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New GTXP drivers 3.01 findings

Gambler FEX online
Ok, they are finally here. Please post your findings so I can send this thread to hercules and they hopefully will look linto it. Here is my findings: 5. 1 speaker mode: crackling and popping in speaker test - didnt bother testing games 4.
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New System

BenChase
Hi Folks, what I'm looking for is your suggestions would be for me on the following hardware, as I'm buying a new system. I have a badass Visionmaster pro 19 inch monitor, but I just need a CPU. My budget $800 What I want: A good motherboard that will do IDE raid (is it worth it?) A decent video card(not the best) ...
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Win2000 System Freeze

SRP-Align
I have huge problems with Win2000 and my Terratec 128 PCI soundcard. When I play Music on my Computer (e. g. with Winamp) the System freezes after approximately a few minutes. Sometimes it takes up to hours, but it always crashes.
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CD ROM problems

romainsimoni
First, I don't know for sure if my problem is about hardware or software problems or even with the winXP, but a few days ago my cd rom driver stop working like before: I put any kind of cd (audio, cd-r, cd data.
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ACPI Error message

Corinthian
Everytime my PC boots, the following is written to the System Event log: AMLI: ACPI BIOS is attempting to read from an illegal IO port address (0x71), which lies in the 0x70 - 0x71 protected address range.
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XP pro / SB PCI64 - "scratchy" sound output?

rickh
Can anyone assist please? Upgraded from W98 to XP Pro, all devices in W98 were working ok. XP upgrade went ok except that now sound is distorted - sounds scratchy, kinda hi-pitched. All devices ok in Device manager, no conflicts.
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winxp + sblive: weird problem

Kathryn
I'm running Windows XP final, and I have a weird problem: When I play games which were made for DirectX 8 and up, everything works well. However, when I play a game that uses DirectX 7 or below, the graphics hang every few seconds, then they're smooth again, then hang.
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List SBLive card that are missing in the new drv

SHS
The one list below are manufacturer id number and there are the only one you can't install on for now. VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_40011102 ; E-MU Audio Production Studio card VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_806A1102 ; SB0103 - SBLive! VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_002F1102 ; SBlive motherboard VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80251102 ; ...
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Aopen DVD drive

Derf
I've got an Aopen DVD drive on another box, and the weird thing is that it works fine with normal cd's and can even identify when there is a dvd in the drive, but it just can't play it. . . Any ideas short of getting a different drive?.
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new card

spookn
sorry if this appears 2x hi, thinking about buying a new card. But am leary, reading about a lot of problems on XP. So I need to be sure its gonna work well with xp. I have used 3DFX in the past. And was always happy with them.
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Banshee and XP

Billy
If someone could help me out with Getting my Banshee(creative labs) working in xp with glide/ogl support that would be great. .
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PowerVCR II 3.0 and Audio problems in XP

ASiDiE
I am having a major problem with this program and the audio. I am hoping one of you guys will have this program and XP and maybe can help me out. First off here is my system: Athlon 1. 4 @ 1533 Abit KG7-Lite Gainward Geforce 3 card with 21.
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WinTV-pci

canonjon
There´s a update for haupppauges wintv-pci on microsoft windows update. It´s a v. 3. 9. 19226. 0 I´m going too try it now and let everyone know what happens. I have already the win2kdrv311 and wintv2k331_19206 installed.
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sony crx-1600L burner

sadpoti
windows xp see my sony crx-1600L burner as a normal cd-rom! i cant burn cds! help me! sony are being themselfs and saying they dont support XP, so im pretty screwed. i believe that it is because windows does load my drivers for the cd burner so it just loads standard cd-rom drivers.
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Soundblaster CT4620, CT4670, CT4760 users

donald
I have the CT4620 card and am very annoyed about the drivers situation, i decided to try the drivers for the Sound Blaster Live! / Value (CT483x, CT478x)card and they have installed fine so far, and seem to be working, though it only installed 2 applications as far as i can tell Hope this helps someone.
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