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K7 Pro ATX IR3 Mainboard

chason
Hello there, I have a K7 Pro MS-6195 ATX IR3 Mainboard with a AMD Athlon 650mhz Processor. I want to have a faster system. Can I replace a higher processor such as for exemple a AMD XP 1600+ or a AMD XP 1800+.
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Strange Behavior with Mouse and Keyboard

jmmijo
Hello, I just signed up to this board, very nice and lots of good info I must say Anyways here is the issue at hand, I also apologize for the size of this post: After a certain period of time, this can vary from a couple of hours to a couple of days actually, I'll be browsing a web page or two and when I go to clic ...
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Live! 5.1 Digital and Winxp home...

Uykucu
Hi guys, first of all please no non-sense reply's. . . I would expect decent answers from the heavys. Config is. : P4 478 pin Asus P4 TE i850 512MB RD Ram (256+ filler on each bank) Leadtek Geforce 2 mx 32 MB Apache 56K Int.
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Installing 2nd Harddrive

Bennyk
1. Installing 2nd hardrive will it upset my Xp os system? 2. Then can partion the 2nd harddrive in windows? 3. Is there a good program mover which will let me move a program from one partion to a other? Cheers.
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Graphics Card

embj
What is the best graphics card that is under $150, has at least 64mb of RAM, and is a PCI card?
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Dual monitors question...

Draftsman
Ok, I just installed dual monitors, everything seems to be working in relativly good order except ONE THING! The secondary PCI card says it is the #1 card under the Display Properties in stead of the #2 device.
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Why with my Santa cruz sound card in my computer i get hard

imtim83
Why with my Santa cruz sound card in my computer i get hard lockup in 3dmark2001SE and games. In games the sound repeats when its locks up. I am on windows 2000 pro with SP2. Ok my system specs are: Abit KT7A raid mobo Athlon XP 1800+ 256 MB of pc133 sdram by crucial Maxtor 45 gig 7200 rpm HD with ATA 100, < 8.
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New SB Live! drivers and DRM

Mekadave
I downloaded the new Live! drivers for Win2k/XP last night (saw the link on Blues). For the heck of it, I decided to look through the EULA for sneaky stuff. I normally look through EULAs that come with apps for that, but since Microsoft stuck that Digital Rights Management crap in the Media Player patch, I've becom ...
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Latest TNT 1 Official Drivers

LordCrew
I'm currently putting back together a system with all my old devices so I can sell it as a whole and I have a Diamond Viper 550 (TNT 1) in it. Does anyone knows which are the latest official Detonators drivers which support the TNT 1 chipset or the best for that specific card?.
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Driver W2K Canon LBP 660

Lupo Nero
Hi friends,I'm a problem and i hope you can help me ! I'm searching the W2K Canon LBP 660 Drivers but I don't find any (sorry for my english,but I'm Italian). Someone can help me or send me this drivers ??? Thank you.
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Memory / Video Card Weirdness

dilligaf1701
Ok - Here's a weird one. . . I have three Machines at home 2 with windows XP and one with Windows2000 The problem I have is with the windows2000 machine. Specs are K6-II 380mhz 64mb pc100 ram (more on this in a momemnt) 2xNIC cards 1xWestern Digital Pipeline 2mb vga PCI card I use this machine as a router for the o ...
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Partitioning help

pmistry
Ok guys here is the deal, I have a Western Digital 80GB 7200 RPM drive configured as 4 20GB FAT32 partitions. I had Windows 98 SE installed on C:, and Windows 2000 Pro SP2 on D:, E: and F: are just room for programs and stuff.
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modem driver

gaskellr
Could anyone please help me with my problem. I am working under windows xp and possess an Ambient modem. THe present driver I have only allows me to down load at around 30,000bps and not 44,000 like it should.
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printer problems

Laura
I am having problems with my printers under xp home edition. I have installed new drivers that are suppost to work but I cannot get anything to print. .
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Soundblaster Live + WinNT4

BardCat
So yeah winnt4 and sblive won't work properly: As you can see, the driver is listed but I can't select it. I installed the latest version of sound blaster drivers for winnt4. I have a 5. 1 but it said it wasn't 5.
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Artic Silver 3: general questions ?

Ant -|- One
I installed last week my brand new Volcano 7 with Artic Silver 3. I was told by my reseller that I should, once a month, wipe AS3 out and put a fresh layer of it on the cpu core because AS3 dries and temps might go up again.
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