Recent content by jbclem

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    Entire partition turns to gobbledigook

    If that works for you and not for me, there must be a switch somewhere to turn the paragraph function on. I haven't found it yet. If I use "ordered list", that might give me artificial numbered paragraphs. yes, this seems to work. So paragraphs with numbers is better than none at all...
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    Entire partition turns to gobbledigook

    What an annoying website software...is there a way to make it show the 4 paragraphs that were in this last reply?
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    Entire partition turns to gobbledigook

    I tried a program for recovering .chk files (deChk). Out of 10,000 files it found 7 that it could identify and then convert to the correct extension. Five of those were .gif files with no image inside. I'll try another .chk file recovery program, but it's not looking good for me...
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    Entire partition turns to gobbledigook

    Sorry about the huge paragraph, this software apparently doesn't like me breaking it up into smaller ones.
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    Entire partition turns to gobbledigook

    I have a Windows 2000 computer with three hard drives, and many partitions. I also have three boots (all Win2000) on this computer. Last week I was trying to download a program from www.oldversion.com and when I clicked to download it triggered a BSOD. I restarted the computer and tried...
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    High res card for Windows 2000?

    Interestingly, I just tried this same 720p .mkv file on my other P4 2.4 Windows 2000 computer. It's graphics card is a Radeon 9800 Pro, a few years older and considered a slower card than the Geforce 8400gs(PCI card). But the Radeon 9800 Pro is an AGP card, and the .mkv file ran almost...
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    High res card for Windows 2000?

    Easier said than done. I do have an Asus AH3450 AGP and the drivers that are supposed to work in Win2000, but I've failed at installing them so far. I left that for a while as I wanted to try the Geforce 8400gs. Now I'm going back to the AH3450 and we'll see if I can get the drivers working...
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    High res card for Windows 2000?

    I'm curious if there is a video test(benchmark) that could be run and whose result would tell you if your computer (in it's totality) would successfully run MPEG-4 video files. And is there a list that would show how many "xxx"persecond were required to successfully run the each of the many...
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    High res card for Windows 2000?

    I'm using an older version of VLC (0.9.4, also 2.05). I'm trying to play an .mkv file. VLC media information shows it as this: Codec: H264-MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1) Resolution: 1280x720 Frame Rate: 25 Decoded Format: Planar 4:2:0 YUV VLC 0.9.4 plays it but jerkily. CPU% runs at 95-98% VLC...
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    High res card for Windows 2000?

    I finally got a Geforce 8400gs(PCI, 512mb) running on my Windows 2000 computer. But I'm not having any luck playing a 720p .mkv video. The images are jerky and not much fun to watch. I wonder if there are any tweeks that can be made to improve this.
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    High res card for Windows 2000?

    Well, I took a shot at installing the Nvidia drivers. The first thing I saw was a header calling them drivers for Windows 2000/XP, a good sign. I hit next to see the next screen and that triggered the installation, which went almost to completion but a last screen came up saying that the...
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    High res card for Windows 2000?

    Could I go ahead and install these Nvidia Win2000 drivers without installing a Geforce 8400GS card...just to check. Or would that affect the other drivers already present.
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    High res card for Windows 2000?

    I have a Dell 400sc computer, no pci-e slots, but pci and one AGP. I had bought an Asus AH3450 card for it, and have tried (without success) some drivers from blackwingcat that were supposed to work(but may have been for the pci-e version). Apparently only Asus makes the AGP version...
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    High res card for Windows 2000?

    What's a good graphics card for my Windows 2000 computer that will let me play 720p avi files? I don't need any more than that, just something that has Win2000 driver support.
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    no sound, "there are no active mixer devices available"

    I couldn't get the DDU sofware to work on my Windows 2000 computer. The current version (9.1) started up and that showed me a log that listed drivers from three different ATI cards. But the action buttons remained greyed out, and now I can't even get the DDU software to start to recheck the...