Intel has released a driver for the Intel Ultra ATA Storage.
Thousands of Dell customers are still waiting for their Windows 2000 upgrade - four months after Microsoft launched the operating system.
The delays concern drivers needed for the Texas company´s NT4 workstations. According to Dell, there have been "delays in a number of drivers" from certain third party vendors, which Dell chose not to name.
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The delays concern drivers needed for the Texas company´s NT4 workstations. According to Dell, there have been "delays in a number of drivers" from certain third party vendors, which Dell chose not to name.
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Hardware-One has just received the official Press Release of the Matrox Millenium G450.
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Thanks to Anthony for this one:
While the CT4700/ES1370 cards were not amongst those products sold under the PCI128 label slated for Windows 2000 drivers, our development team decided to reevaluate their feasibility. This change resulted from requests from Creative customers in each of their respective business units throughout the world. Additionally, as you have probably seen there were also subsequent request from some newsgroup participants as well. There was never any announcement that Creative Labs was dropping support for these products.
Harvey Fong
Technical Marketing Specialist
Creative Labs Inc.
1901 McCarthy Blvd.
Milpitas CA 95035
While the CT4700/ES1370 cards were not amongst those products sold under the PCI128 label slated for Windows 2000 drivers, our development team decided to reevaluate their feasibility. This change resulted from requests from Creative customers in each of their respective business units throughout the world. Additionally, as you have probably seen there were also subsequent request from some newsgroup participants as well. There was never any announcement that Creative Labs was dropping support for these products.
Harvey Fong
Technical Marketing Specialist
Creative Labs Inc.
1901 McCarthy Blvd.
Milpitas CA 95035
Echo Digital Audio has released beta 1.4 (for both Windows 2000 and Windows NT) drivers for their Mona/Layla24/Gina24/Darla24 series of sound cards. Thanks Hoju3.
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ViaHardware has posted a review on the Luckytech p694a. Here a clip:
Saw over ActiveWin that Creative drops the Windows 2000 support for the SB PC128 CT4700:
Creative Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREAF) has privately announced to their internal newsgroup subscribers that Windows 2000 support for the Creative SoundBlaster PCI128 model CT4700 was being dropped. This marks the latest round of support cuts for the manufacturer. Included with these cuts are all products acquired from Ensoniq last year as a result of that company´s acquisition by Creative. In all, over 30 models of PCI-based sound cards have been dropped leaving only those models based on the SoundBlaster LIVE! EMU-10K1 chipset and the Creative´s value-line embedded chipset, the ES1373. The ES1373 is included in many systems from Dell, Gateway, Compaq and in motherboards from Intel.
The CT4700 model PCI128 product is less than a year old and was conceived and developed after beta test versions of Windows 2000 were made publicly available to hardware vendors. Creative supplied "basic" drivers to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) for inclusion with Windows 2000 and acquired a listing on Microsoft´s Windows 2000 Hardware Compatibility List. Although Creative´s website http://www.americas.creative.com/win2k.html has been advertising new drivers for the "Sound Blaster PCI Series" since the beginning of the year, their release was repeatedly delayed until last month when, of the roughly dozen models in the Sound Blaster PCI Series only the CT475x driver was finally released. Creative´s release claims support for the other products was never planned.
The "basic" drivers included with Windows 2000 were riddled with bugs including the inability to record audio from microphone sources (preventing net-to-phone and teleconferencing applications), no support for Creative´s own EAX (Environmental Audio Extensions), lack of the four speaker support offered by the card by the Windows 95 drivers, no hardware MIDI support and serious noise problems with a wide range of motherboards. Microsoft has since dropped the a large number of Creative´s audio product from the Windows 2000 Hardware Compatibility List.
Creative Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREAF) has privately announced to their internal newsgroup subscribers that Windows 2000 support for the Creative SoundBlaster PCI128 model CT4700 was being dropped. This marks the latest round of support cuts for the manufacturer. Included with these cuts are all products acquired from Ensoniq last year as a result of that company´s acquisition by Creative. In all, over 30 models of PCI-based sound cards have been dropped leaving only those models based on the SoundBlaster LIVE! EMU-10K1 chipset and the Creative´s value-line embedded chipset, the ES1373. The ES1373 is included in many systems from Dell, Gateway, Compaq and in motherboards from Intel.
The CT4700 model PCI128 product is less than a year old and was conceived and developed after beta test versions of Windows 2000 were made publicly available to hardware vendors. Creative supplied "basic" drivers to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) for inclusion with Windows 2000 and acquired a listing on Microsoft´s Windows 2000 Hardware Compatibility List. Although Creative´s website http://www.americas.creative.com/win2k.html has been advertising new drivers for the "Sound Blaster PCI Series" since the beginning of the year, their release was repeatedly delayed until last month when, of the roughly dozen models in the Sound Blaster PCI Series only the CT475x driver was finally released. Creative´s release claims support for the other products was never planned.
The "basic" drivers included with Windows 2000 were riddled with bugs including the inability to record audio from microphone sources (preventing net-to-phone and teleconferencing applications), no support for Creative´s own EAX (Environmental Audio Extensions), lack of the four speaker support offered by the card by the Windows 95 drivers, no hardware MIDI support and serious noise problems with a wide range of motherboards. Microsoft has since dropped the a large number of Creative´s audio product from the Windows 2000 Hardware Compatibility List.
Thanks to DeadCats for pointing me on this thread (New Creative Dxr3 Win2k Beta Drivers) here on the message board. The new Creative Dxr3 beta drivers has been causing some problems. Among others is that it screws up Windows Media Player.
