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    Thermal paste question

    ARCTIC SILVER 5 : I would say go for it, I just redid mine and dropped the temps another 10c to 28c under normal conditions. READ this first if you have never done this before!!! http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm Follow those instructions and you cant go wrong...
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    1.11v to cpu. power supply?

    Yeah I did get the reading from the bios as well and replaced the power supply with an antec case including the 380watt power supply with a 24 amp 12 volt rail and that should cover it. Now I have 1.450v and a steady 12v rail that actually reads 12.09 volts in the bios and reads correctly with...
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    Opteron 175

    Thats just a lot of puff n stuff those k8n's were a lot of smoke if you ask me. As far as 64 bit they might as well have called it a 128 bit its not much improvement over anything else on the market. I can see why your moving away from msi junk for sure. Hopefully what ever you get it will...
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    1.11v to cpu. power supply?

    I use an msi neo2 nforce3 plat ultra with a 3200+ cpu and Ihave had some troubles over clocking so I installed mbm and found that I only have 1.11 volts to the cpu which is setting off the alarm. Do I need to replace the power supply or the mainboard having issues?
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    master browser always at error

    Is there a way to control who has master browser control besides rebooting one of the computers.
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    master browser always at error

    Are you really okay? I am not having a melt down just a small networking problem. Reinstall windows rofl!!
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    master browser always at error

    Here is the error code I get from the event viewer. The browser was unable to retrieve a list of servers from the browser master \\AZ11E on the network \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{92AE3300-732F-4EEB-A87E-B46A176A2B84}. The data is the error code. The master browser has received a server...
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    OEM products good or ???

    Could also mean that the 4 extra pipes failed to unlock and the vertex shaders failed to unlock and or they experienced artifacts after unlocking the pipes and shaders so the chance of me getting a card might mean no extra pipes unless I spend the 189.00 to get a new one that may unlock 4 pipes...
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    OEM products good or ???

    Was it returned to newegg you think or to the manufacturer and then sold and purchased by newegg at a reduced price?
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    OEM products good or ???

    How risky is oem stuff? I found a vid card that I want for a great price minus cd, cables etc. Yes this is an oem refurb and how well do they work out? Want to make the purchase tonight, any help would be appreciated thanks! Warranty still stands at 30 day and 1 year.
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    ATI vs Nvidia

    I am going to get a 6800 evga, that should work it out for a couple of years!
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    ATI vs Nvidia

    Do you own one mindgam3? Anything else you can mention about ati cards? I have been nvidia for a long time but I have one bad experience with a new gigabyte card and now I feel iffy about the 6600's and will now go with 6800 evga nvidia but I will only do that after I have learned more about...
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    ATI vs Nvidia

    Thanks! Do you expect the nvidia cards prices to drop with the introduciton of the 7800's?
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    ATI vs Nvidia

    I see then the ati wont overclock like the nvidia.
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    ATI vs Nvidia

    Agp!
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    ATI vs Nvidia

    http://shop.ati.com/searchresults.asp?dept_id=39 I can buy a 6600gt loaded for the same money as a 6800. In the reviews everyone seems to put it "6800 will beat the 6600 hands down". I know the 6600 doesnt support aa af or I missed it in the spec sheet. The 6600gt also is using the ddr3...
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    BSOD after bios updates K8N neo2 plat. ultra

    I tell you it never fails when they put out a new bios or driver something just has to go wrong. I installed the latest K8N 1.50 bios update and now i keep getting bsod with IRQ's, mini_port.sys and many other issues so I have reverted back to the saved bios and still have errors popping up bsod...
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    Hmmm. Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum refuses to work under XP Pro

    Today they are working fine but just that one time you have to reboot or uninstall and install again for whatever the reason, static fuzzy audio just dont work for me!
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    voltage help

    I have the MSI NEO2 Platinum Nforce3 Ultra with AMD64 3200+ and a gig of xms corsair ram 2x512. Has been only a few months of solid performance here! Have been playing farcry and tiger woods golf 2005.
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    voltage help

    Mine reacts the same way. Could be that its based on demand. I can sense a difference though when I apply the increase to the cpu and the fsb. Still reads 1.40 vcore. I increased it to 1.55 and it was set to 1.50.
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    nVidia Raid Error, Please Help!

