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    Weird drive assignment after install of XP

    It wouldn't let me change the letters because it considered both the C: and N: partitions to be system partitions. So I got mad and reformatted everything, disconnected the sata drive and reinstalled to the ntfs partition. Now everything is in C: and all is well with the windows world :)...
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    Weird drive assignment after install of XP

    I don't recall marking a particular partition as active, just created, sized and selected type. Haven't done a windows install for a long time and in past I had always installed it on the sata drive and never had this problem.
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    Weird drive assignment after install of XP

    I'd always had xp installed on the first partition of my sata drive and put my linux distros on my ide drive. After xp crashed the other day I decided to put all the os's on the (much bigger) ide drive. So I formated the sata as fat32 so I could access files from xp/linux and set up the ide...
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    opera firefox IE

    I was pretty hard core firefox for the last year, it didn't help that you had to pay for opera. I tried opera when they gave out free registrations a while ago but I didn't look at it too hard. When I found that firefox under linux had a terrible memory leak problem I gave opera a better look. I...
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    *** Official Soltek SL-K890Pro-939 (VIA K8T890) Thread ***

    Um, who are you asking the question to?
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    *** Official Soltek SL-K890Pro-939 (VIA K8T890) Thread ***

    The board has one 20 pin and one 4 pin power connectors. I've had no power issues with the x800 xl yet. Runs very nicely.
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    *** Official Soltek SL-K890Pro-939 (VIA K8T890) Thread ***

    I've tried using impeachbush's oc'ing advice from the previous page. It will seem to work great for awhile then the vcore will reset itself back to default. The other settings will remain the same, so the computer craps out and I have to go back in to the bios and put the vcore back up. Is...
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    HALO-Fatal Error

    I'm having the exact same problem and also ran the diagnositcs which showed no problem. This is on my new machine, AMD 3500+, ATI X800 XL card. My 'old' machine, P4 2.6 XFX 6600 GT runs it fine. Kind of depressing.... When you say launch options I assume you mean the properties of the Halo...
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    *** Official Soltek SL-K890Pro-939 (VIA K8T890) Thread ***

    No, I didn't get any further than this and everything seems to working just fine since. Thanks alot for the info and I'll give it a try tonight when I get home.
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    *** Official Soltek SL-K890Pro-939 (VIA K8T890) Thread ***

    I've recently put together my new machine and I was looking to investigate the world of overclocking, which I have never attempted before. I'm pretty competent with pc stuff in general, but very much a noob when it comes to overclocking. At the "CPU Ratio/Voltage Control" screen, I set the...
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    ATI X800 XL for $272.89

    I ordered mine direct from ATI about three weeks ago with a 10% discount code from fatwallet - $283 with shipping. I called them and they said it might be shipping around mid-March. It arrived last Tuesday. I haven't tried it out yet, waiting for the pci mobo to arrive tomorrow. I think I'm...
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    Sorry - yet another looking for advice on my build thread

    This will be my second built from scratch comp so I'm not a total newbie but I certainly haven't kept up with details of components as I should have. After some initial research I have come up with the following possibilities for my build. The prices I quote are from newegg as of yesterday...