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    HELP - DVD viewing disabled at work

    Hi, At work the bastards have some how stopped all DVD players from working. If I run dxdiag and go to "Display" it shows the following 3 disabled with the "Enable" button disabled: DirectDraw Acceleration Direct3d Acceleration AGP Texture Acceleration How can I reenable these...
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    IBM Thinkcentre / nVidia Quadro - DVD Movies don't work

    Hi, At work we have IBM Thinkcentres with nVidia Quadro video cards. Recently the bastards have somehow disabled DVD viewing. It appears the graphics card has no support for overlay and YUV video modes - obviously they were disabled. This may be an IBM specific or nVidia specific hack I'm...
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    How do Opterons (in MP config) manage access to memory?

    Hi, I was wondering how multiple Opteron CPUs manage accessing all of physical ram, as it is different from Xeons or AthlonMPs. Imagine a single CPU with 2GB of RAM. It has one address bus so to read memory it places address X on the address bus. The northbridge gets the data from mem and...