Recent content by karmapunk21

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    windows XP installs on wrong drive!

    ok looks like your suggestions worked. THanks a lot!
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    windows XP installs on wrong drive!

    ok i unplugged and i'm formatting and installing now. I'm just curious as to what causes this problem. Did it happen to you, mrchad, out of the blue, or was it because of a proggy or a hardware change or something else?
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    windows XP installs on wrong drive!

    nope! no hardware changes since for the past 6 months. and i dont think the cables switched themselves...
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    windows XP installs on wrong drive!

    Hello! I ran a program recently that i'm pretty sure was a virus because whne i booted my perfectly normal XP (installed on drive C), XP wouldnt boot saying "ntldr is missing." After running the recovery console, i discovered that the hard drives had switched! My media harddrive (which was D)...
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    who here has the most outdated video card?

    i've got a riva 128 zx (8mb), but i have something older somwhere. i'll post it when i find it.
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    Ok what's the deal with Direct X?

    certain games (such as doom3, homeworld2, halflife2) and other new games will not work unless if you have dx9 installed. It is important to keep directx up to date. However, with drivers, the better idea is "if it aint broke, dont fix it." I would keep both systems at the latest revision of...
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    only half of memory on geforce3 recognized

    Hello, I have an Nvidia Geforce3 ti200 with 64 megs of ram. The issue is windows only recognizes 32 megabytes. I'm running on the 44.67 drivers, and have had this problem ever since i've started using the 4x.xx detonators. Using one 4x.xx drivers the problem was even worse; only 16 megs were...
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    slooow hard drive transfer rates

    ok, an update on the problem I checked for DMA, and it turns out that xp was running every thing (both hard drives and the DVD-rom and CD-RW) in PIO mode, even tho i had selected "Use DMA if available" in the device manager. I dunno how to force DMA. In the few hours before this error, the...
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    slooow hard drive transfer rates

    Hey, I am backing up my data from my main hard drive to 2 other drives, one on another computer on my home (10/100) network. The HD from which i transfer stuff is a maxtor 80 gig. all the transfers are occuring very slowly, roughly one mp3 song every 3 seconds or so. Meaning, if i want to back...
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    windows can't recognize video RAM w/ geforce3

    done dat, still no good.
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    New type of subatomic particles discovered!

    that article, as i understood it, mentioned two major quark categories: baryons and mesons. Are particles in the nucleus (specifically neutrons and protons) classified as baryons or mesons?
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    CPU Bit shifting performance penalty

    hehehe, you must pardon my inappropriate response, but i have a tendancy to read things and substitute dirty words where i see fit. (it's not tourettes or anything of hte sort). Here's what i read: What is the performance penalty for shitting bits in registers of modern X86 CPUs (Pentium 3/4...
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    Stealing Electricity from other planets?

    acutally i bet we could make one hell of a battery by connecting 2 planets together with some wire (like venus). Both our atmospheres contain some electricity. If we connect the two atmospheres, there will be a voltage difference, and voila! a battery!
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    windows can't recognize video RAM w/ geforce3

    Hey all, i have a very dissapointing problem that i hope someone has some ideas about. Basically, windows cannot recognize the fact that my geforce3 ti200 has 64 megs of RAM (thinks there are only 16). It claims there are only 16 megs of video ram in the "adapter" tab of the advanced display...