Recent content by Fingersniffer

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    Windows Vista Games Thread

    Battlefield 2142 works fine on Vista, however you will need to run BF2142 as an admin or else you will receive a PB permissions error while joining a server.
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    Looking for a socket A (462) mobo WITH PCI-E

    I have no intentions to dump any money into it, I was just hoping I could score a mobo with PCI-E for like $40 or something. I guess I'll sell the x1900 for like $150 and use that money to buy Vista heh
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    Looking for a socket A (462) mobo WITH PCI-E

    I guess I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure I noted this as a potential option like a year or so ago with the socket A 462 and a PCI-E option.
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    Looking for a socket A (462) mobo WITH PCI-E

    I heard about a Socket A (462) mobo a while back that had 1 AGP slot and 1 PCI-E slot. I've recently purchased a nVidia 8800 GTS for my main system and I was going to throw my x1900XT into my second PC. I think the mfg. I heard that made this mobo was Asrock but i could be wrong. I would like...
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    USB Ports randonly stop working?

    well my BIOS hasnt changed in months, chipset drivers have been the same from the start, I built this rig little less then a year ago. I dont understand why its all started now for no reason. After messing around I now have the keyboard and mouse plugged back into the rear of the PC and...
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    USB Ports randonly stop working?

    This is by far the oddest problem I've ever encountered. I'll start from the begining to give all the details, I had Vista installed on a partition on my HD, I removed the partition and resized etc as I have done several times in the past. Then, to get rid of the boot choices I did a...
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    How do I get the Boot.Ini to stop showing Vista?

    That did it, I knew I used the xp disk I just forgot the method afterwards lol. Thanks
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    How do I get the Boot.Ini to stop showing Vista?

    how do I boot into recovery console and run fixboot and fixmbr?
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    How do I get the Boot.Ini to stop showing Vista?

    I had Vista RC1 installed on a partition of my HD, as I have several times from past beta's etc. The problem is (and is everytime because I forget how) now I have everything back to normal on my HD but everytime I start the comp it still sits me on the choice screen for vista (default too...
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    X1900XTX Coolers - A compilation of user reports

    I honestly dont know where anyone got their reports. Here are my personal tests with the Accelero X2 and Zalman vf900 Room Temp: 80F System: AMD Opteron 165 Dual Core @2.4ghz with Zalman 7700CU @ 37c idle Corsair XMS 2-3-3-5 DDR400 Asus A8N-SLI Premium Asus ATI x1900XT...
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    Firewire Pin Labels VS Case Labels

    Soyo Dragon 2 KT880
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    Case Wires VS Mobo Firewire Pins Match and Help pls!

    that IS from the mobo manual, the mobo itself has nothing labeled
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    Case Wires VS Mobo Firewire Pins Match and Help pls!

    I just got a new case and I'm hooking it up to my mobo. Well the Labels on the mobo and the case pins dont match up, I know this is my firewire hookup on the mobo. here are the layouts on the mobo (forgive it not being straight, the * indicates the pin itself) CGND - 10 * * 05 - PWR0...
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    Firewire Pin Labels VS Case Labels

    I just got a new case and I'm hooking it up to my mobo. Well the Labels on the mobo and the case pins dont match up, I know this is my firewire hookup on the mobo. here are the layouts on the mobo (forgive it not being straight, the * indicates the pin itself) CGND - 10 * * 05 - PWR0...