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    Dell inspiron 8600????

    F2 at dell splash screen.
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    Help with a integrated NIC

    Yes, Dell does have 32-big diags that you can run however my cousin lost her CD and the only one you can download requires you to use floppys, wich I don't have, and I don't have a floppy drive for her machine either. It is the OEM driver wich is why I can't figure this out.
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    Help with a integrated NIC

    BUMP. Please guys I have tried everything, even installed 2k to see if I could get the NIC to work. Any ideas are appreaciated.
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    Help with a integrated NIC

    I was reacently contacted by my cousin to help her with her Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop because it was loaded down with spyware and in her words was "running very slow". I figured a format would fix this and I would be done in under an hour.... well I figured wrong. I formated the system (Win...
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    Horrible RAID Preformace! (pic)

    um I dident think that was how it worked but can anybody else varrify this? Does this go for the promise controller?
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    Horrible RAID Preformace! (pic)

    << How do you have the drives hooked up to the MB? >> The drives are hooked to the IDE3 port on my soyo k7v Dragon +. They are on the same ribbon cable
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    Horrible RAID Preformace! (pic)

    well before this system I played on a system with ultra 160 SCSI and It was MUCH faster than my system is now HDD wise. Shouldent I be loading HL faster or somthing?
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    Horrible RAID Preformace! (pic)

    why is my RAID so slow???? hey guys, Today I was benchmarking my system and I finally did the hard drive benchmark and it returned a rather low score. What is going on? This is with 2x IBM 60GXP 40GB hard drives in RAID 0 on a Soyo k7v dragon+. On the RAID setup utility with the Promise...
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    Help me im going to cry (RAID and WinXP problems)

    Help me, When I try to install windows xp it asks for a raid driver. I have made the disk like the soyo manual asks for but when I hit enter on the driver it needs it says "File \Winxp\fasttrack.sys caused an unexpected error (18) at like 2180 in d:\xpclient\base\setup\oemdisk.c. Press any...
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    Help me with Audigy/ Inspire 5300 QUICK (PICS)

    yup it was a hardware problem. Now it accually says in device manager AUDIGY. THere are many more options in audio HQ. I am going to return the audigy I got today back to compUSA. Thanks for the help guys, These speakers are great!
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    Help me with Audigy/ Inspire 5300 QUICK (PICS)

    << suggest you look in the creative mixer & set the speakers there to 5.1 & test it there after that. I have the same soundcard/speakers & the wires are colour coded to avoid setting them up incorrectly! >> yes they are. In that picture that was just me messing with the wires. I have tried...
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    Help me with Audigy/ Inspire 5300 QUICK (PICS)

    << I had some problems too. The back speakers wouldn't sound either until I changed it to quadrophonic on the windows audio config. >> I too have tried messing with the setting but to no avail All my settings in a screen shot
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    Help me with Audigy/ Inspire 5300 QUICK (PICS)

    Yeah, I consider myself a very advanced computer user ( I work as a computer tech) I have build countless machines and you would think that I would install a set of speakers, Right now I am thinking that its the audigy. I think tommorow I am going to go buy one and exchange the one in my system...
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    Help me with Audigy/ Inspire 5300 QUICK (PICS)

    accually now, I can feel the sound out of the middle speeker but when I do the test it dosent say anything when its name comes up but I can feel it when it says "front left" and "front right"
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    Help me with Audigy/ Inspire 5300 QUICK (PICS)

    accually I just checked again and now I have sound out of the front 2 and the center one at the same time! but thats with the orange cable unplugged. No back though....