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Can not remove Radeon 9700 PRO Control Panel - HELP

MikeZ
For some reason, nothing I do seems to work. I try the add/remove program in the control panel, and it shows that it is removing the latest Catalyst 3 control panel and I need to reboot. But when I reboot, it is still there! I tried deleting files and editing the registry, but nothing seems to work.
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Dell PowerEdge 1600SC and Registered DDR

sapiens74
I just ordered a PowerEdge 1600SC from Dell It comes with 128MB ram and I need to order an extra 512MB ECC Registered Ram. Who should I order from? I was looking at Crucial. THey have a good deal on 512MB I need it for Stability and I'm going to test.
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Hard Drive Question

ThC 129
I have a WD 80 gb drive, not the nice ones with the 8mb cache, just the regular old 80gb ATA 100 drive. Now this drive is about a year and a half maybe 2 years old. Now when the drive spins up, i get a kinda high pitched whirring sound.
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CPU Usage Will not drop below 20% at Idle

CyberGenX
Just built a 1. 7GHz Celeron, 256MB PC2100, Intel 845 MB, Sound Blaster 128, Intel Nic, GeForce 2 GTS. Loaded FRESH INSTALL of Win2K and all Packs and Patches. Only have Norton 7. 51 running, no others programs or driver helpers.
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Something strange my 20gig disk turns into a 7gig???????????

Tomay
;( I have a WDC WD205BA 20gig hdd on a QDI BrillianX IS/2000. When I autodetect the hdd it detects it correctly TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANDZ SECTOR MODE USER 20523 2495 255 0 39769 63 LBA But the nex time I boot even if I press ctrl+alt+del the disk turns into a 7927MB drive, or at least the bios reports it as ...
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XP and Epson Stylus Photo 950 problem

Tulensrma
I have a problem with my Epson Stylus Photo 950 printer and Epson has not been able to solve it. According to them it only occurs with some Windows XP / Epson 950 combinations and cannot be fixed by a driver update.
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Removing SCSI disk wreaks havoc on dual boot system :(

Ron_Jeremy
The scenario: Win2K on a single SCSI disk (ID#0). I added a 2nd disk (ID#3), installed Redhat 8 on it & used the system in a dual boot configuration without any problem. If I physically remove the disk with Redhat on it, my system does not boot into Windows.
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Microsoft Sidewinder 3d Pro works under Windows XP

Lukas
Hi all, just to notice that microsoft's sidewinder 3d pro works under xp. Instructions: 1) Plug it into the joystick port 2) Control Panel > Game Peripherals 3) Add > Microsoft Sidewinder (Autodetect) 4) Configure buttons 5) ENJOY! If you have any questions mail me: lukas@edengames.
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Monitor problems

Guardian
Hi guys: just bought an IBM P96 19 monitor capable of 1600x1200@85 hz. . . but i can't go beyond 1280x1024@60 hz the drivers from IBM don't help at all Win XP insist in limit me at 1280. . . . . Any clue how fix the problem? Is there any manner to customize the monitor settings? thanks in advance.
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KT3 Ultra2 + 350w ps = still no boot up

jeff*
Well, here's the current system I'm trying to get going. MSI KT3 Ultra2 athlonxp 2100 w/ a volcano7 geforce 2mx 256mb ddr333 60gb maxtor 7200 32x lg cd I previously had a (generic) 300w. . Well, that was enough to run at 2100+ with random reboots on heavy loads.
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New CPU = random lockups

Avalanche
Hi all. I just upgraded my CPU to the highest spec my mobo can officially take, an AthlonXP 1800+. Surprisingly it runs close to 10 degrees cooler than my old 1. 2Ghz chip, so I know for a fact it's not overheating.
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Bug with rendering =(

Human_Chaos|TC|
well, sorry about my english. I have a XP T-bred 1800+, ABIT KR7A-133R, 256MB DDR SAMSUNG PC2700, XFX GF4 Ti4200 64MB DDR rev 1. 2 (dvi, blue). I have formatted this pc with my new CPU (t-bred) in place of the old palomino, installed Via 4in1 hyperion 4.
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Best 2D - yes, 2D - graphics card

Rogue Jedi X
The topic kinda says it all. My friend is looking for a good 2D graphics card, since he uses those Photoshop-like programs so much. He's currently using a GeForce card (don't ask which, he never told me) and he's about to hurl it out the window :x Any suggestions?.
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Optical mouse light stays on

TheSam
Hi everyone I have an ABIT SR7-8X motherboard and a Logitech Wheel Mouse Optical with a PS/2 adapter. When I turn off the computer I find that the mouse light is still on and the mouse is active. I could turn this off with a jumper on my other computer but there doesn't seem to be one on this.
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Possible Hard Disk Faliure HELP!!

Curley_Boy
I think one of my HDDs is on the blink About a week ago I heard one of them 'clicking' repetitivly so I powered down the PC for a bit and when I booted it again all seemed well. . . However this morning when I turned on the machine I got the 'Boot Device Faliure' message (or something very simlar you know the one i ...
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