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Diamond Viper II Causes Crashes

bbalkind
Profile of my system: windows 2000 advanced server running full array of MS Software(only MS) Soyo Motherboard Via chipset(k7via) on board audio Direct X 8. 0 AGP with Diamond viper II Z200 I have tried the memory swapping, closing services etc.
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Disabling VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller

KINGHILL15
HI. I have an Abit KT7A-RAID mobo, with a Geforce2 GTS by Leadtek. When I had Win2000, I did not install the Via's CPU to AGP Controller because once I did, every program that used my video card (tv tunner, games, opening mpeg and avi movies, etc) would cause an instant lockup as soon as I launched them.
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Geforce3 driver update problem

rpmrizing
I installed a fresh copy of WinXP on Saturday. The built-in 12. 40 drivers worked fine but I wanted to install the official 12. 41s. I downloaded and ran the Nvidia installer and rebooted and 12. 41 worked like a champ until I tried to reinstall 12.
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PS/2 Sample Rate / Mouse Rate

deckard
Has anyone found a way to increase the sample rate of a PS/2 mouse in XP? This worked great under Win9x with PS2rate but I never had any luck getting this working in Win2k (using the Win2k-enabled version).
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Windows XP not detecting ACPI compliant system

nightwolf09
I was just wandering if anyone else ever experienced or heard of this problem. For some reason when doing a fresh installation of win xp it does not detect that my system is acpi compliant. I have to hit F5 during the start of the installation to tell it my computer is an acpi pc.
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Diamond Fireport 40 SCSI card

FatFish
Hi, I have a diamond scsi card. If i do a clean installation of RC1 or RC2, the driver of that card can't be installed, it kept saying that the driver is for win9x. Anyone have a solution? p. s. : I can only get it working by installing win2k first then upgrade the os to rc1 or rc2 thx, FatFish.
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What is good about this OS?

Ali
Well no offence, but in this site most people are NT and WIN 2K fan. (I currently have win 2k installed on my computer, so i'm kinda in this too!) so this is just a personal question after one and a half weeks of experiencing win 2k: What's the big deal about this buggy, and graphic killing OS except the network ab ...
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Video Capture device and Win 2000.....

Ali
Hello there. . . this is my first time i'm putting a messame on this site. so please be kind enough to teach me the norms of this place!! Well I have win 2000 just installed last week on my computer.
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Need to know the very best....

rmeek
I am building a new system for programming and game playing. It is an IBM Intellistation PIV at 1. 7 Ghz with 512 mb ram running Windows 2000 Pro sp/2, but will be upgraded to Windows XP Pro as soon as it is offically released.
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Win2k dialup acting weird after a few days uptime

t0ad
ive noticed a weird coincidence with my dialup connection and windows 2000 that seems to happen after a couple days uptime. right now im at about 3 1/2 days, and my connection's IDENT no longer wants to work (like when connecting to irc, it never even shows getting or sending an ident reply).
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WinTV Theater with only occasional sound- any tips ?

Dirty Harry
Just got myself the Hauppauge WinTV Theater (mod 498) PCI card. Works great except for the sound. The sound is sporadic, most of the time the wintv2000 and win32 apps start without any sound. Switching channels, swithing to fullscreen or mute/unmuteing a couple of times turns on the sound.
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Good motherboard for a P3 1GHz??

rgodart
I would like to buy a P3 1GHz and i would like a motherboard that will give me maximum compatibility with win2k. i have a thunderbird 1,2 gigs with asus a7v raid, but i have nothing but probs that i've tried to solve for 6 months now (i've tried every driver and patch out there, nothing helps: sp2, amd win2k patch, ...
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Fun with DET drivers again - which one??

Mike Zamarocy
Been awhile since I last wanted to update my video drivers, so I am way behind on the versions. I have a GF2 GTS card and currently am using the 12. 41. I see we now have a new 8. 04, a 12. 9X and even a 14.
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I need help with elsa Relevator

zopf
Hello out there, this is my first post here, so don´t be angry. . . i want to install the relevator glasses on my duron system with an geforce 2 mx grafkik board. . . . but it dosn´t work and elsa is unreachable.
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Voodoo 3 3500 and XP RC1

donald
Hi I just got and installed a copy of RC1 for XP, on my Voodoo 3 3500 machine but I have two questions, I know the drivers are now included, but can i get the 3DFX tools to install correctly, if not how do I change the gamma setting from default? as it is too dark Thanks
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Windows 2000 and Windows 98 with 512 MB RAM

pmistry
I just reinstalled a dual boot with Win2k and Win98, getting rid of a buggy WinME in the process. However, I noticed that when I boot Win98 and go to device manager, it says I have only 511. 0 MB RAM? I know I have 512 and WinME used to show this and Win2k shows my memory to be 512 but it is listed in KB.
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Maxtor ATA-100 Card Installation

pmistry
I am considering getting a Maxtor ATA-100 card to speed up my system, my hard disk is ATA-100 ready. Right now I am transferring at ATA 66, I also could use the extra ports. But anyway I have Win2k installed on my primary hard disk using the mainboard controllers if I get the ATA 100 card and hook the drive up to t ...
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3DFX And.... (help please)

fortress5
3DFX and Remote Installation service. Ive got this problem. I cant start a remote installation of win2k if use a Voodoo 3. I have try with other card like TNT and ATi and no problem. Also, it work well with a PCI video card.
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Shutdown problem with WinXP RC2

bitburn
When I click SHUTDOWN my system reboots instead!!!!! Anyone have this problem? Any ways to fix this? I have: Asus A7V Athlon 1133MHz ATI Radeon 32MB DDR Thanks guys. .
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