Recent content by dWhisper

Are you deleting the partition before you install XP? fdisk is nothing more than a wasted step in XP setup, unless there is very specific cause to use it. XP setup allows you to easily create and format the partition without ever using a DOS utility. On the disk selection menu, just follow the...

Lots of things can cause a random reboot like that. Typically, in Windows XP or 2000, a reboot for no reason is caused by a Blue Screen STOP error. They are both equipped with an Automatic Recovery Feature that will reboot the system to recover from it. Most systems are too fast to even see the...

Typically what you see with a dead CMOS battery is an error that sounds like: "CMOS Checksum Bad" or "BIOS Settings ERROR" A lot of time it will just revert back to the default settings on some things, but the biggest indicator of the battery being bad will be a different time almost every time...

Try this. Start, Run, and type in MSCONFIG (In windows XP, this is a lot more efficient than navigating through the registry for startup items) Go to the "Startups" tab, and just put a list of here for us to look at. In XP, the only things you really need in there would be your Anti-Virus...

I hate to tell you this, but you're probably stuck going two different ways here... getting something new, or going through the repair route. ABIT typically only had a 1 year warranty on their retail boards, and if they're like any of the other manufacturers that were struck with this issue...

Any help? Anyone?

SLI = Scan-line Interweave, so yes, each card alternated each line. Back then, AA and AF didn't exist, so it was never in the design spec. Imentioned earlier the obsidion board, which was a single-solution card. Later on in the life of the Voodoo series, they were toying with multiple devices...

I originally posted this to Video Cards, because I didn't click on the right thing... I'm trying to tab down an issue I've been having recently with my main system getting a lot hotter than I'd like it to. It still runs stable, so long as I use a catalyst driver version from February or...

Technically, it has been done since in one form or another. The major problem with SLI wasn't just the image degrade, it was the method that it did the image at. Each card did half of the rendering, which shared PCI bandwidth. So you never got twice the speed, you got a performance boost from...

I'm trying to tab down an issue I've been having recently with my main system getting a lot hotter than I'd like it to. It still runs stable, so long as I use a catalyst driver version from February or earlier. The last two revisions give me constant errors. First, the rundown on the cards...