Recent content by Spraf

sure. I agree. Have you ever tried to upgrade the bioses.. maybe not. I have a 7NJS Zenith Chaintech which was working fine but after Bios changes and OS seemed that never wanted to work again. Same with a shuttle board. Anyway if you search around the net a lot of people with MSI,ASUS name it...

For all you that still have a problem with the onboard card NIC for NFORCE based chipset Motherboards. Go to RUN and type cmd to get a command line window. Then type "IPCONFIG \ALL" . Verify that your nforce NIC has a MAC address 00-00-00-00-00-00-00 IF YES then you have to do the following...

U might be right! All of us who rushed and bought nforce2 v1 and not the nforce2 Ultra400 ( v2 ) it seems we do have the problem... I managed to resolve it by using for a friend ( has the APOGEE) the windows update ( seemed that had a driver for nvidia - system ) and it worked for few days but...

You are doing everything right.. There is a problem with the network onboards card and the way its being controlled by the newer drivers of nvidia... I have a n7js chaintech ! I had the original BIOS 11 28 2002 and after upgrading to their 5v i just got the BSOD and never booted.. After...

If u want ot read more on Cmedia vs Nvidia APU got to my thread called like that... Or just put in search "cmedia" :-)

I finally decided to contact chaintech USA and TW and I got an answer from Taiwan HQ !!! I really appreciated their quick responce and actually I am going to stick with their products! I have to agree ASUS is top also! So here is their answer! " Dear Spiro, Thanks for your interest in our...

Here is another thing by him... What I dont undestand is that the new chips by cmedia are using AC'97. So actually is there a dolby digital support on cmedia or its just SW encoding rather than real time? Should I invest on chaintech board to have dolby digital on my stereo or go for the asus...

Thats what I found on newegg forum posted on 12/12/02... It seems its by a chaintech guy... "First of all, thanks for your attention in CHAINTECH product! Here is the answer regarding to your question "Does CHAINTECH 7NJS support SoundStorm??" Yes, absolutely. NVIDIA SoundStorm is actually a...

All.. using the nforce2 chipset but the DSP is Cmedia CMI8738 instead the Realtel AL605 which... Its weird that Toms HW says that both are Dolby digital 6.1 but no one else does... And chaintech or cmedia they dont clarify it either. But cmedia cards say they support dolby digital..

I will post all the findings on this dilema! I suggest to all of u not to worry on the cmedia isuue! An dactually if anyone of u has Xbox or ever bother to connect a fiber (optical) cable to his external amplifier optical In port will understand what kind of sound clarity and quality u can get...

No onboard GPU on any of the first Nforce2 MBs... Actually why bother... Who needs a Nvidia G4 MX ??? U call your self a power user go get a serious VGA!!! At least Gforce 3, Gforce 4 but not their MX version! or even better the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro or Matrox Perhelia 128 or 256 DDR ... If you...

Read carefully!!!! That is the Apogee with nforce2! NOT THE MONSTER CALLED ZENITH!!!! Zenith is their top model for Athlox XP and the best Motherboard for AMD with nforce2! ASUS Deluxe is the other best option! And for those that u have question on the CMEDIA vs SOUNDSTORM here is the official...

I finally decided to contact chaintech USA and TW and I got an answer from Taiwan HQ !!! I really appreciated their quick responce and actually I am going to stick with their products! I have to agree ASUS is top also! So here is their answer! " Dear Spiro, Thanks for your interest in our...

Here is another thing by him... What I dont undestand is that the new chips by cmedia are using AC'97. So actually is there a dolby digital support on cmedia or its just SW encoding rather than real time? Should I invest on chaintech board to have dolby digital on my stereo or go for the asus...

Thats what I found on newegg forum posted on 12/12/02... It seems its by a chaintech guy... "First of all, thanks for your attention in CHAINTECH product! Here is the answer regarding to your question "Does CHAINTECH 7NJS support SoundStorm??" Yes, absolutely. NVIDIA SoundStorm is actually a...