Recent content by Gmarsh75

Thanks for the info, but Creative has once again proven to be the WORST in customer support. Phone calls are worthless, the last guy told me the only way to fix it was to reformat C: because he'd has this happen to him and it was the only way to fix it. So after two days of reinstalling...

Here's some more info with the card installed.... Also, I have a Logitech wireless KB and Mouse...plus I've noticed that Norton Antivirus won't initiate either...unless I open up Outlook...weird!!!??? CONFLICTS and SHARING.... I/O Port 0x0000A000-0x0000BFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge...

Had a Turtle Beach, SantaCruz. Uninstalled it, clean sweep. Bought Audigy 2 ZS...installed per directions Installed all latest drivers from Creative.com... ALL software installs fine XP device manager says the card is there and operating properly. PCI Card installed in furthest from AGP...

Thanks you two...it's just as I thought....HOPELESS!! Especially with the shared RAM situation.. G

Does anyone know how to upgrade the video adapter for the Toshiba A15 S129 laptop? It is currently some sort of Intel adapter. Is it integrated to the laptop mobo? or can it be pulled out and upgraded to a more powerful ATI or nVidia adapter? Thanks. G

Anyone? Anyone? Beuller? Ferris Beuller?

Noticed my system clock was running slow so I put in a new battery. Atomic Clock now shows my system is picking UP about 20 seconds per day...???? IT is running FASTER!! How can this be? Bad mobo clock timer thingy quartz crystal??? G

Received my ABit AN7 and AMD 3300 with stock heatsink and fan and found it running at 55-62 Deg.C....simply too hot! Did some checking around this board and got the ThermalRight 900A and a 92mm Tornado fan... My CPU temps are now ranging from 38-39DegC at idle and only 42DegC under full...

nevermind then...

Some additional symptoms that have popped up in the last day... NO MORE Spontaneous reboots--MIGHT have been loose power cord--and NOT a CPU overheating issue. Keyboard and mouse loose contact. Will not reinitialize if unplugged and reconnected. SETI puts up dozens of icons in the systray...

Bump for the afternoon crowd...any help appreciated! G

New install, ABit AN7 with AthXP3300 Bios is latest, Dated 3/24/04 Post code display was staying on 2.0. after full good boot. Had two spontaneous shut downs last night while running Adope Photoshop Elements, building photo directory. CPU temp per MBM5 is 53C--this appears to be too hot for no...