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    Crappy Video Game Broke my Computer

    apologies. I didnt remember exactly what the threshold was. The temperature of the core was 40 degrees C. I saw 135 or 140 in the panel and I probably converted the 40 C to 100F in my head and then when I tried to go back and remember what the max temp was I guess I thought it was in F. No...
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    Crappy Video Game Broke my Computer

    I have played Doom 3 for many hours with no problems, and my room was actually fairly cool (probably 65 degrees) at the time it happened. I guess it may have stressed my video card more than other games have, or just stressed it in different ways. I did check the nvidia gpu temp display right...
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    Crappy Video Game Broke my Computer

    any other ideas?
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    Crappy Video Game Broke my Computer

    but what if the voice acting was really REALLY bad... hahaha
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    Crappy Video Game Broke my Computer

    reset my bios-no change. Unplugged and replugged in the card- no change. If it were a problem only with the video ram itself, why did it crash at the exact instant I hit the 'E' key to go into some complicated display within the video game. Also, why was the display garbled during the the...
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    Crappy Video Game Broke my Computer

    Yesterday I downloaded the demo of Bet on Soldier, a crappy, futuristic first person shooter with mediocre graphics and laughably poor voice acting. There were a couple of other problems with the game: waypoints on the map which the characters were saying were yellow were actually green, and...
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    Getting an DVI signal to your HDTV

    synth- thats awesome that you were able to hook it up to your projector with no problems. the picture looks really good. I have actually gone to avsforum and I have not really heard anything on specific settings people are using. I have only heard vague comments like 'i have gotten the dvi...
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    Getting an DVI signal to your HDTV

    I have a geforce 6600gt and a sony high def CRT display with an HDMI input. My question- has anyone had any luck getting their video card to output a 1920x1080 signal to any HDTV's digital input and actually have it work? any make or model of video card or tv. Im just wondering if ANYONE has...
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    Big problem with my Chaintech VNF4/Ultra

    It happened once again just in case anyone was keeping track.
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    Big problem with my Chaintech VNF4/Ultra

    haha- same exact thing just happened 5 minutes ago while i was downloading somethin else. I guess I will have to put my motherboard in the corner for on a 5 minute power-deprived timeout. bad motherboard, bad...
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    Big problem with my Chaintech VNF4/Ultra

    It's been running fine...until the next time it does this. lol I took the calculated risk of being the early adopter of an unknown budget card just so I could get my Athlon 64 and PCI express. Since it was only 100 bucks I'm not too concerned it it turns out to be junk. If it were a $280 Asus...
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    Big problem with my Chaintech VNF4/Ultra

    as Peter Griffin would say- HOLY CRAP!! It worked!! Thank you Generalissimo. I have to admit I kind of blew your suggestion off, but it certainly did the trick. Everyone who's having this problem- just unplug the power cord from the back of your computer for five minutes and turn it back on...
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    Big problem with my Chaintech VNF4/Ultra

    will do. ill see how it goes
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    Big problem with my Chaintech VNF4/Ultra

    Installed Windows XP x-64 edition with the 64 bt Nvidia beta drivers, It recognized the LAN port and everything installed fine, but when I plugged in the ethernet jack, the same exact behavior happened again. So its not a firewall/driver/windows settings issue, its obviously a hardware problem...
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    Big problem with my Chaintech VNF4/Ultra

    I'm really hoping it's somthing that can be resolved with just a Bios update or new driver from Nvidia
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    Big problem with my Chaintech VNF4/Ultra

    Less simple due to the fact that NewEgg is sold out of them and might be for a while. While I am running fine on my extra NIC right now, it would be nice to have the gigabit ethernet offered by the motherboard, especially since it could get me a little less cpu hit while I am running the...
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    Big problem with my Chaintech VNF4/Ultra

    I did. Everything from the computer on downstream is fine. The more I keep playing around with this, the more I keep getting the feeling that its a connector on the motherboard that is broken. :(
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    Big problem with my Chaintech VNF4/Ultra

    When I uninstall the network device from windows, It automatically uninstalled the firewall and all of that other stuff so I don't think the firewall is just blocking it or anything. There is a light on the back of the motherboard's jack when I plug in the cable, but it isnt doing the normal...
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    Big problem with my Chaintech VNF4/Ultra

    EDIT- IF you are having this problem, try unplugging the power cord from the back of your computer for 5 minutes and just turn your computer back on and see if it works. I just got a VNF4/Ultra with all of the wonderful Nforce 4 gigabit ethernet features and whatnot, and right in the middle...
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    Will current motherboards support dual core Athlon 64's?

    hmm... less than definitive. thanks for the thread
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    Will current motherboards support dual core Athlon 64's?

    I was wondering if anyone knew if the dual core Athlon 64's coming out next year will be able to run on regular motherboards, or if they will require new MB designs to run.