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    Sudden power-on issue

    Sorry to bother y'all, but don't know what is it - maybe somebody has an idea? Old PC - Lan Party NF4, AMD 3000+, Nvidia 6600 PCI-e, Tagan 480W p/s, Viewsonic LCD digital. Suddenly the power-on behavior changed - have to hold the button a little longer to start. Now it's getting worse - did...
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    Leadtek 6600 2d quality?

    I have 2 PCs connected to the same 21inch monitor. There is a striking difference bettween the 2. The 3year old ATI based system looks much better in 2d then the new nVidia 6600. I went through all the settings, gamma adjustments etc. Still the 2D is blurry, not sharp. Difficult to read the...
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    Performance question

    I have 2 PCs - PIII 940Mhz overclocked and Celery 1.1Ghz native. The Celery is about 10% faster in every aspect acc. to Sandra 2003, chips, memory, disks etc. But in real life - the PIII is 3 times as fast ! Any app., web etc - very slow on the Celery. For example Photoshop takes 5 secs to open...
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    Abit BE6 and Win 2000 ?

    Abit web site does not have the BIOS or drivers for BE6 to run Win 2000. Does anybody know if it would work or what is needed ? Right now I have 98SE and I'd like to dual boot with Win2000. Can anybody help ?
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    Auctions ? Makes no sense !

    From time to time I check the auctions sites - like Ub*d, Egay etc. People are nuts ! They bid when they don't have to yet, creating more bids and higher prices. Ub*d - why are they bidding so early and so much. Check the digital cameras - morons are bidding as high as $500 for a refurb worth...
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    Fastest CPU on Abit BE6 ?

    Just a quick question. What do you run on your BE6 (100 MHz FSB) ? Overclock ? I have PIII 450@558 (at 124MHz FSB) slot 1 and was wondering what's the best CPU upgrade. Do you use slotket? I don't think my Viper 770 could go any higher then 124 FSB. Thanks.
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    Need help - lock ups

    OK, I'm out of ideas. Just last month I installed USB printer/scanner/copier. I had some problems doing it - had to scanreg/fix. Since then - frequent lockups - windows protection errors, memory errors, disk drive errors....have to fix registry daily, scan drive daily... Installed extra 128Mb of...
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    Need help - ferquent lock-ups

    OK, I'm out of ideas. Just last month I installed USB printer/scanner/copier. I had some problems doing it - had to scanreg/fix. Since then - frequent lockups - windows protection errors, memory errors, disk drive errors....have to fix registry daily, scan drive daily... Installed extra 128Mb of...