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    Is this machine dead?

    Hi there, This is my current rig: Quad core q6600 2.4Ghz processor Abit IP35Pro MB 4 GB DDR 2 (800MHz) Sapphire Radeon 3870 Graphics card (512 MB GDDR3) 2 x 7200 RPM 80 GB SATA RPM 2 x 10,000 RPM 160GB Raptor Hdds Thermaltake Toughpower 650W PSU 1x Asus DVD RW Please note, the...
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    PES 6 2 player mode

    HI, trying to run PES 6 on the PC. I got the XFX xgear gamepad for player 1. I can't seem to find a way for my friend to play using the keyboard. I want to play against a player playing with the keyboard. How do I do that? Any help would be appreciated.
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    How to serve divs...if that makes sense

    I can see on many sites, they offer a service where they give you some html code to paste on your web page, and at runtime some html from their server is placed there. Like: You enter <script******="blahblah.com?blah"></script> on the page and voila', at runtime there's a neat little table...
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    Help on temp upgrade

    I may be able to go around the $100-$130 range. I see that the x1600xt is available at that price. Will it be better than the aforementioned cards? Is there another card better than these three at that price? I will be selling it off soon, so a newer gen is more attractive. And will I see better...
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    FEAR sound issue

    Fixed it. It's got nothing to do with the hardware or fear settings. I had ace mega codecs packs installed with prof settings. I lowered the ace codec settings by disabling some [chose player settings]. That fixed it. It seems there was a conflict in the ace and fear mp3 codecs. Thanks for your...
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    Help on temp upgrade

    I'm looking to move to a temp graphics card before an eventual move to a conroe+ system. Here's my rig: 2.8E P4 MSI 875P NEO FIS2R motherboard 1GB DDR400 MSI fx5900xt vtd 128 As i said, I'll be getting a conroe+ system maybe march/april. I'll go all out then [my current rig was bought...
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    FEAR sound issue

    I tried "disable hardware sound", "disale sound filters" and both....but if "disable sound" is unchecked, fear crashes on start. I can keep all the other options enabled in the config utility, except for sound. By the way, my soundmax driver version is 5.12.1.3538.
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    FEAR sound issue

    Everytime I start fear, it crashes [black scrren...have to ctrl+alt+del out]. If I use config and disable sound, then it plays ok. I think I saw somewhere that it's coz of EAX 2.0 or something. Is there any way I can play with sound? This is my system: P4 2.8E, 1GB ddr400, msi 875pneo fis2r...
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    *official* Oblivion Thread - Technical issues

    I saw something like this in the readme. Instead of uninstalling from add/remove, just run setup.exe from the install disk. It's supposed to clear up the problems. I know u tried the installer. Is the setup.exe the installer?[I mean, des another program call setup.exe or do you double click...
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    can an experienced programmer clear this up for me?

    Sorry, repeated post...
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    can an experienced programmer clear this up for me?

    And if you don't know any well enough, u can learn any with a little effort ;-)
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    A simple BIOS/driver upgrade wonder

    Could someone tell me a benchmarking method/software so I can see the fps on HL2? Plz.
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    A simple BIOS/driver upgrade wonder

    No. Tried with Norton. Still great. My friends copy of HL2 is old. He bought it some time ago. I just installed it. Haven't done any patches. The drivers I tried to install before were 71.22. Every time I installed them, I got BSOD. And the drivers are not too small a download on my low...
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    can an experienced programmer clear this up for me?

    Depends on the portion of the software industry you want to target. If you go into driver development, C# would be useless compared to assembly/C/C++. If you're building apps like MS Word, then C# is better. Games are usually a mix of assembly and C++. Recently though, MS has come up with...
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    A simple BIOS/driver upgrade wonder

    Here's my rig: 2.8E Prescott. MSI 875P Neo FIS2R MB 1 GB DDR-400 MSI FX5900XT 128VTD [128MB] 2x80GB SATA on intel soft RAID This is over 2 years old. I got Half life 2 and ran it. By default everything was low. Resolution was 640x480. DirectX 8.1 was selected and DX9 wasn't even...
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    ***Official *** IE7 RC1 Thread

    Beta>>in development. Expected to have bugs. RC>>Release Candidate. Released to see if people find bugs. Expected to be ready for release.
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    POLL: How long do you think it will be until markets completely calm down?

    Ah, that Vista. I haven't been able to buy an LCD yet. And now that I find one I like (in my range) it turns out to be non HDCP. Previously, there was ghosting. Then banding. The backlighting. Now HDCP. It'll always be something or the other. And that's just for an LCD. Maybe the market will...
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    PS3's RSX has been down graded in frequency. Link inside

    I reiterate. How do so many of you know so much of what'sgoin' to happen 2-5 years from now? Somebody know of some time portal I'm not awareof? Both the systems are powerful. The cell is immensely powerful. How that'll effect/affect games oonly TIME will tell. If the RSX will be downgraded is...
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    POLL: How long do you think it will be until markets completely calm down?

