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keyboard not responding after install !!!

Vulcan
hey. . i installed win xp pro and during the installation everything was fine and of course the keyboard functioned. after the final boot windows starts up,asks me to put in a user name. . . but my keyboard does not responde.
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2nd harddrive not listed in my computer

rgodart
a friend of mine has 2 harddrives both plugged on a ATA100 controller on a msi motherboard. In windows 2000 and xp only the first 30 gig drive is showed, not the 10 gig one. The only thing we found to make it visible was going to computer management and make it a dinamic disk.
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PCI video card

1badwickedwitch
I have a question and not sure where to go anymore for help. . . . I went to XP and my video card is not strong enough for it. I need to invest in a new one snd not quite sure what to get. Have been to all the stores and all they want to do is sell me an AGP and I have to have a PCI card.
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Is there such a thing as an ATA100 cable?

DARTH maul
I looked in my tower, and my 80-pib cable says ATA66 on it. Yet, it allways my bios to detect my hard drive as ATA100, DMA5 mode and same with Sisift Sandra. I'm wondering, is there an actual ATA100 cable I can buy or are they all 80-pin ATA66 cables?.
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Help!! IRQ Conflicts! Please Help

kuchitree123
Hello again, I'm having IRQ conflicts with my video card. I have a ASUS A7V-E mobo with a VIA KT133 Chipset, Hercules Geforce 2 MX, , Studio PCTV Card, SB LIVE!, D-LINK NIC, Windows XP Pro, and AMD ATHLON.
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Detonator XP/Nvidia

miku
Hi Guys, I have been noticing a problem with the xp driver on windows xp. I have twinview system on asus v7100(geforce mx 2). Now when I enabled the twinview system, it enables it, but if i restart everything gets messed.
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TV Tuner Suggestion

allmightyvic
im conisdering a TV TUner/FM Radio wif Remote and supporting windows XP i want one wif at least Stereo TV and be able to caputer videos well at standard TV resolution, prob under $200 australian dollars (i think is about $100 american the Win TV dbx FM looks to be a good option but i have no idea on the price of it ...
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TV Out

Manos
Im currently using a TNT 2 Ultra card from Leadtec. It's a good card (although a little out of date) and I'm thinking of getting a Geforce 3 card this spring. The thing is, when i connect the coputer to the TV, the screen wont blow up to fit the entire TV screen.
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New compatibility update

NotSoSmart
List Easy CD Creator 4. 02 anyone try this yet? I have to reformat to get my CDwriter back nothing has worked XP still just sees a CDrom.
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Spacetec SpaceOrb Game Controller

clutch
I don't know if any of you have these, have used these, or even know what these are, but there is some work being done to get these to work under Windows 2000/XP. Right now, I am beta testing the driver, and it does work in the following: Descent 2 (a bit choppy though) Descent 3 (really smooth) Aquanox (really smo ...
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DDR questions, looking for some feedback here!

smokinkane
I have a Shuttle AV40 and love it, although I can't seem to get a stable overclock. I have narrowed it down to the DDR that I have it's Kingmax PC2100 MicroBGA. I noticed in a. pdf document from kingmax that the memory modules I have are only capable of 133x2 at cl 2.
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I/O error on CD read!

Manos
I have been using a Pioneer DVD (Slot in)for about 2 years in both W2K and now in XP. I also use a SCSI card (Adaptec AHA 2940) to which I connect a CD-RW (Yamaha 8x8x24x) (Since 6 months). This config has worked fine thru both RC1 and RC2 and with the final XP release (2600) which i currently use.
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I'm about to pitch this thing through the window

OLEerror
I hope one of you has an idea of what's going wrong. I'm building a Pentium 4 as a present for someone. Here's a quick rundown of the parts: ABIT TH7II Pentium 4 (478) motherboard Inwin S508-ATX case w/300 watt power supply Western Digital 40GB ATA-100 7200rpm drive SONY 16x DVD-ROM SONY 3 1/2 disk drive ATI RADEON ...
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RAM Problems.

DarK_SouL
Is there a way to know, or to check if RAM is damaged?. XP hangs sometimes and I think is the RAM that is making it hang. It hangs when Im burning a CD, listening to music(had to disable all sounds), When using memory consuming applications like Director and Photoshop at the same time.
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Sound/Geforce 256 issue

mister_man
I have a friend who tried to install Windows 2000 pro. But when he puts his video display at 32 bit colour, it causes the sound to crackle while lots of video activity is going on (like Windows media player vis and games).
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Win2K and Raid

bytemangler
I hope someone has already done this. I want to install win2K on the RAID0 (IDE) setup. Try different things but didn't help. Here's my specs: Iwill KK266-R Hercules Vid. 512 PC-133 RAM 2x20 gig Seagate HD connected to Raid port 1 as Master and slave CD/DVD on IDE1 as master/slave IDE0 is empty everything else is o ...
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Soyo Dragon Motherboard

kidicarus
Has anybody successfully installed XP on this board? When i boot from cd and the setup loads it hangs when it says starting winxp. This is right before u would press f8 to accept agreement. Ive installed this version on many other pc's and it works fine.
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HELP!!! Hercules Geforce 2 MX is using PCI MODE!??

kuchitree123
HELP!!! Hercules GeFORCE 2 MX is under PCI MODE!?? It is supposed to be AGP. It says this under the driver properties. I have Windows XP Professional, ASUS A7V-E and AMD ATHLON. I also notice a decrease in frames per second in games.
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