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Hard drive speed

Haydn
Hi , I am building another sys and It has been my experience in the past that has led me to consider the harddrive atrib to my sys more thoughtfully. My delema is would 2 -75,000rpm- Harddrives on a Promise Fasttrak 133 raid0 controler be Faster then 1 -10,000rpm- Harddrive ata 133 ?.
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Cirrus CS4235-JQ Proper Drivers for XP

dpward1974
I need to know where I can get a set of drivers for My e-machines e-tower 366-c. All I get are a chirping sounds from my speakers even though XP says that the drivers are installed and working correctly.
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Win XP Setup Problems - VIA KT266A chipset

mjl135
I recently bought a new motherboard and cpu, see below for system details. When trying to install Windows XP. It gets to the part that says Setup is starting Windows XP and occasionally I get a little bit beyond that, but not much.
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Desperation - how to display cd content on Pioneer DVD-116

Tomeq
Hi! I'm desperate. My problem is short. I have Pioneer DVD-116 and ofcourse XP. This drive is working in DMA-2 mode (but changing to Pio4 gives no difference). I just cant read ANY file content of ANY cd or DVD! Everything what has autorun mechanism or is played via external software (like DVD movies or autorun gam ...
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Windows File Protection...

Gregor
after my cd-rom got old,. . i bought me another one. now it is sony. but hey. . . 1. i have also cd-rw in my computer 2. i took my old cd-rom out,. . . put back new one now the sistem changed my drive letters before: cd-rw - f: cd - g: now: cd-rw - g: cd - f: now everytime i put some cd in my new cd-rom i get this ...
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Want new MB and Ram, help

nposce
I have an Athlon 1ghz with 256 mb 133 ram. I'm looking to upgrade my system here soon, but i don't want to blow a huge wad of cash. I haven't read anything on the latest P4's and Athlon XP's except that XP's cost less.
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CD spinup problems

Ekstreme
Hiya all I've been having a real shitty problem with XP. Everytime I put a CD in my drive, it just spins and spins for ages. I have to eject it and close the draw, then it works fine. This used to happen sometimes on 2k, but it would BSOD if I'd open the door.
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Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-103 + working software?

Mr.Guvernment
Hello, I have the Pioneer DVD burner, but CDRWin - does not see the burner, although Golden hawk says it should Fireburner - errors with any cue sheets, that work fine with an HP burner i have Nero - XP problems installing Adaptec i know works, but i burn alot of bin/cue's, so this does not help.
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CDReading Problems!

Marktait
Im using an LG DVD Drive in both computers which is a speed of 16x/48x. The drive that is in the 2nd Computer is the one i am having problems with. When i put in a CD everything is fine, the autoplay runs,etc but when i install anything off any disc the DVDDrive seems to think the disc has a scratch or summin and w ...
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UPS shutdown problems HELP!

NotSoSmart
XP Pro P4-16a P4T-E Asus 512 meg RDRAM GF2 SB Live Linksys 10/100 Nic IBM 60 gig IBM 20 gig DVD Toshiba Lite On 24x CDRW The problem is something I do not understand at all. I bought a Belkin Gold Series 350VA battery backup.
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Memory in .NET

WinGimp2k
I just installed. NET Enterprise Beta 3 on a test server. It is configured with 8 processors and 32 gigs of RAM. I can see it during start up and when I open the System Information in Windows, it sees all the physical memory.
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please help! bout 3d Cards

urbroda
i got a diamond monster 3d 2 it is a realy old card so there r no Xp drivers for it. i read somehwere that its chipset was a voodoo2. does that mean i can use a voodoo2 xp driver for it???? please helpppppp.
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long pause after boot screen...

Vulcan
hey. . . Whenever the computer boots,after the bios screen shows up and my hard disks and my cd rom are detected (for 5 second or less), there is a long pause of 10 to 15 seconds and only then the hard disk is accessed and the OS starts to load.
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Changing resolutions with Radeon 7200

ACMatador
All right, I give up: HELP PLEASE! Windows 2000 with update ATI Radeon 7200 with latest W2k drivers (released recently) DirectX 8. 1 (released recently) And I can NOT change to ANY resolution higher than 800x600.
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Irq_not_less_or_equal :(

valery
Hello everybody. . . Under windows XP, I usually receive the known message IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL ! It mostly arrive when I am listening mp3's with winamp, after 5 minutes. It sometimes arrives during games or others applications, too.
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dual monitors with win2k

ddyck
I want to be able to use two monitors on my computer. I've been reading about the ATI Radeon VE dual head card and many people claim it doesn't work well with Win2000. Can I enable dual monitors if I use 1 AGP card and 1 PCI card? I mostly do video editing and 3D work (very little gaming).
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Anyone else having TV-out problems

akoum
It appears that when I use the Refresh Rate Fix I can't use TV-out. If I just install just the 27. 42 drivers TVout works great but the refresh fix won't, but when I install the same drivers modified to use the fix the TVout is junk.
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Please help Here are some BSODs for you guys to play with.

Sparkhard
Ok, here is a rundown on my system lately. I had been running XP. In XP everything was seemengly messed up. Randomn freezes and problems with XP reading my drives on my Promise 66 card. The frezzes I thought were from maybe cooling, but i would have RC5 running and then play a movie on WMP at the same time.
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Choopy Sound in XP [NES emulator]

shassouneh
Hi All, I am quite sad to find out my favorite NES emulator, RockNESX has severe sound problems under XP. This is due to the funky changes Micro$oft decided to make in XP regarding sound emulation and time-frame skipping etc.
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