Recent content by jd103

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    Video Card Recommendation

    Heres a pretty good deal for under $200 6800GS
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    Age of Empires 3 $19.99 @ Best Buy with this coupon

    Just picked up a copy and the coupon worked fine. Thanks for the hot deal.:thumbsup:
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    x1600pro and problems..

    Why in the hell would you buy a X1600pro for $299 at Bestbuy when it can be purchased at Newegg for $111.00 - $135.00? PCI APG
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    Why does it take 5 hours to burn one dvd??

    When using DVD Shrink during Analysing and during Encoding do you have a box checked "Enable Video Preview"? If you do, uncheck those and that should help some.
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    The great $1000 upgrade - help appreciated (Updated)

    Does that motherboard take DDR-2?
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    Need a good motherboard for an A64 754

    Cybernight- I quess your suggestion is better than anything i have tried Completely reformatting 5 or 6 times, using all the latest drivers, using different operating systems, trying different hardware and other things,ect. Yea I can see where your suggestion will fix the problem And...
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    Need a good motherboard for an A64 754

    dguy -do me a favor and do a google search for this "NF3 & punkbuster problems" and tell me what you come up with strend -yes I do have an 9700pro, tried that already and it doesn't work for me, thanks for the suggestion virtualLarry -I don't have W2K, but I do have Win 3.1 on like 8...
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    Need a good motherboard for an A64 754

    Yea, I'm full of crap thats why I'm wasting my time posting on here. I've tried everything I can think to get this fixed and nothing works. Changed hardware, WinXP, Win 98, Win 98SE, Nforce Chipset drivers 3., 4., 5., even the newly released 6 for NF4, changed harddrives, power supplies, memory...
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    Need a good motherboard for an A64 754

    Who told me that? A retarded statement? I've had this Chaintech NF3 motherboard for a month now and all works good until I play online with punkbuster. Check out this link, all these people are just crazy huh! Text I get freezes in no less that 5 minutes of gameplay where my mouse and...
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    Need a good motherboard for an A64 754

    Well after buying a new A64 +3000 754 and Chaintech NF3 board last month I find out that there is a big problem with NF3's and any online games using punkbuster. The only game I really play online is BF1942 and have been unable to play since I got this new setup due to freeze ups or hardlocks...
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    question on A64 cpu system

    I just bought a new AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Retail and CHAINTECH VNF3-250 motherboard that should be here tomorrow. I am pretty experienced in replacing all components and also with socket A. This is my first experience putting together an A64 system. Is there anything I should do different than...
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    need some input on a problem

    Ok guys guys give me your opinion on above, should I: 1. buy a new socket A MB 2. buy a new XP mobile cpu 3. scrap it all and get a new MB and an A64 cpu Thanks for your help
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    need some input on a problem

    Yes I have tried it with all the parts I originally had in it but nothing. I don't mind buying a new MB but i would hate to get another socket A and find out the CPU was bad to.
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    need some input on a problem

    I already tried it with the orginal Sparkle PS I had in it before but nothing but fans and lights would come on.
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    need some input on a problem

    I was making some upgrades to my computer and when I finished this is what happened. After turning it on I went into the bios screen to monitor cpu temp and while watching it for about 10 seconds (CPU up to 28C) the screen just frooze. I thought i smelled something funny so i just turned it off...