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60Hz with 27.42

Galilee
WHY?? Why did NVIDIA change the way refreshrates are managed in the new Detonator drivers? Refreshrate fix doesnt understand it, and I sure as hell can't understand it either. has anyone had any luck changeing the gaming refreshrate with these drivers?.
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motherboard

donald
can someone recommend a good motherboard manufacturer other than Giga-Byte for a penium 4 Motherboard. I am looking for one with 4 SDRAM Slots, 5-6 PCI Slots and 1 AGP slot, I dont want DDR RAM ect as I have 1 GB of SDRAM and dont really want to waste it Any Help Appreciated.
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Major Gametheater XP problems - HELP!!!!

X2N
Hey, I just got a new computer, and with it a gametheater xp. . . I installed win2k and then instaled striaght away the drivers for the card that came with the disk. These work fine, however i went to update the drivers from the hercules website (to thelatest ones) and i started getting.
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Info on Super Micro Super P3TDDE

Brian Frank
I'm trying to get a straight answer here, and I'm asking anyone that has the answer to speak up. I'm looking at the SuperMicro Super P3TDDE motherboard, and I need to know some info about the CPU voltages.
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ATA133 drives any good ones??

ThC 129
Im looking to ditch my 60gb 5400rpm/ata100 drive in for something large (80gb+) and with ATA/133 support. What are some good drive recomendations from the users?? Ive looked at Western Digital since i would like to go with them again since both my drives are both WD drives.
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Unknown error that results in blue screen on WinXP

Shin_Magus
Hi. It's been a while since I've started being victim to a very annoying serious error that makes using my PC very unreliable/unstable. I believe it's related to my Maxtor D740X 60 GB, since when I use a 4-GB HD I have instead, this bug doesn't occur.
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Voodoo 3 driver probs :(

ipher
I cannot get a Voodoo 3 driver for XP working, i have tried differant ways, and differant drivers. the only ones i can get installed correctly are the official Win2K drivers the error message that i get that no one else seems to get is (during installation) Warning! Driver Installation Aborted! with an OK button on ...
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Sidewinder 3d pro always "not connected"

Tiphon
Hi I have plugged my sidewinder 3d pro on my sb live. When I click add in the game controller, and then I select Sidewinder, windows finds my sidewinder 3d pro but it always appears as not connected Any idea would be welcome.
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Adpatec 2940AU + Yamaha CRW4260.

Cynan
*sigh* Now I'm not gonna pretend I know what I'm doing here, because truth be known I don't. I've heard a lot about various different SCSI configs. and how they are set up, but I've always been a lil hazy on the whole thing.
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windows nt 4.0 and usb

GAC
i need help i do not operate with my hd via usb cable on my pc with wnt4. 0 - some friends say it is not possibile at all! perhaps will be some drivers? whic other? ciao! GAC.
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APC- UPS and Serial Problem

ZoSo925
Their support is not open on the weekend and Im stumped what else I should do. I just picked up a 10ft Serial cable for like $3 at this computer show today. I was originally thinking about getting a 6ft for a while but this seemed better.
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External CDRW USB 2.0

sapiens74
IS there a way I can take a normal IDE CDRW and make it external USB 2. 0 or Firewire? If so does anyone know a good place to get the kits?.
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ASUS A7V133 and BIOS Flash 1008

Marktait
Anyone know what the 1008 beta release flash file for the ASUS A7V133A Motherboard adds support for? Thanx AMD 1700+ Athlon XP ASUS A7V133A VIA Motherboard 512MB PC-133 RAM 64MB GeForce 3 Ti200 60GB IBM 7200RPM HardDrive 16x/48x LG DVDDrive 40x Compag CDDrive 16x/10x/40x LiteON ReWriter Creative SoundBlaster Live! ...
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Quick question about changing motherboards

Napalm
Alright, this has probably been covered before, but I don't know what key word to search for (or just to lazy to do it). But I am upgrading my processor/motherboard from a PIII 505 (Aopen motherboard) to an Athlon 1.
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GeForce4 MX

ConQueso
When the GeForce4 MX's come out, be aware that they lack some important features present in the GeForce3 line. Might want to consider them updates of the GeForce2 MX line. John Carmack of Id even criticized the NV17 being called a GeForce4 MX.
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NEC Superscript 660+

Larry
I have recently set up my NEC 660+ to work with Windows XP using a Minolta PageWorks Pro 1100L driver. I finally got it to print; however it prints multiple copies and won't stop until I cancel from the print menu (reminds me of a Stephen King novel).
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C: going from UDMA4 -> PIO Mode After a cold boot...

Hellafax
Ok yet another problem here I can restore my settings to those of a few days ago, and my HDD and CDRom stay as a UDMA4 and MultiWord DMA-2 respectively, - as long as I don't shut it off. Restarts seem to be fine, though as the setting are retained.
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What causes ATAPI Timout Errors in System Log?

Hellafax
Anyone have a clue as to why I would receive these errors in my system log every once in a while??? The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0. The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period.
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