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    Dual VGA/HDMI displays on Asus M3N78 Pro w/onboard GeForce 8300

    OK, went back to separate displays, with TV main display, TV has everything, all icons, all windows, but is still small, although tv resolution is set to 1920 x 1080. And now the viewsonic just has the desktop wallpaper and nothing else - like the tv with the viewsonic set as main display...
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    Dual VGA/HDMI displays on Asus M3N78 Pro w/onboard GeForce 8300

    Yes, I have been using the nvidia control panel, and have updated to the latest driver/control panel. I changed to "duplicate displays" and then they both show the entire desktop and all open windows. But there are two other issues. The display on the TV is much smaller than the physical...
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    Dual VGA/HDMI displays on Asus M3N78 Pro w/onboard GeForce 8300

    I have a system with Asus M3N78 Pro mobo with onboard GeForce 8300 graphics. I have a viewsonic A90f as main display, on mobo VGA, 1280 x 1024, and a sony tv attached to HDMI as second display, on mobo HDMI, 1920 x 1080. But when I switch the tv to the HDMI input, all that shows is the...
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    P8Z68-V PRO system for son's birthday

    I don't have the tools or skill to straighten pins like that, so I returned the mobo and got the replacement yesterday (Newegg is great). INstalled, everything works first time, like it should. I still don't understand - (1) I can't believe there was some way I bent the pins, but (2) I can't...
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    P8Z68-V PRO system for son's birthday

    thanks again everyone for all your help I took the cooler off, and the processor out and looked with magnifier and bright light. There are 3 or 4 pins in the center left of the processor socket that are bent. Does anyone have any idea how this could happen? The mobo had a protective...
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    P8Z68-V PRO system for son's birthday

    Thanks Blitz Kriege R and john3850 so much for your advice. (1) Removed PSU for this new system, took to other system with more installed hardware - mobo, SSD, 3 HD's, video card, etc. Other system boots fine with new PSU - PSU OK. (2) removed mobo from case, set on floor, hooked to PSU...
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    P8Z68-V PRO system for son's birthday

    With 24 pin and 12v mobo plugs in mobo, and no drives connected, have original problem - power supply turns off after 1 second. I guess I still can't be sure the PS is good under load and will have to remove the PS from a working PC and try that - will post results after.
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    P8Z68-V PRO system for son's birthday

    Thanks for all the suggestions. Well, I had checked the clear RTC/CMOS jumper, and it is OK. So I unplugged the four drives and the 24 pin and 12v plugs from the mother board. Turned on PS, jumpered pin 16 (green) to ground, and power supply came up, all fans (did not unplug them) in case...
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    P8Z68-V PRO system for son's birthday

    Sorry - failed to mention, have not actually installed the GTX-580 yet. I wanted to see if everything so far was OK, and do the basic windows, etc installs. So the monitor is cabled to teh mobo VGA port. Also, FYI - the four mobo POST LED's, which light to indicate a problem, are all out...
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    P8Z68-V PRO system for son's birthday

    I am putting together a system for my son's birthday present, based on the super system in Anandtech's latest guide. Here are the components: Asus P8Z68-V pro mobo core i7 2600 4 GB x 2 corsair 1866 crucial 128 GB SDD 1 TB 6gb/s HD 2 TB 3gb/s HD antec nine hundred case antec 900w P/S...
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    Windows Media Player will not play videos that were fine yesterday

    I thought about uninstalling wmp, then re-installing. Looks like you can't just download wmp for win 7, so I downloaded the media feature pack that includes wmp that is intended for the versions of win 7 that did not originally include wmp. Is this the next logical step, or should I try...
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    Windows Media Player will not play videos that were fine yesterday

    I remembered a great utility from years ago (gspot) and used it to look at the codecs for the files that won't play - wmv3. But gspot says the codex status is "undetermined" - never seen that before. Went to page recommended in previous post, tried the manual reset of WMP with WMP...
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    Windows Media Player will not play videos that were fine yesterday

    I have on old system I installed windows 7 on. Due to jerky video in WMP, I installed a Geforce 6200 and latest drivers. Everything has been fine for many months, but today I get error messages from WMP when I try to play video files that played fine yesterday. Usually it says "WMP cannot...
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    Can't see all of desktop with GeForce 6200

    I was out of town for a month, but when I got home, I tried the auto adjust, and that took care of the problem. Have never used "auto adjust" on a monitor before and didn't realize that was there - thanks.
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    Can't see all of desktop with GeForce 6200

    No, I am using a VGA cable. No adjustment for size, other than resolution, in Nvidia drivers.
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    Can't see all of desktop with GeForce 6200

    Monitor doesn't have adjustments for image size. It's an LCD. It's older than 5 yrs. Yes, the Nvidia control panel lets me shift the image. But the problem is that with the resolution set to 1600 x 1200, the native of the LCD monitor, the right or the left of the desktop is cut off...
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    Can't see all of desktop with GeForce 6200

