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Play games on WinXP with your VooDoo Card!

El_Bisna
That's right, I've written a tutorial (based on Hujer HoE's drivers) that explains how to do this in detail! I've posted to this forum about it a long time ago, but I've changed locations and my tutorial has been updated since then.
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How do I do a "clean" install for my new sound car

DARTH maul
I will be getting a SB Audigy w/1394 OEM soon. I currently have the original SB Live (full retail) installed. Should I re-install Windows XP Pro? Or is there a clean way of installing my new sound card? If yes, how do I remove my old sound drivers, clean and properly?.
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Best way to do a "clean" install for my new SB Aud

DARTH maul
I currently have my old SB Live installed. Do I have to format and re-install Windows XP Pro again or do I just remove my old sound card, restart XP Pro, it removes the sound drivers because there's no sound card installed, then I insert my new SB Audigy w/1394 OEM, XP Pro detects that I have a sound card, asks for ...
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HP Laser Jet 5L

miku
Hi Guys, I have HP Laser Jet 5L and I am having problems with it. Printing Ps file from ghostview or a PDF file, it just says out of memory. Although even if the file is less than 4MB, it says that.
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Inkjet printers

Yankee
Hello, Anybody know which inkjet printers are the best? I need one the can print on A3 size paper. Print quality and cost are more important than speed. No brand preference. Thanks in advance! Yankee.
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page file error msgs

wildguy2k
finally got a machine up & running yesterday. thing is, now every time i boot up, the pagefile has disappeared. i get the, your paging file is too small, & a temp one has been created error msg every time.
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Plustek Optikpro 4830p Win2k Problem

hargrovm
I've just installed Win2k on a brand new handbuilt machine but cannot get my optic pro 4830p scanner to work correctly. I've downloaded and installed the driver nt driver as suggested on this site and the scanner is found and recognised but when I try and use the scanner - identified as a twain source all I get is ...
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Dual AthlonMP Troubles!

CheeseKilla
I recently purchased the A7M266-D and I can't seem to figure out a certain problem. First of all, my config: AMD AthlonMP (Palomino) 1. 2Ghz x2 256MB Crucial PC2100 DDR Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 60. 0GB x2 Pioneer DVD-104s HP 9300i CDRW 64MB GeForce2 GTS SBLive! X-Gamer 10/100 NIC Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro Micro ...
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Samsung 955DF

Brian Frank
Anybody have this monitor? I'm considering it for my monitor upgrade, and I'd like to know what owners think about it before I drop the cash down for it. .
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CD reading troubles in XP.....?!?!

markjs
I have noticed this on two of three machines I have and all are running XP Pro. Anyway, what happens is after a while (I think usually after some period of the computer being idle) the CD ROMs (on one machine a fully refurbished 8x4x32 Phillips CDRW and brand new Afreey 10x32x DVD-ROM and on the other which is a La ...
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crackling sound with audigy and xp?

Silent-IQ
Hmm, i think this is a old problem but here i go again anywhay. . . When i play mp3 i get this very disturbing crackling sound all the time, all my mp3's sound like old LP records. I got the newest driver updates.
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XP activation

sapiens74
I just installed my new MB and CPU out , and had to reinstall all my stuff. Needless to say I had a problem activating my windows xp products. Anyone else had this problem? I was on the phone with MS for like 3 hours.
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Dual Boot with Win98 and XP

Duncan
Anyone successfully (or unsuccessfully) attempted to dual boot with XP? I've heard that it's a bit different than dual booting with 2000 or NT. .
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Dual monitor problem

Four and Twenty
I have a gf2mx400 agp and a matrox g200 pci. i used to use them for dual monitors under xp and 2k on my 440bx then one of my monitors broke and i upgraded to the daul p3 i840 board i can't seem to get widows xp to show both video cards in the display properties anymore.
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I have never experienced this before.....

Palos
Clouds of weirdness gathered above my house yesterday The previous evening I shut down the PC with no error messages. Last evening, tried to boot normally, but got a BSOD with the UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_DEVICE message.
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HPT370 Windows XP issues resolved!!!

Dragon-Lord
I was one of those people who had to revert back to the HPT370 1. 03b drivers (instead of the Windows XP native) in order to keep from stuttering sound and system performance with my Via Apollo Pro chipset machine (Abit VP6).
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ASUS A7V133A and Windows XP

Marktait
I recently bought a nice new ASUS A7V133A ATX Motherboard and got all my stuff working on it from my older Gigabyte 71XE4 Motherboard, But now when i have formatted my drive and put Windows XP back on i find that all games crash when loading (Midtown Madness 1 + 2,Serious Sam,etc) and also i get an error from Windo ...
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