Recent content by funkychicken

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    8500, 9000......im confused!

    8500 is noteably faster with the 8500LE slightly faster than the 9000 I believe.
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    Screen bigger then monitor after update of NEW Ati drivers

    Same problem here and as slapstick says it always seems to happen when picking non (ati)standard resolutions :(
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    Wake on Lan problems

    Ok I have now got my computer working with the Wake On Line feature Trouble I'm having now is that my computer will power up at random intervals which seems to me that it may be too sensitive?? Is there anyway to fix this? it's great having the feature but I don't want my pc to turn on all...
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    Friday Desktop, Wallpaper and Workspace thead! July 5th edition

    That is an awesome desktop any chance of telling where you get it from or did you make it yourself? the Icons, theme and Background are perfect together. I've had a look on themeXP and wincustomize but as of yet no luck :( Cheers.
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    Win XP...how to password protect a folder?

    What 3rd party programs allow password protecting folders? Thanks
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    Crappy TV out picture

    I'm using a radeon 8500 with Win XP and PowerDVD for ummm DVD's trouble is the picture on the TV is rubbish it kinda looks all grainy. I remember someone posting a while back about something similar and someone gave them a link to a program for TV out which fixed his/her problem. Anyone...
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    Ebuyer Returns?

    I have just received my Radeon 8500 after waiting for 4 weeks fo rdelivery and the thing doesn't even work, I just get garbled images on screen with Tons of artifacts (tested on 2 machines). So now I'm going to return it to ebuyer, the thing is I don't want a replacement as I'd rather a full...
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    PLEASE HELP, Artifacts everywhere:(

    I purchased a Radeon 8500LE last week second hand and since Friday when it arrived it has worked great. However today after playing some Age of Kings (not even a 3D game) all of a sudden tons of what I beleive are Artifacts appeared on the screen. I rebooted the machine and sadly every time...
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    Please help, Cd writer probs

    Thanks but it looks like I've sorted it. I had Daemon tools running on my system once I disabled That it ran fine. thanks tho
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    Please help, Cd writer probs

    I have just got of my brother a Wearnes CDRW-622 which can write at an unbelievable 2 speed Anyway I have installed it and the Bios has detected it fine and windows XP see's it ok. The problem is that as soon as I stick a blank CD in the drive everything halts to a crawl and sometimes...
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    AGP aperature size?

    I have a Radeon 8500LE so what should I set the AGP aperature size to in my bios? I currently have it set to 64mb is this to low? Thanks
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    Medal of honor and a 8500LE

    Cool. thanks for the reply.
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    Medal of honor and a 8500LE

    I've just installed my Radeon 8500LE and so far I'm well impress with the 3DMARK2001 results which are 7900. The only thing which is bugging me is that Medal of Honor goes really jerky (upgraded from a geforce2mx and it run great). I'm using the new driver ATI put up yesterday for XP (should...
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    Filters compatable on both Macs and Pc's?

    I have Loads of filters for Photoshop 6 on my pc and I was wondering if my mate who has a macinstosh would be able to use them on his MAC version of photoshop??? Are they universal? Thanks