    I have an old computer I upgraded to windows 7. The video on the motherboard seemed to work OK, but videos in media player were jumpy. So I installed a GeForce 6200, with the most recent downloaded Nvidia drivers. No more jerky video. But, with the resolution set to 1600x1200, the native...
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    Problems with new GeForce GTX-260

    Ran two passes memory test from restore tools on win7 boot dvd, everything fine. I downloaded latest driver from nvidia, dated 1/18/11. AND I see that it is the exact same driver file for both the gtx260 and the 8400. Have same situation - 8400 works fine, gtx260 ends up with black screen...
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    Problems with new GeForce GTX-260

    I put together a new system with a GeForce GTX 260, and the installation of Win7 froze with a black screen during installation. I put in a GeForce 8400, and did fresh installation to completion of win7. I put the GTX 260 back in, booted fine, win7 said it had installed drivers for the gtx...
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 install freezes

    Formatted USB stick, loaded drivers, used win7 restore tools to format SSD, reinstalled win7 with drivers, same result - blank screen. Bought Geforce 8400, installed it, reinstalled win7, was first time got to screen "optimizing video", several reboots, had registration screen, registered...
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 install freezes

    First, let me say I truly appreciate your assistance. I am always simply amazed that people like you are willing to expend valuable time, as well as knowledge and experience, to help people like me. Second, I would term my attitude more careful than fearful. I have always been tech support...
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 install freezes

    Sorry to be a pest. I had downloaded from 4shared, but used you link. The file I got from your link was a different size (368K) than the 4shared file I got the night before from google (370K) and from other downloads, but I tried to run the file from your link. I got a message - the...
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 install freezes

    Thanks for all the help bankster. But please tell me a site that can be trusted to download HPUSBFW.exe. I went to the top google results (in Spain they say they're going to "ask Saint Google") to download. But some of the sites had suspicious pop-ups, and none of the file sizes are the same...
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 install freezes

    Updates: Don't have floppy, so downloaded Memtest86+ iso image, but don't have blank CD right now (live in Atlanta, working in Memphis motel on computer). So from recovery tools, told it to do the windows memtest, which it did on reboot. All 12 gb test fine. Reseated video card - no change...
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 install freezes

    First, let me thank you for your advice, taking the time to share your knowledge and experience. The BIOS was indeed set for SATA to be IDE, which I changed to AHCI. The 80 gb SSD is indeed installed on SATA 0, and is recognized by BIOS and the partial win7 The boot order is set to...
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 install freezes

    Its a lightscribe SATA DVD drive, on SATA 6 port, reads the DVD fine (it appears), and the 80 gb SDD is on SATA 1 port. Only USB devices are keyboard and mouse. No IDE devices, no floppy. I have a 1 TB SATA mechanical drive for the system, but wanted to install windows on the SDD alone before...
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 install freezes

    I'm putting together a new system, with an ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard, Intel i7-920, GeForce GTX-260 video card, and an Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD. The Win 7 DVD boots, and I went through a couple screens to select language, time, date, etc. Then it continued, but arrived at a point where the...
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    New Intel SSD drives are in!!!

    looks like mwave is oem and toshiba is retail kit. Can anyone tell me if this TRIM function will work with the 2nd gen Intel X-25M and Windows XP, or is windows Vista (I hate it) or 7 needed? Does anyone have good data on using the 2nd gen X25M with XP? thanks
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    video card and monitor for pro photography system

    Thanks for the reply. No, I don't plan on doing any gaming at all - just pro photog stuff. Of the three 30" you suggest, are any with LED backlight? Anyone know if the Samsung XL30 is still being manufactured? thanks again - gredhead
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    video card and monitor for pro photography system

    I am putting a system together for professional photography, with color managment, etc, based on the ASUS P6T Delux V2 motherboard. I want a 30" LCD monitor with LED backlight, to have the wider gamut that allows, and was considering the Samsung XL30, which comes with hardware and software to...
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    radeon 7500 all in wonder driver problem?

    :) Mystery Solved! I tried the original software, I went back and restored a disk image of the original software that worked, and had the sync problem. I found some references on a forum that there were some flaky things with this motherboard with two sticks of sdram in (although I think...
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    radeon 7500 all in wonder driver problem?

    Thanks for the suggestions. I installed the latest AGP drivers, from ECS motherboard site - before the new ATI drivers and software for the all in wonder. Those were also installed before the retry with original supplied CD ATI drivers. So I don't see how everything could be working (except...
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    radeon 7500 all in wonder driver problem?

    I have an ECS K7S5A motherboard, 1 GHz Duron, 64Mb RAM to begin, now 160 Mb, Win2K pro, ATI Radeon 7500 All in Wonder. Loaded drivers and software from CDs that came with 7500 AIW, had BSODs and some other problems. Added RAM and installed latest AGP driver for motherboard, latest drivers...