HardwareCentral has posted a Iwill DU3160 Dual Ultra160 SCSI Controller review. Here a snippet:
Dan´s Data has posted a review on the Acer 7763P portable DLP projector.
iXBT LABS has posted a review of the so long awaited 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 Graphics Card. 3dfx baby has finally reached the shopshelves. No matter that the performance isn´t that incredible, however, the image quality is really striking, which won´t leave the army of gamers and 3dfx fans indifferent.
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Want to try out Windows 2000, but afraid that it may render your computer unusable? PowerQuest utilities PartitionMagic and Drive Image help you experiment safely.
PartitionMagic 5.01 lets you create, move, resize, hide, and unhide partitions in relative safety. Once you´ve created an extra partition for Windows 2000 (or any other OS), you can move from one OS to the other without any risk.
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PartitionMagic 5.01 lets you create, move, resize, hide, and unhide partitions in relative safety. Once you´ve created an extra partition for Windows 2000 (or any other OS), you can move from one OS to the other without any risk.
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We were all eager with anticipation here at The Register - June the 19th was rapidly nearing. This was supposed to be the magic date when users of HP´s all in one OfficeJet 500 (including us) would finally be able to download drivers to make them work under Windows 2000.
Imagine then our dismay when we checked out HP´s web site here today and discovered the drivers have quietly slipped another six weeks and are now billed to ship on July 24. The 600 and 700 series OfficeJets have slipped too - to July 17 and 10 respectively.
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Imagine then our dismay when we checked out HP´s web site here today and discovered the drivers have quietly slipped another six weeks and are now billed to ship on July 24. The 600 and 700 series OfficeJets have slipped too - to July 17 and 10 respectively.
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PowerStrip 2.69 makes it easy to define custom resolutions using the latest 3dfx Voodoo3/4/5 drivers, and has better support for VIA AGP 4X chipsets. Additionally, the GeForce2 DDR memory clock ceiling is up in this release, to 210MHz (420MHz), and a couple of outstanding issues with the official Detonator 5.22 drivers are resolved. PCIList has also been updated to 2.10, and now properly reports AGP aperture size with VIA chipsets.
Hardware-One has posted a review which compare Creative´s GeForce2 GTS to 3dfx´s Voodoo 5 5500 AGP card. Here a quote:
Dan´s Data has posted a review on the AMD Slot A "Thunderbird" 700MHz Athlon CPU.
Mustek has posted the follow scanner drivers for Windows 2000:
Flatbed Scanner : ScanExpress Series
Model Name: ScanExpress 1200 USB
Model Name: ScanExpress 1200 ED
Model Name: ScanExpress 1200 CU
Model Name: ScanExpress 1200 UB
Model Name: ScanExpress 600 CU
Model Name: ScanExpress 1200 ED Plus
Flatbed Scanner : Paragon Series
None !!!
Flatbed Scanner : ScanMagic Series
Model Name: ScanMagic 1200 CU
Model Name: ScanMagic 600 CU
Model Name: ScanMagic 1200 ED
Model Name: ScanMagic 1200 ED Plus
Thanks trodLAN for this information.
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Flatbed Scanner : ScanExpress Series
Model Name: ScanExpress 1200 USB
Model Name: ScanExpress 1200 ED
Model Name: ScanExpress 1200 CU
Model Name: ScanExpress 1200 UB
Model Name: ScanExpress 600 CU
Model Name: ScanExpress 1200 ED Plus
Flatbed Scanner : Paragon Series
None !!!
Flatbed Scanner : ScanMagic Series
Model Name: ScanMagic 1200 CU
Model Name: ScanMagic 600 CU
Model Name: ScanMagic 1200 ED
Model Name: ScanMagic 1200 ED Plus
Thanks trodLAN for this information.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.- June 9, 2000 -3dfx Interactive
Inc. (NASDAQ:TDFX), today announced the availability of its highly anticipated Voodoo5 5500 AGP in leading retail chains and e-tailers worldwide. Voodoo5 5500 AGP is the first consumer graphics board to offer application-independent, 3D API compatible, real-time, full-scene hardware anti-aliasing (FSAA). Anti-aliasing is a 3D-graphics rendering technique that eliminates visual artifacts such as jagged edges, moiré patterns and pixel popping, rendering problems commonly seen on competitive products. The result of utilizing the Voodoo5 anti-aliasing technology is a much more realistic 3D rendered image.
On the heels of the company´s most successful pre-order campaign-the Voodoo5 pre-order program revenues exceeded last year´s Voodoo3 program sales by nearly 25 percent-retail demand for the Voodoo5 5500 is expected to be high. "We were excited to be a part of the Voodoo5 pre-order program and we are delighted that it met with such success," stated Michele Azar, merchandising manager at Best Buy, the nation´s largest consumer electronics retailer. "We anticipate that consumer demand for this new product will be even greater as it arrives in our stores."
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Inc. (NASDAQ:TDFX), today announced the availability of its highly anticipated Voodoo5 5500 AGP in leading retail chains and e-tailers worldwide. Voodoo5 5500 AGP is the first consumer graphics board to offer application-independent, 3D API compatible, real-time, full-scene hardware anti-aliasing (FSAA). Anti-aliasing is a 3D-graphics rendering technique that eliminates visual artifacts such as jagged edges, moiré patterns and pixel popping, rendering problems commonly seen on competitive products. The result of utilizing the Voodoo5 anti-aliasing technology is a much more realistic 3D rendered image.On the heels of the company´s most successful pre-order campaign-the Voodoo5 pre-order program revenues exceeded last year´s Voodoo3 program sales by nearly 25 percent-retail demand for the Voodoo5 5500 is expected to be high. "We were excited to be a part of the Voodoo5 pre-order program and we are delighted that it met with such success," stated Michele Azar, merchandising manager at Best Buy, the nation´s largest consumer electronics retailer. "We anticipate that consumer demand for this new product will be even greater as it arrives in our stores."
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