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Asus A7V266-E any good?

Preacher
Please let me know your experiences, good or bad ones, about the Asus A7V266-E Mainboard, especially if it has similar / same problems with data corruption as boards with KT133A / 686b Chipsets. I want to kick out my Abit KT7A-Raid (with the bugged 686b Southbridge) and replace it with the Asus A7V266-E.
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voodoo2 on win2000

pucko
I seem to have a very common problem with the voodoo2 card on win2000. I've searched the forum, and found some similar problems, but no solutions that works. I have a voodoo2 card of unknown brand (which have worked very well in windows98/me with the reference drivers), so there's nothing wrong with the card itself.
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ATI All In Wonder 128

auger
Having serious problems with ATI All In Wonder 128 on Win2k SP2. System freezes while watching TV after just a few minutes. System will freeze after a few hours while not watching TV. Temps all ok. Has anyone had success with this card? Have all the latest drivers & ATI software.
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Power Supply Question

RavishingRocket
I currently have a 300watt on a P3 500mhz and 256mb ram. Im gettin a new mobo and a AMD XP 1900+ and 512mb ram, and was wondering if my current power supply could handle the new hardware or should i move up to a 400watt.
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RAID Questions.

cyberguru
Im probably going to get a motherboard with RAID 0/1 capabilities and I was readin some of the stuff about it in the mobo Manual. It said in there that the RAID volumes will be the size of the smallest disk and that any space left on a larger would be unusable.
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XP cannot 'find' CD-ROM ?

truper
Hi: I have a dual-boot system. . Windows 98 and XP Pro. They actually co-exist quite well with only an occassional glitch that can normally be fixed or eliminated. However, XP will not recognize my CD-ROM or my Burner.
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'Hardware malfunction' - VIA KT133 issue?

Nightsoul
I have a VIA KT133-based MSI Pro2 motherboard. When installing Windows 2000, it copies the stuff to the hard drive, but when it boots from the hard drive for the first time and starts checking what devices the system has in it - when it's in the middle of the 'check bar', the diskette drive makes somes sounds, the ...
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XP Video card suggestions

fruitpithemagician
I have a old 450mhz, p3. Running 2k then xp (both fresh installs) i have had nothing but driver problems with an ATI Rage 128 and an ATI allinwonder pro 128 cards. I have tried all the updates and different versions of drivers in the last few years, and now I am just done with it.
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Intel P4 vs. AMD XP what's the deal?

CyberGenX
I have been reading a lot about how Intel is spending big money to tell people that the + rating on AMD chips is misleading. Also I have read that they are comparing the AMD XP 2000+ to the P4 2. 2 Gig and so on.
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KT7A-RAID [v1.3] Question

Alien
So I finally got my KT7A-RAID & Athlon XP 1900+, & intend to install them later today, but having read through the manual I have 2 questions. I have 3 IDE drives & I would like to put them all on seperate channels.
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Mouse driver help in NT4

Budious
Im running NT4 SP6 Workstation on a pc here at home. The other night I knocked over the tower unit and it locked up so I reset it. Now the mouse driver no longer loads correctly, I verified the mouse is still functional when I booted to a floppy application.
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pentium 4 question

Vulcan
hey. . . . could someone please shed some light on the pentium 4 series ?? the 1. 6 ghz and above come in several flavours : 423/478 pin , 0. 13/0. 18 micron and with 256/512 cache. . . what is the difference ?is it that important to the home user ?? (Games\divx) and how come one motherboard, the intel 850 support ...
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help with XP and my Slave HD

newbietothecomp
hi i dont know **** about comps i just installed a secondary HD on my comp and i have 1 exactly the same already as my master they both 30 gig HDs but the new 1 i just hooked up is only reading 1. 97gb why if its a 30 gig HD will it say 1.
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Hard drive from hell!

Brian Frank
Okay, I've got a 20GB Maxtor, that I think is going kaput. First, I get a new motherboard (Epox 8K3A+) and, now this hard drive seems to be giving me errors from hell, yet a 2nd 40GB drive hasn't be givin me any trouble at all.
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Office XP forgets Task Pane?

CyberGenX
I like task pane. How can i get it to DEFAULT ON or STAY ON all the time. It comes and goes as it f*ckin pleases, or until I got to View Task Pane or Right click on the Toolbar and bring it back. Some one help me for a change.
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Onboard sound - C-Media 8738: Good or Bad ?

Corinthian
I am considering buying an Asus A7V333 motherboard. This board has a C-Media 8738 6-Channel Audio soundchip. Is it any good ? How about EAX support ? (The C-Media web page says it is EAX compatible, but is the EAX quality any good ?) A hardware site (don't remember which one) claims it is comparable to the Soundbla ...
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System Performance feels like its lagging to me...

pr-man
Well I here is my system in short form T-bird @ 1. 3 384 PC2100 DDR Epoz 8K7A Latest Bios Ati AIW Radeon 32 meg DDR 80 gig Maxtor ATA133 (running at ata100) 7200rpm 20 Gig WD ata-66 running at ata-66 5400rpm Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and other stuff such as cdroms,dvd etc Problem I have when I run a game such as Jedi ...
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Asus A7V333 is not compatible w/ ATI Radeon All-in-one-wonde

ipman
Have anyone have compatibility problem with the Asus A7V333 and ATI Radeon all-in-one wonder video card? my login screen on windows xp freeze everytime it get there. I put the Nvidia Geforce 2 in there and no problem, but when switch over the ATI, the problem appear again.
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