    Whatever you do is at your own risk as would be said in any agreement to use or install these softwares such and such is not responsible for data loss. I take the same approach the following may or may not be the correct response to solve the issues at hand. How many drives are in your...
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    No beep at startup and nothing on screen

    Not to smart now I guess you can buy a new board ouch!
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    No beep at startup and nothing on screen

    Dont do any of the above and try this hold the INS key when you press the power on button and only release it after you see windows is loading. See if that works or pull the manual and see if it decribes another way to reset the overclock. My FIC az11e would do that and thats the reset for the...
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    dual sound cards

    MULTIMEDIA PROPERTIES and WINDOWS (98SE) I use two sound devicees (Audigy2 Crystal Audio chip (4232) but only one can access like wav at any one time. I use one card for dos and the other for windows games and mp3's. All I did was to setup the Preferred Device to "USE ANY AVAILABLE DEVICE" but...
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    What is the strong point of Itanium processors?

    You can check out this web site or buy an AMD64 the choice is yours. http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/family/index.htm
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    Im not to sure if its the powersupply anymore...

    One more thing to add on my motherboard my chipset heatsink fan is not working could that be the problem? I would just bet that you will need to get that fan running like real fast, it may already be to late by the sounds of it. Turn the computer off and leave it off until you replace the...
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    Trouble installing Athlon XP 2500 chip

    Now try that 2500 in your and see if it boots fine or not!
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    Audigy Series users did you know?

    I have been using the autoupdating at creatives web site and was curious if others use it and how it works out. Has anyone found the windows version ctpanel for the audigy series? After autoupdating and rebooting try going back to the autoupdate and run it again and install yet another...
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    SPDIF to Dolby Digital Receiver

    Thanks! I had forgotten all about that panel and now the spdif works fine!
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    SPDIF to Dolby Digital Receiver

    I dont know where you get that idea, please explain.....
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    SPDIF to Dolby Digital Receiver

    Where is the option on the audigy2 platinum? That may explain whay I could not get the optical spdif to work.
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    Kernel problem. Computer can't find hard drive or any drive.

    Can you still boot up with the clacking sound. Do you use any partitioning softwares? Can you identify where the sound is coming from? Carefully with the cover off try to locate the area the sound is coming from. Could be the power supply. Look around the mainboard and see if you notice...
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    Hmmm. Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum refuses to work under XP Pro

    markj knows I know and now you know, so take it back and go buy a real sound card for probably a $100 more and be real glad you did! Drivers are the worst I have ever experienced from creative. Every product they sell must have a dozen patches to fix this and that and that and this I am sure you...
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    SPDIF to Dolby Digital Receiver

    What options are there to do that?
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    SPDIF to Dolby Digital Receiver

    I am not sure what it is but I use a cambridge soundworks dtt2500 dolby digital decoder and the realtek spdif out on my msi k8n neo2 platinum nforce3 ultra if thats any help. I dont if it is working correctly or not only that it sounds okay. Not thrilled with the sound and will probably upgrade...
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    Got an RMA on new system and the same thing happens....

    I just built a system and before powering up I checked everything and found a grounding type of spring located on the rear panel thats included with the mainboard, found it stuck in the 1394 socket. That would have hurt dearly I am sure! Take a real close look around like mechbgon suggested...
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    What brands besides creative sound blaster?

    :disgust:I just find creative to be a power hog using the audigy2. Could be the drivers or just the design. :roll:I have removed the audigy2 and I am using the realtek alc850 which comes with the msi neo2 platinum nforce3 ultra. Not the greatest sound but not a memory and cpu hog. A...
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    Sound Card WITHOUT sound

    Good Job! Thats the kind of stuff that will drive yaaa crazy!!! Good Luck!
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    Sound Card WITHOUT sound

    what kind of speakers are you plugging in? Some speakers need batteries if they are desktop speakers. Do you have a headset that you could plug in to see if the output is working? Earphones?