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Xp drivers for Fasttrak66?

beamrider
I've got one system to work properly with XP and a FT66, didn't have to load any new drivers or anything, but another system refuses to let me install XP on it with the FT66. It gives me the standard can't find hard drive error in install, no matter what I do.
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Network Card Settings

Total_Chaos
I have a Linksys 10/100 nic installed and under the advanced settings of Windows 2000 there is the option to select the transmit threshold size. It gives you 128 bytes, 256 bytes, 512 bytes, 1024 bytes or Store and Forward as options, can ne1 tell me which setting should provide best throughput for my Cable Modem a ...
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WinXP Start UP

Cazza
When i try to start up my pc it loads up the winXP screen but then blue screens and says something along the lines of there being a memory dump in @c:\windows\system32\config\software@ any1 got an ideas? Ive tryed reformating but it does the same thing after a couple of days!
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Weird stuff going on! XP keeps "losing" my graphic

DremNeonBlack
This is driving me crazy. All of a sudden, often when I boot into windows the graphics is set to 4bit color and 800x600. When I check the display properties is says Default monitor on In the device manager the GF3 card says is unable to start - Code 10 From there it can be time consuming to get it back to normal.
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ATI TV-Wonder in XP

CrazyKillerMan
I have downloaded ATI's capture driver for the card as stated on their site. I have installed the drivers and Windows XP is still saying its a new multimedia controller. The system is a P4 runnig winxp HOME.
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How do I enable SBA onmy GeForce2 GTS under XP Pro???

DARTH maul
I have the Asus A7V mobo (bios 1009) PCB revision 1. 02 Creative Labs GeForce2 GTS 32MB I'm using the official NVidia 23. 11 reference drivers. Im my bios, AGP 4X mode and FastWrite option are both enabled and Windows XP Pro reports both are enabled using WCPUID (latest ver 3.
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Digital Video to PC connection problem...

Sibby
Hello all! This site was recommended to me by a friend. So, I'm a newbie to this site, as well as a newbie to DV. . . as you will see, I haven't gotten very far. ::The Specs:: Sony DCR-TRV720 Win 2K Pro Athalon 1.
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SB Live! 5.1 startup muted

dh3x
I have this problem of the sound being muted after startup and I have to unmute it manually. I'm using the latest driver update from Creative (3509. 2 I believe). Can anyone help?.
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IDE drives Identified as SCSI by XP

DaveBC
I find it strange that XP identifies my IDE hard disk and IDE CDrom as SCSI devices. . . tho they both function ok. Anyone else have this occur? Win98SE updated to XP Home Athlon slot A 850mhz KX133 VIA chipset, 4in1427v(a),IDE_MPD3014,VAGP410 256mb Kingmax PC133 cas2 GForce GTS/Pro 64mb DDR Nvida Ref drv 23.
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'Access violation 0xC0000005' and BSOD in W2K

Curley_Boy
I've been having a complete nightmare trying to get my computer stable under 2k for ages now. . certain games i. e shogo or UT based games (especially Deus Ex) lock up the machine (black screen) on startup or crash on exit with '0xC0000005 access violation' errors (sometimes happens with IE6 too).
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ws-6

ws6
hi, i need help finding and setting up a shared scsi array for a win2k adv. server cluster. i have 2 servers on the cluster. i already have the hdd's (8 18 gig 10k ibm's) and the controllers (2 adaptec 29160's and 2 adaptec 2110's).
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Erasing a Hard-drive

jwl812
Anyone know of a good hard-disk erase utility. I don't want to just re-format, I want to completely wipe it out then re-format. .
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CD-ROM Issues

mr_teddybear
Ok, here is the deal. I am running an AMD Duron 700 with 128mb ram on an Asus (can't remember the exact model) mobo. When running Win98, Linux, hell any other OS besides Win2000 and WinXP my CD-Writer on my secondary IDE channel is picked up perfectly.
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GeForce 2 on Gigabyte 71XE4

Marktait
My Motherboard is a Gigabyte 71XE4 and i have a GeForce 2 MX200, when i run any benchmark programs, they report my AGP as 1x, as far as i know this M/Board supports 2x any ideas why its at 1x, iv been in the bios and through the manual and theres no mention of the agp speed rate.
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XP and VIA KX133 chipset crash

DaveBC
Since I upgraded from Win98SE to XP whenever I enable AGP 4x with fast writes system becomes unstable and crashes. . . . Am using VIA4in1 437v(a) Vid Card is Gforce 2 GTS/Pro With Nvidia Ref Driver Version 23.
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I think that it 's a stupid question ...

valery
I think that it 's a stupid question but !!!!! > How do you do to create a system disk under windows XP ????????? Yesterday it bothered me because I haven't got any system disk and I gave my Win XP CD to a friend.
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Mustek 600 USB Driver for Windows 2000

nemoxyz
hi everybody, i'm looking for a scanner-driver (mustek 600 usb) for windows 2000. do anybody know where i can get such a driver? mustek at self doesn't support windows 2000 for this scanner. . . . thanks, nemoxyz.
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Gah!

yakkob
Just turned on my pc at dinner. . . and I am getting that horrible crunching sound. Booted up with w98 floppy and did a scandisk /all /surface And, its failing on my G: Partition Can't even format the bladdy thing! Is there anyway I can force format this drive? Do you know of such a util? As a backup I ahve just or ...
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