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    Images not rendering in FF or Thunderbird

    I'm trying to troubleshoot a WinXP system wherein images won't load for some sites, but will for others. Even different images of the same type will sometimes work or sometimes not. It's consistant from site to site, so one site will work completely, while another will show NO images at all...
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    Delayed Write Failures on multiple drives/controllers

    I'm getting delayed write failures in Win2K SP4. They happen almost solely when playing Planetside or Arcanum. The drive on which my games and swap file were located, a WD Raptor(74G), started around this time to make a weird whining sound, so I moved all the data off it onto another partition...
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    Help please - good PDA

    I didn't know if this was the right board, but I couldn't see another more fitting. Please tell me if it's not. Anyway, I need to find a good workhorse PDA, something that's pretty user-friendly, but also reliable and relatively price efficient. I'm a desktop techie, but know next to nothing...
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    Serious video problems

    I've got Win2K SP4 on an Athlon Barton 2500, with a gig of RAM, and a Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128 MB. The problem is that all 3D games I load are unplayable. The symptoms range from 0.2 frames per second(literally) to torn/missing/overlapping polygons to corrupted textures, etc. The sound appears to...
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    A7N8X SATA controller hanging at boot

    I'm using the A7N8X Deluxe 2.0, and have a WD740 SATA HDD. The problem I have is that when booting, the system hangs for about thirty seconds while it tries to detect a drive attached to the secondary onboard SATA controller, when I only have a single drive attached to the system. In other...
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    IRQL errors and memory/CPU faults

    Hello folks, thanks in advance to anyone who can help me with this. I'm trying to track down a system error or three that occurs with my system. I have the following system specs: Athlon Barton 2500 OC'd to 2100 MHz(have tested it at slower speeds too, no difference) 1024 MB Corsair LLPT XMS...
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    nVidia and Slackware question - help?

    Folks, I am running Slack 9 and when I try to install the latest nVidia drivers for the Geforce, I get the error that it can't find a precompiled module and needs the source code. No biggy, already installed it. Then while it's building it gives me an error that it can't find nvidia.o I've...
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    Slackware 9 Driver issue

    I'm a wee bit new to Linux, but maybe someone here has encountered this. I'm trying to install the A7N8X driver for Linux using RPM, am getting the error: Dependency fail: (insert driver name).rpm requires /bin/sh I looked and there is indeed an item sh in my /bin folder so am rather puzzled as...
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    Firewall question

    I am not sure which board to put this on -- and it is a technical question I need help in answering -- so this is where I an posting. I need to know if any of you know of a Win2K compatible firewall with incoming and outgoing protection, hopefully something comparable to ZoneAlarm in terms of...
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    Display issue - presumed? - Win2K issue

    Win 2K SP3 A7N8X2.0 Deluxe AMD Barton 2500 + OC at 10.5x200(Previously known stable) 512 MB PC3200 LLPT XMS Corsair DDR Geforce 4 Ti 4200 (latest 43.xx drivers) I was moving my system from an old case to a new one. There was an issue with a loose wire from the power supply touching the frame of...
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    Please tell me if this was a good idea...

    Now please understand this first: I do not care about warranty on the heatsink in this situation; I just want to know if there is anything patently wrong with this idea. That said, this is what I did. I ordered an SLK-900U heatsink for my motherboard, which was on the compatibility list for the...
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    Case question

    I plan to have a custom case designed for me at some point in the near future. When I do so, I want to make a few improvements over standard design, and was wondering if any of the propeller heads in the audience could answer me this question: are there any reasonably affordable, reasonably...
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    A7N8X Deluxe Version Question

    Alright, I hope this isn't a stupid question: I bought an A7N8X Deluxe, supposedly v2.00 with support for 400 FSB. When I got it I immediately inspected the board and found "2.00" in small letters next to the A7N8X logo between the PCI slots. When I installed the Asus Probe a minute ago and...
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    A7N8X (regular, 333 FSB) question - urgent

    I apologize for the idiotic nature of this request, but I have to know this soon: I placed an order for some Corsair PC-3200LLPT( 512 meg stick, PC3200, 2-2-2-6-T1) memory a few days ago along with a new A7N8X mobo, power supply, and AMD Barton 2500 processor. I always get cold feet when...