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SCSI CD burner issue

nhaggin
I apologize if this has been talked about before; my quick perusal of the forum revealed no previous discussion on this topic. I am having an interesting problem with a Yamaha 8424SZ drive. W2K will recognize it on startup, but 30 seconds after I get the desktop, I am told in a little dialog box that I removed the ...
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3dfx video card

HwoodCats
I have a Maxi Gamer Phoenix with Voodoo Banshee and it works ok but it's not letting me record with my tv tuner. It was ok under windows me but I like windows xp and would like to have an updated driver.
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What's wrong with this picture?

ahearnb
HINT: IRQ 10 is occupied by Video card and soundcard. Is this a problem? How can I change it? Obviously, I don't know much about this. . . just heard that your video card should not share an IRQ with anything.
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Win2k and NMB Multifunction keyboard help

Garousan
Hello everybody, let me apologize if this has already been asked, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I have an NMB Multifunction keyboard (Model RT9258TW). It came with an old Micron computer a friend of mine had; as a result, it apparently needs special Micron drivers versus the NMB drivers (at least that was the ca ...
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Maxi Sound Fortissimo

Lockey
Does anyone have any idea when Guillemot plan on releasing compatible drivers for windows XP, as the the default windows drivers are terrible, as they dont support EAX or A3D, and the win 2000 drivers do not work.
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Win2k, Processor runnning at half power??

RazoRBladE1st
I installed win2k and noticed it wasn't as fast as I thought it would be,, and now I finally found the cause of this problem,, when I look at my System specifications I see my processor speed is 250mhz, and that ain't right!, it's 500!! how is this possible?? first I thought it was just a little windows bug, but in ...
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Help me!! Problem with Audigy and XP!!

Squid
I'm having trouble getting my nice new Audigy working on my system. I bought it about a week ago, and plugged it into my computer which was (then) a 1. 4Ghz Athlon on an ECS K7S5A running WindowsXP Pro.
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Intellimouse explorer cuts out under XP

Annakha
Since I have installed WinXP Pro my intellimouse explorer 3. 0, which is connected through USB, cuts out. Games, desktop, surfing, the mouse will stop responding and I have to physically unplug the mouse then plug it in again to make it work.
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3Dfx Voodoo III 2000 pci not working at all with Windows XP!

dalmiroy2k
I have Windows XP and a 3Dfx Voodoo III 2000 PCI The 3d worked fine when I installed xp I could run Spider-man and wolf 3d with no probs. . . then I run x-setup and I enabled overclock for voodooo 3 and I couldn't get any game working again spider-man will return to desktop and Wolf 3d says in the console that v3vgl.
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CDrom drives: Gone.

TheDragon
I'm having some serious problems. Ever since a few days ago, my CDrom drives have become unrecognized in windows. Apparently their drivers cannot start because they are corrupted. I have two CDrom drives, a philips CDRW804 drive and a samsung 8x DVD drive.
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Wich Drivers to use - Help Needed please

Dzian
Wich Drivers should I use with my Creative Voodoo Banshee 16MB PCI, I'm using the the ones that came on WinXP and were isntalled automaticly, but I have some problems, I can't switch resolutions, without the messing the refresh rates.
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NT 4.0 installation on SONY vaio FX401 Problems

chipoya
Hi, I recently purchased a new laptop Vaio FX401 (Duron 800, VIA chipset, 15Gb Hd, QSI DVD, 128Mb Ram) and being a true supporter of NT 4. 0 I wiped the preintsalled XP off the harddrive and went on to installing NT 4.
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1.2 GHz AMD with VIA bus, GF2 gets ACPI STOP ERRORS!

captdavid
My 1. 2Ghz Athlon system running Windows XP Professional is randomly crashing several times a day. I’ve heard of a combination of the Athlon chipset, a VIA Motherboard, and a Ge Force 2 causes this problem, but I am unable to figure out anything to stop it from crashing despite the success of other people who had a ...
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BIOS flashing problems - please help

ahearnb
MODS - please delete this. For some reason, it says I cannot delete it when I try. BTW, I am an idiot - all I had to do was install the latest video drivers to fix my problem ahhh!.
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