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update: rma'ed video card. installed new ati 9800 pro (cat 5.9) (cleaned out old drivers with driver cleaner pro). still getting vpu recovery error / reboots /lockups.

good to know. will have to sit down and look over the acer. thx for the info

how does acer stack up quality wise?

this one caught my secondary to the price. http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Gateway-...m/oid/133615/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do Gateway Notebook PC (MX6027) GTW MX6027 ? Celeron® M processor 360 ? 15.4? WXGA display ? 256MB of DDR memory ? 60GB hard drive ? CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive ...

i have had a compaq presario 910us for 3 plus years. it has developed some issues that have hindered its mobility (short battery life, move it too much and it reboots) so i would like to replace it. uses for new notebook. wireless web surfing office programs word, powerpoint. no...

bump for the night crew

a friend has mentioned that one can expect issues when matching an ati video card with a nvidia motherboard like i currently have (and having issues with). opinions?

speaking of warranty....my 9800 pro is a saphhire card bought thru newegg. bought it 10/20/04.

reset bios. no improvement. hangs/crashes seem to be happening faster now in game. ran memtest 84 for 3 cycles with both sticks ram = no errors. any other thoughts.....i hate to buy another video card and that not be the issue (have found one tho =) looking at 6600 GT). if video...

AGP

dont need to take a step back...thats for sure. a quick price check puts the 6800gt /x800xl /9800 pro all about the same (within 50 dollars anyway). will investigate the 6800 gt and x800 a little bit more and see what comes of my 9800 pro. thx for the quick replies.

assuming sticks were not exact match...how would that affect system stability when each stick was used separately? will give bios settings a try....off hand i dont remember changing any of them.

performance wise those two lines are comparable to each other? how much slower is the x700 series?

athlon 64 3000+ 1 gig ram antec truepower 430 chaintech vnf 250 currently have 9800 pro that performance wise i was happy with but it seems to be dying on me (see post in tech support) havent paid much attention to which card is better than others(back in the day, one could just pick the...

vnf3-250 chaintech athlon 64 3000+ 9800 pro (latest cat drivers) xp 1 gig ram kingston value ram (2 sticks) (512 recently added) antec truepower 430 power supply (replaced generic ps last night) Had no issues with computer until 4 days ago. increased AA and AF settings = games ran...