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Windows Hardware 9627

GeForce2 MX200

Champion_R

Biggest Piece of sh*t card. Even with my new setup I only get 1320 3dmarks. Still yet to clock it up tho. Still proberly won't break 2000 3dmarks. .

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Last reply by Brian Frank, 2002-12-26 18:11

Windows Hardware 9627

WinXP very picky with DMA support for IDE DVD-ROM drives

Phalanx-Imawano

Just learned something about WinXP and ATAPI DVD-ROM drives - it's very strict with DMA support for them. Whereas Win95/98/ME will try as much as it can to enable DMA support if you activate it in the CDROM device properties, WinXP will check the bios bootup configuration and comply with it (i.

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Last reply by pane00, 2002-12-26 03:43

Windows Hardware 9627

41.34 Detonators?

Marktait

Anyone know when the 41. 34 det's are released, its apperently the directx9 supported driver set. .

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Last reply by Marktait, 2002-12-24 19:59

Windows Hardware 9627

question about a cd recorder

el_vago32

ok, could someone tell me about the BenQ recorders. . . compatibility issues, quality, durability. . . . the thing is that a company is distribuiting 'em (48x speed)at a very cheap price (less tahn 35 dollars), well, that's really cheap in comparisson with other ones in my country (i'm not in USA).

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Last reply by sapiens74, 2002-12-24 16:58

Windows Hardware 9627

Wierd Hardware issues with XP

dave.green1

Hey guys, Here are my system specs: P4 1. 8 GHZ 512 MB SDRAM (PC 133) 40 GB HDD (set as Primary Master) 16 ASUS DVD-Rom (Set as primary Slave) 12x8x32 CD-RW (Set as Seconday Master) Radeon 7200 64 MD SDRAM AGP Windows XP Pro w/SP1 installed Every once and a while, my comp will freeze and I lose the CD-RW.

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Last reply by Mr.Guvernment, 2002-12-24 05:24

Windows Hardware 9627

A "Merry X-mas & Happy New Year" present

adamvjackson

Wow, what a great find! I was actually in the process (over the past few months) of creating something similar, but that is so much more complete! Thanks! P. S. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and everyone else, too! Adam.

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Last reply by adamvjackson, 2002-12-22 22:20

Windows Hardware 9627

40.41 det's.... only 75hz??

Edguy

okay. . . i installed the 40. 41. . from nvidias site. . . . on 2 systems (one with GF4 Ti4200 and one with GF2 GTS). . . so. . . same problem. . . . i can choose refreshrate as usual. . up to 100hz (all my monitor takes).

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Last reply by Avalance, 2002-12-22 06:10

Windows Hardware 9627

eTEC PT 3805 ADSL PCI Modem Installation problems

Jonno

As the subject title I have Windows XP Home with Service Pack 1 installed. My motherboard is an Epox 8k3a The installation process does not complete with the message An error occurred during the installation of the device followed underneath by The data is invalid When looking in device manager there is a yellow qu ...

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Last reply by Jonno, 2002-12-21 14:12

Windows Hardware 9627

Problems with ATA100 RAID Controller

iks

Hello there, Recently I bought ATA100 RAID Controller (Dawicontrol DC-100 UDMA-100 controller with Highpoint chip HPT370) so I striped my two 80GB Seagate HDD drives in one 160GB Array. Now in my case data blocks are written inteleaved between 2 disk drives, so the performance shuld be nearly doubled.

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Last reply by Brian Frank, 2002-12-20 20:50

Windows Hardware 9627

ReRegister Win XP with new HDD?

Jones

We just lost a hard drive at work, and are running Win XP. When we install a new HD do we have to re-register XP?.

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Last reply by BladeRunner, 2002-12-19 18:07

Windows Hardware 9627

Intel SpeedStep on Pentium 4-M.... NEVER RUNS AT FULL SPEED

wadsy001

I have recently got a Dell Inspiron 4150, Pentium 4 1. 8Ghz Notebook. I am having issues with the chip NEVER running above 1. 2Ghz. I have played with every bios and power manangement setting in Windows XP and still for some reason cant get it to run at its 1.

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Last reply by DosFreak, 2002-12-19 02:34

Windows Hardware 9627

ASUS A7M266-D with WinXP unstable to the maxx.

Wasup

From day one my machine has been extremely unstable. Basically I can't do much of anything for any period of time. The system crashes at the drop of a hat. If I drag to resize a window it crashes, if I try to load any media it crashes.

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Last reply by Marktait, 2002-12-18 22:02

Windows Hardware 9627

Sidewinder Force Feedback Precision Pro

Cheezestk

Please excuse my ignorance I am learning fast here on windows 2000, where can I find a driver for th old force feedback joystick? Mine works fine and I see no reason to buy the new one yet. .

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Last reply by Cheezestk, 2002-12-18 08:52

Windows Hardware 9627

Guys need help with HDs and Cdroms setup

pr-man

ok guys I need help because the way I have it setup now is not running well at all and is causing cd burning problems. ok I have a Epox 8K7A mobo. 1 cd-rw drive, 1 dvd-rom drive, 1 80 gig primary HD and one 45 gig storage HD and 1 promise Ultra100tx2 controller card Ihave the 80HD on mobo IDE1 as master I have CD-r ...

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Last reply by adamvjackson, 2002-12-18 04:23

Windows Hardware 9627

Sidewinder 4.0 Software for FF2 Joystick?

Cirion

Anyone know where I can download the Sidewinder 4. 0 software for my joystick? I have Windows XP installet, and my joystick came with the SW3 software. If you have it and want to email it, send it to ronny@askerdata.

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Last reply by Cirion, 2002-12-17 09:31

Windows Hardware 9627

Does anybody actually have the Sidewinder v4.0 software?

Ed Norris

PLease, please post it somewhere. IN their infinite wisdom, MS only snail-mails it, tho you can DL all prior versions. Real modern. ;( Ed Norris nospam1@optonline. net < (real email adress).

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Last reply by Cirion, 2002-12-17 09:30

Windows Hardware 9627

3DFX + GeForce = GeForce FX ?? Hmmm

CyberGenX

So, how many of you out there noticed the new (old) tag Nvidia is sporting? Looks like the last 3DFX project hybrid with GeForce technology. I can't wait to get this card. Opinions Please. . . . .

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Last reply by Ali, 2002-12-16 04:07

Windows Hardware 9627

Is this strange??

Marktait

I bought 2x 80GB Western digital Caviar SE 8MB Drives and put them on a raid controller on IDE1 (Striping), i then put my 80GB IBM on IDE2 (Striping) on the controller by itself. I thought it would be faster to copy files around on the caviar drives but if i copy a 550MB file from my IBM -> WD drive it takes abo ...

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Last reply by Ali, 2002-12-16 04:01

Windows Hardware 9627

Matrox RT X10 capture card... Video card options?

Curley_Boy

My dad is putting together his own video editing system (with my help ) and we're stumped on which video card to go for. Obviously we don't want to skimp on performance, but since he's not going to be doing any 3D gaming we don't need a Ge-Force FX beast either.

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Last reply by Ali, 2002-12-15 20:20

Windows Hardware 9627

Abit GF4 Ti 4600

Ali

Hi I just want to see if anybody has any experience with ABIT videocards, especially with their Geforce 4 ti 4600. Is it any good compare to the others? I mean for $400 CAD!.

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Last reply by Ali, 2002-12-15 19:41