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Help needed on periodic hanging system XP/VIA

wolfy
I need help on my brother's PC with this current specs below Windows XP Pro Winsonic VIA Motherboard Pentium III 800 Mhz 3dfx Voodoo III 3500 SB 128 Vibra S/Card 128 MB RAM Problems encounter : Periodically hangs (not crash).
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66Mhz PCI Card support

BladeRunner
So very few motherboard manufacturers say anything more that X amount of PCI slots in the specification of their boards. I'm assuming this is because most are simply 32bit, 33Mhz slots. So, what kind of boards offer support for 32bit, 66Mhz PCI slots? I know 66Mhz PCI cards are fully backwards compatible, but what ...
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Logitech Keyboard has a Ghost

trohbock
I have a Logitech Cordless keyboard and mouse, and whenever I'm trying to type anything the stupid thing heads off to wonderland typing away, it never did this before I installed XP, anybody else had the problem? Thing is it doesn't just type characters, it's typing real words that make sense.
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I hosed the Firmware on the CDRW

nT4usB
On the Yamaha 2100. . . going from 1. 0h to 1. 0n. Downloaded the latest (n), disabled DMA, Ran the install. Got 'firmware write error'. Drive now displays as 'YAMAHA CRW2100S_CORE. Firmware reverted to 1.
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New Audigy Drivers Not New

Shrink
Hey folks - no need to jump for these - they are the same ones that are already out but now are signed by MS. Great :-( Shrink.
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was there a Samsung memory patch a few days ago?

emagowan
Is there some sort of patch for samsung ddr ram with via chipsets? I thought I saw a patch somewhere for samsung ddr ram. I opened my case and saw I have samsung ram, but now can't find the patch? am I crazy or is there really a patch?.
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Changing processor under Windows 2000

Lucas
Hey people, I'm quite new in these forums. I have a problem with my Windows 2000/XP. I have a p3 motherboard with both Slot 1 and socket 370 (or whatever that number is), but I've a p2 350mhz installed.
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canon multipass 5500

okeegrljl
L have tried downloading a new driver for the canon multipass 5500 from canon. com and my windowsxp still will not recognize it. Can some one walk me through this in plain english?! Thanks.
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Closing Program Dialogue Box

Elux
Hi All ATI All in wonder 128 pro, XP generic drivers worked ok but I wanted to use all the features of this card, so I downloaded the XP drivers from the ATI site, after installing the display driver and accepting a restart a message box popped up stating Closing Program Should not see this.
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3d Labs

JMD
Hello Anyone have an opinion on the 3d labs VX-1 Good things Bad things Currently using the Matrox G400 32 MEG AGP. I have been trying to install the new card (vx-1) but was having problems with the drivers.
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SB Live 5.1 BSOD

mister_man
My friend recently installed a SB Live 5. 1 on his KT133 based motherbard and he gets random BSODs in emu10k1f. sys. Any ideas?.
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Should I disable ACPI so all my PCI devices have their own I

DARTH maul
I have a theory why my SB Live gives me popping/crackling problems on my A7V (VIA KT133 chipset). When I ran the same setup with Windows 98 and 98SE, no sound problems at all, but nothing in my systems shared IRQ's!!! Now that Windows XP and XP Pro make all the PCI device use the same IRQ, IRQ 9 in my case, that ma ...
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19" Trinitron

TB99
Hey, I'll get right to the point. I don't get straight black on my monitor. It's a slight green. I can not find the place to change the color settings anywhere! My DVD software shows my monitor set at R 0 G 40 B 0 (it only shows, doesn't change).
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Network icon in notification area causes winamp skipping

Gambler FEX online
I enable the notification area icon for my CNet Pro200 PCI and winamp skips and jerks a little. not too much but enough to notice and ruin the listening experience (pun intended). It doesnt always happen, right now I enabled it and winamp is playing and all is well, but just a minute ago I also enabled the icon and ...
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Can't rollback to native XP sound driver after installing fa

xstatik
Hi there, I should have known better after read the large amounts of complaints that SB Live owners have on using Creative Labs driver updates. I decided to download the latest XP drivers for my SB PCI128 sound card and use them instead of what XP Pro installs natively.
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Windows 2000 SBS not compatible with Hardware RAID??

MarcelB
we have tried to setup a windows 2000 small buisness server with an UDMA 100 RAID Promise Raid controller (fasttrak) in Raid 1 (mirror) it worked just fine after installation. . but after the exchange server was setup the whole win2000 destroyed itself and was not bootable anymore.
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