    Unfortunately for me, never. I've had the same 2.8E prescott, 875P mb, 1gb ddr400, fx5900xt since 2004. Every time I think about upgrading, something new comes along. I'd have upgraded my AGP, only I don't know what to upgrade to. It's like I'll have a better option after two months. And...
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    PS3's RSX has been down graded in frequency. Link inside

    Sony finished? Come on now. That's like sayin' Windows is finished. Let's look at the source. Inquirer? They're a nice lot, aren't they? Weren't they the one's who said the PS3 was "FINISHED" coz the processor had very little speed regarding the GPU memory? Wasn't that speed 100% unnecessary...
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    *official* Oblivion Thread - Technical issues

    And if u try to install it again, it shows uninstall, right?
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    *official* Oblivion Thread - Technical issues

    what happens if u select uninstall?
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    *official* Oblivion Thread - Technical issues

    Heres my rig: P4 Prescott 2.8E 875P 1GB DDR400 128MB FX5900XT Do I have any chance at oblivion and/or FEAR and/or Prey? Please help.
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    Installing Linux on ICH5R RAID0

    The reason I switched to the intel ICH5R from the board's Promise was that I found somewhere stating exactly that: the Promise goes through PCI while the intel doesn't. Other implementations of the 875 board from ASUS and Gigabyte all provided an aditional controller, but the intel one (RAID...
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    Favourite Linux

    What do you think is the best Linux distro for desktops? Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, or my fav SUSE? Please mention why.
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    A very weird speaker problem!

    I once installed some software (can't remember) that I later found caused a crackling sound on the speakers. It had me plugging/unplugging and testing the speakers for weeks before I found out. Once I removed the software, the noise was gone. It was a software (I think) dealing with xp themes...
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    Installing Linux on ICH5R RAID0

    To SleepWalkerX, I tried that link. They told me to make the controller SATA only from BIOS (with config SATA as RAID). Did it, still didn't work. Thanks guys, it seems it's best and way easier to get a new SATA and put Linux on it. I won't even need a PCI adapter. I have two ports on the...
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    ICH8 versus ICH8R

    "Intel Matrix Storage Technology (ICH8R, ICH8DH, ICH8DO Only) The industry-leading RAID capability provides high-performance RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 functionality on up to 6 SATA ports of ICH8. " I know, but is it 'Hardware' RAID? Would I need a RAID driver like for a 'software' RAID?
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    ICH8 versus ICH8R

    Is the ICH8R hardware or software RAID?
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    Connecting Computer to Television

    Possibly the TV. I remember a long time ago in 92 or 93, I had my Sega Mega Drive (Genesis in the States) hooked up to the old trusty Grundig. It'd been running fine for 2 years. Then in 92/93, A vertically scrolling horizontal line appeared when using the console. The tv signal was OK...
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    Installing Linux on ICH5R RAID0

    I think by 'true' RAID, intel means the SATAs can be raided and are handled differently from the IDEs on the same controller. And from experience, I can say that the performance boost in Windows is quite significant. Much better than on the Promise 'software' RAID controller also on the board...
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    Widescreen LCD

    I've finally decided to ditch my old CRT [Samsung Magic Bright 17"]. I've been debating myself whether I should go for a conroe right now, or the lcd. I think I may be able to put off the conroe till its cheaper. Then the e6700s may be affordable for me. My current rig is: 1. P4 prescott...
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    Win2k on large drive: how?

    Not entirely true. I was installing XP on my friends pc with a new 200gig drive. XP cd was the base original without any sps. Got 137Gig. Slipstreamed sp2. Got 200GBs. :-) Server2K3 has no such issues, though. Then again, my personal base xp cd gets my 160gig RAID configured 2x80GB satas just...
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    OSX look for Windows

    I loved the ui of macs. I saw this post and got it installed. It's just superb. I've got menus on 180 transparency with blue drop shadows. Previously I'd keep the quicklaunch bar on its own row below the taskbar. Now, I got all my quick launches on the dock bar, which I've made quite small. The...
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    Installing Linux on ICH5R RAID0

    There is a glitch to that. The intel ICH5R RAID provides 'true' RAID for two sata drives. Several review tests have shown significant performance increases over two single sata drives. My board also has a promise sata raid controller which is purely soft raid. I used it before and noticed better...
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    Installing Linux on ICH5R RAID0

    I've got 2 80gig satas in RAID-0 via the intel ICH5R RAID controller on my 875P motherboard. XP and all my data is on those 160gigs, and I want to use the RAID-0 for gaming performance. No matter how I try, no linux is installing to it. It just says something about a new kernel not supporting...
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    To Con or not to Roe

    A bit of slowdowns. What's more annoying is a few months into my over the top rig, this wretched game came along called NFS Undie-2. Up till then, all games ran at full specs on 1280x1024. Heck, Unreal 2004 runs smooth with full settings with very little to none flicker (no slowdowns). From...
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    To Con or not to Roe

    Sweet. For that system, I might sell an eyeball and go for the 79GT. One more thing, would SATA2 drives be significantly better performers than my SATAs? And would the GB DS3 be able to read my existing RAID0?
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    To Con or not to Roe

    My current rig is: 1. Intel P4 2.8 E (That's 1MB L2, 800FSB...not the EE) 2. MSI 875P Neo FIS2R 3. 1GB DDR-400 TwinMOS 4. MSI nVidia 5900XT 128MB AGP 5. 1 80GB Maxtor and 1 80GB Samsung SATA in intel ICH5R RAID This was bought over 2.5 years ago and cost me quite a bit. It was kinda...