Recent content by flagbag

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    new system... games hic-cup!

    I can't wait for BadThad's reply... what's he know?
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    new system... games hic-cup!

    Yes BadThad... you're exactly right. How'd you guess? I am using the onboard sound and the hiccups do occur in single player mode of both CoD2 and Quake4. You gatta tell me more!!??? :)
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    new system... games hic-cup!

    Ok.. I will try your wonderful sugestions........... brb
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    new system... games hic-cup!

    hey friend... thanks for looking at my post... what's your opinion? i'm no geek and could use help. i just finished building this system and there's something fishy here! if you solve it then i'll send you either my homebrew or a good recipe! amd 64 3500+ 2.21 GHz MSI K8N Neo4 moboard 1...
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    SATA drivers not installed

    did clean install of XP on new computer. Anytime I installed drivers with f6 XP wouldn't finish install. It would fail on it's 1st reboot of the installation process. Anyway, I went ahead and did the XP install without f6 and the SATA drivers. Now.... computer runs fine although I can tell that...
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    XP fails during clean install w/ SATA

    you're gonna think me such a nOOb for asking this.... but i'll feel better just getting it out! : I find drivers at both the nVidea site and at MSI for my specific motherboard. Both are about 36megabyte, but the one at MSI seems to be a bit older version than the one at nVidea. Anyway, i...
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    XP fails during clean install w/ SATA

    thanks mechBgon! So i can fix this by installing the SATA drivers now--after XP is installed w/out the f6 during install? If so, that is gggggrrreeeaaaatttt! I was not looking forward to hours-and-hours and perhaps more dissapointment. Let me see if I can find those drivers....
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    XP fails during clean install w/ SATA

    New computer build and XP install does not finish. msi k8n neo 4 moboard western digital 250gb hd 1gb (2x512) crucial ballistix ram XP Home OEM Moboard came with 2 SATA floppy disks: 1. nVidea nForce4 SATA RAID and PATA RAID merge drive 2. Silcom Image RAID driver for Sil3114 I press...