibel to select more than 80 Hz in Windows 2000 ? As far as i know, 'Belina' is the support manufactor but i didn't found working stuff there.
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Suspend to RAM pb

broadbandwizz
I am using a MSI K7T Turbo Mobo. . . Whan I go in BIOS and set the S suspend mode (in which hardware context is lost and power shut down), I get a registry error from Windows 2000 and then it automatically reboots.
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Prob. with the Start-line

Lurifax
Have anyone experienced this problem ? On my Start-line the programlist have doubled itself. All my programs are listed twice on seperate coloums. Is this a bug in Xp ?.
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Dual CPUs...need info!!!

Brian Frank
Well, I'm thinking of going to a dual system on my test box. I've been reading up, but I'm still a bit off on all of it. Mainly I'm concered with the stepping. I've heard the Abit VP6 has to have both cpu's as the exact same stepping.
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sblive drivers

TomAL
i am playing giants and wanted to look at the sound options i noticed the reverb and the other option say not available on it. i have tried the latest drivers from creative and some 5. 12. 01. 3209 drivers and with both the options are not available, could someone solve this.
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Win XP + Personal Firewall(s)

Mooxooh
Hey, I tried installing Tiny Personal Firewall under Windows XP but it permanent produces 'Fatal Application Exit' errors - anyone knows a good personal firewall which will work with XP ? Thanks
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Controllerless V.92 vs hardware V.90???

GTwannabe
We had a lightning strike on the phoneline last night and my POS 3com/USR PCI winmodem is damaged. It won't hang up after disconnecting. I'm probably going to get a Zoom modem to replace it. I've narrowed it down to two modems: model 2920- hardware v.
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Xp 2481

mariusp
Can anybody tell me what is the best Vga driver for Geforce cards to use under XP ??
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hardware conflicts??? Or just bad equip?

CrazyKillerMan
OK. . . . heres the deal. I have purchased an IWILL RAID card thats ata100. I have 2 30 gig maxtor 7200rpm ata100 drives. Upon installing i create the array and start win2k install. I install the highpoint drivers when win2k asks and everything runs just fine.
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SBLive Solution

INFERNO2000
A lot of people know this, but the best solution to the SBLive is the Game Theater XP from Hercules Sorry if you wanted -HELP- but that's my reccomendationI bought the card 4 days ago, and have only the highest regard for it.
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What XP to get?

Jrc384k
Ok here is the question. I am comfortable with Win2kPro and 9x/ME. What XP should I get Pro or Home. I am a home user but there are some things that I like to tinker with in 2kPro. I really don't need the multi-processor support of the Pro versions.
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XP System Requirements

BaronX
Here is what MS suggest as requirements for XP: Preliminary System Requirements To use Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Beta 2, you need: 300 MHz or higher processor clock speed recommended; minimum of 233MHZ required (single or dual processor system)* Intel Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, ...
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too good to be true?

three
There is a promotion going on here this weekend offering: P4 1. 4 GHz Motherboard 128 RDram Case/PSU for around US$210 no brands were mentioned for the motherboard/ram or case. . . they are only offering 100 units for Saturday and 100 for Sunday.
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XP 2481 and OpenGL-Glide

k57ts
Does anyone have OpenGl (and Glide) working with XP 2481 (2474 too)???? I tried the latest drivers (offical or not)for my Voodoo5, and it doesn't work (and yes, i did the install-it-twice trick) DirectX is working.
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DVD playback in Win2K horrible, plz help

shaocaholica
I just installed Win2K pro and Im not as familiar with it as Im with 9x. Soon after I got the drivers and accounts setup I went on to test out DVD playback. It is horrible. Both the video and sound are choppy to the point where the DVD is unwatchable.
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