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FPS Scores are Bad :(

donald
Hi have a small problem with my GA-8IRXP and Geforce 4 4400 from creative, i dont get good frame rates Ran the following benchmarks 3D MArk 2001 SE and got 4400 and GL Mark gave me an average of 21 FPS.
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P4 Temperature

cbriddon
Hi I have a P4 1. 8A and and ASUS P4B266 motherboard. It runs REALLY well but I was wondering what temperature the mobo and processor are supposed to run at. The mobo is running about 30C and the processor at about 40C.
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CD-RW problems

areid
I am having trouble using my CD-RW on a laptop with XP Pro installed. Read-write CDs which have been recorded on another (W2K) machine using Nero 5. 5 can be read on my XP machine, but all files have readonly attributes, and I cannot delete files or write to the disks! XP invites me to erase the disk, which will al ...
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Which Chipset 845G or 850E?

sapiens74
Buying a new MB with a 2. 26 GHZ P4. Just need to know which MB would be best. ABIT BG7 - which has the 845G chipset or the ASUS P4T533-C which uses Rambus? Cost isnt an issue but Im level headed enough not to want to spend double counting the PC1066 RAM.
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WinXP love list of Hardware?

reversing_drive
I am considering building my own system, Considering i get to individually pick the bits and peices that would go in, i was wondering what under each hardware category is best supported and runs best under XP? Since often the $/Performance/Stabilty ratio is dependant on particulary brands within the Hardware market ...
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How to get 640 x 480 in XP

Avalanche
Hi all, I was wondering if it's at all possible to get the resolution on my system down to 640 x 480, since I have a GeForce2 , even the basic MS drivers put the system to a minimum resolution of 800 x 600, and I have no access to anything lower.
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Voodoo 3 3000G 16mb on XP HELP!

BabDole
Here is the problem. It is a Voodoo 3 3000G 16mb card running on Windows XP, 500mhz Pentium III, 160 mb ram. We are trying to run counter-strike with it, on Direct3d (says that opengl isn't supported) 800x600.
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IDE channel/drive setup

Eston Eurel Melton IV
I'm looking for advice. I have a PIII700 and, between the two built-in ATA66 IDE channels and two ATA100 channels on a PCI add-in card, I have four total channels for eight possible drive connections.
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FIC PA 2013 Win2K compatibility

dtpetty
On the compatibility page, someone reports this MB is Windows 2000 compatible with the explanation Download Windows 2000 compatible bios. Does anyone know where I can find such a bios. The latest from FIC is no help.
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Fire Wire Cards : PhotoDV MotoDV

cooter138
Last summer I upgraded my computer from windows 98 to windows 2K. . . including HDD, procs, mem, MoBo, Video card blah blah blah. . . I attempted to use the original PhotoDV/MotoDV firewire card that I purchased for $300.
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Liteon DVD drive has problems reading DVDs

thekourier
I've got a wierd problem with my LiteOn DVD-163 drive. It will read CDs/CDR's etc just fine. But if I put in any DVD (Matrix, etc. ) it can't read it. Acts like there's nothing in the drive. However, if I leave the DVD in the drive and reboot the system it will read it just fine and I can swap DVDs in or out.
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P4B-LX - more then 512mb of mem?Is it possible............

Mr.Guvernment
Hello all, okay, i bought a Sony Vaio computer (cheap *wink**wink*) basically, Sony says the max memory is 512mb! But i flashed the bios with the lates bios from Asus, and Asus says the board can hold 2g of memory, however, i have flashed the bios, and reintalled my own XP, and yet, i just put in 2 x 512mb chips, b ...
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Dell Monitor bad?

Dredd
I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop. I had to reinstall Windows XP on it and when I went to adjust the refresh rate it tells me I have multiple monitors. And none of those are able to be set at higher than 60hertz.
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STB Velocity 4400 NTSC under NT 4.0

jcullen
Has ANYONE managed to successfully enable the TV out function of this card, as I have loaded the latest nVidia driver available, with no result. TVtool is also completely unresponsive, as it will not even execute.
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TNT2 PCI problem with saveVGA

tulamidan
My TNT2 PCI Card doesn't work properly on my XP System. The driver is installed but XP uses the saveVGA driver instead. How do I convince my System to use the TNT2 driver? -I've tried to deactivate the saveVGA but the result you can read in an other Threat ) - I've also tried the Detonator XP driver but Windows cou ...
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teac cd-rw 40x burn speed problems

Gregor
i have nero 5. 5. 8. 0. and clonecd 4. 0. 0. 1 installed on my computer. recently i bought a new cd-burner Teac CD-RW 40xburn speed (burn-proof, cd-text,. . . ). when i want to compile a new cd in nero and grab the files from my HD everything looks okay (3.
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driver problem

dizarludba
i bought a PC card 32-bit CardBus Type II slot from local store. This PC Card has USB 2. 0 compliance. However my windows ( windows xp ) cant find driver for this hardware. Is it mean that there isn't any USB 2 driver found recently , and what can i do to get the driver of this card.
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FIC PA-2013 Win2K Compatbility

dtpetty
Someone reports this MB is Windows 2000 compatible with the explanation Download Windows 2000 compatible bios. Does anyone know where I can find such a bios. The latest from FIC is no help. .
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